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[Q] Which ICS ROM is the most mature to use on a daily basis?

I know that a lot here don't appreciate the "what's the Best ROM" threads but mine raises some important points and genuine questions that I believe the devs here need to take in consideration.
I've went through so many ICS ROMs and found that most don't even include a bugs list to know what works and what doesn't. So I'm directing these questions to you and hope to hear your opinion based on your experience as well as your knowledge of ROMs:
Which ICS based ROM is the most mature among the currently stable ones? Please post any bugs or point to what's not working if you refer to a ROM as a response.
Is it easy to get back to a Gingerbread ROM after flashing an ICS based ROM? Are there any caveats that i should know about before flashing any ICS ROM?
Thank you for your time and I appreciate your help and your opinions about this.

there are threads in the general section. please have a look

moyajaya said:
I know that a lot here don't appreciate the "what's the Best ROM" threads but mine raises some important points and genuine questions that I believe the devs here need to take in consideration.
I've went through so many ICS ROMs and found that most don't even include a bugs list to know what works and what doesn't. So I'm directing these questions to you and hope to hear your opinion based on your experience as well as your knowledge of ROMs:
Which ICS based ROM is the most mature among the currently stable ones? Please post any bugs or point to what's not working if you refer to a ROM as a response.
Is it easy to get back to a Gingerbread ROM after flashing an ICS based ROM? Are there any caveats that i should know about before flashing any ICS ROM?
Thank you for your time and I appreciate your help and your opinions about this.
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I've been using Team Rocket 1.5 and find it surprisingly stable (although, of course, there are problems. Just for a heads up, I would NEVER go back to Gingerbread. The girlfriend has Gingerbread on it and it's just so much snappier, not to mention the compatibility with ICS Applications (like Photoshop!). I'll name the few I have:
1. Toggle wifi via the 15 toggle addon and it will just kind of freeze, can't turn it on or off for a little while
2. Sometimes apps just kind of hang, when that happens just let it sort itself out and usually the phone will respond in about 15 seconds. No biggie to me.
3. I've had a SOD (Sleep of death) where the phone screen won't turn on and you end up powering down the phone; but honestly it only happened when I left Sync on in the background. Whether a coincidence or not. Haven't had it happen since turning that off during the day.
4. When trying to restore a backup I've had to restore the boot of the stock GB rom, then restore the ICS backup. Otherwise you really can't flash anything as the system isn't writable I don't believe.
Coming from the AT&T SGSII ICS ROM, this is BEYOND daily use. I just ordered this device off of Amazon and pretty much opened the package, rooted, and flashed this rom. It's fast, nearly everything works. Just have to deal with a few bugs. I'll let you decide whether or not to try it out, but I'm positive when I say I would NEVER go back. Good luck man!

None yet but for minimal bug disturbance, I'd say team rocket 1.5 is quite usable for daily use.
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omac_ranger said:
I've been using Team Rocket 1.5 and find it surprisingly stable (although, of course, there are problems. Just for a heads up, I would NEVER go back to Gingerbread. The girlfriend has Gingerbread on it and it's just so much snappier, not to mention the compatibility with ICS Applications (like Photoshop!). I'll name the few I have:
1. Toggle wifi via the 15 toggle addon and it will just kind of freeze, can't turn it on or off for a little while
2. Sometimes apps just kind of hang, when that happens just let it sort itself out and usually the phone will respond in about 15 seconds. No biggie to me.
3. I've had a SOD (Sleep of death) where the phone screen won't turn on and you end up powering down the phone; but honestly it only happened when I left Sync on in the background. Whether a coincidence or not. Haven't had it happen since turning that off during the day.
4. When trying to restore a backup I've had to restore the boot of the stock GB rom, then restore the ICS backup. Otherwise you really can't flash anything as the system isn't writable I don't believe.
Coming from the AT&T SGSII ICS ROM, this is BEYOND daily use. I just ordered this device off of Amazon and pretty much opened the package, rooted, and flashed this rom. It's fast, nearly everything works. Just have to deal with a few bugs. I'll let you decide whether or not to try it out, but I'm positive when I say I would NEVER go back. Good luck man!
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+1 I've been only on Rocket ROM v1.5, fast, stable and like ranger said, this is beyond daily use... really... no going back to GB as well...
It's so stable that I'm so reluctant to test anything else... no SOD, actually got it once and found out setcpu profile is causing it, uninstall and never had it for the past 5 days....
One thing that is bugging me is that the battery drain for the chinese ICS leak is unpredictable as the kernel is not so "refined" yet, you know what i mean
Now awaiting rocket v1,6 or midnote 2.1 if ever maxicet can get the N7000 kernel leak to work properly...

Should be getting my note tomorrow.
First thing I do is flash ICS after rooting etc...been running it on my nexus s since December and its beautiful.
Just got it on my transformer last week as well and its equally as good.
Any of you guys used midnote 2.0? I seen some vids on YouTube. It seems quite stable.
Any opinions in comparison to other ICS roms out?
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I think its the criskelo ics v2 its very smooth without much fc! And telephoning and smsing work!

I have been using Midnote and I love it. I flashed all of the other ICS and they had too much battery drain for my tastes.
Midnote is perfect imo. It flashed perfectly, everything worked from the very start. The battery is amazing. Heavy usage and i charge only overnight. I wiped everything during each part of the process of flashing AND wiped after i let it boot the first time. No sod.no freezing.no nothing but smoothness. It is perfect to me.
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nooney299 said:
I have been using Midnote and I love it. I flashed all of the other ICS and they had too much battery drain for my tastes.
Midnote is perfect imo.
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Though I have had the odd freeze which lasts about 15 seconds then all works well again. Maybe once a day.

Ummm...
I'm using Midnote for 4 or 5 days
working good, charging it overnight, very view FC's.
Check the time on battery (attached)
* "Viber" doesn't work on it (free calls application), other than this everything is perfect

Also using Midnote and it's working fine. My SMS notifications sound sometimes doesn't work but other than that no complaints. Battery life is amazing and I haven't had any major problems. I had Rocket Rom 1.5 on it but that was giving me a lot of issues. To each his own I suppose might try out some other ones as well still praying that ICS comes out soon

[Q] LAG? Stock ICS vs. ...

Wanting thoughts or answers on why there is so much noticeable lag on Stock ICS? Ive used stock GB, laggy. Leaked ICS. Laggy. CM9 buttery smoooooth. Stock ICS. Lag :/
Now I can understand that Samsung put all the extra crap into touchwiz and their roms... And CM9 is simplified/optimised. But I also just put Criskelo's ROM on and it TOO is buttery smooth YET is LPY based with touchwiz and some crap. So I fail to understand why the german stock release is so laggy. As well as GB. Is this a conspiracy to push the average user to faster devices because at times i felt my note was less than satisfactory then I put on CM9 or this Rom and i remember why i love it again. Bit of a rant but hey. Surely Samsung of all Android phone manufacturers would have a development team capable of making a high quality near flawless rom...performance issues just suck the fun...
...and in terms of lag. Screen transitions. Page scrolling. Widgets and general poorer quality stuttering.
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did u flash cf-root kernel with stock lpy as i noticed lag too with cf root,
but when i flashed stock lpy without cf root it is very smooth

Flashed the stock (unrooted) German firmware using Odin. All went fine but since then I didn't like the speed of the device anymore. The note was noticeable slower, apps needed an extra second to start up.
(b.t.w. bricked my device while trying to get back to GB)

Ce said:
Flashed the stock (unrooted) German firmware using Odin. All went fine but since then I didn't like the speed of the device anymore. The note was noticeable slower, apps needed an extra second to start up.
(b.t.w. bricked my device while trying to get back to GB)
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Hey Ce! Sorry for OT, but how did you try to go back to GB? What steps have you gone through?

is this a for serious, real post?..
I am on an older rooted KKA stock ROM and really dont see any noticeable lag... hopefully you are aware that the largest contributor to perceived lag is the user and the decisions he makes, rather than the firmware.

I was on the lpy kernel lately. flashed abyss note 4.2 and restored my nandroid back upo of liquid. oh man i know what i lost when i was in lpy crap

greenlant said:
Hey Ce! Sorry for OT, but how did you try to go back to GB? What steps have you gone through?
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I guess I made the wrong choices. For a good advise for returning to GB you have to look elsewhere on this site.
@Mystic38: I'm talking about serious lags on a fresh system, without any third party software installed.

Ce said:
I guess I made the wrong choices. For a good advise for returning to GB you have to look elsewhere on this site.
@Mystic38: I'm talking about serious lags on a fresh system, without any third party software installed.
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For sure! my questions was more based on my interest, what I should really NOT do!

Mystic38 said:
is this a for serious, real post?..
I am on an older rooted KKA stock ROM and really dont see any noticeable lag... hopefully you are aware that the largest contributor to perceived lag is the user and the decisions he makes, rather than the firmware.
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Of course is real.My phone(ICS) also lag,battery life is terrible,wifi signal is really bad,phone freezes(for about 1minute),Voice control app crashes, screen sometimes does not register the touch,etc... Funny,games work really well.
Today I discovered another disturbing thing - my screen is burned-in. If I have some white page(picture) opened in landscape mode, I can see status bar burned-in on the left side. Status bar is black(so screen diodes are turned off) and it's always on the same place. If the entire screen is white I can see status bar like brighter colour,wifi&mobile bars(avast icon,etc) are in darker yellowish color. Also the rest of the screen is darker-yellowish. And I have my phone only 3.5 months! My old Motorola Milestone have better white color.
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greenlant said:
For sure! my questions was more based on my interest, what I should really NOT do!
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If I could I definitely would help you, however, I've done too many things in order making my Note work again I no longer can differentiate between the "do" and "don't". That's why you shouldn't ask me

I know this is kind of cliche, but always make sure you do a full wipe. I was having some minor annoyances here and there when I first flashed ICS over GB, but then when I reflashed after a full wipe, every thing has been butter smooth.

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I know this is kind of cliche, but always make sure you do a full wipe. I was having some minor annoyances here and there when I first flashed ICS over
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Yeah i always do full wipe. As for the perceived lag. No...definate lag. Criskelos lpy is not laggy at all. Apart from minor text input. Probably flashed 50 times with diff variants so im well aware (IMO). I was thinking it was maybe to do with hardware/software acceleration and battery life savings but the battery lifw on stock was nothing fantastic by any stretch. I guess time will tell with any other future stock releases whether it was just oushed too early. From all the variants i can see this phone is more then capable so heres hoping...
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How many people still prefers Gingerbread over ICS on your note?

I had a chance to update my International Note to ICS but I did not do it. I actually downloaded to ICS (over the air OTA) but then did not commit to the install but instead chose to hard reset my Note to its original Gingerbread. I wiped out all data and my Note is as fresh as it was when I first bought it last year.
The reasons that I want Gingerbread over ICS is because:
1. I like full screen resolution of 800×1280. With ICS, the task bar at the bottom takes away some resolution lines.
2. I heard some stories of the super brick bug.
So how many people chose to remain on Gingerbread instead of ICS ?
However, on my Galaxy Tab 7.7 internation version, I will want to be on ICS or Jelly Bean instead of Honeycomb.

Well, whilst ICS is an improvement over Gingerbread, a lot of people dislike Samsung's implementation of it on the Galaxy Note as the Touchwiz UI has not been updated to allow for many of Ice Cream Sandwich's features such as widgets within the app drawer. There are also a lot of bugs on Samsung's ICS such as the deep sleep, brick bug and also some issues with the screen. Hopefully though, we should receive an update to ICS in the form of 4.0.4 which will solve these problems. From there on, I am just praying we get Jelly Bean but I seriously doubt it.
Whilst issues with deep sleep have been a pain, I still feel the ICS update to be a worthy one as for me personally it improves performance and also allows me to run some of the newer apps, which seeing as I use my Galaxy Note more like a tablet most of the time is always nice. The brick bug is an issue, but it only affects 5% of devices. It is still a risk not worth taking had I known before updating, but I cannot do anything now.

i prefer GB to ICS, less ram consumption, better battery life

What do.you mean task bar at the bottom. It's no different on ICS than gb?
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If ICS matched Gingerbreads battery life then I would keep ICS on my phone. This is not the case so I had to go back to Gingerbread.
All things considered I would keep ICS if the battery life matched Gingerbread.

I've switched back and forth between stock GB and stock ICS a few times and, battery issues aside, I can't say I've noticed sufficient difference to care. The OS is just there to run the apps. So long as it does it efficiently then I really am indifferent.
Now I'm running Paranoid Android, and that does offer something new, but as far as the stock ROMs go I don't personally think it really matters, so long as the stability/reliability is there. I would definitely avoid the German LPY ICS ROM.

CM9/ AOSP > any Samsung firmware.
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PJ147 said:
What do.you mean task bar at the bottom. It's no different on ICS than gb?
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+1 WTF?
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I used to stay on Rooted Stock GB, and while the battery use was great, ICS was a little worse in my opinion.
BUT, I do love the upgrades KingDroid ICS gave, so I just stuck with that, since I found I got around a days usage with GB and ICS.

Haha does the OP intends to ask regarding from stock GB to stock ICS?
I see lots of talk about custom roms here.
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PJ147 said:
What do.you mean task bar at the bottom. It's no different on ICS than gb?
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+1 WTF?
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I bet he's talking about the on-screen nav.buttons (like on the Nexus), which isn't true at all. You can choose to use them if you're running AOSP/AOKP/CM9 ROM.

went back to gb+rooted, to feel more confident and the various reasons mentioned in above posts. waiting jb

ICS clipboard is too limited.
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i prefer stable GB over shaky ICS.

For me battery life is just as good as gingerbread. Just factory reset first in gingerbread then install ics. You will have no issues.
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Well after a couple of weeks with ICS I just went back to GB because I think the web experience is so much better on GB. A ton of sites using flash causes too much trouble on ICS. To bad Android let go of such an advantage compared to iOS.

I prefer ICS for his new features and the fact that my Note is faster than with GB

I kept finding problems with stock ICS ROMs until finally settling on the latest LRK ROM for Germany. Now the phone is stable and with good battery life, sleeping properly and no runaway tasks. I have no need, I hope, to return to GB now.

Im on stock ICS.
Its not that much different from GB. So, a bit of a let down.
I did full wipe before ICS install. Battery is comparable, save for running Fox News app.
Bottom line; ICS is over rated.
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tdodd said:
I kept finding problems with stock ICS ROMs until finally settling on the latest LRK ROM for Germany. Now the phone is stable and with good battery life, sleeping properly and no runaway tasks. I have no need, I hope, to return to GB now.
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Same on me.

[Q] Flickering galaxy note screen!!!!!

Hi all 1st post so be gentle I've recently started to notice my screen flickering and then suddenly my reception would drop out any one experienced anything like this?

Also I'm on Cassies ICS v8 rom with abyss kernel if that is any help

It may be due to bad battery try replacing the battery
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Have you tried taking the battery out and then insert the battery switch your phone on then turn off then start it up after 5 minutes if that does not work its the battery how old is the phone
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My phone does this when battery is critically low, i believe it's just trying to suck the last bit of power.
There's also a bug in early ics which causes weird glitches which disappear after locking / unlocking screen
Maybe it's time for a rom upgrade some nice features in the new jb leaks
Or try switching to hydracore kernel, abyss is a bit dated now
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azzledazzle said:
My phone does this when battery is critically low, i believe it's just trying to suck the last bit of power.
There's also a bug in early ics which causes weird glitches which disappear after locking / unlocking screen
Maybe it's time for a rom upgrade some nice features in the new jb leaks
Or try switching to hydracore kernel, abyss is a bit dated now
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Hi is the hydracore kernel safe as I need to use triangle away and I don't wish to brick my phone or can you advise a safe kernel to use with triangle away?

badshah4u said:
Have you tried taking the battery out and then insert the battery switch your phone on then turn off then start it up after 5 minutes if that does not work its the battery how old is the phone
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Hi the phone is nearly a year old is it time for a new battery?

Hydracore is double safe and is probably the best available custom kernel for the Note.
And as for the battery, It should last more than a year even for extreme users, But... Theres no harm in having a spare one, Especially when you're out and about, you can pick them up for cheap so its worth considering.
Anyway, Switch kernels (and maybe ROMs too if you're interested) and see if it makes things improve

azzledazzle said:
Hydracore is double safe and is probably the best available custom kernel for the Note.
And as for the battery, It should last more than a year even for extreme users, But... Theres no harm in having a spare one, Especially when you're out and about, you can pick them up for cheap so its worth considering.
Anyway, Switch kernels (and maybe ROMs too if you're interested) and see if it makes things improve
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Cool I will try that and report back let's not hope for a brick....

I dont think it will stop after changing the rom... im on jb and still face the issue...
This is already been discussed... its due to low battery level... so ur phone display flickers when ur phone tries to use the remaining amount of energy left...
If ur battery doesnt last longer with each cycle then i think u need to replace ur battery

Triangle away worked great on hydracore thanks. Can any one advise which rom to use for best battery life, and got a replacement Anker battery on the way

for a good stock looking ICS ROM, try CleaNote, its made by the same dev as the hydracore kernel and they work perfectly in harmoney together.
its super smooth, fast, stable and great battery life.
If you want to try JB, id recommend RocketRom v3 or TMT 5.0, Both are excellent with great devs too (RRv3's dev has just left ) they have all the great jb features and are stable, sometimes there is a little lag and the occasional bug, but these are based on leaked firmware so its to be expected.

azzledazzle said:
for a good stock looking ICS ROM, try CleaNote, its made by the same dev as the hydracore kernel and they work perfectly in harmoney together.
its super smooth, fast, stable and great battery life.
If you want to try JB, id recommend RocketRom v3 or TMT 5.0, Both are excellent with great devs too (RRv3's dev has just left ) they have all the great jb features and are stable, sometimes there is a little lag and the occasional bug, but these are based on leaked firmware so its to be expected.
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many thanks will check them out are they all ok to install withe the hydracore kernel?
whats the PARANOIDANDROID rom like?

Yeah, all roms can be used with hydracore except the new Touchwiz jellybean.
Paranoid android is great its definitely worth testing the only thing is u lose spen gestures and apps, but there are alternatives in the market.
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Yeah, all roms can be used with hydracore except the new Touchwiz jellybean.
Paranoid android is great its definitely worth testing the only thing is u lose spen gestures and apps, but there are alternatives in the market.
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Hmmmmm might have to give that one a miss then....

[Q] Which custom rom?

I'm a noob when it comes to Android roms and such.
I have a rooted samsung galaxy s infront of me now but I have a question.
I have read that a lot of roms disable a couple of original features, like the google play store, video camera etc.
Now my question; Is there a custom rom that gives you anything like android 4.0+ for example with no features being lost?
Yes I have heard about CM but I read that it does remove a couple of features which I need..

What features will you miss? Play store and video work perfectly on cm10 and 10.1 based ROMs plus they trend to have lots of extra features compared to stock. I'm running Mackay ROM based on jelly bean 4.2 (cm 10.1) with semaphore kernel. Stable and really fast.
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I'm using RemICS-JB_4.2 , and for me it is very stable and fast, UI is from SGS3, worth to try...

The mackay rom is very good

So it's just a myth that you will lose some stock functions? Don't trust me on my word but I think I've read that it removes HD filming or something.
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You can enable xl ram (around 400 mb) in some kernels such as semaphore and devil which can mean you loose hd video, but by default it is disabled in almost all ROMs. So if you leave ram alone it's not a problem and I still have 720p video. Tbh there is a patch now that makes 720 work with big ram anyhow, but I manage just fine with the 389mb standard with semaphore so I haven't tested this.
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So Semaphore kernel and CM as ROM leaves all normal features intact? Perfect. Just one last question; a lot of people prefer CM9 over CM10. Any specific reason for this?
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So Semaphore kernel and CM as ROM leaves all normal features intact? Perfect. Just one last question; a lot of people prefer CM9 over CM10. Any specific reason for this?
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Because CM9 is more stable. CM10 requires more resources to run on our old phones.You might not get enough RAM.I also noticed some games force closed on CM10.But they all work nicely in CM9.

Thanks for the answers.
Something popped in my head so that leaves me with 1 more question; I currently have hardcore speedmod kernel and I did the lagfix (transfer to EXT4) and it took some SD space of course. Now before I go to Semaphore kernel should I first somehow uninstall the lagfix? And how?
Thanks!
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AnandMuralidhar said:
Because CM9 is more stable. CM10 requires more resources to run on our old phones.You might not get enough RAM.I also noticed some games force closed on CM10.But they all work nicely in CM9.
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This is becoming less of an issue as development goes on but it is a factor to consider. I have to overclock cpu to get high end games to work. But you can't even install most of them on stock 2.3 so depends what you're after. I prefer the extra features that cm 10.1 gives. Can always flash to cm9 stable and give it a go and then upgrade from there, sensible to go to cm9 then 10 anyhow. You will have to full wipe between 9 and 10 though. So titanium backup is the best app you will ever install.
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I'll just loan this thread a bit because I have a similar situation. I've only changed ROMs few times and I'm kinda noob myself too. I'm looking for a fast and stable ROM. Few days ago I installed ELITEMOVILS:s 4.2.1 galaxy nexus stock rom. It's good but cant get the wifi working properly so I thought I'd try another one. Should I go for JB 4.1.2 or for 4.2.1? Are the 4.1.2 releases more stable and is there a big difference in features and speed? Also battery life is quite important factor for me when choosing ROM (BTW has anyone found a good replacement battery with longer battery life than the stock one?). I dont update ROMs that frequent so it would be important that the release would be stable and functioning.

Slim Roms are pretty lightweight 4.2.1 beta 1 for me has been pretty stable and responsive. I also downloaded and flashed Semaphore 2.9.0s afterwards.
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Samiboi said:
I'll just loan this thread a bit because I have a similar situation. I've only changed ROMs few times and I'm kinda noob myself too. I'm looking for a fast and stable ROM. Few days ago I installed ELITEMOVILS:s 4.2.1 galaxy nexus stock rom. It's good but cant get the wifi working properly so I thought I'd try another one. Should I go for JB 4.1.2 or for 4.2.1? Are the 4.1.2 releases more stable and is there a big difference in features and speed? Also battery life is quite important factor for me when choosing ROM (BTW has anyone found a good replacement battery with longer battery life than the stock one?). I dont update ROMs that frequent so it would be important that the release would be stable and functioning.
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4.1.2 should be more stable than 4.2.1 as its been developed longer and even has gotten the official stable version released.
4.2 does bring some new features like all new releases but not as major as for example 4.1 brought, for this reason Google decided to keep the Jellybean name for the newer version.
Regarding battery life your best bet is a Gingerbread ROM, but frankly I'm satisfied with my CM10 in that regard.
I'm using a Pisen 1700mAh battery, and its very good for its price,I bought it from Deal Extreme, but be careful to research a battery before buying any, most of them are horrible and can even break your phone in some cases.
It's been said an official 1800mAh battery meant for the Epic 4g (Carrier-locked Samsung Galaxy S2) fits our phone even though it's thicker; I just bought one myself, but it's being shipped from the US and I'm in Norway so it'll be a week before I could confirm that myself...
The Wi-Fi issue with 4.2 is known and pawitp had released a fix for it, I don't know if the current nightlies from the CM team have incorporated it
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i m using X-bean 3.0. very good rom. stable.

Hr Kristian said:
4.1.2 should be more stable than 4.2.1 as its been developed longer and even has gotten the official stable version released.
4.2 does bring some new features like all new releases but not as major as for example 4.1 brought, for this reason Google decided to keep the Jellybean name for the newer version.
Regarding battery life your best bet is a Gingerbread ROM, but frankly I'm satisfied with my CM10 in that regard.
I'm using a Pisen 1700mAh battery, and its very good for its price,I bought it from Deal Extreme, but be careful to research a battery before buying any, most of them are horrible and can even break your phone in some cases.
It's been said an official 1800mAh battery meant for the Epic 4g (Carrier-locked Samsung Galaxy S2) fits our phone even though it's thicker; I just bought one myself, but it's being shipped from the US and I'm in Norway so it'll be a week before I could confirm that myself...
The Wi-Fi issue with 4.2 is known and pawitp had released a fix for it, I don't know if the current nightlies from the CM team have incorporated it
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Thx for the reply. I just installed Slim Bean 4.2.1. Beta 2 six hours ago and so far I've liked it very much. WLAN working too. I think I'll change to 4.1.2. if I still encounter problems. I'll take a look at the DX battery. Please tell us how it went with the Epic 4g battery when u get to test it

Thread closed. Everytime I see a "Best ROM/kernel thread, I die a little inside.