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I am currently running CM7 but I miss a lot of the custom themes from the devs. Also my battery life was better on the custom froyo builds. I do not see a large difference between froyo and gingerbread per say. There are no apps that require 2.3, at least that I am aware of and no major (there are some CM features that are nice) features that I see different.
So my question to everyone here is, Why gingerbread? What is special about it that would make it something to keep over the nicely tweaked and themed froyo builds? Is there behind the scene stuff that I am missing?
Honestly the main reason I flashed gingerbread was the lockscreen shut off and turn on animations hahaha. Some of the features on CM7 are very nice indeed, but I also feel like there isn't much that differs it from the froyo roms we have, apart from the ASOP experience. I already miss some of the useful features of the galaxy apps like the contacts and camera which are much more user friendly. I'm enjoying cm7 but I may soon flash back to something like Darky which is more tuned to my personal uses.
also wondering this. i flashed cm7 3/4 update then went back to firefly when 2.5 came out. firefly is my fav 2.2 rom. but i switched back to cm7 still miss a lot of features of 2.2, but i think once cm7 is a little farther along it will be awesome. for now its just fun being on gingerbread and stable.
Yeah... the screen off animation is uber lol. That prolly was one of the biggest initial draws for me. I never had a CM build either. I agree there are certain features from Sammy that are nice.
AriCaptivate said:
Honestly the main reason I flashed gingerbread was the lockscreen shut off and turn on animations hahaha. Some of the features on CM7 are very nice indeed, but I also feel like there isn't much that differs it from the froyo roms we have, apart from the ASOP experience. I already miss some of the useful features of the galaxy apps like the contacts and camera which are much more user friendly. I'm enjoying cm7 but I may soon flash back to something like Darky which is more tuned to my personal uses.
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I've been running CM6 for a few months. I'm pretty happy with it but I wouldn't mind trying something new.
Is 2.3 worth trying? What advantages does it have over 2.2? Is it faster, have more useful features, does it look a lot cooler, etc? And which one do you guys recommend - AOSP's Gingerbread or CM7?
2.3 is way better than cm6! Its alot snappier and comes with more feautres.soaps is really nice since its a small build but with a big punch! Try it, you wont be dissapointed!
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I've been running CM6 for a few months. I'm pretty happy with it but I wouldn't mind trying something new.
Is 2.3 worth trying? What advantages does it have over 2.2? Is it faster, have more useful features, does it look a lot cooler, etc? And which one do you guys recommend - AOSP's Gingerbread or CM7?
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2.2 is pretty stable. If you want to run on the latest releases, hit the nightlies. That's what I'm on.
I am running Aosp 2.3.3 and it is so quick and smooth. Way better than CM 6.1
I tried CM7 for a few days, but like Aosp better.
Aosp 2.3 CM7 is the best thing to happen to the HeroC!
I've had my Nexus One for 2 years now and have had a few different ROMs on it. I've been pretty loyal to Cyanogen and used Kangarama for a while which was a Cyanogen base. Currently I'm using CM 7.1 with Intersectraven's kernel and it is fast and smooth. The only thing is, I've grown bored of CM lately.
My wife has a Samsung Vibrant and I've taken her from Simply Honey to CM 7 to ICS Passion and now to MIUI. Each ROM was drastically different than the one before. She loves MIUI now and told me she wants to keep that one for a long time. I messed with it for a while and have to admit that it is pretty cool.
I started thinking: should I go to CM nightlies for a change or should I use MIUI? I have some hangups about MIUI though. I figured yous guys are the ones to ask about this. Is MIUI as customizable as CM 7? Is it as fast? Are the CM 7 nightlies currently stable enough for use as a daily driver? My knowledge of Android is strong enough that I've used nightlies before and understand that there are bugs but is the currently a build where pretty much everything works? Do the nightlies currently have many more new faetures than CM 7.1 or are they a lot the same?
I don't normally ask questions like this but today I figured what the hell? I would just flash and try them out but I use DarkTremor's A2SD and I've never had luck with a new ROM unless I do a Titanium backup, backup my SD to my computer, wipe and repartition my SD card, copy the data back to my FAT partition, flash, reinstall A2SD, then restore from Titanium. That makes the process take a couple of hours for me.
Any info/opinions on the subject would be appreciated and thanx in advance.
For me, nightlies never were an option and will most likely never be. Weeklies at least.
I used to have MIUI.us and it was ok. Fast and everything, but I soon got to realize that MIUI wasn't for me. Too "flashy". I use samuaz's CM7.2 build with IntersectRaven's kernel and it's fast and stable and all that. A little bored with CM7 now but the only reason I use it is while waiting for a stable ICS/CM9 build.
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For me, nightlies never were an option and will most likely never be. Weeklies at least.
I used to have MIUI.us and it was ok. Fast and everything, but I soon got to realize that MIUI wasn't for me. Too "flashy". I use samuaz's CM7.2 build with IntersectRaven's kernel and it's fast and stable and all that. A little bored with CM7 now but the only reason I use it is while waiting for a stable ICS/CM9 build.
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I'll look into that build. Thanx for the fast response.
I'm not pumped for an ICS build until they get the kernel needed for full hardware acceleration. When I put ICS Passion on my wife's Vibrant, it ran well with few FC's but it didn't have full hardware acceleration either and it was pretty darned slow compared to other ROMs I've put on there. That is why I ended up putting MIUI on her phone. She couldn't stand the slowness.
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I'll look into that build. Thanx for the fast response.
I'm not pumped for an ICS build until they get the kernel needed for full hardware acceleration. When I put ICS Passion on my wife's Vibrant, it ran well with few FC's but it didn't have full hardware acceleration either and it was pretty darned slow compared to other ROMs I've put on there. That is why I ended up putting MIUI on her phone. She couldn't stand the slowness.
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I too will put ICS on hold until it's got all I want in it.
MIUI is very highly "theme-able", though, considering you can mix and match themes as you wish. Let's say you wish to have an ICS lockscreen theme and a completely different SMS theme while having a third dialer theme. No problemo there.
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I too will put ICS on hold until it's got all I want in it.
MIUI is very highly "theme-able", though, considering you can mix and match themes as you wish. Let's say you wish to have an ICS lockscreen theme and a completely different SMS theme while having a third dialer theme. No problemo there.
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Where do I find samuaz's 7.2? I looked in his github and didn't see it and his website is in another language so I was lost.
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Where do I find samuaz's 7.2? I looked in his github and didn't see it and his website is in another language so I was lost.
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Here's his topic: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1416894
But you'll have to put up with downloading it from depositfiles, though ^^
If your using CM7, there is no need to switch to nightlies. There were only a handful released after 7.1 stable was released. If there were any changes, they were minor.
I have tried MIUI, and while it is nice, it isn't for me. While the scrolling between screens is always butter smooth, the menu system often lags, and since it is chinese developed, there are a few things which are in chineese (theme names pulled from the web), and some things don't work to well (like the lyrics and album art function of the music app). I would occasionally get freezes and FC's.
MIUI is a very nice polished ROM with a lot of nice bells ans whistles that make it look really stunning, but it just doesn't seem to always play nice with the android framework.
I too am bored of CM7, and am like everyone else waiting for a decent ICS build. I tried texasice and it works fantastic for the amount of time that has been put into it, but it's not quite up to daily driver status.
If you are interested in trying different ROM's to see which you should use mainly, I highly suggest Boot Manager. It lets you boot different ROM's from your sdcard, so your main ROM is untouched. It doesn't work with ICS yet, but it is an excellent app.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.drx2.bootmanager&hl=en
It's suggested you use at least a class 6 sdcard, but I have had few problems with my class 4.
hi guys
I'm finding it very confusing to figure out some stuff about the ICS ROMs. Unfortunately I don't have as much time as when I first started flashing to read *everything* about every ICS ROM. Specially since some of them don't mention the fact that they're actually ICS-based in the title for their development thread. I've also found some GB ROMs that use an ICS theme, so they place the ICS acronym in the thread title. Very confusing.
So I have 3 very concrete questions:
1. As with GB ROMS, are there MTP-based (i.e. Samsung ROM based) ROMS and AOSP-based ROMS (like CM)?
2. If yes. Can you mention one or 2 of each? If they're all AOSP, then ignore this here dumb question.
3. This is harder, but I'd like to know just in general, which ROMs seem to be among the favorites?
Thanks a lot guys, happy flashing.
Fairly new myself...
I think most of them are AOSP Roms - could be wrong though.
I have only tried two:
teamhacksung's CM9 ALPHA for Galaxy S: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1363593
Team ICSSGS: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1398223
Personally, although I came from CM7 so I tried CM9 first. Moved to Team ICSGS pretty quickly though and found it to be awesome. I do miss some of the customisations you can do with CM Roms but I have found Team ICSSGS to be faster & more stable for my uses. I did try CM9 for a second time the other day as I had tried build 15 and they had build 16 but I still prefer Team ICSSGS so spent about an hour on CM9 and then switched back. CM9 just seemed way more laggy & I had a couple reboots & minor issues which I've never had on Team ICSSGS. (I don't overclock or anything...)
I'm also running the Semaphore 0.9.1 Kernel with the Team ICSSGS Rom which is awesome.
Semaphore: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1468795
Not sure if that is what you want but those are the two I have tested.
There are also a lot of people that seem to like code name android & slim ics but can't recommend as I haven't tried them.
Hi, I too have tested CM9 teamhacksung's ICS with its build 15 and 16, before I had used CM7, now switched to Dark Knights ICS 4.0.4 just two days ago, it is ported from Galaxy Nexus and stable, everything working flawlessly, read through the opinions in its thread, I definitely recommend that rom.
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Thanks, guys
This gives me a starting point to start reading.
I was wary of the CM version as it seems they focus too much on speed and sticking as close to aosp as possible, which is fine, but not at the expense of stability.
I think I'll start looking at the Dark Knight release.
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1st tried ICSSGS 4.2 which was excellent, very stable and no crashes, everything that I did juist worked, with the Semaphore kernel, it was very slick and fast as-well.
Just flashed Dark Knight 3 literally an hour a go, so cant give any report on that but so far so good, its very fast as-well.
Both are AOSP.
I flip flopped between hacksungs and ICSSGS, and stuck with ICSSGS. With 4.2 and Semaphore 0.9.1, phone runs like a dream. And everyday usage, for work, games, personal...it's amazing.
But...I get bored to easily, so I might try Dark Knight....
I flashed my first and only ICS rom last week - doc's master ICS V5 and have to say It's very fast and super smooth. I'm now using semaphore 1.9.1 and seems even better now too.
Switched from teamhacksung to Open Kang Project just yesterday.
You cant go wrong with both.
I really like the customization on Kang.
Will try Dark Knight and ICSSGS for sure in the near future.
I use ICSSGS 4.2 with Semaphore 0.9.0 kernel.
No FC's, no reboots, very fast.
I play Asphalt 6HD, PES12, Real Racing 2, Fifa12, NFS: Hot Pursuit, NOVA 2, DeepSpace without lag.
All other stuff work too. No WiFi problem, no Bluetooth problem... just perfect...
I definitely recommend that rom.
BTW. Team ICSSGS waiting now for AOSP 4.0.4. (4.0.3 mission completed, all works fine)
I eventually tried Dark knight. All I can say is WOW.
It has a few very minor bugs, but it's usable as hell, super fast (a bit snappier than CM7.1, in fact).
I had to flash it three times before the phone finally booted up correctly, and I restored my apps with no data (except a couple of them for which I need the data and have no backup mechanism of their own).
But...wow. Also, ICS looks really nice, it feels so much more polished.
At work they gave me an iPhone....it feels so simplistic and stale and boring. Only thing the iPhone 4S has it going for it is the damn screen which is gorgeous. And, obviously, it's faster than my trusty ol' SGS. But hell, ICS closed the gap in terms of polish and responsiveness with iOS. In terms of flexibility and usability, iOS was already behind.
I'm a happy camper.
AOKP build23 beta2.1 with the Party pack from GoyalBhuvan, which i really like it after Aokp milestone 4 from Open Kang Project is the best...! Without dudes Kang Project is rocking with the customization.
1) There are AOSP ICS roms and there are ports of Galaxy S2 Samsung ICS roms
2) Examples of AOSP based roms: CM9, teamicgs, AOKP
Examples of Samsung based roms: The apha ports of the Galaxy S2 rom
3) Currently, most people use cm9 or AOKP. While AOKP has more features and better hardware acceleration, I find cm9 to be more stable and less prone to force closes and reboots.
i'm currently using remICS-UX and it's so smooth and fast..but my battery life is a bit off..only 5 hours if i use wifi..is that normal?
any roms you want to share?
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Hey,
I really think the best rom for me right now is the one that Cyanogenmod has out. Especially for the captivate.... its 4.0.4. Its really because cyanogen updates the rom everyday and fixes bugs every day and posts them as nightlies. http://www.cyanogenmod.com/devices/samsung-captivate there is the website.
Also... here is a website of a lot of different roms.
http://alchemistar.blogspot.com/2010/11/samsung-captivate-custom-rom-list-1110.html
I havent tried a lot but I have heard plenty of good things about dark knight. But really... cyanogen is hopping these days!
thanks! i'll check this out!
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Review of ROMs 4.0.4
Here's my short review of available ROMs:
AOKP - very nice looking, sleek, fast, smooth, has some bugs which are still not fixed after so many releases (media bug, USB mount bug)
CM9 - not very smooth, not sure why, stuttery
Doc's V12 - AOKP based + TouchWiz
Darky V5 - had some bugs, ppl complain, didn't try personally
ICSSGS - tried it first, very barebone, good, but sad looking.
SlimICS - by far smoothest and bug free, but somewhat sad looking.
Nostalgia - based on SlimICS plus some beef, bacon and veggies. The best IMHO.
there is no best rom, only best for your likes.
read the features available and choose.
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