Hi, I am new to this Sensation XL XDA forum.
i have had SXL for about 3month or maybe more, and still haven't done any tweaks(root, custom rom, etc)
And the things i want to know is
is it good to change from stock rom to custom rom? is it faster and battery can last longer?
which custom rom is the most stable one?
and can i still update to official HTC ICS update(when it comes) after i install custom rom?
and what is the difference between sense 3.5 and 3.6?
Thanks
Custom ROMs are aftermarket ROMs created by developers that are tweaked or enhanced by the developer or are ported over from another device. These custom ROMs can sometimes offer tweaks to UI, speed, battery life enhancements and mods/tweaks to enhance user experience.
The difference between sense 3.5 and sense 3.6 is that sense 3.6 is based on android 4.0 but the design apart from the dock at the bottom is mainly based on the UI of sense 3.5.
To recieve the official ICS update you will have to (to the best of my knowledge) re-lock the bootloader and flash a stock HTC ruu or rom to recieve the update.
As for the most stable ROM i would have to say any of the BinDroid/CoreDroid ROMs Runny-Bliss by Alex-V or for Android 4.0/ICS Zombi.eSandwich
Regards, Zac
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This is also been posted in the wrong section this should be in Q&A or General!!
anonymous_1997 said:
Custom ROMs are aftermarket ROMs created by developers that are tweaked or enhanced by the developer or are ported over from another device. These custom ROMs can sometimes offer tweaks to UI, speed, battery life enhancements and mods/tweaks to enhance user experience.
The difference between sense 3.5 and sense 3.6 is that sense 3.6 is based on android 4.0 but the design apart from the dock at the bottom is mainly based on the UI of sense 3.5.
To recieve the official ICS update you will have to (to the best of my knowledge) re-lock the bootloader and flash a stock HTC ruu or rom to recieve the update.
As for the most stable ROM i would have to say any of the BinDroid/CoreDroid ROMs Runny-Bliss by Alex-V or for Android 4.0/ICS Zombi.eSandwich
Regards, Zac
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This is also been posted in the wrong section this should be in Q&A or General!!
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Thanks for your replied
But is it better to change stock rom to the custom ones you mentioned?
and do you use custom rom?
The ROMs I mentioned are from my personal experience. And yes I.do use a custom ROM I am currently using the Three musketeers sense 4 ROM I wouldn't recommend it for a beginner as.it is a beta and has a.few.bugs
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Please move to q&a section. Custom option is for users who want that bit extra from their device which they cannot get with a stock rom. There are many restriction within stock roms which limit your user experience. With custom roms and kernels you get to use your device they way you want to and can also manipulate it to your personal taste. Many of the roms in here are stable enough and a few like miui and sense 4 are WIP. Once you are up to speed you can give those a try and post your findings
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Custom ROM
If this is your first dabbling into custom roms i would strongly suggest as stable rom as possible. If you are mainly looking for increased speed and longer battery i would recommend an older gingerbread rom. Since gingerbread is older, devs have had a lot more time to perfect roms based on gingerbread.
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Hi,
Im new to the ROMS. looking for a good first one. Can anyone tell me if there is a ROM with Icecream Sandwich with latest HTC Sense? or even a Gingerbread (2.3.3 is what im currently on) with latest HTC Sense? Also any suggestions for ROMS? im wide open. Im hoping to expand my knowledge of all of this so i wont be a noob........
Thanks for everything!!!
RoughRunner said:
Hi,
Im new to the ROMS. looking for a good first one. Can anyone tell me if there is a ROM with Icecream Sandwich with latest HTC Sense? or even a Gingerbread (2.3.3 is what im currently on) with latest HTC Sense? Also any suggestions for ROMS? im wide open. Im hoping to expand my knowledge of all of this so i wont be a noob........
Thanks for everything!!!
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Ice cream sandwich is yet not out properly.
Rest there are:
Android revolution with htc sense 2.1(mods can give you some 3.0 components)
virtuous unity with sense 3
Niks trinity xl with sense 3.5
Virtuous affinity with sense 3.5
Rcmix 4.0 with sense 3.5
Ehab's runny or bliss rom with sense 3.5
Pyramid based rom by ehab
If u need need sense rom u can go for nik's v2.0 rom !!!
If u need android 4.0 try latest miui
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where do i find the miui flie or rom your were talking about. Niks Trinity XL is kickass if you ask me, been using it for almost a 3 months till now, i havent had much problems unless i overclock my CPU.
vmorari said:
where do i find the miui flie or rom your were talking about. Niks Trinity XL is kickass if you ask me, been using it for almost a 3 months till now, i havent had much problems unless i overclock my CPU.
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Should be near the top of the developers forum "miui super rom roobs linked" or something like that. Its not ics though its a gingerbread Rom that's slowly implementing the ics framework into its build. So far you won't notice any differences in the ui but its a good start as every new version released will contain more and more of the ics functionality, but for now there is no final release of ics and no stable build, so if you don't know what your doing I wouldn't reccommend this Rom... yet.
Pardon my lack of knowledge, but i dont understand there are different sense versions with roms. Do some like older sense than the newer ones? And why...
dkimmortal said:
Pardon my lack of knowledge, but i dont understand there are different sense versions with roms. Do some like older sense than the newer ones? And why...
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mostly people like the newer sense. its like going from froyo to gingerbread. depends on you...people generally like new things.
in case of sense....cosmetic changes are more.
Stable but not beautiful:
CM7 (or nightly)
Beautiful but a little bit unstable:
Sense 3.0 / 3.5 ROM
With the new HTC Sense 3.0 update is the phone still smooth or is it laggy? Is the new update of HTC Sense 3.0 the stablest ROM, for this phone? Will this new official update work better then the custom ROM's we have of Sense 3.0/3.5?
jakob95 said:
With the new HTC Sense 3.0 update is the phone still smooth or is it laggy? Is the new update of HTC Sense 3.0 the stablest ROM, for this phone? Will this new official update work better then the custom ROM's we have of Sense 3.0/3.5?
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The new release will not be laggy for your device at stock setup with clean install. However upon installing apps and using up internal memory your phone will become laggy over time.
As to your second question no. Official releases will never best a custom room created by a well established dev. The roms released by our devs have all the unnecessary cap removed from the roms and the sloppy coding is all aligned properly to save space and thus giving your phone more internal space and better use of your ram. I would strongly advise you to never go to a stock rom for any reason other than returning to s-on for warranty purposes. All future roms will most likely be created using the stock rom most recently released for this device as a base and greatly improved upon.
I don't even have this device, I have the Incredible 2. I was just wondering of what to expect with the future update for my phone, since both of these phones are basically the same. All the Sense 3.0/3.5 ROMS for my phone have some form of annoying bug, or lag. While the stock Sense 2.1 ROM never lagged for me.
jakob95 said:
I don't even have this device, I have the Incredible 2. I was just wondering of what to expect with the future update for my phone, since both of these phones are basically the same. All the Sense 3.0/3.5 ROMS for my phone have some form of annoying bug, or lag. While the stock Sense 2.1 ROM never lagged for me.
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Try hamdirs ultra smooth rosie mod from the dhd development section... Helps a lot
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Just wanted to bump this topic, since I never really got a clear answer. Is the Sense 3.0 official ROM smoother then the Sense 2.1 official ROM?
jakob95 said:
Just wanted to bump this topic, since I never really got a clear answer. Is the Sense 3.0 official ROM smoother then the Sense 2.1 official ROM?
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If you have a DInc2, why are you bumping a thread on the IncS forum?
The official Sense 3.0 update has been out for quite some time. IMO it has been just as smooth as Sense 2.1, but to me, smoothness is one of those subjective things. What I consider smooth may not be what you consider smooth. You just need to try it and for yourself and make your own opinion.
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If you have a DInc2, why are you bumping a thread on the IncS forum?
The official Sense 3.0 update has been out for quite some time. IMO it has been just as smooth as Sense 2.1, but to me, smoothness is one of those subjective things. What I consider smooth may not be what you consider smooth. You just need to try it and for yourself and make your own opinion.
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Because the official Sense 3.0 just came out for the Dinc2. So before updating I wanted to hear what people had to say here.
To me it wasn't a smooth as I wanted so I had to root and believe me I never regretted it !!!! There are some roms in xda incredible S section Android development that are smooth like butter
Edit: I meant that sense 3 didn't impress me as sense 4.0A did !!!
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In this thread there will be mods which are confirmed to work and/or to increase the device performance I will list the following things:
Current Roms which are in development
System Kernels
Custom Recoveries
Custom Scripts
Preformance tweaks
Firstly before any of these Roms, modifications you will need a rooted device. This means that you will need to unlock the bootloader via HTC-DEV.com I will explain how to do this on post number two.
Before you do any of this I am not responsible for any damages, data loss or anything of that nature by doing these mods, if you choose to do them you are at your own risk, if you follow the steps properly you should be fine
Okay now the word of warning is out of the way lets get started...
Roms
The current roms which are practically finished, and are adding little tweaks every release are considered the most stable at the moment and this roms are...
The Nameless Rom by einstein.frat is based on the stock rom or RUU if you like, but with added speed and features such as 3D rosie:
NAMELESS ROM THREAD
The second Rom is also based one the standard sense rom, just with many less applications and with being de-odexed, and is built by mmmcfc:
SLIM SENSE
The Explos!on rom, this rom is based on the nameless rom however, it has the ported Desire V sense which is still very fast and smooth. It has sense 4.1 and has the 3D home screen, this rom is built by SeannyM.
Explos!on Rom
In this next section there will be work in progress roms, but bear in mind that these roms are not intended for daily use, as of yet, so be warned!
Unofficial CyanogenMod 9 for HTC Desire C, this rom is built by the developer Munjeni, most features are working such as phoning sms but WIFI and some other connectivity and sound hardware don't appear to work properly:
Unofficial Cyanogenmod 9
Kernels
This section will explain how to flash a kernel and which ones to use, you have to be aware that certain kernels will not allow WIFI or other features to work as it has to be hard-coded into the system. Firstly Before you install any Kernels you need to know how to install them properly so the things you will need are:
HTC Sync Manger
HTC Drivers for fastboot
Android sdk
However most of the kernels are provided in the rom threads, but I will list the ones that have separate threads:
Zerogolf Htc desire kernel, this kernel works with the nameless rom, and the stock rom depending on what version you select there are three which are listed for different roms these include:
ZeroGolf_Kernel_v1-ga149866_EasyFastboot, this can be used with the slim sense rom.
ZeroGolf_Kernel_v1-g8594b3f_EasyFastboot, this is the latest vodafone UK Kernel
ZeroGolf_Kernel_v1-g0be4e84_EasyFastboot, this Kernel is the stock vodafone Kernel with overclocking.
Zerogolf Kernel
Custom Recoveries
Currently there are two custom recoveries, which are available for our HTC Desire C and these are:
Clock Work Mod recovery Touch edition, this recovery Is built by developer Munjeni and it includes all the thing you need to install custom roms , backup and resore etc...
Clock Work Mod Touch
The Second recovery is also based on Clock Work mod, however this one isn't touch and has a few bugs. But if you wish to install this one over the touch one, then it's your Choice. This recovery is built by mmmcfc, however I highly recommend you to install the touch based recovery, due to some bugs!
Clock Work Mod Recovery NON Touch
These are current Kernels, recoveries and roms Available for the HTC Desire C. PM me if you find a new Kernel, recovery or rom which you would like me to add but I should be quite up-to date.
Custom Scripts
I need sleep I'll update this thread with new information after college tomorrow.
Hello
My sister will take over my rooted IncS and would like to know what ROM you think is the most stable? The only requirement i have is at least android 4.0.
Hope u could give me some good advices, i dont have the time to test or read about every rom..
thx
Android Revolution HD, if you are ok with Sense interface. It will be fast and stable.
It doesn't have much custom features which can be found in the other ROMs, but it is a good ROM to start from.
What is important is that this ROM isn't abandoned by its developer, and it keeps being updated.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1088498
sunstream said:
Android Revolution HD, if you are ok with Sense interface. It will be fast and stable.
It doesn't have much custom features which can be found in the other ROMs, but it is a good ROM to start from.
What is important is that this ROM isn't abandoned by its developer, and it keeps being updated.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1088498
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Almost every Sense ROM. The SENSE ROMs under the OP of the ROM index (in android development section) are all stable enough to be daily drivers
072665995 said:
Almost every Sense ROM. The SENSE ROMs under the OP of the ROM index (in android development section) are all stable enough to be daily drivers
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I agree with you: Sense ROMs, especially based on 4.0, are mostly more stable than based on bare Android. However, ARHD was the one where I haven't encountered any blockers (e.g. like a bug with keyboard in numeric input fields in Blackout ROM, though the ROM itself is still lovely).
Thanks for your replies! I think i go for ARHD
I bought this 32 GB HTC One T-Mobile phone which is unlocked, and will be here in a few days. It IS an M7, right? It has rooted stock firmware (not sure if Sense or AOSP) but will probably flash a custom ROM. I read up on the Google Edition bootloader/recovery, and read Vomer's guide as well. I'm not sure if I need to do the whole GE process before I flash a GE ROM, or which GE/AOSP ROM I should go with. It seems like most of them are Sense, so which ones are AOSP?
The one original android development forum is the asop Roms .
There are GE versions that will work with your current setup. The only reason to "convert to the GE version is for official ota updates.
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ihavoc said:
The one original android development forum is the asop Roms .
There are GE versions that will work with your current setup. The only reason to "convert to the GE version is for official ota updates.
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The what? Oh, you mean the ORIGINAL One forums has AOSP ROMs? How do you tell the difference between the original One and the 2013 model?
How often are there OTA updates? Those are usually compiled into current custom ROMs, right?
In the case of the HTC One, would Sense be better over AOSP (not just because of the camera)? It would seem there are more Sense-based ROMs than AOKP/AOSP ones. I also see a few Sense/GE ROMs. What exactly does that mean? Is it just Sense with the additional AOSP settings and options? If I wanted the best camera, should I just stick with Sense?
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The what? Oh, you mean the ORIGINAL One forums has AOSP ROMs? How do you tell the difference between the original One and the 2013 model?
How often are there OTA updates? Those are usually compiled into current custom ROMs, right?
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There is a android dev and there is an original dev. Read up on the stickies and you'll get an explanation, after you read ask questions with direction so users won't have to type up 2-3 paragraphs explaining everything out .
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UndeadSquirrel said:
The what? Oh, you mean the ORIGINAL One forums has AOSP ROMs? How do you tell the difference between the original One and the 2013 model?
How often are there OTA updates? Those are usually compiled into current custom ROMs, right?
In the case of the HTC One, would Sense be better over AOSP (not just because of the camera)? It would seem there are more Sense-based ROMs than AOKP/AOSP ones. I also see a few Sense/GE ROMs. What exactly does that mean? Is it just Sense with the additional AOSP settings and options? If I wanted the best camera, should I just stick with Sense?
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Stock Sense 5 is very good. You can try AOSP ROMs and see if you don't miss the Sense features. The camera app has been ported to AOSP if I remember well so you don't loose Zoe/Highlights.
I'm stock and haven't planned on going o AOSP or other custom ROMs because I'm more than happy with Sense 5, except some things here and there, but the same can be said about any other ROM. the one thing I change was the launcher. It's good, but not as flexible as Nova, specially for adding more columns/rows to home screens.