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First of all, it's amazing how far Mi5 has come in terms of development and developer attention. There was a time when all this subforum had was 2-3 unofficial TWRPs, and that's it.
Now there are an amazing number of ROMs available. But the increase in variety has brought with it increasing confusion. A lot of the features overlap. Which ROM to flash? Do we just keep on cycling between them till we find the best match for us?
So I would appreciate if we could document the differences between the various ROMs in terms of features, stability, lack of bloat, etc., to help users choose the one suited to them.
@33bca, your input would particularly help, since you've provided almost half the ROMs in this subforum.
Marshmallow:
Official CM 13 (stable snapshots)
-really light
-boots really fast
-no network traffic indicator
AOSP (JDC)
-has substratum theme engine
Dirty Unicorns
PAC-ROM
AOSP-CAF
Paranoid Android
AICP
Mokee
Old ROMs (not recommended):
Hexagon
AOKP
crDroid
BeanStalk
SlimROM
Tipsy-OS
H2OS
BlissROM
ZephyrOS
Resurrection Remix
-quite a heavy ROM (system takes up 10GB )
-boots slower than CM 13
-fast charging LED blinking issue still exists
Nougat: (CM theme engine and firewall missing for relevant ROMs)
Lineage OS 14.1 (Official)
AOSP JDC (OMS) (Official)
CypherOS 3.5.1
AICP (Official)
AOKP
BeanStalk
Resurrection Remix 5.8 (OMS)
Slim 7 (OMS)
SlimDragon 1.1 (OMS) (Official)
Nitrogen OS
crDroid 1.9
Mokee
Zephyr OS 6.1 (OMS) (Official)
XOSP 7.2
XenonHD
DU 11 (OMS)
Xiaomi.eu
UnitedMIUI
In my personal opinion, at this stage, the only Marshmallow ROM you should consider flashing anew is CM 13 because it's the only one with weeklies, and hence actively maintained. The other ROMs will not be maintained as the developers have moved to the Nougat ROM base.
All Marshmallow ROMs except CM13 contain the laggy performance bug below 5% battery.
The nougat ROMs so far are quite stable and usable.
There's just the issue of a missing CM theme engine on CM based ROMs, which is easily resolved by using Substratum Legacy. The OMS compatible ROMs of course can use the latest Substratum framework.
There are little features missing here and there, which probably won't affect usage for a majority of people:
In the WiFi menu, we can't select WiFi frequency between 2.4 GHz, 5 GHZ, and automatic.
Your input is right, having more roms dont mean basicly its better. You have more roms to chose, thats right, but you also have more roms which are basicly the same with the same features.
My experience is, that all the roms with a lot of modifications (like DU, AICP, RR, Beanstalk and so on) are basicly the same, they have an external app for all modifications and near the same options.
Other roms like Paranoid Android, AOSCP, JDC and Cyanogenmod, try to keep the system clean while they still offer some modifications built into the system app to keep the AOSP feeling.
AOSP is AOSP, there i dont have to say much about
Thanks, man. So is it fair to say that DU, AICP, RR and such can be clubbed into the same category, as in "Install any, they're all the same", while it would be more useful to differentiate between AOSP, JDC AOSP, CM, AOSCP and so on?
I'm unwilling to flash ROM after ROM to find out the differences between them. If anyone has the experience of flashing two or more ROMs, please contribute to this thread so that it can become a useful guide to people. I'll keep adding the info to the OP.
Is there a bugs free custom ROM based on cm13 or cm14 so far? What about Mokee?
@selmandeli The best you're going to get is of course the relatively stable weeklies of official CM13. Since it is being maintained by an official CM developer and has had several months to mature, a lot of bugs have been fixed.
Apart from that, most of the 6.0.1 ROMs should be fine, even though they're unofficially built, as the code base is stable and only some kernel changes were needed, which, thanks to the awesome dedication of bgcngm and h2o64, we have.
No 7.1 based ROM is stable yet, since the CM code base is being actively updated. Even here, your best bet is the unofficial CM 14.1, since the developer maintains and fixes bugs himself.
The other 7.1 ROMs depend on CM development, and additionally on whoever their active developers are. The guys we have do a great job of keeping the respective code bases up to date though.
andy356 said:
Thanks, man. So is it fair to say that DU, AICP, RR and such can be clubbed into the same category, as in "Install any, they're all the same", while it would be more useful to differentiate between AOSP, JDC AOSP, CM, AOSCP and so on?
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@andy356 DU has some original features built into it. Not sure about the version for MI5 though.
Thanks @mintyx. Could you elaborate a bit so I can put it in the OP if it applies?
@WhyOrean Do you plan to continue with your custom CM 14.1 like you said in the thread? Or will the focus be on other ROMs?
andy356 said:
@WhyOrean Do you plan to continue with your custom CM 14.1 like you said in the thread? Or will the focus be on other ROMs?
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Plan is not dropped..!
andy356 said:
Thanks @mintyx. Could you elaborate a bit so I can put it in the OP if it applies?
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@andy356 you should search for Dirty Unicorns Fling, Pulse and Smartbar. These are their original ideas. I don't know if someone else has used it in their rom. It is open source so anyone can implement them.
andy356 said:
In my personal opinion, at this stage, the only Marshmallow ROM you should consider flashing anew is CM 13 because it's the only one with weeklies, and hence actively maintained. The other ROMs will not be maintained as the developers have moved to the Nougat ROM base.
All Marshmallow ROMs except CM13 contain the laggy performance bug below 5% battery.
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@andy356 Tap to home feature implemented in any marshmallow rom?
dkmsn8 said:
@andy356 Tap to home feature implemented in any marshmallow rom?
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Nope. When it seemed like most of the bugs were gone, and devs could then focus on it, Nougat code was dropped. Now there's again a mad rush to get the major bugs out on Nougat ROMs.
andy356 said:
Nope. When it seemed like most of the bugs were gone, and devs could then focus on it, Nougat code was dropped. Now there's again a mad rush to get the major bugs out on Nougat ROMs.
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Yeah..
@andy356 Thanks for your precious feedback, it helps to understand the difference between the different ROMs. May I ask you to do an update version of your feedback since a lot a things have changed recently.
Thanks man!
@nicoula91 Right now I have a stable Marshmallow ROM that I want to stick to until Nougat ROMs become stable enough. When I'm ready to flash a new one I'll take that opportunity to flash all the Nougat ROMs and look at what's different. That sounds really troublesome, though.
Hello, friends using the Nexus 4.
I installed recently this ROM.
But i heard that the CM will not be supported anymore but I don't know which is the best. So can you please give me some suggestions.
My preferences are the following:
stable, with all functionalities working.
updated nexus 4 rom's
hi,
for my experience have one Rom fully functional and stabil and also frequently updated :
Nitrogen Rom
https://forum.xda-developers.com/ne...-nitrogen-os-n-substratum-10-09-2016-t3459341
maybe saosp rom is good too but unfortunately saosp rom is dead from april 2017 and lineage os 14.1 is still have BSOD's.
bystroy said:
Hello, friends using the Nexus 4.
I installed recently this ROM.
But i heard that the CM will not be supported anymore but I don't know which is the best. So can you please give me some suggestions.
My preferences are the following:
stable, with all functionalities working.
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Lineage OS is the continuation of CM, so you should just migrate to that if you like CM.
liquid rom and rr remix rom awesome
Nitrogen ROM
There's no such thing as the best rom.
Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk
snak3ater said:
There's no such thing as the best rom.
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Children like to brag toys.
Nitrogen i think
I think dirty unicorns mako 7.1.1 is best rom most stable and most customizable rom there is also it is regular ly updated it is maintained by nitin chobe best n4 rom Dev in my opinion his ROMs are great any of his ROMs should work well for you just pick the rom that suits your tastes/needs
I would say latest ubuntu touch. Its easy to understand with the swipe and have the (web)apps i need while the rom has a good battery life (walking in the city with gps tracking on).
But what I can see is that Lineage 14.1 will probably be most updated like the old galaxy nexus was/is
Nitrogen is the best rom. Stable, smooth and battery friendly!
tonysansone said:
Nitrogen is the best rom. Stable, smooth and battery friendly!
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Yes, they have regular updates and cool features but from my experience they are using too much ram (a little bit under 1GB on idle) which can be annoying.
Also i want to mention that it's not that all good to jump to android N because it lacks xposed and it's not looking like it will come soon.
I recommend Resurrection Remix
Actually I have Nitrogen rom but is most drain battery withoot wifi, bluetooth and lte. Before i used Krexus (On android 6) and n4 working on battery 2x longer and more stable. I think problem is Nougat.
minerek said:
Actually I have Nitrogen rom but is most drain battery withoot wifi, bluetooth and lte. Before i used Krexus (On android 6) and n4 working on battery 2x longer and more stable. I think problem is Nougat.
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Try quanta kernel, the default one uses way too much battery on idle.
xda-dvlprs said:
maybe saosp rom is good too but unfortunately saosp rom is dead from april 2017 and lineage os 14.1 is still have BSOD's.
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The latest Lineage OS 14.1 nightly has been working great on mine so far.
TundraLK520 said:
Try quanta kernel, the default one uses way too much battery on idle.
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Do you have link?
minerek said:
Do you have link?
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Just go to the android dev section in xda for nexus 4, you'll find it there, just search.
Whitch ROM passes saftynet?
lch8 said:
Whitch ROM passes saftynet?
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-4/general/nougat-rom-bypasses-safetynet-t3612353
or marshmallow roms with security updates before november 2016
It's should be simple question for most of users but I want to be sure.
At now camera on Lineage OS is little buggy. Today Oneplus release Oxygen OS 4.1 based on android 7.1.1 so kernel sources is coming too.
Lineage based ROM's should get camera big improvement soon? Do I think right ? :laugh:
Thank for the answers!
Well, I don't think it will get really much better.. (It is already really good since the open beta 7.1.1 Blobs are used..)
I'd rather love some more stability. Hope it will improve, when OOS 4.1 Sources get released.
mvha said:
It's should be simple question for most of users but I want to be sure.
At now camera on Lineage OS is little buggy. Today Oneplus release Oxygen OS 4.1 based on android 7.1.1 so kernel sources is coming too.
Lineage based ROM's should get camera big improvement soon? Do I think right ? :laugh:
Thank for the answers!
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Kernel sources released.
I ain't sure if that gonna help here, because the base is slighly different..,
If 1+ would release the sources for camera libs that will allow to fix the camera problems on LOS and AOSP
mvha said:
It's should be simple question for most of users but I want to be sure.
At now camera on Lineage OS is little buggy. Today Oneplus release Oxygen OS 4.1 based on android 7.1.1 so kernel sources is coming too.
Lineage based ROM's should get camera big improvement soon? Do I think right ? :laugh:
Thank for the answers!
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Using the 7.1.1 blobs from openbeta3 was a real milestone regarding camera. The progression from ob3 to 4.1.0 is notnsuch a big deal (the differences in the files are marginal).
Hello guys ,
I am currently running oos 5.0.1 Oreo and wanted to shift to a custom Oreo ROM for better battery - performance , so wanted to know which rom are you guys using and how its doing with you.
I'm actually running on NOS
I'm back from cypheros test build because it's have too much bugs 5.1
Omni doesn't have new brightness slider and color manager and screen recorder so I'm not going to flash it rn (I'm also feel bloated by many useless apps like matlog music app and other omni apps)
i tried aex, slimm, candy, pixel experience, cosmicos, los 15.1, aicp but they have too much bugs for me (many of them not have system ui crash or system)
oxygen os as 8.0 is too slow for me i can't even fast type with any kernel on xda for oos (also battery life is bad)
I'm staying with Omni/NOS until AOSPA or cypheros gets stable enough to use it for daily driver.
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I'm actually running on NOS
I'm back from cypheros test build because it's have too much bugs 5.1
Omni doesn't have new brightness slider and color manager and screen recorder so I'm not going to flash it rn (I'm also feel bloated by many useless apps like matlog music app and other omni apps)
i tried aex, slimm, candy, pixel experience, cosmicos, los 15.1, aicp but they have too much bugs for me (many of them not have system ui crash or system)
oxygen os as 8.0 is too slow for me i can't even fast type with any kernel on xda for oos (also battery life is bad)
I'm staying with Omni/NOS until AOSPA or cypheros gets stable enough to use it for daily driver.
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Try dirty unicorns maybe
OOS because it seems to be the most stable rom for now.
niwia said:
Try dirty unicorns maybe
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DU 8.1? where it is i can't find it on official site
(I don't can't to build it myself)
niwia said:
Try dirty unicorns maybe
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Do they have Oreo builds?
Puddi_Puddin said:
OOS because it seems to be the most stable rom for now.
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have you tried NOS or OMNI?
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have you tried NOS or OMNI?
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Few weeks back. Issues with force closes. I know that alot has changed but I ain't a flash alcoholic and OOS currently works for me so.
for people who are asking for DU:
DU builds: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dirty-unicorns/files/oneplus3/
I got that from YouTube review video and it's saying not official !
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Try dirty unicorns maybe
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I think that omni is a great choice , currently liking it , will see how it settles in few days .
RKBD said:
I'm actually running on NOS
I'm back from cypheros test build because it's have too much bugs 5.1
Omni doesn't have new brightness slider and color manager and screen recorder so I'm not going to flash it rn (I'm also feel bloated by many useless apps like matlog music app and other omni apps)
i tried aex, slimm, candy, pixel experience, cosmicos, los 15.1, aicp but they have too much bugs for me (many of them not have system ui crash or system)
oxygen os as 8.0 is too slow for me i can't even fast type with any kernel on xda for oos (also battery life is bad)
I'm staying with Omni/NOS until AOSPA or cypheros gets stable enough to use it for daily driver.
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Thanks for sharing your experience , i went on and flashed omnirom and I can till instantly that there i s a noticeable improvement in performance and smoothness over oos
Muhammad Habashi said:
for people who are asking for DU:
DU builds: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dirty-unicorns/files/oneplus3/
I got that from YouTube review video and it's saying not official !
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How did you find it? This was my favourite on Nougat. Did you test it?
Muhammad Habashi said:
for people who are asking for DU:
DU builds: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dirty-unicorns/files/oneplus3/
I got that from YouTube review video and it's saying not official !
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i think I'll stay with NOS because its have same features as DU and more (i didn't test it I'll download it and test with one is more stable and battery friendly)
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How did you find it? This was my favourite on Nougat. Did you test it?
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I was searching for DU Oreo builds to try it out and by luck I found it in the description of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVFrUZ9-Krs (Indian review so I didn't watch it.)
I have tested DU and I'm think its slow as Los 15.1 I'm again back to NOS
we should have telegram or whatsapp or xda thread for these discussions.. that'd be great
Omni and nos are the only viable Oreo ROMs. Maybe when they release z unleashed will be great
The only way to get a good DU 8.1 build is to know someone or to build yourself.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/gr...roms-feature-development/rom-tesla-n-t3481561
I'm actually on aosip.
Its feels stable but only one bug is navbar i can't change it and its too big/black and that hurts my eyes.
camera is really good better than nos IMO.
faster/smoother
i don't know how's battery because i didn't charge my phone to 100% also dash charge doesn't work
https://forum.xda-developers.com/on...ndroid-source-illusion-project-t3735128/page3
no more custom roms or port ,why?
it's hard for developers?
the last rom RR is no stable and flyme 6 has much bug...
deidshin said:
no more custom roms or port ,why?
it's hard for developers?
the last rom RR is no stable and flyme 6 has much bug...
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Not really forgotten, it only takes really quite a lot time to fix issues, do development work on specific ROM (or kernel) versions when switching between ROMs / Android versions
and there's also real life.
There are certainly more developers needed for the Z5, Z4/Z3+
I hope that almost a rom with oreo could be released soon, otherwise I will need to buy a new device
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I hope that almost a rom with oreo could be released soon, otherwise I will need to buy a new device
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What is it of Oreo that you need so badly ?
Isn't any of the Nougat based ROMs working well enough ?
I miss Dirty Unicorns and PureX =/
I currently use XenonHD 8.0 in my ZL is so pretty