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Recommend me a ROM based on my usage?

Hey guys, I have HardSPL installed and am fairly seasoned in the cooked rom kitchen.
I was wondering if anyone could recommend me a good ROM? I know that mostly all of them have something good to offer. I was using NATF's 4.3 and now 4.5 but after lag issues and the like, I've chosen to use a new ROM, the Elite Project RC3.
Lets see how this turns out, as I remember reading somewhere that the EPRC3 ROM was notable for its speed. Speed is very important to me lol. I don't like seeing my texts type themselves in 30 seconds after I did it on the keyboard. And sometimes music just won't play or something and its very annoying, other times wifi doesn't work accordingly, things take long to load up, its rare for me to even browse the Touch Flo 3d, like swipe my finger from "home" to "programs" without some lag...on 4.3 this was not a problem but on NATF 4.5 it is.
I don't use GPS, I don't really use much of anything that sets this phone apart lol.
All I do is:
*Browse the web using Opera/Skyfire
*Youtube
*Text
*Phone calls
*Music player (Don't have an iTouch anymore...)
* Wifi (Don't have a 3g/data plan
* play some of the games and use some onboard memory.
* Take pictures/videos and the like.
I don't really use much of those programs that are their (Save a few) and I would love to have the option to be able to call and text via an internet connection rather than the phone's signal, since my school gets no reception but has wifi all over hte place.
Basically, I want all that I use, or most of it, with fast responsiveness. I disliked all the AT&T crap too and don't want that back...
Right now Elite Project is working pretty good, an upgrade from NATF which was giving me issues. I appreciate all the work put into the ROMS though.
Can you please recommend me a ROM to suit my needs?

Z_Tahir1 said:
Can you please recommend me a ROM to suit my needs?
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Why dont you try this one and see if you like it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=488781
other than since this will surely be closed...I would recommend trying them out like you were doing and see, which one you like....I have and they are all so good....

Not to be a pain, but i recommend you try them all and choose for yourself.
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Fed up. Don't care anymore about Sense UI. Need blank ROM.

So I've tried a TON of roms from some amazing chefs (I'm mostly a lurker around here, so let me say thanks for all the time you put into your work while I'm at it) but what I've decided I'm really looking for is just a phone that works quickly and doesn't require me to reset it constantly (the classic speedy and stable goal).
My favorite roms have been MightyMike's, Mr. X's, and Deck's, over at ppcgeek (I'm CDMA and they seem to have more CMDA friendly stuff over there). But still, I find myself resetting my phone often or waiting for certain screens to load.
I've been looking into some blank-slate roms but the ones I found were carrier-specific and apparently buggy (I guess you can't take out everything...there's probably a science to cooking this style of rom even if it's supposed to be the bare-essentials).
I have decided I could care less for the Sense UI, and will settle with anything as long as it works basic functions as smoothly as a non-smartphone does.
Any chefs out there making something like this that would work for a Verizon tp2?
Thanks a lot.

Sense is eye candy. For me personally, I prefer functionality over eye candy.
I use the titanium (windows default) interface because it is a clean interface.
I think some of the problems with sense is it a resource hog, and the video driver(s) for the 7200/01 chips are still pretty much software, and not hardware based, thanks to Qualcomm or HTC or whoever for not releasing proper drivers.

p51d007 said:
Sense is eye candy. For me personally, I prefer functionality over eye candy.
I use the titanium (windows default) interface because it is a clean interface.
I think some of the problems with sense is it a resource hog, and the video driver(s) for the 7200/01 chips are still pretty much software, and not hardware based, thanks to Qualcomm or HTC or whoever for not releasing proper drivers.
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But does just "disabling" Sense give you the same performance as not having it in the rom at all?

You took the words right out of my mouth.
I began with flashing my T-Mobile Touch Pro 2 because no matter what I did, I could not get my phone to recognize my position through Google maps. It was incredibly frustrating because I use it a lot. I always ended up being show in the same part of New York no matter where I was.
Given the understanding that 23529 was the latest but still very buggy, I focused on a few 21892 ROMs. The following happened in various combinations:
- Incredibly slow and buggy Sense SMS software
- Messages listed out of order
- Unwanted text messages popping up after checking my voicemail from 129
- Unplugging the phone to go to work and being down to 94% battery by the time I got down the street
- Memory hovering at about 82%
- Constant struggles with typing with the onscreen keyboard if anything came in (email, text, etc.) completely froze up the phone for a few seconds, very annoying.
And while the stock T-Mobile ROM had none of the perks of these ROMs, it ALWAYS worked without bugs with the exception of Google Maps. I appreciate the efforts so much from all the chefs but I have to agree that ultimately, functionality always outruns perks. I'm not sure what to try anymore. It's become frustrating. I wanted the animated weather, I wanted the new Sense interface, and I wanted the programs on the home screen. Oh well...

RE90 said:
But does just "disabling" Sense give you the same performance as not having it in the rom at all?
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Other than the storage memory, yes.
But you can find, for instance, NRG's rom's that have Sense removed altogether. They are the "titanium" named roms.

rajuabju said:
Other than the storage memory, yes.
But you can find, for instance, NRG's rom's that have Sense removed altogether. They are the "titanium" named roms.
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I had been considering this but wasn't certain this was what I was looking for. I tried it anyways and sure enough everything is smooth enough so far. I haven't done any heavy messaging with it yet but I haven't had much, if any, lag yet. Coupled with chome editors found here on xda, I can still have eye candy AND speed...which is more than I was looking for. Thanks, rajuabju.

One complaint: battery life seems dismal :/
Everything else is near perfect.

i recommend Indagroove's titanium ROM, battery life and everything else is awesome in my experience

If you have tried so many ROMs over at PPCGeeks, how did you not notice the titanium ones there? Just take a look and pick one or try several.

Could Not Agree More
I have the same experience when flashing ROMS. Constant lockups and hours of searching for fixes. I have downloaded ROMS by just about everyone. I am heavy with the MMS and SMS, i would say i send/receive over 2-300 daily. And i would experience so many problems with this, i have found fixes to these issues and resolved that. I loved the LEO SMS because of the threading and ease of sending pictures. But the most common and constant problem i have is System Lockups. I have to hard reset many of times, that or just overall lagging. I love what all the ROMS are capable of but the frequent dropped calls and other issues are frustrating. Like talking to someone and then have them shouting "Hello, Hello, Hello" midway through your conversation because your phone has magically decided it hates you and doesn't want to work, the mute button was not enabled. Anyone know of ROMS they have use with NO problems? (I know it is newbish for me to believe one exists, )

David.RodriguezVI said:
I have the same experience when flashing ROMS. Constant lockups and hours of searching for fixes. I have downloaded ROMS by just about everyone. I am heavy with the MMS and SMS, i would say i send/receive over 2-300 daily. And i would experience so many problems with this, i have found fixes to these issues and resolved that. I loved the LEO SMS because of the threading and ease of sending pictures. But the most common and constant problem i have is System Lockups. I have to hard reset many of times, that or just overall lagging. I love what all the ROMS are capable of but the frequent dropped calls and other issues are frustrating. Like talking to someone and then have them shouting "Hello, Hello, Hello" midway through your conversation because your phone has magically decided it hates you and doesn't want to work, the mute button was not enabled. Anyone know of ROMS they have use with NO problems? (I know it is newbish for me to believe one exists, )
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I think now with more time delicated to roms by chefs, I rarely encounter freeze and lock-ups,I tried all kinds of roms, it seems that your description is from old time days......

Should I stay or should I go? (6.1 to 6.5)

I have a Sprint TP2 running Winmobile 6.1 and I am considering applying the upgrade to 6.5. I am a fairly new Winmobile user having spent a few years with Palm OS devices having left Winmobile for that. I find Winmobile to be much improved this time around. My TP2 is now running very smoothly since I disabled Push Internet (cab found here...Thank you very much!) Before that I had many freezes and had to hard reset about once a week and apply my backup. (Resco Backup) I also have applied a few other very useful registry hacks that I found here as well that have added to the functionality of my TP2.
I have many 3rd party apps that I love. To name a few of my favorites;
Tom Codon's WiFi Router-So awesome!!!!!!
SK Tools-Indespensible to me for keeping my TP2 running smoothly
Elecont Weather for the Today screen
Elecont Launcher for the Today screen
pmClean
Skype
Skyfire
Qik
I don't use TF3D as I prefer to have the info that I wish to see at a glance on my screen so I use the traditional Today screen and with Elecont Launcher I am able to launch the apps that I use most frequently right from my Today screen. Plus, it's a bit of a memory hog and I prefer my phone to be snappy. I suffer from memory OCD-always looking to see how much memory I am using! Currently I run around 34%-40%.
My questions are;
1) If I upgrade to 6.5 will I still be able to have the traditional Today screen like I have with 6.1?
2) Will I gain an appreciable amount of other benefits to make it worth the work of installing the new rom, reinstalling all of my apps, and setting up all of the other settings the way I like them? (and if so, what are they?)
3) Are there any apps that I listed that you know won't function on 6.5?
Lastly, I just really wish to thank you all for your work! I really love this forum!
Thanks in advance for your input!
Geo

I would love to know too. I use SPB Mobile Shell 3.5, so the upgrade to Sense 2.5 if of no use to me.
Will 6.5 offer any stability or speed improvements?
Thanks!

Do it!
Just make the "tweaks" you need.

I think one of the only benefits you will gain in 6.5 is some of the features are more touch friendly. Everything you mentioned should work fine in the upgrade also. If you want to improve the touch friendliness you could also install some themes which skin winmo (so you don't have to hard reset, re-install, etc).
If you do decide to go w/ 6.5, customization won't be too difficult if you use programs like resco and XDA UC Customize. IN my experience, the stock 6.1 ROM is about the most stable available once all tweaks are applied.

I upgraded from Verizon 6.1 to Verizon 6.5.
I have regreted it and when I'm in the mood for a hard reset, I will go likely back to 6.1.
I've had a lot of incompatabilities. I prefer using the Today screen, but a number of my prefered apps fail or cause lockup issues that I never had before. So generally, I am stuck with using the Sensui 2.1 interface, which is very limiting IMHO.
Can't say if the Sprint version is as poor.

worwig said:
I upgraded from Verizon 6.1 to Verizon 6.5.
I have regreted it and when I'm in the mood for a hard reset, I will go likely back to 6.1.
I've had a lot of incompatabilities. I prefer using the Today screen, but a number of my prefered apps fail or cause lockup issues that I never had before. So generally, I am stuck with using the Sensui 2.1 interface, which is very limiting IMHO.
Can't say if the Sprint version is as poor.
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in my experience the vzw 6.5 is no good. Try one of the custom 6.5 you will probably have a much better experience.

Wow! Thanks for all of the input!
Well...with much fear and trepidation, I went. I found that I could still use the traditional Today screen and all of the apps that I was using on 6.1. Heck, I was even able to use Elecont Launcher even though it isn't supported for 6.5. Funny thing on the way to all of that though...after playing with the HTC Sense UI I found that I can customize it more than I could TF3D and I'm pretty happy with it over using the traditional Today screen. I will use it until I get bored, then I'll try a custom rom. (Hehe...3 mos?) I need to learn more about those before I take that leap though!
Thank you all so much for weighing in!

gbweller said:
Well...with much fear and trepidation, I went. I found that I could still use the traditional Today screen and all of the apps that I was using on 6.1. Heck, I was even able to use Elecont Launcher even though it isn't supported for 6.5. Funny thing on the way to all of that though...after playing with the HTC Sense UI I found that I can customize it more than I could TF3D and I'm pretty happy with it over using the traditional Today screen. I will use it until I get bored, then I'll try a custom rom. (Hehe...3 mos?) I need to learn more about those before I take that leap though!
Thank you all so much for weighing in!
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Welcome to WinMo 6.5 and Sense. Here are some nice links:
Mods for Sense UI **make sure you download the correct version of Sense Mods, check your version in device info**
Themes and Apps sorted by most viewed (popular)
Also, you might wanna check out SPB Mobile Shell, its a great software that allows you to customize up to 5 screens with widgets, programs and system settings icon. SPB Mobile Shell

Very nice! I can't wait until I can check the Sense mods out! Thank you! I tried SBP Mobile Shell when I had 6.1 and didn't love it. It's a nice program...it just didn't do it for me. Maybe I'll have another look at it though now that I have a little more experience with Winmobile and have switched to 6.5.
For the record...I am not finding a good enough reason to have not made the switch to 6.5 from 6.1 on the Sprint TP2. Still a little buggy here and there but who's to say I didn't do that to myself with some free app that I installed. Hey, that's why I have a backup, right? In fact, I think that if you have any Winmobile and don't have a backup program with a new back up every few days, you might be being foolish. Ultimately, you should make notes attached to each backup to remind yourself at what point your were at in terms of apps and tweaks. Unless of course you are one of these developers and are really smart and can easily get yourself out of a jam without spending hours and hours online searching for solutions and reloading and resetting up you phone...ugh! Anyway...Sprint's 6.5 is prettier and not really worse than 6.1 IMHO. I'd do it again.
A couple of things thing that I am curious about though...After installing 6.5, all of my programs, and getting the settings dialed in, I ran a back up with Resco Backup's latest version. I got dialogue box stating that I had 22 errors (all looked like registry entries) all relating to Twitter. When I performed an "Integrity Check" of the backup, it stated that there are no errors. They don't show up in "Invalid Registry Entries" in SK Tools either. Now I don't care if Titter works or not. I don't use it. It's just strange.
Also, I installed the NoPushInternet and SSK TP2 Dynamic Resource Proxy cabs expecting a performance change like I saw with NoPushInternet alone with 6.1. After installing NoPush with 6.1 I was at 32% with TF3D disabled following a reset. After some heavy use I would see it bloat to around 48%. The numbers were roughly 10% more respectively with TF3D enabled. With 6.5 I am at 41% coming of a reset with Sense disabled and 50% with it enabled. However, I noticed this morning it bloated up to 86%! I can't remember what I went to do and got a dialogue box stating that I didn't have enough memory to perform the task so I looked to see how much Ram I was using. I wonder if some possible culprits are;
The 5 different cities that I get weather data for all needing to sync @ 15 min intervals?
Location services all together?
Being signed in to Facebook by default?
Animated wallpaper?
All of the above?
I find that simply sliding along the icons and pausing at each in Sense makes the memory usage spike to 58% and settle back at 54%. Navigating to and from Settings, going back an forth to email, taking a few calls, and I am up in the mid 60%'s. Maybe this is to be expected and these numbers are considered good...or maybe I just need a more efficient rom. I guess that in keeping with Microsoft's long standing tradition (pre-Win7), the newer OS is heftier than the last! I just hope this thing can keep up with me! Maybe just some Sense mods will do the trick. If I were to install a new rom, can anyone suggest a high quality one that is a good fit for a Sprint user? I don't want to risk loosing any of my Sprint stuff. Sprint TV, Sprint acct info, etc. I am not sure how all of this works with cooked roms and specific carriers. Sorry to be such a noob. I have also considered overclocking the processor. Not sure how risky that is but I do have Sprint's damage replacement coverage. I haven't found instructions for that yet specific to the Sprint TP2 but I do want to play around with that and see what happens. I realize I have asked a lot of questions here. If anyone can take a stab at all or part I will appreciate it. I notice that some (or all?) developers will take a donation (or tip) for help. I am willing to do so in exchange for good help in getting my Sprint TP2 smokin' fast, (more) app filled, and reliable. I may be suffering from a sickness...I can't seem to leave well enough alone! The amount of donation being relative to the amount of help, of course. I did just make my 20 Euro donation to the main effort. I am glad that I did...I certainly have benefited from visiting this forum more than any other forum.
Also, if I am supposed to post a new thread (or threads!) since I have veered off track here, please let me know. I will cut/paste it in a new one(s). I want to behave myself accordingly.

gbweller said:
I have a Sprint TP2 running Winmobile 6.1 and I am considering applying the upgrade to 6.5. I am a fairly new Winmobile user having spent a few years with Palm OS devices having left Winmobile for that. I find Winmobile to be much improved this time around. My TP2 is now running very smoothly since I disabled Push Internet (cab found here...Thank you very much!) Before that I had many freezes and had to hard reset about once a week and apply my backup. (Resco Backup) I also have applied a few other very useful registry hacks that I found here as well that have added to the functionality of my TP2.
I have many 3rd party apps that I love. To name a few of my favorites;
Tom Codon's WiFi Router-So awesome!!!!!!
SK Tools-Indespensible to me for keeping my TP2 running smoothly
Elecont Weather for the Today screen
Elecont Launcher for the Today screen
pmClean
Skype
Skyfire
Qik
I don't use TF3D as I prefer to have the info that I wish to see at a glance on my screen so I use the traditional Today screen and with Elecont Launcher I am able to launch the apps that I use most frequently right from my Today screen. Plus, it's a bit of a memory hog and I prefer my phone to be snappy. I suffer from memory OCD-always looking to see how much memory I am using! Currently I run around 34%-40%.
My questions are;
1) If I upgrade to 6.5 will I still be able to have the traditional Today screen like I have with 6.1?
2) Will I gain an appreciable amount of other benefits to make it worth the work of installing the new rom, reinstalling all of my apps, and setting up all of the other settings the way I like them? (and if so, what are they?)
3) Are there any apps that I listed that you know won't function on 6.5?
Lastly, I just really wish to thank you all for your work! I really love this forum!
Thanks in advance for your input!
Geo
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I did the 6.5 update to my Sprint Touch Pro 2 and installed the Tom Codon's WiFi Router and it works perfect. I can't speak to the other aps you are using.

Yea I don't like the stock SPB Mobile, I use espresso mod. You can find most of theSPB Mods here.
I noticed a similar "buggy" experience when switching over to vzw's 6.5 ROM. It worked, but it never seemed as smooth as 6.1. Sprint Auto-Clean/Tweak is a CAB that does just about every tweak to improve performance. Maybe this will help with your RAM %s, but they seem very similar to what I experience (Sense UI ~ 50% idle, 60% after a day of usage, specs below in sig). I'm not really sure what is causing your memory spike, maybe try some of these tweaks and see if it still happens.
Backups are important, but more important is making sure you downloaded something that is compatible with your hardware/software and that you read the thread/readme before installing it. If you do those there should be no need for a backup.
As for a custom ROM, I am not aware of any that include those sprint apps. Check out http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=98 for some custom ROMs.
About the overclocking, I believe our processor is an overclocked tp processor, so i'm not sure how much more we can get out of it.
Personally i'd say you are capable enough of doing this all yourself, so be confident and take the necessary steps of reading beforehand.

Thank you burtonsnow8. I appreciate your answers and your confidence in me. I'll continue to mine the forums!

Begging for advice on performance...

All I really care about is email and sms/mms for my HTC Fuze. I have 4 email accounts (2 gmail and to standard smtp) and am using Seven Beta to check them. I'm currently running the latest EnergyROM as I've found it to run the fastest. I have been running SPB Mobile Shell 3.1 as it seemed to be the fastest interface. However, it's still unbearable. Is everyone else's FUZE this slow or am I missing something that everyone else is doing to make this thing usable?
When I get a new email or sms, I hit the icon and wait sometimes 30 seconds for the messaging app to open. Many times, the entire phone freezes for a minute or so. I've been through ROM after ROM and literally done everything that I can to make this thing faster. It always runs a little better when I first flash a new rom and then slows down within a week. I always have to clean out my emails/sms to get a margin of performance back.
All I need is suggestions for the lightest setup, simply for SMS/MMS/Email because that is 95% of what I use my cell for, the other 5% is Facebook and Google News.
Any helps please?? I've got 2 months before I can get an iPhone... counting down the days. I just can't take Windows Mobile anymore...

Well, since you only use email, facebook and google news, you should get a light weight rom. I don't know what you're using now, but don't use a Sense (or any manila) rom. Get the lightest weight one you can. You should try Trueg's rom. It didn't get any attention, but it may be perfect for you. If I were flashing other people's roms, that might be the one I'd use. On the other hand, you may want a 6.1 rom. Noonski's rom might be worth looking into.
The only other advice is to keep you inbox clean. Don't store thousands of texts/emails on your device. Archive all the old crap somewhere.

Ok, I will look into those. I did reflash with the latest stable EnergyROM last night.. May 2nd and the speed has recovered a lot, even with Sense so maybe something was really messed up in the last ROM.
However, the messaging app still will not load until I restart the devide. I can normally get to my inbox once or twice and then it will never show up again no matter how many times I hit the button. The messaging icon just sits there glowing.
Curtis

curtis_shirley said:
Ok, I will look into those. I did reflash with the latest stable EnergyROM last night.. May 2nd and the speed has recovered a lot, even with Sense so maybe something was really messed up in the last ROM.
However, the messaging app still will not load until I restart the devide. I can normally get to my inbox once or twice and then it will never show up again no matter how many times I hit the button. The messaging icon just sits there glowing.
Curtis
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I don't use HTC messaging, but from what I've read, that's typical. Disable it and use the stock MS messaging. Personally, I'm not a big fan of any of HTC's stock apps.

if your into wm6.5 I would recommend trying TAELS standard ROM a go (the v4.23547 14th march Standard RD version works better than newest)
It is important to have flashed a standard ROM prior to flashing to a custom ROM & also installing correct rilphone.dll is important.
I am using the above ROM and have 4 mail accounts, over 300 sms/mms in my inbox & it all runs smooth. My device does not hang, does not slow down & is heavily used.
May be worth analysing what apps you are adding as this could be causing some conflict.
Touch Pro can run quite fast & smooth even the standard ROMs are not bad.
When dealing with custom roms based on beta builds ported to your device & using sense 2.5 on a processor half the speed recommended you can expect to have the odd issue !

[Q] pol100 froyo performance

Hi, I acquired a used polaris touch cruise 1 and nand flashed to RLS10.
I am wondering what performance this device has with modern apps. I had issues to run youtube videos and flash. I also tried to run sipdroid (sip phone app) and it stucked with sound or completely crashed. Is there a chance in terms of performance do get this apps running?

tekknokrat said:
Hi, I acquired a used polaris touch cruise 1 and nand flashed to RLS10.
I am wondering what performance this device has with modern apps. I had issues to run youtube videos and flash. I also tried to run sipdroid (sip phone app) and it stucked with sound or completely crashed. Is there a chance in terms of performance do get this apps running?
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The YouTube app suffers from a known problem that we hope it would be fixed.*
For VoIP you can use a great application that really works: Nimbuzz. It can make call using Skype accounts and Windows Live Messenger accounts. Be sure to check it out.
And... welcome!! Polaris is still a quite good device.

Yepp, I second that.

I find Froyo a little to much for my old Polaris. It really anoys me the lack of Flash support in the browser. Even with Skyfire I can't get it requires a lot of resources. One thing I must say, I enjoy Android more then Win Mo that's for sure.
The best ROM so far for me is Valilla Eclair. Fast with very good battery life.

I agree with alinescoo, the new Android ROMs (e.g. froyo) are too heavy for Polaris.... Not a bad thing though, but as long as you know the limitations u can be a happy user.
Ive had my Pola100 for almost 2.5 years now, and the reason I moved from WinMo to Android is cause its much much faster, stable and cause Im looking forward to finally buy a new phone. And Android is defintely the OS to go for...
I guess the answer to ur question depends on whether u wanna use ur Polaris as a stable everyday phone or u wanna try everything u can on it...
Cheers

Oh btw, Im using Incubus Super Froyo RLS13 with Liqu1d's 16/07 nbh. Very fast and quite stable...
Hope it helps