I was using Cognition 2.3. The home screen was simpler and has a sleeker look. The app screen was the same. Why does Cog 4 seem like a jump back to my Stock Rom. Maybe I'm just stupid???? lol
Because, you know, it IS a jump back to stock ROM?
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whats the point?
why release a new version that is less impressive than its predecessor? Doesn't make whole hell of a lot of sense to me. But again maybe I'm just stupid.
DG's whole point with Cog 4/4.1/4.1.1, is to try to keep it looking and running as stock as possible. Everything that was pre Cog 4 already had an ass ton of themes that were compatible and DG started incorporating them into the ROM's.
DG has a life, so don't jump his nuts and complain about him pushing out a boring ROM. For free. Nobody told you to flash it, and there's plenty of other ROM's out there. Or you can just switch back to your previous ROM.
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DG's whole point with Cog 4/4.1/4.1.1, is to try to keep it looking and running as stock as possible. Everything that was pre Cog 4 already had an ass ton of themes that were compatible and DG started incorporating them into the ROM's.
DG has a life, so don't jump his nuts and complain about him pushing out a boring ROM. For free. Nobody told you to flash it, and there's plenty of other ROM's out there. Or you can just switch back to your previous ROM.
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+1 He even says that he tries to keep it as stock as possible all ROMS have their differences its all about your own personal preference.
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DG's whole point with Cog 4/4.1/4.1.1, is to try to keep it looking and running as stock as possible. Everything that was pre Cog 4 already had an ass ton of themes that were compatible and DG started incorporating them into the ROM's.
DG has a life, so don't jump his nuts and complain about him pushing out a boring ROM. For free. Nobody told you to flash it, and there's plenty of other ROM's out there. Or you can just switch back to your previous ROM.
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Agree %100000000. Couldn't say it any better.
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I love ALL these custom ROMS I can't seem to keep the same one for more than a week, the only ones that I have been able to kep for long are Cognition and Serendipity.
Cognition 4.1 is meant for people like me that wan custom r o m,but wan it to look like stock 1
I don't think he meant boring like a bad job. Once some themes are ported then everyone should be happy. You can't knock the performance or smoothness of cognition. It will work and be consistent. Maybe it is boring in the fact that you can run it and forget you even have a custom rom going. That's because DG is that good. Thanks again!
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Cognition may be boring for some but I need my phone to work and so far it gives me the best balance of features and reliability.
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I love Cog roms!
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The above was written as part of an attempt to waste time using a Galaxy Tab,
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Cognition isn't as much a rom as it is a rooted, debloated, stock setup. Couple theme improvements like extended power. Using a voodoo enabled kernel. It is a setup one could achieve if they updated to kb1 on their own relatively easy.
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I liked Cog too, but wanted something different than stock. That's why I loved perception, but its discontinued now. Perception 10.4 is a solid rom, stable, fast, and has that slight aosp feel.
Ultimately I went to FireFly. I love it. I how easy they made it to customize. It comes with an app that will showcase and download the other battery's and dialers. I sometimes feel like I need to enable the lagfix, but haven't yet.
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why release a new version that is less impressive than its predecessor? Doesn't make whole hell of a lot of sense to me. But again maybe I'm just stupid.
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Two posts in the forum and you've managed to criticize the excellent work of one of the most prolific ROM cookers on XDA solely based on your ignorance of what DG does and why. You might want to create a new account and start over. Knocking a guy's work that he provides for free is just bad juju.
I think he can leave his screen name alone. He did not say anything offensive just asked an honest question.
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I think he can leave his screen name alone. He did not say anything offensive just asked an honest question.
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It was an ignorant question, not an honest one. I wasn't in here long before I knew what DG's ROMs are about. Cog 4.x is all about providing a ROM that is as close to stock Froyo as possible without all the bloatware and just a few tweaks to provide better peformance. The kind of things most users who don't want to mess with themed ROMs or exotic kernels want. And criticizing the work that someone provides for free is just wrong whether it makes sense to him or not. I can see knocking a dev for putting out a shoddy product, but with all the choices in ROMs available in here for the Cappy it makes no sense to knock one just bcause you find it "boring."
His thread title was poorly worded
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His thread title was poorly worded
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That we can agree on.
Delete it and get your money back... oh wait ...
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If you would have read the Cog thread then you wold know why it is built the way it is.
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what's the best popular rom for us
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I'm using the new venom ROM. I've tried buoyancy, nexusmod, and super stock. I like venom so far. I'll probably switch before to long. That's the beauty of Android - lots to choose from.
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personal preference my friend. Try a couple out and see which one you like
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Agreed, you have to try some out and pick your favorite. If you ask 20 people on this section by PM randomly I bet you'd get at least 5-6 different answers.
SkyICS + Venom depending on your personal taste get my vote right now for multiple reasons, but the biggest being support and production. A vast majority of the roms that have come out for this phone have never/rarely been updated (no offense intended, people have lives, things happen, you get new phones, etc...).
Often, the stock ROM is the best since at least all the phone's capabilities are accounted for. More often, a rooted stock ROM is better since you can freeze bloatware, get around tethering restrictions and the like. Beyond that, it's kind of up to you to do your homework to make sure that a particular ROM does everything you need it to do (Bluetooth streaming, both cameras work, etc) and that you like the layout.
On a side note......
Q: What's the best way not to spam the board?
A: You don't post the same question in multiple sections.
Please don't do it again. Thank you.
Running venom right now and very pleased.
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If you enjoy a nice, clean, look, I'd check out NeXuSMOD 2.0. It does everything I need it to do, and it's very easy on the eyes. Solid battery life as well.
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what's the best popular rom for us
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I've been enjoying Ice Cream Sandwich - Multiple Flavors. While I'm tempted to try some of the other ROMs out there, this one is really great.
It's the overclocked version, I scored a AnTuTu benchmark of 7284.
Does anybody when and or when I can drop Android 4.0.x on my baby?
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To all the New Xda Members !! patient is a virtue !!
Well to be honest there are tons of threads that can answer your question. The answer that i know is Sammy said they will release 4.0 for all galaxy variants in first quarter of this year and they said this back in December and have not heard any fixed time period since than.
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Does anybody when and or when I can drop Android 4.0.x on my baby?
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I have never before used a Custom Rom. I've never used a theme. Until I decided to give Dman's Zeus and ARIES a try. I was scared of bricking my phone but I guess I was feeling adventurous and tried it and it worked out perfectly. I'm so grateful for XDA and people like Dman who provide completely free Custom Rom's like these. I'm so satisfied. So satisfied by his work that not only did I decide to officially make an account on XDA to post this, but I did an entire video Review on it.
Is the youtube link for the video review. I apologize for the poor camera quality and that I couldn't cover anything but THANK YOU XDA community, thank you XDA, thank you Dman, and thank you to all you genius developers who provide us with free custom roms and easy instructions to install them.
EDIT: Ok so apparently I cannot post the video since this is my first post but if you go to Youtube and type in xtonedeffx in the search bar then you will find it, its my only video.
I understand this video would be a LOT more useful to people on the developer page so they can preview it but I also can't post there because I'm new. Either way, I really wanted to show my gratitude and satisfaction.
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I have never before used a Custom Rom. I've never used a theme. Until I decided to give Dman's Zeus and ARIES a try. I was scared of bricking my phone but I guess I was feeling adventurous and tried it and it worked out perfectly. I'm so grateful for XDA and people like Dman who provide completely free Custom Rom's like these. I'm so satisfied. So satisfied by his work that not only did I decide to officially make an account on XDA to post this, but I did an entire video Review on it.
Is the youtube link for the video review. I apologize for the poor camera quality and that I couldn't cover anything but THANK YOU XDA community, thank you XDA, thank you Dman, and thank you to all you genius developers who provide us with free custom roms and easy instructions to install them.
EDIT: Ok so apparently I cannot post the video since this is my first post but if you go to Youtube and type in xtonedeffx in the search bar then you will find it, its my only video.
I understand this video would be a LOT more useful to people on the developer page so they can preview it but I also can't post there because I'm new. Either way, I really wanted to show my gratitude and satisfaction.
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Well then! Respond to me and you get 2. Only 8 to go! Thank you for posting in the right section an using this correctly! I thank you! You're the best kind of new person. Make more like you!!
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Lol thank you. and yeah hopefully once I get to 10 I can be a lot more productive. I've been spreading the word about XDA to all my classmates though this website is freakin amazing
I am loving this rom as well... trying to find more themes and different launchers for it right now.
Any advice would be welcome
There are no more themes until myself or experiment releases them
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I tried ZEUS. It's a pretty solid ROM.
The two themes are great already so I never even questioned looking for a third one to be honest. But yeah ^^^what he said.
It is a great rom. I hated my phone until I put Zeus on it. Zeus is much quicker than stock. I also don't have any of the lockups or lags I used to have with stock.
Thats the first thing indeed I noticed. How much faster it is, I knew you could get these new OS's Like GB but I didn't know it would be THAT much faster. Plus I find out a whole bunch of new things about my phone all the time lol, so its like WTFF SERIOUSLY I CAN DO THAT? they need to start selling these Infuses with a rom like ZEUS pre-installed. We would have more owners than the captivate.
Not just more owners than the captivate...but more owners than 99% of all other phones on the market!
Zeus 5.2 is the most solid, stable, fastest and battery saving rom ive ever flashed! (ive flashed bionix, darkyrom, numas, caty, previous zeuzs, i think im forgetting one...all previous have been great and devs did good but zeus definatly my favorite!)
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I just moved from MIUI to ZEUS. It is a great ROM.
Is MIUI Gingerbread or ICS?
Gingerbread...
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Is MIUI Gingerbread or ICS?
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No ICS infuse yet.
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No ICS infuse yet.
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One day, when all hope is lost, there will be a man with the look of success on his face, and he will tell us: "my people of XDA, I have found your cure!"
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Is zeus GB? By the way all great forum. long time jailbroken iphone user comming over to the darkside! Been lurking for a while just learning and trying to figure out what rom and kernal i want/need. Im also on a mac so thats a been a learning experiance as well. Just wondering what to expect from zeus i mean besides pure awesom!
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Is zeus gb? Yea... the highest version of it... 2.3.6
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EndemicTruth said:
I am loving this rom as well... trying to find more themes and different launchers for it right now.
Any advice would be welcome
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I have a few different theme's for Zeus, make sure you use the ones marked Zeus 5.2 if you're on the most current.
For now they can be found on my thread, soon I will have them all moved over to the Zeus main thread, but until then...
Link To My Lab
May I recommend Color Killer, I'm quite pleased with that one, grab the ICS blue add-on and your infuse will be lookin real good
or of course if you're on a PC my direct links to them are right below
in my signature.
Lol just making sure cause I kept seeing ICS on infuse then it always said MIUI. I guess its just a theme.
And yeah zeus = gingerbread on steroids.
EDIT: Damn Experiment those are some nice skins. If i'm using Aries would I just flash over a new skin and thats it?
Thanks just got done rooting and flashing Zeus thanks for all the hard work!
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I'm thinking of building a ROM of sorts, and I'm wondering if anyone would be interested in it.
The ROM would basically be what i run on a daily basis. A combination of a ROM and Kernel that work well together, with my own tweaks, changes, and settings baked right into it.
The idea would be that you would flash the rom, then forget you ever did. No changing frequency, no profiles, no Undervolting, no flashing other kernels, just the ROM and nothing else needed. (and I'd discourage trying it)
I would change UV settings to work on most phones, and a small overclock (most likely a 1.1 or 1.2Ghz), as well a stock Frequency/Voltage version. and each version would be stable enough to use as a daily driver.
It would most likely be a 'Flavor of the week' kind of thing, and I'll most likely change the base rom/kernel somewhat frequently (like once a month at most) to what I'm using that's stable.
So, does this sound good to anyone, or am i building for a demographic that's not there?
I would use it if u make it for the photon
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sounds like a great idea... in this trend of rapidly developing roms, a stable rom with recent source changes for a change is great to fallback to.
Do you have any rom development experience? where would you rate your skill level at?
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Sounds like a really good idea, I myself sometimes get sick of constantly flashing & re- setting up my phone the way I like it, a good long term rom with everything would be awesome. How bout using the new 2.3.4 stock as a base?
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wyldkard said:
Do you have any rom development experience? where would you rate your skill level at?
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ive been programming in C/java for about 4 years now, (2nd year programming student currently) and ive been building my personal roms from source for about 6 months, and in the past few months ive started actively changing source code, integrating parts from some kernels and ROMs, and adding things to system apps (like voltage control and frequency mod in the settings.apk)
however, on the other hand, i do have fairly large gaps in my knowledge. i only barely know how to use github, and i haven't really dealt with the Linux/android kernel much before this.
honestly, on a scale from 1-10 (1=android user, 10= developer like Whitehawkx/Morfic) id say about 7.
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Sounds like a really good idea, I myself sometimes get sick of constantly flashing & re- setting up my phone the way I like it, a good long term rom with everything would be awesome. How bout using the new 2.3.4 stock as a base?
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would most likely be ICS. (sorry )
Klathmon said:
honestly, on a scale from 1-10 (1=android user, 10= developer like Whitehawkx/Morfic) id say about 7.
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Wow, i don't even rate myself that high, lol. I say go for it, the more devs we got the better.
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Wow, i don't even rate myself that high, lol. I say go for it, the more devs we got the better.
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i feel im a very competent programmer, but there are thing i am pretty much oblivious too. outside of android I've got a good portfolio of programs and source, but when it comes to android, I'm still learning. (and i definitely feel your more knowledgeable than me)
Do it one more person helping the community isn't a bad thing. You're obviously knowledgeable enough. Once you start playing with it and have a base crowd that likes what you do you'll get further involved and make a great rom in my eyes. You're willing to help everyone and give a very insightful solution to most and all types of questions.
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I agree with the above, but be weary of the people who destroy devs by all the nagging and begging.
Anticipating the arrival of this ROM!
I would do it. If you can base it off of stock with some cm7 improvements that would be cool, like with weapon g2x. I was using weapon till I switched to HFP.
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I will always support you, you always have long detailed responses to everyones questions and if anyone complains about your rom, let me know we will have a flame war. We don't want to lose a dev. Also I'm sure the other devs I'll help you out if you have any questions because they are all amazing people IMO. Go for it! Even if no one uses it, its a learning experience for you. You have nothing to lose
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I would use it if u make it for the photon
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Too bad this isn't a photon forum hurrdeedurr
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I personally like playing around with all the different kernels, etc..., but this would be perfect for my wife's phone, so I would definitely be interested
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Too bad this isn't a photon forum hurrdeedurr
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sorry i was looking at the top threads lol
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well ok then, it looks like im gonna go for it. thanks for all the support!
it will be ICS, and im still not sure about what ROM and Kernel i will base it off of (i still want to get permission from the original devs first).
keep a lookout for it coming soon(ish)!
ive also asked a mod to lock this (i dont want a hype machine happening that i cant live up to!)
locked as requested!
After owning my Skyrocket for a couple months, I'm finally ready to take the plunge and install a new ROM. I saw the how-to guide, so I should be set there, but I'm a little overwhelmed by the number of ROM's available here for the Skyrocket. It seems like Cyanogen is a popular one, but there are so many options! Would you all mind pointing me to a couple of the better ones to research further or tryout?
I'm coming from the stock Skyrocket ROM with WidgetLocker for the ICS lockscreen and have no complaints with the GUI, but then again I'm open to change since I don't know what's out there. My primary concerns are speed and reliability, however if there are new features that people find particularly valuable, I would like to hear about them. It doesn't sound like the ICS mods are stable enough yet, but if there are any ROMs in the works I should keep an eye on, I would be glad to know know about them.
Thanks for the help!
x2 I would be interested in what people have to say.
I recommend Embryo rom for reliability. It is very stable, but there's not a lot of themeing so it looks stock.
If you are after a feature-rich rom, try Sky ICS. It even has stuff from the Galaxy S3. It looks good with all the themes and add-ons available.
Embryo is a good into to ICS roms. Sky ICS is feature rich but might be a little overwhelming at first. CM9 is really good if you want an AOSP experience.
Cool, thanks for the feedback. I'll look into those. Any idea how they are for stability?
I'm having a really good experience with NexusMod. Not ICS, though.
Alien #8
Things work right.
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I'm running seanzscreams latest build SKYICS 4.2E-8 (ULCE2) rom. Very fast, solid, dependable (been running it for a week so far). Has lots of customizations available. I noted approx 15-20% increase of battery life since GB.
Any of the Alien Builds are great. Especially the one for GB. But as the posts above say, SKYICS for features. If you're going to an ICS ROM, I suggest you use the one click first.
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Back on nexusmod anyway... ICS is starting to remind me of Windows ME or vista. Meh... it works ok, I guess, but the last version is so much better!
ICS feels so bloated compared to GB. Even AFTER I debloat it!
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If you were smart and inquisitive, you'd try them all and figure it out first hand.
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Which is best and why? Enter your experience and reviews please.
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We cannot justify that the Rom x is better than the Rom y, it depends on our own taste and way of using it.. sense our ICS base ROM's are under development as of this time,
and most of all we just need to provide them some log's in every issue we encounter so that they can work on it, in that way we can have a better ICS as ROM builds progress.. what we can do is to give thanks to our great dev's who work hard to give us the ICS,
but base on my experience i never encounter any issue in AOKP, specially on the latest build
Beam hands down. Smoother faster and better battery life. I think so anyways . But both are awesome!
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Blah...blah...blah
Let's see, how's that phrase go again... Oh yea...
It's all a matter of opinion, and my opinion is the only one that matters... to me...
Everyone has a favorite, for whatever reason, but their reasons may not be the next persons. Personally, haven't tried Beam, and no offense to whoever the dev is for it, but I don't plan to. I'm happy with AOKP, and I'll keep updating it (in fact I need to download the latest) but other than that, i'm done messing with this phone...
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Let's see, how's that phrase go again... Oh yea...
It's all a matter of opinion, and my opinion is the only one that matters... to me...
Everyone has a favorite, for whatever reason, but their reasons may not be the next persons. Personally, haven't tried Beam, and no offense to whoever the dev is for it, but I don't plan to. I'm happy with AOKP, and I'll keep updating it (in fact I need to download the latest) but other than that, i'm done messing with this phone...
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nah dont worry you just broke my hearth lol
For me it was beam but aokp was great too
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I was going to do something like this thread but for MIUI vs cMIUI. Then I thought that people would come telling that it's a personal thing, every ROM is great, they are all smooth and fast... and stuff like that. I think that the OP was asking for more than the general description. What really is it that made you choose that ROM over the other?
My choice here would be AOKP. I have used Team Acid's ROMs since forever, back in the Froyo days when ICBINB and Audiophiles were all over the place. I trust their work and it fits my personality. Constant support and never had an unsolved issue. My dad has been using Valhalla Black since it came out, I don't remember when. He thinks that it's the ultimate thing, still. So, that's enough proof that their work is awesome. Doesn't mean I don't like other development. I have used every ROM, mod and kernel here. Just my preference. Of course, AOKP is smooth, fast, stable, simple, no confusing apps (normal launcher), doesn't take much time to set up to my preferences and it has constant support and updates. But then again, every other ROM has it too. It's very hard to describe the choice, but I can't find other way to explain it.
No disrespect to other devs here. I know Erik, Thomas, Dao, Solrac, Anton and the others do an excellent job. In fact, I'm currently on cMIUI, not AOKP. But I have tried all other's and it's very hard to decided with which one to stay with.
Beam if you want speed and smoothness
aokp if you want customization
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Which is best and why? Enter your experience and reviews please.
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The answer is codename
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Codename is best for me hands down.
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