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What rom do you users think is the best for the Sidekick? I currently am using the ADW Quietly Brilliant one and it restarts a lot on me, but I am having hard time deciding which one to switch to.

This device tends to ***** out regardless of the ROM. Glorious Overdose tends to last the longest... been 3 days since my last re-flash. Glorious rocks launcher pro... not quite ADW but works hehe
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iv been running GOV2 since it came out with 0 problems. but if you want a super light ROM GCV2 is also very stable.
BTW this should be in general.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1473371
[ROM][CWM][Stock, 0 Bloat KJ2] -B2TB- Welcome to the Grid [v2.0] (2/9/12)
By far the only rom to last longer than 1 week without rebooting! Even GO2 reboots within 48hrs...

Been meaning to flash b2b but am not digging on the reloading my
apps and inputting my apn factor. Ehhh maybe I should give it a whirl.
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Dr.Gonz0 said:
Been meaning to flash b2b but am not digging on the reloading my
apps and inputting my apn factor. Ehhh maybe I should give it a whirl.
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insanedrunk said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1473371
[ROM][CWM][Stock, 0 Bloat KJ2] -B2TB- Welcome to the Grid [v2.0] (2/9/12)
By far the only rom to last longer than 1 week without rebooting! Even GO2 reboots within 48hrs...
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Is your phone OC'ed? I don't know if its a rom thing. But I never get reboots, and I'm on stock ROM. No OC.
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ishred11 said:
Is your phone OC'ed? I don't know if its a rom thing. But I never get reboots, and I'm on stock ROM. No OC.
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No, I don't have my phone OC'ed. If you heavily use you're phone you'd experience random reboots. If you think about it, they're not really random, just overload reboots.... but mostly only on Glorious Overdose. All of revolutions roms overload reboot. His ics rom randomly reboots....

Post The Current Rom Your Rocking!!

Hey everyone post the current Tom you are rocking on your phone and the reason you like it. Also note advantages, disadvantages & battery life. Thanks!
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jookdakang23 said:
Hey everyone post the current Tom you are rocking on your phone and the reason you like it. Also note advantages, disadvantages & battery life. Thanks!
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Weapon g2x. Disadvantages = none , battery life = best! Just the best gingerbread rom in my opinion.
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HellFire Sandwich v1.4 (ICS) w/ Faux Kernel
runs pretty smoothly and is snappy, but the battery life could use improving and wifi calling doesn't work....other than that I like!

jab74101 said:
Weapon g2x. Disadvantages = none , battery life = best! Just the best gingerbread rom in by opinion.
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+1
Have you tried Kwes's "New Clip" version of Weapon. Super fast GPS lock and couple of other nice tweaks.

jcbofkc said:
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Have you tried Kwes's "New Clip" version of Weapon. Super fast GPS lock and couple of other nice tweaks.
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i was once using that but didnt like the theme plus i kept getting hot reboots. battery life was good though. can you please post your complete setup

jcbofkc said:
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Have you tried Kwes's "New Clip" version of Weapon. Super fast GPS lock and couple of other nice tweaks.
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Ya do you think you can post a thread of it I would like to check it out.
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I did a clean install of Weapon. Rebooted and let it sit for 10 minutes. Rebooted again and let it sit. Then I flash New Clip and let it sit for a bit. New Clip flashes over Weapon.Then I flashed my favorite theme. Stayed with the kernel that comes with it. I have never had great luck with alternative kernels and I really have no need for overclocking.
Kwes has an ICS like theme that looks great. Then I added ADW ex and loaded an ICS theme for it. I am very happy with the setup. Been running it this way for several months.
I have been playing around with the V6 Super Charger script but for whatever reason I seem to run out of memory faster when web surfing. I am still learning about everything it does, so I am not 100% sure that it is set up correctly for my needs.
Weapon Link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1207125
New Clip
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1437906
ICS Theme
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1314526

Using latest version of Eaglesblood with faux kernel. It's stable, and battery life is awesome. I'm not into ROM swapping. When find one that works, I stick with it, and it's looking like I'll be with this one for a while. Maybe when an ICS ROM gets refined, I'll give it a go. I would like to have Chrome on the android.

Using CM 7.2 RC1 with faux ds kernel. I get about thirteen hours of medium use, light use lasts a couple of days.
It's a great stock rom without the problems of LG based ones.
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Euroskank kang with faux kernel.
Love the battery life and no sod!
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jcbofkc said:
I did a clean install of Weapon. Rebooted and let it sit for 10 minutes. Rebooted again and let it sit. Then I flash New Clip and let it sit for a bit. New Clip flashes over Weapon.Then I flashed my favorite theme. Stayed with the kernel that comes with it. I have never had great luck with alternative kernels and I really have no need for overclocking.
Kwes has an ICS like theme that looks great. Then I added ADW ex and loaded an ICS theme for it. I am very happy with the setup. Been running it this way for several months.
I have been playing around with the V6 Super Charger script but for whatever reason I seem to run out of memory faster when web surfing. I am still learning about everything it does, so I am not 100% sure that it is set up correctly for my needs.
Weapon Link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1207125
New Clip
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1437906
ICS Theme
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1314526
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Well, I was going to try this out, but everytime I try to make a backup in CWM, I get that there was an error backing up /data

idbl_fanatic said:
Well, I was going to try this out, but everytime I try to make a backup in CWM, I get that there was an error backing up /data
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Do you have enough memory in your sd card?
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jab74101 said:
Do you have enough memory in your sd card?
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8.5G free
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Im currently rocking...The latest and greatest... seriously Sooo many INCREDIBLE roms to choose from its hard to keep still. however... i recently gave miui (singh)another shot just for fun and am currently hooked. AMAZED at the smoothness and utter sexiness of the theme engine and GIGANTIC selection of themes. This will definetly keep my interest for some time! the ui is different and fun too. Only Con so far is the normal CM7 quirk (upside down video chat), nothing too big to keep me from rockin it for a while.

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8.5G free
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Then you should be good try unmounting and mounting the system, data etc.
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Weapon G2x 3.0 R1

Cm7 7.2 RC1
Actually looks fine. But I notice more stutter than before, perhaps the ICS animation is bogging it some down.
Still a fan of CM7/Cm9.
I can honestly say, I'm sticking to the G2X despite having a Galaxy GS2. I truely enjoy the Cyanogen ROMS and can't wait for it to come CM9 on G2X and GS2
Also that Samsung is too big. Should have waited. Not sure I'll get any device over 4 inch screen. But thats me

shane1diamond said:
Im currently rocking...The latest and greatest... seriously Sooo many INCREDIBLE roms to choose from its hard to keep still. however... i recently gave miui (singh)another shot just for fun and am currently hooked. AMAZED at the smoothness and utter sexiness of the theme engine and GIGANTIC selection of themes. This will definetly keep my interest for some time! the ui is different and fun too. Only Con so far is the normal CM7 quirk (upside down video chat), nothing too big to keep me from rockin it for a while.
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Upside down video chat is an easy fix, use root explorer to change bulid.prop manufacturer to Samsung and model to Nexus S. Works for all cm7 / miui roms
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I was running weapon + new clip for the past few days but battery life was terrible for me, too bad cause I really liked the rom it has a lot of really nice features. I'm currently on cm7.2 rc1, can't complain so far. Battery life's decent, and its quick n snappy even on stock kernel.

lowrider262 said:
I was running weapon + new clip for the past few days but battery life was terrible for me, too bad cause I really liked the rom it has a lot of really nice features. I'm currently on cm7.2 rc1, can't complain so far. Battery life's decent, and its quick n snappy even on stock kernel.
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Were you running faux kernel?
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Gingebread ics or jellybean

I really hate how I flash a new from every day. I though jb was good at first but not like everyone else I have my doubts. A little to "heavy" doesn't feel right on my phone. I really appreciate ics and it feels alright on my phone, but I really miss gingebreads reliability and speed, just curious, does anyone else feel the same? Should I just switch to gingerbread again? Is other a way to keep some features of ics on gingerbread?
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nashy10 said:
I really hate how I flash a new from every day. I though jb was good at first but not like everyone else I have my doubts. A little to "heavy" doesn't feel right on my phone. I really appreciate ics and it feels alright on my phone, but I really miss gingebreads reliability and speed, just curious, does anyone else feel the same? Should I just switch to gingerbread again? Is other a way to keep some features of ics on gingerbread?
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I used to run CM7 and CM9 on my i9023 nexus s.. and I found CM7 to be really unstable. I switched to a CM9 nightly and it was a godsend.. smoother, more attractive and 10x more stable! but I found it sort of "slowed down" after about 3 months.. just a circumstantial observation though, didn't do any tests.
I'm hooking up my friends with a couple of Nexus S's shortly because they need phones. I'm thinking of giving them CM9, rather than 10, for better battery life. But I'm guessing CM9 is susceptible to the SMS remote wipe hack? haven't tested it.

Personally I never liked cyanogenmod up until 9.0 , I'm on cm9 right now but it random reboot & hangs :/ cm10 seems pointless to me.
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I have stuck with stock one on both my droids. I find these roms useless because I have always found an app that can do what these roms can do

i try most roms out thier , the best are slim cm9, remics 1.1 both ics

Whatif the phone's rom memory gets a few bad blocks due to repetitive flashing?

Remics is probably one of the best roms I've seen put out for nexus s, so nice , but I just feel the need to switch sometimes. And I had no idea that that would effect my phone
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Not significant it has some million writes before it wears.

Well. Thanks, I did not know this
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the fastest rom is slim cm9 go for it

nashy10 said:
I really hate how I flash a new from every day. I though jb was good at first but not like everyone else I have my doubts. A little to "heavy" doesn't feel right on my phone. I really appreciate ics and it feels alright on my phone, but I really miss gingebreads reliability and speed, just curious, does anyone else feel the same? Should I just switch to gingerbread again? Is other a way to keep some features of ics on gingerbread?
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Just try Rasbeanjelly. Great, smooth & very stable JB rom :good:

Currently I use TSM V6 and for me it is very stable and smooth. I have a nandroid backup of CyberRom v4 and sometimes I change but I prefer JB.
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Try AOPK JB Build 4, the best rom i've tried so far, no lag, probably as fast as GB

nashy10 said:
I really hate how I flash a new from every day. I though jb was good at first but not like everyone else I have my doubts. A little to "heavy" doesn't feel right on my phone. I really appreciate ics and it feels alright on my phone, but I really miss gingebreads reliability and speed, just curious, does anyone else feel the same? Should I just switch to gingerbread again? Is other a way to keep some features of ics on gingerbread?
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Gingerbread for me.
Rooted it, just to install adfree android.
Removed a few native apps, email, talk and a few others.
Fast, stable and no battery pulls.

ezubiaurr said:
Try AOPK JB Build 4, the best rom i've tried so far, no lag, probably as fast as GB
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true dat. I remember when AOKP came out with their first JB rom, it was so unstable; rebooted my phone every 10 mins and I flashed cm10 and was happy for a while but it then started to do the same thing. Then i went to paranoid and it was even worse; so i went back to cm10. and then AOKP JB build came out and i was skeptical about getting it because of my first experience with them but I gave it a try and I have been flashing AOKP all the way up to build 4 and let me tell you; BEST ****ING ROM ON JB right now. My phone never crashes; never lags, and is super crazy smooth/fast!

MRsf27 said:
true dat. I remember when AOKP came out with their first JB rom, it was so unstable; rebooted my phone every 10 mins and I flashed cm10 and was happy for a while but it then started to do the same thing. Then i went to paranoid and it was even worse; so i went back to cm10. and then AOKP JB build came out and i was skeptical about getting it because of my first experience with them but I gave it a try and I have been flashing AOKP all the way up to build 4 and let me tell you; BEST ****ING ROM ON JB right now. My phone never crashes; never lags, and is super crazy smooth/fast!
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Thing is, every rom is fast and smooth right after you flash it. In order to talk so good about one, I'd say you need to keep it for, at least, 3 months. If it's still stable and fast, with no wipes needed, no daily reboots, I'd believe you.

Felipe Ambrosio said:
Thing is, every rom is fast and smooth right after you flash it. In order to talk so good about one, I'd say you need to keep it for, at least, 3 months. If it's still stable and fast, with no wipes needed, no daily reboots, I'd believe you.
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Damn builds come out every Sunday with new updates every time lol... Itd be hard to stay on one build for that long
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Felipe Ambrosio said:
Thing is, every rom is fast and smooth right after you flash it. In order to talk so good about one, I'd say you need to keep it for, at least, 3 months. If it's still stable and fast, with no wipes needed, no daily reboots, I'd believe you.
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AOKP JB is very stable now. I haven't wiped since the nightlies, up to build 4 currently. I flash new build/nightly as soon as it's available. 3 months? Don't think I can hold for even a few days after new build is released.
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Stable efficient ROMS

Okay guys,
I've browsed the forums and can't find any where that people are talking about roms they love. I would love no data drops. Good battery. I like touch wiz and aosp both. I read someone said something about freeze.. being god but couldn't figure out what he was refering to. . Suggestions? Kernel combinations?
Thanks guys
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Synergy version 73. Stable and a great Rom.
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cuban11182 said:
Synergy version 73. Stable and a great Rom.
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Thanks msn.I just tried the latest synergy and had data issues like crazy....I'll take a look for that line though. Thanks

Synergy or clean Rom for touch wiz, liquid smooth for aosp. And imoseyons kernel on either of them

ive only given AOKP and paranoid android much use lately.
id venture to say that for everday general use any ROM posted here is stable enough.
they all have their quirks, but to call, text, browse, game and send emails all ROMs will do those tasks effeciently enough.
ive always (always) done clean installs though.

To be honest the stock rooted image is also plenty fast and of course stable. This is already a pretty fast phone.

Paranoid cm10.jb 2.21 running like a champ
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The only rom i have had ZERO issues with has been Beans TW rom. Absolutely no problems, everything works all the time. No force closes no data,gps, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth problems. I highly recommend it.
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Cleanrom 2.5 stable, great battery, and customizable install options. Then find the thread here on xda to install Google now and you will feel like your almost running JB.

I've been running CM10 since M1 and it's been 100% stable. I've had no issues with call volume or data drops or anything of the sort. I'm on M2 with Nova launcher now and it's even better.
The 10/14 nightly was iffy for me though. My phone wouldn't boot. There were a lot of kernel upgrades so it could be because I'm also using leankernel.
Battery lasts a good 12 hours with about 2.5 hours of screen time with moderate use. Web browsing, E-mail, texting, etc. With mostly Wi-Fi.

Bean's has been great. I haven't had GPS until using this ROM. Great battery life, smooth, cool features. I am really impressed with this.

[Q] stable ROM with good battery life?

So my wife has an LG G2X on stock android 2.3.4 and she complains that after a while it will move so slowly that it is almost unusable. I have told her to restart the phone whenever that happens and she is having to do that about once a week, but that clears up the problem for a while. Aside from that, everything works as it should. It is using the march 2012 baseband.
Since it is not my phone, I do not know exactly what all she is doing on her phone, but I assume it is mostly facebook, watching videos, texting, and calls. I'm looking for a stable ROM where everything works like stock and has at least the same (if not better) battery life as stock.
And yes, I have searched but a lot of the info seems outdated. I am thinking that I might just run a rooted stock ROM with a custom kernel (leaning towards faux's here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1102720 )... or maybe the stable cm-7.2.0-p999
summary: wife's G2X becomes VERY laggy after ~1 week use, suggest a fix
thanks :good:

Having to restart once a week is not problem, if anything that's a good thing lol. I had to restart my stock unrooted g2x multiple times a week.......if you move to a custom rom your wife will probably have to restart about the same if not more. I'm on cm7 and i restart about once a day just because i like to, not out of necessity. If your wife isn't huge into customization than a stock rooted rom will work just fine. Faux makes a great kernel but it was a little harsher on battery for my liking. I'm running Trinity oc right now and love it. If i were you, i would look at mazouts latest kernel build. He makes AWESOME kernels and ill be moving over to his latest release whenever it comes out tonight or tomorrow.
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Pain-N-Panic said:
Having to restart once a week is not problem, if anything that's a good thing lol. I had to restart my stock unrooted g2x multiple times a week.......if you move to a custom rom your wife will probably have to restart about the same if not more. I'm on cm7 and i restart about once a day just because i like to, not out of necessity. If your wife isn't huge into customization than a stock rooted rom will work just fine. Faux makes a great kernel but it was a little harsher on battery for my liking. I'm running Trinity oc right now and love it. If i were you, i would look at mazouts latest kernel build. He makes AWESOME kernels and ill be moving over to his latest release whenever it comes out tonight or tomorrow.
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i had her on a cm7 build with her previous phone (motorola defy) and she seemed to like it OK. didn't customize it too much, just used all the default settings.
after i posted this thread, i actually started to look at, and downloaded mazout's kernel... so now i'm thinking of trying out the 3/1 "nightly" build of cm7 with mazout's 0323 kernel. i can't seem to find a known bugs list for cm7 on this phone. are there any known bugs?
does this build of cm7 have a "restart" option in the power menu? that is one of my pet peeves with the stock ROM. the only way i have found to restart the phone is to "power off" and then "power on". i think she would be more willing to restart the phone if it was an automated restart

Yes there is aa "reboot" option that comes up from holding the power button. Maz's 0323oc kernel is awesome. I wouldn't put the Max over 1015 and keep the minimum at 216. Known bugs.....for me the only bug i had was the phone would heat up pretty bad overnight while charging. It was instantly fixed by going into my development settings under applications and selecting the "keep awake" option while charging.
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Is her g2x already rooted?
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ive actually been having surprisingly good luck running hellfire rom compared to when i was running CM7, its been stable for almost a week now, battery life isnt as good, but much better then stock.

Whaaaat? Hellfire is tweaked out isn't it? Looks like a badass looking rom, just too comfortable with vanilla cm7
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1661610
This is a link to BuRom. Its a slightly modded 2.3.4 stock ROM. Just throwing it out there as another option.
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If you want to stay with stock just root it and install an app to give yourself access to either full reboot or a quick warm reboot from the home screen.
Rebooting is a necessary evil
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mansa_noob said:
If you want to stay with stock just root it and install an app to give yourself access to either full reboot or a quick warm reboot from the home screen.
Rebooting is a necessary evil
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now there's an idea. i didn't think about that. do you know of any of those types of apps that you could suggest?

I have the app Reboot Scheduler. It reboots my phone at 5 am so in the morning it's nice and fast.
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Just search for reboot in play store.
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threw "fast reboot" on there to see how she likes it since it doesn't require root, works more like an app killer, but kills all in one press.
now, would i see any noticeable gains by using a custom kernel (stock voltage, no overclock)?

donjuan81 said:
threw "fast reboot" on there to see how she likes it since it doesn't require root, works more like an app killer, but kills all in one press.
now, would i see any noticeable gains by using a custom kernel (stock voltage, no overclock)?
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Yes, not an extreme amount but a definite yes. I know by experience with CM7 that mazout's stock voltage beta kernel was much better than the stock CM7 kernel. Those kernels are only for CM7 though. I do not have any experience with an upgraded kernel on my g2x while it was stock as I flashed CM7 and mazouts kernel right after.

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Whaaaat? Hellfire is tweaked out isn't it? Looks like a badass looking rom, just too comfortable with vanilla cm7
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This is a link to BuRom. Its a slightly modded 2.3.4 stock ROM. Just throwing it out there as another option.
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Went 1 day 8 hours down to 30% yesterday, unbelievable. lol Here i am today, over 14 hours already.

Spawne32 said:
Went 1 day 8 hours down to 30% yesterday, unbelievable. lol Here i am today, over 14 hours already.
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What ROM are you using now, hellfire still?

Pain-N-Panic said:
What ROM are you using now, hellfire still?
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yah hellfire phoenix 2.4.2, comes with faux123 kernel from cm7

Faux makes good kernels.
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^ those stats are kind of irrelevant considering he's asking for a decent play out on battery while using performance. [All around use.] You just showed us what a phone with no data signals and almost no use other then the odd screen wake [possibly texts/calls] the op explained he needed a ROM that takes minimal battery with most use, and being a girl I would imagine she's using social networking which requires WiFi or 3G/4G Please don't take what I'm saying as offensive, your information is very handy however it steers the op in the wrong direction as I'm sure his wife likes to use her phone as much as possible without being stuck to a charger. My girlfriend is currently using my old g2x and so far we've had the best luck with cm7 stable and the trinity kernel with slight under volt. What I would suggest the op do is maybe take a little research nightly on her battery drain, find out what she's using the most and go from there. Unfortunately because its not HIS phone, he's not going to witness distinction first hand and won't be able come to a easy conclusion, and it doesn't help that the g2x devs are stuck on GB, too many ports to keep interest and the search could take forever.
LETS KEEP PRAYING TMOBILE HASNT FORGOT US!
PS spawne32, when you did have your phone like the picture did that include battery apps or task killers? Or just straight up OS? Whenever I tried the ROM you suggested [it has been a while, maybe since updated.] I get screen wake issues and all kinds of battery drain.
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To the op, also recommend to your wife the app called "screen filter" it has an option to lower the key brightness, there are a few of those apps out there but I only remember using that, one of the g2x sad but true battery drainers.
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Similar issue - frequent reboots - please suggest ROMs, kernels, other solutions!
I have an LG Optimus G2X (P-999) running the original, unrooted, stock OS (android 2.3.4 "gingerbread", with the "old" bootloader and the baseband from March 2012).
Similar to the OP's wife's phone, mine is running slower and slower, frequently locks up, sometimes so badly that I need to remove the battery to restart it, and sometimes it just restarts itself. I've already tried uninstalling unused apps, clearing caches, moving apps to the SD card, etc. None of that seemed to noticeably help, and lately I need to restart it at least once every 24 hours.
(There are other annoyances too, like the way the GPS hangs and drops, and the battery life isn't great - although the battery may just be too old.)
I'm planning to root it and uninstall the bloatware as a first step, using the instructions I found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1050534
Then, I'm considering installing a custom ROM and/or kernel. (Most up-to-date list, I believe, is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1975934 )
Given the problems I'm having, do you think one or both will help? (If yes, do you have any specific recommendations for a ROM and/or kernel, or tips, or possible pitfalls I should avoid?) Are there other ideas I should consider?
Thanks in advance!