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I started this thread with hopes of learning and educating the talented Rom cookers and bakers XDA has to offer. There are alot of varying points of view, both in completely different camps as to which UI has more to offer/ meets a user's needs or desires. Vanilla, custom, Sense. I am trying to figure out WHAT users want in there roms.
For example:
I keep using Sense based Roms because I love the camera & enjoy the fact that it employs face detection. I also enjoy the fact that the SMS application automatically applies my picture from Facebook or twitter as my avatar when sending messages, to me that makes it feel cleaner.
I dislike the fact that sense keeps a rolling list of my most recent applications above the notifications bar, I also dislike how taxing on the system sense is.
Alas, this thread isn't only about what I like and I want... its about what we all would like to see.
P.S.
If we have a team of skinners/themers and bakers out there willing to undertake an on-demand ROM like this... 1. We would forever love you 2. If you haven't done so already, I will set up a PayPal account for donations in your honor because I'll love you like that.
Personally I like HTC Sense but there's something about AOSP that I can't help but have a huge attraction to so I'd have to go with that. I agree though about the status bar showing your recent apps and I did notice that Sense slows down my phone more and kinda kills battery
What does AOSP have to offer? AOSP vs Sense.
I'm familiar with a lot of terms, but what is "vanilla" ?
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Enraged21 said:
What does AOSP have to offer? AOSP vs Sense.
I'm familiar with a lot of terms, but what is "vanilla" ?
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From what I have gleaned, it's basically the most simple/basic/no frills form of the ROM. Then, the bakers out all nice goodies and stuff in it to make it what it is.
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From what I have gleaned, it's basically the most simple/basic/no frills form of the ROM. Then, the bakers out all nice goodies and stuff in it to make it what it is.
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AOSP stands for Android Open Source Project and is like you said, stock android. It's what android is meant to look like but then companies add HTC Sense and Motorola Blur and other frames over it. If you check out the Ginger beast rom for the Inspire, which is what I run, then you'll see what it looks like and such
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AOSP stands for Android Open Source Project and is like you said, stock android. It's what android is meant to look like but then companies add HTC Sense and Motorola Blur and other frames over it. If you check out the Ginger beast rom for the Inspire, which is what I run, then you'll see what it looks like and such
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So is Gingerbeast a very trim version of an AOSP ROM? I played with MIUI a bit, but then went to CoreDroid and am pretty much loving it. Though I do have that itch to flash again...lol
Sense roms are made from what either HTC leaks us or stock firmwares modified or whatever that particular dev wants to do to that build(theme, deodex, zipalign, add whatever tweaks). You can remove some sense apks, but sense framework is still there and there is still some hints of it throughout that just can't really be removed.
Unmodified aosp roms are pretty much what you would see on a nexus s. Absolutley no bloat, no sense at all, fast and nothing to hog resources. But aosp wasn't specifically built for this phone and its a lot harder to get everything working right (thank the cm team for not only getting everything working, but it works insanely well).
Gingerbeast uses some cm core parts, but removes some cm specific stuff, adds in aosp parts from both source trees and is then compiled. Same for the kernel- cm aosp kernel, with some extra speed/efficiency tweaks)
Some sense roms are almost 300mb, gingerbeast is around 85 I believe.
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Sense roms are made from what either HTC leaks us or stock firmwares modified or whatever that particular dev wants to do to that build(theme, deodex, zipalign, add whatever tweaks). You can remove some sense apks, but sense framework is still there and there is still some hints of it throughout that just can't really be removed.
Unmodified aosp roms are pretty much what you would see on a nexus s. Absolutley no bloat, no sense at all, fast and nothing to hog resources. But aosp wasn't specifically built for this phone and its a lot harder to get everything working right (thank the cm team for not only getting everything working, but it works insanely well).
Gingerbeast uses some cm core parts, but removes some cm specific stuff, adds in aosp parts from both source trees and is then compiled. Same for the kernel- cm aosp kernel, with some extra speed/efficiency tweaks)
Some sense roms are almost 300mb, gingerbeast is around 85 I believe.
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So what you are saying is, without htc sense frame work we can't have things like the sense camera and weather app with your kernel and an adamholden rom?
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I want what Android Revolution has to offer, sense with a no sense script. Best of both worlds, no sense but still have a good camera and all the htc apps, but no sense! Makes sense!
I have to say that I think I prefer some of the things in sense. I've been from leedroid to miui to gingerbeast. Miui. Was slow and taxing, while very pretty... not what I want... I prefer a phone that can fly through pages as fast as I can navigate them.
Gingerbeast is very, very quick which is awesome, but like said before the HTC camera and SMS, as well as clock Widgets and ringtones, are better with sense.
I think ill try out android revolution next
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It would be cool of someone made a kernel with calibrated color, I think the captivate had some roms with that. I've noticed the black levels on the inspire seem more dark grey then true black. Wishful thinking maybe?
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I love sense, It's better than the others (touchwiz etc)
I use GingerBeast, which I like because it is small and light and fast. I do miss the sense camera, though the miui camera is decent enough for my purposes.
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I don't mind sense at all. I'm Still running stock but I'm thinking hard about flashing RCMix kingdom Rom cause I want to check out sense 3.0
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I use GingerBeast, which I like because it is small and light and fast. I do miss the sense camera, though the miui camera is decent enough for my purposes.
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Seems like the sense camera is one of the things people without sense miss the most
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Hey just wanted to get some opinions when flashing a rom which do you prefer sense or no sense? And why?
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it just depends on what you like. if you want looks and all tht apps, then go with sense. or if u want speed and all tht sense away, do nosense. but u can have nosense and keep the good apps of it with CDTdroids nosense. he keeps the htcapps
if me. i flash sense. i can switch between that. used other launcher if u dont want. but no sense is faster..
faster meaning opening app drawer and stuff ? or everything including data?
Overall performance
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Aosp/cm7 roms are said to have data speed problems. Stay away until nightlies atleast. Sense is the way to go imo. Ever since the 2.3.4 update, sense is super smooth. I'm sure you'll agree. Plus you get stability which is a must for me.
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i chose to stick with sense, it looks pretty good and i dont think my phone runs slow, i've seen some pics of other roms and in my opinion they are just not as ascetically appealing. granted i havnt seen them all, but im happy with what i got, and my phone seems to run fast enough. its all preference though, why dont you back up using titanium, try the other roms, and if you dont like then just restore.
It's all a matter of preference.
Personally, I think Sense looks gross. However, I do understand what people see in it and the functionality it contains. It's different.
On the other hand, AOSP offerings generally are lighter and more customizable. Not everyone wants to spend time trying to tweak things "just so" the way I do.
Also, the notion that data speeds are lower on AOSP ROMS is laughable. That may be the case at the moment, since these ROMS are in their infancy, but that will definitely change. Too many people expect these amazing, instant results from AOSP ROMS in their alpha stages. Sense based ROMS have the luxury of being based from stock, where a team of paid devs had all the info and product needed to make a working build...and they STILL managed to give me a non functional lock screen.
What Xboarder, persionown, and TripNraver did is incredible. Don't forget that. They're working with way less than those working on Sense ROMS.
I know with ROMs it really comes down to personall opinion.. so what's your personal opinion, go with CM7 or insertCoin, an why did you pick what you picked!
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I know with ROMs it really comes down to personall opinion.. so what's your personal opinion, go with CM7 or insertCoin, an why did you pick what you picked!
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whenever i wanna use sense its insertcoin and CM7 when i dont wanna. i suggest using IC if you dont wanna deal with all these bugs that are present in CM7 because its only an alpha. Im not saying that CM7 isnt usable, but you might not be satisfied with some missing features
Try both, do a backup, you can always come back. I am running cm7.
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i was on ARHD and im about to flash IC.. im just too new to try CM7, maybe later.
I stick with IC because baad's releases are generally very stable and he's crazy quick to fix stuff when things aren't working. Plus his rom is as fast as any out there. I do play with the CM7 releases but find myself missing some sense stuff like the camera, keyboard, general ease of customization and proper sizing of wallpaper.
I guess CM7 is supposed to be fast, but I really haven't missed much speed with any of the sense roms tbh. As long as I can play the occasional game and emulate PSX smoothly, I really don't care if sense is running in the background and "hogging up resources".
Can i have a link on both CM7 and IC for 2.3.3 Sensation thanks!
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Can i have a link on both CM7 and IC for 2.3.3 Sensation thanks!
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Go to dev forum and find them. It isn't so hard. Or if you can't, use the search function
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It's all personal preference when it comes down to it. Sense vs. Vanilla. Honestly, I was missing Sense a lot when I switched over to CM7 a few days ago, but the only thing I really miss is the camera, and now I just replaced it with Vignette. If you need the Sense stuff then I'd say go with InsertCoin (I've never used it. I was on ARHD before I went to CM7). I don't really see any of the bugs that people are talking about for CM7 other than not being able to record 1080p without it rebooting on you. One thing I did find though is that my battery meter isn't exact and it's kind of annoying me and I can't figure out how to fix it.
Try both, and do nandroid backups. I'd say a day or two on both and you'll know which one you want.
Depends on your preferences. If you like have all the sense goodies you can flash the IC right now, expecially the new sense3.5 version is really stable and fast, else if you like have an android stock experience with low impact on your device resources and an incredible high responsive system CM7 is the way to go.
This said, i must underline the fact that in CM7 there are some thing that must be tuned up and are sightly less enjoyable and pratical compared to the Sense rom's equivalent sector. EG: the camera in CM7 does really bad when it comes to some shot that goes beyond the typical photo, and the addition of the touch to focus in the last version is not enough to close the gap, and this occurs also in social integration and some other aspect.
Generally i choose a sense rom, but i remove al the bloatware (watch, locations in primis) with TitaniumBackup and i'm just fine. With the last IC i have 190mb of RAM free in idle, and a surprisingly responsive phone, wich is great for me.
PS: i hope my english is good enough, it is some time i don't practice it up now
I am a bit new to all this. Have rooted my sensation. Looking forward using IC roms!
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whenever i wanna use sense its insertcoin and CM7 when i dont wanna. i suggest using IC if you dont wanna deal with all these bugs that are present in CM7 because its only an alpha. Im not saying that CM7 isnt usable, but you might not be satisfied with some missing features
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CM7 is basically bug free. If it were any other CM dev it'd be classified as an RC...
What are "all the bugs"?
I alternate alot between incertcoin and cm7 I just can't decide I love them both. It depends on what you like.
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Now which ROM between the two, is the way to go for speeds?
And what are the pros and Cons of each of the 2, IN YOUR OPINION!
For speed ? I would say cm7 with out a doubt
Pros about cm7. Nice interface, minimalistic design, fast, snappy ,cm7 theme chooser, Cyanogenmod settings! Close to stock and very light
Cons- still has a few bugs. Dialer ,camera
Bland compared to sense
Ic pros- has Sense , is really smooth and plenty fast for most, camera ,dialer , lockscreen,nice widgets and ui ,keyboard ,might have beats depending on the Rom you get, some other HTC apps. Nice animations and effects.
Cons- its quite heavy so not as snappy as cm7 but insert coin is really smooth.
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I've tried both and I can say I prefer IC, But after all it really comes to what features you want from your phone, I really recommend you to try both or even other great roms that are offered on XDA.
I personally prefer Sense 3.5 (Therefor IC) because of the awesome widgets and how they integrate with the system.
If you are looking for speed and speed only my advice is go and flash CM7 right now. But, if you care something about social integration, camera, better ui/animation and a set of truely useful and integrated widgets take some time on the IC and judge if it's fast enough for you
Or you can use boot manager and have the best of both worlds.
I have a 3D, but since the sensation is very similar I could honestly say cm would fly on you guys device. Not trying to be bias but on another note I think that AOSP is more healthier for are phones.
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I'd choose CM7 because I'm used to it.
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Or you can use boot manager and have the best of both worlds.
I have a 3D, but since the sensation is very similar I could honestly say cm would fly on you guys device. Not trying to be bias but on another note I think that AOSP is more healthier for are phones.
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You're probably right, but no one can make me give up my Sense.
I, I love my Sense like a love song, baby. And I keep hittin repeat peat peat peat peat
CM7 is quick, but that's like saying u slept with the uglier chick because she was skinnier.
Praos of CM7 are that it's fast, consistent, and backed with high qual developers with stringent standards.
Cons are that all of these CM7 devs are so Spartan in their barebones approach that the phone is lacking in some areas. Not having a full functioning camera that can record hd vid was a dealbreaker for me. I also found that I missed the Sense keyboard.
I had CM7 on my Sensation for one day. It was very fast, especially the boot time was very short.
The interface is ok, but not as nice as Sense. I love Sense, although it is not that fast, i dont know. As I had several reboots with CM7, I switched so the new Stock with Sense 3.5.
Later, when Lee is back, I will go back to LeeDroid. Had there some random reboots, too. Hopefully he adds Sense 3.5
First of all, this is meant to be an informative post, not a bash fest...
I'm kinda new to Android. Tested a lot of models before finally getting a T-Bolt the day after release.
I've used a ton of Sense and AOSP based ROMs since.
I've kept up as best I can on the MIUI thread, and it looks like they have a dedicated following like most of the popular ROMs.
Can someone please give me a cliff notes version of the highlights of the MIUI series ROMs?
In other words...what's the big deal about them (Again, I don't mean to sound like a jerk when I say that, I'm looking for knowledge and info...)
It looks to me like an iOS kinda clone/software the two times I tried it on my phone. Is there no app drawer, etc?
Those are the kinda things I"m interested in...objective thoughts.
I didn't feel this tread belonged in dev section by any means...
Thanks!!
MIUI is like Sense/Blur. It's a complete UI overhaul of the entire Android operating system. Although there is no app drawer, you can simply switch to your favorite launcher (ADW ex, Launcher 7, GoLauncher, etc.) Outside of that, MIUI is fast. Very fast. There are lots of themes out there for it (excited for Vicious to get the ICS MIUI working.)
Yea no app drawer like iphone but you can use folders to organize things. Its like iOS on steroids it merges the best of Android and the best of iOS. I ran MIUI for a good couple weeks and switched back to sense only because of the MMS not working. (I have 3 kids and a baby on the way so me and my wife send photos to each other alot.)
But when I did run MIUI it was fantastic very fast and smooth looked good settings was all there right in front of you. You can't really go wrong its based off AOSP so think of Cyanogen or Vanilla Android so there is no sense widgets or anything just have to find stuff you want from the market.
IF you can buy bootmanager (i think it scalled) and run more than one rom and test htem back and forth. Its great ill go back once MMS is fixed for now Sense is really good im on Chingy's Gingeritis 3D atm
I played around with it for about 30 minutes today...it is fast.
That being said, I'll wait till MMS is available as well.
Thanks for the input...much appreciated!!!
Sure no Problem its a fantastic rom. Vicious is making the ICS version that should be out sometime today I'll probally flash it and run it for a week and be sad at no mms and go back to Gingeritis lol
Oh and superb battery life as well. My extended battery just got twice of it's juice after switching to MIUI.
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I played around with it for about 30 minutes today...it is fast.
That being said, I'll wait till MMS is available as well.
Thanks for the input...much appreciated!!!
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MMS has worked just fine for me on MIUI using Go SMS. I use the stock SMS app since its themed with whichever you theme you choose for the rom, but use Go to send/receive MMS.
Battery life on MIUI has been the best I've experienced by far. I've tried just about every rom (Sense & Aosp) for the bolt, minus maybe 2 or 3 of them. Even if I chose not to use one for a daily driver, I always at least try the newest latest and greatest thing. I've been off the charger for roughly 15 hours and I'm sitting at 81% battery right now, using the stock battery.
I'd been hooked on BAMF Bliss and Synergy Eternity which are both Sense 3.5, and when I tried MIUI when Vicious released it I had only planned on playing with it, then going back to one of the 3.5 roms... obvious to say, that didn't happen. The battery life, speed, smoothness, and ability to customize won me over.
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MMS has worked just fine for me on MIUI using Go SMS. I use the stock SMS app since its themed with whichever you theme you choose for the rom, but use Go to send/receive MMS.
Battery life on MIUI has been the best I've experienced by far. I've tried just about every rom (Sense & Aosp) for the bolt, minus maybe 2 or 3 of them. Even if I chose not to use one for a daily driver, I always at least try the newest latest and greatest thing. I've been off the charger for roughly 15 hours and I'm sitting at 81% battery right now, using the stock battery.
I'd been hooked on BAMF Bliss and Synergy Eternity which are both Sense 3.5, and when I tried MIUI when Vicious released it I had only planned on playing with it, then going back to one of the 3.5 roms... obvious to say, that didn't happen. The battery life, speed, smoothness, and ability to customize won me over.
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How do you get go to work with mms??
My name is Revos I'm a recovering flashaholic running Liquid Gingerbread 3.0
GoMMS is only capable sending pics and audio. it will not recieve. also the recipient of the mms only recieves a url.
Not necessarily true. I've been sending and receiving MMS with Go SMS pro for days, as has my wife on her Evo running miui.
Also, search xda for "alt app drawer " app if you want an app drawer. Its a free apk. You'll still have to place your. Apps in one folder, or make several for categories. I personally like having an app drawer on my dock.
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If you had to pick the top 3 things that are better in MIUI than AOSP what would they be?
MIUI is so fast its crazy, I love all the built in customization as well. Beyond that there is unlimited support out there for themes and what not, and being cross platform it is very easy to go out and find information. There are very cool features baked in ( pressing home from the lock screen and holding it turns on camera leds for a flashlight for instance ) I swear when I first started messing with miui on my INC and DX I was ALWAYS finding new features. It makes D1's feel like current devices its so fast.
As far as an app drawer, I have bounced between placing all my apps in one folder and putting that in my dock, to organizing them on my home screens, to bundling them all into separate folders. Right now My home screen to the left of my main screen is filled with 12 folders,
Chat;
Google talk/voice group me
File Mgmt;
File Explorer ( miui's awesome file manager ) downloads drop box and docs to go
Bench Marks;
Speed Test and quadrant standard
Widgets;
BW, swype installer, swiftkey x, pure grid calender, multi icon, hackers keyboard, circle battery, and voice search short cuts
then notes, social, gadgets ( bar code scanner and such ) trivia apps, news, root tools, tools, and media.
I could get by with less, but I needed an even number for appearance reasons lol.
Then I have a folder in the middle of my dock with my most use applications, gmail, email, market, facebook, ebay, paypal, ect...
Never going back to another rom now that its stable, just have people email me pictures. MMS will come soon enough
I'm guessing this has the same problems of aosp builds?
1. No nfl network
2. Wonky GPS?
Yes, on nfl mobile. But on gps it works pretty good for me. Navigation and what not. Just a problem with weather widget. Which some times give wrong location but can be fixed easily by setting location manually
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Anyone know how the battery life is?
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Anyone know how the battery life is?
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I have not personally flashed this ROM on my phone (likely will now that it is fully ported), but the excellent battery life is one of the highlights of this ROM, based on what I have heard from my friends who run it on their phones and what I have read on multiple forums. When I flash it, I will report back my results.
14 hours and at about six percent on a rezond battery.... I'm somewhat of a heavy user though, and I do not take any steps to make battery life better, all my email accounts check every 15 mins, screen brightness all the way up ect...
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All these positive reviews. I think I'll have to give it a go. Ran it daily on my INC, hadn't on my Thunderbolt as i waited for stability.
It seems like that point was now reached.
Just want to mention that I've been trying to kill my battery, I have left the screen on and have tethered to wirelessly to my ipad, and my phone has only dropped 1 percent in the last half hour
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I currently am running Shnizlon's sense 4 rom and it is fantastic but I recently decided to possibly try out other Rom's as well. CM9 is a rom I always see coming up as a topic in reading these posts. What are the advantages or disadvantages in using CM9? Do you think sense 4 is better? All opinions are welcome!!!
Also, I have the 3.32 firmware radio upgrade currently on my sensation. If I choose to switch over to CM9, would I need to do anything specificto switch over to it or can I just flash the rom in recovery mode like any other rom?
Thanks in advance.
I'm a CM guy. I like it because of it's stock Android roots, along with a large amount of customization settings. It's light on resources but big on performance.
Potential downsides are that it's not based on hTC's software, so none of their proprietary stuff (I view this as a plus, but others may not, my brother included).
Thanks for the feedback Rusty.
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depends on whether you like sense or stock. i prefer stock, a lot of people like the aesthetic of sense. totally up to you
also cm9 is still under pretty heavy development, i don't know if it's as stable as something based on any of the htc ruu's
there's a post somewhere around here that lists many of the popular sensation roms on this forum. differences basically boil down to sense3.6/4 vs aosp-ness
i'm currently using VI 4.0.2 (and am enjoying it) but also used kristof's hypersensation (which i loved, but i was really anxious to try ics).
CM9 is really stable, battery is good, but it does vary.
It has been my daily since camera was working and that's about a month or two
Have either of you tried the new sense 4 layout ??? It's pretty fantastic and snappy not to mention simple yet beautiful. I highly recommend it. Vanilla android is cool, nothing against it. Just trying to weigh the pros and cons. Guess I'll just have to give it a test run.
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I was like 8 weeks on Insertcoin Sense 3.6 ROM, then I switched to the InsertCoin Sense 4.0 ROM (wasn't called CoinDroid at that time), and after 2 weeks I switched back to Sense 3.6 again, cause Sense 4 was a bit buggy and not always as smooth as it should be.
After about 2 weeks I wanted changes - and tried AOKP (thanks to Bluewall, otherwise I wouldn't even try it)... It's awesome!
Okay Cyanogenmod is also a very nice ROM, but it hasn't as much Tweaks as AOKP...
Right now I'm thinking about to switch to CM9 again because it has some new nice fixes inside...
My first Android Phone was the HTC Legend, but Sense wasn't really that nice on it... So I switched over to CM6, later CM7 and loved it.
I'm still in love with Cyanogenmod
The first impression counts...
After having sense 3 days, i immediatly looked for antoher kind of ROM.
Indeed, sense is good looking but full of little bugs and so slow.... (even if our developpers are making amazing work about that on sense based ROMS)
CM9 based ROMS bring you a minimalist view (compared to sense) but so much more efficient, with a lot of little customisable settings (for grid of screen, locked to 4x4 for sense, up to 5x6 for CM9's launcher)
To be short : CM9 bring you a stable a fast ROM, with minimalist icon/theme, with a lot of little addon (customize color of text, edit toggles, dock item (1 or 3 or 5) etc...)
CM9 does have a few issues that are annoying but it is mostly stable. My biggest issue with it is the volume sometimes get really low and you have to restart it to fix it.
If you want an alternative to Coindroid and CM9, try HyperNonSense 2.5. Its fast and very stable. Based on Sense but with most of it removed which makes it fast and looks like Cm9.
You know, it's not very polite to compare ROMs
But if you comparing vanilla Android to Sense - there is many different points you should cover - some cases vanilla is way better, some cases Sense is just awesome.
For short - vanilla Android ROMs have just much more customizations and Sense gives much prettier (if you like sense style) and easier to use widgets and other apps.
I was using Sense 3.6 (4.0 had too many bugs then) for few months and I loved it! But when I tried vanilla ROM (AOKP build 31 to be precise) I fell in love one more time! This ROM is so minimalistic, fast and smooth no lag whatsoever (which I was facing in Sense ROMS). But after few months of usage I'm missing few things from Sense:
Sense Clock is very easy to use and maybe prettiest widget.
Friend Stream (and fb contacts sync) is very usefull and I haven't found apps doing that well.
Calendar widget - month view on homescreen is awesome.
So now I want Sense Clock and Sense Friend Stream but with minimalistic (Vanilla) Contacts, Phone, Messaging apps :/
P.S. If anyone wanna compare my homescreens on Sense 3.6 and AOKP ROM -
http://pinterest.com/pin/119134352612707582/
http://mycolorscreen.com/2012/05/08/htc-sensation-aokp-m5-with-green/
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You know, it's not very polite to compare ROMs
But if you comparing vanilla Android to Sense - there is many different points you should cover - some cases vanilla is way better, some cases Sense is just awesome.
For short - vanilla Android ROMs have just much more customizations and Sense gives much prettier (if you like sense style) and easier to use widgets and other apps.
I was using Sense 3.6 (4.0 had too many bugs then) for few months and I loved it! But when I tried vanilla ROM (AOKP build 31 to be precise) I fell in love one more time! This ROM is so minimalistic, fast and smooth no lag whatsoever (which I was facing in Sense ROMS). But after few months of usage I'm missing few things from Sense:
Sense Clock is very easy to use and maybe prettiest widget.
Friend Stream (and fb contacts sync) is very usefull and I haven't found apps doing that well.
Calendar widget - month view on homescreen is awesome.
So now I want Sense Clock and Sense Friend Stream but with minimalistic (Vanilla) Contacts, Phone, Messaging apps :/
P.S. If anyone wanna compare my homescreens on Sense 3.6 and AOKP ROM -
http://pinterest.com/pin/119134352612707582/
http://mycolorscreen.com/2012/05/08/htc-sensation-aokp-m5-with-green/
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Thank you for your feedback. I wouldn't necessarily say I was comparing them saying one was better than another. I was simply asking what are some of the advantages of vanilla over sense since I am very new to this. Nonetheless I appreciate your input greatly.
Sent from my Sensation 4G using XDA
I have always wanted to try other roms and I did, quite a few of them actually. People kept telling me how much they hated Sense and in a way I get them, but on the other hand, sense has some great apps and widgets, which actaully brings me to my question.
Is there a Desensed rom with the sense widgets still existing, or maybe even an AOSP rom ?
I know it sounds like a stupid question, but sometimes I just wish I could have CM and my sense calendar or dialer.
Sense bogs the phones resources.....even if it is snappy, it could be better, and that is AOSP.
For me I'm using sense until a bug free version of AOSP is available...
- Bluetooth
- audio routing
- etc.
i switched from sense to infamous to opensensation and i will stay with opensensation. i love the speed and the feel of cm9. with the sense rom i always had annoying little lags and it didnt felt smooth.
cm9 isnt perfect, like the others mentioned before, but its worth to give it a try.
i can live with the "bugs" and enjoy the smoothness
Zwenk said:
i switched from sense to infamous to opensensation and i will stay with opensensation. i love the speed and the feel of cm9. with the sense rom i always had annoying little lags and it didnt felt smooth.
cm9 isnt perfect, like the others mentioned before, but its worth to give it a try.
i can live with the "bugs" and enjoy the smoothness
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I really wanted to use cm9 but the non smoothness is what drove me back to ARHD and VI. I read a lot about how smooth it is, but for me VI is significantly smoother
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fr0zenblood75 said:
I really wanted to use cm9 but the non smoothness is what drove me back to ARHD and VI. I read a lot about how smooth it is, but for me VI is significantly smoother
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Man don't take it bad but you're talking about a stock rooted rom and a senseless one.
This thread is about a Sense 4.0 and an AOSP...
I like much more CM9, farm more customizable.
Sense 4.0 right now doesn't suit me... Battery drains a lot compared to Sense 3.6 and much work still has to be done to make it equal smooth compared to a good Sense 3.6
Sense 4 vs. CM9? AOKP WINS XD
more stock felling, lighter, faster, I think is more stable, too...
i was a coindroid user, but in games it was not good, still laggy at 1.7 ghz...
now on aokp with nova launcher at 1.2 I play games perfectly and the UI is ****in' smooth...flash it, you won't regret
I love aosp but im a flashaholic so it gets boring really fast i like fancy animations and such but i prefer aosp looks and feels ...
Sent From My Sexy Sensation.
CM is not lightweight by any stretch of the imagination.
It does lag as much as sense do. If not more.
CM phone book is ****e. Which is the biggest downside for me. A PHONE's PHONE book should be the most important thing in a PHONE.
On the other hand I love CM because MIUI is based on CM
There is no 'CM' phonebook, it's AOSP, so blame Google if you don't like it.
That said, I'm not finding it laggy.