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Why flash roms?

So I was just wondering why would we flash roms? I mean the current stock os is almost bug free + when flashing roms we are faced with some major bugs sometimes.
I know that we would have the choice to remove bloatware, cutomise status bar, and sometime oc. That's all nice but still I don't see why not leave it as is?
Please excuse my ignorance. I just came from a rooted Dinc w/ miui
And I wanna have a better understanding.
Thanks
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http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/05/01/custom-roms-for-android-explained-and-why-you-want-them/

For me it's the freedom to do with my phone what I want. These developers kick out some sweet features that we'll never see from a stock ROM, and they get us the latest software before the manufacturers. I bug here or there is well worth it for me, and if it's to bad you can always revert. If you prefer the stock experience, than by all means leave it alone. But me, I'm a tinkerer. Be it a car, truck, bike... or yes, even a phone, I can't leave well enough alone.

Because we can

To pick up chicks......I haven't met one yet that's not turned on by 48+ mflops!
Can't do that with stock.....

This might seem like an odd answer... I flash so I can have a standard interface on my phones. I've had a droid, droid x, and thunderbolt in the last year and a half (my company does some android development on in house apps for one of our clients, and we go through a lot of test phones). having something close to a stock interface minimizes the daily annoyances of moving between those phones.... which is why I use the aosp roms.
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iakamand said:
So I was just wondering why would we flash roms? I mean the current stock os is almost bug free + when flashing roms we are faced with some major bugs sometimes.
I know that we would have the choice to remove bloatware, cutomise status bar, and sometime oc. That's all nice but still I don't see why not leave it as is?
Please excuse my ignorance. I just came from a rooted Dinc w/ miui
And I wanna have a better understanding.
Thanks
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Wait, you came from a phone that you rooted and flashed MIUI on, but don't understand why others choose to not stay stock

Why??? that's not the correct question. The correct question is why not!

g00s3y said:
Wait, you came from a phone that you rooted and flashed MIUI on, but don't understand why others choose to not stay stock
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My thoughts exactly.
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hey guys...i'm coming from virus' latest synergy rom with sense 3.0 overclocked to 1.4 and i'm wondering...why do you guys root your phone anyways?????

patdroid1 said:
hey guys...i'm coming from virus' latest synergy rom with sense 3.0 overclocked to 1.4 and i'm wondering...why do you guys root your phone anyways?????
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I'm in the same boat. I just can't figure it out.

Cuz girls dig guys who flash roms

Pretty simple, I get rid of most of the stock crap, my battery lasts 30 to 40% longer, and it allows some independence
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New injectheory out!!
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That's simple: more crackflashing = less crack smoking.
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My Tbolt rebooted 3-4 times a day after the OTA update.
Hadn't had any reboots with MR2 and now MR2.5 radio and various roms.

Funny
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I rooted mine so people that smoke too much crack could ask me why

For me? Customization and battery life.

Number 1 reason on the Thunderbolt ... I prefer AOSP/CM7 over Sense.

To Mod or not to mod?

Hey guys I was wondering if I should install CM7? I have a stock rooted g2x with no problems.
Should I wait for LG to release Gingerbread?
Does Peggle or Plants vs Zombies work on CM7?
I am really excited about the future of my phone but don't know which way to go. Any help/opinions is appreciated.
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Razorblood said:
Hey guys I was wondering if I should install CM7? I have a stock rooted g2x with no problems.
Should I wait for LG to release Gingerbread?
Does Peggle or Plants vs Zombies work on CM7?
I am really excited about the future of my phone but don't know which way to go. Any help/opinions is appreciated.
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I recommend you root the G2x at least once and see how that goes for you. 1 of 2 things will happen, you will either love it or dislike it. I personally keep my G2x stock because I find that it is more stable than rooted and also the camera app works way better than the custom roms. If you are gonna use CM7 then I recommend using a nightly instead of RC1. RC1 didn't seem that stable for me or try out Eagles Blood. Matter of fact try them all and see how you like it. Everyone has mixed feelings on whether to root or stay stock so you decide.
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Thanks for the quick reply.
I do prefer stability over custom.
One thing that does bother me is the inability to put the battery percentage where the battery icon is like in CM7 and other roms.
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Peggle does not currently work on CM7.

Razorblood said:
Thanks for the quick reply.
I do prefer stability over custom.
One thing that does bother me is the inability to put the battery percentage where the battery icon is like in CM7 and other roms.
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Your welcome. So what's your decision gonna be?
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Right now, stability does come from the custom roms.
Plus why torture yourself using stock? There are TONS of sweet features in CM7 that aren't in any stock rom I've ever seen. They literally make your phone experience SO much more enjoyable and easy that you will find running a stock rom is a pain.

prettyboy85712 said:
Peggle does not currently work on CM7.
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Thanks. Plants vs Zombies?
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player911 said:
Right now, stability does come from the custom roms.
Plus why torture yourself using stock? There are TONS of sweet features in CM7 that aren't in any stock rom I've ever seen. They literally make your phone experience SO much more enjoyable and easy that you will find running a stock rom is a pain.
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I agree that there are many options and features not available in stock. Its one of the reasons I do want to.
I have a stable stock g2x. I have experienced no problems what so ever. No reboots. Lag. Etc which is one of the reasons I haven't.
I haven't decided yet...
Any more comments?
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Razorblood said:
I agree that there are many options and features not available in stock. Its one of the reasons I do want to.
I have a stable stock g2x. I have experienced no problems what so ever. No reboots. Lag. Etc which is one of the reasons I haven't.
I haven't decided yet...
Any more comments?
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I finally bit the bullet and loaded up CM7. Coming from a stable stock g2x, I haven't seen much if any improvements. Maybe I'm missing something? Not too sure.
It was an easy process and I may go back to 2.2.2 if I get bored, but as of now, I'd say it's not life changing or anything.

GalnetMiui ICS for P999 ported by whitehawkx

http://rootzwiki.com/topic/1651-romport-miui-11111-galnet-ics-miui-1119-11132011/

I noticed this, but there doesn't seem to be an available download.
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unique77 said:
I noticed this, but there doesn't seem to be an available download.
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looks like whitehawkx has ported it over and will be posting up a link for everyone to try.

The link is already posted.
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kangxi said:
The link is already posted.
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Where is it?
Edit: Oops, nvm found it.

its crazy fast and everything seems to be working.

Tried it briefly. Butter smooth.
Wifi calling didn't work. I depend on it now with the crappy dead zone I am in now.
Also miui. I didn't give it a fair chance never tried miui before. I hope it gets ported beyond miui.
Can't wait for it that's for sure

Wait, is this ICS? lol?
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FatalityBoyZahy said:
Wait, is this ICS? lol?
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Some of ICS framework implementation like ram and battery management over the gingerbread miui system.
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missaellpzchvz said:
Some of ICS framework implementation like ram and battery management over the gingerbread miui system.
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Does this mean both cores are finally working properly?
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CESAROX said:
Does this mean both cores are finally working properly?
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...How did you get that from that post? He said RAM and battery management; neither of those have anything to do with the CPU.

Those of you who have tried it, how is it? Screenshots anyone?
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J-Boxer said:
Those of you who have tried it, how is it? Screenshots anyone?
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Working terrific so far. Looks absolutely identical to regular miui. Except keyboard which is a tiny bit smaller I believe. Also noticibly faster in general. I do recommend it from my experience so far.

been running ICS build since it's availability and everything has been smooth and stable. it "feels" faster than any other MIUI build i've used, but could just be placebo effect unless ICS' hardware acceleration is really working.
i even had wifi calling working a couple times, but this has not been consistent. sometimes it worked and other times i had the "invalid sim" error.
can't really comment on battery life as i'm still re-calibrating.
the only issue i've run into is a Market FC only when i try to swipe through the screenshots for apps...weird.
other than the issue listed above, this rom has been great and error free for me.

tried it out.... hated the Ui would much prefer weapon x ui with ics improvements and toggles going back to weaponx 2.8.

Been using the ICS build. No crazy real world speeds were felt by me. Only going to keep running this build if the battery life is better than the regular one.
Missing extended power menu. Might be missing gps.config fix & APN fix files in this ICS build.
Looks & feels the same as any other MIUI Whitehawkx has ported over.

Installed just now...works great and benchmarks return 2700+. Also, I was having terrible problems with Youtube before with any other MIUI version (very, very, very, verrrrrry slow loading). Now Youtube is faster to load than when it was with Gingerbread.
THANK YOU Whitehawkx!
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I've been having problem with galnet video app. It sends me to the market to download an app. When I tried to install the app it gives me an error. Anyone else has the same problem?
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I had that happen but only because miui considered it a favorite app and wanted you to submit a rating.
That's the only thing I found impressive was the media player, galnet player. I'd love to see it in cm7 or in a market.
Playing with miui on my G2 just to get a feel for it. Would have moved it to g2x but I need T-Mobile wifi to work

@miuiandroid MIUI Android
These ICS framework MIUI ROMs are a disgrace to the name of MIUI, its not official MIUI ICS so really, why bother making such crap kangs?
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Omg thanks for posting this.... It plays perfectly fine on a stock 2.2.2 inspire.... Sweet!!!!!!
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Nice. Now if only we had a section for things like Themes and Apps that we could post stuff like this in..........o we do
I got your 10 char right here

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My fault, my excitement got the better of me.

it lags so much for me. how are you guys getting it to run smooth?????

1 vote kick/ban
sorry, excitement got the better of me.

Since I do want to get this legitimately, is there any way I can buy this on the Market and get it to download to my Inspire?

Lags and freezes for me
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jnl1211 said:
Lags and freezes for me
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What ROM are you using? I've played it on MIUI, Cyanogenmod, multiple Sense 3.0 and 3.5 roms, and haven't had any lag with any of them.
Also, if you have anything other than the default kernel for each rom please let me know that as well.

I don't recall. I got it when it wad released and first big news. I switch a lot so tough to say. Sorry no help there.
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Well...i would say to give absolution a try. It has overclocking with the kernel it uses (which isn't really necessary but could be useful for you) and runs very smooth for me. Its a Cyanogenmod rom so no "sense" but there are a ton of customizations.

It runs ok in all roms I've tried.
But absolution, blackice, or any other CM rom should be faster then a sense rom.
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I had it on the vu Rom for the longest time, ran alright, seemed when I went to swipe my finger on the screen the view didn't want to change sometimes.
I just liked to hit people with cars
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New to Thunderbolt

Just switched to a TBolt from OG Incredible. Was running cm7 on it, and loved it. Just wanted some idea as to the best version of cm7 for Tbolt and any other things to make it run better. Any help would be appreciated. I kinda dont have time to read thru 10000 posts in the cm7 topic...

Welcome.
I don't think you're going to get a ton of help with a first post like that, but you might want to check out the CM7 links from the forum post at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1081930
There are also a couple posts at the top of here and the Q&A subforum about what roms people prefer.
I don't have CM7 on my thunderbolt, but on a different device. In general, CM7 is stable enough such that the recent nightlies, if not the latest, are usually the best. However, currently most of the CM dev work is focused on ICS/CM9.

I just came from dinc last week. I had senae 3.5 on mine, though ive flashed every dinc rom ever available. You may want to try a sense rom, i was shocked how smooth 3.5 mikrunny is on this, and it all works. I will try some aosp roms soon, there is a cool one with ics theme, pretty slick. Just experiment dude, this phone rocks.
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If you don't need MMS, I highly recommend MIUI. On the other hand, fully featured and most awesomely completely customizable - Gingeritis 3D. I personally switched from Gingeritis to AOSP recently, better battery life and faster performance but you can't use VZW apps. I'm currently running on Thundershed CM7 nightly and I will probably run this until CM9.
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I'm currently running ThunderShed and it's working REALLY well for me. It's a CM7 ROM from a guy called Workshed. It's really good.
If you Google "Thundershed Thunderbolt" you'll find it very easily.

Dusty Rhodes said:
I'm currently running ThunderShed and it's working REALLY well for me. It's a CM7 ROM from a guy called Workshed. It's really good.
If you Google "Thundershed Thunderbolt" you'll find it very easily.
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+1 thundershed is ur only option imo. As its the only aosp rom with good incall volume levels. And its super smooth. miui does not have working mms which is a bummer cause i like miui also.

Runnin thundershed now, i also came from dinc. This is the best aosp rom ive ever run.
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Wow, may need to give this a spin.
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smtom said:
Wow, may need to give this a spin.
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Gingerbreaton stock 2.1 also really good dude. Im back to crackflashing my new beast!
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Tried the ThunderShed, for whatever reason it couldn't reliability & consistently reconnect to wifi; toggled/tweaked all settings, no joy. Location won't lock either.
Curious happenings, as slayher build locates & reconnects great on my device.
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smtom said:
Tried the ThunderShed, for whatever reason it couldn't reliability & consistently reconnect to wifi; toggled/tweaked all settings, no joy. Location won't lock either.
Curious happenings, as slayher build locates & reconnects great on my device.
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Did location say "login failed"? I got that
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did you guys flash his gapps package before you rebooted? I haven't had any issues with location - it actually seems a lot faster and more accurate than the other CM7 build I was using, which was frankly working fine anyway.

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did you guys flash his gapps package before you rebooted? I haven't had any issues with location - it actually seems a lot faster and more accurate than the other CM7 build I was using, which was frankly working fine anyway.
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I did, flashed rigt after install. Was that a no no on the tbolt? Its how ive always done it.
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donnyp1 said:
I did, flashed rigt after install. Was that a no no on the tbolt? Its how ive always done it.
I didn't get login failed.
Ditto for me like Donny , I flash GAPPS after the ROM flash; I had location issues with the shed build, not slayher build.
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Liquid Gingerbread 3.2... That is all...
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donnyp1 said:
I did, flashed rigt after install. Was that a no no on the tbolt? Its how ive always done it.
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nope, that's how I've done it every time too, just wanted to be sure you flashed it - it was specifically pointed out to me to have a GPS location fix

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nope, that's how I've done it every time too, just wanted to be sure you flashed it - it was specifically pointed out to me to have a GPS location fix
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That is probably it, i did not do that, but that does seem strange. I restored backup of newts mcrunny amd locked instantly after signing in.
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+1 on MIUI. Elegant & great battery life!
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You need to go to a Sense based ROM and connect to GPS, then flash (while still connected) to a AOSP ROM to fix GPS permanently.
Also I'm not sure why you're having those WiFi issues; try deleting the WiFi and DHCP folders, I forget where theyre located. I suppose running fix permissions wouldn't hurt, hahaha, I know people hate that response.

Liquid 3.2
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