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LeeDroid vs AOSP RC1

Hi!
I New to this Android World (From apple ex-fanboy) ;-) // I want experiences or recommendations especially -better battery life- between LeeDroid Rom & AOSP RC1
Thank you!

I think it depends on if you Luke sense. If you do, leedroid is the answer. You'll likely get better battery from aosp since it doesn't have nearly the background processes. Try em both and see what you like.

I've gone from LeeDroid to CM7 now happily running AOSP RC1... I'm in vanilla Android heaven!

Your comparing apples to oranges. The two aosp roms are compiled from source, with absolutely 0 HTC bloat in them. The other is an HTC rom with sense. You can remove sense apps and Widgets, but sense framework is still there. Depends what you want. But if battery is your thing, I'm getting the best battery I've ever had on my aosp rom, and the phone is smoother than I ever thought this phone could be. I'm sure gtg 's is the same. If you want sense, try leedroid, if you want what Google made, before the manufacturers got their hands on the software, try an aosp rom. No matter what you pick, it'll be better than stock.

I'm on leedroid... Thinking of trying ACE not sure yet.. gonna give leedroid a week!

Try em all. The hard/riskier part is done. Flashing roms is safe/simple. Your not gonna.brick your phone flashing a rom, and it only takes a few minutes to be back up and running. Risky things to flash are radios (although if your careful the risk is pretty low, but a bad radio flash can leave you with a permanent brick) and bootloaders

I'm using LeeDroid's ROM currently and I love it...Battery life is great, still has the nice framework for appeal, GPS works within 35 seconds, etc...I tried the RC1 and it's incredibly fast and smooth, but it's nearly naked with features lol...So like di11 said, they both are better than stock for sure, it's just what appeals more to you function or form..Hope this helps

LeeDroid is the way to go, i've tried them all and his ROM's just work great without any hassle.

my expierince with leedroid had speakerphone issues and was buggy, but im still looking for a one for me.
Also, with aosp roms, I was unable to recieve mms messages as I had in Sense Roms. Otherwise I would stay with Gingerbeast.

[Q] Suggest Rom?

hi i'm new to the rooted seen just got my phone rooted 2 day and i wanted to try the perfect storm v.1.5 but the link seem to be down anyone got a good suggested rom and link they can point me to thanks a bunch :j

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1176922

pwnauq said:
hi i'm new to the rooted seen just got my phone rooted 2 day and i wanted to try the perfect storm v.1.5 but the link seem to be down anyone got a good suggested rom and link they can point me to thanks a bunch :j
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You will get as many opinions as there are Roms. If you have not already done so, I recommend getting Rom Manager from the Market and creating a backup copy of your rooted, but basically stock phone. From there I have had improved battery life and respectable radio performance using BAMF GingerStripped v2.1 & the latest leaked radio (1.46.00.0704w_2, 0.01.76.0703_2r).
You will find that radio performance is sometimes hit or miss when using the Gingerbread Roms. With that being said, improvements are made on an almost daily basis. I have no complaints with the stability or performance of my phone under the Rom/Radio configuration described above though.

All the links to Chingy51o ROM's will be down in the Tbolt forums. Go to themikmik.com to download. I wouldn't suggest TPS 1.5 though. It's old, based on a froyo leak that no kernels were ever developed for, and there's sereveral that are faster and more developed. Do you want feature-rich and solid as the Rock of Gibraltar, or, do you want a ROM that runs like a raped ape on fire? If you want feature rich and solidly developed, go to TeamBAMF.net and try one of theirs. If you like speed and all the junk pulled out, try themikmik.com and check out Chingy's ROM's. If you're feeling senseless, OMFGB is probably the best AOSP ROM out there. And then there's always CM7, which is starting to look like a finished product. I like Gingeritus3D V1.0 BetaV. V and VI are as fast as any gingerbread ROM I've ever used, if not faster, even with all the extra graphic load and Sense features. And it's reliable.
If batter life is what you crave, Froyo is probably the way to go. In that event, would definitely suggest BAMF. They seem to have the most developed Froyo builds with the best kernels. And they're great guys over there to who are always happy to help.

That question is about as tough as us telling you what's the best car to drive for you.
Not for us...but for you...
As said, best thing you can possibly do is make a backup of stock via clockwork recovery mode.
Do NOT use ROM or Kernal manager to flash Roms or kernals. Use Clockwork.
There are a TON of good ROMs out there...lately, there has been a little bit of an exodus of talented developers...politics are politics. It's too bad.
My advice is any time you go from one ROM to another, wipe data, cache and dalvik.
DroidTh3ory makes a great ROM (running it now)
BAMF makes a great one (Have run them a lot in the past) google search...they are no longer on XDA
Virus (Synergy, airborne) makes a great ROM
Chingy (Gingeritis, liquid ginger, perfect storm) makes a great ROM. Google him as well, no longer here.
Pretty much any of the Developers make two flavors of their ROMs, with Sense and without. 100% personal preference. If you like the eye candy...stay with Sense. Trade off is a little speed an performance and battery life (you may not even notice) vs. a non-sense based ROM.
Without a doubt, the most popular AOSP (Android Open Source Project) ROM is CM7.
Personally...I like sense. I've tried 2 or 3 non-sense based ROMs...I like candy, what can I say?

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I tried Perfect Storm v1.5 as well as my first ROM and it was good however I have now moved on to Eaton ROM v1.5.3 and it is flawless!

I've tried a few different ROMs, to include Das BAMF (RC4.9), Ging3r3dTh3ory, Liquid Thunderbread v1.4, as well as Gingeritis v1.2 and Gingeritis 3d v1.0 Beta VI.
I really liked the eye candy that Das BAMF had in his ROMs. It seemed pretty stable, too, but I haven't been able to find a Sense ROM that beats Gingeritis. Either "Gingeritis v1.2 non-3D" or "Gingeritis 3D v1.0 Beta VI", have both been very reliable, and the 3D version is very snappy considering it's 3D and Beta.

I have not tried any other roms other than Th3ory roms and they are awesome , great battery life.

I have been running the ROMs released by Th3ory. I started out with the Sense 3.0 ROM, then moved to a 2.1/3.0 Hybrid. Now I am running his latest CM7/AOSP mashup. It is rock solid for the most part. While I do miss some of the Sense UI elements, the sheer speed and performance, not to mention battery life, with the AOSP ROM is phenomenal.
Also, I do recommend the use of the 627 radio as well with this ROM.

I've tried every rom out there (up until about a week ago or so), and Th3ory Roms are easily the best for me. I value Performance first, Stability second, and debloating third. Every Rom that DroidTh3ory has put out has out performed all other roms for my needs. His latest offering, Pur3A05P, is amazing. I've never had an android experience so smooth, snappy, and stable. Not to mention fully AOSP, so fully debloated.
Also, you should see about flashing the latest radio. It's available at themikmik.com, labeled something like (2.xxx.xxx.xx). A reminder: A radio image is flashed by placing the file, named exactly 'PG05IMG.zip', on the root of your SD card, rebooting into hboot (vol- while booting), and accepting the upgrade. Also, make sure you delete or rename the radio off of your sd card once your done!

so many roms, what to choose?? LOL

So im looking at the dev section of the sensation and there are just so many freaking roms out there it's crazy LOL
I started with P3d for a bit, and now just flashed the android revolution 3.5, but man oh man, there is just so much out there i really don't have a clue where to start, i just want a stable rom that gives me the best battery life that has everything working........ P3d did it but now im really leaning towards CM7 which i ran on the evo for like ever.
anyone else feel overwhelmed? and trust me im not complaining

it's not bad
you should see the galaxy S forums, there's at least 30 ROMs around.

So far the most popular in no particular order, are:
CM7
LeeDROiD
Revolution HD
InsertCoin
CoreDroid
Heard good things about bulletproof.
Couple threads on this already:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1254071

I've tried Virtuous until version 1.1.3, then I tried Revolution HD and Leedroid. I have even tried the Bliss 3.5 Sense port and it was very nice and stable even though there were some bugs to iron out. Now I'm back to Virtuous and the 2.0.1 XE is stunning. Probably the best one I've tried so far, just need to check the battery performance. But I would guess all ROM's are fairly equal, some are better in one area and some are better in another, just need to choose one that suits you the best or just try until you find the best one I guess

Bulletproof while not getting many mentions in most of these threads has awesome tweaks other roms lack. Like the option to customise the "personalise" button, and the option to make the app draw scrolling instead of paged. There are more tweaks than that and its worth a look.
Basically romanbb has made the Sense equivalent of cmparts.
Still cm7 is faster than flies on **** on this phone but its a little buggy for some people at present. Its good enough as a daily driver on 4g Sensation phones, most of the issues are related to calls dropping on 3g units.
Sent from my Cyanogenmod loaded Htc Sensation 4g

I only know the Revolution HD which is my first root/custom firmware. Is there somewhere an overview with all the pro's and cons of the different firmwares?

raul602 said:
So im looking at the dev section of the sensation and there are just so many freaking roms out there it's crazy LOL
I started with P3d for a bit, and now just flashed the android revolution 3.5, but man oh man, there is just so much out there i really don't have a clue where to start, i just want a stable rom that gives me the best battery life that has everything working........ P3d did it but now im really leaning towards CM7 which i ran on the evo for like ever.
anyone else feel overwhelmed? and trust me im not complaining
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Mike announced that there should be ARHD 3.6.0 today... Android Revolution is really great room in term of battery and performance, waiting on update to 3.6.0

Sent from my HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio Z715e using Tapatalk

cant await the runnymede sense 3.5 port

Coredroid FTW!!! Its very well put together and skinned so cleanly and elegantly and runs smooth as silk

I'm running Android revolution, as it is the only ROM I've tried. Battery life seems not much different than stock, if not worse to me.

First you have to choose between a sense rom or a no-sense rom.
I'm using CM and it's already super stable but if you prefer having sense than you have to go somewhere else

CM7 or something with sense... like stock.

wontoniii said:
First you have to choose between a sense rom or a no-sense rom.
I'm using CM and it's already super stable but if you prefer having sense than you have to go somewhere else
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Android Revolution HD is also very stable. On stock rom, Sense would restart on me atleast 3 times a day. With ARHD, Sense has not once yet restarted on me. Granted I've been running ARHD for about 2 days now, but this time span still shows very much improvement over stock rom.

I can only comment on what I have used which was LeedDroids rom at first for a couple of weeks then I tried Bulletproof. BP is so much quicker and had alot less stuff (able to remove stock apps with bloater too) that I didn't use with many more unique tweaks that were useful for me. Romanbb has made a fantastic rom, its well worth a try.

till now i only used the revolution rom , which was my first ever room on my sensation.
i can say that i feel some kind of difference in the speed but not in battery life.
im looking for a better rom now , as i look for a sense interface.

+1 Bulletproof - Tweaks did it for me

Android revolution hd is the best right now!!!!

My concern: Which are Sence ROMs and which are no-sense ROMs

ali_plus said:
My concern: Which are Sence ROMs and which are no-sense ROMs
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"Sense Rooms" mean that you still got your experience with Sense 3.0 on these Rooms.
"No-Sense Rooms": Rooms without Sense UI, just like stock Android UI

CM7 or InsertCoin?

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.
Sent from my Sensation using xda premium

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
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e

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!

stanleynhan said:
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.
Sent from my Sensation using xda premium

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.
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using xda premium

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.
私の"DU4L C0R3 SH00T3Rは"³Dであなたを撃墜！トゥパックをねじ込みます 。
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I'd choose CM7 because I'm used to it.

r0cky0790 said:
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.
私の"DU4L C0R3 SH00T3Rは"³Dであなたを撃墜！トゥパックをねじ込みます 。
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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

What Rom should I use? What's the hands down general best?

I am currently using Cyanogen Mod 7 and realizing that I don't like it @ all. The camera is pretty much ****. And it cuts out sound a lot. And I'm kinda feining to go back to sense. So i wanna know if there are any good and worthy Sense 3.5 2.3.5 roms or a 100% AOSP rom, Fast, battery efficient, themed would be nice, over clocked, and all the other goodies.
Sent from my Sensation using XDA App

Have you tried revolution?
Sent from my HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio using Tapatalk

to all your own, but i do like the revolution HD 4.1. I like that i can finally delete home pages within sense 3.5

Completely subjective, I like my ROM as it does what I want it to
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using xda premium

djjuice said:
to all your own, but i do like the revolution HD 4.1. I like that i can finally delete home pages within sense 3.5
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Me, too. But I'm finding 4.1.3 a bit laggy. Wondering if Insertcoin would be better, and I'm trying to find out what the differences are, but info seems scarce. The advice seems to be: "test it and see for yourself".

like eddyOS said, its subjective.
you need to try out the different roms to find what you like.
i tried practically all the roms, almost all gave me this same problem (mobile internet not working and bad signals) until i found a few and went on trying and testing it and got the one that suits me.

What works for me may not work for you.... and besides, though we have same phone, our experience with the ROMs here is unique with each other...
if you ask me, my bet would be Baad (IC), Mike (ARHD), and Ctdroid's work (no offense to other devs) .... Reason? i dont have problems migrating back and forth with those ROM's + great support from the respective teams... If you want SENSEless, check Melvin and Xboarder56's work...

rawr4dj said:
I am currently using Cyanogen Mod 7 and realizing that I don't like it @ all. The camera is pretty much ****. And it cuts out sound a lot. And I'm kinda feining to go back to sense. So i wanna know if there are any good and worthy Sense 3.5 2.3.5 roms or a 100% AOSP rom, Fast, battery efficient, themed would be nice, over clocked, and all the other goodies.
Sent from my Sensation using XDA App
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Stock rooted sense 3.5. See EddyOS's rom in development section.

i am using InsertCoin now ... fast and smooth so far ( juz flashed 2 hrs ago ).
The HTC amaze cam is wicked !
i can feel that it is smoother than my previous bulletproof ( althou it comes with a good tweak option ).

Sense is ****. Try MIUI camera if you don't like the CM7 one. You should stick with CM7 rom though, it's the best.

sergeybrin said:
Sense is ****. Try MIUI camera if you don't like the CM7 one. You should stick with CM7 rom though, it's the best.
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It's this narrow-mindedness the OP should be ignoring. Just because YOU think it's the best doesn't mean it is

EddyOS said:
It's this narrow-mindedness the OP should be ignoring. Just because YOU think it's the best doesn't mean it is
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And because YOU think stock android is "****ty and boring" as quoted in another post of yours, that means it is? Pot calling the kettle black bro.

No, just cause I call it **** doesn't mean I'm right. I've never said I am. BUT I'm saying you're wrong to call a ROM 'the best' as there's no such thing. The 'best' ROM is whatever the user thinks it is.
I use MY own ROM the I'VE cooked as, for me, it's the best as it doesn't EXACTLY what I want it to.
All I'm trying to get across is the OP is going to have to try different ROMs and make up their own mind. I'd say that it's worth trying CM7 but I cannot live without the Sense widgets and the general smoothness of Sense. CM7 just isn't as nice in MY eyes, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder
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Also meant to add, once CM7 is out of alpha/beta I'll probably give it a go again and see if it's better than last time I used it. I'm quite looking forward to a proper, official MIUI release as I quite like that

CM7 should be good once it actually comes out of Alpha...I hope. Loved it on my N1. Still having problems though...but it is alpha.

rawr4dj said:
I am currently using Cyanogen Mod 7 and realizing that I don't like it @ all. The camera is pretty much ****. And it cuts out sound a lot. And I'm kinda feining to go back to sense. So i wanna know if there are any good and worthy Sense 3.5 2.3.5 roms or a 100% AOSP rom, Fast, battery efficient, themed would be nice, over clocked, and all the other goodies.
Sent from my Sensation using XDA App
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Ive been flashing since the first roms were around on the G1. I like to check out every rom offered for my phone and as of now im back on sense (just like the widgets). But like anyone will tell you there is no "best" updates from all our great devs come out daily.
After testing a lot (if not all) roms on sensation, I found Synergy's latest r85 to be top dawg at the moment. Heres my setup, no problems at all so far its fast, stable, and battery life is great
Flashed in this order:
Rom: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1193089
Kernel (flashed recommended 1.2 and then cam fix right after): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1256668
Im on 10.14 radio cause it seems to give me best data/batter life, its also what synergy devs are using.
lemme kno what you think

u have to find it out by your own..
but i really recommend S3N5EaY v1.6.0 - 2.3.5 / 3.5 sense..
i know CM7 - revolution hd and some others.. have to flash my phone 2128238 times a week lol ..
S3N5EaY is fully stable, fast and sensational of battery.
let me know what u thinkin about it

Well if cm7 alpha isn't floating your boat that's understandable. It isn't fully released yet anyway right? But if you want a fully operational sense rom that feels like a cm/aosp then you should try the beastrom-sv4. Everything works and it's light and snappy. Not as snappy as cm7Alpha 8 but then again it's sense base 2.3.5 now I believe. Just don't install the themes for it as they are not updated to the new base (still set for the 2.3.4).

Although I'm a fairly devoted Cyanogenmod user, I have to admit the Sense 3.5 based roms are quite snappy. Still not quite as snappy as Cyanogenmod but certainly an improvement over Sense 3.0.
I don't think there is a hang of a lot of difference between the roms though. Inspite of claims made by some that xyz ROM is the fastest, has the best battery life, or whatever I've never noticed a difference apart from the odd tweak here and there. These days if one dev comes up with something really cool it ends up in all the other roms within a week anyway. Each ROM does have it's own distinct favour though depending on who cooked it.
Sent from my Sensation using Cyanogenmod

Android Revolution HD 3.6.2 XE
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1098849
Wicked fast, extremely stable and lots of friendly support.

I am on InsertCoin at the moment, it is a great ROM. More or less stock, but with reasonable featers as Amaze camera.
LeeeDroid is also great, but it is a bit out of date, I hope Lee upgrades soon when he is back.