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[Q] Are custom ROMS worth the try for milestone xt720?

Are custom roms worth it if I already have quite a lot of internal memory (~90mb) becos of link2sd and 1ghz processer becos of milestone overclock?? Do custom ROMs provide more advantages than the ones stated above? Any help would be appreciated!!

Are you on a stock Android 2.2 ROM?
If yes, then you can stay on. There are some tweaks on custom ROMs but nothing much that you would miss.
If no, then its a no brainer. Just move on to a custom 2.2 ROM without any delay. The XT720 will be like a new phone for you in all respects be it performance or usability.
Cheers

sahakar said:
Are you on a stock Android 2.2 ROM?
If yes, then you can stay on. There are some tweaks on custom ROMs but nothing much that you would miss.
If no, then its a no brainer. Just move on to a custom 2.2 ROM without any delay. The XT720 will be like a new phone for you in all respects be it performance or usability.
Cheers
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No im just on the stock 2.1. Performance and stability wise it is better if I move to dexter's 2.2 rom?? but i already have a 1ghz processor and loads of internal space free. what other advantages do the custom roms provide?

I have found that my battery life as well as the overall performace of my phone have improved since updating to Dexter's Froyo v1.3. Before my phone was crashing and restarting for no reason running Eclair now it is running as it should. Thanks Dexter, XDA and all other developers for all that you do.

So you think Dexter v1.3 is the best one?Im on steelepic and have few probs,the phone reboots itself,it gets slow itself,batterie trayns faster.......

txwho said:
I have found that my battery life as well as the overall performace of my phone have improved since updating to Dexter's Froyo v1.3. Before my phone was crashing and restarting for no reason running Eclair now it is running as it should. Thanks Dexter, XDA and all other developers for all that you do.
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hmmmm maybe i should try..... heard that quadrant score was much higher in 2.2 than stock 2.1...... although my phone has not crashed/rebooted/restarted by itself for a very very very very long time (if im not wrong last time was in feburary)

androidlover123 said:
hmmmm maybe i should try..... heard that quadrant score was much higher in 2.2 than stock 2.1...... although my phone has not crashed/rebooted/restarted by itself for a very very very very long time (if im not wrong last time was in feburary)
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Ok now i am having problems wth stability and performance. Anyone can help me? refer to my post here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1112327

[Q] What ROM to choose?

So i've been looking at all the XT720 ROMs that are available now, and it's got me wondering which rom is the best? They all seem to be very similar.

lynxz3 said:
So i've been looking at all the XT720 ROMs that are available now, and it's got me wondering which rom is the best? They all seem to be very similar.
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It depends on what you are looking for, ill break it down for you.
Everything started with dexters froyo 1.3. Excellent breakthrough for all XT720 users so most of us started out with this ROM. Over time the excellent devs like khal powers, fjfalcon and Mioz7ae, worked on the same dexters froyo to create basically 3 ROMS.
1) Khalpowers Epic Steel V4, heavily optimized, fast stable, swap support and non stock appearance.
2) Fjfalcon, took the stock dexters and created RusMod 1.19 which is dexters with stock appearance and all the optimizations. He recently changed the kernel to the one from CB's Froyo, and also added build prop changes from there. It has multilanuguage support. He also created the SWAP kernel which can be applied to all the said ROMS, but needs a fastboot via USB everytime your phone reboots.
3) Khalpowers, ported MIUI which is a whole new experience. Depends on how much you like MIUI. Like epicsteel its very fast and stable.
4) Cincinnati Bell Froyo, built by CB using the same process as dexter. Much more stable than dexters.
5) WanHU's rom based on the original korean 2.2 is what most people are looking into right now. Stock 2.1 appearance. Very fast, media buttons working, radio working, TV out working, and with haptic feedback. This is the closest well get to an offical MOTO release.
If you want to go with a stock froyo appearance I suggest try either CB, or RUS mod. If you want different appearance try MIUI, or epicsteel. If you want the latest and most promising ROM which is just a treat to use go for WanHU. Personally id tell you flash WanHU, been using it nowadays and I have to say its pretty cool.

[Q] Performance tweaks?

I realize galaxy 3 isn't exactly the top phone for performance but god damn the lag just melts my face off.
Phone starts ringing, screen lights up but remains black for up to 10 seconds before I can answer, menus lag like a mofo and overall it's a pain to use. Is there anything I can do?
I'm on non-oc Kyrillos' rom v7 atm.

why not try other rom or an updated version of Kyrillos?
.. Kyrillos 8.1 is out.. try that
you are on 7 na so.. try other custom ROM's for better performance..
this might solve your problem

Anything in particular you'd recommend emphasis on the performance?

chronixlol said:
Anything in particular you'd recommend emphasis on the performance?
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CyanogenMod 6.2 is blazing but now i prefer CyanogenMod 7. Both are in alpha stage though and have a lot to fix.

chronixlol said:
Anything in particular you'd recommend emphasis on the performance?
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If you want a stable fast rom that is fully working, I recommend either Kyrillos v8 or Dutchmod v4.1
For a super fast rom i prefer indroid 5.2 (version 6 seems to be a bit slowwer and some FC once an a while so )

i used to use kyrrilos rom but once i tried kyorarom, i found it to be much better(both fast and stable)

chronixlol said:
Anything in particular you'd recommend emphasis on the performance?
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Most of the ROMs mentioned above are very good.
Cynogen 7 and 6.2 are still in WIP phase, so I would suggest you not to use it if you want to use it for daily purpose at this point in time, once completed, they would be the best thing around without a doubt.
At this point in time you may try DutchMod 4.1 or Kyrillos 8.1 or Indroid's latest with the G3Mod or fugu Kernel. Partition your card properly, convert partition properly, use SetCPU and set profiles properly. This should ensure you get good performance out of your phone.

Thanks for the replies altho I already flashed Kyorarom yesterday and so far it's been smoother than ever.

[Q] I can't find a good ROM/Kernel

Hello everyone! This is my first post but I am a long timeme user of the forums.
So normally I am pretty good with this stuff as I understand a lot about this but I simply can't find a good rom and kernel that is also ICS. Currently I have BrainMasters MIUI 2.3.7 ROM, with the MIUI Trinity kernel.
I tried a few ICS ROMs and I love ICS but all the roms have some sort of problem. Ultimate ICS 2 had constant lock ups on me and my phone doesn't take kindly to over clocking. At all. Cyanogen Mod alpha 18 works okay but it gets very slow once all my apps are on it and it barely multitasks. Apps seem to close whenever left making multi tasking useless. Another one I tried was one that was super charged but the problem here was all super charged ones have done is close the app if left for a few seconds again making multitasking void.
Currently this ROM works no problem but I want to very badly move to ICS goodness. Also if some one can help my phone over clock better that would be nice. Am I doing anything wrong?
Thanks, cheers.

Okay. Here are a few roma you have to try.
1) peter alfonso's ICS rom (download at download.peteralfonso.com then in the crespo section)
2) AndroidME rom v1.1 is in development section here on xda.
3) CM9 kangs. (Download from
http://fitsnugly.euroskank.com/skankwich/crespo/ and use the latest g-apps from cm9 alfa18)
That are the roms i like the most. The peteralfonso rom is bugless.
But now im on androidME v1.1 with eugene's speedy-2 kernel. Speed, battery life and stability. Just what I need
Hope this helps..
Sent from my Nexus S using xda premium

Peter Alfonso's ROM (check general section) is good. Used it for two weeks without any hitch until i decided to explore other options. Currently on AOSP+ Neapolitan ICS 2.0.3 with no major complaints.
If you want other kernels, matrix and Glados have treated me well so far. I always OC to 200/1200 and have enough battery life for every day.

Even the stock ROM seems to have problems (for me the main issue is that battery is definitely worse than on GingerBread), maybe we should wait for a while to let things settle down.

Check Neapolitan ROM by androiduser
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1397358
real stable and fast ROM, maybe with eugene's kernel or GladOs 2.6

Pixel's stock rom with the Simply kernel were rock solid for me. I'm now trying Eugene's kernel with Pixels rom, and that also appears to be working very well!

thegtfusion said:
Okay. Here are a few roma you have to try.
1) peter alfonso's ICS rom (download at download.peteralfonso.com then in the crespo section)
2) AndroidME rom v1.1 is in development section here on xda.
3) CM9 kangs. (Download from
http://fitsnugly.euroskank.com/skankwich/crespo/ and use the latest g-apps from cm9 alfa18)
That are the roms i like the most. The peteralfonso rom is bugless.
But now im on androidME v1.1 with eugene's speedy-2 kernel. Speed, battery life and stability. Just what I need
Hope this helps..
Sent from my Nexus S using xda premium
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Is it possible you can tell me what kang ROMs are? I was curious about that. Also, I will give those guys a shot Thanks for that!
Cheers!

cdpango said:
Even the stock ROM seems to have problems (for me the main issue is that battery is definitely worse than on GingerBread), maybe we should wait for a while to let things settle down.
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That's what I first thought, I kept telling myself, okay so I am gonna wait til these are out of Beta and maybe wait for Cyanogen 9, but then I realized wait a sec this is STOCK Android?
I hope people work out the kinks in ICS for Nexus S soon cause it looks like a master piece

layar said:
Check Neapolitan ROM by androiduser
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1397358
real stable and fast ROM, maybe with eugene's kernel or GladOs 2.6
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Thanks I am very sceptical when it comes to choosing this stuff. I browse around and think yeaah what's so special. I feel I can more so trust the feedback they get
Thanks man

nexus beam 4.1.0 with glados 2.6cfs works the best for me .. good battery life very stable no reboots been a week almost

My First Rooted Phone !! YMMV :)

I only rooted my phone a couple of weeks ago (waited until my guarantee expired) then after getting totally fed up of the HTC stock experience I flashed ROMS in the following order
1. Lowveld's Reaper v3 -
Stable and OK speed, based on CM7 (I did not understand the OverClock stuff at that time) but I prefer HTC Sense
2. Lowveld's Fallout Evolution v4.4 -
Nice with HTC Sense but not quicker than stock for me
3. Nik's Project X - Very fast, beautiful eye candy but 2 critical (for me) bugs
dialer delays so much so that at times I literally had to wait 1 minute before the number I dialled would work
Camcorder no sound
4. Eclipse_Droid's ICE Eclipse v2 -
Very fast but I missed some of the tweaks and eye candy I had in Project X
5. Ronks888's ICE DS v 4.4 - As fast as the above with extra status bar and eye candy tweaks (similar to Project X) and Overclocked Kernel 3 !! !!
Hope this was useful

so in ur opinion "Ronks888's ICE DS v 4.4" is the best Custom ROM for the HTC Desire S atm?

Nachhaltige said:
so in ur opinion "Ronks888's ICE DS v 4.4" is the best Custom ROM for the HTC Desire S atm?
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In my opinion ICE DS v4.4 is stable and fast with enough features to be getting on with as your day to day use phone. Fallout is just as stable for example but "I" did not find it as quick as the others.
There are other ROMs with even more features but I found this ROM has a nice balance. If Nik's ROM didn't have the dialer and camcorder problems I would still be using his!

i think the best is yet to come, now that we have the official ICS. ICE DS would probably change it's base to it because it still depends on incredible s' base which is the reason for few bugs.

toxic-hero said:
i think the best is yet to come, now that we have the official ICS. ICE DS would probably change it's base to it because it still depends on incredible s' base which is the reason for few bugs.
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We will see. For example Nik's new Transformer ROM will be decent. The only question is will you be able to use it as a day to day ROM or just a show ROM. I personally need a day to day ROM.

cdx47 said:
I only rooted my phone a couple of weeks ago (waited until my guarantee expired) then after getting totally fed up of the HTC stock experience I flashed ROMS in the following order
1. Lowveld's Reaper v3 -
Stable and OK speed, based on CM7 (I did not understand the OverClock stuff at that time) but I prefer HTC Sense
2. Lowveld's Fallout Evolution v4.4 -
Nice with HTC Sense but not quicker than stock for me
3. Nik's Project X - Very fast, beautiful eye candy but 2 critical (for me) bugs
dialer delays so much so that at times I literally had to wait 1 minute before the number I dialled would work
Camcorder no sound
4. Eclipse_Droid's ICE Eclipse v2 -
Very fast but I missed some of the tweaks and eye candy I had in Project X
5. Ronks888's ICE DS v 4.4 - As fast as the above with extra status bar and eye candy tweaks (similar to Project X) and Overclocked Kernel 3 !! !!
Hope this was useful
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6. MIUI- fast and pretty but took a couple of reboots before working properly then my alarm program simply would not work with it
7. Ronks888 ICE DSv 4.4 with stock Kernel. I had issues with the sweep2wipe which I think was killing my batttery?

Smooth Rosie MOD for Desire S
cdx47 said:
6. MIUI- fast and pretty but took a couple of reboots before working properly then my alarm program simply would not work with it
7. Ronks888 ICE DSv 4.4 with stock Kernel. I had issues with the sweep2wipe which I think was killing my batttery?
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8. Ronks888 ICE DS v5.0 with Kernel 3, sweep2wipe disabled, flashed Smooth Rosie mods for Desire S by hamdir

cdx47 said:
8. Ronks888 ICE DS v5.0 with Kernel 3, sweep2wipe disabled, flashed Smooth Rosie mods for Desire S by hamdir
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9. Fallout Evolution v5 by Low. Very nice ROM from the master but just like with MIUI I have too many issues like apps not working and tweaks going missing. Also with default settings it is still not as quick and smooth as ICE-DS. YMMV.
10 See 8.

have you tried blindndumb's BlindICE? i used to have it and would like to know how other ICS roms compare to it, especially in terms of smoothness. that was the only bad thing i found about it.
i'm now using jellytime but it's not completely stable and i don't know if i can accept going back to less smooth versions.

I'm still using my first custom rom Fallout Evolution v5 and its very stable and usable which is very important for me.
I've not plucked up the courage to try another rom yet but I have made a nandroid back up ready for when I take the plunge
I'm still trying to decide if I need to flash a re-engineered hboot 2.00 as I used revolutionary to gain s-off.(6.98) It wasn't a requirement for my current rom as the developer fixed it, I need to read up a bit more I think.

Ragey said:
I'm still using my first custom rom Fallout Evolution v5 and its very stable and usable which is very important for me.
I've not plucked up the courage to try another rom yet but I have made a nandroid back up ready for when I take the plunge
I'm still trying to decide if I need to flash a re-engineered hboot 2.00 as I used revolutionary to gain s-off.(6.98) It wasn't a requirement for my current rom as the developer fixed it, I need to read up a bit more I think.
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Depends on the ROM. I think I needed to do upgrade my hboot to 7.0 when I installed MIUI (cant remember now, so many roms).
But the nice thing about Nandroid is that it makes it all so easy.
1.Set up the rom how you like it
2.Use it for a day or two to make sure everything is ok
3.Back up the rom using 4EXT or ROM Manager booting to Recovery mode (Nandroid)
3a. You may also use a separate back up program like my backup root to back up the apps and their data so that you can import them into the new ROM later.
4. READ THE INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE NEW ROM AS GIVEN BY THE DEV
5.Do a full wipe (except SD card)
6.Install new ROM
7.Have fun

cdx47 said:
8. Ronks888 ICE DS v5.0 with Kernel 3, sweep2wipe disabled, flashed Smooth Rosie mods for Desire S by hamdir
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Hey man, how did you disable your sweep2wipe? I've read a few guides but it just can't seem to save even after it saves. Thanks! Same ROM as you btw.

wz10 said:
Hey man, how did you disable your sweep2wipe? I've read a few guides but it just can't seem to save even after it saves. Thanks! Same ROM as you btw.
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Edit the script 50-sweep2wake which is in /system/etc/init.d/and set 1 to 0.

cdx47 said:
Edit the script 50-sweep2wake which is in /system/etc/init.d/and set 1 to 0.
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I've done that. But it doesn't seem to save even after. I'm using es file explorer
if that matters

reset the phone after that.

wz10 said:
I'the done that. But it doesn't seem to save even after. I'm using es file explorer
if that matters
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I also manually edited the android_touch file. This should not make any difference but it worked for me?!?

cdx47 said:
I also manually edited the android_touch file. This should not make any difference but it worked for me?!?
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It will work until reboot. That is the point of init.d scripts - to load the change again. Try to update the busybox to make them work
Sent from my HTC Desire S

amidabuddha said:
It but l work until reboot.still is the point of init.d scripts - to load the change again. Try to update the busybox to make them work
Sent from my HTC Desire S
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Hi again
I know the theory but I have rebooted on many occasions and sweep2wake is still disabled.?!?

I always support ICE DS \m/ . but after battery and heat leak on ICE DS 5.0 , i tried latest fallout 5.0. For now, it's working like a charm. no battery leak.

cdx47 said:
Hi again
I know the theory but I have rebooted on many occasions and sweep2wake is still disabled.?!?
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So init.d scripts work for you, but apparently not for the other guy