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[Q] Help choosing ICS ROM for Skyrocket

Hello all,
Wondering if you guys can help me decide whether to flash an ICS ROM or not?
I have my Skyrocket tweaked and set up perfectly. It contains...
Version: 2.3.5 (refuse to upgrade to 2.3.6 due to many issues I see some are having)
Kernel: 2.6.35.11+ (excellent "stock-ish" ROM from romracer)
Launcher: Go Launcher EX
Phone is rooted and like to use CWM.
With that said, I'm wondering what is the best option to try? My main concern is obviously performance and battery life. I have spectacular battery life right now and don't want to lose it by flashing an ICS ROM.
Perhaps something that will work with the romracer kernel? For example, something that would still allow me to use CWM and MUST also support boot animations and BLN support. That is a must for me, as I use it to tweak my battery life quite a bit.
Anyways,
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
--mike

No ics for you, then.
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None have fun with gb
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If you decide that you can live without the BLN and overclocking then make a nandroid and give smooth ice a try, skyics is also good I hear.
I've tried smooth ice for like a month almost and it is really stable and the battery was good too.
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If you do not have the heart for glitches, ICS may not serve you well. There is no real benefit that I can see unless you are a hardcore phone tweaker. I am always debating whether to just go back to stock GB myself !!!
BUT if you really have the itch, the safest is mhx's full bloat stock. I used that for a long time, and it is very - relatively- stable.
here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1570498&highlight=full+bloat
My 4 cents....

Close eyes. Now say eni mini miny Moe! Just flash them all. U could use the experience and see everyone's roms instead of asking.... hrllo
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you gotta wait till kernel source is released before you'll have bln and oc but maybe try smooth ice if you want touchwiz but id try cm7 if you haven't or cm9 its all alpha buy lots have used it as a daily driver... I just hate touchwiz
CM9 Skyrocket

Thanks...
Thank you all for the feedback.
This is what I though! lol
I will stick with GB for now. I get amazing battery life, is extremely stable and love all the extra features after tweaking.
Was just curious....
Thanks again,
--mike

Battery Life & Stability
Thanks to the OP for this thread. I'm in a similar boat, but am just looking for the most stable custom ROM with the longest battery life. Coming from rooted Gingerbread, I've setup my ICS exactly the same (debloated and lean), and my time between charges was cut by 1/3 at least.
From my limited research, the CM9 Beta 1 ROM sounds to have excellent battery life and great stability. However, I'm open to suggestions! One question I have though, is I keep hearing folks talk about "nightlies". That that mean it requires nightly updating? Thanks in advance.

I've been using PTSD's AOKP ICS ROM and I love it. I've mixed that with InstigatorX's Kernel and my battery life is amazing. I'm an Android noob, but I'm digging this setup.

pls4ms said:
Thanks to the OP for this thread. I'm in a similar boat, but am just looking for the most stable custom ROM with the longest battery life. Coming from rooted Gingerbread, I've setup my ICS exactly the same (debloated and lean), and my time between charges was cut by 1/3 at least.
From my limited research, the CM9 Beta 1 ROM sounds to have excellent battery life and great stability. However, I'm open to suggestions! One question I have though, is I keep hearing folks talk about "nightlies". That that mean it requires nightly updating? Thanks in advance.
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the word nightly means that it's scheduled to auto build a new version with any fixes made during the day... It wont auto update your Rom though you have to manually install it
It is a very easy process though. you download the new nightly and reboot to recovery: wipe system and wipe cache then install, wipe dalvik and fix permissions and reboot if you installed any mods like inverted apps or gps fix or dpi changes they need to also be addresses after the first boot
Because i don't like setting it up all the time i just install the new nightly weekly
CM9 Skyrocket

I actually *just* restored to Gingerbread today, after months of using Cyanogenmod 9's official and nightly releases, as well as the InstigatorX kernels.
My battery life was okay, but for all the extra bells and whistles, they seem to get the basics wrong, unfortunately :/ I still couldn't send texts larger than 160 characters without splitting them up, and they'd always arrive out of order, or not at all. Other apps wouldn't behave properly either, and my mobile network connection seemed to change/drop just from looking at it.
So CM9 looked promising, but still has a ways to go, and it's rated as one of the better ROMs for this phone. I didn't even want to try CM10, because their bug list is still bigger than CM9.
Can I ask where you got your romracer kernel? I'll have to give that a try. Also I'm looking to replace the current radio with something better.
I had to rebuild from scratch because somehow my gingerbread backup was corrupted. I used Bonestocketeer's ROM ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1357274 ) and the only issue I've had with it is I can't change the LTE/HSPA/GSM setting in Mobile Networks to just HSPA/GSM. I was able to with my original ROM, and that seemed to help battery life.
Thanks again for your post!

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At least tell him why. You report hounds are all the same.
To OP, james has reported you because the title and nature of this thread suggests asking which rom is the best, which is prohibited in this forum because "which x is best" threads can usually promote flaming and whatnot. It's like asking who likes the Yankees, and then fans of other teams riot about how their team is the best.
This comes as a surprise as I see you've been a member for a while. Assuming that other forums have similar rules to the SR forum.
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sly-tendencies said:
At least tell him why. You report hounds are all the same.
To OP, james has reported you because the title and nature of this thread suggests asking which rom is the best, which is prohibited in this forum because "which x is best" threads can usually promote flaming and whatnot. It's like asking who likes the Yankees, and then fans of other teams riot about how their team is the best.
This comes as a surprise as I see you've been a member for a while. Assuming that other forums have similar rules to the SR forum.
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He's actually doing it to probably get me in trouble bro I doubt he reported it he's trying to make a point and failing he's done this in half the recent threads here
feeling the skyrocket xperiance

pookieguy said:
With that said, I'm wondering what is the best option to try? My main concern is obviously performance and battery life. I have spectacular battery life right now and don't want to lose it by flashing an ICS ROM.
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My recommendation would be NexusMod, then. It features the proprietary performance tweaks available in the TouchWiz ROMs, so it's faster than Cyanogenmod, but it has a lot of theming that makes it look and feel closer to AOSP. There are still some ugly elements of TouchWiz that exist, but it's a big improvement over a lot of the other TouchWiz-based ROMs.
For sure, CM9 has more features and tweaking options, and a more consistent AOSP look to it, but it's slower than NexusMod and still has some very minor bugs. It does, perhaps, offer you a few more options in how to save battery, though.
I have to say, though ICS is a massive improvement over GB and we have stable, mature ICS ROMs available. I would strongly advise upgrading, but if you're concerned about bugs, stick with a light TW-based rom like NexusMod.

Illnevertell said:
He's actually doing it to probably get me in trouble bro I doubt he reported it he's trying to make a point and failing he's done this in half the recent threads here
feeling the skyrocket xperiance
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Yeah I see he did the same in a post about a Motorola screen. As much as I don't like your attitude I will admit you report where it's appropriate
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[Q] 2.20 or 2.23, Aroma and Sense 4.1

Looking for some expert answers and opinions.
2.20 Stock Rooted or 2.23 Custom Rom? Im currently running 1.85 Stock root Deodex and have no need for mods at this time. Looking for Daily Driver Reliability and no Themes or dual Process scripts.
What is Aroma Installer?
Is the current port of Sense 4.1 stable?
Please keep the replies on Topic. I am at an impass now with the upgrade RUU Screen bugging me every 20 minutes.

I'm on CleanROM 4.5 and can personally vouch for its stability and all around badassery. It's a 2.23 ROM, super stable, super smooth, definitely a daily driver without question. I think the vast majority of us here run CleanROM and for good reason.
Aroma Installer is just a neat interface for installing various mods and tweaks to your ROM through recovery. It's pretty nifty.

_MetalHead_ said:
I'm on CleanROM 4.5 and can personally vouch for its stability and all around badassery. It's a 2.23 ROM, super stable, super smooth, definitely a daily driver without question. I think the vast majority of us here run CleanROM and for good reason.
Aroma Installer is just a neat interface for installing various mods and tweaks to your ROM through recovery. It's pretty nifty.
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Are you running it in the US? I'm curious about the modem reliability and battery life as well. I guess I will go check out the ROM thread. Never really liked custom ROMs on my Sensation due to all the little hiccups with ICS. But since these are technically stock RUU's I guess ill go out on a limb. Nandroid and hold my breath.

hurleyint2000 said:
Are you running it in the US? I'm curious about the modem reliability and battery life as well. I guess I will go check out the ROM thread. Never really liked custom ROMs on my Sensation due to all the little hiccups with ICS. But since these are technically stock RUU's I guess ill go out on a limb. Nandroid and hold my breath.
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Yeah I'm in the US. CleanROM has been rock solid for me since the very beginning and the latest one is no different. It is very close to stock, no themes or anything unnecessary like that. Just a couple useful mods (EQS) and some behind the scenes tweaks that makes it far superior to the stock experience. I have not had a single random reboot, my battery life rocks, and data speeds are as fast as ever with the latest radio. There's nary a hiccup with CleanROM. I'd put it on my grandmother's phone if she had a One X.

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. I'd put it on my grandmother's phone if she had a One X.
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That's one badass granny you've got there

Synergy vs cleanrom

So I have been on cleanrom and cleankernel for a few weeks now and I am extremely happy.
Some of you would say why change then? Well since the very beginning I've been curious about synergy.
For you guys that have been on both, how do they compare? In stability, fc, battery life, etc?
Thanks for you feedback.
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Haven't tried cleanrom but Synergy has been good to me for the past few weeks. I am using R73 with lean kernel .9 and battery has been as good as stock. I also like having Google Now on ICS. Not sure if Cleanrom has that cooked in?

[email protected] said:
Haven't tried cleanrom but Synergy has been good to me for the past few weeks. I am using R73 with lean kernel .9 and battery has been as good as stock. I also like having Google Now on ICS. Not sure if Cleanrom has that cooked in?
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No it doesn't, that's one of the reasons I want to try synergy.
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I was on CleanRom with it's kernel for a while, never tried synergy.
I highly recommend cleanrom though. Very stable, very slick. Battery life was good (though I have an extended battery, so that might skew my interpretations).
In my opinion, flip a coin and try one. Use it for a few days, then use titanium backup or do a nandroid then try the other for a few days. simple enough to revert if you've got both TB and nandroid backups.
Sorry that probably isn't the perfect answer for you, but it is *really* easy to revert back to a nandroid backup if you don't mind going through the setup process on the new ROM.

spacepirates said:
I was on CleanRom with it's kernel for a while, never tried synergy.
I highly recommend cleanrom though. Very stable, very slick. Battery life was good (though I have an extended battery, so that might skew my interpretations).
In my opinion, flip a coin and try one. Use it for a few days, then use titanium backup or do a nandroid then try the other for a few days. simple enough to revert if you've got both TB and nandroid backups.
Sorry that probably isn't the perfect answer for you, but it is *really* easy to revert back to a nandroid backup if you don't mind going through the setup process on the new ROM.
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Oh yeah, I have the nanodroid/TB process down to a T, I came from a samsung fascinate phone and I flashed on it every rom there ever was, froyo, gingerbread, ics, asop, apko, miui, cm, you name it.
I just didnt want to waste time on synergy if the rom is clearly inferior to cleanrom. I might just have to give it a try.
Thanks.

Personally I prefer Synergy. Besides including Google Now it seems smoother for me. Battery life is comparable or possibly slightly better. Just backup your ROM and give it a try, I think you'll like it.

I have been on synergy since the beginning. It's awesome and I'm at 1.99 using clean kernel.
I haven't used clean rom only his kernel but have heard great things about the rom too.
synergized and Ikilling

I have used both roms and Synergy seems a little more stable, slightly better battery life, better GPS lock, and Google now. I am on R73.
I have since quit flashing other roms and I have been using Synergy for several weeks now.

I have used both myself & definitely think that CleanROM/kernel is the smoother more stable of the two.

Synergy R73 with trinity 7 kernel, dark horse rises theme - a match made in the heavens. If you want a smoother than stock, stock feel, use cleanrom. If you want the ultimate modified stock ics (touchwiz) use synergy. Personally I think the stable synergy 4.0 rom is far superior to any jb that's available to us currently. And besides, half the fun of rooting is to get rid of "stock".
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great thread, i''ve been tempted to try synergy, but which nightly would people recommend?

R73, the latest 4.0 ics. Jb is still very beta
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I went from Synergy to Cleanrom.. =)
Synergy was the first rom i did. only had it for maybe a day or so, than went with cleanrom. I like the install options that cleanrom gives you. I also installed google now so its no big deal if the rom doesn't have it.

CleanRom 2.5 nuff said.
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I'm on Synergy 73, having went through through the releases then select nightlies but am going to try Cleanrom next. Synergy is stable, and everything just plain works.

cleanrom for me

Synergy offers more features, CleanRom is more stable. To me it's that simple. I like both. A good installation of CleanRom will give you the best benchmarking scores of any setup on the S3. A good version of Synergy has nearly stock levels of stability with tons of added functionality.
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These threads are really pointless. When it comes to roms you have to try them out for yourself. Each rom runs on each phone different. Each person's preferences is different also.
Install each and see what you like best and what works best for you and your phone. Both are great and I've ran both.
synergized and Ikilling

Well I respectfully disagree. Knowing a lot about a product before trying it out is not a waste of time. Maybe one of them has a specific feature that is a "must have" for someone - knowing this in advance eliminates having to flash it to try.
I personally was deciding between the two (and I'm sure I'll try both), but this thread has helped me choose which I will start with. I love comparison threads. It's a forum - why not discuss ROMs?

PsiPhiDan said:
Well I respectfully disagree. Knowing a lot about a product before trying it out is not a waste of time. Maybe one of them has a specific feature that is a "must have" for someone - knowing this in advance eliminates having to flash it to try.
I personally was deciding between the two (and I'm sure I'll try both), but this thread has helped me choose which I will start with. I love comparison threads. It's a forum - why not discuss ROMs?
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You should read each rom thread and look at the features to decide which to try first. Reading what people here tell you doesn't mean you'll share that same experience. This why you should just experiment yourself make a backup and try both and stick with what performs to your standards better.
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Which Jellybean Rom to use?

There seems to be quite a few jelly bean roms right now, and without an official leak, I am sure each one has its ups and downs at this point.
I am coming from synergyrom, and want to give JB a try. Since theres is still "beta" I am not sure I wanna try that right away.
Which is the most stable at this point??

Definitely liquid smooth...I've tried others and always revert back to touch wiz stock based roms, and i despise touch wiz...liquid smooth jb is the best I've flashed
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liquid smooth is awesome for aosp JB, but touchwiz there's not much thats super stable imo

thanks for the input so far!
Please note if there are known issues, that might help make decisions too.
Thanks all!!

I like codename. Super smooth, frickin' fast and barely believable battery life! Some apps don't stream audio over bluetooth and you have to enable a couple of Developer options to address screen flickering, but those are truthfully very minor annoyances you'll be happy to overlook when you get a taste of that ROM.
Seriously, try it. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1900479

I've tried both liquid and codename. They are both very very similar. I can't find cant difference in customization between the two.
Codename ran a little warm for me, not saying liquid runs cool but still.
The reason I jumped to liquid is because in codename (for me anyway) the 160 character MMS bug still persisted, it does not in liquid.
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duarian said:
I've tried both liquid and codename. They are both very very similar. I can't find cant difference in customization between the two.
Codename ran a little warm for me, not saying liquid runs cool but still.
The reason I jumped to liquid is because in codename (for me anyway) the 160 character MMS bug still persisted, it does not in liquid.
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I can respect that. Haven't tried liquid as the CNA ROM got posted around the time I got this phone. I've heard the 160 character error msg is a bit of a red herring, that the msgs actually do get sent but just say they didn't. Was that your experience or did they actually not get sent?

One of the biggest issues with JB roms is if your not in a 4G area then be prepared for some non stop 3G data drops. Also I've noticed weaker signal strength in both service and wifi.
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bc760 said:
One of the biggest issues with JB roms is if your not in a 4G area then be prepared for some non stop 3G data drops. Also I've noticed weaker signal strength in both service and wifi.
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Well said.
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bc760 said:
One of the biggest issues with JB roms is if your not in a 4G area then be prepared for some non stop 3G data drops. Also I've noticed weaker signal strength in both service and wifi.
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There is a fix for this now but just has not made it's way into all AOSP roms yet. There are in most of the newer AOKP builds right now.
The biggest issue still is the low volume when recording video's. This is an issue in all AOSP roms and has not been fixed yet. I know I also read a lot about speakerphone and in call volume problems but not sure to much about the actual issue.
This is why I am still sticking to an ICS TW Rom. I like knowing everything on my device just works.

The only major thing that keeps from moving to CM10, or Liquid Smooth is the lack of USB Audio. I leave my phone on my dock at work and stream Pandora through the dock's usb audio. I've been using SynergyROM for awhile now, and will probably stick with it until the USB Audio issue is fixed.

AOKP's new build has been great for me. No real issues to report yet...been on it since 3 came out a week or so ago?

i haven't been too impressed jb at all tbh.

Well there's two routes you can go to get your JellyBean fix, and that's either AOSP or TouchWiz.
Touchwiz: You've got two choices.
- You could go with Synergy JB 0.2 beta which is based off the AT&T leaked JB touchwiz build. I personally have not ran it so i can't comment on how well it works, but i use synergy as my touchwiz choice of roms, and was never disappointed by there work, so i'm sure the JB build is working great.
- There is also Jellywiz which is made by Incubus, he's been basing his off the latest leaks, and has a few builds out. One of them is a custom build which just has a few theme changes, and a few other things added in/changed. There's a lot of praise in that thread for his rom, the only bug i had when trying it was that i could not get voice and data to work at the same time (phone calls and web browsing at the same time) But that is because its not based off a verizon leak and until then probably will not work.
AOSP: We'll you've got a lot of options, there's a few here on XDA and then some more on Rootzwiki, so i won't be giving detail on all of them, just a few. But they will all generally 'look' the same, by that i mean because they are all based on AOSP source it'll have the same look to it, since source looks the same.
-CM10: Well it's your basic CM that you've grown to love (or hate ) you can expect nightlies, and things to get fixed in a timely matter. If you used CM7 or CM9 on previous devices then you'll know exactly what to expect. Its built directly from source and you can expect it to be speedy quick.
-AOKP: It's built from source as well just like CM10, but has more options in it, and generally more customization as well. If you use it it'll look a lot like CM10, but it'll have added in bonuses
-CodeNameAndroid: Again built from source, but with codename you've got a ton of customization thrown in, there's a lot of stuff from different AOSP options thrown into it. Right now the Navbar doesn't work without flashing a separate file, but that's not a huge problem since its just a little file to flash. I personally am using it right now and its been great to me, can't really complain about it at all
-LiquidSmooth: Built from source, those that have used a liquid rom before will know exactly what to expect. It will be speedy quick and smooth as hell. You'll find plenty of butter in it as well, they've got there own liquidsettings that'll allow you to do even more customization, and i give them major props, i've currently got them going on my old thunderbolt which is my backup phone, but also used them on my OG Droid and i can vouch that they will provide an amazing rom for users
There are more AOSP Roms over on rootzwiki, but its again the same general thing, each AOSP rom comes from source, but each developer will theme/modify/add/remove/customize to there own liking to provide you with what they feel is the best user experience. The biggest difference between the Touchwiz JB roms and AOSP is that with AOSP you'll have a lot more options going and it'll be stock jellybean, no touchwiz nonsense to hold you back. Some people love the touchwiz stuff and that's fine, but some will love having pure jellybean on there phone and being able to take advantage of that. I'll tell you honestly 100% that AOSP will be faster no matter what touchwiz rom you run.
Oh and kernel wise, i fully stand behind imoseyon's lean kernel for AOSP roms, i've always used imoseyon's kernel's and have always gotten amazing battery life on my GS3 and thunderbolt.
Phew i really hope this helps you with any decision you may have
***If i missed any Touchwiz or AOSP roms i do apologize, i don't know them all off the top of my head, so please don't think that just because i left yours out that i meant it in a bad way***

What are the general downsides with using these JB roms weither it be TouchWiz or AOSP. I'm going to take the jump soon but whats fixed or unfixable? I hear some people say screen flicker and no 3G etc.

Neverendingxsin said:
Well there's two routes you can go to get your JellyBean fix, and that's either AOSP or TouchWiz.
Touchwiz: You've got two choices.
- You could go with Synergy JB 0.2 beta which is based off the AT&T leaked JB touchwiz build. I personally have not ran it so i can't comment on how well it works, but i use synergy as my touchwiz choice of roms, and was never disappointed by there work, so i'm sure the JB build is working great.
- There is also Jellywiz which is made by Incubus, he's been basing his off the latest leaks, and has a few builds out. One of them is a custom build which just has a few theme changes, and a few other things added in/changed. There's a lot of praise in that thread for his rom, the only bug i had when trying it was that i could not get voice and data to work at the same time (phone calls and web browsing at the same time) But that is because its not based off a verizon leak and until then probably will not work.
AOSP: We'll you've got a lot of options, there's a few here on XDA and then some more on Rootzwiki, so i won't be giving detail on all of them, just a few. But they will all generally 'look' the same, by that i mean because they are all based on AOSP source it'll have the same look to it, since source looks the same.
-CM10: Well it's your basic CM that you've grown to love (or hate ) you can expect nightlies, and things to get fixed in a timely matter. If you used CM7 or CM9 on previous devices then you'll know exactly what to expect. Its built directly from source and you can expect it to be speedy quick.
-AOKP: It's built from source as well just like CM10, but has more options in it, and generally more customization as well. If you use it it'll look a lot like CM10, but it'll have added in bonuses
-CodeNameAndroid: Again built from source, but with codename you've got a ton of customization thrown in, there's a lot of stuff from different AOSP options thrown into it. Right now the Navbar doesn't work without flashing a separate file, but that's not a huge problem since its just a little file to flash. I personally am using it right now and its been great to me, can't really complain about it at all
-LiquidSmooth: Built from source, those that have used a liquid rom before will know exactly what to expect. It will be speedy quick and smooth as hell. You'll find plenty of butter in it as well, they've got there own liquidsettings that'll allow you to do even more customization, and i give them major props, i've currently got them going on my old thunderbolt which is my backup phone, but also used them on my OG Droid and i can vouch that they will provide an amazing rom for users
There are more AOSP Roms over on rootzwiki, but its again the same general thing, each AOSP rom comes from source, but each developer will theme/modify/add/remove/customize to there own liking to provide you with what they feel is the best user experience. The biggest difference between the Touchwiz JB roms and AOSP is that with AOSP you'll have a lot more options going and it'll be stock jellybean, no touchwiz nonsense to hold you back. Some people love the touchwiz stuff and that's fine, but some will love having pure jellybean on there phone and being able to take advantage of that. I'll tell you honestly 100% that AOSP will be faster no matter what touchwiz rom you run.
Oh and kernel wise, i fully stand behind imoseyon's lean kernel for AOSP roms, i've always used imoseyon's kernel's and have always gotten amazing battery life on my GS3 and thunderbolt.
Phew i really hope this helps you with any decision you may have
***If i missed any Touchwiz or AOSP roms i do apologize, i don't know them all off the top of my head, so please don't think that just because i left yours out that i meant it in a bad way***
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thanks a bunch for the big write-up. I do live in an area that is partly 3g, part 4g, so I am a little concerned about these data drops.. Has this been fixed in the AOSP roms mentioned above?

I would hold out a few more weeks for a touchwiz based rom - I tried Incubus' and got a number of random reboots. Cleanrom 2.5 has been working great!

Currently, all the AOSP roms have the same issues -
- data drops, esp on 3g/4g handoff. There were some recent commits that claim to have fixed this, I'm not sure if it did and which rom's include it
- potential for IMEI loss or brick. Again, you should back up IMEI before any flash, I don't think these issues are present on TW
- TW camera is better. There's an AOSP JB camera mod but hasn't been updated for the newer builds yet
- GPS locks. I keep reading about this in the AOSP rom's, I don't know how common this is.

AndyMan386 said:
thanks a bunch for the big write-up. I do live in an area that is partly 3g, part 4g, so I am a little concerned about these data drops.. Has this been fixed in the AOSP roms mentioned above?
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your welcome. It ended up being a lot longer than I had originally planned. As for data drops, I'm testing a fix right now and I can confirm it works fine
ECrispy said:
Currently, all the AOSP roms have the same issues -
- data drops, esp on 3g/4g handoff. There were some recent commits that claim to have fixed this, I'm not sure if it did and which rom's include it
- potential for IMEI loss or brick. Again, you should back up IMEI before any flash, I don't think these issues are present on TW
- TW camera is better. There's an AOSP JB camera mod but hasn't been updated for the newer builds yet
- GPS locks. I keep reading about this in the AOSP rom's, I don't know how common this is.
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Data drops were indeed fixed
Imei issues can happen when flashing anything from radios to kernels to roms both touchwiz to aosp. It can also easily be restored.
Tw camera only has a few more features, but in terms of quality their both equal to me. Once the aosp mod is updated it'll be even better.
GPS lock is simple, just get a full lock before flashing aosp and then while having it locked boot into recovery and do your thing.

Neverendingxsin said:
your welcome. It ended up being a lot longer than I had originally planned. As for data drops, I'm testing a fix right now and I can confirm it works fine
Data drops were indeed fixed
Imei issues can happen when flashing anything from radios to kernels to roms both touchwiz to aosp. It can also easily be restored.
Tw camera only has a few more features, but in terms of quality their both equal to me. Once the aosp mod is updated it'll be even better.
GPS lock is simple, just get a full lock before flashing aosp and then while having it locked boot into recovery and do your thing.
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link to CM10 data fix?

Best Rom In Your Opinion for Stability

Search is broken for the moment, so I'm going to break protocol and ask a noob question which is not only painfully subjective, but has been asked a million times.
I'm currently running Cyanogen 10, and it has its quirks, like it won't pair with my car, I have to turn BT off, then on to get it to recognize. Small matter of using a toggle widget, but stuff like that.
So, in your opinion, which has the best stability and battery life. That's what I'm looking for. Stability first, then other stuff. Jelly bean or not, etc.OR, the best way to get it back to a rooted original rom.
Thanks!
Steve

Swasser said:
Search is broken for the moment, so I'm going to break protocol and ask a noob question which is not only painfully subjective, but has been asked a million times.
I'm currently running Cyanogen 10, and it has its quirks, like it won't pair with my car, I have to turn BT off, then on to get it to recognize. Small matter of using a toggle widget, but stuff like that.
So, in your opinion, which has the best stability and battery life. That's what I'm looking for. Stability first, then other stuff. Jelly bean or not, etc.OR, the best way to get it back to a rooted original rom.
Thanks!
Steve
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I keep coming back to Synergy 1.7, the last version before it went to nightly updates. Everything works, battery lasts a little longer than stock thanks to some de-bloating. I've tried CleanROM too and the kernel kept overclocking itself to 1.99 Ghz, which kept running my battery down and making my phone overheat. I haven't tried (and don't intend to) CleanROM 2.5, which I think uses the stock Samsung kernel from the most recent OTA update.

Wrong place to post. But to answer your question, most, if not all TouchWiz roms are the best for stability. AOSP roms still have their quirks so if you want stability, choose a TouchWiz rom. I prefer a TouchWiz rom by Scott aka scrosler. But other TouchWiz rom developers such as Team Synergy make very good and stable roms too.

DroidOnRoids said:
Wrong place to post. But to answer your question, most, if not all TouchWiz roms are the best for stability. AOSP roms still have their quirks so if you want stability, choose a TouchWiz rom. I prefer a TouchWiz rom by Scott aka scrosler. But other TouchWiz rom developers such as Team Synergy make very good and stable roms too.
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Agreed, although AOSP is not far off from being right there with Touchwiz far as stability goes! I would say the only thing holding it back is the RIL issues...

I'm currently running CleanRom 2.5, and thus far it has been awesome for stability, speed, and battery life. Highly recommended.
Sent from my SCH-I535 using yet another build

As others said any ICS touchwiz is gonna be the most stable. To get back to rooted stock flash route66 with Odin.
Sent from my Galaxy S3 running Eclipse ROM V2.1

CM10 all day er day.

CleanROM has given me 0 issues and excellent battery life though I'd imagine other Touchwiz based ROMs aren't too far behind.
AOSP ROMS are mostly stable except for RIL. If you live in an area that has fringe coverage or cycles between 3g/4g AOSP isn't for you yet. If you have 4g 100% of the time then there's nothing holding you back.
Oh, and questions go in the Q&A section. Development is for ROM/kernel/utility releases.

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I made a thread like this earlier.
Ended up using AOKP + KT747 and everything seems to work. I haven't tried bluetooth or NFC yet but everything seems fine. The battery isn't the greatest but you should be able to go a day with it and if you have the fast charge enabled then you should be all good. A little underclocking and using smartassv2/sio seems to have made my battery go a little longer and still hella smooth.

I have found. Incubus26jc JellyWiz to be pretty stable. No major problems. I'm running ver 8 (not custom). It's a Jelly Bean hybrid obviously from the name. I can't go back to ICS after using Jelly Bean. I CAN'T, I WON'T!
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markm7 said:
I have found. Incubus26jc JellyWiz to be pretty stable. No major problems. I'm running ver 8 (not custom). It's a Jelly Bean hybrid obviously from the name. I can't go back to ICS after using Jelly Bean. I CAN'T, I WON'T!
Sent from my SCH-I535 using xda app-developers app
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He asked for stability. Meaning everything works with no bugs. Only available on ICS. lol

I've been using beans rom and its awesome. Good features for me and has great battery life with zero issues
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