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Which ICS rom is best???

Looking to get a few opinions from ppl that flash multiple roms to their devices. Looking for something that is stable, not overclocked, and has the least amount of reported issues. Thanks in advance!!

i am currently using insertcoin 4.6.1 and it is very stable and fast also without overclocking it

Android Revolution HD is great, very fast, very stable and I've had no issues so far.

The Android Revolution HD ICS is a really good ROM. I just recently flashed it and love it. It's fast and stable. I performed the benchmark test with the ROM and came up around 2900-3000 compared to the previous 1900s.

I will second Insertcoin. The only issue is the inbuilt WiFi tether being broken, but I believe that is an issue with ALL current ICS roms. Barnacle works wonders.

Flashing Android revolution as we speak.. I thought it was supposed to give an option to select 1.2 or 1.5?

InsertCoin and ARHD are both extremely popular options. My suggestion is to try them both and see which one works best for you. Give each one a few days to get the kinks worked out and always make sure you do a full backup and Super Wipe every time you change ROMs!

seatown1two said:
I thought it was supposed to give an option to select 1.2 or 1.5?
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I had the same thoughts as you when I was using Clockwork Mod to flash roms, it never asked anything about the install. Now, I use Touch Recovery and I have yess/no options when I flash roms now

Its really difficult to find a fully compatible ROM for your phone, as what happen to mine tried the popular one which i got a lot of issues some people not, so I tried other. Every ROM's claiming fast/stable. To be fair you can to try each for yourself which I did and happy with what i have now. Different people have thier own choices depends on what their need. Go out and explore there now 44+ ROMS you can narrow down which is more popular and depends on their feedbacks. Goodluck.

If you would like to try non-sense I recommend miui v4 or either CM9 kang. I've had zero issues with either.
Sent from my Pyramid-T

ENERGY ROM is very stable, fast, and also lightly themed...... overall an extremely smooth ICS ROM...give it a try....you wont regret

blackICE is the best from all aspects
bigpercaso has created a ROM which is the best by performance stability and on top of all the ROM is themed so beauty ................

seatown1two said:
Looking to get a few opinions from ppl that flash multiple roms to their devices. Looking for something that is stable, not overclocked, and has the least amount of reported issues. Thanks in advance!!
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Stock from RUU install. Been running this since latest Ruu was leaked and having no significant problems. Very close to a release candidate!
Make sure you are s-off and super cid before trying!

blackICE4.6
here is the link for the best ICS ROM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1231953
enjoy

Blitz nosense rocks!

seatown1two said:
Flashing Android revolution as we speak.. I thought it was supposed to give an option to select 1.2 or 1.5?
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Yeah, it will ask you but only if you have installed 4Ext recovery instead of clock work mod. In my experience 4Ext is a much more complete recovery.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G with Beats Audio using XDA App

Virtuous Inquisition 3.0 was working perfectly for me for weeks, 3.5 is a little buggy but 3.0 is just brilliant (No Sense ROM)

bobsie41 said:
Stock from RUU install. Been running this since latest Ruu was leaked and having no significant problems. Very close to a release candidate!
Make sure you are s-off and super cid before trying!
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But super cid is not needed.
No issues so far and hotspot works perfectly.

insertcoin rom is the best for me

I've been running Android Revolution HD 5.3 since January. This was my first experience with a non-stock android device as I bought the device configured in that way. I was very happy with it, but couldn't get HTC Sync to transfer my contacts and found it a little laggy, other then that it was great. The best advice I was given to fix my issue was to reload/update the ROM. Mike actually uploaded his latest version 6.4.0 while I was downloading 6.3.1 so I scrapped that and went with 6.4.0 since it was based on the Final HTC RUU 3.32.401.3.
Its only been a day so its not much of a test, but so far its way better and faster then the old ROM even when it was fresh. HTC sync worked flawlessly. the response time is as close to instant as you can get. You need to use 4ext recovery to have the option to use the 1.5Ghz kernel or load the Sony Bravia engine. I chose both options and have seen no issues, only improvements.
Like everyone said its really your taste so try out a few varieties, just remember to superwipe between them else you might find bugs that aren't really an issue with the ROM but because you didn't clear all the old data.
All the best and have fun.

[Q] removing the root and all the mods on a second hand htc desire s

Hi, i bought this phone on second hand and it came with the cianogen mod 9, and its full of bugs , and i need to send and receive mms, one thing i cant do with this rom...
How can i put the phone like it came out of the box? With the oficial htc rom, or a new one that doesnt have bugs and is able to send mms...
I appreciate the help! a link to a tutorial or something like that would be great!

I think your best bet would be installing endymion. A fast and stable custom ROM. If your comfortable with returning your phone to stock then that's fine but since the phone is already rooted it would be easier and probably safer to install a custom ROM
Endymion:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1310845
Sent from my Desire S using Tapatalk 2

sounds like a good idea, that rom is the most stable out there with sense 3.5?
Can you please give me a link for flashing roms on this phone, i did it a long time ago on a galaxy 550 i had but i dont remember most of it... One more thing, will the phone run the 2 roms multibooting like a pc or will the flashing of this rom erase the cyanogen one?
Thanks!

No, the phone will not run 2 ROM's.
If you require a backup of your current ROM, go into recovery & make a nandroid backup of your current ROM.
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You need to erase system , boot, data, cache, dalvik cache partitions before installing a new ROM (Endymion in your case).
Refer the INDEX thread for all your querries regarding Root, Installing new ROM , or Return to stock Guides !

While I haven't been on Sense in a while, I am confident Endymion is the most stable. It's the only Gingerbread ROM managing to stay on top of the development section. The developer has put in a lot of work into this ROM.
For the rest Tapur007 is pretty much correct. All your answers can be found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1146601
Luckily for you the hard part has already been done. All you need to do is boot into recovery, make a backup, wipe and install the ROM.

And to backup things like the apps what do you recommend? Something like titanium backup?

ValdoNunes said:
And to backup things like the apps what do you recommend? Something like titanium backup?
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Titanium Backup is your bet for backup of applications and their data. Although you need to be careful restoring across different ROMs.
You could try the latest ICS ROM called Fallout (what I consider to be the Endymion replacement as its made by the same guy) this is reaching a level of performance and stability.

ben_pyett said:
Titanium Backup is your bet for backup of applications and their data. Although you need to be careful restoring across different ROMs.
You could try the latest ICS ROM called Fallout (what I consider to be the Endymion replacement as its made by the same guy) this is reaching a level of performance and stability.
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but with that rom i wouldnt be able to send mms right?
I've alredy flashed the endymion rom, it was easier than i tough, using the rom manager, it praticaly does everything for us, including wiping data and installing (sorry for the entusiasm but i tough it would be harder so i was pretty happy )

Like I said, the hard part has already been done so flash to your heart's content
Sent from my HTC Desire S using Tapatalk 2

yep, thanks for the help everyone any recomendations on roms to use?

If you're already on endymion, give ICS a try. So fallout or virtuous saga. Or if you don't like sense try out reaper for a stable and fast gingerbread experience or AOKP for an ICS approach.
There will never be one answer to the best ROM. It's up to you to find out which one fits your standards
Sent from my HTC Desire S using Tapatalk 2

thanks tried the fallout and i think im sticking with it, its pretty good

ValdoNunes said:
yep, thanks for the help everyone any recomendations on roms to use?
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Sense 2.1 ROMs: none (time to move on from the 80s...)
Sense 3.0 ROMs: none (time to move on the 90s...)
Sense 3.5 ROMs: Endymion 3.5 (great support! great dev!)
Sense 3.6 ROMs: none (why use an inferior ICS version when clearly Sense 4.0 is just around the horizon...)
Sense 4.0 ROMs: lots to choose from (most still have minor bugs that needs ironing out, but Sense 4 will give you the HTC One experience...)
Again it goes to show that HTC only cares on tempting you to buy a new phone (with new software) rather than providing proper support for old phones... Great thanks for the devs who keep old phones alive that htc has left to die...
non-sense Gingerbread: Oxygen port (some issue with camera on some newer phones) or CM7 (latest CM7 RC3?)
non-sense ICS: CM9 latest alpha (a clear upgrade, only minor glitches now), AOKP port etc.
These ROMs are the way Android should have been released (like the Nexus S / GalaxyNexus) without HTC butchering it up with Sense.
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ValdoNunes said:
Hi, i bought this phone on second hand and it came with the cianogen mod 9, and its full of bugs , and i need to send and receive mms, one thing i cant do with this rom...
How can i put the phone like it came out of the box? With the oficial htc rom, or a new one that doesnt have bugs and is able to send mms...
I appreciate the help! a link to a tutorial or something like that would be great!
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Get the latest alpha (31/5?) This should solve most of your mms problems.

Desire s fully working roms

HI!
i think it would be very usefull to have a list of roms that really work on desire s!!!
Like i ve tested saga3d 5.1 rom and fallout evolution 5 rom (both work 100% on my phone) i want u all to tell me which other roms in any android version work 100%!
AND REALLY WORKS MEANS EVERYTHING WORKS

all work on our phone, to what degree you would have too read the threads for each Rom. Start here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1699450
Then look here http://forum.xda-developers.com/sho.../RECOVERY/ROOT/GUIDES/HBOOT/RADIOS/TWEAKS etc

dobrun.franjo said:
i think it would be very usefull to have a list of roms that really work on desire s!!!
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I think it would be helpful for people new to flashing custom roms, why don't you compile it?

dobrun.franjo said:
HI!
i think it would be very usefull to have a list of roms that really work on desire s!!!
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'Really work'?
Why not try out every rom and and give useful feedback(not "**** this rom doesnt work or this rom EFG is crap i am going stick with rom ABC).
If u just take some time to read a few pages after the rom was release u can know what works and what not(unless of course some ppl decide to post rubbish and useless comment in development section) which just doesn't help the dev or other ppl.

dobrun.franjo said:
HI!
i think it would be very usefull to have a list of roms that really work on desire s!!!
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Define 'really work' !!! If it boots, it works ? Or do you want <insert feature here> to absolutely work as it is a must-have ? Or if you want a stable ROM, just don't flash any ROM that says 'DEV' or 'NIGHTLY' or 'EXPERIMENTAL' and stick to released ROMs (atm it is only GingerBread-based ROMs)
jugg1es said:
all work on our phone, to what degree you would have too read the threads for each Rom. Start here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1699450
Then look here http://forum.xda-developers.com/sho.../RECOVERY/ROOT/GUIDES/HBOOT/RADIOS/TWEAKS etc
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And you can find info on each ROM thread page in the dev section. Some teams even have a home page where they detail their current status.

Endymion / Reaper for Gingerbread roms or Ice DS / Miui v4 for ICS roms
Sent from my HTC Desire S using xda app-developers app

These are ROMs I've tested and know work OK:
Gingerbread:
- Reaper V3
- Endymion (with Sense)
Ice Cream Sandwich:
- Fallout V4 (Sense 4A) <- in my opinion one of the best and most stable roms out there
- ICE_DS (Sense 3.6) <- Also a really really really good ROM, everything works in this one
Jelly Bean:
- Andromadus: The only major thing not working is the video camera, the rest works just fine.
I've used all of these at some point and they work perfectly fine as a day-to-day ROM with no unexpected reboots or major issues.

Ice Cold Sandwich runs at my DS nearly without any bugs. (the ones present are some related to AOKP, not android itself).

Tnx all but i am sure that there must be more roms for our Desire S
that work 100%.
Please share more
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dobrun.franjo said:
Tnx all but i am sure that there must be more roms for our Desire S
that work 100%.
Please share more
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As was pointed out to you previously - why don't you do your own testing and compile your own list to share with the rest of XDA? Or simply read the threads for each ROM and then you will know quite simply if they work 100% or not.

why dont all users of desire s list their roms which they tested here for all new xda members to easily decide which rom to use/flash.
List roms that have fully working hardware(cam,wifi,bt,....), because we need this kind of list.Dont u agree?
bbye

dobrun.franjo said:
why dont all users of desire s list their roms which they tested here for all new xda members to easily decide which rom to use/flash.
List roms that have fully working hardware(cam,wifi,bt,....), because we need this kind of list.Dont u agree?
bbye
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Simply because most of us have tried all the roms and have made our own decisions on what we prefer because everyone is different. Personally I've come to the conclusion that I don't like roms that work 100% because I get bored with it too quick so I like to test half finished and half baked roms
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. ~Wernher Von Braun

I use fallout v 5.0 the best rom
Sent from my HTC Desire S using Tapatalk 2

You're best off with CM nightly.
Other than that I'd suggest Fallout Evolution or Reaper

Well my Rom Desire XS works 100%, I now just need to add a few tweaks like APM battery percentage, and quick settings.
Sent from my HTC Desire S using xda premium

Help me make my mind up!

Hi,
I'm, obviously, an owner of an HTC Desire S running stock software (Android 2.3.5, HTC Sense 3.0) and waiting for an upgrade :/
I'd really like to try a custom ROM but loosing stability or functionality would most likely cause me a lot of daily problems.
Is there a custom ROM out there that has no troubles with everything working on a stable basis? Or should I just wait, wait, and wait for that update?

if your not sure you want to root, simple answer is don't.

stability is a relative term. if we have 1000 people, we also got 1000 different opinions what "stable" is. so i'm affraid you'll have to decide for yourself.

You can try Fallout, with sense 4.0, but then you loose the 3d-flip-clock and other nice graphics, that still are within sense 3.6.
But 3.6 is very cpu-intensive, so you miss some snappyness and battery time.
So the choice will be snappy and more power with fallout or virtous, or nice with ice-ds or icsaga.
Verstuurd van mijn Nexus 7 met Tapatalk

I suggest trying Fallout (Sense 4A, just wifi tethering not working) or Endymion (Sense 3.5, rock solid, in my opinion more stable than stock). But before, plz read the threads about rooting flashing etc to avoid bad surprises.

Abdiou said:
Hi,
I'm, obviously, an owner of an HTC Desire S running stock software (Android 2.3.5, HTC Sense 3.0) and waiting for an upgrade :/
I'd really like to try a custom ROM but loosing stability or functionality would most likely cause me a lot of daily problems.
Is there a custom ROM out there that has no troubles with everything working on a stable basis? Or should I just wait, wait, and wait for that update?
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i know the feeling but my advice is if your not familiar with rooting, unrooting and odin i would just wait cause it would suck if you brick your device. Also if it you can find a used version of your phone for cheap with a clean esn then you could test or even mess around with thing until you become familiar and test any rom you wish before flashing it on your original device that you use on a daily basis...hope this helps
Sent from my GT-7510 Stock ICS ROM 4.0.4 using XDA Premium

Try Ice Cold Sandwich. Pretty stable, only bug is the wrong inversion of the front cam. Also, a clean vanilla android is more attractive than sense
Sent from my Desire S using xda app-developers app

if you want something stable, go for the GB Roms, nothing with ics is truly stable until we get the kernel, the best GB Rom I've used is reaper, if you really want too to do it then that's probably your best starter Rom. Not a sense based one though. If you want sense have a read of the Rom threads. I got rid of sense and havnt looked back.

i'm going through the exact same thing. I'm totally impressed with all the rooting, modding and custom rom stuff but something makes me uncomfortable trying it. I will see how the thread is developing

Sehe said:
i'm going through the exact same thing. I'm totally impressed with all the rooting, modding and custom rom stuff but something makes me uncomfortable trying it. I will see how the thread is developing
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Just start little a used phone that works or even a galaxy mp3 player. I started with the vzw tablet and bought a used phone from swappa. Its fun to flash and test someones hard work i owe alot to this community cause i sure learned alot...
Sent from my GT-7510 Stock ICS ROM 4.0.4 using XDA Premium

when you succsesfully root your phone and want to try different roms it's crucial that you become familliar with nandroid backup. you do nandroid backup in your recovery just before you flash the new rom. it saves the current (fully configured) system to your sdcard and you can always come back if you do not want to use the newly flashed rom anymore. you do nandroid backup of all tested roms that you liked and save yourself time and pain of flashing and configuring them again and again every time.

toxic-hero said:
when you succsesfully root your phone and want to try different roms it's crucial that you become familliar with nandroid backup. you do nandroid backup in your recovery just before you flash the new rom. it saves the current (fully configured) system to your sdcard and you can always come back if you do not want to use the newly flashed rom anymore. you do nandroid backup of all tested roms that you liked and save yourself time and pain of flashing and configuring them again and again every time.
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+1 for backup. Titanium backup is also a must for me, the free one is good but it's well worth paying for the full app.

I like to play with alternative roms, so i have taken the step to root. But to be true. The only real improvement for me is to get rid of adds and to get rid off sense. The stock rom was good enough though.
I have read a lot before i taken the step. I have made a list wat was important. Here it is
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30004373
Sent from my Desire S using xda app-developers app

Thank you so much guys for your replies.
Now, I'm sure that I want to use a custom ROM, not sure witch one yet, but my choice will be either Fallout or ICE with no Sense.
Gonna read as much as I can and let you know guys.
Please keep on replying as it's really helpful for me, and maybe others like me..
P.S. I'm not quite sure what are the steps to properly backup then install a custom ROM, a little help with that too would be much appreciated, but I'm quite sure a guide exist here somewhere ^^

[Q] Should I ... ?

Hello guys,
first of all, sorry about opening a new thread about this, but I cant reply in developer threads, since I dont have 10 posts, and Im not going to spam just to get it, so here we go:
- I am an android app developer
- I do test apps on this Desire S, just to have a look how they work on ICS
- this is my private phone as well
- I neither rooted a phone on my own, nor flashed a rom(except the official Desire S RUU thingie, but that is just pressing next etc)
- for me, stability > all, including speed, and battery life
- except the speed of the official ICS, I like the stock rom just how it is
Im getting tired of how slow the official ICS upgrade can be on my Desire S, tho I can live with it, but if I can have the same, or maybe even better stability, while gaining performance, why wouldn't I change? My question is: should I upgrade with a custom rom, given the previous infos about my preferences? I was looking 2 roms, which got me for the first:
- ICE DS
- Fallout Evolution
I would prefer Sense 3.6, so ICE DS sounds better, but I am open for Sense 4.0 as well.
So once more, what do you think, should I upgrade? Will the performance significantly increase? Will the stability remains the same(at least)? In case you say I should, which one of the previous roms would you recommend? Or any other rom? And what is the exact process, what I should do? Just few words will do, I can manage to look up guides/tutorials, just show me the path.
Thanks in advance, cheers

You may try Ice Cream Saga. As its currently the only rom as of now to be based on the official ics for the desire s, afaik.
Sent from my HTC Desire S using xda app-developers app

i got a ruu for the desire s from the htc dev center you just have to search there site for it but i ran it on an unmodified desire s that was on its original o2 rom and it worked so i have now got Android 4.0.4 and sense 3.6 and ive found it stable and more then fast enough for me but i dont do a lot of gaming. give it a try it might work and its official but i cant promise ya it will work for ya tho

Little misunderstanding there, I do use the stock ICS for Desire S, what I downloaded from HTCdev, the ruu one. So yea, my question was, is it worth to change for one of the custom roms, mentioned already, but I will provide links now, just to make sure this time:
- ICE DS ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1567715 )
- Fallout Evolution ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1679125 )
Once more, the question is: I use the RUU ICS upgrade from HTCdev already, so I have ICS already, but, is it worth to change to ICE DS or Fallout Evolution? Is it as stable as the stock rom, and is it faster? Thanks!

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I think the latest version of ice_ds is good, Fallout is very stable and quite fast, sabsa prime is faster, but possibly less stable, ice cream saga is based on the official ruu with only performance tweaks.
It's hard to say what would work best for you, I think you would have to try 2 or 3 and then decide. I do think it would be worth it, especially as having a custom recovery installed allows you to make complete backups of the current Rom, that can be restored if you try something different and don't like it.
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Process:
Unlock bootloader,
Install custom recovery
Now you can backup, restore, flash custom Rom etc. in recovery.
(something optional worth considering: downgrading hboot to attain s-off, you'll see why that might make sense )
Guides and information about the above steps should be easily found in the forum.

Thanks, I guess it is testing time then

hundeva said:
Thanks, I guess it is testing time then
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And if it is testing time you even can try some other roms like CM10, MIUI, AOSP, AOSK versions

HypnoCondor said:
And if it is testing time you even can try some other roms like CM10, MIUI, AOSP, AOSK versions
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for now, I finished flashing ICE DS, and it is working, so Ill see if im satisfied or not

Hey ice ds is awesome!!
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indeed it is, I like it very much, the only question left is the battery life, but I cant tell anything about it after a half a day