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[Q] Best rom for efficiency?

Just got my mom this phone and i got the rooting bug, lol.
She's basically just using it for web browsing, text messaging, and taking pics.
What's the best rom out there for efficiency? I want to take off all the sprint bloat & get some better battery life.
Would also like a rom i can add themes to.

You may consider the combo in my signature.
Works well on me.
Very stable with no reboots.
It has the 4G version as well unless I'm mistaken.
My usage is similar to your mom, though.
No gaming at all.
As for theming, I don't know if this ROM can be themed or not as I just like the way it is.
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i dont see whats in ur sig
anyone else?

glennkaonang said:
You may consider the combo in my signature.
Works well on me.
Very stable with no reboots.
It has the 4G version as well unless I'm mistaken.
My usage is similar to your mom, though.
No gaming at all.
As for theming, I don't know if this ROM can be themed or not as I just like the way it is.
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mrmondaynight said:
i dont see whats in ur sig
anyone else?
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the combo might be in the sig.. but theres no sig there

mrmondaynight said:
Just got my mom this phone and i got the rooting bug, lol.
She's basically just using it for web browsing, text messaging, and taking pics.
What's the best rom out there for efficiency? I want to take off all the sprint bloat & get some better battery life.
Would also like a rom i can add themes to.
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Slim ICS has what ur looking for...
Good luck
Vs Nexus S 4G

Probably want to keep it stock and simple, if you are going to root and theme it it'll make it more frustrating. In fact, setting up for other people, I'll enable root for certain apps and then set it automatically deny.
I have the perfect combination for you:
Kang CM7: http://fitsnugly.euroskank.com/gigglebread/?id=crespo
Google Apps: http://goo-inside.me/gapps
Stock Launcher: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11421338&postcount=3
CM7 themes:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sonny.theme.icsgingerbread
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.david1171.minimalbread
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.achep.theme.sense

CM9 Nightly 20120310 is the best until now from ICS roms

Can we update this?
After so long, i was finally able to root. Well, not able..but i got lazy and didn't bother with it.

This one is super basic and I think the best for the Nexus S. Fast, stable, and great battery life, 1%/h during night with wifi on
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1854366
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Update it to JB4.2.1 and that should do. If not, try AOKP for 4.1 I used it for months and it was quite good.
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seibott said:
Update it to JB4.2.1 and that should do. If not, try AOKP for 4.1 I used it for months and it was quite good.
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He wants a stable rom for his mom. Not the unstable rom causing battery drain.
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Stock gingerbread
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[ROM] C&CICSReturns | LordKernel 9.3.1 | Snappy | Stock AOSP |4 Launchers

WELCOME, to Cookies And Cream ICS RETURNING!
This is an attempt to have not only another ICS ROM for user choice, But also to give as much choice in the ROM as possible with a selection of 4 different launchers- While keeping the Stock AOSP Enjoyment of ICS.
FEATURES:
- Stock AOSP
- Extremely Snappy (may differ with a different launcher)
- Choice of Nova, Apex, Stock Launcher, And Trebuchet-
- More to be added if user requested But realize im keeping it stock, Thanks.
If you want screenshots, Ill upload some, but theres shouldnt be much explaining since it is Stock.. >.>
Working:
Camera (stillshots and Panorama)
Hardware Acceleration(2D&3D)
Data (3G/4G)
SMS/MMS
Video playback
Video Recording, Download CamIllusion from the market
Mount storage to PC
WiFi
Bluetooth
Not Working:
ng:You tell me - Other than video recording.
Dowload: http://uploading.com/files/5e3ca926/CCICSBuild1.zip/
Mirror; http://www.mediafire.com/?pvp9yj2p929mih7 <--- PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT THE CM9 VARIANT QUITE YET. Still have a lot of merging to do, The screenshots below are a preview of the Variant Rom. be patient please
Inspire Users please flash InspireMod.
Link to InspireMod; http://www.mediafire.com/?r4goukmm2px26py

Cm9 Variant Screenshots, Slowly merging but CM9 is hard to merge - DONT WORRY, THE STOCK ROM WILL STILL BE SUPPORTED FOR FUTURE UPDATES<3(for all curious, and all who messaged me about it)

change log

made an extra post by mistake will fine a use for this....
Possibly any seperat fixes

any thing inspire specific will be in this post

^_^ thanks for moving to Inspire for me bro<3
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jcmaddox1 said:
^_^ thanks for moving to Inspire for me bro<3
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I made one tomany posts so i will have to find a use for it

Well well here my idea JK!! But awesome to see that this is over here
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I would really love to see an AOKP version based on Kangs rom. I am in love with the Rom Control settings, they totally make or break a rom for me, personally. (For ICS anyway.)

CYRAXDroid said:
Well well here my idea JK!! But awesome to see that this is over here
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It was kinda your idea and are working on creating a code.google account for ccics too
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Good to see it here. I actually have an Inspire. The rom is still running great for me. Once again, great work.

Hows the launchers I just went with the apex launcher. I know there is some other ones.. But I used to have the nova one it was alright..Apex seems to be just fine..
Also if anyone is having some(low) battery drain try this is out https://play.google.com/store/apps/...GwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5lYXN5LmJhdHRlcnkuc2F2ZXIiXQ..
This could help you out with the battery save

CYRAXDroid said:
Hows the launchers I just went with the apex launcher. I know there is some other ones.. But I used to have the nova one it was alright..Apex seems to be just fine..
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I've been using Apex. Works great.

RoxRedEye said:
I've been using Apex. Works great.
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Cool, I been looking for a different keyboard layout keys are to small lol
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CYRAXDroid said:
Hows the launchers I just went with the apex launcher. I know there is some other ones.. But I used to have the nova one it was alright..Apex seems to be just fine..
Also if anyone is having some(low) battery drain try this is out https://play.google.com/store/apps/...GwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5lYXN5LmJhdHRlcnkuc2F2ZXIiXQ..
This could help you out with the battery save
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Does this have huge ass wakelock issues like juice defender does? Seems pretty neato if it doesn't!

You mean when phone goes to sleep it shuts off data it does
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CYRAXDroid said:
Cool, I been looking for a different keyboard layout keys are to small lol
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Lol..the ICS Sense 4 keyboard would be great haha..

Yeah no kidding...
But today I had a reboot when I turn on my wifi and open Facebook it rebooted.. thought that was weird
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Thankfully, I've yet to have a spontaneous reboot.

I wonder what causes it to reboot
Also notice no auto focus with camera
O also from lordclocken rom his ICS kernels. I flash the CFS v9.4.1 just testing to see any difference with the Bfs I usually go with CFS for usage and battery
Take a look..
http://blackice.omca.co.uk/download/...ndwich/Kernels
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Are 4.2 roms becoming far more stable?

So I have been on Beans for a while and I love it since it is tw with a aosp touch and feel but lately I have been noticing in the developmental thread that there are now far more 4.2 roms out there. I know that aosp has been pretty damn buggy just a month or so back but are they now stable? or dare I say it almost daily driver worthy? Im actually in the process of downloading the latest liquid smooth rom to check it out and I cant wait to see the results.

I've tried all the 4.2 ROMs and the only one where everything works on my phone; GPS, MMS, call volume etc, is mastamoons build. I know ROMs work different on everyone's phone though.
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This is my awesome new daily http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2108319 I love it. Great battery life too
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I think that most of them are stable in the sense that they can be daily drivers depending on what features you need.
All of them except for baked black bean and mastamoons unofficial builds use a new audio stack that breaks Bluetooth audio streaming.
All of them have issues with encrypted Wi-Fi tethering.
I've been using the baked ROM, it's awesome. Haven't had any random crashes, audio and GPS work well, and data is pretty good for the most part
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funnyperson1 said:
I think that most of them are stable in the sense that they can be daily drivers depending on what features you need.
All of them except for baked black bean and mastamoons unofficial builds use a new audio stack that breaks Bluetooth audio streaming.
All of them have issues with encrypted Wi-Fi tethering.
I've been using the baked ROM, it's awesome. Haven't had any random crashes, audio and GPS work well, and data is pretty good for the most part
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So baked has everything working so far? Honestly for me I never ever use blue tooth or wifi tethering which is why that has never really bothered me. As long as data, sms, (group texting is the main reason i want to go to 4.2) and gps works then I am totally fine. Oh and of course battery cant be totally horrid haha

blackguy101 said:
So baked has everything working so far? Honestly for me I never ever use blue tooth or wifi tethering which is why that has never really bothered me. As long as data, sms, (group texting is the main reason i want to go to 4.2) and gps works then I am totally fine. Oh and of course battery cant be totally horrid haha
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That's my daily right now. This is my battery from my first cycle with Ktoonsez
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jakereeves31 said:
That's my daily right now. This is my battery from my first cycle with Ktoonsez
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holy f*ck that is amazing! is ktoonsez a kernal? truth be told I usually just flash roms but I never used kernals just because im not too familier with them. but where can i find the download link to it? Im downloading baked as we speak and id be more than happy to try ktoonsez out along with it

blackguy101 said:
holy f*ck that is amazing! is ktoonsez a kernal? truth be told I usually just flash roms but I never used kernals just because im not too familier with them. but where can i find the download link to it? Im downloading baked as we speak and id be more than happy to try ktoonsez out along with it
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Here you go, bud http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1853816
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is it possible to just install the tw gallary in camera and use that instead? or does it have to the aosp stuff?

blackguy101 said:
is it possible to just install the tw gallary in camera and use that instead? or does it have to the aosp stuff?
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Has to be aosp.
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I've been running Baked BlacKBean7, for 2-3 weeks now, so yeah, I guess you could call it a daily driver.

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jakereeves31 said:
That's my daily right now. This is my battery from my first cycle with Ktoonsez
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Mind posting your settings for this kernel? Thanks man!
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trying blackbean 7 right now... pretty sweet so far!
also curious on your ktoonez settings if you can post them up.
thanks

Mastamoon's 1/18 build of CM works great. It's the only 4.2 ROM I can find with functioning bluetooth.

Help me find a daily?

Hey everyone, been lurking mostly and first time posting. I'm not one for having the best newest rom. I am looking for something that can be my daily driver. Currently I'm using cm10.0 12/16 build lol because anything I've ever tried has been really buggy. I'm looking for anything Smoother, reliable and better battery.
Thanks for your help!

Carbon if you want AOSP
Beans 10 build if you want touchwiz.
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I recommend the unofficial CM10.1 builds made by Masta.
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I reccommend stock 4.1.2 leak with my MODS
if you want stock touchwiz newest with MODs..
if you want a 4.1.1/4.1.2 AOSP ROM, I personally suggest ParanoidAndroid 2.5.6
and if you want AOSP 4.2 I'd would sugggest BAMF Paradigmn, but that isn't public yet, so my next is Carbon ROM is nice, Slim is great, and Eclipse is awesome if you want a nice dark theme and a great ROM..
I personally use stock kernel on touchwiz, and whatever comes in the ROMs for AOSP.

Thanks for the recommendation guys. I'm not a big fan of touch wiz and much prefer aosp.
What are your opinions on aokp?
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aopk, carbon, or liquidsmooth

I personally use Cm10.1 with Imos lean kernel. It is daily worthy but I suggest using the unofficial builds. I have been very happy.
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Been using carbon for the day. Loving it so far. Super snappy. Only thing I noticed was 4g drops sometimes between wifi hand off.
I'll be trying eclipse soon

Gatanater said:
I personally use Cm10.1 with Imos lean kernel. It is daily worthy but I suggest using the unofficial builds. I have been very happy.
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Agreed, I would definitely go with mastamoon's unofficial build, if only for the GPS revert. I prefer lk as well, but the stock kernel has gotten better.

What's the battery life on carbon? Or cm10.1 cuz Im always using KT kernel so yeah
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I am using CleanRom 4.5 with Apex Launcher, it has been rock solid, I just can't get myself to switch to any other ROM, everything just works. You get the AOSP look with the TW features I want.

fillyo said:
I am using CleanRom 4.5 with Apex Launcher, it has been rock solid, I just can't get myself to switch to any other ROM, everything just works. You get the AOSP look with the TW features I want.
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I honestly think this is your best bet. Though the AOSP roms are snappy and simple, there are still way too many bugs. I'm on CleanRom as well and it's very smooth with virtually no bugs. You can even theme your phone to resemble AOSP while still having the luxury of using all the addons touchwiz has to offer.

ctsail410 said:
Agreed, I would definitely go with mastamoon's unofficial build, if only for the GPS revert. I prefer lk as well, but the stock kernel has gotten better.
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I've gotten absolutely amazing battery life as well as speed and reliability. There is only one bug and that is a lack of pattern lock which many roms have.
sju1fan said:
I honestly think this is your best bet. Though the AOSP roms are snappy and simple, there are still way too many bugs. I'm on CleanRom as well and it's very smooth with virtually no bugs. You can even theme your phone to resemble AOSP while still having the luxury of using all the addons touchwiz has to offer.
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As I said above this ROM also has virtually no bugs and is very nicely put together. If you do in fact go with clean however, don't put a launcher on it because it ruins the purpose of a custom rom.
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I don't normally use a pattern lock, but I just set one up and it seemed to work fine for me. I am using a CM10.1 unofficial that I've repo-sync'd and built myself this morning. I added a few cherry-picks, but they shouldn't have directly affected that.
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My top 2 favorite ROMs right now are beanstown jellybeans and SYNERGY.
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My personal favorites are as follows:
AOSP: Carbon or Eclipse
TW: Beans or Synergy
Currently on Carbon with KT747 kernel and perfomance/battery life is out of this world!

sju1fan said:
I honestly think this is your best bet. Though the AOSP roms are snappy and simple, there are still way too many bugs. I'm on CleanRom as well and it's very smooth with virtually no bugs. You can even theme your phone to resemble AOSP while still having the luxury of using all the addons touchwiz has to offer.
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What bugs? Seriously, what bugs are there that I keep hearing about?
I am running the damn ROM and I don't experience bugs, but if I listened to everyone else I'd swear I did!
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PsiPhiDan said:
What bugs? Seriously, what bugs are there that I keep hearing about?
I am running the damn ROM and I don't experience bugs, but if I listened to everyone else I'd swear I did!
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You are so right, I experience none myself but everyone on TW based ROMs or things like carbon think AOSP is very buggy.
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I've lately been wanting a speedy, stable, and battery lasting rom. If you're looking for that TW is the way to go for that. I'm using Edgehood's delta rom right now and it's been great. Running Lean kernel 1.8. I like AOSP as well, but the lack of stable data connection has kept me off of it.
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Gatanater said:
You are so right, I experience none myself but everyone on TW based ROMs or things like carbon think AOSP is very buggy.
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It's not that buggy at all. It's the stable data connection which is still a little off. It definitely has come a long way. Reason why I'm still on TW for right now.
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CleanRom 5.6 with Heinz 57 theme running anthrax kernel is the bomb. They also have a working flashable AOSP MMS in the theme and apps section.
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[Q] Not sure where to post this - re, ParanoidAndroid Rom

Not sure if this is the right forum to ask this, but I figured it was best as this is a Q/A/help type of question. I have a vzw gs3, and played with a couple of roms a while back, but ended up going back to stock. Lately I've been reading about PA, and would like to try it out, but I'm confused as to what I need to download. If I click on the 'ROMS' link above, then I see a post that leads to alpha and beta versions of PA, but if I go into the 'Original Android Development' sub forum, I see a completely different set of options. So, which is the right one to use? Does anyone know how battery life is on an AOSP rom vs. stock?
Thanks,

Try PAC man rom ...its a mix of Cyanogen Parinoid and AOKP
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Lord_Tardis said:
Try PAC man rom ...its a mix of Cyanogen Parinoid and AOKP
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How's the battery life? currently on stock and if i'm not at work, i can get almost 2 days between charges. On a normal day, I unplug at 6:30am and by 10:30pm am usually around 35-45%.
I wasn't a fan of AOKP; how much of that is integrated into it?
Thanks,

ddog511 said:
How's the battery life? currently on stock and if i'm not at work, i can get almost 2 days between charges. On a normal day, I unplug at 6:30am and by 10:30pm am usually around 35-45%.
I wasn't a fan of AOKP; how much of that is integrated into it?
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Its basically a lot of the tweaks from AOKP, and the tweaks from PA all built on cm. Its a lot, but in a way that's not like "oh this is just AOKP with hybrid"
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The battery life for me is OK. I can get 28 to 30 hours medium usage and I use greenify. Honestly it is one best ROMs I have been on...and I've flashed a lot
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You can try it and always go back if you don't like it. That's one of the great joys of being rooted
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Lord_Tardis said:
The battery life for me is OK. I can get 28 to 30 hours medium usage and I use greenify. Honestly it is one best ROMs I have been on...and I've flashed a lot
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You can try it and always go back if you don't like it. That's one of the great joys of being rooted
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Yes, that is a benefit of being rooted. I do tend to have issues when going back to my nandroid - I have to re-setup switftkey and a few other apps. It's odd, but not a big deal. I did try them both over the weekend, and I liked PA better than PAC, but had issues with both that made me go back to stock for now. Some things were functionality issues - the AOSP calendar doesn't show the event when on month view, I couldn't get my custom notification sounds to work or my alarm sound (this is a biggie as I use my phone to wake me up every morning, and I've found that I tend to sleep through most alarm sounds, but have the Piezzo alarm sound from my droid x and that wakes me up right away).
Any suggestions on what I could try? I really liked how fast my phone was after having flashed to something else, but the calendar, alarm sound and notification sounds are a necessity for me. I also had issues with adding my work email to it as well - I could add the account, but it would never download my email, nor sync my calendar - also deal breakers for me.
Thanks