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[Q] ROM Suggestions Galaxy S3 Verizon

I have just switched over from an iPhone 5 to a Galaxy S3 and I am wondering what ROM I should go with. I have tried AOKP and CyanogenMod and I wasn't a huge fan. I am looking for a ROM where all of the radios work and it is on Jelly Bean.
The problem I had with AOKP is the bluetooth was spotty and I use that to play music in my car. The wifi wouldn't give me a chance to connect to networks where you have to accept the user agreement.
Any Suggestions?

baltes.ryan said:
I have just switched over from an iPhone 5 to a Galaxy S3 and I am wondering what ROM I should go with. I have tried AOKP and CyanogenMod and I wasn't a huge fan. I am looking for a ROM where all of the radios work and it is on Jelly Bean.
The problem I had with AOKP is the bluetooth was spotty and I use that to play music in my car. The wifi wouldn't give me a chance to connect to networks where you have to accept the user agreement.
Any Suggestions?
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Go to this link and download the 3.1.0 official at the top.
It's AOSP with absolutely no bugs! It's perfect and super clean. Oh, and Bluetooth has no issues either.
http://www.slimroms.net/index.php/downloads/all/viewcategory/143-d2vzw
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I just switched to liquid smooth and I'm a huge fan. Just make sure everything is backed up first. I also had to move everything to folder 0 because I switched from 4.2 back to 4.1 and then back. Wasn't a good idea lol
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I have tried 2 Touch wiz ROMs Synergy and CleanRom.. both are good. CleanRom seemed a little faster but synergy had more customization options.
But I am on the Official AOKP rom and it really smooth and fast. I have also tried Liquids, Slims, and baked. all of them are good to it really is a matter of what you are looking for. If you have Titanium backup you can be up and running on a new ROM in a few minutes... I am a flashaholic.
In my opinion I will be sticking with the Original Android Roms.

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No one likes a ROM suggestion thread.
Roms run differently on everyone's phone.
It's your job to read through the threads and figure out which one you think is best for you.
if this is not your style.... Then I can assure you that you are on the wrong website.
However. Take a look over at clean ROM and synergy as they both work wonders.
Just to give you a start in the right direction
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There Clean ROM which is just a de-bloated stock ROM. CyanogenMod is really amazing, its what I'm running right now. Give it another shot!
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Im running Synergy rom r326 on my verizon I535 and its like butter fast smooth and I have had no issues I was on r290 same thing for me flawless just my opinion as every phn is different good luck and happy flashing
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I'll give a vote for CleanROM and Synergy. There has been a lot of work on Synergy the past month, and the latest builds are smooth and have fantastic battery life.

Cyanogenmod is a slick operating system. It's aesthetically beautiful and provides options that users have wanted from original ROM developers, not custom ROMs.
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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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Made the plunge

Just picked up a brand new galaxy s3. Loving it so far. 1st question of many. How can I get all my emails to show up? I synced my emIl account but it still shows 0 in the in box.
Edit: scratch that I guess it need a min to load.

What's a good stockish rom? I cant rememeber what I had on my nexus. I thinknit was akop. Do they have a rom for the s3.

Synergy if you want one without problems
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Cleanrom 5.6
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Can't go wrong with the S3.
Top notch
SynergyROM r326
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1792499

I'm running aokp at the moment. Its been very stable and for the most part has a stock feel, with a few added functions.

Clean ROM for sure
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hinds90 said:
What's a good stockish rom? I cant rememeber what I had on my nexus. I thinknit was akop. Do they have a rom for the s3.
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I think Synergy is hands-down the best Touchwiz ROM for the GS3.

You want tw or aosp?
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CleanRom has the fewest mods, so it should be the most stable. Synergy has a ton of extra mods. Can't go wrong either way. I am running CleanROM 4.5 and have not found a reason to update.

Welcome to the club. You'll love the phone!

Try Beans 11 or clean rom 5.6

Yeah I'm loving it so far. Coming from a droid X, galaxy nexus, and now a galaxy s3 I can see a great improvement. The 1 thing that irritates me is the typing isn't as smooth as ios. It's alot better with swift keyboard but still not as smooth as I want.
I went with synergy rom and it's great. I'm guessing it's touchwiz since it comes with the touchwiz launcher (I like apex launcher).
I'll probably give aokp a try since I liked it on my nexus.
Oh yeah love the multi Window that's just bad***!

AOSP & data speeds

So I've been running CleanROM 5.6 for awhile and it hasn't been updated in awhile. I really want to give AOSP a shot but last time I flashed CM10, I had constant data drops, it was actually pretty bad compared to CleanROM. I was hoping to get some opinions on some AOSP ROMs, data stability being top priority. 4.2 would be great, however I'm ok with flashing an earlier release as long as data works as expected. Thanks
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If you want a nice stable fast and beautiful different aosp ROM with plenty of mods. Use slim bean. Very nice. Its my aosp go to. I like the DPI. Dont forget to flash the all in one package with it. It has lots of goodies. And includes the gapps. Peace.
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Mastamoons cm10.1 builds data has been fixed for awhile now, when i'd run a 4.2 rom i'd always run his.
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I prefer LiquidSmooth over both of these above 4.2 AOSP ROMs.
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PAC man ROM is the way to Go. I haven't been back on TW in a while
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Carbon ROM is legit
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Shibby87 said:
So I've been running CleanROM 5.6 for awhile and it hasn't been updated in awhile. I really want to give AOSP a shot but last time I flashed CM10, I had constant data drops, it was actually pretty bad compared to CleanROM. I was hoping to get some opinions on some AOSP ROMs, data stability being top priority. 4.2 would be great, however I'm ok with flashing an earlier release as long as data works as expected. Thanks
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how about you do a test for us and report back lol
dont use data enough to really notice. only on when im using it. then its off again.

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ddurandSGS3 said:
how about you do a test for us and report back lol
dont use data enough to really notice. only on when im using it. then its off again.
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Ha, I'm still on unlimited so I use my data a lot which is why I'd like an aosp ROM with reliable data connection.
From what others have said here and in the development sections, it looks like I'm gonna try carbon and liquid smooth first, I'll test and report back
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Rootbox is pretty nice

PsiPhiDan said:
I prefer LiquidSmooth over both of these above 4.2 AOSP ROMs.
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Well, I've used both liquid and carbon enough to run through the motions and the winner wound up being carbon. This is purely based on 4G lte speeds in my area (Philly, PA), I'm not saying one is better because they are both equally unique in their own way, I just tend to have a better signal with carbon, battery life and performance was pretty much a wash.
Hopefully this is useful to those in the same boat
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I've had no problems with CM10.1 (M1) ... I just upgraded to M2 today and things look good so far but I haven't really given it much burn-in time to find issues.

4.1 ROM: Jelly 'Beans' - Build 12
4.2 ROM: [OFFICIAL] AOKP | d2vzw | jb-mr1 build 5 -OR- CarbonROM -OR- RootBox
If you want a 4.2 ROM and would like a hybrid, I'd go with PAC-Man ROM

Shibby87 said:
Well, I've used both liquid and carbon enough to run through the motions and the winner wound up being carbon. This is purely based on 4G lte speeds in my area (Philly, PA), I'm not saying one is better because they are both equally unique in their own way, I just tend to have a better signal with carbon, battery life and performance was pretty much a wash.
Hopefully this is useful to those in the same boat
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Carbon always worked best for me as well. My signal does seem to be significantly lower and data is slower than on tw roms though. But the AOSP benefits far outweigh the signal hit

salas2324 said:
PAC man ROM is the way to Go. I haven't been back on TW in a while
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i just loaded PAC rom. so far so good. but i did notice something.
cant post on dev threads yet.

vonrandy said:
Carbon always worked best for me as well. My signal does seem to be significantly lower and data is slower than on tw roms though. But the AOSP benefits far outweigh the signal hit
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I'm currently on Jelly Beans Build 12 and I absolutely love it. I don't know why but everytime I was on AOSP I found myself missing touchwiz. Although I go back and forth between Beans and Liquid. I loved some of the bells and whistles AOSP had but I keep finding myself coming back to Touchwiz. What are your ideas of the benefits that AOSP has. I find myself missing lock screen widgets and a few of the subtle things in the build.

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jackh0lt said:
I'm currently on Jelly Beans Build 12 and I absolutely love it. I don't know why but everytime I was on AOSP I found myself missing touchwiz. Although I go back and forth between Beans and Liquid. I loved some of the bells and whistles AOSP had but I keep finding myself coming back to Touchwiz. What are your ideas of the benefits that AOSP has. I find myself missing lock screen widgets and a few of the subtle things in the build.
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I think AOSP far outweighs touchwiz in every aspect. TW does have some pretty neat features like gestures and popup widows, however AOSP just feels right, not hacked together like TW. Every Android device should come shipped with it. I don't really see the need for TW, Sense, Blur etc, besides corporate branding.. None of them can hold a candle to pure Google Android IMO.
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I've noticed ever since going from a TW ROM (CleanROM 5.0) to an AOSP based ROM (Slim ROM, Carbon ROM, LiquidSmooth and currently ParanoidKANDdroid) that the data connection all around seems weaker than the TW based ROMS. For me all the AOSP ROMS mainained the same 4G speed, and had data drops in all the same areas. Some local area where I live I get great service/4g, others I have no 4g at all and am lucky to have any 3g on top of that. Only downside of the aosp based roms

Going from AOSP to TW Rom..

I have been on AOSP roms on my d2vzw for 6 months but there are just some deal breakers right now (reboots, a2dp, etc.) and I think I have to bite the bullet and go back to a TW based rom. I know there are about 3 out there. I guess Beans, Hyperdrive, and cleanrom. It looks like beans takes a while to update, hyperdrive seems to have some lockscreen issues and cleanrom isnt vesy customizable (e.g. cant change the toggles in notification drawer). What would you guys think is the best of the 3? How quickly will I want to go back to an AOSP rom? Thoughts?

It's all personal preferance. Nobody can pick the "best" rom for you. Try a few out and see how you like them. And for my reply won't be 100% usless, cleanrom 6 is great. It's smooth, fast, and all that jazz
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You can try Delta Two... It's a customizable TW rom. I was just on it but switched back to AOSP and flashed Carbon
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I second delta 2 it's a wonderful rom :thumbup:
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I will check out delta and then beans. Gotta love making backups haha

I'm on the carbon 1.5 myself with the GideonX kernel and they have been working great for me.
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You can also try Galaxy mod which is highly customizable and pretty stable.
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