Hi Everyone,
I am seeking recommendations on custom ROMs for the captivate. I kknow it wouldn't be fair to compare specially after the hard work so many developers are putting in for *free*. This is for a phone I have been playing around with. It currently is on Continuum 5.1 which I love, but it is getting laggy. I need to give it to my kid sister and reliability and speed are of concern to her.
If Continuum is a recommendation, I'd stay put
I was wondering which is the best ROM according to your experience.
Parameters:
- Speed
- Usability
- Gingerbread ideally (or froyo if that's faster)
- Themes (because its gonna be for a girl who will want new clothes for the phone everyday!)
- Keyboard availability should be good. She is used to a qwerty phone which she feels easy, and touch screens are new to her
(edit: and anyway I could remove the globe button on swype which was irritating and cuts short the keyboard width http://twitpic.com/4suqes)
Moderators, you can categorise anywhere if you please, or shut it down if there is a discussion already on on a similar subject of comparison/reviews because I couldn't find it.
thanks!
iMohak said:
Hi Everyone,
I am seeking recommendations on custom ROMs for the captivate. I kknow it wouldn't be fair to compare specially after the hard work so many developers are putting in for *free*. This is for a phone I have been playing around with. It currently is on Continuum 5.1 which I love, but it is getting laggy. I need to give it to my kid sister and reliability and speed are of concern to her.
If Continuum is a recommendation, I'd stay put
I was wondering which is the best ROM according to your experience.
Parameters:
- Speed
- Usability
- Gingerbread ideally (or froyo if that's faster)
- Themes (because its gonna be for a girl who will want new clothes for the phone everyday!)
- Keyboard availability should be good. She is used to a qwerty phone which she feels easy, and touch screens are new to her
(edit: and anyway I could remove the globe button on swype which was irritating and cuts short the keyboard width http://twitpic.com/4suqes)
Moderators, you can categorise anywhere if you please, or shut it down if there is a discussion already on on a similar subject of comparison/reviews because I couldn't find it.
thanks!
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If you really want a GB based rom then I would say . But if you don't care for GB and are fine with Froyo then Cognition 4.3.2 is amazing. Great battery life (about 30hrs with moderate usage, wifi on all the time and apps like current weather, weather forecast, pulse news, facebook, gmail, calender, score mobile, tweetdeck, espn and cnn constantly using the wifi) and its not laggy. I know the quadrant scores don't mean much but my cappy gave me a score of over 1600.
Cheers.
These threads are always subjective. You have to try different rom, kernel and modem packages to see what works best for her phone. Not all Captivates are equal.
cappysw10 said:
These threads are always subjective. You have to try different rom, kernel and modem packages to see what works best for her phone. Not all Captivates are equal.
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This. You have to read about them and decide what you like best. Some people may really like one particular rom and then you get to it and are like this sucks, I hate it. Go try some out and don't forget to read up on bootloaders if you decide to go the GB way.
GR12
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subpresion 3.2
So far I am pleased with GR 12. Granted, I don't probably use my phone for a lot of intense applications etc. like others, but I haven't had any issues with the ROM. Of course, I don't burden my phone with a lot of apps and I think by doing so I get good results with the ROM. My battery life has been great ( I'm sitting at 73% right now after 29 hours, 23 minutes). Like I said, that's a few calls, checking email and occasional music listening.
Like others have said, it is subjective. I always leave everything pretty much as MikeyMike developed it and I love it.
5.. 4.. 3...
There is no best rom. Just best for you. Please search before you open a new thread, as you will see they all get closed due to becoming a flame fest. With that said. Thread closed
Please advise a droid x noob!
Ok, so I'm coming off a rooted and GB rommed thunderbolt. So I know little about rooting and flashing roms. I would like to make my DX to be gingerbread and have a lot of eye candy, more speed, and better battery. I am currently rooted with stock System version 2.3.340.MB810.Verizon.en.UC, android 2.2.1. I keep getting asked to OTA from Verizon and I keep declining. I'm assuming I should not do the OTA. What would suggest I do? What Rom would accomplish my needs the best and give me a better DX experience?. I researched and found that Liberty and Apex are the tops. Also some of the roms say that I cant have system version .340, what do I do about that? If someone could give me a small step by step, it would help a lot. Sorry for asking but the DX seems a little more complex than flash a thunderbolt. Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thank you!.
Seriously? Call me a noob too, but listen to this. Don't go for a rom that is the "best". The best is going to come with a lot of things that people don't know what to look for.
I'm using Shell Rom for the Optimus S and it's the best I've ever used. Some kinks in it but other than that, the performance is crazy.
That's the number one thing. Performance.
Go launcher (or adw) for making it look pretty (go sms, go dialer...)
Widgetsoid and Widgetlocker to customize the lockscreen to an unbelievable extent.
Custom keyboard (Swiftkey X) with neon theme.
I'm looking good, excellect functionality, beautiful, and best of all? It's fast. It doesn't bog down. It does what I want and it looks good doing it.
Go with a shell rom that has a minimum of what you need. Look for small things, like a power control widget. I missed out on that one with my Shell Rom (ported from CM7 and that's my only gripe). Then wifi stability, 3g 4g stability, no "Bugs: some people report missing their camera flash". Keep it stable where you need it to be.
The pimp it out! If your launcher has a theme you want for pay, then pay it cheapskate. Don't go to some sharing site and download the apk. That's wrong and hurts developers... Unless you're broke and are going to spread word of mouth to people with money to buy it... I'm sure they wouldn't mind that so much then...
Droid X is no harder to customize than the Thunderbolt (I've used both), though you will have to learn some new terminology (easy stuff though if you're used to rooting Android).
Read the forums. The Droid X has been out so long that a lot of users are sick of answering the same "How do I root/rom/theme?" questions over and over for every new user on their forum. There is a ton of good information/guides out there to get you started.
Some of the forums you should check out are:
1. XDA (Droid X section)
2. RootzWiki
3. DroidXForums
4. MyDroidWorld
And here's something to get you started on your journey: http://www.droidxforums.com/forum/g...g/33387-how-ready-flash-gb-2nd-init-roms.html
Hey guys!
I'm new to android and just got my I9023 on tuesday this week.
Before the Nexus S i had a samsung wave s8500 and i was absolutely dissatisfied with the bada OS, so i switched to the Nexus S and i like it!
All i want is to optimize my smartphone -> the best possible battery usage, a stable and fast system.
Plus the control over apps, don't want crap like facebook app being able to send sms (lol)
(there are so many possibilties with android, so much to read etc. didn't know where to start, so i though "just start your own thread on here!"
and here i am!
As you can see, i'm a quite simple guy.
All i did until now was to download apps i wanted to have, like whatsapp and stuff like that + go launcher ex and the touchwiz 4 theme (as i came from bada i'm used to touchwiz style and i liked and still like that actually). What i also did was to get a new keyboard (Go keyboard) because i did not like the stock keyboard.
that's all i did. not much if you ask me.
So what can i do, to get the most out of my new nexus? (most important would be a good battery life)
custom rom? some other kernel? and if, what custom rom? what kernel?
are there any, that are good for battery life and still get me a smooth running, fast system? (stock version does work quite fast, fast enough for me atleast)
Any app suggestion, that could bring some improvement, too would be appreciated.
what about root? i know i need it for the apps permissions.
would method would be the best? i saw a working 1 click version, which seems promising.
and if i do root, do i need to do it again if ice cream sandwich is released? (which should be in early december, which is almost here )
well i thought about all that. should i wait till ICS? if i need to flash new roms, root again, save all my stuff for what i want and then need to do it again because of ICS, that sure would suck a lot.
And as i am here, my display sucking up 54%, is it normal? seems quite high to me and i already reduced the brightness manually to the lowest... :/
i get my phone at 100% battery power around 7:30 in the morning and it's almost dead now, at about 22:30 (i live in germany , even if it's new and the battery is still not on it's highest capacity, that's seems quite much. and i did not use it like crazy.
Any advice? I would greatly appreciate your help!
Thanks a lot!
Man i wrote a lot, hope someone can get me some help!
check trinity or lucid kernels + cyanogenmod or MIUI
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if you wanna have longest battery life , then stock ROM may have it , at least it seems to me
about optimization , i have been here for 2,3 moths , but i didn't see much tweak , only one about HSDPA network connection ... so my suggestion is use some ROM that alread tweaked , like Brainmaster's MIUI
Check your pm, because i may just be repeating here but i think the best thing to do is research how to get fastboot working, then execute
fastboot oem unlock
Then download clockwork mod recovery from the market, flash the recovery, download a ROM then reboot to recovery and install it. I think most people would recommend oxygen for battery life and speed
Try this one http://db.tt/LaL8bmc4
Sent from my SNES
Hello community,
I have an Atrix, and it is quite old now... I want a larger screen
Planning to get a Sensation to replace it, and i have some questions to ask about it:
1. How is the battery life?
Would it get very hot while using?
2. How is the build quality? ie. any chance to be easily broken?
I havd my Atrix repaired several times because of digitizer.
3. Are the current ICS roms stable enough?
And, does unlocking bootloader/flashing a custom rom easy?
How about gaming?
4. Sensation's spec better than Atrix or not?
I mean, for normal web or apps using, 768MB ram is enough?
Thanks for any advices.
tennyleaz said:
Hello community,
I have an Atrix, and it is quite old now... I want a larger screen
Planning to get a Sensation to replace it, and i have some questions to ask about it:
1. How is the battery life?
Would it get very hot while using?
2. How is the build quality? ie. any chance to be easily broken?
I havd my Atrix repaired several times because of digitizer.
3. Are the current ICS roms stable enough?
And, does unlocking bootloader/flashing a custom rom easy?
How about gaming?
4. Sensation's spec better than Atrix or not?
I mean, for normal web or apps using, 768MB ram is enough?
Thanks for any advices.
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Ok so not biased answer it worth it but if you can expand your budget little bit more might aswell get a galaxy nexus however for your question :
#1 : battery life is pure crap on stock battery unless you get an anker otherwise you can get more then 1-2 hours screen on time..
It depends how you use your phone if you game alot alot ot heats up easily but i do normal use sometimes it gets hot but overall it isn't that bad..
#2 : build quality is quite good feels good in the hand it isnt easily breakable but keep in mind if you drop your sensation there is always a chance of cracking the screen...
#3 : yes ics roms are really stable most of the have 90% of the things working there is some small issues such as on aosp roms or cm9 wiping sd card will hard brick your phone otherwise things like camera and so on works...
i cant really answer to this one as my phone was already s-off unlocked bootloader but from the forums it seems quite hard...
Gaming is good if you'd ask me but it still lags a little bit on gta 3
#4 : yes specs are better and ram is plenty enough on sense rom i always have 250mb free and on aosp roms about 340mb free..
But as i said having a anker is a must if your an moderate user !
Sent From My Sexy Sensation.
tennyleaz said:
Hello community,
I have an Atrix, and it is quite old now... I want a larger screen
Planning to get a Sensation to replace it, and i have some questions to ask about it:
1. How is the battery life?
Would it get very hot while using?
2. How is the build quality? ie. any chance to be easily broken?
I havd my Atrix repaired several times because of digitizer.
3. Are the current ICS roms stable enough?
And, does unlocking bootloader/flashing a custom rom easy?
How about gaming?
4. Sensation's spec better than Atrix or not?
I mean, for normal web or apps using, 768MB ram is enough?
Thanks for any advices.
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1. decent/average.. and yea it gets hot.. depends on your kernel setup too
2. there are several hardware defects that affect random people. digitizer, deathgrip, low speaker quality, etc.. mines been fine so i cant really add much to this. pretty solid build though, sort of typical of HTC
3. 90-99.9% stable, still a few things here and there.. not necessarily to do with our phone but with ICS in general. VERY easy to unlock and root and get s-off.. but ive been doing this to htc phones for years so i guess experience counts. gaming is as it should be. some games might not work with certain sense 4.0 or other ICS roms for some. everything works for me though
4. yes. especially if you decide to do the CM/MIUI/AOSP/AOKP route (aka sense-less, lol) youll have more than enough free memory
shahkam said:
#3 : yes ics roms are really stable most of the have 90% of the things working there is some small issues such as on aosp roms or cm9 wiping sd card will hard brick your phone otherwise things like camera and so on works...
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The bug about it reformatting the NAND and not the SD card has been fixed and is no longer present in the current ASOP or AOKP builds, but to be safe I recommend only using AOSP or AOKP builds from April to current. But the rest of the info you gave is pretty spot on,
Also the current method of S-off for Hboot versions 1.21.0000 and up is Juopunutbear S-off is a little tricky because you have to use the wire trick. But if you follow the guides that are in this forum you should not have to much trouble.
T-Macgnolia said:
The bug about it reformatting the NAND and not the SD card has been fixed and is no longer present in the current ASOP or AOKP builds, but to be safe I recommend only using AOSP or AOKP builds from April to current. But the rest of the info you gave is pretty spot on,
Also the current method of S-off for Hboot versions 1.21.0000 and up is Juopunutbear S-off is a little tricky because you have to use the wire trick. But if you follow the guides that are in this forum you should not have to much trouble.
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Yeah forgot that vorbeth fixed it in his cm9 build sorry so now what we are close to like a 95% working ice cream sandwich rom?
Sent From My Sexy Sensation.
Ok, thanks for informations.
A Sensation in Taiwan now is priced about 280~300USD, just fit my budget.
I'm reading the s-off guide... somewhat complicated than motorola devices, but I think I can make it.
How about the battery life on ICS roms vs. GB roms?
I have a Htc Senseation and ive had heaps of phones, battery life for me..is okish with screen brightness lowered but i would like to get a anker battery,
The ICS Roms are really Good for me i love the Team PKMN with the little tweaks makes it very more..my own
Ive only had about 3 issues, 1 Boot looping..and that was due to my own fault.
2 a Camera issue with a rom but that was due to my own error
3 a couple of random shutdowns from something but again..my own fault.
Basically i have Setcpu , System Tuner , And cputuner running
im 18 and i was able to root it so if you have any experience rooting..you should had NO issues, just post and ask around most people are very helpful to guide you with a how to So Far my fav phone.
tennyleaz said:
Ok, thanks for informations.
A Sensation in Taiwan now is priced about 280~300USD, just fit my budget.
I'm reading the s-off guide... somewhat complicated than motorola devices, but I think I can make it.
How about the battery life on ICS roms vs. GB roms?
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On stock GB & battery I was getting 12hrs life with only 1 or 2hr screen time, with ICS (VI ROM) and Anker battery I get between 1 and 2 days life and up to 9hrs screen time.
Everyone's usage is different but there's nothing wrong with the hardware.
The only limitation is the custom ROM scene, most developers bypassed or moved on from the Sensation. Custom ROMs are miles better than stock, but development is pretty static now.
Based on my personal experience, I will not buy a HTC phone again. This is a shame considering I have the Desire as well.
I have been plagued by the following problems:
death grip ( i know most phones experience this at some point, but this is no excuse )
missed calls - even with a full signal strength, my phone would not even ring
reboots at random intervals
HTC do make good phones, but apparently the One X on the Vodafone UK network is also plagued by signal loss.
I love my sensation!
Yes its worth getting! battery life can be worked with I got a long lasting battery it makes a huge difference! Rooting can be difficult depending on your h boot version but I promise its well worth it and very do able. Just follow the guide to s off and rooting. You will do fine. Ice Never had problems with my device and I flash a lot. Mine has proven sturdy and solid. I have no complaints. I really enjoy everything about my device! Ics custom roms have proven to be more stable than stock roms! ice never got a reboot on a custom ROM and ice tried several, even sense 4. I can honestly say I'm still enjoying my device! Thanks to the developers here at xda. If your rooted you make your device rudely your own. if you don't like something just change it. the customization is wonderful! You can create a device thats truely yours with the help of rooting, roms, kernels, and mods! Its always fresh never boreing! I think you will be completely happy. I know I am! Your not stuck with something you don't like because you change and modify it to what you want. I don't understand how anyone can complain about that! You have the ability to change it on the deepest levels. My advice is to try many roms until you find what suits you! Then you can change kernels and mods and really customize your device. Warning its highly addictive lol. bottom line IM still happy after a year. I think you will be also. I must say rooting is a must! Also s off. Then you will be on your way to making your device custom AND TRUELY your own creation! Enjoy every step of the way! I think you will love it! I know I do. Best of luck and have fun!
Sent from my Sensation using xda premium
boomboomer said:
On stock GB & battery I was getting 12hrs life with only 1 or 2hr screen time, with ICS (VI ROM) and Anker battery I get between 1 and 2 days life and up to 9hrs screen time.
Everyone's usage is different but there's nothing wrong with the hardware.
The only limitation is the custom ROM scene, most developers bypassed or moved on from the Sensation. Custom ROMs are miles better than stock, but development is pretty static now.
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Your not getting 9h screen on time no matter what post some pics! I the sgs3 which has 2100mah cannot achieve that...
By the way add like 40$ more and you can get the galaxy nexus off the market place here on xda really at that price it doesn't worth it...
Sent From My Sexy Sensation.
tennyleaz said:
And, does unlocking bootloader/flashing a custom rom easy?
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Just to chip in here, I'm a complete noob at this stuff but a few days ago I just followed this guide and went from stock ICS to rooted with a custom ROM in only a few hours, and much of that was spent waiting for files to download. I highly recommend you follow it, and if you do, modify step 4b a little bit. Everything Superwipe does can be done by a 4EXT wipe, so replace step 4b with:
Download the custom ROM you want, you don't need Superwipe
Place the zip on your sd card
Reboot into recovery
Perform a full wipe ("wipe | format" --> "format all partitions (except sd card)")
Enable smartflash ("tools" --> "enable 4EXT SmartFlash")
Flash the new ROM ("install from sd card" --> "choose zip from sd card" --> select zip)
And once you're rooted you can repeat this process as many times as you want each time you want to try out a new ROM
HTC sensation is worth every penny. I am inloved with this phone. I have been using one since January. I rooted it and installed a custom ROM on it. The phone fits perfectly with my needs. It is fast enough, nice design, good material quality so, yeah, I reccomend it.
Now, is it possible for me to downgrade 4est recovery from v2.... to v.1 and stuff RC?
The damn speaker is so awesome, I've made a conscious decision not to buy a HTC phone again. Galaxy s 3 or the eagerly awaited Google nexus with jelly bean should be a wise choice.
Sent from my HTC Sensation using xda app-developers app
What do you guys think about the dude claiming 9hrs of screen on time ?
Sent From My Sexy Sensation.
I would suggest a Nexus instead. Google has decreased $50 off the original price, so that's $350 for an unlocked phone, with superior specs than the Sensation, for pretty much a similar price and priority OTA updates from Google. It'll be getting JB anything now.
ungraph said:
I would suggest a Nexus instead. Google has decreased $50 off the original price, so that's $350 for an unlocked phone, with superior specs than the Sensation, for pretty much a similar price and priority OTA updates from Google. It'll be getting JB anything now.
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+infinite
Sent From My Sexy Sensation.
ungraph said:
I would suggest a Nexus instead. Google has decreased $50 off the original price, so that's $350 for an unlocked phone, with superior specs than the Sensation, for pretty much a similar price and priority OTA updates from Google. It'll be getting JB anything now.
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"superior specs than the sensation" LOL
http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=4219&idPhone2=3875
the slight ram increase is not worth anything, the typical end user will find no difference with the CPU and GPU differences, and not many people even care to use the front facing camera or require HD quality..
other than that, its a downgrade to get the nexus.. its not like we wont get a JB version ROM lol devs are always hard at work
also... sense > any other UI including stock
DonDizzurp said:
"superior specs than the sensation" LOL
http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=4219&idPhone2=3875
the slight ram increase is not worth anything, the typical end user will find no difference with the CPU and GPU differences, and not many people even care to use the front facing camera or require HD quality..
other than that, its a downgrade to get the nexus.. its not like we wont get a JB version ROM lol devs are always hard at work
also... sense > any other UI including stock
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Hows that super gorgeous screen a downgrade ? And rom developement is crazy aswell + really light device which suits me better personally..
Sent From My Sexy Sensation.
DonDizzurp said:
"superior specs than the sensation" LOL
http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=4219&idPhone2=3875
the slight ram increase is not worth anything, the typical end user will find no difference with the CPU and GPU differences, and not many people even care to use the front facing camera or require HD quality..
other than that, its a downgrade to get the nexus.. its not like we wont get a JB version ROM lol devs are always hard at work
also... sense > any other UI including stock
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Sent From My Sexy Sensation.
I have been using SupremeSense in my Evo Shift 4G. I used MikTweaks to turn off pretty much all eye candy and remove the startup animation. So, eyecandy is really not a big deal to me.
Since the battery isn't huge, I am looking for a ROM that is as battery miserly as possible. I read that Android 4.3 Jellybean introduced a huge improvement in battery life. Am I correct that a ROM based on that version would be the best on battery life?
As a noob to the Android phone world, I was really focused on making sure all the basic features of the phone work. Now that I have lived with the phone for a while, I realize that I almost never use WiMax. So, if I have to give up WiMax, I don't think that would be a big deal.
I really do not like touch screens -- which is why I chose this as my first Android phone.
For practical reasons, I would like to not have the volume hardware buttons change my volume. If it is possible, what I would really like is for the volume rocker to move whatever slider on the screen has focus -- if any. Any advise on accomplishing that would also be appreciated... Using the d-pad would be an acceptable alternative for that.
I want to use A2SD, preferably on an Ext2 partition. My rusty memory thinks I read somewhere that becomes included in Android at some point and only has to be added for older versions. My google karma is not getting me an answer on that though...
Looking for a kernel that is swap enabled, so I can use swap on a swap partition.