ml3000

First of please.... don't yell at me for not reading the tons of pages of the different forum threads to find out which is the most stable.

Her phone has always been plauged with being horribly slow. Alot of apps don't work on her phone and when they do, there so slow its usually unusable. Currently she is running kaosf ofroyo37. What do you guys recommend for a good stable from to put her on? Also, what do you guys do tokkkk speed up your eris's? Over clock CPU? Or what? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm not to use to this phone. Always been a moto droid/droid 2 now xoom guy myself..

metlcat

A lot of us are using GSB 2.x right now. It's a Gingerbread ROM that's fast, smooth, and very stable, at least for most people. There is also xtrROM and xtrSense which are 2.1 based ROMs that are also very fast and stable. They're based on the stock htc sense from the Eris. The downside with these is that they can sometimes slow down like a stock Eris after some time. For froyo ROMs, CELB and Froshedyo are very stable and fast ROMs. Froshedyo is on its final release, but CELB was just updated.

I would recommend giving GSB a shot. Just make sure to follow the installation steps in the thread on xda. You have to flash a google apps package right after flashing the ROM before restarting the phone.

If you have any other questions, feel free to ask. I'm sure more people will chime in soon, if they haven't while I've been typing.

ml3000

Thank you for the reply! Anything you do to speed up your phones? I don't know why but her phone is so slow! Barely any apps work on it plus its just a drag to do anything. You guys overclock at all? What are your tips?

Plus anymore suggestions on roms would be awesome if anyone else wants to pipe in

metlcat

Most of the Eris ROMs are overclocked by default. GSB is set at 245min 604max. The usual safe max is 710, but some can go higher, but much higher and the phone freezes. If she decides on GSB, check out the thread we have here about GSB. There is some recent discussion about settings there. This phone won't be able to meet what a droid/2 can do, but overclocked with GSB is as fast as my phone has ever been.

thrawn86

Just install xtr and be done with it. absolutely nothing froyo/gingerbread comes close. (celb, maybe)

pretty much every rom is OC'd by default though.

doogald

IMHO, if you want fast, stable, then you want either xtrSENSE or xtrROM, depending on whether or not you want the sense launcher (xtrROM is basically the same as xtrSENSE except it doesn't have the Sense launcher and has a vanilla keyboard.)

Also IMHO, I know it has fans, but KaosFroyo is the worst of the Eris Froyos and seems to always have some bug or problem. V37 is not the most recent - it's up to V39 - and it hasn't been updated in more than three months now, and that update required a subsequent flash to fix a GPS problem, IIRC. I agree that CELB and GSB are both excellent, if you really want vanilla Android.

Let me say this about overclocking - don't go faster than 710 MHz. It may work on your phone to go faster, but 710 is stable for just about everyone. As previously mentioned, all of the ROMs mentioned here are overclocked by default - most to 710, though GSB is set to 604.8 MHz. It's fast enough at that speed.

kenn

X2. I installed this on my daughter's phone and the overall performance difference is significant and it changes almost nothing in terms of how the form looks/feels compared to a stock phone.

bberryhill0

+1 even though I've only tried FroShedYo. xtr rocks.

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stanlalee

and what makes CELB so special compared to other CM froyo roms in your humble opinion? Just another CM froyo IMO.

zerocool79346

I've tried just about every Froyo ROM put out, and somehow Conap has always been able to make a ROM smoother than its counterparts. Kaos is always first out, Tazz is the one you want if you want to customize, but Conap's ROMs (going back to CM5.0) have always been the smoothest and most well rounded.

stanlalee

well thats ones opinion (and at one time true IMO) but what I was getting at is CELB is WAY slower than XTRrom and comes nowhere near close to XTRrom anymore than any other well developed CM froyo rom. IMO (unsupported) Nonsensikal is still the best froyo rom, CM6.1 is still better and faster than CM6.2 roms and current gingerbread roms blow ALL froyo roms out the water already in speed and smoothness and are much closer in speed to XTRrom than froyo roms (still a tad slower but just a tad).

doogald

I agree with zerocool that CELB is the best Froyo around. I was running CELB and GSB last week, and I am running xtrROM right now, and I see no difference in performance at all, except for these exceptions:

- the eclair browser is slow
- gmail is faster on xtrROM, but missing some great features, slowest on GSB.
- battery life is best on GSB, CELB a close second, xtrROM really burns it.
- no question about this: if you ever use WiFi networks, xtrSENSE/xtrROM are far better than any Froyo or GSB ROM at this point. Instant connections, always, solid as a rock.

Still, I will go back to the original question: if you want a ROM that you can just install and forget, not worry about tweaking or updating or having any issues at all, I would go with xtrSENSE.