Root Villain & Vanillain: What is the difference?

[Budius]

I'm kinda newbie on the subject as I have my Hero for only 2 weeks and only rooted when HTC decided to postpone to July.

now I'm on Vanillain ... and after I installed it I started seeing a lot of stuff about Villain (which at the beginning I didnt noticed it was a different one)...

so the question:
was the difference?

 

[Jaffa]

Different ROM, developed by someone else, and it has no Sense. Villain is the rom you want!

 

[Xyro]

Villain is most like the normal hero, it has the same user interface (called HTC Sense). Vanillain is a play on words with vanilla, and means android without HTC sense.

 

[Budius]

thanks guys,

but I guess the one I want would be the vanillain... cause personally I prefer the nexus UI better than the sense UI...

but then it lies the questions on stability, speed, performance... I already noticed that vanilain is not the best on those terms

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well.. I just finished installing villain and it's bootin up now... let's see what happens

 

[Xyro]

Different ROM, developed by someone else, and it has no Sense. Villain is the rom you want!

Same guy actually

I was trying the non-HTC Sense roms the other day and this one was pretty good:

[ROM][UPDATE 25/04/2010][AOSP Vanilla 2.1][Production ready] VanillaEclair 1.2.1 JIT - xda-developers

 

[Budius]

before rooting I was already using the hero without the sense UI... maybe I can do the same on the villain...

thanks for the link.. I'll check it

 

[Jaffa]

Same guy actually

I was trying the non-HTC Sense roms the other day and this one was pretty good:

[ROM][UPDATE 25/04/2010][AOSP Vanilla 2.1][Production ready] VanillaEclair 1.2.1 JIT - xda-developers

Oh, lol I quickly googled it, saw it didnt link to the Villian forum and assumed..

We all know what assumption is!

 

[Budius]

Xtiro,

I've installed that rom u pointed me...
I had some initial trouble setting up the mobile data network as it was not recognizing automatically.
1st I thought the radio thing, updated and nothing.
then I noticed the APN thing empty and the option to manually add one.. so there you go.. Google -> t-mobile uk apn .... add whatever I found on the resul and is the fastest ROM I tested and it uses a nexus style UI... sweet =)

 

[Xyro]

Xtiro,

I've installed that rom u pointed me...
I had some initial trouble setting up the mobile data network as it was not recognizing automatically.
1st I thought the radio thing, updated and nothing.
then I noticed the APN thing empty and the option to manually add one.. so there you go.. Google -> t-mobile uk apn .... add whatever I found on the resul and is the fastest ROM I tested and it uses a nexus style UI... sweet =)

Oh yeah, I didn't realise it was a missing APN at first either