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Root What ROM's are people using and why?

I love Defrost 6.1 (not a) but I'm now loving GingerVillain (also by Richard trip).

Its not missing much from defrost, but its missing a little.

However I find the battery life good (others have reported problems though.)

The greatest thing about it was I was able to flash from defrost with no wipe, so if you try it, try that first.

Of course if you do have issues, you will have to wipe before anyone will take your issue seriously.



Just for reference, there is a root sub forum for the desire here:
http://androidforums.com/desire-all-things-root/
 
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You should name it.

If I ever created a rom, it would be "Dandroid". Unfortunately this is far too close to the similarly named "Leedroid" but I've already got the custom splash and boot animation :(

This is maybe as good a place to ask as any, does your avatar say IDANDROID on purpose? :)

Anyway I'm back to Leedroid 2.3d after giving Oxygen and Gingervillain a go. I might try them again (I did like how lean Oxygen was) in the next week or so, but Leedroid has done really well by me.
 
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It all depends on usage. You may get that on other roms too. Not that I am trying to persuade you to change or anything.

Indeed it does and i've been using it.

I have tried T-mobile rom, HTC stock Rom, cyanogenmod, leedroid and oxygen and have found oxygen latest edition with latest radio gives me the BEST performance and batterylife.

I use Push Email to my exchange server from 7am to 10pm about 100 emails daily. I use the internet for sky news and facebook regular, 3g HSDPA is always on. about 40 texts a day and occassional satnav(which usually takes about 20% for a 60-90 mins outting.
 
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Like SUroot my preference is DeFroST or GingerVillain. Technically DF is a little more refined, but GV has come far enough that it doesn't feel worth flipping back any more.

Why? I like AOSP more than Sense, and RichardTrip's ROMs include a nice selection of little extras (CyanogenMod and others) without being cluttered. Plus stability is good - I like fiddling and tweaking, but it has to work reliably.
 
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Im mainly after decent battery life and am running Defrost 6.1 with se havs 1113 Mhz@875 cfs kernel
Well if you feel experimental, I see references in the coutss kernel thread to an 825 mV version (though it's not linked from the first post) :eek:

If 875 works well for you, you could try it. I've not tried this myself - this is just something I've spotted in passing, and in no way a personal recommendation...

Edit: Alternatively, EViollet has been building some battery-optimised kernels, in 2.2 and 23 flavours. You could give one of those a spin.
 
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First ROM was LeeDroid 2.2f, and updated at every release to 2.3d. I chose it because it's based on a Sense ROM and could be flashed over my old Orange 2.2 FroYo update without needing any complicated stuff (at the time) like radios.

I really like 2.3d but I'm starting to look at Gingerbread ROM's. I like the idea behind AOSP but need to read about the pitfalls involved with changing to a non-Sense OS.

EDIT: "Nonsense" hee hee! ;)
 
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My first rom was Leedroid but I was tempted to try some of the DHD roms, my favourite so far has been Baadnewz DHD, I like(d) the skin options and the (now no longer functioning for me) phone finder. I have that as my Nandroid back up, but I'm currently trying out a 0.6 Z rom (bigger fonts ...yaaaay).

I've also tried one of the MIUI roms but it wasn't really to my liking, also just removed Gingervillain 0.9 but I found that I was making it look like a HTC Sense rom .... so I thought I may as well go back to what I seem to like the most.
 
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