Let's say that you could only flash one ROM for the next three months. Which one would you choose and why?
Let's say that you could only flash one ROM for the next three months. Which one would you choose and why?
MikG v2.00
Andy, I'm new to all this still. This is probably a stupid question...how do I know that I have the most current MikG? The about section on my phone says MikG Sense 2.1 RC1
I am wondering this same thing. I kind of want to get into building a theme, so i am trying to find a rom I love and stick with it. But so many new roms keep coming out every day.
Virus' rom always seems to get good reviews and both his and MikG's roms seem to be the base for a lot of other guys out there, so that should tell me something I guess. I am liking kingsrom alliance and shifted evolution which i believe are both based of one or both of these roms, can't remember.
I love sense 3.0 stuff, but I am also hearing CM7 can get some crazy battery life. I've DL'd it, but haven't tried it yet, pretty sure I have tried all the rest except for MikG, I usually seem to go for one of the roms that uses his base. But I might have to try 2.0
Help me decide, lol
what deciding is there to do. try them all. come on feed the addiction. you know you want. come join us flashaholics and just flash away.
i really love cm7/tiamat combo best battery life by far out of anything i tried in the past. and cm7 is a great rom. aosp roms do take more tweaking and fixing, but once you get past that then you are in like butter.
however, i also really like the kingdom rom right now. so much so that im willing to wait for a custom kernel to come out and have a so so battery life. i need try out the latest mikg and the latest king roms that just came out. too many to flash and with too little time to do it. but i have to feed my addiction.
Oh trust me I am already a flashaholic. Its to the point that I often flash a new rom every day. I am probably not even giving each of them enough time.
I know I would get bored of the look of cm7 I think. I would probably have to use a different launcher and maybe beautiful widgets. I'm guessing all that might bring the battery life back in line with some of the other roms I am running now???
well with aosp roms, you do not have a battery hog called sense. so a launcher like luancher pro(which i love) should not be an issue. plus there are a ton of themes out there for cm7. plus launcher pro is very customizable and you can always make it look different if you want. with cm7 and tiamat kernel i get anywhere to 20-35 hours of light to moderate use.
well actually sense is not really a battery drain but more like a resource drain to me at least. it is why the kingdom rom is so huge with sense 3.0.
with my cm7/tiamat combo i use beautiful widgets and launcher pro with no drop in battery life. just to give you some ideas this is what granite has done: http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-all-things-root/322488-super-mario-bros-theme.html. you can always post a question on theming there. i know he was working on some theme on cm7.
Okay, gonna install cm7. Where do I get that kernel(tiamat) and how do I flash it? Before or after I flash the rom, and is it done the same way as the rom? Anything else I need to know?
You can download it from here: Tiamat AOSP Kernels
I have had the best battery with 3.3.8 but some have good luck with the 4.x series also.
Flash your rom, reboot, then reboot to recovery. Wipe Davlik-cache and cache, then flash the kernel and reboot. CM7 has governor settings in CM Settings. I think Tiamat defaults to Smartass which is my preference also.
sbc all the way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i have this one right now. Its cool. But the camera looks bad. The stock sprint camera looked much clearer
I tried to find some info on this online while waiting for your reply and it seems like a lot of people are against sbc saying it can kill your battery.
I didn't have time to set up CM7 last night so I flashed virus rom again today. Battery life sucked for some reason.
I am starting to really like kingsrom alliance. He is updating very quickly. First sense 2.1/3.0 rom that I know of with working netflix
well there are a lot of pros and cons with sbc. i think that the pros far out weighs the cons in my opinion. i was on cm7/tiamat for a good 4 months with sbc and my phone never exploded. and my battery life was the best. checkout this thread:http://androidforums.com/evo-4g-all-things-root/319636-sbc-no-sbc-kernel.html. novoxx77 post#18 explains it better then i can. hope that convinces you to at least try it.
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