Any users who have run both, compare the two? Would love to hear your opinions. Only thing holding me back from BB v1.0 is the lack of App2SD which I currently use in CM 5.0.6.2
I haven't used App2SD yet. But I went back to CM once I noticed no battery percent in the icon. I know it's minor, but it means a lot to me. I hear BB1.1 will get the %, so I'll try BB1.1 when it drops. And honestly, get ROM manager and try them. Backup your current ROM, flash BB1, try it out. Then if you don't like it, you can go back to CM without any loss of anything.
I've been running both and prefer BB. CM does have the battery %, apps2sd, 360screen rotation and some other touches regarding music and dialer which I do like. But I always end up back at BB. My suggestion, get rom manager and try each for a few days. With rom manager, flashing roms is ridiculously easy and fast! I switch between 3 roms pretty regularly.
The battery percentage in the notification bar is an option in spare parts. Personally I like CM better. For me BB is no faster which is the main benefit most people say it has. I use a lot of features of CM like full screen browser, no zoom controls on the browser, battery percentage in notification bar, options from the better contacts and mms apps, and I am sure there are more that I cant think of at the moment. BB doesnt have these features which makes me revert back to CM pretty quickly every time I have tried BB.
the only thing that BB offered me was a little bit more speed. however after updating to CM 5.0.7-test1 i can say atleast on my phone it runs just as fast. really snappy even at 600mhz Both BB and CM are great roms for me CM just has a couple unique features that keep me going back to it.
BB. Cm just has too much going on and it really rapes my battery life. Too much clutter that I really don't need. BB works nice and fast, simple and clean.
Honestly, CM's biggest advantage for me was the full screen browser but since I've been using Dolphin HD and Skyfire...the speed advantage of BB 1.0 is why I'm running it (NexBeast to be exact). Both are really good ROMs though. CM has more features but for me (and most others) BB is just SO fast.
BB V1.0 is noticeable faster than CM which tends to hang a lot. I have run both with Bekit's 1.0 kernel and trust me BB is much faster. My Sweeterhome really rocks now!
CM has nice little features everywhere. Like the battery % icon, the reboot phone option in the power menu, holding the volume up button even when the screen is locked to skip songs, etc. CM is the only ROM that gets updated from AOSP so it gets nice new features all the time.
Another feature CM has that i use often and BB doesn't have is being able to skip music using the volume rocker while the phone is sleeping. Is there anyway BB can incorporate this?
Probably not, as I said in my previous post above, that's a feature from AOSP and Bugless Beast (and every ROM except for CyanogenMod, actually) is built from Moto's ROM.
Personally BB and CM seem to run just about as fast for me but CM has so many more features right now that I will be sticking with it until at least BB 1.1 but by then CM 5.0.7 will probably be out and be equally as good.
I used BB from nearly since it came out but haoM and am very happy. ROM Manager has a lot of support for it, and tons of themes that don't require Metamorph. I've found the speed differences (when using the same kernel) to be next to nothing. For me, battery life is better on CM. I also got those reboots when unmounting SD card on BB, and the double boots when turning the phone on. I rarely do these things, but it was enough to turn me off. Anyway, like others have said, try both, it's easy enough to switch back and forth.
