Custom Roms

[anon(8662820)]

Anyone going to run a custom Rom when a few "stable" roms comes out? I'm serious considering it having ran it on my note 2 for a year before going back to stock for work reasons, and I'm also running Cyanogenmod 11 on my Nexus 7(wifi) 2012, but I hear good things about Omni and Paranoid. I like the stock Android experience, but I appreciate some of the tweaks Rom makers add that I feel enhance the Android experience instead of change it like touchwiz or sense.

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[Aridon]

There are some really good ones already.

DigitalHigh
N6PAngler
Chroma

All good. Elemental kernel is also good. If you have issues booting check or uncheck the kernel to enforce when using the aroma installer. That fixes the loop.

 

[anon(8662820)]

There are some really good ones already.

DigitalHigh
N6PAngler
Chroma

All good. Elemental kernel is also good. If you have issues booting check or uncheck the kernel to enforce when using the aroma installer. That fixes the loop.

Thank you for the suggestion, I'll have to research those. I'm waiting for another couple months just for some stability in the custom roms. I like what I've seen of Chroma, except the fact I have to dirty flash if I want the newest version.

 

[krabby]

You don't have to dirty flash any rom, you can always clean flash. It is however much quicker to dirty flash when you can do so without issue which is often the case with the incremental upgrades the roms go through in their development. As to waiting for the roms to be stable there are already quite a few that are completely stable including a couple mentioned here. You will gain nothing by waiting in these cases, they are stock rom stable right now and will not be any different a few months from now in that regard. Do not install CM, it is just released and a work in very early progress with many issues.

 

[anon(8662820)]

You don't have to dirty flash any rom, you can always clean flash. It is however much quicker to dirty flash when you can do so without issue which is often the case with the incremental upgrades the roms go through in their development. As to waiting for the roms to be stable there are already quite a few that are completely stable including a couple mentioned here. You will gain nothing by waiting in these cases, they are stock rom stable right now and will not be any different a few months from now in that regard. Do not install CM, it is just released and a work in very early progress with many issues.

I subscribe to the CM stuff cause they were my first custom rom and saw its still in the early dailies. What is your favorite rom personally? I see Chroma seems to be the favorite at this time on the XDA forums.

 

[BartLuke94]

I'm using Pure Nexus and it's really nice.

 

[anon(8662820)]

I'm using Pure Nexus and it's really nice.

I don't know how to leave well enough alone.

 

[krabby]

I would go with either Pure, Chroma, or AOSiP if you desire trouble free. I would avoid any of the CM stuff for quite a while and even then I would go into it expecting issues coming and going as a way of life while on CM. I would avoid the roms with Exposed installed and also avoid installing exposed yourself if you value trouble free installations. Not that there is anything wrong with Exposed but a person can enable that one module that will refuse to play well with others and gives a lot of trouble. Not a shot at Exposed, I use it myself in some cases but I don't mind fiddling with my roms and keep a recent backup at all times to deal with those "Oh crap" moments that going bat nuts crazy in Exposed can make happen.

I'm personally running AOSiP mostly due to its auto light/dark setting. Overall it and the other two I mentioned all have a fairly similar bag of goodies to offer and those goodies are plentiful enough most wont miss Exposed. You cant go wrong with any of the three.

 

[skinnytoo2]

I was on chroma for a while with my N6. Great ROM, great DEV. Very stable and had all the bells and whistles I needed. I used it with francos kernel and had super battery life.

 

[mchockeyvette27]

I haven't rooted and used custom roms in a while. I did with the 6p for a few features I wanted. I usually never got into running custom kernels either, cause I've felt that I always got mixed results, usually with battery life.
Are they really necessary for some or is just a custom rom good for you guys?

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[krabby]

I'm running El-x for the swipe to wake and screen calibration. It has other useful features but those are what I use. I don't overclock my phones because I've never seen any benefit in actual use moving about the GUI and doing various tasks on the phone but I do sometimes underclock for battery savings. I've had both mixed and good results with that in the past but I haven't found it needed on the 6P, I get through a day with a decent chunk of spare without trying.

The 6P out of the box is going to be hard to improve in any substantial way in terms of battery life or performance and flar seems to agree, he has left all the things that would attempt to effect battery and performance at stock settings in El-x saying there is little room to take it anywhere. IMO you're probably not missing much if you skip playing with the kernels.