What is the best custom rom?

[duffer]

Custom Rom

Which one is the best Rom?
Which one is the easiest to update?
Which one is the best for customization?
Which one is the most stable?
Which one performs better?

Cyanogenmod or AOKP??????

 

[Rukbat]

Re: Custom Rom

Which one is the best Rom?

Which is the best tool? The best ROM depends on what you want the ROM for. Just to be able to say you have a custom ROM? Don't. Faster? Smaller?

Which one is the easiest to update?

One that keeps system and data separated. Which one is that? It depends on the phone and the version of Android. Which one is easier for the user to update? That's like who's richer, someone with 10 trillion dollars or someone with 10 trillion and one dollars. The difference hardly matters. You run the update. Sometimmes you put it on the SD card and turn the phone on, sometimes you use a program to do it - whichever way the particular ROM gets updated is pretty trivial.

Which one is the best for customization?

Again, for which phone? If you're talking about homescreen customization, that;s the launcher, not the ROM, and you can install any launcher you like.

Which one is the most stable?

A modification of the stock ROM, usually. One that's stock except for the carrier bloat, which has been removed.

Which one performs better?

Define "performs better". Uses less space? Has a faster kernel? The app you run is still the same app, so unless you overclock the CPU, the ROM has very little to do with the app's performance. And the launcher is whatever launcher you prefer - you're not limited to the one that comes with the phone or with a ROM.

Cyanogenmod or AOKP??????

If you want a clean, pure Android experience, AOKP. If you want not pure Android, Cyanogen is good, if there's a version for your phone. (You can't just flash any ROM to any phone.)

 

[duffer]

Re: Custom Rom

I should have said for the Note 4 SM-N910F after Lollipop update.

After reading your reply is there really any need to install a custom rom?

Your views welcome.

 

[Golfdriver97]

Re: Custom Rom

I couldn't begin to tell you how many ROMs I have flashed. I have tried almost all the major ones: CM, AOKP, Slim, Liquid, Carbon, on top of stock modified for my S3. Each one will probably have bugs/quirks that you don't like.

Regarding my M8 (and many of these things are applicable to ONLY the M8):
For me, Liquid is a really nice ROM. The double tap/swipe to wake my device is works about 80% of the time. The near daily UI crashes are what caused me to move to a different ROM. Carbon has some sound bug issues. I don't care for Slim's restyled Recent applications menu (personal distaste; the menu at least works). CM has some double tap to wake issues, and rotating issues as well. I haven't had a chance to try AOKP on my M8 yet. I might pretty soon.

To summaraize: CM is fast to update (mind you that is not always a good thing), Slim's releases are very stable but slower, Carbon is a balance between those two. Liquid was a very smooth running ROM. But when the UI crashes it becomes unresponsive for a few minutes (once the crash is over with the device is fine for another day or two). The crash sounds a lot worse than it is. The device becomes unresponsive (by now you know it is going to happen), then, where ever you are you are pulled to your homescreen, and if you have a PIN password set up, you reenter it and you are in. All your apps are fine, and you don't even lose your place.

You might have different results. App A might work but App B might crash constantly (this happens with Google Play Sound search on CM and I think Carbon for me); so it depends on what you can live with. Up until a few weeks ago, I ran Liquid since June (I was on Carbon from May to June). And believe it or not, I am seriously considering going back to Liquid.

I think what Rukbat was getting at is this: Why do YOU want to get a custom ROM?

Keep in mind.....rooting your device can void your OS warranty. Messing around with ROMs when you don't exactly know what you are doing can lead to bricked devices. I would strenuously suggest not only looking up how to root, but how to unroot and common problems in the rooting process, and how to fix them. I am NOT saying that I don't want to help, but it is better to be self sufficient when it comes to matters like this.