[Kyocera Zio M6000] br0adband:
I always wanted (for any device, to be honest) to just create or find a really tight very lean and very fast ROM for any given device. As I'm not a developer, although after all these years maybe I should try and see what I can do, but there's already so many other people like you, Trunks, going at this process - I just wonder if that's possible: to create the leanest meanest least bloated fastest most efficient ROM possible for any given device.

So my "vote" as it were would be strip the ROM down to the absolute bare essentials, and then let the end user - people like me, and the rest of us - add in precisely what we want on that ROM by installing the apps after the ROM is flashed.

That's it.

Of course, if you can manage to squeeze in all the relevant tweaks found in all the helpful threads here about the Zio, the OC kernel by Spz0 (which was based on the work adrynalyne did/discovered), and whatever else that can improve the performance as much as possible without adding a bunch of apps that most of us may not want from the gitgo. We can muck up our own individual devices all by ourselves, thank you very much. :D

So yeah, like I said, make it lean, make it fast, compact, deadly efficient, and leave everything - absolutely everything out that most if not all of us wouldn't use.

I mean really, the original stock Calculator? Does anyone need that around with all the better Market apps available (that we can install as required)? That sort of idea...

Hell, if I could figure out how to do all this stuff, I'd rip out most everything that Google includes automagically and install that stuff later on after the ROM is flashed. I don't use Google Maps personally, I use other apps from the Market, so that's another example of leaving something out.

Damn, maybe I really do need to learn how to do this stuff myself and "cook" up a custom ROM of my own sometime. Pretty sure the Zio natively is fairly safe from being bricked because of the Fastboot capability, but if I pooched it I'm sure I could get another.

Anyway, that's my vote: fast, lean, efficient, no bloat at all meaning drop a lot of the stock Google apps of all kinds because they can be installed manually as required.

Good luck, and I hope you're able to get something out at some point, would love to test it and see what this "beast" can do. :D

Quick edit:

Just staring at the default apps screen of a clean stock Cricket 2.2.1 install I just did not an hour ago and all this stuff I don't use, never will because I use manually installed apps from apk files when I require them:

Browser (Most likely will use Dolphin, or Opera mini as I prefer that one, but not stock)

Calculator (I mean really)

Calendar (No use for it)

Contacts (Nope)

Email (Nope)

Gallery (Oh hell no, with so many better alternatives available)

Gmail (I honestly don't require it on the Zio, so that's up in the air, can be installed later anyway if required)

Latitude (Nope)

Maps (Nope)

Market (Not really necessary in the stock ROM I suppose as I can install it manually, but most people would require it)

Messaging (Oh hell no part deux)

Music (Better apps available with more capabilities)

Navigation (No use for it at all, would use better apps from elsewhere anyway)

News & Weather (Better apps available)

Places (Nope)

Talk (Nope)

YouTube (Manual install of latest version after the flash)

Seriously, I have no - that's zero, between null and void, nada, zip, zilch - use for any of those, and if I need the functionality any of those require, I'd prefer to go install a given app for that purpose on my own.

I know truly "gutting" the ROM probably isn't possible but, it sure would be nice to have one with that stuff ripped out. Talk about lean and mean. :D