[Wildfire General] androidino95:
"FOR USERS BY USERS"​

Disclaimer:

-OP reviews are MY opinion, read through the thread to get more opinions from other people. If you still didn't get your answer, ask and get it! Thank you and good luck finding your perfect ROM.

To reduce the spam on this forum, I decided to make this thread where I and others who are willing to help are going to do little ROM reviews to show you how good is the ROM, I know ROM picking is "to each his own" thing, but, I (and others) am/are here to do an objective review of the ROM with stock settings.

I'll start with CM. I'll be dividing the review in couple of categories (speed, stability etc.)

N.B.:

AOSP - Vanilla (stock) Android ROM

Sense ROM - ROM with HTC Sense user interface and apps

Hybrid - Sense core but modified and removed some/all HTC apps

JIT - "Just in time" compiler - makes things faster

Overclocking - Changing CPU speeds

Kernel - "Bridge" between hardware and software

CyanogenMod 7.0.3 Stable:

-Android 2.3.3

-AOSP (no Sense)

-Fast and stable (JIT enabled)

-Overclockable to 768 MHz by defalut (no need for flashing new kernels, the included one is the BEST one for Wildfire in general)

-Customizable (Themes etc.)

-Personal opinion: It's best AOSP Gingerbread ROM for Wildfire for me. I've tried most of them, this one is simply the best.

-Battery life: 5/5 (1 day of heavy use ~20% battery left)

-Overall: 9/10

CyanogenMod 6 Latest Stable:

-Android 2.2.1

-AOSP (no Sense)

-Fast and stable (JIT enabled)

-Overclockable to 768 MHz by default

-Customizable

-Personal opinion: It's very good, but why being on Froyo when you're able to run Gingerbread, so CM7 > CM6.

-Battery life: 4/5 (1 day of heavy use ~10% battery left)

-Overall: 8/10

WildPuzzle (new):

-Android 2.2.1

-Sense ROM

-Fast and stable (JIT is not enabled due to instability in Sense ROMs in general)

-Few modifications to make it better and faster + modded framework

-Overclokable by flashing O/C kernel

-Customizable with flashable themes (My theme here - should work on all Sense ROMs)

-Personal opinion: Awesome and best Sense ROM so far, very stable, almost no bugs (I didn't find any), full Sense experience + live wallpapers in Sense, simply - awesome!

-Battery life: 4/5 (1 day of heavy use ~10-15% battery left)

-Overall: 8.5/10

JokerDroid 4.2:

-Android 2.2.1

-Sense ROM

-Fast and stable + few modifications (JIT is not enabled due to instability in Sense ROMs in general)

-Overclockable by default

-Customizable by flashable themes

-Modded Sense UI and framework - cool for me, I don't know about you tho :)

-Personal opinion: Good ROM, dev has confirmed he is working on Sense 2.1 Gingerbread ROM, I can't wait for it, but this ROM is also good, and has few different editions, check the original thread for more information, good Sense experience, just different look, try it if you're looking for some innovation but don't want to leave Sense!

-Battery life: 4/5 (Battery life is bad in the beginning, after few charge/discharge cycles is good as Wildpuzzles)

-Overall: 8/10

OpenFire (original) & WildMix (improved & themed original):

-Android 2.2.1

-AOSP (no Sense)

-Fast and stable (JIT enabled)

-Overclockable by default

-Personal opinion: OpenFire is good, but WildMix ROM based on OpenFire is better. Flash this if you want stock Android experience, which is more stock than CyanogenMod - don't forget WildMix is themed, so not that stock, but better.

-Battery life: 5/5 (Nice battery life even if overclocked!)

-Overall: 7.5/10

Note: For links to threads of ROMs and other very helpful things go on this thread by 3xeno. Thank you 3xeno!