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[Thunderbolt General] Warrior 3000:
hey all. Im a long time HTC EVO 4g rooted user (since it came out years ago)

my cousin just got a HTC thunderbolt and im looking for a good stable rom for him to try out. what are some of the best stable roms?
[Thunderbolt General] sonicanatidae:
Keep in mind, the *best* ROM varies from person to person.

That being said, Check this link:

http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=943

For AOSP Roms, I personally like Liquid Smooth. Fast, stable ROM

and its been themed/skinned to look a great deal like Ice Cream Sandwich.

CyanogenMod 7 is another popular ROM for T-Bolt. Even tho it's not "officially"

supported, it appears to work just fine.

(Liquid Smooth is the ROM I'm currently running).

If you like SENSE Roms, the BAMF series seems to be quite popular and

the IKream series also looks great.

I personally suggest that you hack the phone with Revolutionary, then

do a full backup with ClockWorkMod. After that, you can flash all the ROMs

you want with a simple restore to put you back to stock.

Since you're experimenting with ROMs, I suggest you stick with ROMs that

do not require a new Radio. Radio's can brick your phone and there are plenty

of ROMs out that work with the Stock Radio.

Good Luck!
[Thunderbolt General] harner2012:
I really like Liquid Smooth 3.2. Its super fast and looks amazing. It's much like CM7 but I like it better. I rarely have force closes or any bugs at all.
[Thunderbolt General] johny101010:
Liquid 3.2 for AOSP with IMO's latest kernel. Don't forget to run speedtweak.sh after installing kernel.

Infected eternity Sense 3.5 with 3d custom Rosie and CPU running at 1.5.

If you like sense 2.1, well than you have no taste lol.
[Thunderbolt General] champaned_out:
i have liquid smooth 3.2 installed and it run very nicely... i was wondering if anyone knows where to find some nice themes for this rom? i did a search but i cant seem to find any themes for this rom, is there a ICS theme available?
[Thunderbolt General] Mishakel:
I use infected eternity 3.5 and love it. Good fast Rom with plenty of support.
[Thunderbolt General] Forgetfull:
Download Theme Chooser Themes from market.
[Thunderbolt General] yareally:
http://xdaforums.com/search.php?searchid=14009668

hundreds of answers to what the "best" rom is already out there.
[Thunderbolt General] xs11e:
The absolute BEST ROM (for me!) is the one I run. The BEST ROM for your cousin will be the one he likes.

I run Eternity, I also like Liquid Smooth and (oddly enough) I also like the stock ROM but rooted and de-crapified.
[Thunderbolt General] jellydroid13:
i personally like DV's miui but its not the stablest yet.
[Thunderbolt General] plambda:
The shed

sent from my bolt
[Thunderbolt General] donnyp1:
I quit running aosp roms when i realized all the crap i had to install to make it look like sense. ETERNITY ALL THE WAY!
[Thunderbolt General] jellydroid13:
U guys got me to switch over to eternity and I love it!
[Thunderbolt General] cub2000:
I had liquid smooth for a couple days, then flashed infected eternity 3.5 and have been in love with ịt
[Thunderbolt General] SimplySweetness:
I am about to flash Eternity because of all the awesome things I have heard about it! I had Gingeritis 3D, but it's just too slow for for me after being on it for 2 months.
[Thunderbolt General] rajuabju:
I can very highly recommend ThunderStick Full Blown if you want a Sense 3.0 ROM.

Using IMO's new 6.1 leanKernal, the MR4 radio... this thing is amazing.

So smooth, no lag whatsoever, and amazing battery life. I believe its the best Sense 3.0 ROM I've tried yet.
[Thunderbolt General] donnyp1:
Very true on 3.0
[Thunderbolt General] turbosrrgood:
There always has to be one of these guys ^, the self appointed search police (btw, your link pops up "no matches" for me).

Some guys read every post ever posted, and complain about all of the ones not interesting enough for them. Rom's change on a daily basis, and there was absolutely nothing wrong with this thread. Even though I have had my TB since it was released, and have followed this forum ever since, I am still interested to see others opinions on

CURRENT

ROM's. That is why I opened this thread, why did you?

To the OP, I dual boot Gingeritis 1.2 (mainly because it came with the miui bar, even though pvy's app can be had separately in the market now) and CM7 (need it for work).
[Thunderbolt General] Daveoid:
IMHO The best most stable is Eternity. It also has the best support
[Thunderbolt General] donnyp1:
The best is the one that gives you the features you need. Everyone has different needs and taste
[Thunderbolt General] 4Gallovermyface:
IMO Eternity is the best Sense ROM and ThunderShed is the best AOSP ROM with LiquidSmooth in a close second. I run ThunderShed as my daily.
[Thunderbolt General] athensjohn:
Shed

I run Thundershed as well. Workshed just put out a new version. Great ROM and a great developer.
[Thunderbolt General] Ace2d:
I am fairly new to the HTC scene but in the breif time I have had my phone I have tried SOAB, eternity and liquid smooth and thus far liquid, eternity I especially like the stock keyboard from that rom . The SOAB. I ran leankernel with them all. Liquid has given me best results so far, battery life call quality and functionality.

HTC Thunderbolt,

quietly rooted, liquid smooth 3.1, iKandee, Imoseyon 6.1 ASOP ondemand.
[Thunderbolt General] _highway_:
I guess this thread is kinda on the old side, but I am using liquid gingerbread v3.2 -- which is an AOSP rom -- and it's great, super fast . . .

I highly recommend it!
[Thunderbolt General] kendive:
Link does not work... :eek:
[Thunderbolt General] titusseid:
How long does the first boot after loading the from take. I seem to be stuck at boot animation
[Thunderbolt General] _highway_:
Shouldnt take that long...

Sent from my HTC ThunderBolt
[Thunderbolt General] Nitrox1995:
I love the stock theme but i like some mods if have the another roms... So i jave killasense 3,6 have a great performance and i love it...

Enviado desde mi HTC Thunderbolt usando Tapatalk
[Thunderbolt General] toklas:
lol also depends on what forum you ask...

for instance the same thread over at rootzwiki generated a majority of thundershed(asop)

here the majority sounds like they are leaning towards eternity(sense)

myself.. i've been using Gingeritis3D as my daily driver for months now and love it. had great battery life and the only bug that I ever encountered was the call answer bug. but it didn't lag and had so much customization.

I just switched over to thundershed today and will be giving it a go so no thoughts on it yet except that it came with go launcher as the default launcher which is what I use and with so many people raving about it over at rootzwiki i thought I would try it.
[Thunderbolt General] matthskim:
I am new to Thunderbolt and about to root with Revolutionary.

Quick question: after rooting, can you just download ClockworkMod from the market? Then, what happens to to the Revolutionary recovery? It is just replaced by the CWD?
[Thunderbolt General] rockula:
You know, I have the HTC Thunderbolt, and have never rooted it. I've always felt the Tbolt was the bastard child of VZW. We're still running Gingerbread I think? 2.3.4. I see so many cool phones with great systems installed. It makes me think I should root my phone. It's about time for a wipe anyway. I feel it's getting bogged down.

the problem for me is, understand just wtf you guys are talking about! This rooting stuff is very "heady" for someone new to it. AOSP, Sense, BAMF, etc. I don't know what those mean, what "sense" means really, etc. So, that's why I've never bothered rooting the phone because it will take me days to figure out just what it all means, and what's for me.

It's almost like I should just pick the one everyone likes and assume that I'll like it. HA! I have a full time job, kids, busy home life, but i like gadgets. I'm a power user when It comes to my cell phone. I want it to do EVERYTHING if it can. And I've gathered that Rooting it is the only way to go. I guess I should just pick one, install it, and hope I can find a tutorial that tells me exactly what to do so that i can restore my phone if I need to later.

Btw... are there any rooted ROMS that allow Tethering? Verizon won't let you tether w/ the Thunderbolt, but I'm assuming that's because of their rom?

Thanks!

jason
[Thunderbolt General] donnyp1:
If you want everything to work, i mean everything including tethering, use killasense. Its rooted stock, has mods, great battery life, and it just works.
[Thunderbolt General] toklas:
when i first started i found a thread by bamf that really helped and explained everything and walked me through from beginning to end. know that after your run through it you'll get comfortable and probably jump around different roms until you find one you like... but this is a great place to start.

http://www.teambamf.net/f17/[genera...w-all-easy-follow-guide-everything-root-1861/
[Thunderbolt General] rockula:
Boy, I don't know if it's because I'm now rooted or what... but the only thing I've done is root my phone, installed SuperUser, and I'm running the stock rom (i guess?). I did it through Revolutionary, and with MAJOR props from a helpful tool from the ThunderboltForums that helped me downgrade EASILY so that i could run Revolutionary.

http://www.thunderboltforums.com/fo...-bypass-downgrade-get-s-off-no-data-wipe.html

Anyway, my phone runs much faster it seems. I'm not sure if it's just my imagination or what. It's just smoother. And I haven't even bothered installing a ROM yet!

So many choices and questions still. Some recommend a full data wipe.

I don't know what this means exactly? does this mean that my phone will be wiped clean as if it were new, but with a new ROM? What then do I do w/ the backups that I did with Astro and CMRecovery? This is the ONE thing I don't understand!!!

Does this imply that if you wipe your phone and install a ROM that you can restore all of your "stuff" back to the way it was on the Stock ROM, but instead with the new ROM? And this is all done through CMRecovery and "Restore"? I need to be clear on just what I may or may not lose before I try a new ROM out.

Also, if I back up say today, install a ROM, play with it, decide I don't like it, then install another one, I'm ok to use the backup from earlier today right? Meaning... I don't have to do a backup of my phone before each and every ROM change do it? If I'm comfortable with the "time lapse" between backups, then I should be ok right?

Thanks!

Jason
[Thunderbolt General] rootyourdroid:
I am really enjoying liquid smooth. I'm not a big fan of sense so the aosp is awesome. I posted a review of it on YouTube ccheck it out http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ocJew3BDhw8#/watch?v=ocJew3BDhw8
[Thunderbolt General] rockula:
I'll check out your review. I've been told TWICE now that Liquid Smooth is great. And I still don't yet know what the difference are between Sense, etc. I would have to see and feel the difference. I have Sense now, and I'm not sure what it even is. LOL!

I do know this much.. my Tbolt is MUCH more sensitive than other phones I've played with. Typing on it isn't nearly as "sure" as others. It's very "sensitive". Maybe that's what Sense is? If so, I HATE IT. HA!

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I was over at androidfannetwork.com and somehow found a link that said Boot Manager Pro was good. but one reviewer says this... and I don't understand the lingo:

Loaded it onto my Tbolt and have been switching ROMs in and out of the device over the past few days. It has not worked well with nandroids >>>>> what does this imply? That it doesn't handle restoring backups well?

and I plan to look into this issue, and I've had a couple of ROMs refuse to operate after being loaded into a slot.>>>>>>>>> What is a slot?

However, overall, this is an absolute dream for those of us who would like to sample the wide variety of ROMs available for the Tbolt. Excellent work!

This brings me to another question... i have a 32gig microSD card that has never been used. My nandroids and backups are on the SD card no? So, let's say I put this SD card in? What then? Does this benefit me in any way? Or just cause more misery? LOL. It's just a thought. I mean... if all of my "important files" are stored on the SD card, and I've backed them up, even sucked off anything of worth to my Mac, what's there to gain or lose by using a fresh SD card?

If my nandroids are kept on the SD card, then perhaps It would be smart to at least move THOSE over to the new card so they can be restored. Anything else? If I'm going to fart around with different ROMs, does having a card per ROM do anything for me? I'm sure it's not that easy to swap out memory cards and have a new ROM per card. But I'm simply asking a possibly stupid question that's all. I'm trying to figure out if this extra 32gig card has a good use??

Perhaps the answer lies in what exactly a "Slot" is?

j
[Thunderbolt General] hondan8:
To answer your question about nandroids... yes they store on your sd card. Personally I keep a few on the card in the phone at all times. I do this in case something goes wrong with a new rom or setup when I'm not by a computer and I need to wipe/reset and restore my phone to a nandroid that was stable without a doubt. I have had this phone with only one sd card for almost a year now and never felt the need for a second sd card. Maybe I'm not picking up what you're putting down here.

Another thing I did and still do is find a stable rom ( killasense is my go to rom for stability) and keep the file on my sd card as a backup. That way if I want to try a more "experimental" (less stable) rom to see how my phone "likes" it. That way if I'm at work or something and (this has happened to me before) my phone decides to go into an infinite bootloop, I can pull the batt. and reboot into recovery, wipe/factory reset, wipe delvik cache, and install the stable rom on the fly.
[Thunderbolt General] chefdave12118:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocJew3BDhw8&feature=youtube_gdata_player

This is the video rootyourdroid was posting. Great review for Liquid Smooth 3.2 aosp ROM. :beer:
[Thunderbolt General] noylekul:
I think its funny to see the posts " The best ROM for me is this... But the best ROM for you is the you like best... Well no S**T... But where do they start? Maybe with the one that most people vote as the best? Just a suggestion... Just give them your opinion on which one you like best... If they don't like it, they will move on to the next, you have to start some where.
[Thunderbolt General] sorullo_xgrx:
Gotta say liquid smooth rom 3.2 my daily. Though I use bootmanager to load up sense roms for music and navigation.. But doesn't compare to the smoothness of AOSP rooms..
[Thunderbolt General] rockula:
I've done something wrong w/ this Liq Smooth ROM. First of all, do I seriously have to pay for Launcher Pro? I can't be sure that this is the "Rom of choice" for me yet, so why should I pay for Launcher Pro just to use the Calendar.

Ahh... the Calendar. There isn't one! So, I got the bright idea of restoring the calendar app and it's data from the stock ROM backup. That sort of worked, as I can see the app icon, but when I click on it, I get a crash immediately!

So, I figured I'd just uninstall it. I can't because it's acting like it's "not really installed".

I have NO CLUE what to do here? I can't believe that this ROM didn't come with a Calendar app? At least a basica one that syncs up with my stored data from the original ROM. But paying for Launcher Pro?

I just installed CyanogenMod 9 on my TouchPad and it's calendar app found whatever data Google had from my previous calendar. That's all I want!

Oh, and to remove this stupid botched calendar restore!

Thanks!

Jason

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Are you saying that you load up a ROM for when you want to listen to music or need navigation? That's like every other day for me! What is the point of doing that?

I may give a Sense ROM a shot after I'm done testing this one, just for kicks.

I like this ROM, but I don't like the stock keyboard (I know I can use others). The keys are too small and it's difficult to type on. Pity cuz it's very cool. Not a deal breaker by any means. The ROM runs wonderfully!

Running the Lean Kernal with it.
[Thunderbolt General] sorullo_xgrx:
Well I really don't like launcher pro,

I'm using

ADW launcher, overclock to 1.7, calendar use a app from the market such is better than any stock.

I use sense roms for navigation and music because beats on sense roms is way better sound such is infect eternity roms I use for that.
[Thunderbolt General] rockula:
Well, Im going to have to ask the LS Forum I guess, because I can't figure it out.

I did a reset if my phone, but that did nothing. I think I'm going to have to reflash the ROM. I guess there is no need to back it up first if something is FUBAR with Cal right?

I installed a different Cal app which syncs to Google data and others. However, in my accounts & sync settings for my gmail account, Calendar is the only one that can't sync do to an error. The app wont launch either, but it gives a force close. Sync says that its "experiencing problems with Cal sync and to check back later".

However, in my list of Google apps being synced, Cal is the only one that is described differently is the Cal app. Gmail is listed as such, Google Docs, etc, but Cal is shown as "Sync com.Android.calendar".

So I think it's the way the app has been installed, or something I did wrong. Now, no Cal app can sync to Google.

Its not about the app, its about my data syncing to whichever app I run.

BTW... does anyone know which section the LiqSmooth ROM is found under in their forum? The Rome are abbreviated like LSO, LTS,etc. Why not the name of the ROM? Liquid Smooth 3.6 I think is what I have. Maybe 3.2. It's the new one. Also running it with LeanKernel.

Thanks!

J
[Thunderbolt General] sorullo_xgrx:
Maybe re-flashing will help. I'm not having any problems with cal, syncs normal with Google... And here are my numbers using imoseyon 5.1 though I think there's an updated versión..
[Thunderbolt General] rockula:
Yes, my Lean Kernel is newer: 2.6.35.14-Imoseyon-6.1.0 AOSP+

But I just noticed my Baseband version is nowhere near yours? Mine is:

1.48.00.0930w_3, 0.01.78.0916w_3

What does that even indicate?

Thanks,

J
[Thunderbolt General] sorullo_xgrx:
That's the newest radio versión, it doesn't comes with the ROM you would have to flash it trough the bootloader
[Thunderbolt General] sorullo_xgrx:
I'm actually trying 6.1 will run it for a while to see battery life and speed
[Thunderbolt General] rockula:
I don't know much about running "new radio versions" or what it even does. Is it something that is highly recommended?

I wish that Verizon's Visual Voicemail worked for me, but it doesn't. It doesn't connect. I will keep trying though.

Keep me posted on what you think of LeanKernel 6.1. I've never used any other version, so if you don't like it, I may revert to an older release.

Thanks!
[Thunderbolt General] oneders65:
If you are not running a sense ROM on your phone there is no way for Verizon apps to work on your phone.
[Thunderbolt General] tonekneeo:
Skyraider Zeus. Imho
[Thunderbolt General] sorullo_xgrx:
Slightly better on the battery part, I just switched to a rezound battery. I'll be testing with this one now. I like it so far...
[Thunderbolt General] sorullo_xgrx:
Right, I always use my Verizon for bill payment and NFL app from Verizon that's why I decide to use Boot Manager and switch to a Sense room every time I need one of those apps...
[Thunderbolt General] dostie1:
My Verizon works fine.

I've got Thundershed 1.6 on my TB. Using the Zoom Kernel 2.6.35.14 and I have My Verizon, works on mine as well as the data widget works too. Although you have to log in each time you want to use it. No auto login feature with a rom installed.
[Thunderbolt General] jonah1234:
U should try ODJDUB HD express. I am currently running it and its smooth and awesome. Really nice and fast.
[Thunderbolt General] recDNA:
Hey! It works in 4G. I thought my verizon only worked in wifi but no problem logging in. Thanks for letting us know.
[Thunderbolt General] remillard:
IMHO - Jellyblur Ver 1.3

I've tried quite a few of the roms out there. I had been using CM 7.1. For the most part I was pretty happy and used it as my daily. However there were some minor things that bugged me. Really minor stuff..but I wanted perfect.

Just recently I found Jellyblur - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1784172

JELLYBLUR V1.3 CM7 v7.2

BASE ROM: Thundershed 1.6

This thing is IT for me. Runs sweet on my T-bolt. All the 'little' things that annoyed me about the rom (CM7.1) I was running before have been 'fixed'. If you want fast, slick and a does it all Rom...give it a try.
[Thunderbolt General] dostie1:
The widget doesn't auto update which I believe was a My Verizon version update anyways. When you click the widget it comes up with a message of "The information you have entered does not match the information we have on file." Simply click ok and it brings you to the Sign In prompt and simply sign in and it all works fine for me. Of course you have to do this every time you open the app/update the widget. It's like this on 3g, 4g, and wifi.

Thanks guys for all the work. Glad to see ICS leaked and seeing some builds pop up already. I'm gonna wait til the weekend and let everyone tinker a bit before I flash though :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hogir:
So my phone has been acing very strange lately a lot of functions just crash and even the battery drains very very fast. Sometimes I get an yellow triangle besides the battery when charging it while off.

I think I have flashed it too many times for it to handle. So I'm just wondering if t would be a problem for my phone if I decided to format the whole "USB drive" from my computer. Leave no traces of anything. Will I be able to use my phone at all?

Thanks for anwer
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tawm:
That won't reset it to a factory default.

Sent from my Galaxy S2.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hughfollett:
You can also format it through settings->memory... Plus, you can go to recovery and wipe data, cache and dalvik cache.. This will allow you to go back to factory settings...!

Sent from my Galaxy S II powered by CheckROM
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctomgee:
deleted...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Monh3:
So... how it worked?

Please... share your experience :P i would like to do the same!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Boot to CWM recovery mounts and storage format sdcard system cache and date .

Phone is now 100% empty and therefore will not boot .

Flash stock rom via Odin .

jje
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CCRAZEDD:
I tried watching QB kings videos on YouTube for how to root EI22 anD EI30. I DID everything in his videos step by step and whenever I get back to homescreen, its still on EI30. I don't understand!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b16flybye:
Rooting doesnt change the baseband (modem) or the ROM itself. Your rooted now, so now you have to flash a ROM.

I would proceed with caution. I have the notion you may be asking us how to unbrick your phone soon. Just a hunch..

Sent from my C9AN0GEN-MOd EpicOG
[Android Themes] SemperAndroid:
For those of you who prefer to work with vector files, I have taken the initial batch of Ice Cream Sandwich icons and converted them to vector formats using Illustrator CS5. This represents the first batch with more to come. There are 36 icons in this batch.

ICS Vector Icons
[Android Themes] feysofit:
Great! Thanks!
[Android Themes] brunodmjr:
Incredible job! :)
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] alirez_sos:
Fix Runny Size & Font

about this patch :

when you use roms that the base of them is runnymede

some icons & some text font is small

with this patch you can fix them

and feel like orginal rom

Download Here

for devs:

if you want include this patch in your rom

you must add pvteam in your credit

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Thanks goes to

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