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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Sverigevader:
AOKP milestone 5

Because it's fast, stable and has a sick amount of settings.

Trinity Kernel

Before today I used franco m3 with aokp m5 and I wasn't quite as happy as I am now with trinity. Trinity seems faster and more stable somehow, but I will have to use it for at least a week before I can be sure.

On a side note though, after about 120 something hours uptime with aokp m5 and franco m3 my gnex did start to act a little sluggish which is totally unacceptable.

Very anxious to try a stable version of Cyanogen though. My previous phone was a Desire with CM7.0.2 on it and right before I switched to a GNex, I had an uptime of around 1800 hours with no restarts either hot or cold without the phone getting slow in any way.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] RogerPodacter:
Check your "system" process at the bottom in system panel. It seems aokp rom has this bug where it slowly increases its size in ram usage. Mine starts at 50mb and over a few days grows and grows to 100mb using more and more resources. Reboot takes it back to normal. It may be related to using any of the status bar tweaks but not sure. But it definitely grows large enough to slow things down. So I just check it randomly and reboot, which kinda stinks but oh well.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] @rbiter:
You can't end it? Or force close it?

let it be.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ceejay83:
AOKP. Has the most features and gets updated frequently. Tried other roms and it seems like they just copy the features of AOKP
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ManicDVLN:
I am just using the stock 4.04 rom rooted. I don't know why ppl use custom roms with a nexus phone since its already pure Google experience out of the box. The reason we bought is because its fat free from carrier and manufacture bloat ware so why would I use someone else untested unprofessional layered rom? That's like saying in independant third party developers can do better than Google.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jzero88:
Ooooo really? Thanks for the heads up, will be searching for it now. Do you know what its called?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] @rbiter:
You rather have carriers do or aspiring, hobbyist and even some pro/semi pros put customizations on here? Im sureyou just offended a lot of hard workers, end users, crack flashers and even noobs up in here. Enjoy.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] IIIPowerIII:
Paranoid, Tablet rom on a phone is awesome. Its getting better every day. Based on CM9 rom so almost perfect already
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jzero88:
Found it, this is sweet. Now I can have custom ROM without a yellow tint :)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=24783215#post24783215
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] iil:
I'm using CM9 over stock simply b/c it runs well and I like the toggles in the status bar. It may not has as many features as others but I'm familiar with the team putting it together and feel comfortable and trusting enough of them to run the software they put out.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lioryte:
Ever since I've been to Australia, I've been only using Bundaberg rum. Very Smooth, after a while though, I'm laggin'
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] RogerPodacter:
But that's the thing, with these custom roms and open source code, most of the code enhancements added are literally the same quality of code as stock. Aokp for example is professionally coded in many ways. A simple example is copying Google's code and proper style from the stock rom then duplicating it etc for the added feature. I can't think of a good example to use off the top of my head. But on a larger level it seems the quality of custom roms based on android 4.0 for the nexus are a whole level better than the roms we had with android 2.3.4. They just seem more professional and "stock".

But sure there are things like my bug I posted earlier that can arise I guess. But overall the quality and experience is great.

Oh and the thing about having pure stock isn't really to get updates from Google. The point of nexus is getting an open phone that you can then mold into what you want using the stock repository as a base to fork from.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] robrob777:
AOKP

1.- Big Menu button

2.- LED on/off custom time.

3.- Many themes for AOKP

4.- AOKP understands my needs and put them in Settings/ROM control

5.- NO nasty bugs (reboots, freezes, etc)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Okaay:
I am using Aokp m5 with Franco m3. I have to say its great. Getting 5 hours screen time with 100% brightness

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ceejay83:
How are you getting that? Settings please
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Sverigevader:
Thanks for the tip, I'll keep an eye on it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Theshawty:
You must not tar everyone with the same brush.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] duk3r:
5 hours? With stock battery and 100% brightness? Sounds impossible.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] armyms25:
had the gsm nexus for almost a week, I actuallytraded the tmobile one s for it. the one s was a great phone and awesome processor. but im glad im switched to the nexus. also now im running liquidsmooth and trinity kernel couldnt be happier!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] johno168:
AOKP is one of the best out there. Customization is of course it main reason most of us uses it. But with that said sometimes I get a feeling that my phone feels heavy and bloated, or maybe there's too much. Recently I tried out liquid smooth. I found it was pretty much aokp and more. In terms of speed its actually not noticeably different to aokp. But bugs that should and could have been easily avoided were left in, instead using a patch from an older version. Lastly I used cm9 sandwich for the past few days, and it's been great. Speed wise to me, it's actually noticeable compared to aokp. Seems more fluid. Can't wait for CM9 rc. AOKP rocks with Franco nightly 384 GPU..... for now....
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] CMNein:
Thanks for the insight Confucius I stand by my statement and will continue to keep my tar at the ready.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ereinhart:
Running Latest cm9 nightly with latest franco nightly on Sprint. Everything is running great.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Serious_Beans:
ParanoidAndroid Hybrid ROM, because I like the tablet UI better than the phone UI :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chickenfeeder:
Stock Takju 4.0.4 rooted with latest FuguMod kernel because of stability and simplicity compared to more featured packed ROMs.

I picked up a bad habit from my ZTE Blade constantly flashing and tweaking to get the best out of the device because either as ZTE stock or bloated Orange San Francisco it wasn't take great so it needed lots of playing to get the best out of it where as the Galaxy Nexus is already a quality and high performing product.

Edit: ... a bad habit that I carried over to the Nexus and I've honestly tried countless variations of ROM and Kernel but stock is just fine. The only feature that I miss the most is Touch Wake as present in the GLaDOS kernel SO.... I might switch to that but other than that :-)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] SKYLINESSUCK:
AOKP M5 and Franco Kernel M3. I tried the Trinity kernel and it seemed to perform very well as well as getting rid of my heating problem, but it doesn't support pogo pin dock mode so I went to Franco. Still testing it, but seems pretty snappy so far. No lag issues whatsoever, but I'll be watching it in the upcoming days to see if I get the slow down problem previously mentioned.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sp3cial3dfr3d:
I was running liquidsmooth rom asop. V 1.25 but when i updated to version 1.35 my google play was not showing all apps great rom smooth very very customisable lots of tools and mods now and im running

FOXHOUND V. 9 FOR CMDA 4.0.3. Cool options make sure u install project ocolot. Zip its his mod pack just as good as liquidsmooth. Also foxhound is very stable battery life is great

from my galaxy nexus foxhound rom 4.0.3
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MikeCriggs:
AOKP M5 with the latest Minimalistic Kernel. Linux 3.0.29

Loving it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zeke1988:
miui, it's the only best rom that bring out the beauty of my GN.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] oldblue910:
I'm all about stock. I don't like any custom ROM I've tried because they all just contain too many options and UI customizations. I very much subscribe to Google's "less is more" philosophy when it comes to design, be it on Android, websites, or whatever else. I think the stock ICS interface is just about perfect and contains all the features I need.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] @rbiter:
Yep. I actually like using my phone. Too many customization and do everything for me kind of things just makes it boring and the user less intuitive and boring. I will give bamf paradigm another whirl one of these days. It was the closest cup of tea I liked.

let it be.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] oldblue910:
Max Headroom FTW!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] @rbiter:
Worst rom ever. I couldn't figure out how some guy got in my phone. And head. And he was less useful than siri, s voice and data put together. Tended to laugh at my questions.

let it be.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] vash1053:
BAMF for some cool functionality. I don't like the goofy custom image they put behind the dialer when you're on a phone call. The boot animation/music is equally lame, but that's easily changed/turned off. That's about all I don't like about it. Great ROM.

Using glados kernel for touch wake. Franco felt a little snappier, but lacks some functionality of glados. I have the apps for both kernels, I recommend them both.

<.<;;; Well I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
Would you have preferred a pink unicorn? ;) FWIW, the evil Android is being removed for next release, and left as an add-on.

Lame boot audio? Come on, who calls Five Finger Death Punch lame? ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Smokeey:
GummyNex 1.0.1 with the Wheatley kernel.

I like it. It's basically the most features in the smallest package. Smooth. Planning on running CM9 once it gets farther along though.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] RogerPodacter:
This is a great post. As long as someone tries something and then makes their decision, informed, rather than just assuming things.

Though I don't necessarily agree, you can just use a custom rom and not touch a single option so it looks stock. Then ability to tweak is there in case needed later on.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] patt2k:
MIUI only if it wasn't so slow on GN..

and the only reason I would see myself staying on stock if I would be tired of updating roms constantly like I hate wiping and re-arranging all my apps and stuff that would be my only reason to go back to stock and only do updates with OTA's.

Otherwise I don't really get how people dont want the extra cool features that AOKP has.

just my point of view :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MikeCriggs:
MIUI... I've never used it and never will. If I wanted an iPhone, then I'd buy one.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Theshawty:
I used to thing the stock ROM is great and all, but the fact is it's not. AOKP is light years faster and generally feels more optimized. I've been thinking of trying CM9 out, but AOKP's got so many features I'll miss :p

Decisions, decisions..
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
Not everyone wants the kitchen sink, and the roaches it brings. I respect all rom preferences, and don't try to understand why they aren't all aokp.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] malikadnanm:
Cm9 is slightly smoother and faster than aokp but I don't think its worth changing from aokp because there's not much of a difference in speed or battery and aokp has many more features.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ks3rv3rg:
Using liquid 1.4rc1

Probably the most customisable rom out there. Almost every single aspect can be tweaked to ones personal preference. Along with that its also super slim and fast. So no bloated modded out feeling.

I'm running this rom with the Franco kernel.

Gpu:512

Max: 1036

Min: 192

Hotplug enabled

Ondemand gov
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] theneighbor:
Where did you get it?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chrstphrbrnnn:
I'm pretty surprise to hear people so divided. Some people say aokp is laggy and other's say it's super fast? Isn't everyone on a GNex?

I was looking at aokp and franco to be the definitive choices but maybe not?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Coflropter:
Love my GNex with AOKP. Fast, stable and pretty good battery life.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
The only definitive choices are the ones you make. Otherwise, you are just following the crowd and doing what they do.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] [hfm]:
Pure Google.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] IanCoves:
This^ is why I check XDA every day :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] maverickrulz:
Apex v1.1.2 from bigxie

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1399238

Very close to stock ICS. With wonderful mods from all around. Great battery life and very snappy.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mach3.2:
Stock "takju" 4.0.4 (IMM76I)

Because it comes with Wallet(No need to install apks) and i like the stock look:)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kompressorgpl:
Stock 4.0.4 ? Here in Portugal the official is 4.0.2...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] s00000000000ka:
Still waiting CM9 Stable

Now my GNex have Stock 4.0.4 with some UI Change :p
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nex667:
4.0.4 Stock until about 4 hours ago. Installed Liquid today and gonna test it for a few days. Maybe switch afterwards. Why? curiosity :p
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] UNDFTD:
CM9, simply because I've always loved cyanogenmod on my devces :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] fushla:
Apex Rom 1.1.2 (: fast & stable with some good customizations, gonna test the battery life today, heard it should be great ^^
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] manore:
I am using Paranoid 0.4p tablet hybrid and loving it. You can really get the best of both worlds with that rom. Have beeing using leankernel with it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cosimoss:
Stock 4.0.4 (IMM76I). I don’t need to fiddle as it’s perfect for my needs.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] fushla:
I agree, I often switch between customs and stock, when I want to play with performance and interface - custom

when I just want to have a GNex with everything I need - stock.

Stock ICS is very good imo.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jakdillard:
Since the GN came to Sprint I have tried a few ROMs and made a few too .... I tried CodeName Android, AOKP, Cyanogen, and a few others and what I've found is that while being customized some of these are limited as well, since they kinda take away from you actually using the phone to constantly flash it or tweak this setting or whatever. I personally feel that the stock ROM is designed well enough for my preferrance but I do like a little "tweakage" to it so I have built my own tweaked up stock ROM which I am running.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mrc87:
AOKP, latest milestone.

it looks an feels like the stock version but with everything it should have
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Dictate:
Aokp m5 and glados 1.32. Best functioning combination for me. Battery life is good and everything is super stable. Ezekeel responds quick to any issues or questions too.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mach3.2:
There is in fact a official 4.0.4 ROM from Google..

https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jnr21:
Latest aokp and latest franco. Reason: because performance and batt life are amazing.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kompressorgpl:
I saw, on your signature, that you have 4.0.4. So is any good?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mach3.2:
I only notice this.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] beekay201:
I normally jump around 2 roms:

- my own slimmed-down aosp build

- cm9 latest nightly or self built kang

I normally jump around 3 kernels:

- stock

- self built stock kernel (although thats not really stock anymore)

- latest fugumod

I prefer cm over aokp. It may have less options now... but all roms have features introduced by cm devs.

sent from my i9250
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
With an extended battery.

I don't doubt you are happy with this setup, but lets face it, battery life screencaps are always cherry picked, or someone is not giving all in the information.

This phone drains very slowly on idle. I can actually get 7 hours screentime on a black screen, and then let it idle for another 11 hours to duplicate this using the standard kernel and aosp 4.0.4. I have a screencap of 8.5 hours screentime on Verizon 3G and std battery, no less. What I never tell people is that it was a black screen (long press desk clock) during the process.

I only post this for the people who switch to said combo and wonder why they are not getting your results.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Theshawty:
I've rolled AOKP M5 since it was released and Franco's Milestone 3 kernel since it was released and I see absolutely no reason to change to a nightly build of either. I'm happy with this setup since it's fast, bugfree so far and the battery lasts long enough for my needs to be satiated.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] AmitT`:
CM9: stable, fast, and many unique features.

franco kernel: it saves me about 50% battery usage.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jnr21:
Yes, with extended battery ofcourse. I posted my settings in franco thread. And i get that 7h screen on time with my normal usage, i always get over 5h screen on time. There is small charging peak in battery graph, it charged few percents when i tranfered some files to my pc via usb.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] imnuts:
I'm using my own ROM and kernel, because they both do exactly what I want them too, and nothing more.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] LunarEVO:
AOKP Milestone 5 with the included kernel. I'm waiting for at least CM9 RC1 before I use anything else. I've tried a couple others, but AOKP has been doing well for me. Great performance, battery life, and customization.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] coolqf:
Latest stock 4.0.4 with Franco kernel. Because it provides the most stability. I'm talking business grade stability where upgrading when a bug is found won't require rejoining my contacts after an upgrade.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nowetdio:
Using BAMF Paradigm with James Bond kernel. Match made in heaven:)

Sent from my SCH-i515 Toro
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Emama:
You don't really need to keep repeating how good AOKP is in this thread...:rolleyes:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] snoopy1e11:
AOKP M5 with Faux123 kernel 3.0.30 because its super smooth and battery is great
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] unknown00:
same, after about a week with aokp m5 and franco m3 my gnex starting being laggy
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] m.is.for.michael:
Since I rooted my phone a few months ago, I've tried the stock rom but rooted (amazingly bad battery life), CM9 (lacks the customisations I want), AOKP (lacks one customisation in particular that I like: the persistent set user agent in the stock browser; and was often in wakelock unless I killed the media app), MIUI.us (poorer battery life than CM), Ice and Fire (some issue with root meant Titanium wouldn't work), and a bunch of the less popular roms in ClockworkMod's rom manager. In each case I've stuck with the included kernel, as my only foray into choosing different kernels (Franco/CM9, which others have reported great results with) was giving me FCs every hour or so and weird stuff happening on my screen).

I gave each one several days (in some cases some weeks) to get used to them, but for about four weeks now I've been using the Euroskank kang of the CM9 rom. The battery life is great, the level of customisation available is about right (there are a few things I'd like to see added, but the n00b isn't faced with the catatonia-inducing oversupply of options in AOKP).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sikstiks:
Revolution 4.0.1 w/ GlaDOS 1.32

Stock feel, stock stability... find it snappy and responsive. The GlaDOS kernel with its control app gives me lots of great tweaking opportunities.

Feels very much like a hot rodded stock experience. :)

Cheers from The Great White North!!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Smallsmx3:
Seems like everyone might have a lil too much free time.....lets see how long i can leave my screen on....anywho....not too many trinity users in here or none of us care to post....def the best battery / performance. Im not talking about the stable builds....or testing....experimental ones are fun....and beastly...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] netarchy:
Stock ROM with my own kernel build here. Can't	complain.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] joshuwa:
I really enjoy Bugless Beast with a milestone release of franco.

Normally I'm all for bleeding edge, but I'm enjoying my stability and bloat-free setup :).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] albsat:
Rascream + trinity kernel. Rom is about right in features and it is super fast. However I am missing some option that are found in Akop like lockscreen and nav buttons modifications.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] slayr76:
BlackIce Maguro Kangorade 35 Rom ;) with built in tuna faux kernel, I noticed its not posted here on xda, new version was released on rootzwiki.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] netninja:
AOKP M5 with Franco kernel m3. Enjoying it very much. But am curious now about bamf since a lot of people in this thread have said good things about it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] notanoob:
BlackIce Maguro Kangorade 35 Rom , Better of both worlds , aokp and cm 9 :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MS.:
AOKP M5 + franco.Kernel r158. After trying a lot of different ROMs i've found it as most feature-rich and stable. But this is only untill *proper* CM9 comes out :o
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chaoszero112:
AOKP- a mix with stock and constantly added useful features, that almost always are optional to use.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] AmitT`:
note that I heard about a problem with AOKP (something with the haptic feedback) and I prefer to stay away until they find a solution.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rand4ll:
Started with aokp and Franco kernel and it was good and stable, no real complaints. Installed glados kernel to try it out and suffered some lag in a particular game I enjoy right now that went away when I flashed Franco again. Then tried out icsourcery and while it had some cool theming stuff it suffered from black text on dark grey backgrounds in many places which is simply unacceptable IMO. Now I'm on bamf paradigm with Franco kernel and couldn't be more satisfied with the stability and all around setup. Less options than aokp but has everything I need at the same time and just feels better to me, staying here for the foreseeable future.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] daz.g:
I think it would be helpful to differentiate the desires of the user in terms of features. Some might judge a rom on the number of extra options and others on how slim it is. Some might judge on frequency of updates and the latest nightlies and others might want a great rom to keep for a long time without the constant wiping and setting up of a flash whore.....

I like plenty of options, but I don't want to lose the reliability and I don't want to have to mess around resetting all the time. To that end I've found Bigxies Apex rom to be pretty much perfect and I'm surprised more haven't mentioned it here. Its got great performance and battery life with the inbuilt lean kernel,its remained as slick as the day I installed it and I've not had a single FC in over 4 months use. I had several reboots on the standard rom in comparison so all those who tow the line about standard being best I'd recommend Apex. I find it interesting to read through the rom threads and see what the users are thinking and that should give people a good enough idea of what to expect.

I've tried a few other roms but have regretted it each time and gone back to Apex. I'm amazed at the AOKP love here - wasn't to impressed myself and I hate those sliders cluttering up the notification area ?!......:rolleyes:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] LarsAussems:
Using AOKP B35 with Latest Popcorn kernel. Very fast and a really good battery life.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DroidDavi:
I feel like I'm jocking n

But aokp m5 and francos m3 are fantastic. I used aokp before chilling with slim for a few months and I must say its a lot better than I remember
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Feras.Rehman:
AOKP - cuz it has great features nd tht ics look. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Delvien:
I found lean kernel to be better than Franco's kernel.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] snubs:
Revolution HD with franco's r157 kernel. I don't want 60 different mods, goofy boot screens or anything like that. Clean and simple ftw.