[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kbeezie:
It's mainly a matter of personal preference, I would say that Andromadous is a bit more 'feature-packed' so to speak kinda like cyanogenmod. Where as EliteMod is a customized/tweaked CM9 kernel with an AOKP rom that's been mainly tweaked for performance and battery life (basically it's nik3r's personal rom for his own DZ).

Personally I like it, pretty fast and smooth and I haven't had an app I couldn't run.

Though in my testing of mimicry 1.3.0 lately, its been kind of smooth for me as well, tiny bit slower in some parts then elite, but has more UI options and launcher/system/etc configurations I can mess wit

SEM04G 2.10GiB eMMC = is the model of eMMC in my phone, i.e.: the "SEM04G" is considered the 'good batch' of internal memory. Where as if your emmc is "m4g2de" considered the 'bad batch' (known for dying pretty early)

2GB sd-ext ext4 = I have a 2GB sd-ext partition on my SD Card formatted as ext4, EliteMod supports sd-ext right out of the box, and migrated /data/app and /data/app-private to the /sd-ext partition and maps it as internal storage automatically. (it does not migrate cache, dalvik-cache to the SD Card like many sd-ext apps in order to keep the phone's performance good)

noSDSwap = I am not using a Swap partition on the SD card (too slow, and can kill an SD card).

64MB DataSwap = It's a mod specific to EliteMod, with the free space you get from using a sd-ext, your /data partition will have plenty of free space, and to utilize that free space, the mod creates a swap file on the /data partition. (The internal memory is faster and more reliable than SD, also splitting the I/O between internal memory and SD card like that also improves overall performance). He also tweaked the mod so that every time you reboot the swap file is moved to a different part of the internal storage, that way no one part of the emmc is 'worked on' over and over again (which is something you can't prevent with an SD Swap)

DataSwap basically improves multitasking dramatically.

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Yea I see blk_jack in #g2root sometimes. While nik3r (elitemod) isn't on IRC, he's just about as interactive in the thread.

Seems that when I compare the two they're both CM9 based, forking off a major ROM release (i.e.: Mimicry CM9+Andromadus, EliteMod CM9+AOKP). From the user's standpoint, the latter is going to have the most visual impact (Andromadus vs AOKP).

Andromadous is much more customized, feature packed, has quite a bit more tweaks I would think. (and given what's been put into it, it's actually quite nice to see an Adromadus ICS rom that isn't sluggish on our phones).

AOKP on the other hand is basically AOSP (close to the vanilla google source compile), but mainly differs in the fact that it's been tweaked with some enhancements to work for the phone (and is represented by a pink unicorn... ).

And then course whatever additional stuff the primary developers (i.e.: blk_jack, nik3r, etc) puts on top of the repo they port from. Pretty common especially when there's no "Official" release for our phones from CM9, Andromadus (ICS), AOKP (ICS).