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[EVO 4G General] noahguz:
Firstly, I want to say that I am doing this just to get everyone's own personal view on which EVO ROM is the best. Before I get all kinds of hateful posts just hear me out. I want to know what you think from your own personal point of view and why you think it's the best. For those who switch ROMs daily, post and tell some pros and cons of each maybe. Tell me why you like it, what you like about it, which of your needs it meets, which it doesn't. And so on!!! I think this could be a good thread for the noobs to learn different things about different kinds of ROMs and what the different ones have to offer. Thank you XDA community!!!!!

Edit: "Frequent flaher" I like that term and I'm sure it applies to a lot of people posting in this thread.
[EVO 4G General] jstalford:
Destroyer is awesome. Very fast and awesome theming. VaelPak is also really good b/c it's so unique and customizable. IMHO, if you're new to flashing, you need to try, CM or variant of, Miui, VaelPak, and a Z ROM (MikZ or Warm Z).

For sense ROMs, Unleashed is really good. Very fast/smooth and awesome theme options. Best sense ROM IMHO. MikFroyo is also very fast. I can get good battery life out of almost any ROM, but EViO 2 stands out in that area.
[EVO 4G General] madflasher:
ive flashed alot of sense and about all of the gingerbread roms. the gingerbreads are fast, but too high maintenance for me. sure some will say that its stable for them but 8 out of 10 in the cm threads are trying to work out bugs.

theres also a lot of fast and fully functional sense roms highly themed. depends on what the end user whants out of their rom, functionality, look, batt, etc..

i like a bare bones stock sleek looking optimized preferably lightly themed rom. thats why im currently running Miks 4.6b2 ODEXED themed by Chogardjr. i removed all of the useless stuff, its faast, rock solid stable, great battery life and everything works. IMHO!
[EVO 4G General] HipKat:
I have used almost every setup there is, and most are pretty good, except they all have an issue or 2 that makes me feel incomplete when it comes to my phone.

Sense Roms: King's Ultra Froyo and Ultra Froyo 2, Koni's Elite 1 and Elite 2. ALL of those are pretty equal. Very fast, smooth, beautiful looking, but no matter what kernel I tried, battery life was garbage. One thing about my phone is I tried almost every NetArchy Kernel there is, I bet, and never got a good battery on a Sense ROM.

Miui: I can see why people like it, but I just don't like having all my apps on the desktop and switching to LPP takes away part of the allure of havng Miui. The theme changer wouldn't install any of the themes I downloaded. Plus, I had issues with screen flicker, but I understand I did the update wrong, so that may be where that came from. Also, I spent over an hour alphabetizing my apps... damn OCD!

CM7: By FAR the best battery life, with the kernel I use, SavagedZen 009, but the GPS navigation thing is an issue. I take my phone off the charger at 6AM, and by 11PM, after moderate to heavy use, I'm never below 50%. Still, I want those Sense Widgets. LPP has them, but in People, for instance, you don't get the user pics from Facebook, and all the entries are just the stock Android image. One other thing on CM7, that is intolerable, is that it takes a coon's age to copy anything to my SDCard. I did a back up, and reformat the other night and it took an hour and a half to copy my music back (just under a gig), for example

Right now, I'm running Destroyer, and the battery isn't as good as with nightly 14, but it's pretty good. BEtter than with any of the others I've tried. And whatever issues people have with this, I'm not having them. Everything is working good. Very fast, too.

For me, the best, most complete ROM there is, is VaelPak 3.2. It has everything you want. Almost like all the different Mods were combined to make one insane ROM. More custumization options than CM/Sense and MiUi put together, puls packs of goodies that come with the ROM installed on the SDCard. I can't remember why I took it off now, but I think it was the battery life, again, was horrible. Dropped 15% in less than 2 hours with the stock kernel. Although, I didn't keep it on long enough to really test other kernels with it, and there are a few that people using it say give them fanatastic battery life.
[EVO 4G General] noahguz:
I love my CM7 nightlies. Nuff said!!!!!! <3
[EVO 4G General] Dan330:
still waiting for the best...

i like warm z.. but it dont have hdmi and 4G. ffc can be worked around.

what dont you give your thoughts???
[EVO 4G General] noahguz:
Well I just started flashing ROMs about 9 months ago and started a basically sense roms. I didn't really like them bc of limited customization and they were a little slow and battery was horrible. From there I stuck with an AOSP rom for about the past 6 months until a few weeks ago and read up a little on MIUI and tried that out for a whole 6 hours and hated it. I couldn't stand all my apps on the screen and no drawer. Really got on my nerves. Then tried out that Unleashed and was happy with that for about a week til I really started doing some reading up on CM and decided to try it out, loved it and everything about it. So now I'm a supporter of them, but am super stoked to try out this new SZ ROM. Think that might be the new rom of choice for me. :)

Edit: That good Dan? ;)
[EVO 4G General] Dan330:
^^^ that will work... :)
[EVO 4G General] ncfastls1:
Not sure why anyone hasn't said this yet but Myn's Warm TwoPointTwo RLS 5 is the best in my opinion. Might not have been updated in a while, but in my experience is the fastest Sense rom with lots of eye candy while still looking sleek/professional without going overboard, the best battery life (16 hours heavy use 30 with light use/good signal), and everything works. I know that AOSP roms have wimax now but gps has been hit and miss with every one of them (for gingerbread at least, I don't care for any 2.2 AOSP roms). Navigation definitely did not work.

I loved Evervolv and Savage but again, not everything works the way it should. Myn's is just the best daily driver. Battery life is phenomenal, I haven't been able to get more than 16-20 hours out of an aosp rom.
[EVO 4G General] Justin.G11:
IMO (never h):

All the Sense ROMs are the same. They are just the same stock ROM with some heavy theming and maybe a custom tweak here and there ... but IMO if you're going to flash sense you're better off just checking the themes section and getting the look you want... because that's what they are.

Also keep in mind that Sense is likely a dead end as it is. I have doubts 2.3 will ever land on EVO .from HTC/Sprint... meaning it will never come to fruition in any Sense ROM. So it's a dead-end thing to support anyway.

AOSP is a different story. These are truly custom, already ahead of Sense if you're a version buff (2.3.3) and tend to run faster, smoother, and with A LOT less bloat. That said they aren't all flowers and rainbows either. Because they are actually scratch written they tend to not be feature complete (though team WIN is quickly changing that) so make sure you know what feature is missing and if that's a big deal to you.

That said, CM is the AOSP leader. It has the dev support, and most AOSP ROMs you'll notice are based on CM because they are nice enough to release under GPL rather than the default Apache agreement most others use. I like it for what it is, and it's the "best" if you like vanilla Android and want to follow what Google is doing with thier OS.

The other "best" IMO MIUI. It's behind CM in terms of the latest Android base (though GB is finally in the works), and it's closed source so it is missing things available in other AOSP ROMS ... but what it does bring to the table is amazing. It's better in battery, faster, the built in apps are worth paying for if they ever make it to market ... its an amazing ROM.

I secretly have wet dreams of MIUI and CM having an Android love child and bringing me my dream ROM ... until then I flip back and forth between the two.
[EVO 4G General] dirkyd3rk:
I'm running a special rom called "dirk diggler rom" and if you want to use it deposit 500 bucks in my PayPal :-). P.S its better than any rom YOU will ever run on your evo lol.
[EVO 4G General] noahguz:
^^^^^ uhmmm, nah. Can't be too much different than anything else on here. Pretty funny though. Ha
[EVO 4G General] dynamicpda:
The answer depends on your needs. For instance, I don't like the look of Sense but I also need 4G, GPS, Bluetooth and Camera working everyday. That limits me to a Sense based rom until CM7 stabilizes those things. For now, I'm getting by pretty well with Nonsense. It's not been updated recently and has minor flaws but the important things work for me everyday.

No one ROM does everything well. It's all about trade-offs. When you know your own needs, the filtering the choices should be a lot easier.
[EVO 4G General] HipKat:
Check my signature.

All those things work on my setup.
[EVO 4G General] petermac88:
+1 on destroyer buddy! and its very stable!
[EVO 4G General] ncfastls1:
In my experience with cm7 at least, scrolling in the browser and touch response has lagged for me compared to sense. Savage and evervolv seemed to be better but nothing comes close to the responsiveness using myns warm
[EVO 4G General] psirex:
I am currently using CM7 but looking for a sense 2.0 rom - any help?
[EVO 4G General] cbrewington75:
imho

been using mik4.5 w/4.1.9 sbc all works get 16 hours a day with everything on updates every hour,fps 54. love it

Tried miui and cant live w/o sense.

Heres my thing, all the sense based roms are pretty much the same just different icons(themes), but if I have to flash abunch of stuff just to make a rom work right, I'm out
[EVO 4G General] kalikiddo:
What is the best one running or able to wifi tether...I was using fresh and decided for a new look...since I been away I decided on CM7 but I discovered wifi is not working???....Anyone???
[EVO 4G General] noahguz:
I just switched from CM7 nightlies and I'm pretty darn sure that the wifi tether works. Not 100% bc I don't use that very much.
[EVO 4G General] kalikiddo:
Nevermind figured it out on CM7...even though speeds aren't as fast just wasn't use to the rom.
[EVO 4G General] ocnbrze:
ok here is my two cents:

my two favorites are mikfroyo 4.5 and kings ultra unleashed r2. both are very fast, smooth and stable. i tried some of the aosp roms and they just seem to unstable and buggy.
[EVO 4G General] noahguz:
Everyone says that the AOSP ROMs are unstable and I haven't had much problem from them. I mean sure, if you flash a rom that has just been released and they are still working on then yea, all kinds of problems. But the devs take care of that really quickly, the reason sense roms run so great is bc they're basically just a themed stock rom, pretty sure that's been covered a few times in this thread. Sry, I'm not trying to knock ya. Just a little constructive criticism... :)
[EVO 4G General] empiire:
As far as GB builds go, flashing Salvage Mod 1.0 seems to be the fastest, most functional, stable ROM of all. CM7 nightlies isn't too bad but the level of customization makes it feel less polished and that's something I don't like in my ROMs. :(

For Sense ROMs, try Myn's Warm 2.2 RLS 5/RLS 4, it's worked out well for me and continues to run extremely fast. :)

Also, if you're into messing around with newer alpha state ROMs, try the Incredible S Evo ROM that was ported not too long ago, the ROM is currently being worked on and relatively buggy and unstable, but I find it to be rather fun to use. :P

IMO, Gingerbread ROMs are the most fun to use (Salvage Mod 1.0), but ROMs with Sense 2.0 *gasp* are just as fun, if not better. :) ROMs like Sprint Lovers is good for a starting place, since there isn't much modification done at all.

Bottom line: Salvage Mod 1.0 Gingerbread ROM, a stock rooted ROM with one of netarchy's kernels, or the new Incredible S ROM (if you're feeling dangerous). :D Ooh! Or Myn's Warm Z RLS 1, also with Sense 2.0. :)
[EVO 4G General] goodbye hppalm:
I enjoyed sprint lovers for a while now Im using King Cocoa and its bad ass
[EVO 4G General] noahguz:
Since I posted this thread a few days ago I have been flashing suggested roms like a mad man and still my favorite is CM7 nightlies. And the SavagedZen ROM is also one that is showing a lot of promise but that also might be because its based on CM7. ;)
[EVO 4G General] investinwaffles:
Beautiful:

WARM Z

Functional:

VaelPak (IMO, one of the best for a novice. So featured out of the box!)

Stable:

WARM 2.2 RLS5

Geeky:

CM7 (what im using currently, and will continue to use :) )
[EVO 4G General] noahguz:
Why is it that CM7 is geeky?
[EVO 4G General] emcp422:
i've only been flashing for a small period of time but after root i tried stock rom, azraelx v4, warmz, and vaelpak 3.2 and i have to say in order of favorites it goes this way for me

1.vaelpak 3.2 was the one with more customization, nice stability and gave me the highest battery time i've ever had on my evo

2.azrael xv4 very stable and wifi tether was unmatched,not so good on battery

3.warmz nice but not really what i was looking for

4. stock always reliable but battery was a killer
[EVO 4G General] noahguz:
Try CM7 nightlies, they seem a little more stable than the RCs, and when this new SavagedZen ROM comes out I hear it's gonna be great. But I love the AOSP ROMs most.
[EVO 4G General] skovatov:
I took your advice and I'm on Warm TwopointTwo RLS5, I like it a lot, however I've noticed lag when browsing, takes a long time to load pages. Any suggestions?

EVO 4G

Android version: 2.2

Baseband version: 2.15.00.11.19

Kernel version: 2.6.32.17 -gee557fd htc-kernel@and18-2 # 15

Browser version: WebKit 3.1

PRI: 1.90_003

PRL: 60677
[EVO 4G General] asnell89:
I'm running Fresh 3.5 and the newest netarchy kernel.

the Battery life is the best my evo has seen so far. Its completely stable, and possibly the biggest plus is that Fresh played nicely wth titanium backup to restore my settings after flashing.
[EVO 4G General] knightwolf123:
short answer. look at my siggy.

longer answer, you wanna be dependable and boring? buy an iphone. Already got an evo, got a sense rom. wanna have fun? get CM7. cm7 might have alot of maintenance and a few bugs to work through and or around but for me dependable is boring. now that i have cm7 about figured out i am never looking back!
[EVO 4G General] noahguz:
Id advise on the savaged zen rom if your lookin for performance and smoothness...
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] zr0ko0l:
is it possible to make a flashable honeycomb battery indicator for the notification bar? i really like it and i have looked everywhere with no luck.
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] nitsuj17:
It's not hard to do it yourself. :-)... just unzipped the battery from the theme and copy it into the framework -res. Apk of the theme you want it for in the drawable -hdpi folder
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] tmlhodge:
What theme do you want to add it to?
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] bdemartino:
Check this out ;)

http://uot.dakra.lt/kitchen/
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] miah009:
Butch's superdark.. it would be the perfect addition to an otherwise perfect theme..
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] 4GivenByChrist:
Tried this didn't seem to work. Still have the same battery icon after reboot. First attempt so may not have done it right...
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] nitsuj17:
there tend to be to drawable-hdpi folders in our themes that use 5 lock mod...icons *should* go in drawable-hdpi-4
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] zr0ko0l:
i wanted to add it to SC2.9.1. going to try the instructions that were given :)
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] fitti28:
so basically when you want to add something you can just copy/paste it into the proper area of the theme and it should work?
[Fascinate Themes and Apps] nitsuj17:
yes and no....different phones use different names for images...you would have to open up the folder and compare (even amongst the sgs variants with status bar icons data/signal)

for system apks theres no need to sign anything...for market/data apps you would have to sign the apk for the changes to take

and then theres xml.....but thats another story
[Android Apps and Games] danperf:
"A smart uninstaller" provides you the features to:

Filter Apps by required permissions

Uninstall/recover system Apps (Apps come along with the phone)

Various quick sort methods

Detailed app info and permissions

Easy share, comment, rate or uninstall apps

A simple click to uninstall

(more than 10 times faster than the system provided uninstaller)

Email us your suggestions so that we can improve!

:D

Snapshots:

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APK file:

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[Android Apps and Games] njwatercity:
pretty cool. The speed is very good.
[Android Apps and Games] andytsui:
Speed is good. Works in HTC Desire.
[Android Apps and Games] Namuna:
Your app wants...

Storage

modify/delete SD card contents

Network communication

full Internet access

Phone calls

read phone state and identity

Sorry if I'm showing ignorance, I can certainly see where access to the SD card would be required (what with being an uninstaller app), but why are the Network access and phone identity access required please?

Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] BryanChung:
I'm skeptical too ....
[Android Apps and Games] lewy10:
A REAL shady app.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] caubecari:
I can't make a call with any ROM I've tried. Sometime I can call and then it disconnect few second later. I've radio 2.15 right now. Can anyone help me?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coolaidman:
I was on here last night browsing the forums for new roms to try and I stumbled on something called ultimate glacier ultimate Droid. I downloaded and flashed. By the time I was done flashing I came back on the forums to read more about the rom and issues. But the thread was gone. Does anyone have info on this rom? I think I read somewhere they're banned on xda but why would it be on here last night.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] option94:
Their roms are not allowed to be posted on XDA. They have been know to contain warez, and are a complete kang of cyanogenmod without giving proper credit.

http://www.cyanogenmod.com/blog/android-soap-opera-ultimate-droid
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daprince047:
I PM'd you
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] melodicjunkie:
My g2 is all messed up!

When I turn it on I get forced closed everything

It won't let me recover my old rom

It says can't open /cache/recovery/log!

I'm so angry :(

My phone has s/off or whatever :(

What do I do?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Daughain:
Manually boot into recovery and flash your backup.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] melodicjunkie:
My backup will not flash, I see that error in clockworkmod it won't let me do anything I'm freaking out
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mftek1:
Boot into recovery, wipe cache and dahlvik cache, then install your back up? That didn't work?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmwils3:
you might also try fastboot flashing a new clockwork recovery, if its giving you recovery errors. that might fix the error. do you have copies of the backups elsewhere, like on your pc? if so, you might try one of those, see if perhaps its a problem with errors in the Micro sd card.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmwils3:
also, dont forget to wipe data/factory reset before restoring, just a thought.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] martonikaj:
I would go for this. OP boot into recovery, wipe caches and wipe data/factory reset then reboot. See if u can start fresh. Or just wipe data and flash a fresh new ROM to start fresh.

I replied to ur other thread but it sounds like you are best off at this point just wiping everything and starting over.

Sent from my HTC Vision
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] melodicjunkie:
I'm trying to format data and cache, when I do it

Can't mount /cache/recovery/log

Can't open /cache/recovery/log

Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log

Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log

I even put my sd card in my girlfriends g2 (not rooted) and downloaded a rom to my sd card than tried to install it to my phone, it gets stuck at HTC screen now..
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mftek1:
Which rom did you flash that got you stuck at the htc boot? What which version of rom manager are you using?

If the rom manager you have does not support the rom you flashed, you will get a boot loop..

Fly like a G2!
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] G1ForFun:
Reflash clockwork recovery...sounds like its effed.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] melodicjunkie:
all good now

i followed this guide

http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/15623-how-to-fix-a-semi-bricked-g2

freaking epic, i reverted back to stock..

im gonna stay that way for a while, atleast till there is a great rom i can use..

i liked gingervillain, it was my absolute fav but im gonna wait till there is something even better, i dont feel like rerooting just to do this **** all over again

thanks guys
[Touch HD Android Development] levisornothing:
http://htcandroid.xland.cz/GBX0A_Full_Bundle_11.3.2011.zip

This build have keyboard issue but you can:

1st activate the "Japanese IME" in the input method just to type and do your google account and get you to android market then find and install the "Better Keyboard 8" for free.. Enjoy...
[Touch HD Android Development] levisornothing:
Better Keyboard 8 apk file

Better Keyboard 8 apk file
[Touch HD Android Development] SmokeMasta:
like it allot however there is still the classic battery issue .. if it wasnt for that i would run it as my main OS instead of win mobile
[Touch HD Android Development] kobi_eidelman:
error

i get an error "cannot open script file \storage card\default.txt"

any idea?

thanx

edit-problem solved
[Touch HD Android Development] nmugurel2003:
First impressions, after ~ 1 hour of digging:

- seems to run smoother than previous version;

- battery drainage better even than FRX05`s;

- WiFi works OK;

- camera OK;

Using 01277 kernel from here: http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=536877&d=1299597262
[Touch HD Android Development] mitikos:
Always freezes on my Blackstone with "Using 01277 kernel from here: http://xdaforums.com/atta...7&d=1299597262" this kernel
[Touch HD Android Development] AlexandrosNic:
I need help!

I was waiting the haret to be done, I calibrated the blackstone, and then it turned on as ginger bread.

The Led was orange and i thought it was problem of android, but I realised that I havent battery and it closed and it couldnt turn on again.

I removed battery and put it back again and when I turned it on, it was back at windows, without any sign of android.

I have to do the haret again or what?
[Touch HD Android Development] g3rm0:
Strange. It works for me but I use original GBX0A bundle with 11.3 system and my own kernel/rootfs.

Kernel: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=11936968&postcount=37

RootFS: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=12066475&postcount=24

Haret doesn't delete Winmo from your device. Haret just loads Android while removing Winmo from RAM. You need to run Haret every time.
[Touch HD Android Development] pmachado99:
Hi, I installed and it works and has a good look and feel. But i'm stucked on the keyboard problem. Each time I try to write, the keyboard doens't show the keys and I can't proceed. Any help (for dummies) about how to activate the Japanese IME? Thanks
[Touch HD Android Development] levisornothing:
on any text input, press longer until there's a menu pop-out to select "Input method" option then choose "Japanese IME"
[Touch HD Android Development] mitikos:
tnx i'll givi it a try
[Touch HD Android Development] mightyox:
Same here, freeze after a while...
[Touch HD Android Development] mightyox:
Navigation

Anyone know which Navigation program that is installed with the Froyo version?
[Touch HD Android Development] Elpoet:
Works smooth overall, but got some 3g issues. Anyone else with such problem?
[Touch HD Android Development] little john nl:
how i can instal this ?