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Root Best Rom to Flash??

Im currently using the Frankenstein theme. I tried out SRF and Midnight and Frankenstein is the one I like best so far. I have yet to try Viper, Anonymous, or the GB leak, but something tells me im going to stick with Frankenstein for a while before i try those. Only thing i didnt like about it was the boot animation, but it was pretty easy to change it.
 
I'm running SRF 1.1.1 and I love it so much, its very fast and I get great battery life with it. The performance reasons has stopped me from trying other ROM's (the old "if its not broke, don't fix it" mentality). I have started to get more adventurous though, yesterday I flashed the MIUI ROM (would love to see a stable version of this with everything working), and am probably gonna try Midnight ROM tomorrow just cuz all the ROMs are a lil different and want to try it.
 
Bonsai 4.1.1 is definitely the best. Moderate overclocking (1.1ghz) with undervolting and cpu governor built in. Best battery life I've ever had on this phone. Recommend over almost anything else for this phone.
 
androidtp said:
what's this bonsai i keep hearing about? i thought that was a game in the market lol..
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lol there are some developers called bonsai that make games in the android market, but the bonsai being referred to here is a ROM. I was using it a while back and immediately noticed a pretty significant increase in battery life. I went back to frankenstein though because for some reason I would keep getting data errors. Couldnt pick up 3G or wifi for some reason.

I might try it again soon though because it couldve been that it wasnt flashed correctly or something.
 
Kelmar, are you still liking Bonsai? You guys are confusing me...there's a kernel named bonsai and a whole rom named bonsai? ugh..
 
forddna said:
Kelmar, are you still liking Bonsai? You guys are confusing me...there's a kernel named bonsai and a whole rom named bonsai? ugh..
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Yes and yes (not to step on kelmar's toes). Many roms have kernels you can flash separately. Can't speak on bonsai, but srf 1.1.1 has been all good (1.0.1 didn't work for me either) . Took me 2 times to flash it right, fix permissions, and be up and running. I then odin'd the new modem. Then flashed the honeycomb fusion theme. Tweaked all my settings and such... very pleased so far. I'll prob keep this until rob drops another midnight.
 
forddna said:
Kelmar, are you still liking Bonsai? You guys are confusing me...there's a kernel named bonsai and a whole rom named bonsai? ugh..
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Bonsai 4.1.1 is a great ROM. It's quite stable for a journaling off ROM also, haven't had any forced or random reboots since running it and going almost 2 weeks strong.
 
Flashing Bonsai now. Actually, reflashing because the first flash had immediate force closes. I did the journaling on zip with it.
 
@traumaj - Not worried about toe stepping :)

@forddna - as of last Monday, everything is running fine with Bonsai. Battery life seems same as every other ROM though, at least IMO. I'm a ROM-aholic though too. My biggest concern is that there is yet ANOTHER version of CWM and that it can be extremely confusing trying to keep track of them all.
 
Replied in PM, too, but in case anyone else can help:

After reflashing Bonsai, I'm getting the same force close messages for the Email application. It pops up every few minutes! I haven't even tried to go to my e-mail, so these are completely random force closes.

Edit..I just tried to check email to see what it would do. It opened the app, but no emails showed up. When I hit "show more messages" it force closed.
 
Email, not gmail, right?

Replace the email.apk in /system/app with a different version. Give me a bit (currently not home) to post up the one I was using.
 
Can you please explain to me why I should be having to do this?? I'm loving this rom so far, especially with it automatically restoring all my data. I haven't had to tinker with very much at all since I flashed it.
 
If the email app is the problem, this would just be replacing it to see if the stock email app is the problem or not.
 
forddna said:
Flashing Bonsai now. Actually, reflashing because the first flash had immediate force closes. I did the journaling on zip with it.
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If bonsai doesn't pan out i would suggest trying emerald fury by computerkid23. I have used all 3 of his roms as dd's and haven't had any issues. Just look at his thread, overwhelmingly compliments and very little for issues. Stable and great battery life. :-)
 
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