ROM of the day? Why bother?

[maplewood]

I rooted my first Android nearly four years ago (I think, I didn't write down the date).

Since then I've eagerly updated ROMS as the came out. It's fun to toy with the phone.

I most recently switched from Synergy 4.1.1 to Liquid Smooth 4.2.?
Liquid is nice but I actually went back to Synergy since I found the UI a bit more polished (to my taste).

Then I noticed an even newer Liquid but as I was about to flash it I asked myself "why" and I couldn't think of a reason. I use my phone for the basics -- email, text, web, etc. Synergy (and the rest) do all those very nicely.

So I suddenly asked myself, why do I keep flashing new roms? Is there really any new useful functionality?

Is this heresy or am I just getting complacent?

 

[funkylogik]

Lol ive kinda became the same tbh. The s3 was the longest phone i kept stock, then put a samsung-based rom (Neat rom LITE) on it (1.6) and ive just stuck with that. Ive modded a bit but stuck with that rom and Siyah kernel. Ive no reason to even update to the latest Neat build because this is perfect just now. Battery, performance and mostly reliability are perfect for me.
Ill probably put an official 4.2 samsung based rom on when its released but gotta say im happy with this.
Not sure if its because its such a good phone (i used to rom to make cheap/bad phones better) or if im just gettin lazy lol but its all good :beer:

 

[SUroot]

Why does everyone bundle the idea of updates with functionality? Sure there are often functional updates but what is most important about an update is what you dont see. Code revisions, efficiency increases, security fixes

 

[Shotgun84]

Yeah as said just because no new features have been added it doesn't mean there haven't been any bug or stability fixes. Anyway flashing a ROM at work sure beats my day job so I'm grateful for the regular updates

 

[funkylogik]

Yeah i think ive basicly became lazy lol. Maybe its coz im probs gona give my phone to the Mrs soon so i want sumthin tried n tested runnin on it.. duno :beer:

 

[maplewood]

Why does everyone bundle the idea of updates with functionality? Sure there are often functional updates but what is most important about an update is what you dont see. Code revisions, efficiency increases, security fixes

Interesting point re: security fixes and efficiency (I'm always in search of better battery life). Too bad these aren't more widely publicized. Most of the press seems to focus on the little functionality tweaks.

 

[SUroot]

Its only the press that focus on functionality too. Samsung don't even publish change logs :/

 

[rcsrich]

When I've had lesser phones with fairly crappy stock ROMs, I would do a lot of flashing custom ROMs & would pay a lot more attention to development for that phone. Now that I have the S3, I've thought about rooting to get rid of bloat, but I think my overall level of satisfaction with the way the stock ROM runs (with Apex launcher) has made me a little lazy LOL.

"Necessity is the mother of invention".

 

[trucky]

Its only the press that focus on functionality too. Samsung don't even publish change logs :/

I would venture to say that the collective ROM devs have a much better handle on the enhancements, fixes, tweaks and overall betterments of the various ROMs than Samsung itself.

 

[ExtremeNerd]

For funsies.

I love having a dozen top notch ROMs for my S3. I can have a new phone each week should I get bored. That is the reason I choose mainstream devices. I couldn't last two years on the same phone with the same software. I love having options available.