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danders23

danders23

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ok so i finally decided to add a custom rom to my epic ,im allready rooted with 2.5.5 recovery i think ,dont no how to check witch one im on ,but anyway i used to have the evo so i know about flashing and stuff ,i just want to know whats the most stable ,fast , battery performance rom
 
danders23 said:
ok so i finally decided to add a custom rom to my epic ,im allready rooted with 2.5.5 recovery i think ,dont no how to check witch one im on ,but anyway i used to have the evo so i know about flashing and stuff ,i just want to know whats the most stable ,fast , battery performance rom
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Pretty much all roms nowadays are ext4, so you'll need to root using 3.0.0.6. You can just do this on top of 2.5.5. I would recommend the Syndicate rom. Use this to help you :

YouTube - How to Root Samsung Epic and flash SyndicateFrozenRom 1.1.0
 
To check which cwm you have just boot into recovery. Stock recovery has blue letters, cwm 2.5 has green letters and cwm 3.0 has orange letters. There are a few good ones out there, but most are ext4 (different file system than current stock, which is rfs) which cwm 3.0. The 3 big ones, no particular order, are midnight rom 5.2 byor (build your own rom version) but the dev just had to quit developing due to family issues but still a rock solid rom. Acs frozen 1.1 and viper synergy rom (currently based off of eb13 but soon to be updated). Honestly, all 3 are good but with the way our phones are your best bet is to try one and see if you like because what works for me may not be the same for you. Any questions just ask, lots of people out here that would be happy to help.
I see tschofield just bet me to the punch lol
 
I just flashed mine to SyndicateROM Frozen. It's very smooth and my battery life has already increased. I just followed the video. I did get the rom flash error. it went fine the second time.
 
I just rooted to Syndicate Frozen ROM, WIFI thether does not work. Are there any other good ROMs out there which do WIFI thether.
 
Actually the issue may be kernel related. Try flashing rom again, if that dont work try either vision or genocide kernels.
 
rounsy222 said:
Actually the issue may be kernel related. Try flashing rom again, if that dont work try either vision or genocide kernels.
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I have to admit, this is a very stable ROM. Fantastic, in fact. Loading this will make you a little despondent that the guys that wrote this don't work for Sammy. (We'd be so much farther by now if they did. Good talent truly is wasted.)

It's very much what you expected your phone to be when you bought it, before you were jaded. Not terribly flashy, mind you, but solid as can be. Flashy,k I think, goes to URBAN with CK's transitions. That's all we're after, isn't it? Something to show off?

Tell you what. Want flashy without the flashing? Buy SPB Shell. 15 bucks. That's right. Want stable? Syndicate is the way to go.

And soon we'll have Cyanogenmod. Then it's a whole new ballgame.....
 
I would suggest the Syndicate Frozen ROM but I guess it didn't like me. After not being able to launch my music player (force closed every time), Getting multiple forced close messages from android.phone and copying pictures to my SD card and them not showing up in the gallery but showing up in root explorer :eek:, I had to find me another rom.

Since yesterday I've been on the MidNIGHT ROM v5.2 (BYOR) and i'm impressed so far, the boot up screen is AMAZING and the Honeycomb battery theme looks great. I also like the MidNIGHT Dialer. This ROM is definitely one that should be tried out by anyone in search for a good stable ROM.
 
I have been reading a lot about rooting over the last couple of days. I really wanted to go with syndicate frozen, however I see a lot of people are having boot loop issues and other problems. Also I see that the vision kernel to fix these issues also bricking peoples phones on the xda forums. Is midnight rom a better choice or is syndicate frozen really a stable rom? Also didn't see what midnight rom overclock speed was.
 
A lot will depend on the phone. As an example, my phone doesn't seem to like Syndicate ROMs but other people have no issues.
 
Kelmar said:
A lot will depend on the phone. As an example, my phone doesn't seem to like Syndicate ROMs but other people have no issues.
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Can't agree more! Every phone is different! I had to play around with a few to find one that fit my phone and my needs. I found midnight to work well for me. Everyone will have a different personal experience
 
Glad to see my Epic wasn't the only one that seemed to reject Syndicate Frozen. Im going on 3 days with the MidNIGHT 5.2 and I've had no problems this far...
 
I have been searching for a good link to midnight and a detailed explanation of everything on it but can't seem to get what am looking for. Can someone please point me in the right direction.
 
ewarren29 said:
I have been searching for a good link to midnight and a detailed explanation of everything on it but can't seem to get what am looking for. Can someone please point me in the right direction.
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Lostandtired.com under his development section. Also about 12 threads under this one.
 
Shabbypenguin said:
wasted? how is talent wasted? you still got the stuff on your phone right? :D
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I agree, for us it's great!:D Part of me would rather see these developers who are doing this for the love of it making the big bucks working for the major companies. Just think how fast the updates would drop then! (Minus the red tape.)
 
I tried Syndicate, liked it, but couldn't really tell the difference between it and stock (nothing super major anyway). I am running Cyonagen Gingerbread 7.0.3.1 on my Evo, and absolutely love that, so I'm really looking forward for a Gingerbread ROM in the future.

Given that, I ended up going with EC05 Stock Plus (EC05 with certain Sprints stuff stripped) - which as the CIQ removed, TWS fixed, etc etc.

So far it is working great. [ROM][ODIN][RFS/EXT4][NOCIQ] EC05 Stock Plus Updated 5/5/2011** - xda-developers

I like it because it's easy to restore my old DI18 ROM to look up information should I need it.

It was next to impossible to flash back to my DI18 ROM when I converted to EXT4 and tried out the Syndicate ROM. I'd much prefer to stay on RFS and be able to flash back to a back up if needed, from my DI18 days. In the future I may go back to EXT4 but RFS is working just fine, and EC05 is fast for me.
 
forddna said:
Midnight is working great for me now. I wish I could have the Syndicate battery indicator and 3g/1x indicator. :(
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For the 3g/1x indicators, pull the framework-res.apk, replace the files and push it back to your phone. :)

.... or drop it into a flashable....
 
Can you use set cpu and other mod apps on rfs. I am a little nervous about flashing a rom on phone and wondering how rfs is on stock .
 
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