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Root New Roms??????

beastinbolts

beastinbolts

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Wellllll

I have tried two different versions of ICS and think I will wait till the bugs have been worked out. There is nothing worse the running a beta Rom and you come to a time when you need your phone to preform but your stuck with glitches or issues that have not been addressed our have been ironed out. Prior to this I have tried some Honeycomb variations and again went back to my daily. Before that I tried gingerbread and upon many many tweaks got a rom running for day-inday-out use.


Best Rom I have ever ran was a kings Asop 2.3.( not ultra beet down ) and onto my question. Why are developers putting out Roms that are not complete? I am starting to think that this is just a time filler. (whats the point) I thought i was upgrading my phone our being on the cusp of what is to come....mmmmmmmm...........While running ICS the biggest difference I noticed was an increase in battery drain and scrolling is grossly ridged.

All three versions of android 4.0 I have flashed do not have a working calender. (is this not simple smartphone technology)



I tried many versions of allot of different roms. I noticed something:

About 4 months before 2.3 got pushed out I had an up and running version. (awesome got them all beat) having been said that and all the rest I have said above I am running 4.0. Honneycomb has not even been pushed out yet.. will we see a stable 4.0 Rom that warrants the time spent running glitchie versions and having the headache..OR SOMETHING LIKE THIS hey bro I just loaded 4.0 on my phone check it out.........................oooo hold up.. its frozzzzz I need to reboot it.. I did not flash the update!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Developers are putting out ROMS that arent complete because people want something new to try out.
If you want a complete ROM its really very simple, just dont flash anything that isnt a full release.
Alphas and betas are alphas and betas because they have bugs. Thats what the name means.


Stay away from ICS, sense 3.5 and you'll be fine. Hell, the CM team hasnt even released cm9 yet.


Also, honeycomb is meant for tablets, not phones. There was a reason its source wasnt released until after ICS.

After dabbling in ROM development myself I can really say its a LOT harder said than done. Feel free to try developing your own ROMS if you dont believe me.
 
Sorry no mean to offend. I do enjoy the fun of trying new Roms don't get me wrong I am just lost in translation. I get excited about flashing a new version but get so frustrated when simple bases are not covered.....what happen to a testing team.....(rereading this I guess we are the teasting team)


You know I think I am bitching about some thing I love..although I have an inkling that I need a new phone. and I love my EVO.....I am just kinda frustrated cuzz I WAS HEADED TO A VERY IMPORTANT MEETING OTHER DAY and my gps need a fix it flash.. and to day I missed an appointment because I had no workable calendar.. All my fault in the end but just frustrated... I need a pda
 
I hear you Beast, it gets frustrationg at times.

I think we've been spoiled with the rom DEVs our beloved evo has had over the past 2 years. I've been cruising the other device forums, and now I understand. Some phones are lucky to have 3-4 roms total!! We still get several roms out a month, or at least updates.
CM team has been aweful quiet about ICS, either they're placing the OG EVO on the back burner, or they're keeping things quiet to drop a spirit bomb on us!

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I know you're not a big sense fan, but you really need to try out a few of these sense 3.5 roms. They take a little tweaking, but nothing more than you're used to dealing with on AOSP.

Try out the Supersonic3D RC1.2, or the Energy rom.
 
With sense 3.5 there are still issues with missing text messages, SD card mounting, 4g, ect.
(there are fixes for most of them, but its the type of hassle that keeps me from AOSP in the first place)

Untill there is a sense 3.5 phone to port from on sprint, I won't use the ROMS as a daily on my EVO. Nothing more than a flash and nandroid an hour or so later.
 
Granite1 said:
I hear you Beast, it gets frustrationg at times.

I think we've been spoiled with the rom DEVs our beloved evo has had over the past 2 years. I've been cruising the other device forums, and now I understand. Some phones are lucky to have 3-4 roms total!! We still get several roms out a month, or at least updates.
CM team has been aweful quiet about ICS, either they're placing the OG EVO on the back burner, or they're keeping things quiet to drop a spirit bomb on us!

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I know you're not a big sense fan, but you really need to try out a few of these sense 3.5 roms. They take a little tweaking, but nothing more than you're used to dealing with on AOSP.

Try out the Supersonic3D RC1.2, or the Energy rom.
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I have not tried Supersonic but I have tried energy and man very very slow.. I chalked it up to how big the rom was... I put that on my phone and had memory problems all over the place and slowwwwwwwww... HOMER ( LOL) You must remember me from ahwile ago cuzz yes I love roms that have very little fat they runn so so smooth
 
i kind of feel your frustration. the roms that i hate are the nighties. why nightlies why not wait and make a big update then updating a few things. like the xplod rom came out for the evo 3d. they do not call it a nightly but that is what it is. i just flashed what i thought was the latest version to only find out that they just put out another one today. that is frustrating.
 
I don't have your flashing experience, so I don't share your frustration... The only rom I flashed that was no good was an ICS beta and I knew ahead of time that I wasn't gonna keep it. I've flshed a half a dozen roms and I've loved all of them, all good enough to be dailies and all fantastic upgrades from stock GB.

What have you tried that was complete?
 
beastinbolts said:
I have not tried Supersonic but I have tried energy and man very very slow.. I chalked it up to how big the rom was... I put that on my phone and had memory problems all over the place and slowwwwwwwww... HOMER ( LOL) You must remember me from ahwile ago cuzz yes I love roms that have very little fat they runn so so smooth
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Strange:confused: The Energy rom is the fastest 3.5 rom I've flashed. The old saying rings true here, different roms/kernels run differently on each phone:p

ocnbrze said:
i kind of feel your frustration. the roms that i hate are the nighties. why nightlies why not wait and make a big update then updating a few things. like the xplod rom came out for the evo 3d. they do not call it a nightly but that is what it is. i just flashed what i thought was the latest version to only find out that they just put out another one today. that is frustrating.
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Why nightlies? That's development, why not get responses from the mass on what's going well and what's not. Isn't that how the developers determine if there's bugs or not?

Anyways, CM is known for their nightly builds and for me, going back to cm5, I've always had better luck with the nightlies than the stable/rc releases;)
 
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