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What ROM Should I use?


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Even with themes miui is ugly! CM7 looks better and is more responsive but even the themes out for it don't suit me. I'm too picky. That's why I make my own stuff! NY stock based rom looks better than any miui theme to me. Personal opinion though!
 
Even with themes miui is ugly! CM7 looks better and is more responsive but even the themes out for it don't suit me. I'm too picky. That's why I make my own stuff! NY stock based rom looks better than any miui theme to me. Personal opinion though!

*cough* BROM THEME!!! *cough* :D
 
Here's the breakdown

CM7: if you want the core Cyanogen Gingerbread experience. This is where Isaac gets some of his stuff for MIUI. Great if you want a stable experience, with tons of modding options. CM7 is open source, making it easier to fit to the Triumph natively. CM7 has a wider user base than most other ROMs (widest user base, possibly) and a more active community.

MIUI: if you want a really cool-looking phone. It should be noted MIUI is the king of visual enhancements and theming; you can hand-pick individual elements of thousands of themes, and create the perfect mix-and-match theme of your own that way. MIUI also has the smoothest, best-looking graphical animations. If I remember correctly, MIUI is a port, which can leave rooms for bugs, as the OS is not open-source. It was going to be, but there are some doubts about that now. MIUI is based of Gingerbread.

It should be noted that the developers of the above ROMs, Isaac and Tickerguy, are awesome. Also, there is a lack of overclocking support for the above ROMs. If you want overclocking support, I recommend you use bROM. Use bKernel on Froyo-based ROMs as it has better overclocking features than UmphKernel (up to 2+ GHz).

bROM and Princerly are both Froyo-based ROMs. I, personally, do not know any reason to stick with Froyo (you'll be 2 OS's behind soon) but if you have a compelling reason to use Froyo, use bROM.

EVERY TIME you modify something important (eg. change ROM), make a NANDROID backup. No exceptions. Because the one time you don't, your phone will fail and/or get bricked. <--- Spoken from experience with 3 Android releases. I swear there is some evil devil manipulating when the phone will fail.

Hope this helped. :D
 
Even with themes miui is ugly! CM7 looks better and is more responsive but even the themes out for it don't suit me. I'm too picky. That's why I make my own stuff! NY stock based rom looks better than any miui theme to me. Personal opinion though!

I'm sorry, but if you say MIUI is ugly even with themes, then you just said that Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, and every possible existing theme is also ugly, along with colors.
 
ive tried stock froyo, cm7, miui, princley rom, and bRom beta and id say bRom is the most responsive and fastest ive used and although its 2.2 the only thing im missing thats in 2.3 is gtalk video and dsp manager also cm7 and miui are not complete they have to many bugs for me to enjoy my Triumph

Edit: i can see how 2.3 adds more features and compatibility to our phones but ive noticed that 2.2 takes less ram and runs smoother especially when theres tweaks and mods applied to it

I'd say the placebo effect is working on you, unless you overclocked. Gingerbread is far more optimized for performance than Froyo.
 
Really you can customize just about anything you want to as far as the looks of your phone, regardless of what ROM you are using. Some just have more included in the base build. There isn't anything in miui that I can't do with cm7 or vice versa. Stock can be harder to get things going but is also very customizable.
Performance wise there are differences. But different people will tell you different things. It will all depend on how you use your phone.
 
I'd say the placebo effect is working on you, unless you overclocked. Gingerbread is far more optimized for performance than Froyo.

even if the numbers are higher, 2.2 doesn't lag like cm7 this is important for me since i play hd games imo whichever runs smoother is better

perhaps if we see an official update to gingerbread my opinion could change
 
I was on miui but i try brom even over clocked to 1.4 with all same apps it was still slower then miui but I seems to like cm7 more now just for Stable Graphics and WiFi tethering.
 
Even with themes miui is ugly! CM7 looks better and is more responsive but even the themes out for it don't suit me. I'm too picky. That's why I make my own stuff! NY stock based rom looks better than any miui theme to me. Personal opinion though!


How old are you Brandon?
 
How old are you Brandon?
ahem, I think age is irrespective of the OP. :cool: I was asking about which ROM is better, not only for me, but in hopes the discussion would benefit others as well. If somebody acts childish, well, that's them. What if I told you I was 15? 35? 20? ;) Does it matter? Although, I think Brandon already said he was 14. (look at his name, b_randon14)
 
ahem, I think age is irrespective of the OP. :cool: I was asking about which ROM is better, not only for me, but in hopes the discussion would benefit others as well. If somebody acts childish, well, that's them. What if I told you I was 15? 35? 20? ;) Does it matter? Although, I think Brandon already said he was 14. (look at his name, b_randon14)


Cause if he was 14 it would explain why he acts like he is. I was just curious

I apologize for going off topic
 
I hope this thread does not become a source of bashing, flaming or trolling.

All of these roms are great in their own ways. Each person will put them into restrospect differently.

These roms have been given to us and the work (The people too) should be respected regardless of if you like it (them) personally or not.

I'd like that everyone who has an opinion to air not use it in a harmful or derogatory manner. That includes discussing peoples ages and irrelevant topics that could potentially cause harm to someone.

Just airing my two cents. LOL. Have a nice day! @;--'--
 
I hope this thread does not become a source of bashing, flaming or trolling.

All of these roms are great in their own ways. Each person will put them into restrospect differently.

These roms have been given to us and the work (The people too) should be respected regardless of if you like it (them) personally or not.

I'd like that everyone who has an opinion to air not use it in a harmful or derogatory manner. That includes discussing peoples ages and irrelevant topics that could potentially cause harm to someone.

Just airing my two cents. LOL. Have a nice day! @;--'--

Of course not, no bashing whatsoever just a question and an observation. I only asked cause he seems like he was about 14 or 15
 
I'm 21 if you must know. Why do you say I seem like I'm 14 or 15. Well actually nevermind I'm not going to promote the off-topicness of this discussion.
From a performance standpoint, yes MIUI and CM7 are way better than froyo based ROMs. I mean the overall system has had some upgrades in the performance department, with better more efficient libraries and the such. I have been using the CM7 build for a bit and it is quite smooth. I am working on themeing it to my liking though(stock gingerbread is better than stock froyo but not by much) and since MIUI is based off of CM initial source, I would sya it performs quite well.
Having said that, I still like stock ROMs for their functionality. In most cases everything that is on it functions as it should. I do like the added options in CM7. It's really a matter of what you're looking for in a ROM. I personally like stock based ROMs better(a official gb update would be quite swell) some others may prefer CM or MIUI. Its a case of to each is own. I never attack anyone because of their preference to a ROM. I just vocalize my opinion on what I like, and give reasons to it. No need to suggest I am childish in doing so, because everyone here does the same thing!
 
CM7

MIUI just doesn't seem to really click with me. It's not as pretty as everyone makes it out to be. I can edit CM7 just as much if not more.

If I added the things I liked more to MIUI then it would just look like a theme android. If I do that I might as well use CM7 which has more features.
 
If you really get down to it though MIUI has a ton of features as well. A lot are hidden though


Who was it that posted the "17 things you don't know about Miui"? That was read by me the first time while I was at work. I found exploring that to be like a kid in a candy store.

I'm quite complex, I love finding ways to make this phone more complicated. Chasing hidden settings in Miui = Fun for me! @_@
 
If you really get down to it though MIUI has a ton of features as well. A lot are hidden though

I read through a lot of those. Don't get me wrong MIUI is a nice Rom for a lot of people. I'm just not one of those people.

I guess the big thing for me is the look of it. I like that it's a unique beast, but I grow to miss some things that Android OS has. By adding those things I take away the unique look of MIUI.

So I figure if I'm going to do that I might as well just go with something that's Android based in the first place.
 
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