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Root Which AOSP ROM?

nicka3200

nicka3200

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My phone developed a problem a week or so ago & despite an enormous ammount of help & advice from the experts on here (Suroot, Hadron & Rastaman FB) I was left with no alternative but to send it away for repair. Assuming it is repairable it seems likely that when I get it back it will be returned to stock.

I will almost certainly root it again & install an AOSP ROM but the threads on XDA give precious little information on the actual user experience. Sure they all say they are smooth & stable but they wouldn't be much of a ROM if they weren't! I was using dGB prior to my problems & may well go back to that. It gave me a whopping 250mb of free internal space when using stock apps2sd. Clearly I could get by with a slightly bigger system partition but what do I get for the extra megabytes?

I know ROM choice is very subjective but may be this thread could help some of us noobs make an informed choice so what are your personal recommendations and why?
 
you wont get bigger data from any other rom that DGB
as AOSP stock roms are concerned the main candidates are
DGB with a custom hboot for best space usages and pretty good battery life
Mildwild oxygen build - good but subtle eye candy and excellent battery life
Oxygen itself
CM7 is ok but is a battery drain and imo too dull for the amount of stuff that is loaded into it


these are in personal order of preference though and again people like different things for different reasons

my desire has remained on the latest DGB
my wifes desire is on mildwild. her battery life is awesome
 
after trying a bunch of roms i dont think theres an aosp rom better (stability and speed wise) than dgb..for me at least ;)
 
I'd also consider Redux 2. Been out of development for a while now but has been rock solid for me over the past few months. Will fit into a sub 100mb partition to if that's your thing.

It's stock with a few nice add-ons.
 
GrenW said:
I'd also consider Redux 2. Been out of development for a while now but has been rock solid for me over the past few months. Will fit into a sub 100mb partition to if that's your thing.

It's stock with a few nice add-ons.
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What add-ons?
 
My list is pretty similar to Rastaman's. I use dGB myself, but could recommend MildWild/Oxygen, or Redux (2 for me, though 1.2 is good too). CM7 if you like a lot of extras, or you could try GingerVillain which is based on that - I used those two a lot last year, but have been heading steadily towards smaller and more streamlined ROMs.

I'd say that if you are going to go without a2sd+ and use a small /system partition to maximise /data space, then dGB is the way to go. If you would prefer to use sd-ext then MildWild Oxygen seems a pretty good choice right now.
 
Mildwild is getting a lot of attention.. I just can't be bothered with the farce of changing hboot and trying it. Is this to my detriment? Also, which hboot should I use for it? I may put off flashing the new dGB build for another week.
 
hi Jon,

imo i think you should try it - i really like it - im still on an older version as just nandroided back to it

i only use the cm7r2 hboot, so i can just flash between my fave roms ;)

enjoy
dan
 
CM7r2 wouldn't work with dGB for me - too much stuff on my phone.

I stripped MildWild down to the point where I could fit it in 80 MB, but I think out of the box it's over 100.

But I'd not put off flashing the latest dGB - you can just flash over the previous one, and it's very good.
 
too many tunes? :)

on mine, as dont have tunes etc, i get around 165mb with dGB and 149mb with MW
 
Thanks for the replies. They are most helpful, please keep them coming.

I'm leaning towards returning to dGB or trying mildwild. Does anyone know if the Mildwild based on Oxygen fits onto Bravo Oxygen r2 hboot?
 
Hadron said:
But I'd not put off flashing the latest dGB - you can just flash over the previous one, and it's very good.
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I'm spring cleaning and backing up now. I'm formatting my SD Card (as I still have my 1gb ext3 partition still present) and going to install the new dGB. Mildwild shall wait I think.

Cup of tea and I think I'll have Full Metal Jacket on in the background. Sounds good to me. :D

Edit: I'm going to watch The Big Lebowski instead. Something a bit more chilled out.
 
:D yeah - you dont want to be ducking behind the sofa while trying to wipe and flash :D enjoy

.....im probably going MW 2.7 tomorrow.....and a new UOT theme obviously ;)
 
dan55 said:
:D yeah - you dont want to be ducking behind the sofa while trying to wipe and flash :D enjoy

.....im probably going MW 2.7 tomorrow.....and a new UOT theme obviously ;)
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Can you flash a UOT theme over the top? No wipe etc? Just curious as I was looking at UOT today and there's a wait of 50 minutes. I'm too inpatient for that.:p
 
yup - just flash it over - i know :( can be busy on there - plus it has been down for a week, so prob lots of peeps busy cookin :D
 
dan55 said:
yup - just flash it over - i know :( can be busy on there - plus it has been down for a week, so prob lots of peeps busy cookin :D
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Spot on. I'll cook a theme when it quiets down and flash then. Just setting up dGB from scratch now :D
 
cool enjoy :-)

I've got ics blue on at the mo. but might go androidian green next.
had a nice red one on dGB recently :-D

....shame there isn't an app that can do it :-\
 
you coding one up as we speak ;)

there is rom toolbox that does all sorts of stuff - but i like to fix the colors of my notification icons - and the dev says it cant do this....yet
 
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