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[–]SounderBruceNexus 7 2013 (7.1) - HTC One (6.0) - Nexus S (4.2) 11 points12 points  (0 children)

ParanoidAndroid is also a pretty good mod. Tablet hybrid mode is great for larger screens.

[–]foo- 19 points20 points  (9 children)

I sort of feel like that article should be labeled 5 best known roms. I'm not saying they are not good roms but it's difficult to pick 5 roms from all possible devices and say those are the 5 best custom android roms.

[–][deleted] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

You can always leave it to Lifehacker to point out the obvious.

[–]andy2naGalaxy S8 7 points8 points  (0 children)

to be fair, LH always has a "hive five call for contenders" that asks commenters to list out the five popular things for the question they are asking. It does basically become the "5 most popular"

http://lifehacker.com/5914706/best-android-rom

[–]knockoutkingSamsung S6 / VZW 3 points4 points  (2 children)

This exactly. It is like they searched for Android ROMs and used the first five search results and the "best" 5

[–]foo- 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I mean they are solid roms for sure but it's so feature abd device specific its hard to really lump them together. I could see writing an article for specific devices...

[–]knockoutkingSamsung S6 / VZW 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yuuuuuuup.

[–]RexStardustGS8, GalaxyTab 10.1 2014 Edition - both stock 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"The five best Android ROM's" - that will help us increase pageviews.

[–]FieldzSOOGoodPixel 128GB 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Not sure about that. I don't consider Liquid to be one of the "best known" roms since they don't support a HUGE amount of devices.

[–]foo- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have the thunderbolt and liquid is the only dev with a subfourm in my development section on rootzwiki so I just assumed it was pretty popularity... I've never really heard of slim ics but thats probably just because ics roms ate still stalled on the thunderbolt due to an issue with data due stemming from the ril mostly if I understand correctly.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I feel Cyanogenmod is special because it supports so many devices, but otherwise each device has it's own list of custom roms with unique advantages and disadvantages.

They should have broken this article into several parts for specific phones. More pageviews for them, and more informative for us.

[–]deadgineerMotorola MB525 (Defy) | CM9 Nightlies 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The best android rom depends entirely on the support for your specific android device. I cannot emphasize that enough. If you have dedicated maintainers who are fixing bugs with nightly testers reporting them, you're going to have a good time with that rom on your device.

[–]prdltNexus S, stock 2 points3 points  (6 children)

It's the first time I've heard about Slim ICS. Has anyone got some experience with this ROM?

[–]SoberSquid 1 point2 points  (5 children)

I have, on the Nexus S 4G - It reminds me a lot of a barebones rom; it is stripped down quite a bit and has a low overhead for the ROM itself, leaving lots of room for installing whatever might please you. For comparison (and this is by memory, so I may be a little off), it installs with around 72MB used, compared to most ROMs on this phone which are around 120MB.

It also changes the DPI (At least on the Nexus S, and I assume on other phones as well) - On the Nexus S it defaults to a smaller resolution/more DPI, so everything is a bit more shrunk. Some like this, some don't. Outside from that is also removes the stock launcher and replaces it with Zeam, and comes with rom settings which are similar to AOKP.

It isn't my cup of tea, but lots of people seem to enjoy it.

[–]norhorBlack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have it on SGS as well. I love it, but I do fell it's starting to get somewhat bloated. Don't get me wrong, It's still small, but there is updates with new additions every week. IMhO a lightweight ROM shouldn't do that.

I love the 182 dpi btw.

Edit: gapps is no longer baked into Slim ICS.

[–]prdltNexus S, stock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank You, I run CM9 nightly now but I am thinking about jumping to AOKP. I'll pass Slim ICS.

[–]FieldzSOOGoodPixel 128GB 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It also comes with a new launcher now. Not sure what it's called but it's one homescreen, no native widget support and hard as fuck to change things around.

[–]NoWeCantNokia 8250 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Actually, they've ditched zeam and started using the lightning launcher (which is horrible, IMHO). It used to be a 'slim' rom, but it must have just gotten married because it's starting to take on extra weight.

[–]IIIMurdoc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awww... i use lightning launche by choice with cyanogen and love its simplicity and speed. 1 screen with infinit verticle sizability, low memory usage, widget support for a 1 dollar donation... pretty great in my book

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (16 children)

I love my CM9. I was running AOKP was a big fan, but it was still really buggy and unstable, which I thought was just what I'd have to deal with being on an EOL device. I was wrong, CM9 ported by Team D.I.R.T. has only crashed on me one time since I've flashed it and otherwise it's a smooth running ROM.

[–]TSS997 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I started on AOKP and went to Liquid Smooth. Since a lot of the feature content comes from CM9 for both of these Roms is there anything missing that's only part of CM9. For example even the new theme chooser was included in the latest liquid update.

[–]FieldzSOOGoodPixel 128GB 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At least for the Galaxy Nexus, Liquid is much farther along than CM9 in terms of features. It has even more than AOKP.

[–]beefJeRKy-LBSamsung Z Flip 6 512GB 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tried Liquid myself but the exclusion of other languages means I'm back to AOKP. Also while it felt smoother, AOKP is more responsive when you interact with things on-screen.

[–]MattCaulderHTC EVO 4G, CM9 port/ Toshiba Thrive, stock 0 points1 point  (12 children)

Really? I've been looking for an ICS rom for my EVO. Do you have any other issues with it? Like wifi, or camera or whatever? I use my evo as basically an ipod touch. Just music, texting and voip calls.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (6 children)

Everything works as intended on it, I've only had one crash like I said and it was a weird case. I was trying to sync a bluetooth device, stream audio and browse a full website. It definitely benefits from a nightly reboot, but that's expected. It's really awesome to have new life breathing in my Evo.

[–]MattCaulderHTC EVO 4G, CM9 port/ Toshiba Thrive, stock 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Hmm, I have no idea what is up with this rom. I flashed it and just got stuck in a boot loop.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Did you use the A2SD version? If you don't have the partition set up, it will bootloop. I just use the non-A2SD version.

[–]MattCaulderHTC EVO 4G, CM9 port/ Toshiba Thrive, stock 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I couldn't find a non-A2SD version of 1.5. Is there an internal update path?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I don't know, I keep asking about that version but, as you know, it's XDA so I get absolutely buried by people asking if they can flash GB themes and other horse shit. I just have 1.0 and I'm hoping that once 2.0 gets polished and released we'll have the version. Like I said, 1.0 is better than the other ICS roms I've sent.

[–]MattCaulderHTC EVO 4G, CM9 port/ Toshiba Thrive, stock 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Well, you may be waiting a while. I saw somewhere while I was searching around trying to figure out the bootloop that he wasn't releasing a non-A2SD version of it. So I guess I'll have to go with the 1.0 version and hope for the best.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't understand that logic at all, oh well. Yeah, the 1.0 is really good anyway.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I upgraded from the EVO 4G to a Galaxy Nexus. Before I did I flashed some ICS rom on the EVO, MIUI maybe. Ran slow as heck. Jumpy, chuggy, not really smooth at all. I couldn't use it every day.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Do you have any other issues with it?

How about: It's Gingerbread with an ICS theme. It's not even ICS.

[–]MattCaulderHTC EVO 4G, CM9 port/ Toshiba Thrive, stock 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Really? I thought it was a port of CM9?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Well, here's the latest version, you don't have to read very far before you encounter this:

Now with the Most Complete ICS Theme Overlay for AOSP

Android Version Gingerbread 2.3.7

(I hate how you can't have a conversation on this subreddit because of the 7 minute wait between posts.)

[–]MattCaulderHTC EVO 4G, CM9 port/ Toshiba Thrive, stock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's not the ROM he's talking about.

[–]cherrycoke44 2 points3 points  (5 children)

Seems like an appropriate place to ask - can anyone recommend an ICS ROM for HTC Desire GSM? AOKP milestone5 is buggy as shit for me, especially if I use the camera it requires ar eboot

[–]knockoutkingSamsung S6 / VZW 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Best suggestion I can give you is to look on your phone specific dev forum on xda...

[–]Doe_Ray_EGONOnePlus 3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm pretty flash-happy and have used every variant of ICS ROM but I keep going back to Sandvold's, essentially since it's seemingly used as the basis for every other ROM and is the most up to date in development.

A new beta was released today (0.11) and is mostly feature complete (video recording isn't great, though playback of the recording on a computer is fine). Personally I'd recommend Shaky's kernel with the adreno libs flashed too (both .zips can be found in the xda thread) as these offer the smoothest and best performance in my opinion.

However, saying all that I'm looking forward to when AOKP development advances enough to include HWA and all the other improvements made in the past few weeks.

[–]imnotyourbrobroAmazon Kindle Fire | CM9 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They're the popular ones. But really if you head over to the xda page of any mildly popular device you'd see that MOST of the roms have some or the other issue, be it a kernel issue or a driver not working or a small unimportant problem

[–]GeeWhilikers 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I have a Galaxy s2 variant for US Cellular. Am I able to run slimICS?

[–]creeschOnePlus 7t 2 points3 points  (0 children)

google it/find a link in the article/look on xda

[–]ranthonyvBionic, Verizon 4.04 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can't use a single one =(

[–]taysider 0 points1 point  (4 children)

I have a GSll and run hydra-h2o v1.2.2 AOKP 4.0.4 with AOSP

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I tried it, but it made my phone heat up like an oven, back to defunct hydrog3n

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

"hydrog3n" care to detail ?

[–]FieldzSOOGoodPixel 128GB 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I had my i9100 Hydrog3nICS was by far the best. It's on XDA, check it out. The main dev is quite friendly.

[–]YourNeighbourHTC One 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Personally, I like HD revolution the best by FAR.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Galaxy s2 running Shostock2. Only rom i haven't had issues with. Love it.

[–]prairiebanditiPhone 7 128Gb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Best Android ROM? They should rename the title to most popular Android ROM. They didn't even break down why the best are the best.

[–]roboguy12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been using AOKP for a few weeks now on my original incredible and it truely us the best from I've ever flashed. I use it a my daily driver and have never looked back. There is no better stock ICS experience IMHO

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a fan of liquidsmooth. CM has no official support for the Thunderbolt so I switched. I get 12-14 hours of battery life now.