Android ROMs, what's your favourite?

[Khare]

Jay. Cyanogen or Oxygen? I'm not sure whether to try Cyanogen as I've heard it's very good.

[Jay]

Oxygen isn't available for the Legend afaik, take a ClockworkMod backup/TiB  of your ROM and give Cyanogen a go. It's one of the most developed ROM's (if not the most) and running 2.3.7 which was only released 19 days before CM7.1 - that's how quick they work!

[Dolly]

I am running the 7 Linux Rom V5.4
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1067016

With the Galaxian Kernel
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1137595

Running on the Galaxy S

These run really well together, giving me fast and stable performance.

In the quadrant standard benchmark test, my phone now comes up to 2202 , before I flashed it with the above Rom and Kernel , I was only getting 850

is there an easy way to do this? my galaxy s is over 12 months old and needs something to freshen it up.

[Jay]

how to root the SGS

Not sure if it's changed since 2.2 or 2.3 (which ever you have on the SGS now)

Your best friend this weekend will be: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=665

 

Luckily they recently enabled anonymous views / downloads etc to stop kids signing up and flooding the forum with questions that've been asked a gazillion times and often on the same page Multiple times

[Jay]

Since moving the wifes HTC Wildfire to CyanogenMod 7.1 her battery life has gone from 13 hours with use to 50% after 13 hours with use Probably down to crap she had installed, but it's quicker and smoother to use than what it was so she's happy and I'm happy there is one less thing she moans about

My Legend is sitting @ 66% left after 13 hours with use, also running CM7.1

Use = Wifi and sync on all the time on both phones, also includes calls, texts, facebook, web browsing and other apps so pretty chuffed! 

[Dolly]

so lets say i use the automated root as its easier, how do i then install a rom?

 

[mcgee9t2]

Noob question coming up.
whats a rom? Read only memory are you talking about? And whats the advantage of running one/editing whats on there?

[Jay]

Warning: Dragons Ahead!

so lets say i use the automated root as its easier, how do i then install a rom?

 

Either from Recovery or a program such as Rom Manager, but make sure you've backup your sh!t, I recommend using the backup provided by the Recovery program (usually backs up the entire ROM, Apps, Data etc etc) and also make a backup using something like Titanium or MyBackup Pro so you can easily restore your apps and data after installing a new ROM. I can't stress the backing up of your sh!t enough. I made the mistake of not backing it all up when I originally rooted and flashed a new rom, loosing countless hours of progress on Angry Birds  My fault though for thinking it would remember where I got too automatically

Noob question coming up.
whats a rom? Read only memory are you talking about? And whats the advantage of running one/editing whats on there?

ROM's in the Android world are essentially different versions of Android, different user interfaces (compare HTC Sense with Samsungs TouchWiz etc) they also all make tweaks here and there and do things a little different to eachother. The most popular is CyanogenMod which has grown at an immense rate and supports the majority of popular devices!

http://www.cyanogenmod.com/about

[Bellend]

Just about to put Cyanogen on my Desire.

[Jay]

You may also want to look at Oxygen if you don't get along with CM, Khare really rates it.

I'm going to give a few other ROM's a go, there is Blayo's which is based on the Legend's Sense but modified and looks ace, hasn't been updated for a while but meh it's based on a ROM that was released by HTC almost a year ago and there is the kitchen too cook up any other tasty mods (circle battery mod for the notification bar is one I love!)

RC4B based on a newer version of Sense also looks good.