I've hated every second I've experienced with ICS

[NikolaeVarius]

Nothing like flashing a ROM, and spending an hour restoring specific apps from Titanium backup only to find out the ROM has issues. Trying out a ton of ROM's is basically a full time job. Before I sold my note the last rom I tried was a new AoCP one, it was pretty good, but you get no S Pen and no video player and calendar. Samsungs video player is the best and their calendar's my favorite. Crazy how you can't just pull the calendar.apk out and flash it over, oh wells.

It's no one elses fault that you choose to do things the hard way.

Trying out ROMS is about 10 minutes of work. 20 if I'm being picky.

 

[gorcorps]

Up and running new rom after backups and such. Now I'm starting to restore bits and pieces. This was the first rom I've used that had an actual interface during installation. After I chose the zip in CWM it didn't load a bunch of ASCII text like the roms I've tried before. Now it booted a touch based installation that let me select certain options (like which launcher to use). I thought that was pretty slick.

 

[soccerballtux]

Right...

I used to be completely on top of it with the iphone. Always had the latest jailbreak and everything, and the iphone was a bigger PITA usually. Lately since I've been working I just stick with whatever I find stable for months at a time and rarely update anymore. Even if I stuck with Shostock I'd have to reflash from scratch because my version is so old. Hopefully this goes better than the last time I tried a new rom.

+1

honestly don't feel like upgrading from Gingerbread stock-based Rom where everything works.
Also tired of overclocking killing my battery when using the phone.

 

[QueBert]

It's no one elses fault that you choose to do things the hard way.

Trying out ROMS is about 10 minutes of work. 20 if I'm being picky.

I had about 200 apps installed, and half I'd restore app+data, the other half just apps. You couldn't do that in 20 minutes if you tried. There's simply no easy way to reliably do a batch restore of apps with flags of app+data/app only for each. You'd be lucky to restore all the apps on mine in 50 minutes. Which isn't bad, but when you have days where you try 2-3 roms it add's up quick.

 

[Bman123]

If ICS is a port for your device then it won't be stable.

Totally wrong.
I run 4.0.4 ICS port on my infuse 4g and it runs great, I dont get force closes at all, its not laggy one bit and it's on a 1,200 mhz single core cpu

 

[Bman123]

I had about 200 apps installed, and half I'd restore app+data, the other half just apps. You couldn't do that in 20 minutes if you tried. There's simply no easy way to reliably do a batch restore of apps with flags of app+data/app only for each. You'd be lucky to restore all the apps on mine in 50 minutes. Which isn't bad, but when you have days where you try 2-3 roms it add's up quick.

I cant see there being 200 apps worth using, I don't see how you can honestly have so many on your phone. I like to keep my phone slim and simple.

 

[Raduque]

I cant see there being 200 apps worth using, I don't see how you can honestly have so many on your phone. I like to keep my phone slim and simple.

Yeah, I've never understood that. I have less than 100 apps, and a bunch of those are games I never play anymore.

Also, when I flash a rom, I don't bother to restore apps or data, except my SMS and call logs (using SMS Backup +). I let the Play Store and Google Sync re-install all my apps. Who gives a crap if data is missing, oh boohoo, your Angry Birds progress is gone.

 

[Bman123]

i maybe have 10 apps total uf that on my ohone ither then what cones with the rom. i love ehen people say shit is laggy when their phone is full of garbage apps thry dont even use.

 

[gorcorps]

i maybe have 10 apps total uf that on my ohone ither then what cones with the rom. i love ehen people say shit is laggy when their phone is full of garbage apps thry dont even use.

You need to download a new keyboard.

 

[Binky]

You need to download a new keyboard.

That would increase his number of apps by 10%!

 

[QueBert]

i maybe have 10 apps total uf that on my ohone ither then what cones with the rom. i love ehen people say shit is laggy when their phone is full of garbage apps thry dont even use.

Do app's not running make a phone laggy? If so why isn't my iPhone with 28 gigs of apps slower than my Note which only had 11 gigs of apps.

 

[sygyzy]

Do app's not running make a phone laggy? If so why isn't my iPhone with 28 gigs of apps slower than my Note which only had 11 gigs of apps.

No.

 

[gorcorps]

Does anybody have much experience with different modems? I have had pretty spotty connection every since I switched to the newest rom. The signal says full and all icons indicate data is connected properly, but things aren't loading at all or are very slow. I'm not sure if a different modem would make a difference or not.

 

[QueBert]

Does anybody have much experience with different modems? I have had pretty spotty connection every since I switched to the newest rom. The signal says full and all icons indicate data is connected properly, but things aren't loading at all or are very slow. I'm not sure if a different modem would make a difference or not.

different modems can make all the difference in the world, with different modems on my Note I was able to get the gps from taking 1-2 minutes to lock on to about 25 seconds. XDA would be the place to read about which ones to install. I know on the Note a lot of ICS people reverted back to the GB modems.

 

[WelshBloke]

different modems can make all the difference in the world, with different modems on my Note I was able to get the gps from taking 1-2 minutes to lock on to about 25 seconds. XDA would be the place to read about which ones to install. I know on the Note a lot of ICS people reverted back to the GB modems.

First few times you use GPS after flashing are going to take ages, particularly if the guy who made the ROM used settings for a different area.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Does anybody have much experience with different modems? I have had pretty spotty connection every since I switched to the newest rom. The signal says full and all icons indicate data is connected properly, but things aren't loading at all or are very slow. I'm not sure if a different modem would make a difference or not.

Yes. I believe modems are designed for different regions in mind. There was one reliable modem from the GB Era (KI4?). It worked well for me in the SF Bay ARea whereas newer ones like KL1 (which has a good reputation in general) and LPH kept dropping data left and right. I'm not sure if it was an RIL (in which case not modem) issue with my ROM at the moment, but given it was Gingerbread CM7, I think the RIL was not the issue.

KI4 worked well in SF Bay ARea but REFUSEd to give me 3G in Detroit, MI. My Nexus S did fine on 3G and got decent speeds. I finally flashed LPQ modem and I got 3G. Wasted 40% of battery all morning trying to get KI4 to work and it was a bust.

But I assume you're not on the international SGS2, so I can't really help you with modems. Entropy512 who does a lot of dev work for the SGS2 phones recommends the older modems. I think he mentioned KH7 or something which is what he uses as the newer ones are crap.

While I think modems DO make a difference, I don't think there's as much difference between them as people make it out to be. PEople claim battery life significantly changes, but I think that's within use pattern. Or furthermore if one particular modem su cks with 3G, the battery use is from trying to connect to 3G.

My success with mass restores using Titanium Backup is essentially 0%. I only restore selected apps as needed.

very surprised. I've had 100% success essentially. You have to do Restore missing apps & system data. And it's more an issue when you jump from ROM to ROM as they have special apps and kernel tweaking apps that are rom specific. However, with small changes, I've been ok, like flashing CM to a non CM ROM, you make sure you take out the CM apps. I used to wipe every few nightlies and do a mass restore with TB. Every few months I'd wipe my whole ROM and restore selected apps only and install the rest for a clean slate (kinda like reformatting a HD and reinstalling windows).

The only time I had horrible luck was going from GB to ICS, but everyone knows you have to be careful. Just restore apps. System data restore crossing different OS versions will screw you up. I had to use SMS Backup & Restore to move texts over.

 

[ChronoReverse]

My success with mass restores using Titanium Backup is essentially 0%. I only restore selected apps as needed.

Between similar ROMs I never have problems. That is, AOSP restores to AOSP-based ROMs (CM, AOKP, AOSP), MIUI to MIUI-based ROMs, vendor specific to vendor specific ROMs (e.g., Sense to Sense); these never fail for me as long as they're USER apps.

 

[gorcorps]

Ok, new modem it is!