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

[Uppsala9496]

Running ICS on my captivate and couldn't be happier with it. Smoothest rom I have run. It's a CM9 variant with boog's kernel.
Keep trying new roms and kernels until you find one that works for you.

 

[pm]

Trouble is that ICS and GB use different builds of the apps in some cases. restoring the data to a different version of an app, even if its not a system app can cause issues. Its one of those things that you can give a shot, but don't go complaining about stability if you have restored any data.

This explains a problem that I had. So I did my backup everything from GB, flash the ICS ROM, restore all missing apps plus data thing, as described above and that worked fine... for a while. But then I let some apps update (Angry Birds Space was one) and they stopped working. I'd touch the icon, it would start to load, and then it would dump me back at the desktop/main Android screen again. I uninstalled the app, and reinstalled it from the market and then restored the app data and everything worked again. Yeah, restoring data is problematic... which is a bummer... because trying to put all the data back in is also annoying.

 

[cronos]

The only thing I'd restore after a ROM change is e-mail account settings and browser's bookmark. Everything else I'd just start from scratch rather than risking some strange things happening in the future.

 

[gorcorps]

So are things fixed, gocorps? You mentioned "in progress" above... did a selective restore fix things?

I'm still cranking away on the latest ShoStock on my i777. The battery life is awesome and there's been no stability issues. Things are just working for me. I don't know quite what to suggest except AOKP... or go back to UnNamed and wait for the official ICS port for i777 from AT&T/Samsung.

Not quite. While it's smoother than before and overall general use is where is expect it, I currently have a bug that seems to shut my phone off semi randomly. It has happened less today so maybe it'll behave.

 

[Raduque]

What samsung specific enhancements were you looking to keep?

I like the facebook/contacts integration, swiping to call/text (with the default, non-third-party-app), and the overall look is more appealing to me than stock Android OSes, including ICS.

Edit: Oh yes, I forgot MHL. I use a lot, along with DLNA/Easy Share, and Kies Air. I don't know if DLNA is available with CM9/AOKP, but I'm betting Kies Air isn't.

 

[gorcorps]

I like the facebook/contacts integration, swiping to call/text (with the default, non-third-party-app), and the overall look is more appealing to me than stock Android OSes, including ICS.

Edit: Oh yes, I forgot MHL. I use a lot, along with DLNA/Easy Share, and Kies Air. I don't know if DLNA is available with CM9/AOKP, but I'm betting Kies Air isn't.

Maybe I'll look into that then. One of the reasons I used the Unnamed rom was because it was so close to stock, minus some junk, added some battery saving tweaks and was good to go.

 

[Binky]

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

 

[WelshBloke]

I like the facebook/contacts integration, swiping to call/text (with the default, non-third-party-app), and the overall look is more appealing to me than stock Android OSes, including ICS.

Edit: Oh yes, I forgot MHL. I use a lot, along with DLNA/Easy Share, and Kies Air. I don't know if DLNA is available with CM9/AOKP, but I'm betting Kies Air isn't.

Built in video codec support is cool and the unified email widget thingy is rather good as well.

But yeah allshare is fantastic.

 

[gorcorps]

Well I checked on the UCLD3 leak, and the XDA thread was locked and shut down for some reason. OP removed all links and the last posts made were a throng of people who said the kernal was hard bricking their phone (something damn hard to do).

So... I'm giving ShoStock one more chance as he released a new version I can try. Wipe clean, start over and won't touch Ti backup for a while if ever. If this fails I'll try AOKP

 

[Yuriman]

It's the kernels afaik,that are causing the hard-brick. There's a new UCLD4 leak out now, you could try that with another kernel.

But +1 for AOKP, new build came out today and it's better than ever.

 

[Raduque]

Nobody on XDA is willing to even look at LD4, much less repackage it with root in a CWM file.

As for LD3, let me know if you want the CWM flashable gorcorps. I'm using it with NEAK ICS kernel and it's running great. You could flash LD3, then the kernel (not Entropy's though, he doesn't support the leaks) of your choice at the same time and never have the faulty LD3 kernel running.

 

[ChronoReverse]

Isn't there a severe bug in UCLD4 for Exynos chipsets that could corrupt the emmc? It's likely the reason why no one is touching it.

 

[Raduque]

Isn't there a severe bug in UCLD4 for Exynos chipsets that could corrupt the emmc? It's likely the reason why no one is touching it.

It's in the kernel. Run a different kernel and you're fine.

The guys won't touch it because they're a bunch of douchbag TouchWiz haters and AOSP snobs.

 

[footballrunner800]

Here's my 2 cents:

I have the i777 and after installing several roms (shostock,AOKP,CM9), I went back to CM9. When ICS came to the SGS2, AOKP was the best rom available. Now it feels like the features added are just a crude patch. With Shostock, I could not stand the setting menus. They feel more gingerbread than ICS. Someone mentioned it here already there is no contacts button in the dialer.

CM9 has not caused any force close or SOD problems for a while and I flash every nightly. Its fast and simple. I love the AOSP theme (Light blue/Black). The only problem Ive encountered is that temple run freezes after a couple of minutes then all data gets erased.

For launcher I use Apex. I would use trebuchet but I need to hide some apps from the drawer which trebuchet does not do.

 

[gorcorps]

After my latest flash of shostock I haven't had a crash or other issue. I may actually be stable now.

 

[sjwaste]

I'm underwhelmed. I still think UnOriginal is the best ROM for the i777.

ICS, across the board not just AOSP or Samsung releases, has some bluetooth A2DP issues that are broken. When paired with the head unit in my car, it just starts and stops, and my logs are showing some kind of buffer overflow. I haven't been able to fix it, and nobody else is looking at it because it's very specific to certain head units. It was fine on GB.

 

[poofyhairguy]

When ICS came to the SGS2, AOKP was the best rom available. Now it feels like the features added are just a crude patch.

I really like the added features myself. When CM9 has feature parity I am there.

After my latest flash of shostock I haven't had a crash or other issue. I may actually be stable now.

Good news. Keep us posted.

ICS, across the board not just AOSP or Samsung releases, has some bluetooth A2DP issues that are broken. When paired with the head unit in my car, it just starts and stops, and my logs are showing some kind of buffer overflow. I haven't been able to fix it, and nobody else is looking at it because it's very specific to certain head units. It was fine on GB.

Have you found someone else with the same issues?

 

[sjwaste]

Have you found someone else with the same issues?

Yeah, 1 or 2 other people. It's very specific to the nav head units made by Kenwood in the 2010-12 Outback. Someone on XDA helped me figure out that it's something in the Bluez BT stack itself. I just need to figure out how to troubleshoot it further so I can start trying to fix the code. To be honest, I can't actually find the BT code I need, but I think it's because I've been looking outside of the kernel tree, and it's in the kernel...

The thing is, outside of wanting to run the latest and greatest, I'm having a hard time articulating what's actually better in ICS than it was for me on UnOriginal. I suspect it's strictly me just wanting to run ICS.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

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

Same. Its never been 100% good for me. Always something wrong.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Same. Its never been 100% good for me. Always something wrong.

I was going to say it used to work for me back when I always flashed TouchWiz-based Gingerbread roms, but even then it occasionally caused issues like not being able to move some apps to my SD card.

I basically always re-download everything and only selectively restore data.

 

[Jinny]

Running ICS on my captivate and couldn't be happier with it. Smoothest rom I have run. It's a CM9 variant with boog's kernel.
Keep trying new roms and kernels until you find one that works for you.

i have a captivate as a backup phone on cm7 (i777 is my main phone), its super smooth but i'm a bit wary of installing cm9 or any ics roms due to a so called encryption bug? have you ever experienced that?

 

[gorcorps]

I'm gonna try a new rom soon... Serendipity.

The dev looks like he's finished with it, but that's fine by me if it works. Looks like it combines the best attributes of AKOP SGS3 with a lot of the good Samsung stock stuff. Sounds like it's smooth and fast which is good.

 

[QueBert]

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.

 

[gorcorps]

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.

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.

 

[bearxor]

This thread reminds me of me in 2004. Windows Mobile ROM Flashing 4 Life!