ROM Review

[psychotic_penguin]

I was asked to post up my write up concerning the peculiarities of the ROMs that I've run over the last month or so.

Please bear in mind I'm not I'm not favoring any developer just my opinions of each one for others to review.

I've run just about every ROM available for the DX and have done so in the last 3 weeks or so.

Apex is by far the best when it comes to battery life and full functionality Fab is one of the best developers out there and provides great support for all questions. He's incorporated a very subtle amount of blur in his builds, and has managed to get it right, this ROM is very fast and stable. A full variety of themes are available for this ROM.

Gummy Jar initially didn't run very well on my phone but is still and a very solid ROM, the developer here is Kejar who to me is a new kid on the block but he has mad skills. The ROM is stable and fast and has touches of AOSP throughout. The 2.5 update worked alot better seems alot of folks agreed with that and the themes came out of the woodwork for this ROM.

Tranquility ran nice, I downloaded it prior to all the new modifications available from the new toolbox, ran it for a day had some reboot issues, these issues have since been addressed making this a very solid ROM. P3 is the Godfather, Team Black Hat is probably the most innovative team out there. They come up with all the new stuff first most times. There are a wide variety of themes available for this ROM which you can install on the fly from the toolbox, as well as adding and removing apps. No one else has this type of functionality in their ROMs

Darkslide also ran very good. This ROM by BBCrackman is not as well known as it should be, it's solid and runs fast. I initially had some reboot issues, but they went away after a day or so. It now has a folder for all the additional add-ons that's installed to your SD Card so you don't have to go searching for them. This ROM is beautiful to look at BB made alot of changes with his newest build

Ultimate Droid is simply fantastic even with it being in an RC state, it has issues with GPS for some (not me) but the killer for me was no USB support. Once Blackdroid gets this ROM done it's gonna be epic. He's working on several different version of UD for a wide variety of phones and is a legend with all of them. There are no themes available at this time due to the fact that it's still in development. The latest build has fully functional GPS, and I believe this ROM's nearly completion.

Obsidian by cvpcs is probably gonna be the base most future ROMs are built off of. Cvpcs has gone to the crib and made a ROM that's totally AOSP, in other words built from scratch. Like UD this ROM's in a development stage and still has some issues, but it's fast...really fast. I ran sapphire on my D1 and if Obsidian's anything like Sapphire, which I'm sure it will be, we're all in for a treat.

RubiX has incredible support runs very fast and is very stable...this ROM probably has the best support team out there with drod2169 and Sephtin and the rest of the team. They offer both a blurless as well as a blurry version of this ROM and rumor has it a version in between similar to Apex. There are 2 initial releases theme wise both are based on the Gingerbread look. Rumor has it that this ROM and Gummy Jar share a similar framework and the themes available will work on both. I'd check on that before trying to install to be certain.

Liberty was probably the most highly anticipated ROM for the DX and after installing it I see why. Kejar and JRummy combined makes an unbeatable team a solid ROM with all the goodies built in. I've been running this ROM since release day, it's fast, solid and having the option to add and remove options, without scripts is epic. Oh and the themes quite a few right there in the toolbox, future builds will have better support for installing themes and adding blur you can be certain.

Also of note is Fission, I never ran it, just didn't get around to it. I hope that someone that has will chime in on this ROM, which I hear is a very solid one as well

Hopefully this novel helps some of you out when it comes to a choice in ROMs.

If anyone has anything to add, please feel free.



Penguin out........

[Droid-X-Forums]

[smalltowngirl13]

Nice write-up PP...well done!

[btucker2003]

I ran fission the longest out of em all. I love fission however journeyed to liberty a few days ago and Whammy! Digging fo sho!

X'd out!!!

[beachy]

oo so beautiful... i just love all the great choices !!!

[cruckus]

Nice review man and I ran all of the fission builds and theyre pretty good and their rom manager has alot of great add ons to themes. Its blurless and has bits of ASOP it has pretty good battery life and runs smooth. Hope that helps.

[royolpunk]

Thanks for the informational review. I personally still run rubiX, as it has everything I need.

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[wicked]

very very very nice!

[mikeinrichmond]

Thanks for the informational review. I personally still run rubiX, as it has everything I need.

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Then shouldn't the Rubix logo be in your sig line instead? Just sayin'..



PP, I spent 20 minutes looking through old posts trying to find your original write-up. Then my ADHD kicked in, I went and got a beer, hit up some Black-Ops on the Xbox for awhile, and lost my place on the search...LOL

[psychotic_penguin]

Then shouldn't the Rubix logo be in your sig line instead? Just sayin'..



PP, I spent 20 minutes looking through old posts trying to find your original write-up. Then my ADHD kicked in, I went and got a beer, hit up some Black-Ops on the Xbox for awhile, and lost my place on the search...LOL

Debian Dog sent me a PM so in actuality this thread is from your request.

[mikeinrichmond]

Debian Dog sent me a PM so in actuality this thread is from your request.

I give credit to DD for being the impetus behind it, and I quote from him:

"I wish Penguin would post up the advantages of each and make it a sticky. It was a good write-up."

I welcome'd that notion, and glad to see it's 'sticky' status. Great work. Hopefully will help decrease the amount of newB "What's the best ROM?" threads..