Most stable custom ROM for the Blade?

[Guest scoobydoo99]

After reading the forum for the last few days, it looks to me that Seb's 404 is probably the most stable custom rom that get's rid of the Orange theme.

I'm after a stable rom as it's for my 15 year old daughter to replace her Nokia 5530 (which has been a fantastic teen phone).

I'm also about to order one for myself and I'll probably go with one of the 2.2 roms - but I'm well used to the odd 'problem' in custom roms after owning my Pulse for a year now (currently running FLB 1.5). But for her phone I'd prefer a rom that offers the stability of a stock rom but junks the Orange branding.

Anyone confirm my thoughts or offer advice?

[Guest Sebastian404]

After reading the forum for the last few days, it looks to me that Seb's 404 is probably the most stable custom rom that get's rid of the Orange theme.

I'm after a stable rom as it's for my 15 year old daughter to replace her Nokia 5530 (which has been a fantastic teen phone).

I'm also about to order one for myself and I'll probably go with one of the 2.2 roms - but I'm well used to the odd 'problem' in custom roms after owning my Pulse for a year now (currently running FLB 1.5). But for her phone I'd prefer a rom that offers the stability of a stock rom but junks the Orange branding.

Anyone confirm my thoughts or offer advice?

I am biased of course.... but your probably right, either the de-orange or the de-bouygues ROM.

I keep meaning to write some sort of article/post about the reason why I don't include loads of flashy apps and hardware tweaks in ROM, but basically, it may not seem it company like Orange spend a LONG time doing testing for phone, they have a lot more time and resources and can get proper metrics out of a phone to work that out that having Hardware acceleration disabled, an a VM heap size of 24M, etc etc is the 'best'.

Of course companies like orange go and totally ruin the whole thing by putting their own branded apps on top of the stock rom, but at least you know they did some testing.

I would hate to hear about someone's daughter/son/wife/self who ended up stuck in the middle of nowhere because I'd added some tweaks to give .3 of a FPS in a benchmark program...

[Guest Lew247]

I'm giving my 15 yr old son one for xmas

My advice, put whatever rom your happy with on her phone, but show her how to use the clockwork backup to make a backup before she tries things on the phone - teenagers do this, even girls.

It serves 2 purposes

1: if she makes a mistake anytime she (or you) can easily restore the phone to the way it was, and gives her confidence in the fact you trust her (she dont need to know you already have a good backup saved on your computer)

2: Once you get a good working Froyo (2.2) rom that your happy with, you can either push it onto her phone yourself, or give it to her and tell her to do it.

one tip though, keep a backup once you got her phone the way you like it, and keep a copy of that backup on your computer BUT DO NOT RENAME THE BACKUP, leave it exactly as it is, just put it in a seperate folder so you know which one it is.

I learnt the hard way that renaming backups changes the checksum figure and it wont restore.

Edited November 27, 2010 by Lew247

[Guest gambieter]

I'm giving my 15 yr old son one for xmas

My advice, put whatever rom your happy with on her phone, but show her how to use the clockwork backup to make a backup before she tries things on the phone - teenagers do this, even girls.

Yep, I fully support this advice!

one tip though, keep a backup once you got her phone the way you like it, and keep a copy of that backup on your computer BUT DO NOT RENAME THE BACKUP, leave it exactly as it is, just put it in a seperate folder so you know which one it is.

I learnt the hard way that renaming backups changes the checksum figure and it wont restore.

As Clockworkmod makes separate directories per backup, I just rename the folder by adding the person's and/or ROM name or other information to the folder name. That works very well, and next to the Clockworkmod backup I also make a Titanium ROM backup.

I just made a friend happy by preformatting a SDHC card with an EXT2 partition, installing the Hungarian Hedgehog with a lot of useful apps, Clockworkmod backup, and then I just put the SDHC card in his phone, wiped data/cache/factory reset, and then restored that backup on his phone.

Edited November 27, 2010 by gambieter

[Guest scoobydoo99]

Thanks for the advice. Probably have a go at installing it tomorrow and see what I think.

[Guest Ash_P]

I am biased of course.... but your probably right, either the de-orange or the de-bouygues ROM.

I keep meaning to write some sort of article/post about the reason why I don't include loads of flashy apps and hardware tweaks in ROM, but basically, it may not seem it company like Orange spend a LONG time doing testing for phone, they have a lot more time and resources and can get proper metrics out of a phone to work that out that having Hardware acceleration disabled, an a VM heap size of 24M, etc etc is the 'best'.

Of course companies like orange go and totally ruin the whole thing by putting their own branded apps on top of the stock rom, but at least you know they did some testing.

I would hate to hear about someone's daughter/son/wife/self who ended up stuck in the middle of nowhere because I'd added some tweaks to give .3 of a FPS in a benchmark program...

You really don't need to explain youself! Your ROM means everybody has more choice - if they all had the same flashy apps it would be pretty boring :P

[Guest gambieter]

After reading the forum for the last few days, it looks to me that Seb's 404 is probably the most stable custom rom that get's rid of the Orange theme.

Seb's ROM is indeed very good. The most important reason for me not to use it, is A2SD as I found it quite hard to get it functioning, while it does work nicely if one uses a ROM with A2SD already included/switched on. But if you don't use A2SD, yes, Seb's ROMs are very good choices and also well supported!

[Guest leetron1]

Been using the Bladevillain based on Hungarian 2.1...bomb proof and A2SD works a treat out of the gate>>

enjoy

btw have used sebs excellent Roms too but A2SD not too too easy to get right..just looking forward to a shiny & complete 2.2__ :P

Edited November 28, 2010 by leetron1