Which rom is best for ex iphone user?

[Guest Philoio]

Please could someone with a better under standing of the roms available recommend which rom would best suit me on my TFT Orange San Francisco.

Short version

• I don't use many apps
  
• I just want it to look pretty (like my wife's Desire)
  
• And be as fast as possible (like my old iphone)
  
  Long version
  After a year with an iphone 3gs i have left the dark side and bought an android phone. Hearing how easy it was to remove orange bloatware I took the plunge and requested a San Francisco for Christmas. It was promptly unlocked and CustomBladeVillain RSL4 m installed. Yes this is much better than stock but to be honest I picked it at random just to get my phone de-orangeified. I am finding it a bit slow and given my relatively limited requirements of the phone wonder if I could have a slicker experience.
  
  My priority is to maximize performance in the tasks I do most of the time. 95% of the time I will be using my phone for:
  • Internet
    
  • Google calendar
    
  • Google mail
    
  • Exchange email
    
  • Exchange calendar
    

  A year of living with a smart phone has shown me that I really am not bothered about most of the apps available. I don't like having lots of apps installed that I don't understand and never use. What is important to me is a good screen, a good keyboard and a responsive phone.

  Many thanks in advance.

  Phil

[Guest Matty-p]

Please could someone with a better under standing of the roms available recommend which rom would best suit me on my TFT Orange San Francisco.

Short version

• I don't use many apps
  
• I just want it to look pretty (like my wife's Desire)
  
• And be as fast as possible (like my old iphone)
  
  Long version
  After a year with an iphone 3gs i have left the dark side and bought an android phone. Hearing how easy it was to remove orange bloatware I took the plunge and requested a San Francisco for Christmas. It was promptly unlocked and CustomBladeVillain RSL4 m installed. Yes this is much better than stock but to be honest I picked it at random just to get my phone de-orangeified. I am finding it a bit slow and given my relatively limited requirements of the phone wonder if I could have a slicker experience.
  
  My priority is to maximize performance in the tasks I do most of the time. 95% of the time I will be using my phone for:

  • Internet
    
  • Google calendar
    
  • Google mail
    
  • Exchange email
    
  • Exchange calendar
    

  A year of living with a smart phone has shown me that I really am not bothered about most of the apps available. I don't like having lots of apps installed that I don't understand and never use. What is important to me is a good screen, a good keyboard and a responsive phone.

  Many thanks in advance.

  Phil

  Perhaps try the sense rom it has the HTC keyboard included witch is IMO the best keyboard sense is sorta a love / hate thing many people say they love it and find it nicer and easier others hate it just try it . Or try moddaco. 2.2

[Guest theInquisitor]

You should go for an Android 1.6 ROM, as it would have similarly limited capabilites like an iPhone. :(

[Guest Ronald Hummelink]

Nive and serious replies above :(

One of the cleanest roms is sebastian404's series. I use the lite version.

Keyboard: sign up for the swype beta, else swiftkey (trial, then $4) or htc-ime from the pinned topics

[Guest Matty-p]

You should go for an Android 1.6 ROM, as it would have similarly limited capabilites like an iPhone. ;)

Actually 1.6 still has way more features than iPhone but good one :(

[Guest Azurren]

I suggest the Modaco (Pauls) Froyo rom: Alpha 3 or 4

http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...d-chinese-leak/

And flashing a custom framework from here: HTC theme? ;)

http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...ew-gingerbread/

You can make it look nice and the performance of Froyo will blow you away. :(

Oh and don't be afraid of "Alpha" there is nothing wrong with Puals latest Froyo roms they are just based off a test build of Froyo

[Guest gusthy]

Hey guys, be happy to see that somebody came back to the light :(

If you wish to have something Desire-like, then try to install PandaHero home screen. It is not available in the market as once it was, but with some googling it is easy to find.

Try to google "pandahero.apk".

If unsuccessful, PM me.

Edit: google "panda_hero_home.zip" instead.

Edited December 26, 2010 by gusthy

[Guest Philoio]

Thanks for the replies. Even from the iphone haters :(

I suggest the Modaco (Pauls) Froyo rom: Alpha 3 or 4...

...Oh and don't be afraid of "Alpha" there is nothing wrong with Puals latest Froyo roms they are just based off a test build of Froyo

Thanks for the link, i would not have considered an alpha version before. There is a mountain of information on this forum and I just don't have the time to read and digest it all. So I have just coughed up a tenner and baked somthing that should suit my needs. I can consider widgets/themes to make it pretty later.

cheers

Phil

[Guest daniel2k10]

I would suggest to use the fillyjonk rlds4.. it is a very clean and fast rom, faster than every 2.2.

[Guest cartierv]

May I ask why was the iPhone the 'dark side' ?

Do you know the reason I didn't get an iPhone ? Well a new unlocked payg iPhone 4 is a bit more than I would want to spend right now, but came close to picking a 3g a few times, but the real reason was that Apple for me have been a victim of their own success with the iPhone.

As a tool it's common. And the whole of the cool and prestige of Apple stuff is just not there with this device. It's become the moron's accessory. Not the sophisticated choice. I'm a long time Mac user, but I'm not really into the i-Stuff much.

I should say though Apple do this better than anyone else. That's what they do. They make great user experiences. Everyone else in the industry just copies Apple. Or in the case of Linux copies Microsoft copying Apple.

You say you don't need many apps. There's like 200,000 apps on Android or whatever. But in reality there's probably between 10-20 actually you'd really want to use in any regular form.

Don't get me wrong. I've really come to like my Android device, I'm very happy to be using it and a great little phone in the OSF. And some of the good apps like K9 and so on are really quite impressive.

and I think the future is good for this mobile OS, but I have to think I doubt it would exist, at least in the form it does without Apple.

Edited December 26, 2010 by cartierv

[Guest gusthy]

May I ask why was the iPhone the 'dark side' ?

For me, just for joke.

It is considered the "dark side" by many people because of Apple's business policy with many restrictions, opposed to the freedom of Android. I guess it is the customer's decision if they can/want to live with them. The market will do the judgement (currently it seems that freedom and assortment is the winner, iPhone will not be the no. 1 phone in the next few years. But we shall see.)

[Guest gusthy]

I should say though Apple do this better than anyone else. That's what they do. They make great user experiences. Everyone else in the industry just copies Apple. Or in the case of Linux copies Microsoft copying Apple.

That is what Microsoft and Apple say, making FUD.

But the truth is that software idustry is highly evolutional. For example: iOS is a Unix-based operating system, also Linux is a Unix clone. Both are based on an open source kernel. Both use C programming language heavily. Does it mean, that Apple copies Bell Labs?

The mouse as an input device was developed by Stanford Research Institute in 1963. Does it mean, that Windows, MacOS and X Window System copy Stanford Research? Or do they copy Xerox, which has marketed the first mouse-based personal computer?

No.

This inventions are built upon each other, that's how the world of software works.

And it is a very good thing.

(For the particular case, X Window, the Linux graphical environment is much older than Microsoft Windows, so we definitely cannot say Linux copies Microsoft. And even X Window was not the first windowing system. The first was also Xerox btw.)

[Guest Azurren]

I would suggest to use the fillyjonk rlds4.. it is a very clean and fast rom, faster than every 2.2.

Really?

I'll have to give that rom a flash.. Though I have to say I doubt that any 2.1 rom can best a 2.2 rom no matter how well its been made :(

Edit: A good test is live wallpapers, Froyo blade can run them fine whereas éclair blade can't. So froyo wins here

About iPhone.. Come on.. This is an android forum and a section about maybe the best all rounder Android device.

Edited December 26, 2010 by Azurren

[Guest dragon2611]

[*]Exchange email

[*]Exchange calendar

Although there is built-in exchange support in android I found myself buying Roadsync after previously having it bundled with my Huawei (T-mobile pulse mini)

Might be worth downloading the trial and seeing what you think of it but personally I prefer it to the built-in exchange functionality.

Then again that might be that I just don't like the android stock email client, might have improved recently but I could never get on with it :(

Also Paul 2.2 based roms are quite good :-)

[Guest Rotmann]

Hi, the fastest and most stable combination for me is BladeVillain 1.0.1 (right, NOT 1.1.0) with Launcher Pro 0.8.2. I have not tried 2.2 though because of several little problems (screen freeze etc.) and because I use my phone for productivity too, I can't allow the phone to fail me when pushing mails, calendar entries or to do not wake me up. I have tried a lot of ROM / Launcher combinations. As I said, speed and stability are very important to me (I have arround 50-60 Apps and games installed). As a keyboard I prefer HTC_IME, but there are some other good alternatives too like Swype. For speedy mobile internet I recommend you opera mini (compresses the web content which uses fewer KBs and the loading times are the fastest) or Miren (beautiful, multi-tab very good). Let us know what you chose and if you are happy with it.

[Guest kissofjudas]

gone from the SF to an IPhone and the improvement for a user is sooo sweet I'm glad my SF got smashed the whole experience is much more fluid, yeah maybe not for the tweakers but interface is smooth and great,

[Guest Philoio]

I joke that the iphone is the dark side but yes I have to concede it is a very capable phone. As a systems administrator what annoys me most with apple products is that they forced me to use their products in a certain way (1) and deliberately reduced functionality of the device(2). I chose android for increased freedom, improved google integration and to free up the £275 I sold my 3gs for.

My SF is now happily running froyo beta 4 and at a glance it seems to be a big improvement.

Cheers

Phil

(1) e.g. itunes, no widgets…

(2) e.g. ruined blutooth, cant copy files by usb…

[Guest RussellS]

gone from the SF to an IPhone and the improvement for a user is sooo sweet I'm glad my SF got smashed the whole experience is much more fluid, yeah maybe not for the tweakers but interface is smooth and great,

I have to say that I think it a little unfair to compare the speed and performance of an iPhone to a San Francisco. The iPhone is something like four times the price and has a much faster CPU in it. If you are going to compare Android with IOS then compare them running on similarly capable devices like a Desire HD for example.

The only time you can reasonably compare devices of completely different capabilities and price brackets is if you are comparing value for money, i.e. is it worth paying the premium price for the available increase in speed and fluidity. Personally, I have an iPod Touch 4g and a San Francisco and, to be honest, if I'd found the San Fancisco earlier I probably wouldn't have got the iPod. I could even have got two SF's and use one as a phone and the other as a media player (with 32gb SD card) and still paid less than the iPod Touch.

I guess it all comes down to what is important to you and what you can justify spending on a device.

Russell

[Guest Ricey155]

Paul#s Alpha series is good and im still messing with both Sf and IPhone

both are cool i personally love the Sd card mounting on the SF tho simple install of apps you have saved on your PC

so backups easy and a good selection of saved apps is cool also

load roms, wipe etc is easy to great kit this SF

[Guest Phoenix Silver]

Paul#s Alpha series is good and im still messing with both Sf and IPhone

both are cool i personally love the Sd card mounting on the SF tho simple install of apps you have saved on your PC

so backups easy and a good selection of saved apps is cool also

load roms, wipe etc is easy to great kit this SF

+1

i don't like the closed interface of the apple

even my ipod is reformated with a linux system :(

a lot more functions with the new system.

[Guest fonix232]

May I ask why was the iPhone the 'dark side' ?

Do you know the reason I didn't get an iPhone ? Well a new unlocked payg iPhone 4 is a bit more than I would want to spend right now, but came close to picking a 3g a few times, but the real reason was that Apple for me have been a victim of their own success with the iPhone.

As a tool it's common. And the whole of the cool and prestige of Apple stuff is just not there with this device. It's become the moron's accessory. Not the sophisticated choice. I'm a long time Mac user, but I'm not really into the i-Stuff much.

I should say though Apple do this better than anyone else. That's what they do. They make great user experiences. Everyone else in the industry just copies Apple. Or in the case of Linux copies Microsoft copying Apple.

You say you don't need many apps. There's like 200,000 apps on Android or whatever. But in reality there's probably between 10-20 actually you'd really want to use in any regular form.

Don't get me wrong. I've really come to like my Android device, I'm very happy to be using it and a great little phone in the OSF. And some of the good apps like K9 and so on are really quite impressive.

and I think the future is good for this mobile OS, but I have to think I doubt it would exist, at least in the form it does without Apple.

At the first time, when the iPhone came out, I liked it. What I did not like is, that it was overpriced for the things you get. I mean, here in Hungary, in the best case, you can buy an iPhone 4G for around 1000-1500$! For that price, I can buy a Nexus S, and I still have 800$ to spend! But it's of course just a matter of the user. I like to mod, be a USER (TRON rulz), not just a simple mobile phone user. And USER means ROOT here. So, I want to be the lord of the systems, do anything I want, then if I f*ck the sh*t up, I want to fix it. Android gives the openness, the freedom to f*ck up your phone, while the iPhones are overpriced toys nowadays. You get a smooth UI, and almost nothing else.