[littlefreak]

I only read half the this thread but I figured I give my 2cents since I have a good idea of whats going on with cooking and been lurking and writing a bit myself. Im on the same boat as you I use the stock roms myself as well and have my own method of customization. So here goes:

All custom roms and stock roms really have no differnce. No one here is skilled or smart anough (no offence) to write a hardware operating system from scratch for a hardware platform they do not know everything about (these phones). What they do is take the stock roms and backwards engineer them. In the long run this is no differnt then me taking a windows install and turning off services I dont need. Yes this does make them faster out of a box.

Example 1: You buy a dell laptop it comes loaded with dell software and gadgets you must like will never use. If you use a fresh windows OEM windows disk you get windows and thats it no extra software. These custom roms are alot like a oem disk.

This said as I know was stated in the first few posts by doing your own custom tweaks (registry edits and application modifications) you technicly have a custom rom. The only differnce is if you hard reset your going back to sprints default rom and you have to do all those changes yourself again.

*Some features that make custom roms alittle better*
Leaked radios.... Im sure you have heard people talk about using better radios. These are like anougher rom but its rom for the tranmission unit that i think the most perferred one for the TP saves you a bit of battery life. Alot of custom roms make these easy to get the better radio installed easy since if i remember correctly you have to unlock to flash a radio anyways.

**** MY Solution ****
I have a build cab file that has all my registery tweaks and program modifcations and all my program cabs on my storage card. So I can hard reset to stock rom whenever and whereever I want and still set it back up the way I like without going back to a computer or anything. This is kinda like cooking my own rom but less work.

That said from the work Ive followed No2Chem stuff has come closest to being the most stripped down for performance Ive seen. Which gives you a good base to do your own customization.

I use to run a custom rom on my mogul but with my TP it got more then anough memory and more then anough power where I dont care.

Ok let the flame begin from all the rom chefts.