Dr. Squishy's ROM Review Thread (Updated 2/4/09)

[frostrambler]

I have tried the four big roms and for me the winner is Juggalo's .08b rom.

Juicy 4.7 was fast, but very barebones, and its quite old now. As I understand, he is one of the best, and it shows, very fast and nice.

KK 1.4 (didn't get 1.5) has WAY too many things, which is the point. It was a great rom to try out various apps, but not to use daily. It is way too slow compared to the other roms.

MightyRom is pretty nice. I just had the newest 4.9.5 I think and I used it for 3-4 days. Here were my issues with it:

1. Personal taste, but I don't like the whole everything black thing he has going. I like the clean white manilla look. Adding themes doesn't recolor the dialer, etc. I DID like the Touch HD contacts addition to TouchFlo.

2. The rom would glitch up HORRIBLY when using my hardware keyboard. Say for example I would want to type a text message. I flip the keyboard out and start typing. The first 3-4 letters were normal, but suddenly lag would increase. A second per letter, then 2 then 4, then toward the end, I would have to wait 5-6 seconds to see what I was typing.

But it wasn't just what I was typing anymore. Once I closed the keyboard, the phone remained slow, TouchFlo would freeze for 5-10 seconds at a time, windows wouldn't load for a while, everything was horribly slow. This would go on for 3-5 minutes. Either I waited it or out, or I had to reboot. This was the big deal breaker. This was not unique to me, at least three or four other people reported it in the thread. But it did not affect everyone.

3. For whatever reason, GPS would take a lot longer to lock on, and I would break locks more frequently.

The last rom is Juggalo .08b. It is very old now and I am REALLY hoping Juggalo releases an update.

The rom is FAST, the manila is a teeny bit slower than MightyRom, but thats because its a month old. The thing is, its stable, no crashes, super fast GPS locks, my hardware keyboard does NOT make the phone slow down to a crawl for 3-5 minutes. Plus it looks nicer too with the older white dialer and the custom icons.

I know you can install the custom taskbar icons yourself, but I don't get why Mighty has not put them in yet, they are great and people love them.

In any case, I may be an exception to the rule, the MightyRom is really awesome overall, but the issues I had made me go back to the one month old Jugallo .08b and I love it again. It is based on earlier builds, but its stable and fast, which is what I really need in my phone.