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Who are the top cooks for this thing?

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Hi Karl

I think Deck or Kush Deck at XDA has some good roms for the Nexus S. Also, pm Wmdunn here at geeks. He has alot of good insight into this device and knows alot of good chefs from xda.

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as always thanks sir

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Hey Karl and Dave ... some of the top developers are Adam G with his Oxygen series, Peter Alfonso's Bugless Beast roms, and of course the Cyanogen team. I prefer GB, but there is a wide selection of ICS, based on the leaked 4.04 from Sprint. Let me know if you would like some links.

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all i saw was ICS roms got any links to GB ones?

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Here you go ...


Latest Oxygen - http://download.oxygen.im/roms/updat...S4G-signed.zip

Pete's Bugless Beast - http://wonderly.com/bb/CRESPO4G/ROM/...g_12-07-11.zip

Cyanogen - Goo-inside.me Downloads - Downloading update-cm-7-02252012-NIGHTLY-crespo4g-signed.zip

You will need google apps for Cyanogen (gapps is included in all others) - Goo-inside.me Downloads - Downloading gapps-gb-20110828-signed.zip

And my favorite, DevNull by Renan - http://download.oxygen.im/roms/cresp...1.1-signed.zip


There are several custom kernels, but after trying them all ... my favorite is one of Franco's, which I have attached below.

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thanks, another question what is the big deal with voodoo colors?

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Voodoo colors are a way to adjust the color intensity and gamma on the Nexus S screen. There are no shortages of opinion. My personal opinion is that the original settings that come with the Sprint Nexus S are very good, and when combined with a great kernel such as Franco's ... more than enough for a great looking screen. By the way, all this is affected by the brightness control in settings ... I keep mine with "auto off", and the slider about 35-40%.

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do you have the source pages for those roms?

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Sure ... you could extract them from the d/l urls. The Oxygen and DevNull roms are available at Oxygen Forum ... Bugless Beast is at Peter Alfonso ... and Cyanogen Mod is in several places, but I like to use goo-inside.me.

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So why did ever developer go right cooking with the leaked ICS?
and did nobody make any GB themes?
and i cant get any of the CM7 nightly to boot do you have that issue

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Hey Karl ... I've been around cell phone developing for a few years now, and it seems like the mind set is to always jump on what's new and shiny. As you know, "new" is not always better. In the case of Android, even though our Nexus can run ICS, Gingerbread is really the sweet spot ... it's quicker, smoother, simply runs better. Of course, there are those who will disagree, but I have tried both, quite extensively ... and if someone were to try my setup, they would agree.

As for why you can't boot CyanMod ... hard to say. I have had no problem with it, ever ... other than it tends to bog down a couple of weeks after install. I do always begin with a clean slate, using the attached zip to make sure my device is fresh. If you've never used it ... just flash in recovery, just like a new rom, and then proceed with your rom install. Here is a link to the rom that I have installed on my wife's Nexus. It has quite a few features, and is super stable.

http://download.oxygen.im/roms/updat...S4G-signed.zip

If you want a choice of themes, here is the link to the latest CyanMod, which includes a theme manager and several themes. There are also tons of themes in the Android Market for GB. You will also need the latest gapps for this one. Gapps is built into Oxygen.

http://download.cyanogenmod.com/get/...o4g-signed.zip

Goo-inside.me Downloads - Downloading gapps-gb-20110828-signed.zip

Hope this helps ... noticed you are in Bakersfield ... I grew up in Tulare.

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One other thing ... here are my two favorite kernels. The Franco build has been the quickest and most responsive kernel I have ever run. The Lucid build, while not quite as quick, is the most stable.

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thanks alot for the info, i was already using wipe-all before flashing CM7, turns out CM7 md5's didnt match whats on there site

not new to development scene just new to the nexus