ROM Suggestions Needed

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My wife uses a Samsung Vibrant and there are just so many issues with it. Currently, it's on the latest stock Froyo release. It keeps losing all of her home screen icons (using stock TWLaucher) and we have to kill TWLauncher or reboot to get them back. Seems to have lag all over the place. Also, wifi signal strength is poor. The wifi calling app constantly turns off saying the wifi signal isn't good enough.

I'd like be interested in trying out a custom ROM. I've tinkered with some of the leaked ROMs, so I'm familiar with ODIN. I've used CWM on my Droid X before, so I should be ok with that as well.

She's not interested in 100 different themes and fancy icons and fancy features, etc. We are just going to want something that's close to stock with some tweaks that might fix some of the issues we are having. Not interested in partially working ROMs where the GPS doesn't work or issues with the camera, etc. Would like wifi calling to work as well. Need something totally stable. I'm not going to want something that's going to need updating weekly either.

Anything out there that meets what I'm looking for?

Please make suggestions.

Hi, same situation here, my gf has stock vibrant with froyo and many issues...
I've cm7 on my N1 so I considered it for the vibrant but at the moment it have troubles with gps and wifi SO I've searched a lot and the much more stable rom (for me of course) is the projectV, it's based on the official froyo with some tweaks and fixes, seems pretty stable until now

here the topic: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1105037

hope u enjoy it

Agreed with nekobus

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I actually had my eye on that one.

It'll improve the lag and losing icons and things like that? I don't need a lagfix on top of that as well?

I'm not doing this for the eye candy (extra lock screens, etc.), I just want things to run more smoothly.

This probably won't help the low wifi signal though, since it's using the same modem as stock froyo, right?

Anyone else want to chime in?

It'll definently improve Lag and that icon problem that you have will not happen. And almost every ROM in here has a Lagfix, so Project-V does have one and will come on when you flash it. (A voice of a robotic women after flashing means that Voodoo is flashing) Voodoo is the name of the Lagfix, which makes our systems run on ext4 instead of the slow RFS system stock that your wife had.

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The best thing about Project-V ROM is that its made to be fast and for tweaking, that's why they say they're not competing with Cyanogenmod because it also has both speed and tweaking abilities. So don't worry if you think Project-V is all eye candy, because its both Speed, Stability, and Tweaks!

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If anything, I'll probably give this Project V a shot then. My wife will kill me if I F up her phone or cause her to lose stuff.

I flash this with CWM? I don't exactly recall where to get CWM or how to use it, but I'm sure I'll figure that out.

Installing this over stock will be a total data wipe, right? I should back up programs and program data with Titanium first and then restore after?

This does include the lagfix/file conversion? That just happens automatically when I flash this?

Everything works? No serious bugs? I can also flash that wifi calling file in the first post using cwm and then I'll have wifi calling too?

Let's say Samsung releases a 2.3 that's a solid ROM and I want to go back to stock. With this applied and whatever lagfix, file conversion that's been done, how hard would it be to get back to stock?

Anything else I should know?

I've rooted the stock froyo, backupped ALL with titanium and then wiped all from cwm and installed projectV, no problem at all but titanium is required

About gingerbread.... do you remeber the "froyo story" right? :P I think I seat and wait for the gingerbread version of projectV (or other roms based on official release)! No more stock images in my home please

Originally Posted by nekobus

I've rooted the stock froyo, backupped ALL with titanium and then wiped all from cwm and installed projectV, no problem at all but titanium is required

About gingerbread.... do you remeber the "froyo story" right? :P I think I seat and wait for the gingerbread version of projectV (or other roms based on official release)! No more stock images in my home please

Yes, wouldn't be surprised at all if there's never an official 2.3 for this. Their 2.2 release was many months behind competing phones originally released around the same time. Still, just want to make sure I understand what I'm getting into here and how hard it would be to get back out. Could I easily get back to the stock froyo that it's on now, if I need to?

I've never did it , but I think u have to odin back to 2.1 stock and then ota (or keys) to 2.2 or whatever

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