I'll be buying a HTC Desire soon. Best ROM for it?

biron_w · 27 Oct 2011 at 08:38

And by best I mean one that is fast and stable. It's doesn't have to be the fastest one for it as I prefer stability over speed.

Luke · 27 Oct 2011 at 09:41

What features do you want that aren't on the vanilla ROM?
There's little point just going for a modded ROM for the sake of it. I've tried loads and have ended up with the vanilla again!

Sunbed · 27 Oct 2011 at 10:08

CM7 is pretty stable, although I have slightly more issues with it now rather than when it was at stock.

TheCenturion · 27 Oct 2011 at 10:22

biron_w said:
And by best I mean one that is fast and stable. It's doesn't have to be the fastest one for it as I prefer stability over speed.

Your very best bet is to spend about a week playing around with a few different types of roms. First to figure out if you want a sense rom or not, and then to find the rom that suits you

I'm currently using MIUI. Very smooth, and battery life is great. Although this is on a desire HD

Attu90 · 27 Oct 2011 at 10:27

*LeeDrOiD HD V3.3.3-Port-R5 with the sense 3 pack, nice quick and stable and decent battrey life.

If you dont like sence the just install a new launcher, launcher pro etc.

loltim · 27 Oct 2011 at 10:31

why are you buying a HTC desire?

Chiz · 27 Oct 2011 at 10:39

Miui XJ.

The best flavour of Miui available. Over the air updates, over the air themes. Fully customisable skins. Very stable. Runs fast. Good support. Looks very pretty!!

You should just type each ROM into youtube and decide for yourself. Try them all. That's what I did.

straxusii · 27 Oct 2011 at 11:17

Attu90 said:
*LeeDrOiD HD V3.3.3-Port-R5 with the sense 3 pack, nice quick and stable and decent battrey life.

If you dont like sence the just install a new launcher, launcher pro etc.

If your priority is stable and fast then go for Leedroid 3.0.8.2, 3.3 uses the new sense UI and the desire is a little slower with it.

go.mole · 27 Oct 2011 at 11:36

oxygen rom. It's just works and doesn't have an rubbish included.

bulb66 · 27 Oct 2011 at 12:41

go.mole said:
oxygen rom. It's just works and doesn't have an rubbish included.

Agreed

biron_w · 27 Oct 2011 at 23:23

loltim said:
why are you buying a HTC desire?

Because I want one :confused:

I'll try oxygen,LeeDroid and Miui and decide which one I like best.
Cheers

TheCenturion · 27 Oct 2011 at 23:39

biron_w said:
Because I want one
I'll try oxygen,LeeDroid and Miui and decide which one I like best.
Cheers

To be honest with you, there's really not much difference in stability and smoothness between most roms. I've tried about 20 different roms for the desire HD and the main difference is the look.

All the sense roms I've found to be pretty similar, so if you find you like one sense rom, you'll probably like them all.

loltim · 27 Oct 2011 at 23:49

biron_w said:
Because I want one
I'll try oxygen,LeeDroid and Miui and decide which one I like best.
Cheers

Fair enough, hope it's cheap... or free.

biron_w · 28 Oct 2011 at 08:36

Watching the videos on youtube of various ROMS the new LeeDroid one looks pretty cool. Will try that first.

Fair enough, hope it's cheap... or free.

I don't have a contract so buy my phones and i'm not willing to pay £300+ for the latest phone. Can get a Desire for £100-150 from the bay.

Wossi · 28 Oct 2011 at 09:03

Running CM7.something on my Desire and it's fast and stable. 1 thing you might want to do is change the hboot to free up a shed load of memory http://alpharev.nl/ helps a hell of a lot.

Johnnytoxic · 28 Oct 2011 at 10:19

go.mole said:
oxygen rom. It's just works and doesn't have an rubbish included.

+1 with ADW Launcher.

SeeKified · 28 Oct 2011 at 11:18

I use InsertCoin on mine, great ROM. The later versions have been a little glitchy, but I use 1.1.3 instead of 1.1.4 as I find it a bit quicker and you don't have to worry about the kernel updates that snq- released for 1.1.4. Only problem with 1.1.3 is that attempting to USB tether reboots the device.

biron_w · 29 Oct 2011 at 08:52

Wossi said:
1 thing you might want to do is change the hboot to free up a shed load of memory http://alpharev.nl/ helps a hell of a lot.

Cheers. I'll do that when I get a phone

Grrrrr · 29 Oct 2011 at 12:20

I can't say what's best but i can say that i've been on CM 7.03 for over 6 months now without any problems. Stable, good battery life, used the alpharev partitions (as above) so have lots of memory. Only down side is that the camera is a lot poorer than the sense one.