Virus Eternity ROM is Coming Your 3VO Is Begging For It

"Life has no meaning the moment you loose the Illusion of being eternal"

I have had the pleasure of being the only person on earth to test the best ROM I've had the pleasure of using. It's called Eternity and I am providing you guys with an exclusive look with the approval of Virus one of the more talented devs in the game. Android 2.3.4 is the base of course and it's a gorgeous ROM that will be available on a limited basis in the coming weeks with a release to the masses shortly thereafter. Trust me your 3VO will be happy... mine certainly is. Enough of my endless yapping here it is you preview folks.

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Kidromulous Reviews:Showdown ROM for EVO 3D

HelicopterShowdown For The Win!
It's been a long time coming. Thousand of visitors this week. Getting the graphics and web design thing going. T- shirts and apparel and etc. What I do however is write and I have been waiting for a few days to get this review on this awesome ROM from XDA developer HelicopterShowdown. I guess this is more of a closer look than a review because I'll tell you right of the bat this ROM is my favorite for the EVO 3D. First off the kernel allows for stable overclocking up around 1.85 GHz and that was one of the things I found most appealing about it. This with undervolting boot and after about a week of use the battery life on it was just awesome, 7 or 8 hours of heavy use for me easy. The ROM comes equipped with the Gingerbread theme and extended quick settings menu that includes media volume and brightness for your convenience. Their are long list of features that I will list for you after the break but let me take a moment to talk about the hallmark of this ROM. Showdown is fast. I know people tell you this all the time and I've heard more than once the EVO 3D is fast out of the box how much faster could it be? Seeing is believing, flash this bad boy. It is FAST. The kernel is just amazing with several speed tweaks dubbed miscellaneous by developer HelicopterShowdown. Also there is the option of a second kernel that has a different configuration. The voltage is upped and CFS is modified. Conservative is default for speed and battery as well. Overall this ROM will knock your socks off guaranteed. I won't be flashing anything else for a long time. Mama always said if it ain't broke don't fix it. Best ROM on EVO 3D and I have frankly tried all of them. More to come from the Androidian Revolution and let's hope there is more to come from HelicopterShowdown.
AndroRev Review System Scores:
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1. App Testing: Extensive App testing using High end Asphalt 6 3D  and N.O.V.A. 3D, Google Plus, Plume and YouTube as well as Camera responsiveness over several days. Score 4
2. Launcher Responsiveness: The ROM was very smooth and it's performance in the launcher department was probably the best feature of Showdown. Very slick. Score 5
3. Battery Life: 6 to 8 hr average with moderate to heavy use. Score 4
4. Sound Quality: Decent but not exceptional. Score 3.5
5. Browser: Browsing experience was excellent on both Stock and Dolphin H.D. passed all test. Loaded pages quickly and efficiently. Flash video was good. Fairly snappy overall. Score 4

Overall Score: 20.5 / 25

BenchMarks

RL:89.239 

Quadrant: 2616 set on performance and clocked at 1728

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Showdown ROM
-extended quick settings
-root/busybox
-battery%
-gingerthemed from multiple diff theme parts (Thyrus) + a lil of my own
-pngopt
-deodexed
-Tether, Flash 10.3, Facebook, news, and GoHome added to /data
-advanced shutdown menu (dont use hot restart)
-wifi scan upped to 90
-increased dalvik size
-panoramic camera
-almost completely debloated
-green overscroll glow
-crt animation
-clock removed from notifiction tray
-gpu accel home
-3d tilt display setting
-zipaligned apps n frameworks plus zipalign /data on boot
-hacked hotspot
-increased boot speed
-hacked flash for hulu
-boosted browser render speed
-unlimited browser tabs
-HDMI sans DRM
-adjusted media profiles
-ringtones set to my liking
-tweaked animations for quicker transistions
-5mb mms hack (caulikin)
-updated market
-blocked ads
-custom wallpaper defaulted

ShowDown Kernel
-patched to 2.6.35.14 (stable long term!)
-bfq sched added and defaulted
-VR sched slightly tweaked
-undervolted! MOAR batteries
-increased GPU memory
-overclockable to 1.8ghz (tons of steps added) (m-deejay)
-conservative governor tweaked and defaulted
-lots of code cleanup and fixing
-Jhash 3 added
-limited to 384-1188mhz on boot (use setcpu!)
-kernel optimisations
-miscellaneous battery and speed tweaks
-increased boot speed

ShowDown Kernel2
-upped voltage at 1.83ghz
-conservative defaulted (modified for speed and battery)
-configuration edits
-messed with CFS a bit

Jkeene Reviews: Altered Beast ROM for Droid Charge

The last ROM review I took a look at the GummyCharged ROM, which had a very clean stock look to it. Lets head to the other end of the spectrum with DroidXcon's Altered Beast Alpha 5 ROM. This sexy ROM is about as far from the stock look as you can get!

Altered Beast is a EE4 based ROM that was actually the first ROM to drop for the Droid Charge. DroidX and Team Androphiles have been hard at work to bring the ROM up to Alpha status. Altered Beast is fully deodexed and debloated. It has been fully themed by DroidX and Gunnermike, everything from Androphile wallpaper, notification menu, dialer, keyboard, status bar and shutdown animation is custom. The list of visual mods added in is awesome, from the Dark Angel USB mod(pictures below) which just blows me away to the dark themed market. These additions go a long way to put this ROM above a lot out not just for the Droid Charge but for any Android phone available. Also bundled in with the ROM is a functional HULU app, Voodoo Control, Battery Mod, and alot of carbon fiber backgrounds!!

The ROM comes with a fully themed AOSP launcher with custom icons from DroidX himself. Some very nice screen transitions are thrown in not to mention the removal of just about all of the Samsung TouchWiz brown that reminds me of something that I can not repeat here. DroidXcon was nice enough to bundle imnut's awesome overclock kernel in with his Odin package so all your needs are taken care of. Not only will your Droid Charge be more stylish it will be lag free with the addition of this Voodoo kernel. I have not personally experienced any issues with this ROM on my phone. So look him up on the web kids and flash away. Trust me your Droid Charge has never looks so sexy!!

1. Altered Beast handled every game I threw at it, including Samurai II without a a hitch. Email worked just fine and apps such as Google+ and Tweetdeck gave me no problems. The camera however had more then one force close so I am giving AB a 4 out of 5.

2. AB comes with a themed AOSP launcher that was smooth but a little slow for me. Launcher Pro took are of this real quick and gave me a responsive home screen and very smooth and fast 3-D app drawer. Very nice, 4.5 out of 5.

3. Battery life on this ROM is nothing short of amazing. It should be noted that I am in a 3G only area. With everything like email and Tweetdeck set to push with normal daily use( a couple of phone calls, lots of Google+, and web browsing with some Stupid Zombies thrown in) I routinely got 11-13 hours out of my Charge. I have to give this a 5 out of 5!

4. As far as sound goes with headphones plugged in sound was great. Using the phone's speaker for Google Music and YouTube I noticed a reduction in volume. Under normal use this was not a problem however sitting in the breakroom with multiple conversations going on, I was unable to get Youtube movies to play loud enough. 3.5 out of 5

5. The stock browser on this phone was laggy for me and a little slow at rendering graphics intensive pages. Flash video worked just fine. This didn't make it unusable but was annoying at times. I replaced it with Dolphin and had no issues at all. Pages loaded quickly and flash video gave me no problems. 3.5 out of 5.

Overall the ROM scored a 20 out of 25 total.

Quadrant-1598 with speed at 1.1GHz

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