The title says it, but I want to know which roms do y'all on the forums use and what's popular among you guys.
I was using PAC-man for a long time but it had a few annoying bugs. Nothing that would stop use of it but just not fluid in some aspects. I gave up waiting for them to go to 4.4 so I jumped to Omni rom and it is so much better. Very smooth very fast and far lower ram usage. I missed things like the DPI settings from Paranoid Android so I just teamed Omni up with Xposed modules and Apex launcher to get it exactly where I want it now. I have a functional 12x9 home screen layout over 9 screens with 240 dpi.
AWw that's a shame because they don't have a build for my Droid Razr M :/
There are builds of PAC-man in 4.4, MiUi which are usually good and look good because of the menu customisations, also the Avatar roms are pretty good. I used them before I went PAC it just did not have enough options for me.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/droid-razr-m/development
If you can't find a full custom rom you like try and get close to AOSP as possible and install Xposed modules. they can replicate the features of many full custom roms.
I use cyanogenmod 11. It has all the function I want by stock and was really easy to install on my Nexus 4. I even have the feeling, that it is faster then stock kitkat,
I prefer Cyanogenmod. Usually very stable, with tons of functionality, and tweaks for speed.
I typically like CarbonROM, although there are plenty of others that are nice.
Chalk me up as another Cyanogenmod user. Got CM 10.2 on a Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch (such a mouthful) along with Nova launcher and it's running much better than TouchWiz
I can recommend it, though there are still plenty of other good ROMs to try out too
I was using AKOP but it was buggy so I switched to the latest CM 10.2 nightly build for my droid 3 it's much more stable but the cameras not working that said at-least it can use the HW+ codecs in MXplayer which more then makes up for it.
+1 for the latest cyanogenmod.
I stay with Paranoid Android, and Slim or carbon rom. cyanogenmod is just not something I really like anymore.
I have used every major rom but I always come back to Cyanogenmod asylum. Its a cm rom that is the right dpi for bigger phones.
SlimKat http://www.slimroms.net/
light fast and works :)
I really enjoy CM10.2, only because I have yet to decide that I'm interested in the KitKat base.
Though I really want to try loading Ubuntu on my HTC One M7 and see what the experience is like.
i use Resurrection Remix, its packed full of features... its biased off of cyanogenmod and is super stable... i will never go back to cm or anything else
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2692481
People really love Cyanogen but in my opinion it"s past it's prime. The devs have been pulling off some shady things (such as removing features without community consent; in fact, the community wanted them to stay), and going semi-commercial by for example being preloaded on the new OnePlus One phone which is a sub-company of Oppo.
Personally I love SlimBean, it has tons of features and runs just as smooth as Cyanogen. I love the built-in DPI changer that lets you pick a custom DPI value.
I use the Baja Rom for the Verizon GS4:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2696872
Cyanogenmod is the best way to go in most cases ;)
I use Carbon rom with Xposed. I believe it's based on cyanogenmod and it's really nice. You can alter a lot UI elements and change most everything. It also adds nice features like active display and pie controls. https://carbonrom.org/