ROM Review: JRummy’s Froyo Kangerade V1.0
Last month I was reading about JRummy’s Froyo Kangerade on Droid-Life. Back then, a whole month ago, I was happily using UD eXtreme and didn’t really have a desire to toy with additional ROMs. Fast forward a month. Now I have a wonderful Droid X, which I can’t ROM. So, what to do with my Motorola Droid?
My wife and I decided that it was finally time to get her away from her Samsung SCH-I760. Yes, for anyone that’s familiar with Verizon’s pre-Android lineup, that’s a WiMo handset. But I had to decide what would be the best experience for her, something that would make her feel comfortable with Android, and something that would be fast for her. Let’s be honest, the vanilla Android isn’t the most stunning. Going with a stock 2.1 wouldn’t be a good choice. UD eXtreme was nice for me, but not sure she’d love the theme there. Then I remembered a reportedly fast ROM, and it was available in PINK! (Have no fear, there are more colors available) So, I headed back over to Droid-Life to page through all the articles and to dig it up.
I found the screenshots, and I felt confident that I was making the right choice. I got it installed and got her going quick. The first thing I noticed was it was fast. I didn’t check the speed, but it was nice and quick. It had a lot of the bulk removed that comes stock, as well as that comes with other ROMs. The theming was taking to an extreme, which is good. Everything included is beautifully done. It’s so well done that I almost didn’t want to install additional programs (because their icons wouldn’t match!) How bad is that?
JRummy’s Froyo Kangerade is available in the following flavors:
- Blueberry Flavored Froyo (Blue Theme)
- Daiquri Ice Flavored Froyo (Cyan Theme)
- Key Lime Pie Flavored Froyo (Green Theme)
- Pink Lemonade Flavored Froyo (Pink-Life Theme)
- Strawberry Flavored Froyo (Red Theme)
- Plain Froyo (Stock Theme)
- Froyo with Nex-Theme
And the features are as follows:
- FRF57 Base *Credit to mdw and P3Droid for the leak
- Froyo stock kernel
- All themes fully zipaligned
- Busybox symlinked properly (ie. You don’t have to type busybox w/ each command)
- Built latest ADW Launcher from source for droid *Thanks anderweb & CM
- Complete MusicMod overhaul by Eliot Stocker (from source)
- Added 30 custom wallpapers to ADW Launcher
- Added custom spare parts from source *thanks Team Chaos/CM
- Cleaned up/Added custom wallpapers for Froyo Launcher2
- Custom Froyo boot animation *credit to kc.rkitek & ogdobber
- 20% increments in battery for all themes
- High quality video recording hack
- Removed ads by default
- Removed camera shutter sound by default
- Disabled OTA updates
- Decreased call delay
- Increased wifi scan time to save battery life
- Added bash and nano
- Added Chrome to Phone
- Added Pandora Radio
- Added Adobe Flash Player (install from sdcard/adobeflashplayer)
- Removed AmazonMP3, Google Goggles, Protips & Visual Voicemail
- Added 150 colors to nexus live wallpaper by default
- Added over 120 custom scripts (see below)
- Fixed market and loss of data connection issues
Now, you don’t need to know all that information to know this ROM might just be for you. I know there have been newer ROMs released in the last month, but this is WELL done. It’s got great polish, the themes are great, it’s streamlined, and I’d gladly recommend it to anyone. Go for it, goto the download page and give it a shot. I’m sure you’ll love it.
And my wife loves it. She went from a basic WiMo phone that she only browsed web pages with, to Android, which she actually ENJOYS! I know I owe the Google guys a lot for my wife’s happiness, but I also owe JRummy a big thank you.
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