It was my second ROM installation in the last 2 days on the same phone. At first I had this ROM: https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1899288 but I would not recommend it to anyone. At the moment, its latest update is from September 30 and today is November 10, so that is more than a month.
That would not matter so much if the ROM were not missing around 80% of the apps, and of the remaining 20%, another 50% were broken or extremely unstable. That is why this ROM stayed on the phone for just one night and the next day I replaced it with https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1936749 . And let me tell you, that was a whole different story right away.
With that ROM I had problems even with the installation, which was supposed to take 4-7 minutes at most, and when I had already waited 15, I turned it off and then worried whether it would ever boot again. It did boot, and in a record time of about a minute. Now I have 2 phones available, and since I do not have a list of the apps anywhere that came on the S+ with the stock Android and TouchWiz 2.3.6, when comparing the default software bundle I will go by the apps I have on my Samsung Galaxy S+, also running Android 2.3.6.
There are roughly the same number of apps there, but I will try to filter out the ones from O2 and Samsung and, conversely, add the ones I remember being preinstalled on the Galaxy S+. Back to the DoomNEXUS ROM that I have installed now: I downloaded 2 files for it from the links above:
- DoomNEXUS v3
oc.zip[151MB] – The Android/Linux kernel (in my case 2.6.35.14), a set of basic apps. 4.2-Gapps-And-Extras-Signed.zip[171MB] – Google apps, you need to install this to be able to install apps from Google Play and to add a Google account to Android.
Only now did I notice that both of these ROMs are probably developed by the same person – Doomsday94. Now, on December 29, 2012, as I am finishing this article, I already have a different ROM on my phone, namely SmoothieJB. Although DoomNEXUS was much better than that Alpha CM10, which did not even have a proper name, a lot of things did not work in it, from the USB connection, video playback including YouTube, the camera app, GPS, to the cameras – both front and rear, and during calls the phone was terribly power hungry.
Now with the SmoothieJB ROM everything is fine, I just have not had a chance to test calling yet. Anyway, the SmoothieJB ROM is great, the only thing is that it has no radio, even though the phone has the hardware for it.