Back to using CyanogenMod!
After several months of running the stock ROM on my ThunderBolt, it is now happily S-OFF and running CyanogenMod7. I greatly missed Cyanogen after running it on my EVO 4G. The stock HTC ROMs are extremely bloated and slow. Stupid Sense interface. Along with ridding my phone of bloatware I quite enjoy the customization options that CyanogenMod and ADW.Launcher offer. It may be small, but one of my favorite features of CyanogenMod are the lockscreen media buttons. They control both the Music app and the Pandora App! Since I use my phone in the car as a media player, this makes changing tracks very easy. I find that Cyanogen’s phone app is much more user friendly than that of the Sense ROM. Favorite contacts are very easy to get to. In fact…other than a couple of the widgets I don’t like anything about HTC’s Sense ROMs. They are bloated, resource hungry pieces of poop. Steaming poop.
I used http://revolutionary.io/ to root my ThunderBolt. While Revolutionary is only a developer preview right now, it was very easy to use and worked very well! Once I was rooted I loaded CyanogenMod7 and used ROM Manager to flash a compatible version of ClockworkMOD recovery. So far so good. 4G LTE, WiFi, and GPS are all working flawlessly.
If you have an Android phone and are not happy with the stock ROM your manufacturer/carrier provided, I HIGHLY recommend CyanogenMod. Remember though: root at your own risk. It will void your warranty.
