Does anyone have an opinion on this? I have been using TWRP since rooting my Amaze, but have used CWM on previous devices. I do like the fact that xboarder got TWRP 2.0 (Touch) working and it's pretty sweet, but I'm wondering if I should maybe be using CWM if not just for the sake of being able to use ROM Manager... Any input would be great!
Fahnix
Cwr only because I an very familiar with it.
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I prefer twrp, it's easier and quicker and the touch is awesome. But, I use an app called appextractor that it's amazing at reading your backups to restore data and apps, and it only works with cwm. If it wasn't for that app I'd use twrp.
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I use TWRP now. I used to be a die hard fan of CWM until the app stopped working with the recovery. TWRP has much better compression which saves a lot of space, doesn't require md5 verification for restoring (which makes it a little faster), touch interface is very nice and you can even theme it!
I've been a cwm user as well but by some stroke of luck came across twrp before I found the correct cwm recovery. I was REALLY digging the psychedelic color theme on the non touch, but the touch is wayyyyy more convenient. Kinda drab, but awesome nonetheless.
Thanks for the input! BTW, what ROM have you tried energyRom yet?
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I use TWRP now. I used to be a die hard fan of CWM until the app stopped working with the recovery. TWRP has much better compression which saves a lot of space, doesn't require md5 verification for restoring (which makes it a little faster), touch interface is very nice and you can even theme it!
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Thanks for the input! BTW, what ROM have you tried energyRom yet?
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In fact I have. Using it now.
And loving every second of it..
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In fact I have. Using it now.
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And loving every second of it..
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energy rom has started to change my mind about sense!!! , my only beef with sense is the main dock (i prefer a 5 button dock), and also the inability to re-size widgets...I think all this is getting addressed in sense 3.5...atleast the dock I know for sure, and ICS naively supports widget resizing so hopefully even if sense widgets can't be re-sized the other widgets would be...
Have you tried an alternate launcher. Go launcher has a 5 button layout I believe.
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energy rom has started to change my mind about sense!!! , my only beef with sense is the main dock (i prefer a 5 button dock), and also the inability to re-size widgets...I think all this is getting addressed in sense 3.5...atleast the dock I know for sure, and ICS naively supports widget resizing so hopefully even if sense widgets can't be re-sized the other widgets would be...
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energy rom has started to change my mind about sense!!! , my only beef with sense is the main dock (i prefer a 5 button dock), and also the inability to re-size widgets...I think all this is getting addressed in sense 3.5...atleast the dock I know for sure, and ICS naively supports widget resizing so hopefully even if sense widgets can't be re-sized the other widgets would be...
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I disliked sense too when I had mt4g because of how big the ROMs were (350 MB compared to CM's 98 MB) although CoreDroid was pretty sweet. But EnergyRom is brilliant with it's stability, battery life, and theme by NRG. Also Apaquette420 has a sweet theme for it that looks amazing.
Not to be a spokesperson here, but this ROM has me sold on Sense
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I guess since I helped clutter, I better at least answer the question. I use cwm, but am now interested in TWRP. I used 4EXT on my mt4g, and twrp sounds similar. I may try it out tonight
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Xboarders touch TWRP is pretty cool. It's nice not having to yae the hardware buttons to flash. No more scrolling with the volume and then fiddling with the power button to select.
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I guess since I helped clutter, I better at least answer the question. I use cwm, but am now interested in TWRP. I used 4EXT on my mt4g, and twrp sounds similar. I may try it out tonight
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I've been on Viper since launch...
Haven't tried any of the others. Visuals are important to me as well as smoothness.
Mean ROM.
Mean Rom.
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Mean rom is a beast
any rom would do. there all pretty simple at the moment, nobody has took their rom to the next level for this device.
Many devs are still ROMing for other phones and haven't journeyed to the LTE just yet.
only time will tell. And Ive flash just about all of the roms out now.
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any rom would do. there all pretty simple at the moment, nobody has took their rom to the next level for this device.
Many devs are still ROMing for other phones and haven't journeyed to the LTE just yet.
only time will tell. And Ive flash just about all of the roms out now.
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I will agree. My daily rom is MeanROM but I've tried them all and I think they're pretty much all the same. Only thing that's separating them are tweaks, they definitely all look the same. From what I hear the VenomRom will be the one that separates itself from the rest, when it gets released.
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I've tried Mean rom and Viper. Both excellent roms but I chose to stick with Viper as my daily driver for now. It just feels a bit more familiar to me since that's all I used on my 3D.
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+1 with mean rom for sure. its got by far the most support and updates as of now. but when the viper rom comes out whenever that may be is up in the air but when it does i think i will be the best. go to the one x page and check it out....but mean all the way right now without a doubt!!!!
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I will agree. My daily rom is MeanROM but I've tried them all and I think they're pretty much all the same. Only thing that's separating them are tweaks, they definitely all look the same. From what I hear the VenomRom will be the one that separates itself from the rest, when it gets released.
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Ive been waiting patiently on that Rom to come out, words on the threads, beta will be out by the end of this week
I'm going with mean as well simply because he supports it by far the best.
Everything is pretty much the same right now so it's not a big deal, just play around with a few
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Stock. :trollface:
I actually like it however
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I had ARHD 6.6.7 previously. It was a stock experience with nothing new. Also my battery was terrible on it. Yesterday I flashed ViperS 1.0.1... And I must say that it's by far the best rom I have every seen and used. It's packed with so much goodies! So much customization options that you'll never get bored. And on top of that, it's also very fast. The venom hub and tweaks app is revolutionary.
So far, the battery is also doing great.
Team Venom rocks!
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if u like the customizing tweaks u find in AOSP roms like cm9 and aokp then u should look forward to charmeleon rom, it will be getting a major update in the coming days
using the AOKP right now. dont really like any of the sense options there are right now. and i like the AOSP lockscreen too much. haha. waiting for that chameleon rom guy above was talking about. hopefully we can get a good CM9 Port going.
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I had ARHD 6.6.7 previously. It was a stock experience with nothing new. Also my battery was terrible on it. Yesterday I flashed ViperS 1.0.1... And I must say that it's by far the best rom I have every seen and used. It's packed with so much goodies! So much customization options that you'll never get bored. And on top of that, it's also very fast. The venom hub and tweaks app is revolutionary.
So far, the battery is also doing great.
Team Venom rocks!
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so your a tester or what for them? how is that rom?? i cant wait to get that sh*t!!!!!
I use Mean as well, Ive tried all of the others out there and keep coming back to Mean because it keeps getting updated and each time gets better.
give it a try
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so your a tester or what for them? how is that rom?? i cant wait to get that sh*t!!!!!
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nah man, I am just a tester and flasher for my local peeps.
Dude you should try this rom. they've made this rom very light and now i usually have around 175 - 220mb FREE.
just 3 bugs so far.. which i have already reported on day one.
1- Facebook Calender Sync doesn't work.
2- Gallery and Music app fails to load and search files. ( most of the time ) its a pain though :x
3- No Predictive Text in the keyboard. ( you'll have to use the ****ty SwiftKey for that.)
I've flashed Mean rom... All I noticed was 2% drops in battery every few minutes.. And it looked like the same stock ics layout
What's so special about It
We need roms that have boot animations and tweaked batt life roms that tweak the ui something extra ordinary
Stock suits me for now until I see a tricked out rom one that physically just looks different to the eyes
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Mean Rom hands down cm9 is ok but its buggy
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I've flashed Mean rom... All I noticed was 2% drops in battery every few minutes.. And it looked like the same stock ics layout
What's so special about It
We need roms that have boot animations and tweaked batt life roms that tweak the ui something extra ordinary
Stock suits me for now until I see a tricked out rom one that physically just looks different to the eyes
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Use cm9 then there's thems in the market
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Does MeanRom solve the multitasking issues?
I'm also wondering how it affects battery life, my battery life on stock is pretty great already.
Thanks.
I've noticed multitasking is much improved in v3.0.
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MeanROM battery life is better than stock, yes.
Get CM10 for fixed multitasking. All Sense ROMs have the multitasking issue.
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MeanROM battery life is better than stock, yes.
Get CM10 for fixed multitasking. All Sense ROMs have the multitasking issue.
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Thanks - so CM10 fixes multitasking. Is there anything that CM10 BREAKS??
(also, would you post a link to the CM10 you are using? Thanks!)
Things like the video camera do not yet work on cm10. Hopefully soon.
Thanks, link?
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Thanks, link?
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I don't have any multitasking issues with mean rom
Mine miltitasks ok but there is this issue of the browser reloading pages when you go back to it. Which can be a problem if you were writing something, or filling out a form, for example. In that case when you go back to the browser you have to start over. Not good.
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Thanks - so CM10 fixes multitasking. Is there anything that CM10 BREAKS??
(also, would you post a link to the CM10 you are using? Thanks!)
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CM10 just moments ago fixed video, so nothing major is broken anymore. I think the video is only standard def right now, but I bet HD video is coming within a few days. That was really the last thing needing major fixing honestly. I can't link you to CM10 unfortunately. Go to CM9 thread and look at page 149.
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As stated, Mean Rom multitasking is not fixed just came off of 3.0 . Always read the OP's it will b stated in the change log.
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Well the release notes include the following statement: "Multitasking improvements to reduce background task killing," thus the question.
Good call. It is not fixed though, only slightly improved. Your browser pages will absolutely still reload, so forms partially completed will be gone.
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Thanks Dan, so is the page reloading issue solved in CM10?
Absolutely perfect in CM10, or any AOSP ROM (to my knowledge). That's the way it was designed to work - HTC are the ones who went and screwed it all up.
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Well I downloaded it, and I guess I will try it.
Only issue is that the HTC keyboards are THE BEST - for me anyway. No matter what other keyboard I try, I end up backing up and retyping so many times it's maddening...
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Well I downloaded it, and I guess I will try it.
Only issue is that the HTC keyboards are THE BEST - for me anyway. No matter what other keyboard I try, I end up backing up and retyping so many times it's maddening...
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Dude... SwiftKey 3 is the greatest keyboard in existence. Bar none. Get the free trial and you'll never go back.
I can type like every letter of a word wrong and it still correctly guesses my word. The algorithms it uses are incredible. Plus, you can swipe back across the keyboard to delete words! Awesome feature.
Thank me later. Go enjoy.
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I'm looking for a Honeycomb ROM with normal battery life (Jelly Bean drains 30% per day even without using), rooted, and if possible bloatware / de-sensed.
I'm looking through the threads but there's a lot of broken links and everything's just really old anyway.
Is there a ROM like this available? Not just on this site, but perhaps hosted elsewhere too?
Man this place is dead. The AOKP Roms have pretty good battery. But I love HTC sense so I just deal with the battery.
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I normally don't believe in "best ROM" threads, as there is no such thing. The best ROM depends on your personal needs and expectations. But I also understand this forum is dead, and seeking some current opinion is somewhat justified.
I've been using CleanROM for a while now. Scrosler makes great ROMs. As the name implies, its just a cleaned up version of stock HC, with some performance enhancements, and not too many mods.
I was using Honeysense HC for a long time before that. But it was starting to lag really bad over time. Even a full wipe and re-flash didn't help matters. Not sure if it was the ROM per se, or something else. But the lag is what prompted me to move to CleanROM. Honeysense had some good battery life and features, and worth a try.
Tried LeeDroid as well. Think many people were on it, and it too has some nice mods and features. But the app drawer was way too crowded for me. Think the dev was going to put out a flashable mod for less crowded app drawer layouts, but it never happened.
There are other ROMs of course. And they may well be awesome. But I just never got around to trying them.
Hi,
I'm currently using cleanrom HC. Sense minus some of the stock apps and with a small amount of refinement.
I'm quite pleased with it. Very stable.
I'd like to see JB on the Flyer though, if they can get the front facing camera to work.
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I'm not finding CleanROM.
Is it a Flyer-only ROM?
If you go to the list of Roms and follow the link for the stock HC Rom, you'll find it there.
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dannyboy1121 said:
If you go to the list of Roms and follow the link for the stock HC Rom, you'll find it there.
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Is it this one? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1549551
Because that's clearly a Flyer ROM. Will it work on the Evo View 4G?
Hopefully this is the right section for a question like this...
I'm currently running stock ROM, s-off using Dirty Racun method. I'd like to switch up to a custom mod because I'm frustrated by the lack of customization on stock. I'd like to know which of the 2 ROMs is most like stock and basically, which you prefer and why. Not looking to start a war thread here so keep it civil, options more than welcome though. I'd like to make use of the following features so if one doesn't have them, please let me know:
Wake-on-volume
Overclock
Thanks in advance for your input
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Hopefully this is the right section for a question like this...
I'm currently running stock ROM, s-off using Dirty Racun method. I'd like to switch up to a custom mod because I'm frustrated by the lack of customization on stock. I'd like to know which of the 2 ROMs is most like stock and basically, which you prefer and why. Not looking to start a war thread here so keep it civil, options more than welcome though. I'd like to make use of the following features so if one doesn't have them, please let me know:
Wake-on-volume
Overclock
Thanks in advance for your input
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well, then you should go with the viper, the wake on volume was in cm10.1, but buggy so they removed it
EDIT: actually the wake on volume is working on cm 10.1 now in the latest unofficial release 0406
And if that wasn't a deal breaker would you still make that recommendation?
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And if that wasn't a deal breaker would you still make that recommendation?
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well i'm running cm, but i like both, i just kinda switch back and forth, run one for awhile then the other when i want a change,both are good roms
Aosp all day for me hands down
I love sense personally but always love to try new flavors of android, overclock is done with both, by modules and kernel on cm10 and by module on sense, however a sense kernel release will take place next week by me
And about wake on volume, if it is necessary, use viper
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Viper is awesome but I don't know how anyone can prefer a sense based ROM over CM...
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I personally like CM right now, though both are excellent ROMs in my opinion. I just prefer the overall "feel" of CM and I love a more stock experience...I find Sense a waste of resources that could better be placed elsewhere. though you can opt out of it with Viper. That being said, I would give them both a try and see which one suits you better! They are both amazing, it's really just a matter of preference...
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Hopefully this is the right section for a question like this...
I'm currently running stock ROM, s-off using Dirty Racun method. I'd like to switch up to a custom mod because I'm frustrated by the lack of customization on stock. I'd like to know which of the 2 ROMs is most like stock and basically, which you prefer and why. Not looking to start a war thread here so keep it civil, options more than welcome though. I'd like to make use of the following features so if one doesn't have them, please let me know:
Wake-on-volume
Overclock
Thanks in advance for your input
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if you prefer aosp: cm
if your prefer sense: viper
that about sums it up
Make a NAND of both and enjoy the best of both worlds. Problem solved :beer:
I'm using viperLTE with infernal kernel and I get great results
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I'm using the same exact setup and I love it too...
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been running viper forever... gonna have to break down and install the inferal kernel at some point soon... just need to download and flash it right?
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been running viper forever... gonna have to break down and install the inferal kernel at some point soon... just need to download and flash it right?
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yes if you are s off
Yeah, Jose makes it easy like that
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switching back and forth
What are best practices for switching back and forth between CM10 and Viper? NAND backups, but what about Titanium? Can that be used to preserve SMS messages? Or is it too unreliable to do titanium backups between the different types of ROMs? Thanks for your input.
-Drew
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Yeah, Jose makes it easy like that
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you shouldn't have a problem with titanium between the 2 roms just make sure you fix app permissions
PACman, paranoid kicks ass
I have reached that point where I no longer care for the benchmarks and stuff. I don't use my phone for intense gaming or app usage anymore so as long as the ROM is smooth, can do some multitasking briskly and has no to little bugs, I am ok.
Currently, my favorite is CM10.1.2 because it can do gapless playback in Google Music and I am a sucker for it! I am a fan of PAC-rom too but I am not sure if it is stable for our phone.
Go for CM10.1.2 with a 3.0 kernel for the best of both worlds - stability and the latest Android (mdm series CM 10 is great).
Personally I prefer the CyanogenMod ROMs (more official to get deeper) because you can customize the hell out of them. They do have the overclocking you are looking for, and yes, in one of the recent updates, they put in wake-vol-buttons. I like it because the themes are just awesome and the support is excellent. Nightly updates and nightly fixes (for the most part). There are somethings that I would like CyanogenMod to fix such as the external SD card usb mass storage not mounting on PC. That is a major drag. That is the only thing that I can think of right now that I hate about CyanogenMod. Hope this review on it helps!
So been thinking about trying a custom rom but not really sure since there isn't much to pick from so I'm looking to see what everyone else is doing and how they like what they are getting from there current setup?
I would just give it a week or so and I'm sure some more stable releases will come out
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shockingly I'm using TouchWiz. My only complaints with it are the inability to flick away desktop icons, no play store in the top right corner, and the folders are annoying. Why not just leave the stock folder function?
I use Apex Launcher overtop of TW which gives me the customization i want but still maintains all the Samsung functionality that is really pretty cool. After coming from AOSP Roms on my Gnex, its kind of a nice change of pace.
I rooted and removed some bloatware and verizon stuff I knew I didn't need.
Installed novalauncher and called it a day. I plan to stay with the stock kernel. I might be a little jaded coming from having to reformat my last few phones every few months once I started flashing roms.
I am completely stock, no root yet. Just testing her out to see if I am going to keep it first. Battery life and signal issues plagued my last two phones, so those are what I'm testing. So far so good.
Can someone explain what TouchWiz is? I don't see it anywhere on my S4. I'm coming from a Thunderbolt.
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Can someone explain what TouchWiz is? I don't see it anywhere on my S4. I'm coming from a Thunderbolt.
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TouchWiz is Samsung's Sense.
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I'm stock rooted running Nova Launcher. I froze most all the bloat I don't use and I'm loving this phone! Battery life is great and I have zero lag (especially since I came from a Moto Bionic.)
Im stock rooted running Nova launcher as well. Removed all the bloatware and have zero lag. This phone is amazing. What a difference coming from Gnex. I use svoice alot and it actually works well for what I use it for.
I'm running the aokp build. Does have a couple of issues, but I'm an aosp guy
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Running Nova Prime, Xposed v5?, Another custom framework mod to give me an Android guy in my drop down Window, Stock Rom frozen bloat, 64gig fat32 Sammy SD card w/folder mount, fauxU modded kernel, TWRP, No WIFI notification and no GPS icon mods...
I am getting itchy flash fingers though... Im reading we can use other carrier ROMs as long as we loki it.... May try that or....
CleamROM dev just got his VZW S4 today, and his ROMs are the best of the best, so I may just wait for his. ...
Currently hunting for a keyboard that can be themed, and a way to theme the rest of the Window box colors in settings/messages/reboot etc..,
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Think I am going to try a tmo rom tonight. Wish me luck.
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Good luck! Def. report back with how it goes!!!
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Rooted but still on stock ROM, using GoLauncher on top of TouchWiz, Swiftkey dark theme keyboard, haven't removed/frozen bloat yet (but will soon, just rooted yesterday). I'll be eventually loading a custom ROM but waiting out the alpha/beta builds.
Really enjoying the two finger swiping/gestures, though i don't use them much. Comes in handy on the notification bar for quick toggles, and Toucher is a pretty cool app especially when themed properly.
Not a fan of all the notification clutter, but thats just my OCD kicking in.
SmartStay/SmartScroll stopped working after day one, not sure why, but seems kind of a hokey feature anyway...
I agree, the tweaked folders are annoying, enjoyed my previous ICS folders using DeckReloaded on my EVO.
By and far my favorite phone that I have owned.
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Good luck! Def. report back with how it goes!!!
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So I tried it. It booted into the OS just fine, but the phone process was force closing so bad I couldn't get though the setup. I would type a character then it would freeze. Just lost patience, lol. I had backed up my APN but could not get through the setup to restore it.
But what this tells us is that porting ROMs will potentially be pretty easy.
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Ah crap. Thank you for maning up and giving it a whirl!
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Ah crap. Thank you for maning up and giving it a whirl!
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Going to take another shot...I replaced the apn config file.
And if it does not work we have hyperdrive to play with.
Edit: still the same deal. trying Darthstalker. wonder I need to try a spring (cdma) rom?
Has anyone tried hyperdrive rom yet?
alekurkudi said:
So been thinking about trying a custom rom but not really sure since there isn't much to pick from so I'm looking to see what everyone else is doing and how they like what they are getting from there current setup?
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Can u advice some stable release?