4.2 roms or TW 4.1 roms? - Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II

I'm not sure what to go with I've been running jelly beans build 9 for awhile and I love it. I came from the nexus so I know all too well what to expect from 4.2 roms. And I know that 4.2 roms don't have Any of the TW features.
I'm curious to see what you guys are running.
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I'm on Jedi a TW base and love it.
I had the nexus too and flashed everything there was and I prefer this TW rom with all the TW features over anything I ever ran on my nexus.
Maybe miss all the customization available but not enough to go back to aosp for the time being.
Now if Sorcery is ever available for the the note 2 all bets are off! That Rom had everything but the kitchen sink in it. lol

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Have tried Scotts, Beans, CM, Liquid, PA, AOKP...have settled on Carbon.
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I miss some features from AOKP, but I can't give up multi window.

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Stock rooted here. Tsf shell solves all my problems lol
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secularist said:
Have tried Scotts, Beans, CM, Liquid, PA, AOKP...have settled on Carbon.
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Pics of Carbon? The screenshots portion of the OP doesn't even have screenshots, but it sounds interesting.

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Been on Clean and Beans for from the start...tempted to try Carbon, but I am not sure I can do without some of the TW features. Love the pop up note when taking out the S-pen and the smart stay screen. How has it been on the AOSP roms? do you guys miss the TW stuff?

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Sir-Lancelot said:
I'm on Jedi a TW base and love it.
I had the nexus too and flashed everything there was and I prefer this TW rom with all the TW features over anything I ever ran on my nexus.
Maybe miss all the customization available but not enough to go back to aosp for the time being.
Now if Sorcery is ever available for the the note 2 all bets are off! That Rom had everything but the kitchen sink in it. lol
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Once I used sourcery on my nexus I never flashed another ROM for it. Carbon is a lot like sourcery, but I couldn't get voice dialing over BT to work.
I was willing to put up with the crackling during BT calls, but not the lack of hands-free voice dialing.
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tfly212 said:
Been on Clean and Beans for from the start...tempted to try Carbon, but I am not sure I can do without some of the TW features. Love the pop up note when taking out the S-pen and the smart stay screen. How has it been on the AOSP roms? do you guys miss the TW stuff?
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There are options to give some of the TW functionality back, but I didn't try it so I can't report on how it works.

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Good to know there are alternatives to some of the touchwiz apps...now I am really tempted. Is the flash process the same (wipe data, cache, dalvik cache), install zip from SD in TWRP and then flash gapps?

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yes.. be aware that your sd card will have to formatted in fat32 though otherwise it won't be recognized in AOSP
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kl2oo0 said:
yes.. be aware that your sd card will have to formatted in fat32 though otherwise it won't be recognized in AOSP
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...and windows 7 can't format fat 32 natively, you need another app to do it.

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I have tried em all and always end up back on TW. Either Jedi or one of Scott's. I cant give up the S-pen and Multi-window. Seems like the battery is better also.

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E30Nova said:
Pics of Carbon? The screenshots portion of the OP doesn't even have screenshots, but it sounds interesting.
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They show for me, but how about this as a substitute
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"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
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I'm confused with the interest in aosp roms when it breaks the distinctive characteristics of the note 2 - multi window, motion activated functionality and s pen. Even if all the other issues such as voice, bluetooth were to be solved, wouldn't it be still a worse user experience without some of these? Is there anything you gain besides the pure small footprint of the rom?
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khanam said:
I'm confused with the interest in aosp roms when it breaks the distinctive characteristics of the note 2 - multi window, motion activated functionality and s pen. Even if all the other issues such as voice, bluetooth were to be solved, wouldn't it be still a worse user experience without some of these? Is there anything you gain besides the pure small footprint of the rom?
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For me it's just about what experience I was looking for... Multi-window etc isn't that important to me. It was part of the buying decision for me but the novelty wore off and my focus shifted to light, smooth and fast... Ergo AOSP.
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pool_shark said:
...and windows 7 can't format fat 32 natively, you need another app to do it.
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Then what do you use?
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pool_shark said:
...and windows 7 can't format fat 32 natively, you need another app to do it.
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Sure it can.
Open a command prompt:
format /FS:FAT32 driveletter:

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E30Nova said:
Pics of Carbon? The screenshots portion of the OP doesn't even have screenshots, but it sounds interesting.
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why do people ask for.pics of a aosp aokp rom?
what do you expect to see? theres too many variables, different launchers, lock screen options, you can change colors and icons...just makes no sense.

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bendystrawboy said:
why do people ask for.pics of a aosp aokp rom?
what do you expect to see? theres too many variables, different launchers, lock screen options, you can change colors and icons...just makes no sense.
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My guess is they want to see examples. Makes plenty of sense to me.
Otherwise, why the hell call it Carbon if its simply an AOKP compile?

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I don't see why people don't just take a few (or all) for a test drive...see what works best for THEM
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