Currently, I'm using an AOSP rom (PAC-Man). I think it's the most feature rich and smooth rom so far. I found myself to have stuttering on the stock TW and even more on alternative Kernels, CleanROM too. KBizzle is absolutely awesome. Yes, I was messing around with a lot of different things. But I have an idea of what I'm doing.
However there are still some things from TW that I love. Google's voice service doesn't add up to S Voice, at least, for me. I've done a ton of research on multi-window view for AOSP based roms and everything. I've found a package of apk's ripped from an S3 stock firmware and I'm wondering, Are there any differences between the two? Are the apps on the Note 2 updated further than the one's on the S3?
Also, what are your thoughts on the PAC-Man Rom? Anyone having issues using Bluetooth with Skype?
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Couple of Silly Questions:
1). Is it possible to modify the open source ROMs available to use TouchWiz? I happen to be in the minority that like it. If not, however, no big deal.
2). Question for those that have flashed a new rom: Is it possible to get the Avatar app and the Sims 3 app to continue to work? Or do they just work out of the box?
s73v3r said:
Couple of Silly Questions:
1). Is it possible to modify the open source ROMs available to use TouchWiz? I happen to be in the minority that like it. If not, however, no big deal.
2). Question for those that have flashed a new rom: Is it possible to get the Avatar app and the Sims 3 app to continue to work? Or do they just work out of the box?
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It depends on what you mean by open source. Eugene373 was playing around with an AOSP build for the Vibrant, but it hasn't gone much of anywhere lately. His latest custom roms (Vibrant9/VibrantR3) were built primarily for getting rid of as much of Touchwiz as medically possible and they are basically stripped down and customized versions of the stock ROM. CyanogenMod 6.1 is the only other open source ROM being worked on and it's still in alpha. I don't see Cyanogen or any of the team members working on our port caring about Touchwiz as it sort of defeats the purpose of stock Android in the first place.
The basic point behind custom or aosp roms is that you don't like Touchwiz and prefer stock android, so it's a bit of a self-defeating strategy to think about adding back what the mods are deliberately removing.
If you like Touchwiz (as I do) then I'd say stick with stock and tweak/customize from there. It's too much work to approach from the other end and makes little sense. I'm basically stock, rooted, lots of the bloatware removed, MobileAP and the Captivate Camera installed, EXT3 lagfix...and that's about it. Phone is smooth as butter.
If you are running a custom rom, it is possible to simply push back the Avatar "app", as it's just a shortcut to the movie file on the sd card. You can also just run the VideoPlayer and start it from there regardless, so I guess that's a matter of preference. I got rid of the pointless icon. The Sims 3 install apk can be found in one of the system dump threads in the development section.
Is there any rom out there, that have a stock ICS people application, and all other features of samsung rom?
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If I understand you correctly you`re looking for custom rom that looks like stock? So, Alliance base or VillainRom would be the answer
Yes I am looking for a custom rom, but i need the samsung camera with zero shutter lag, video calling support, and the ICS stock contatct application.
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Yes I am looking for a custom rom, but i need the samsung camera with zero shutter lag, video calling support, and the ICS stock contatct application.
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I know this doesn't exactly answer you, but if you want the interface looking like stock ICS then you should download Nova Launcher from the Play Store.
I prefer it over TouchWiz, especially after I'd got used to the ICS ROMs on my GT-I9000 over the last 6 months.
The only problem is some of the Samsung widgets don't work, some of them do but not all of them.
Strangely there are a couple of things I do prefer about Samsung's software though, including the calendar and contacts apps.
Hello everybody,
since i am new to android roms, i found the amount of available roms pretty overwhelming, just making it harder for me to choose one that could fit my needs.
I was searching for a feature comparison of the (or some) available roms, something like a table or so, but i wasnt able to find one. Is there something (regularly) updated like this out there?
It would be very nice, if you guys could recommend me some roms to take a look at, or to link some resources for a general overview of different roms!
My (personal) needs for a rom:
Its very important for me, to use a stable rom, which allows usb-debuging because i am developing android games.
I would love to use the latest android version and a rom which allows to update to later versions. And updating without deleting all the installed apps and files would be heaven on earth.
Motion controll is nice, but as far as i could extract from this threads, there is no stock jelly bean rom with this feature enabled, because its Samsung related, is that right?
I hope to find some answers on my questions.
Regards, psdev
Try wannam lite. Its my favorite
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Maybe give a shot on Android Revolution HD and also Omega Rom. These roms are my favourite.
I saw that omega rom seems like the most famous one. But as i told i have no idea how it compares to others, could you please explain what it makes it so famous? (is it recently updated, does it has more features...)
But thanks so far for your answers!
Hi,
i want to swap to a AOSP based rom but i want to be able to take some samsung apks with me... is this at all possible?
the ones i want are:
Dialer (Phone)
Alarm clock
Samsung memo
Gallery
Calculator
Web Browser
fm radio
txt message apk
Most (or all) of these apps require touchwiz framework, so the answer is yes and no.
Yes, if you take also the Samsung's Touchwiz launcher and some libraries (jut enough for these apps to work), but then, that defeats the purpose of going to AOSP.
No, not if you don't want Samsung touchwiz at all.
im sure ive seen people using samsungs camera on AOSP and also "s memo"... :S have they had coding changed to be ported or something?
if so does anyone have any idea if any of the apks ive mentioned have also been ported??
thanks guys really apreciate the help
this forum used to be a lot more helpful :/...
anyway, ive managed to find SOMETHING
there are some ported apks linked below - in case anyone else has the same question as me and maybe sees this thread!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1632639
anyone have any other information about other apks or updates please let me know
You can use this mod to run samsung camera on CM10/AOSP
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746611
I have used it myself.
You will need to flash it with CMW recovery.
I just recently started using custom roms thanks to a friend of mine. I'm currently using Cyanogenmod, I believe the most recent one (flashed to the one released today) but I noticed a few things were missing. The biggest concern of mine is that I don't seem to have Google Now on my phone, and I seem to have lost S-Voice (which I assume Google Now replaces). Voice search also doesn't seem to be working either. Whenever I try using voice search, it immediately crashes. Lastly, I don't get 4g HSPA+ anymore. I'm not in an LTE area but we do get H+ here. I noticed that I am on 3g all the time. Just wondering if there were any fixes for these problems. Not a huge issue, just an inconvenience I'd like to see fixed if possible.
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I just recently started using custom roms thanks to a friend of mine. I'm currently using Cyanogenmod, I believe the most recent one (flashed to the one released today) but I noticed a few things were missing. The biggest concern of mine is that I don't seem to have Google Now on my phone, and I seem to have lost S-Voice (which I assume Google Now replaces). Voice search also doesn't seem to be working either. Whenever I try using voice search, it immediately crashes. Lastly, I don't get 4g HSPA+ anymore. I'm not in an LTE area but we do get H+ here. I noticed that I am on 3g all the time. Just wondering if there were any fixes for these problems. Not a huge issue, just an inconvenience I'd like to see fixed if possible.
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Cyanogenmod has a discussion thread in the general section.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2035141
you're best to go there and ask - but before you do, a quote from the cm10.1 thread you downloaded the rom from
- Camera: Recording effects broken
- Camera: Touch 2 focus issues with enabled flashlight
- Bluetooth: audio streaming sometimes becomes laggy or stops at a distance > 1m
- FM Radio: unsupported
- TV Out: unsupported, will never work (proprietary, undocumented)
- Lots of missing and yet unimplemented features
- and a lot more
these are known issues.
Actually we have two kind of roms. Based on Stock Samsung Rom and based on AOSP (Android Open Source Project). It isn't the same and AOSP roms mostly are missing much things added by Samsung, for example Smart Stay, Samsung Apps etc. CyanogenMod is based on AOSP.
If you ask me I'd stick with roms based on Samsung, mostly because I believe it's much more compatible than "clean" AOSP itself. But it's up to you, I'd suggest flashing some stock rom (f.e. Android Revolution HD) and make a decision which one you prefer.
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Actually we have two kind of roms. Based on Stock Samsung Rom and based on AOSP (Android Open Source Project). It isn't the same and AOSP roms mostly are missing much things added by Samsung, for example Smart Stay, Samsung Apps etc. CyanogenMod is based on AOSP.
If you ask me I'd stick with roms based on Samsung, mostly because I believe it's much more compatible than "clean" AOSP itself. But it's up to you, I'd suggest flashing some stock rom (f.e. Android Revolution HD) and make a decision which one you prefer.
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I'll try the Android Revolution rom and I'll try posting in the Cyanogenmod forum. Thank you for the information everyone.
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adambueller said:
I'll try the Android Revolution rom and I'll try posting in the Cyanogenmod forum. Thank you for the information everyone.
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Might i suggest you look into other top roms as well....after all, as long as you got a nandroid backup u can flash roms in a jiffy!
foxhound rom(most packed rom you can find!)
Rootbox(some nifty features plus it's very light and handles performance very well. Was also a very speedy performance rom on the s2)
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adambueller said:
I'll try the Android Revolution rom and I'll try posting in the Cyanogenmod forum. Thank you for the information everyone.
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You can use other roms AOSP like
MIUI http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1859716 (I'm using this one, it's beautifull and super smooth)
Vanilla RootBox: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1898798
Or Samsung based like
UltimaROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1911572
Omega http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1663656
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MIUI http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1859716 (I'm using this one, it's beautifull and super smooth)
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I agree on the others, but i HAVE to disagree on the ios looking pretty-not rom miui. It's not that beautiful....:sigh: i never will get miui fans...
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