Questions about Roms - Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II

I was hoping you guys could direct me. I'm looking for a Rom that is the fastest, cleanest room with the closest experience to a nexus device. What would you recommend?
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J.Guido85 said:
I was hoping you guys could direct me. I'm looking for a Rom that is the fastest, cleanest room with the closest experience to a nexus device. What would you recommend?
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That would be CyanogenMod. That is by far the closest you will ever get to a Nexus device, but you will be giving up a bit of battery life, many of the SPen functions, and MultiWindow.
What you will be getting in return, is the beautiful stock look, being on the latest android version, and having a completely "Debloated" ROM.

Ok, I've heard a lot about cyan, but never gave it a shot. Where do I get it from and is it easy to install. Do I do it through tw recovery like any other Rom?
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J.Guido85 said:
Ok, I've heard a lot about cyan, but never gave it a shot. Where do I get it from and is it easy to install. Do I do it through tw recovery like any other Rom?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2121931
That's the link to the official nightlies for CM 10.1, installation instructions are in the OP of course. Yes you do use TWRP recovery and install it just like any touchwiz rom. Personally AOSP roms always end up getting buggy on my device, YMMV.
If I were you I would look into TW roms that can give you an AOSP look. I'll edit in some links.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2274197 this is the novella Alliance rom that has an aosp theme option.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2207854 this is the miui rom and I believe with the miui theme engine you can an aosp look.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2154420 this is tweaked vzw remix.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2055170 this is cleanrom ace.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2253455 this is an aosp theme you can you with tweaked or clean.
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Normally I would say CyanogenMod or a Rom close to it. For this phone the S-pen is affected by the Rom you choose. A few of the Touchwiz Roms are pretty stable and the AOSP Roms removes most of the S-pen functionality. You should try a couple since everyone's experience is different. I'm running Beans Rom and it's pretty fast without changing any voltages.

I've used clean rom a few times and have always been happy. I usually use nova as well. I'm just liking for something that's fast, stable and doesn't have overwhelming options. Does any roms out there have the on screen keys like the nexus devices do?
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J.Guido85 said:
I've used clean rom a few times and have always been happy. I usually use nova as well. I'm just liking for something that's fast, stable and doesn't have overwhelming options. Does any roms out there have the on screen keys like the nexus devices do?
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Only AOSP roms do, and moonrom or minitab when in phablet/tablet modes.
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J.Guido85 said:
I was hoping you guys could direct me. I'm looking for a Rom that is the fastest, cleanest room with the closest experience to a nexus device. What would you recommend?
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For a good aosp rom, I would recommend a few of these.
1. ParanoidAndroid (my favorite)
2. AOKP
3. Cyanogen Mod (obvious good one)
4. LiquidSmooth
You will lose some nice tw features but there are some apps on the playstore that can give you similar spen features on aosp (don't want to post links as I don't own the rights). I myself would go for a tw ROM and just put nova launcher on there, but I love a great stock phone as much as the next guy. Hope I can help in some way but most Roms are just all opinion based. I would try around and post back your favorite.
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Rom recommendation for Note?

I know its personal preference but can I get some recommendations on roms for the note? Just curious what many people are using and what seems to be the preferred roms....
Thank u!
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I'm also curious about finding the best ROM. I currently have a stock Galaxy Nexus, and I love that, so I'm looking for the best ROM for the Note that is as close to Stock Android as possible.
I really want to pick one up, but until there's a Clean, Non-"Samsung-y" ICS ROM, I'm holding off.
Any leads would be Very much appreciated.
Thanks.
Tenacious--M said:
I know its personal preference but can I get some recommendations on roms for the note? Just curious what many people are using and what seems to be the preferred roms....
Thank u!
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If youre looking for ics i have been using this rom for about a month, has a few bugs but i use it for everyday.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1581065
If you want gingerbread this rom works fine with pretty much no bugs.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1522942
I'm running Noteworthy BETA 2 right now and I'm really liking it. I've only come across a couple very minor issues, the theming is top notch, it seems to perform well. Just add apex launcher and you're good to go.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1606413
There is no others then the collectives troposhere
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BlueBagodah said:
I'm also curious about finding the best ROM. I currently have a stock Galaxy Nexus, and I love that, so I'm looking for the best ROM for the Note that is as close to Stock Android as possible.
I really want to pick one up, but until there's a Clean, Non-"Samsung-y" ICS ROM, I'm holding off.
Any leads would be Very much appreciated.
Thanks.
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Your going to have to wait much longer before anything is released, we dont even have an official release of ICS yet, nor do we have any source code, and after CM gets around to releasing a first release, even longer (probably a month or two) before it is stable enough for daily use.
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If youre looking for ics i have been using this rom for about a month, has a few bugs but i use it for everyday.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1581065
If you want gingerbread this rom works fine with pretty much no bugs.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1522942
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DaGr8's was recommended to me as well by another member. I was told it was the closest to the original leaked ICS ROM.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1581065
It all comes down to the user...
Only YOU know what YOULL like
Give them all a try and settle for your likings
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Sharky157 said:
There is no others then the collectives troposhere
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+1 on troposphere!
Like a lemon to a lime. A lime to a lemon!

Which rom should I flash my note?

Hi. first of all I just want to say that I'm a big admirer of XDA forums I've been following the forums for quite some time on various phones but I'm not very active in posts / replies due to my inexperience.
I'm sick of AT&T taking forever to give us ICS and I'm not willing to wait just to get a whole bunch of bloatware and the same old touchwiz. I've come across two good roms: Onlyone and Objection. I'm kind of leaning towards Objection because It's giving me two UI options: Android 4 and the new Touchwiz, but from the replies I got the impression that Onlyone is more stable. Are there any ROMS that use the official ICS code released by Samsung or not yet?
Here are my main concerns: battery life, ROM stability and speed, and of course the good additions like updated touchwiz, S-voice, etc.
Try them all and see which you like best. Nobody can tell you which is best, because that is purely opinion based. There aren't that many, so just learn how to use titanium backup so switching between roms doesn't take too long.
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Phatsnake said:
Hi. first of all I just want to say that I'm a big admirer of XDA forums I've been following the forums for quite some time on various phones but I'm not very active in posts / replies due to my inexperience.
I'm sick of AT&T taking forever to give us ICS and I'm not willing to wait just to get a whole bunch of bloatware and the same old touchwiz. I've come across two good roms: Onlyone and Objection. I'm kind of leaning towards Objection because It's giving me two UI options: Android 4 and the new Touchwiz, but from the replies I got the impression that Onlyone is more stable. Are there any ROMS that use the official ICS code released by Samsung or not yet?
Here are my main concerns: battery life, ROM stability and speed, and of course the good additions like updated touchwiz, S-voice, etc.
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I am a power-user who hates lag. The collective Mesosphere is for you... then install NovA Launcher and zoom zoom... your on your way. Don't bother with other ****ty roms, i've tried them.
Thanks for the replies. I'll definately utilize titanium backup and I'll look into The collective Mesosphere with nova and zoom zoom =)
Mesosphere is rocking it! GB has to get gone, you'll be glad it did. I haven't tried other rooms yet, admittedly. So far I don't have a need to.
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BigBison420 said:
I am a power-user who hates lag. The collective Mesosphere is for you... then install NovA Launcher and zoom zoom... your on your way. Don't bother with other ****ty roms, i've tried them.
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I don't believe their are any ****ty ROMs. These devs create awesome roms. I haven't tried them all yet but I haven't found one I didn't like. The hybrid is what I'm rocking now.
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goresick said:
Mesosphere is rocking it! GB has to get gone, you'll be glad it did. I haven't tried other rooms yet, admittedly. So far I don't have a need to.
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Are you running the rom standard or have you enabled tablet mode? I just flashed it, need to put it through its paces.
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I don't believe their are any ****ty ROMs. These devs create awesome roms. I haven't tried them all yet but I haven't found one I didn't like. The hybrid is what I'm rocking now.
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Are you running tablet or phone mode?
If you prefer the unmodified, pure Android experience that you would get on a Nexus device, you can come close with a CyanogenMod based ROM. These are my personal favorites as they are practically bloat-free and don't have any carrier/manufacturer customizations. The downside on the Note is that there is no S-Note/S-Memo. Hopefully the CM devs will get these apps to work eventually, but the S-Pen does work.
If you like the TouchWiz interface then try one of the TW/ICS leak based ROMs such as OnlyOne. That was the first ICS ROM I tried and I liked it, but overall I prefer CM9.
you can try those ROMs from this guy - flappjaxxx. They are the unofficial CM9 ROM and UCLE2 stock-base ROM. They are really solid, stable, daily drivers and supported well by the awesome developer. These roms get very good comments from XDA-users.
I've tried every single rom.
for CM9- I'd use Mesosphere the rest were pretty unstable.
For Ucle2 + S-pen functionality i'd use FJ's Build. Onlyone was laggy for me.
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I run tablet mode most of the time. I don't have everything set up the way I want it just yet.
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i suggest goldie rom. very stable has great extras such as svoice that works very nicely and also compatible with the karbon theme and inverted gapps. stability plus eye candy and then some extras
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cant believe no one has mentions Objection #2 from team perfection.
ive played with the others and always ended up coming back to ICS Objection #2
FJ all the way no looking back now..
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This is like asking what beer should I drink or who is the best Golden Girl. Everyone is going to have different answers and you really need to try some and find your favorite.
That being said I am a big fan of flappjaxxx's UCLE2 rom.
My recommendation is to go with the Unofficial build of CM9 by h0tw1r3.
Nothing beats the cleanliness of AOSP, and the added features that Cyanogen throws in are well worth it.
I have been running it since he released the first build and it is extremely stable. And thanks to CalcProgrammer1, it was just updated and we may even see nightly builds.
Thanks Calc!
You try what is best and you like the most...
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Rom suggestion?

ok so,ive been looking for a decent rom for the past couple days. what is a good and reliable rom that is very similar to Hybrid and you are able to use SMEMO and SNOTE? also you can have it in tablet mode?.... im currently using paranoidandroid and i love it, but im one of those people that i use Smemo and Snote!!!and the downside is you are not able to use Smemo and Snote on paranoidandroid because its CM9!!!...
any suggestions?
Thank you,
Most of the roms are AOSP, CM9, or AOKP based. Your options are limited when it comes to what roms have smemo etc support, but there are a few. Read through the OP of the roms to figure out which has what you're looking for.
Basically any of the roms that are stock ICS based well have what you're looking for. Anything that mentions AOSP, AOKP, CM9, etc isn't what you're looking for.
Also, tablet mode is enabled by dpi change usually, which some roms have settings to do so, others you need to edit build.prop
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welchertc said:
Most of the roms are AOSP, CM9, or AOKP based. Your options are limited when it comes to what roms have smemo etc support, but there are a few. Read through the OP of the roms to figure out which has what you're looking for.
Basically any of the roms that are stock ICS based well have what you're looking for. Anything that mentions AOSP, AOKP, CM9, etc isn't what you're looking for.
Also, tablet mode is enabled by dpi change usually, which some roms have settings to do so, others you need to edit build.prop
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thanks for the reply!!!
Theres no way to install Smemo And Snote on AOSP, AOKP, AOCP, CM9???
No, they rely on the touchwiz framework and whatnot.
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One question thou? can i pick any touch wiz Rom(ex:Teams perfection) and by changing the System DPI go to tablet mode? or things get messed up and wont work?
You can change the dpi on the ROM in question and it should go into tablet mode. Most everything will probably work. You may have an issue with one or two apps but you will not know till you try.
Make a back of your current setup and give it a shot.
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^^^ this
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Ya cant go wrong with paranoid. Nothing I've tried, and have tried a lot compares.
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blackendsoul said:
Ya cant go wrong with paranoid. Nothing I've tried, and have tried a lot compares.
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I really like paranoid, so far the best looking rom out there.but no Snote or Smemo! is a bummer to me! the thing is i use the Formula on Snote for my school! and use the Smemo for my everyday tasks!...its kinda usefull to me!....so im looking something similar to paranoid but being able to use those 2 apps!
kamycrs said:
I really like paranoid, so far the best looking rom out there.but no Snote or Smemo! is a bummer to me! the thing is i use the Formula on Snote for my school! and use the Smemo for my everyday tasks!...its kinda usefull to me!....so im looking something similar to paranoid but being able to use those 2 apps!
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I'm in the same boat as you smemo and snote are a big deal to me but I love paranoid and so far I haven't found anything that combines the two. Im using a stock Rom and everything works but the battery life is horrible so I'm considering going back to paranoid
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Memo Beta is a decent replacement for smemos:
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ngarside.memo
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Edit for clarification.
I'm looking for the same thing, if you find one please let me know which one you've went with, if you've made your own please share!
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In your opinion, which is the best ROM?

which is the best ROM for you and why?
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I like Touchwiz but hate the look so Beans is my goto. Themed but with all the functionality of Touchwiz that AOSP lacks. Smooth as hell and the battery life is amazing on the Perseus kernel (7 hours of screen on time on average.).
Runs well as a daily driver. Honestly, I can't see myself ever using AOSP on this Note 2. The one reason I used it in the past was because of how much smoother it was than whatever manufacturer skin my phone came with but that isn't the case now. Touchwiz is extremely well optimized, has great battery life and is smooth as butter.
btw mine is Beans 7.
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Im torn between Scotts ACE or Beans7. Both are very solid but I do like the slight theming of Beans.
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NickTheMajin said:
I like Touchwiz but hate the look so Beans is my goto. Themed but with all the functionality of Touchwiz that AOSP lacks. Smooth as hell and the battery life is amazing on the Perseus kernel (7 hours of screen on time on average.).
Runs well as a daily driver. Honestly, I can't see myself ever using AOSP on this Note 2. The one reason I used it in the past was because of how much smoother it was than whatever manufacturer skin my phone came with but that isn't the case now. Touchwiz is extremely well optimized, has great battery life and is smooth as butter.
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when I first flashed beans and had the AOSP lock screen and idk what happened but it didn't let me unlock my phone. So I had to reinstall the rom to fix that but instead of that I installed the Clean Rom ace I had it for a couple of days and I didn't like it. maybe because I don't like the stock-looking that clean rom has.
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DROID76 said:
Im torn between Scotts ACE or Beans7. Both are very solid but I do like the slight theming of Beans.
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Same here, but I like Beans 7 better even thought I had a problem with the lock screen.
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beans touchwiz is my daily
I like Cleanrom they are" clean" simple, smooth and easy to use!!
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beans touchwiz is my daily
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you mean jelly beans 7 with Touchwiz right?
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abc3754 said:
I like Cleanrom they are" clean" simple, smooth and easy to use!!
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I don't like clean rom because I look so stock.
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NickTheMajin said:
I like Touchwiz but hate the look so Beans is my goto. Themed but with all the functionality of Touchwiz that AOSP lacks. Smooth as hell and the battery life is amazing on the Perseus kernel (7 hours of screen on time on average.).
Runs well as a daily driver. Honestly, I can't see myself ever using AOSP on this Note 2. The one reason I used it in the past was because of how much smoother it was than whatever manufacturer skin my phone came with but that isn't the case now. Touchwiz is extremely well optimized, has great battery life and is smooth as butter.
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Ditto! :good:
CleanRom ACE for me
I've tried Beans 7 and while its a great rom its still based on Verizon official 4.1.1 ota software whereas CleanRom is based on the latest international build 4.1.2. which I feel are more cutting edge.
As much as I liked some of the cool features on touchjizz and the S-Pen I had to unlock and put Sbrissens CM10.1 on here... I needed real life functionality and customization as well as a stripped down (read: not bloated) ROM, this does it perfectly at the expense of some cool but unnecessary features IMO
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anoninja118 said:
As much as I liked some of the cool features on touchjizz and the S-Pen I had to unlock and put Sbrissens CM10.1 on here... I needed real life functionality and customization as well as a stripped down (read: not bloated) ROM, this does it perfectly at the expense of some cool but unnecessary features IMO
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So if you install CM10.1 you lose the S-pen functionality?
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Dugall12 said:
I've tried Beans 7 and while its a great rom its still based on Verizon official 4.1.1 ota software whereas CleanRom is based on the latest international build 4.1.2. which I feel are more cutting edge.
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Right, I didn't like Cleanrom because I like a more themed ROM. That's why I'm using beans 7
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joseandre_ said:
So if you install CM10.1 you lose the S-pen functionality?
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It still works as a stylus on CM 10.1, but you won't have any of the button gestures or Samsung apps like SNote.
CleanROM was my choice until Paranoid Android was ported over. PA has been my favorite rom, even on my Galaxy Nexus. I just hope when 3.0 comes around, the Note 2 will officially be supported and they will allow for my UI customization, kinda like AOKP
beans
latest beans rom with apex launcher ftw...I was a heavy aokp fan but, no more!
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you mean jelly beans 7 with Touchwiz right?
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yes beans touchwiz rom...its not with touchwiz, its touchwiz based off of stock vraljb. i like the theme he has integrated into the rom. clean rom is just debloated stock with a few tweaks, nothing special imo. fyi im still on build 2...i dont even mess with flashing anything on this device as it usually is a downgrade. the n2 is rock solid out of the box and and beans adds just the right amount of enhancements.
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yes beans touchwiz rom...its not with touchwiz, its touchwiz based off of stock vraljb. i like the theme he has integrated into the rom. clean rom is just debloated stock with a few tweaks, nothing special imo. fyi im still on build 2...i dont even mess with flashing anything on this device as it usually is a downgrade. the n2 is rock solid out of the box and and beans adds just the right amount of enhancements.
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can you post the link please?
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Admiral2145 said:
latest beans rom with apex launcher ftw...I was a heavy aokp fan but, no more!
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I haven't checked the apex launcher but ill try it tonight!
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[Q] Most Stock Rom for Verzion Note 2?

I have been looking throught the development pages, and there are alot of roms to choose one. I was wondering,in everyones opinion. what is the most Stock Rom for the Verizon note 2?
Sidebar: Personally I think a note 2 stock rom should have all it's s-pen apps intact.
chibilaharl said:
I have been looking throught the development pages, and there are alot of roms to choose one. I was wondering,in everyones opinion. what is the most Stock Rom for the Verizon note 2?
Sidebar: Personally I think a note 2 stock rom should have all it's s-pen apps intact.
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All the touchwiz roms retain the s pen features. Which includes beans, cleanrom, and tweaked vzw. AOSP roms will not retain these features, but there are plenty of options to get said features back.
To answer your question, closest to stock from appearance would be clean rom, tweaked next, and beans is still stock touchwiz but is heavily themed to resemble AOSP.
Id try them all to see which ones you like best.
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Don't forget Eclipse. It has a lot of AOSP apps but keeps the tw features
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Don't forget Eclipse. It has a lot of AOSP apps but keeps the tw features
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Thanks lol forgot about that one
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