[Q] Kit Kat or Stock!? - G2 General

Right, can you lot help me please.
I have a G2. It's awesome. I've rooted and flashed every android phone ive had. But is there any real reason to jump from stock LG to 4.4 in a rush?
I'd be loosing my quickwindow functionality, the knock on feature (Which i love and know has been implemented in other kernels), my awesome LG lockscreen...and the time i've spent customising.
I'd be gaining, probably a bit of speed, a bit of battery and HDR+ pics (sounds good to me) and possibly the new google now feature (if the screen is on).
The benifits sound good, but speed isnt an issue on the G2, battery isn't...so is it worth jumping from LG stock to an AOSP or similar?
Have I missed anything?
Thanks.

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stelucas1984 said:
Right, can you lot help me please.
I have a G2. It's awesome. I've rooted and flashed every android phone ive had. But is there any real reason to jump from stock LG to 4.4 in a rush?
I'd be loosing my quickwindow functionality, the knock on feature (Which i love and know has been implemented in other kernels), my awesome LG lockscreen...and the time i've spent customising.
I'd be gaining, probably a bit of speed, a bit of battery and HDR+ pics (sounds good to me) and possibly the new google now feature (if the screen is on).
The benifits sound good, but speed isnt an issue on the G2, battery isn't...so is it worth jumping from LG stock to an AOSP or similar?
Have I missed anything?
Thanks.
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Knock on is working on the AOSP roms. and if you want Knock off you can just use nova launcher combined with the screen off app. That solves that problem lol.

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SamsungGalaxyStig said:
Knock on is working on the AOSP roms. and if you want Knock off you can just use nova launcher combined with the screen off app. That solves that problem lol.
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Yeh and 4.4 deals with bigger screen better by hiding the nav bar more often. That's cool. I don't like Pie so it matters to me

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stelucas1984 said:
Right, can you lot help me please.
I have a G2. It's awesome. I've rooted and flashed every android phone ive had. But is there any real reason to jump from stock LG to 4.4 in a rush?
I'd be loosing my quickwindow functionality, the knock on feature (Which i love and know has been implemented in other kernels), my awesome LG lockscreen...and the time i've spent customising.
I'd be gaining, probably a bit of speed, a bit of battery and HDR+ pics (sounds good to me) and possibly the new google now feature (if the screen is on).
The benifits sound good, but speed isnt an issue on the G2, battery isn't...so is it worth jumping from LG stock to an AOSP or similar?
Have I missed anything?
Thanks.
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No, CM is just clean Android. It is up to you whether you want that or not. I am really glad with CM running on my LG G2 (802). Really hate the LG bloatware (just like those apps delivered with Samsung phones ).

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exmatproton said:
No, CM is just clean Android. It is up to you whether you want that or not. I am really glad with CM running on my LG G2 (802). Really hate the LG bloatware (just like those apps delivered with Samsung phones ).
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Oh yeh, cool, so i'd loose all the bloat and reclaim some of my storage.
But I may also loose IR initially, even though 4.4 supports it..it may take some fixing. But I don't use it anyway...hm..

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stelucas1984 said:
Oh yeh, cool, so i'd loose all the bloat and reclaim some of my storage.
But I may also loose IR initially, even though 4.4 supports it..it may take some fixing. But I don't use it anyway...hm..
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Well, your LG ROM is about 1,5 GB, right? The CM ROMs are little over 220 MB. So that alone could be a reason to switch

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I don't think stock is soo bad on this phone. If you're rooted you can remove the unnecessary apps that you don't use plus hide the nav bar until you choose to make it visible. I currently have the entire screen available on my G2 and love it.
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exmatproton said:
Well, your LG ROM is about 1,5 GB, right? The CM ROMs are little over 220 MB. So that alone could be a reason to switch
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Yeh that's true, but then i'd have to flash google apps too...and root my phone. It's all too hard. I'm going to sleep on it and read in the morning. Likely i've got a good few days before the ROMs anyways.

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stelucas1984 said:
Yeh and 4.4 deals with bigger screen better by hiding the nav bar more often. That's cool. I don't like Pie so it matters to me
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Yeah, I can deal with pie but it's just too slow versus stock nav bars. When I play games however is the only time I activate PIE and hide the nav buttons, even though I'm using smaller than stock nav bars lol. Most of the time videos play full screen anyway.