Hello, everyone.
I've seen Samsung's S5 battery saver features a few days ago and became quite interested on it, specially when it comes to the "grayscale function".
Unfortunately, a S5 is quite expensive here (Brazil), so i won't be able to buy it soon.
Do you guys know any Custom Rom that is able to mimic that "grayscale" function? That sounds really useful for battery saving!
Thanks in advance.
Ash.
Hi there, our tablet is becoming old. Currently I had installed the Nameless ROM and I love it, but the tablet is still a little laggy and more than a little when you open a few apps... Do you think that the ROMs based on Honeycomb could run smoother in our devices?
I tried to set up an 1GB swap partition but really don't feel any difference...
So, I think it could be a good idea to post if you wise guys know any tweaks or configurations to make our tablets more efficient devices
Thanks in advance
Ie0nard0 said:
Hi there, our tablet is becoming old. Currently I had installed the Nameless ROM and I love it, but the tablet is still a little laggy and more than a little when you open a few apps... Do you think that the ROMs based on Honeycomb could run smoother in our devices?
I tried to set up an 1GB swap partition but really don't feel any difference...
So, I think it could be a good idea to post if you wise guys know any tweaks or configurations to make our tablets more efficient devices
Thanks in advance
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Hello !
In january 2014 I loved the port made by SGT7, JB 4.3.1/Cyano10.2, very smooth, no laggy but JB...:cyclops:
In july 2014 I decided to try Nameless, the only that release every night an updated rom, and keep alive everyday tab 10.1 with KK444... but in my own, too laggy also overclocked and youtube problems...
In september 2014 I tried OMNI Homemade by AAccount and... damn! I really loved it, smooth, human battery drain, no youtube problems, for now I keep the 20/09 3G release with installed stock browser.apk from Nameless... :laugh:
Honeycomb rom don't run smooter and too outdated...
Thank you frank! I'll try the omni homemade one and I'll tell you [emoji6]
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Thank you frank! I'll try the omni homemade one and I'll tell you [emoji6]
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How did it go? I had the same experience with Nameless. Nice ROM, but laggy. I'm sure the older hardware is the issue.
Have you found any tweaks to help?
It was really nice and fast. But I'd sold it and change it for an iPad Air 2 [emoji5]️
Ie0nard0 said:
It was really nice and fast. But I'd sold it and change it for an iPad Air 2 [emoji5]️
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My condolences! I had an iPod and they get outdated so quick and the apps no longer work because they don't support older OSes. That's the great thing about XDA. The apps last longer and you can usually root your device and upgrade it if need be to keep up more than with an iOS device.
Thanks for the update!
iPad Air 2 was announced two weeks ago. It will far outlast the Galaxy Tab 10.1.
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iPad Air 2 was announced two weeks ago. It will far outlast the Galaxy Tab 10.1.
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I very seriously doubt that.
yuck. Not having luck.
Just went with CM11 all seems good except msps 9.1.2. Using maps 8.1.2 with no issue though.
I had the nameless rom installed as well. Yesterday i installed lollipop and it actually seems to be running a little quicker!
Hello , I would like to request a touchwiz Rom for the one max. My friend got the note 4 a couple of days ago and I really liked it.. I was never a huge touchwiz fan before I played with the note 4. It would be great if someone (cough* flyhalf205*cough) could port a touchwiz Rom for the One Max... I am a very patient person and understand the long process of porting roms. It would be so amazing if this could be done and breath a new life into my Verizon one max
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Hello , I would like to request a touchwiz Rom for the one max. My friend got the note 4 a couple of days ago and I really liked it.. I was never a huge touchwiz fan before I played with the note 4. It would be great if someone (cough* flyhalf205*cough) could port a touchwiz Rom for the One Max... I am a very patient person and understand the long process of porting roms. It would be so amazing if this could be done and breath a new life into my Verizon one max
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practically impossible, touchwiz framework is closed-source
Oh... Bummer. Thanks anyways
Not to mention the devs who have Samsung are having enough issues trying to just unlock it let alone have it ported. After having several Samsung devices, the freedom to have an unlocked bootloader is invaluable. All the Note 3 owners...
Hi there,
i am about to buy a new phone sooner or later.
My old SGS III (I9300) is still running quite fine (thx to the dev´s in here), but after 2,5 years i looks kinda awfull by now because of the bad build quality (cheap plastic crap) of the body.
So the next should have better build quality = metal frame if pos.
So i figured out 2-3 possible phones:
Samsung Galaxy Alpha or Samsung Galaxy A5 (wont be released in the US/Canada as far as i know)
As an alternative:
Phicomm Passion
The most important point for me is the longtime community support from CM,Omni, etc. This tbh is the only reason i still use and can use my quite old S3. And i can´t even tell you how much i hate Touchwiz and crap UI´s like this.
Might it be easier to get a good working CM for the A5 because it will have a Snapdragon 400 or 410. I often read about Samsungs Exynos making it hard to develop for.
So do you got any thoughts what device will have the better community support? Yeah crappy question i know, just wanna hear your thoughts
greetings from germany
Phil
rorian said:
Hi there,
i am about to buy a new phone sooner or later.
My old SGS III (I9300) is still running quite fine (thx to the dev´s in here), but after 2,5 years i looks kinda awfull by now because of the bad build quality (cheap plastic crap) of the body.
So the next should have better build quality = metal frame if pos.
So i figured out 2-3 possible phones:
Samsung Galaxy Alpha or Samsung Galaxy A5 (wont be released in the US/Canada as far as i know)
As an alternative:
Phicomm Passion
The most important point for me is the longtime community support from CM,Omni, etc. This tbh is the only reason i still use and can use my quite old S3. And i can´t even tell you how much i hate Touchwiz and crap UI´s like this.
Might it be easier to get a good working CM for the A5 because it will have a Snapdragon 400 or 410. I often read about Samsungs Exynos making it hard to develop for.
So do you got any thoughts what device will have the better community support? Yeah crappy question i know, just wanna hear your thoughts
greetings from germany
Phil
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A5 is midranger sd410 , don't go for it .
U can't compare Alpha with A5 , go for Alpha / iphone 5s/i6 / Wait for S6 / htc M9
Touchwiz of Alpha is fine , i had moto G before and hated stock android very much .
kktkaran said:
A5 is midranger sd410 , don't go for it .
U can't compare Alpha with A5 , go for Alpha / iphone 5s/i6 / Wait for S6 / htc M9
Touchwiz of Alpha is fine , i had moto G before and hated stock android very much .
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Yeah i know the the Alpha has a stronger SoC, and is intended to be a flagship device. But tbh as long as the system runs smooth i dont give a damn at antutu scores and dont even play any games.
But i think the best precondition for a good longtime support from the community is a high popularity and alot of sold devices. Atleast i think thats the reason the SGS3 for example, is still up to date.
I dont really care about the support from the producers like Samsung, HTC, LG etc. They all do quite a bad job at holding their devices up to date. (Sony might be a exception) The community does this job alot better in my eyes.
As far as i can see it the Galaxy Alpha didnt sell this great and the active dev´s and roms are quite rare (sadly).
rorian said:
Yeah i know the the Alpha has a stronger SoC, and is intended to be a flagship device. But tbh as long as the system runs smooth i dont give a damn at antutu scores and dont even play any games.
But i think the best precondition for a good longtime support from the community is a high popularity and alot of sold devices. Atleast i think thats the reason the SGS3 for example, is still up to date.
I dont really care about the support from the producers like Samsung, HTC, LG etc. They all do quite a bad job at holding their devices up to date. (Sony might be a exception) The community does this job alot better in my eyes.
As far as i can see it the Galaxy Alpha didnt sell this great and the active dev´s and roms are quite rare (sadly).
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For long and good community support, this device is not it for various reasons example high price, battery performance, uncommon and exynos chipset.
leripe said:
For long and good community support, this device is not it for various reasons example high price, battery performance, uncommon and exynos chipset.
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I run a CM developer build and my battery lasts for 2-4 days. I never had a device with such good battery life. The exynos chipset is great, cause the modem is separated from the main system. They don't share any memory. So the modem can't access the android filesystem.
same hire,2-4 days moderate use
our phone is optimised as iphones
normaly coz we dont have every week to flash custom roms hehehe
rorian & leripe are quite right,
if you check Alpha's sub forum u will notice that is already half dead
that's sad cause Alpha is a truly strong device, will an excellent design.
It has its flaws -as all devices have-, but that's expected.
The phone went live on the market with a high price, because was directly compared with S5,
so customers expected the price to be lower than s5.
The competition was already high in this range with cheaper models.
Then finally sammie put the tombstone on the device by announcing the end of production.
The device is good , im happy to own it, and i would buy it again for sure, but it hurts when im
clicking in xda and see no interesting from the community, i blame 101% samsung for this, EPIC marketing/scheduling fail.
Sorry if my englisch isn't that good.
I'll get my Alpha tomorrow. I think the forum is quite dead at the moment because everyone is waiting for the release of the cyanogan mod custom rom. I hope that with the release of CM sooner or later (maybe with lollipop) more and more different custom roms will be made for our device.
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Ipmats said:
Sorry if my englisch isn't that good.
I'll get my Alpha tomorrow. I think the forum is quite dead at the moment because everyone is waiting for the release of the cyanogan mod custom rom. I hope that with the release of CM sooner or later (maybe with lollipop) more and more different custom roms will be made for our device.
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CM roms sucks ,
I love Stock touchwiz of Alpha .
Its king . Very fluid and fast and Has tons of features unlike other samsung phones which lags .
The reason behind why i choose Alpha over Nexus 5 is , i hate Stock android
kktkaran said:
CM roms sucks ,
I love Stock touchwiz of Alpha .
Its king . Very fluid and fast and Has tons of features unlike other samsung phones which lags .
The reason behind why i choose Alpha over Nexus 5 is , i hate Stock android
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You hate it, i love it, and the other way around. Just personal preferences. What i hate about Samsuns is just their update politics. They even got probs keeping their flagships up to date for longer than 1 year and even if they do, the updates are delayed for months.
Ipmats said:
Sorry if my englisch isn't that good.
I'll get my Alpha tomorrow. I think the forum is quite dead at the moment because everyone is waiting for the release of the cyanogan mod custom rom. I hope that with the release of CM sooner or later (maybe with lollipop) more and more different custom roms will be made for our device.
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Are they even working on an official cyanogemod 12 for alpha or is there any dev in here working on an unofficial port yet? If yes it would be great news and it would be a big argument to buy it over the A5.
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You hate it, i love it, and the other way around. Just personal preferences. What i hate about Samsuns is just their update politics. They even got probs keeping their flagships up to date for longer than 1 year and even if they do, the updates are delayed for months.
Are they even working on an official cyanogemod 12 for alpha or is there any dev in here working on an unofficial port yet? If yes it would be great news and it would be a big argument to buy it over the A5.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-alpha/orig-development/sources-cyanogenmod-11-0-t2933305/ dev working on a unofficial port.
toms95 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-alpha/orig-development/sources-cyanogenmod-11-0-t2933305/ dev working on a unofficial port.
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hope it will be done soon
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hope it will be done soon
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They at least have it running but probably have a ways to go. But im glad we have a devs working on it.
Since the Galaxy A5 ain't going to be launched in the US I shouldn't get my hopes up to see a custom ROM right?
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Since the Galaxy A5 ain't going to be launched in the US I shouldn't get my hopes up to see a custom ROM right?
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I wouldnt say so. Yes there are alot of dev´s out there who only take care of the US prime devices, but there are even more from all over the world working on all kind of devices.
kktkaran said:
CM roms sucks ,
I love Stock touchwiz of Alpha .
Its king . Very fluid and fast and Has tons of features unlike other samsung phones which lags .
The reason behind why i choose Alpha over Nexus 5 is , i hate Stock android
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That is funny I gave up my nexus 5 for the Alpha and I cannot be any happier, and Im a developer developing games for android and they run very nicely on my alpha also looking forward to the Lollipop update.
Here's Antutu Benchmark for Galaxy A5
I've just come from iPhone 6 then note 4 and then decided I wanted a smaller device but android so I purchased the alpha after looking into buying the a5 the alpha is a better device by far. I'm very happy with this only wish it was abut heavier and so slot that is all but for now I'm enjoying this little beast
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Hello there.
I have an old Galaxy S3 laying around for almost 2 years and i would love to give it some use.
Since my mother is not into Android phones yet, i would love to tune my S3 and let her get used to it.
So my question is:
What is the best performance rom? (old android, or new, doesn't matter..phone just needs to fly!)
What is the best stable rom with newest android versions?
And between these 2, which one would you prefer? Performance or new Android?
Best regards.
Thank you!
Funny thing, I also had my SGS3 somewhere on the bottom of the shelf for 2-3 years and forgot about it.
Than my Mom wanted a touchscreen phone so I gave it to her to try but she didn't like it... So I bought a new battery and use it by myself now again, great phone still
As for your question - SmartDroid Simple v9.9 (Samsung Touchwiz 4.3 cleaned-up and optimized) - best battery and blazing fast, my favourite, or...
One of older SlimKat's builds (Jellybean or even KitKat), also fast but little bit worse battery.
I also was trying some newer Nougat Roms (CM's, Lineages), but they don't run as good for me as older Androids on SGS3.
For your mom it definitely gonna be SmartDroid Simple 9.9.
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Funny thing, I also had my SGS3 somewhere on the bottom of the shelf for 2-3 years and forgot about it.
Than my Mom wanted a touchscreen phone so I gave it to her to try but she didn't like it... So I bought a new battery and use it by myself now again, great phone still
As for your question - SmartDroid Simple v9.9 (Samsung Touchwiz 4.3 cleaned-up and optimized) - best battery and blazing fast, my favourite, or...
One of older SlimKat's builds (Jellybean or even KitKat), also fast but little bit worse battery.
I also was trying some newer Nougat Roms (CM's, Lineages), but they don't run as good for me as older Androids on SGS3.
For your mom it definitely gonna be SmartDroid Simple 9.9.
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hey guys i need rom for my mom too lol can you please give link to SmartDroid Simple 9.9
Easy to find by search, but here you go: https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=23329332407592883
flither said:
Funny thing, I also had my SGS3 somewhere on the bottom of the shelf for 2-3 years and forgot about it.
Than my Mom wanted a touchscreen phone so I gave it to her to try but she didn't like it... So I bought a new battery and use it by myself now again, great phone still
As for your question - SmartDroid Simple v9.9 (Samsung Touchwiz 4.3 cleaned-up and optimized) - best battery and blazing fast, my favourite, or...
One of older SlimKat's builds (Jellybean or even KitKat), also fast but little bit worse battery.
I also was trying some newer Nougat Roms (CM's, Lineages), but they don't run as good for me as older Androids on SGS3.
For your mom it definitely gonna be SmartDroid Simple 9.9.
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Thank you so much! Looks pretty fast, although it looks terrible (i mean, i haven't seen Android 4 for a long time xD).
But it seems perfect for what i expect it to be!