Now that the Galaxy Note 7 is out (they skipped 6 I guess?) I'm looking to finally upgrade from my Note 2. I have my eyes set on the Note 4 since it's not too different from the Note 5 but it's more versatile. My only issue with the Note 4 is the lack of dark theme, and this is actually extremely important to me. I want to know if there's a way I can potentially change the theme to dark without rooting my phone, but if I have to root I'd also like to know what would have the least impact on performance. My carrier is Verizon, if that makes a difference on what model; though I haven't bought the new phone yet.
To summarize, I'm looking for a theme that:
turns all menus dark or black
preferably doesn't require rooting
doesn't impact performance
retains S pen functionality
Thanks!
I think you do need root to change themes since note 4 doesn't have the options to change themes like the newer models.
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I haven't used a launcher before, would that possibly do it? Or would it not change everything?
Im not sure if some launcher can change the colors of the menus. Try install themer on playstore that might help you start.
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U need to flash a cm rom to get dark themes as most TW devs have awful taste or maybe I have an awful taste as I strongly dislike/hate white stock theme
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JaxBug said:
Now that the Galaxy Note 7 is out (they skipped 6 I guess?) I'm looking to finally upgrade from my Note 2. I have my eyes set on the Note 4 since it's not too different from the Note 5 but it's more versatile. My only issue with the Note 4 is the lack of dark theme, and this is actually extremely important to me. I want to know if there's a way I can potentially change the theme to dark without rooting my phone, but if I have to root I'd also like to know what would have the least impact on performance. My carrier is Verizon, if that makes a difference on what model; though I haven't bought the new phone yet.
To summarize, I'm looking for a theme that:
turns all menus dark or black
preferably doesn't require rooting
doesn't impact performance
retains S pen functionality
Thanks!
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You have to root.
but by using Xposed you can theme it to almost be black, using a few modules.
Plus with xposed you can do so much more other than save battery.
And all this will not effect your spen and other samsung app.
crazykiddo said:
You have to root.
but by using Xposed you can theme it to almost be black, using a few modules.
Plus with xposed you can do so much more other than save battery.
And all this will not effect your spen and other samsung app.
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Do you have a link to that? I'm new to modding phones so I do appreciate the help a ton. A lot of this seems pretty overwhelming.
If your new to it I would say don't do it. You need to know what your doing before going into it.
Main things to do
- Deodex your stock rom (or get one already deodexed)
- Get the right xposed installler and app
- Get twrp or other custom recovery installed.
I don't have the links and process is a bit tricky.
So first read up on these a lot and make sure you get each thing fully before you do anything.
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Do you have a link to that? I'm new to modding phones so I do appreciate the help a ton. A lot of this seems pretty overwhelming.
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I was looking to out a Wicked Rom on my Galaxy Note ATT. I have Wicked V10 on my Galaxy S3 ATT and was wondering if the same rom file would work on my Note. Can't find it specifically for the Note. Can someone offer some knowledge on this?
I'm not an expert at all. Anything is possible. Especially if you've got money. But the rom would brick your phone if you tried it. You'd have to compare hardware of the two to see how similar they are. The more differences, the harder it will be to port the rom.
What about the rom do you like? Maybe some features or apps could be easily extracted and installed.
I like the overall look of the rom. I like the toggle bar. Startup and shutdown animations. Just an overall cool rom. I know the toggle bar I could get in a launcher like Go but, I just wanted that particular rom on my phone. Any cool roms similiar to wicked?
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Just wanted to get everyone's option on this. I'm currently stock with gravity box and g2 settings plus other random xposed modules, and I'm quite happy. Are there any benefits to the custom ROMs?
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I feel like custom roms are needed for the heavy theming. Coming from Samsung devices for my last three phones I don't feel like I need a custom rom with my G2 BC of Xposed and G2 settings. I can debloat all I want with TiBu. I'm looking forward to the new kernels for possibly even better battery life.
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After using various roms the last couple years on several devices to gain features and to keep device up to date, I think keeping stock and using xposed on the g2 is the best solution. Nearly all the benefits of a custom rom, but with all the stability of stock.
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I couldnt help myself and flashed paranoid android on my phone today. This thing is just blazing fast and I am spoiled once again and won't be visiting stock anytime soon unless battery is that horrible.
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I am a custom ROM addict but when I got the LG G2 all changed for me. Suddenly my urge to change ROMS has ended thanks to the great G2 experience combined with x-posed framework.
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Rayan said:
I am a custom ROM addict but when I got the LG G2 all changed for me. Suddenly my urge to change ROMS has ended thanks to the great G2 experience combined with x-posed framework.
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I'm in the same boat. I'm having flash withdrawals. After enabling themes on my AT&T phone, I'm loving this thing. I've read even some of the Stock ROM variants on here have echoing issues and other problems. I want to flash so badly but for the first time I don't think I will
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But what about app compatibility?
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I couldnt help myself and flashed paranoid android on my phone today. This thing is just blazing fast and I am spoiled once again and won't be visiting stock anytime soon unless battery is that horrible.
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How's the app compatibility? I have read over xda that many apps don't work on g2 aosp.
Games like temple run, Nfs etc.?
Markyzz said:
Just wanted to get everyone's option on this. I'm currently stock with gravity box and g2 settings plus other random xposed modules, and I'm quite happy. Are there any benefits to the custom ROMs?
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My friend THIS is my biggest issue currently!
I'm gonna be THOROUGH so BEWARE
I come from many phones history (see signature) where I always flashed PA or CM especially on touchwiz phones.
However on the G2, I liked stock at first and kept using it for around 2 months.
Then, having ORD decease ( see signature again) I kept my eye on PA and tried it on Christmas vacation. It caused me such a big confusion to the extent where I went between stock and PA like 5 times confused on which is BETTER and which I LIKE most.
Currently I returned 2 days ago to stock but still thinking about PA...
Yes stock is nice with all features and stability, but I just HATE the nonconformity in design (even when using Xposed heavily to stabilize things and theme others).
-Also PA gave me such a smooth experience (much faster) with a lot more RAM and great simple looks. About RAM I greenified most system and installed apps that hogs RAM and still barely have about 500mb of free RAM while I have around 900mb on AOSP roms without any greenifying.
-Most importantly I had crazy battery life on PA while it's lower on stock even when nearly disabling every feature (except knock on of course).
-The thing that made me return to stock, believe it or not, was mainly camera (I know there's a mod for stock camera on AOSP but it's not that functional) and non-intrusive call notification which is a life saver when playing games. I tried "call heads", "call popout" from playstore but none worked nicely all the time.
Even when Omni gives that feature, I cannot install Halo (via Xhalo xposed module) on this ROM bcz it conflicts heavily with multiwindow feature in their rom which I cannot care less about it.
-I hate stock lockscreen and I love AOSP lockscreen.
-I hate AOSP camera and I like stock camera.
-I love AOSP calendar which options of colouring the events but hate its lack of features. I love stock calendar and its widget and snooze option while I hate its lack of colouring events feature.
-Although stock launcher is great it keeps redrawing (reloading) when quitting apps (heavy ones) which is annoying. AOSP laucher doesn't but lack features.
-Sound quality TILL NOW is better on stock.
-Immersive mode and the ability to always see notification bar even when in heavy games is awesome on AOSP.
-Quick memo is awesome for screenshots and editing on the run and sharing. I still couldn't find an app that does all that, that simple and quick on AOSP.
-Call voice recorder (G2 tweakbox) gives amazing sound and recording quality while call recorders on AOSP suck.
-NO FM radio on AOSP till now (maybe spirit fm will change that eventually).
Although most times I think that I don't need all those "useless" features on stock and that I need the quickness, smoothness of AOSP. I end up thinking that I did not pay 650$ (yes in my country) for a 32GB G2 to dump all those and run AOSP on it. If so, it would have been smarter ( and cheaper) if I kept my nexus 4 (or get a cheaper nexus 5 rather a G2). However I really like the feel and looks of AOSP. However :silly: it's those small/silly/gimmick/nice cool features that stock ROM gives you that make you feel that you own a SMARTphone and not any simple phone. It's the fact that you know that they are THERE when you need them that makes you feel satisfied even when you really rarely use them.
As you can see, it's a REALLY very TOUGH decision which always makes me feel confused. One day I wanna use AOSP, the other stock.
I really hate that phone for that. On samsung phones I really didn't give a thought about it.
Regards,
Rayan said:
I am a custom ROM addict but when I got the LG G2 all changed for me. Suddenly my urge to change ROMS has ended thanks to the great G2 experience combined with x-posed framework.
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This. After using this stock I started to love the stock features and what not. Now I think AOSP is just a little too plain for me. G2 Xposed and Xposed framework really took the cake. I got my phone almost perfectly the way I want.
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Thanks @Life Engineer for the insightful description.
I say and I mean it, because I feel exactly the same: stock and AOSP ROMs both have ups and downs, making it a very hard to choose.
At the time being I'm trying - as you are - to keep stock and enhance it with Xposed modules, with a good success so far.
The thing that I miss most from AOSP is the clean UI of statusbar icons and settings pages; nothing so crucial, but it would be nice to have a "stock android" theme to choose from.
Thanks to OP for opening this interesting thread.
Markyzz said:
Just wanted to get everyone's option on this. I'm currently stock with gravity box and g2 settings plus other random xposed modules, and I'm quite happy. Are there any benefits to the custom ROMs?
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Maybe could be nice to add a Poll .
Anyway I am stock + xposed ... . Long time CM, PA user, but am getting maybe old and wanna use my phone instead of tinkering too much with custom, should maybe xplain am not much of a CM stable release guy, always Nightly
For the 1st time ever since owning my 1st android phone (first one was the HTC Evo4G) I've loved a (tweaked) stock ROM much more than any custom ROM. After I started messing around with the features on the stock ROM, AND installed xposed tweaks...I just dont see how anyone could want to load a custom ROM on this phone. Especially since custom ROMs are still experiencing bugs and random issues. On the stock ROM everything works, perfectly...incredible battery, I average over 7hrs of screen time which is just unreal IMO. The ONLY thing I liked more about AOSP ROMs than the stock ROM is the quick settings tiles. That's honesty IT...in every othe way stock>>>>>AOSP.
I use a custom rom, but based on stock. I've used AOSP roms and they're all good, but stock just seems to have a few more feature that make it better for me. Plus, I find battery is always better on a stock based rom.
I do flash custom roms based on stock, though, and am currently running a Flex rom. Sometimes you get bugs or weird graphic issues (black text on grey background) but the Flex roms seem to run smoother than the regular stock rom. Maybe LG did some fine tuning to their software to keep it smoother on the Flex?
Stock plus xposed. It's hard not to use it this way. There is no customization I don't have that I want, plus the stability of stock. Phone feels perfect to me this way.
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Markyzz said:
Just wanted to get everyone's option on this. I'm currently stock with gravity box and g2 settings plus other random xposed modules, and I'm quite happy. Are there any benefits to the custom ROMs?
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Please create a poll just including those 4 choices:
-Stock
-Stock + Xposed
-Custom Rom based on stock
-Custom Rom based on AOSP
I can imagine 20, 40, 30, 10% respectively.
Life Engineer said:
Please create a poll just including those 4 choices:
-Stock
-Stock + Xposed
-Custom Rom based on stock
-Custom Rom based on AOSP
I can imagine 20, 40, 30, 10% respectively.
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done! great idea! ive been on xda for a few years but this is my first poll!
Ive Seen a few of you on this thread say stock has better battery. How come in my case on pa it is the other way around ??
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shadehh said:
Ive Seen a few of you on this thread say stock has better battery. How come in my case on pa it is the other way around ??
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Thats decent and all...but on stock ROM I easily get over 7hrs of screen time, on average. Thats with pretty decent usage like web surfing, a lil bit of game play, and watching videos. A couple times I've come really close to 9hrs of screen time. I just dont see anyway how an AOSP ROM could beat that. Especially since I dont think I've ever got better battery life on any AOSP ROM, with any phone I've ever had.
decent? I find it quite good. Honestly I always find it quite questionable what people do when they say they reach 7-9hours of screen time. Just like a few nexus 4users (as always, a minority) reported getting 5-7 screen on time. To me something about that is fabricated. And if you are just using your phone as a form of eBook then it to me also explains why the sot is so high.
For the most part I don't really even take wireless man into consideration because then it would be quite realistic for me to get 7-9 hours of sot as well. It is just a bit strange because when I use my phone and compare results I'm usually nearly exclusively trying 3g because I intend to use it as a mobile phone and as such try to get the most realistic statistics play possible. Maybe this is a rant I don't know. Haha
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forums2012 said:
How's the app compatibility? I have read over xda that many apps don't work on g2 aosp.
Games like temple run, Nfs etc.?
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It's mediocre, a lot of games don't work and the list keeps growing. I ask devs if they can look into it and get no reply. So to me it seems like they don't care, so I don't care to use aosp. I stick to stock w/ xposed and its beast.
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There's new button on navigation bar called MW-button. When it is long pressed a new screen appears that is split in two. Each having an application drawer where all applications can be scrolled. On clicking an application, it appears in the split view on that side.
Would love for Paranoid Android to have MultiWindow but the developers involved have stated a few times that Multi Window won't be implemented.
I love this mock up! wish it can come true
This can be done with Xposed and the XMultiWindow module.
Or xhalo floating windows, also an xposed module, mostly works a treat.
The Nexus 5, like the Nexus 4, is based off of another LG phone, right? Namely the G2, as the N4 was based on the Optimus G. And people have been porting the Split Window feature from the Flex to the G2 since they're essentially the same phone, so is it possible to port over again?
I like the idea but I won't implement it till it can be proven that haven't two apps are useful while using only half the screen.
Let's assume that another app is only one click away. Under want circumstances would having two apps at be useful understanding that you can see half the content you usual do are useful? For most apps I have found the screen size to be small for two applications especially while utilizing the keyboard. There is simple not enough space for two applications . Until this can be proven more useful than having a temporary mini application then it won't be supported in PA.
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I would like this feature too. I use it for college when typing and researching (Brower/OfficeSuite).
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I think its useless for phones (being a owner of note 2) but it may be very useful for tablets
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fearophobia said:
I think its useless for phones (being a owner of note 2) but it may be very useful for tablets
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agree
Nubia X6 have this function
Would love this option. Mostly to be able to listen to Youtube and using the phone for whatever else at the same time. But there might be easier solutions for this 'problem'...
fearophobia said:
I think its useless for phones (being a owner of note 2) but it may be very useful for tablets
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I use multi-window a lot on galaxy note 8. If you are learning a new language you will find it invaluable. In fact any ROM without multi-window capability is unsuitable for a tablet.
I feel like this feature is far more relevant with the Nexus 6 in the game...
Has anyone learn if this is in the making?, would love to have this on the nexus 6....to put this on top of all Androids' Family
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Has anyone learn if this is in the making?, would love to have this on the nexus 6....to put this on top of all Androids' Family
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We already stated that it won't be worked on.
#stayparanoid
I'm just off to work but thinking of getting a Z2. So not trawled forum yet sorry...
Can it be rooted?
Will it void Warranty like Knox Counter on Note 3?
Are there as many custom ROMs as for Note 3?
....is it as good as the Note 3... (I had a Note 3 but found it lacking in comparison to the experience of the Note 2).
Thanks!!
myotai said:
I'm just off to work but thinking of getting a Z2. So not trawled forum yet sorry...
Can it be rooted?
Will it void Warranty like Knox Counter on Note 3?
Are there as many custom ROMs as for Note 3?
....is it as good as the Note 3... (I had a Note 3 but found it lacking in comparison to the experience of the Note 2).
Thanks!!
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Yes
NO
Yes
Better then Note 3
Man of few words eh?
Premium Software and Hardware
I switched from my note 3 SM-N900 to Z2 and let me tell you it is an upgrade.
20.7 Camera is more powerful and has a lot of useful features built in. You can make movies with it.
X-reality engine is amazing which brings life to pictures.
Beautiful free thems including the navigation bar.
Double tap to wake combined with lock screen app (swipe from home button app to lock screen). Now i don't press physical buttons anymore. Fast access and fast exit.
Less bloat apps. Lollipop update is near pure android.
Has a lot of rom more than twice as, devs, official CM. Z2 have a stable CM11 if I am not mistaken. Note 3 (Octa) still no CM that can be used for a semi daily use and deva are giving up (dead threads all over there).
I like not caring about spelling water on it. Waterproofness
To sum things up, Z2 is a everything you want in a device and Sony has done a great jop in their stock that you may not root it at all.
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despite the alpha is still considered a medium-range phone, i want that people who have it to be proud!
why?
because the performance of this phone is a BEAST !!!
just look at the images uploaded from my device, and this is made with stock rom from samsung, no root and no tricks!
Just imagine what this can do over a rooted and/or custom rom !
All of you with a galaxy alpha should try and test a little your beast.
I also challenge you to beat my score, but the condition is to have the original rom, no root or other tricks!
In the last 6 months I had a nexus 5 (2013), HTC One M8 (2014) and now the Alpha Exynos. To be honest, other that the benchmark score, I feel that the Alpha is way more slow than the other two. Using it means constant waiting for something to load. I also feel that the TW is the bottleneck and I really don't understand why it has to take such a long time to load multitasking and/or google search (not to mention the constant stutters and hiccups). I have the latest software - unlocked version - and not rooted.
In terms of daily use is close to HTC One M7 which is a 2013 phone (witch I had before nexus 5).
I'm hoping that 5.0.1 and ART to change this. If not, I'm selling it.
Cheers.
try this:
1- go to developer options and disable all 3 animation settings that are set to 1x by default!
2- install a thirdparty launcher, i recommend nova launcher ...and
3- you dont have to sell it if you achieve request no. 1 and 2, maby you will enjoy it, it is really a premium phone, nice looking and impressing performance as you see my main thread.
i have the exynos also and belive me is way more performant then qualcomm version, try it both before buying!
best regards
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Excellent score...this is mine. No root, everything is stock, exynos chipset.
Vazduh said:
In the last 6 months I had a nexus 5 (2013), HTC One M8 (2014) and now the Alpha Exynos. To be honest, other that the benchmark score, I feel that the Alpha is way more slow than the other two. Using it means constant waiting for something to load. I also feel that the TW is the bottleneck and I really don't understand why it has to take such a long time to load multitasking and/or google search (not to mention the constant stutters and hiccups). I have the latest software - unlocked version - and not rooted.
In terms of daily use is close to HTC One M7 which is a 2013 phone (witch I had before nexus 5).
I'm hoping that 5.0.1 and ART to change this. If not, I'm selling it.
Cheers.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETL2-TTZ6J4
Try to use some of the tricks, especially uncheck my magazine because he is slowing down ui.
Also I am using Total Launcher...for me, best launcher by far
Putting your phone in the fridge will improve your score too.
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Excellent score...this is mine. No root, everything is stock, exynos chipset.
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i just upgraded myself (note 4) and the missus (alpha) and have got to say the alpha is a great phone. if i didn't need the larger screen and spen i would of also had one. missus is on 2 days 9hours of battery, 1hr 30mins screen with 29% left which has impressed me.
note 4 (qualcomm) for comaparison