ive used infiniti rom - aokp for 5 hours n am giving this feedback. u can post it in dev forum so others can see this review.
installed sony ics, rooted, unlocked bootlaoder. tried this as my 1st custom rom. used cwm recovery 5.5
Pros:
1 rom became very smooth after few mins use
2 great battery life over sony ics. wel done!
3 google playstore works for me.
Cons:
1 gps dusnt seem to work on gmaps or navi. dint try the gps fix. u should include it in v2.
2 removing an app from recent app the animation is a lil laggy, i dont think sony ics was so slow.
3 'settings' shuts when i try to view running apps. please fix!
4 apollo stops working and shuts when i click on an artist in artists tab, or album in album tab. the audio itself plays fine on apollo.
5 the 4 lowest icons which appear on the homescreens their name dusnt appear eg "dialer" appears if u move icon to top of screen, but 'dialer' text dusnt show when the icon is in lowest row of homescreen. go ex n nova same problem.
6 pinch zoom on homescreen to see all widgets - feature is missing go launcher lets u view all homescreens thru pinch zoom at least (htc leap view anyone )
other comments:
PLZ ADD NATIVE PROXY SUPPORT IN ROM SO THAT MY APPS WORK WITH UNIVERSITY PROXY. ALL ROMS SHOULD HAVE THIS!
1 sony walkman was better app probably
2 use nova launcher for ultimate speed, or go ex launcher for lil less speed but lot more features (looks a lil cartoony tho unlike slick nova).
3 go launcher ex shows running apps as taking around 320/380 mb. im sure sony ics used about 220 under normal use. rom is smooth so i was shocked at ram usage. maybe it isnt as agressive as deleting background apps n uses more ram, hence the smoothness?
very good rom, much better n more stable than i thought!
looking forward to better v2! now i wil try manav rom - miui
the focus option for rear camera is gone. video has it, but not photo. can anyone confirm if sony ics has focus settings for rear camera?
track id works fine, altho i read somewhere that sony software which requires DRM eg track id dusnt work after unlocking boot loaders n all..
dunno why but cant change alarm ringtone in stock alarm app. use another app.
EDIT: GPS WORKS, I think i dint turn on location device thingy so no app could actually use gps to identify my location. the 'gps fix' was for some1 who accidentally deleted their gps file anyway.
now time for manav rom - xperience miui
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Kindly continue over here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1942201
I usually put a new rom on a phone straight away! but i like this phone a lot in its current state with MIUI 8.2 Global. My only negatives are:
smart lock doesnt work with my smartwatch.
it seems to close apps too fast in the background.
i prefer a stock interface.
How are the other ROMS in comparison? Many positives and negatives? I'm torn between leaving MIUI on there / rooting and trying a few different ROMS....
is the stock camera better than generic play store cameras?
Thanks for your time
deepmenace said:
I usually put a new rom on a phone straight away! but i like this phone a lot in its current state with MIUI 8.2 Global. My only negatives are:
smart lock doesnt work with my smartwatch.
it seems to close apps too fast in the background.
i prefer a stock interface.
How are the other ROMS in comparison? Many positives and negatives? I'm torn between leaving MIUI on there / rooting and trying a few different ROMS....
is the stock camera better than generic play store cameras?
Thanks for your time
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Stock camera is better.
You can replace the stock launcher with any launcher from the PlayStore like Nova Launcher to get a more Android like feeling.
MIUI RAM management really isn't great but you can disable it it developer options
deepmenace said:
I usually put a new rom on a phone straight away! but i like this phone a lot in its current state with MIUI 8.2 Global. My only negatives are:
smart lock doesnt work with my smartwatch.
it seems to close apps too fast in the background.
i prefer a stock interface.
How are the other ROMS in comparison? Many positives and negatives? I'm torn between leaving MIUI on there / rooting and trying a few different ROMS....
is the stock camera better than generic play store cameras?
Thanks for your time
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You can put a new ROM in this phone too. AEX is the best for me. Try it.
As for your background apps closing problem - go to Settings > Battery > Battery Saver and turn it off. Then open Security > Permissions > Autostart and allow all apps to autostart. Then restart your phone. MIUI breaks push notifications for most apps with these settings so changing them will fix that issue too.
I'm happy (almost) owner of note5 (7SG) using it several days and still waiting my 360h... which little sux, but thats ok. I was using custom ROMs mostly RR all the time with all my previous phones.
Never used MIUI launcher before and I know why now after trying that... Maybe that is a taste problem, but not having drawer - sux.
And with this phone got several questions which can't find clear answers to... so :
Original ROM:
1. Is it possible to root without unlocking bootloader? Without TB it's pain to migrate everything from old phone...
2. Is there a way to have trebuchet launcher ported somehow from RR? (nothing that is close to it and works in play store)
3. To have Fling gestures navigation bar (like in RR)?
Probably that would be only problems that I have now... and why I want move to custom ROM. Otherwise there are things that RR will be lacking compared to stock:
1. No way to have "second space" like in MIUI ported/installed to RR? (not only for app like some "parallel space" app does but for whole desktop)
2. call recorder , automatic call recoding (on RR it's not working no mater what)...
Yes, you can root also install twrp and also install a custom rom with a locked bootloader but all of this require some carefullness methods, when you will tired to wait and have decided you have to use edl/download mode to try this.
I also dislike miui launcher without app drawer but I found finally an app from Play Store that doesnt change the icons the way it means that like this app it hasn´t its own icons so it uses exclusively from the system, its name is "My Drawer" cause the others really looks horrible and it´s like have two launchers.
About Trebuchet launcher you don´t need to port it, it´s compatible with miui and also you have better like Lawnchair launcher that is an open source with many features available.
For gestures there are many apps in Play Store so maybe this would be the one con, no fast responsive like aosp based rom, I didn´t try yet "Navigation gestures" from XDA devs
Im sorry...but under settings you actually have a way to hide the navigation bar and use the phones exclusively by gestures... is that what you are talking about?
mi phone is not in english, so cannot exactly say what is the option...but it should be something like "Full Screen Show" or something like that, it gives you an option to go "full screen" and then it teaches you how to use the gestures (cause you'll lose the nav bar).
Hope that helps in something...
Hey guys, I really love my Pocophone, but I can't stand the Mi Ecosystem apps, everything from the browser, calendar, clock, contacts, file manager, gallery, etc... as I prefer their Google counter part, now it's not a deal breaker for me, I can deal with them, but I wanted to start flashing different ROM on my phone, like the Pixel Experience ROM. The thing is that I saw how they handled fullscreen gestures and it would be such a downgrade to what I have on MiUI 10, so I wanted to know if there is a ROM with Google Apps and a similar navigation gestures that remove buttons on the screen or if there's a way to just remove those apps and replace them with their Google counterparts on MiUI 10 with a little tweaking.
Thanks!
Drakota said:
Hey guys, I really love my Pocophone, but I can't stand the Mi Ecosystem apps, everything from the browser, calendar, clock, contacts, file manager, gallery, etc... as I prefer their Google counter part, now it's not a deal breaker for me, I can deal with them, but I wanted to start flashing different ROM on my phone, like the Pixel Experience ROM. The thing is that I saw how they handled fullscreen gestures and it would be such a downgrade to what I have on MiUI 10, so I wanted to know if there is a ROM with Google Apps and a similar navigation gestures that remove buttons on the screen or if there's a way to just remove those apps and replace them with their Google counterparts on MiUI 10 with a little tweaking.
Thanks!
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^^^ This!
As a US user, I feel as though MIUI's gestures and UI is generally lightyears ahead of Google's and until the F1 starts getting dedicated developers or at least consistently updated ROMs I don't have many choices.
In the meantime, my strategy once the bootloader unlock timer runs out is to find scripts and apps to uninstall/disable the bloatware and just run it on every update. Currently xiaomi EU has a Poco f1 build but it probably has some of the default miui apps like notes, browser, etc. I'll have to test out some ROMs tomorrow
Just being curious ... will there be any ROMs for the Zenfone 9?
Lot's of small things really bother me and I would love to fix em by using a custom ROM. But I am not sure if I should keep the phone since my last one also had no chance of ROMs wich bothers me still.
The Zenfone 8 is supported by LineageOS, maybe the 9 will be too.
I sure hope so :/ I had zf8, now owned by my wife, and I hoped this would get similar support.
Chill out a little, its only been what? 2 months since the release. Porting a device takes time and effort and is done by volunteers. I expect there are going to be ROMs for this device, I think it is just a matter of time as IIRC Asus sends out devices to ROM maintainers for them to play around with and port out.
Chances are good as Asus shares Kernel sources and has a quite open policy. Also, software support by Asus is limited so chances are good someone jumpes in.
I agree, it takes some time before custom ROMs will come out. However I personally don't feel any special need for a custom ROM yet, the ASUS ROM is clean, fast, smooth, a bit customizable and with a good battery life
Which is true, but specially support of third party launchers is horrible on gesture navigation. When you go to your home screen, most of the time, the device thinks it needs to "stop" or "show" the launcher as an open app, which really bothers me. Never had this on any custom ROM so far.
Also, I would love to get more customizations. What we have is great and all, I really love the effort they put into it. But in some parts, I would love to see some custom juice here.
But that's just me being an UX designer, doing his thing
Well, with A13 not anymore. There is no more home gesture bug, it works smoothly on 3rd party launchers. I'm using Niagara and the experience is great finally!
Not sure what you mean on custom ROMs, as the bug was a A11 and A12 issue, not custom or OEM ROM issue. I had multiple ROMs on my previous OnePlus 7T Pro and the home gesture was the same on all ROMs on 3rd party launchers. It was due to how Android worked with the recent apps menu as it wasn't separate from the launcher, but was using the OEM launchers' recent apps, so if you had a 3rd party launcher, the original one was still running in the background, providing the recent apps menu. That is why the but was there. So no custom ROM could have fixed that.
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Well, with A13 not anymore. There is no more home gesture bug, it works smoothly on 3rd party launchers. I'm using Niagara and the experience is great finally!
Not sure what you mean on custom ROMs, as the bug was a A11 and A12 issue, not custom or OEM ROM issue. I had multiple ROMs on my previous OnePlus 7T Pro and the home gesture was the same on all ROMs on 3rd party launchers. It was due to how Android worked with the recent apps menu as it wasn't separate from the launcher, but was using the OEM launchers' recent apps, so if you had a 3rd party launcher, the original one was still running in the background, providing the recent apps menu. That is why the but was there. So no custom ROM could have fixed that.
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This is awesome! My only main gripe with Zenfone 9 is that I can't make icons on home screen and app drawer bigger. Tried using Nova or Lawnchair but they were buggy. Now I can't wait for A13 beta to hit my device.
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I agree, it takes some time before custom ROMs will come out. However I personally don't feel any special need for a custom ROM yet, the ASUS ROM is clean, fast, smooth, a bit customizable and with a good battery life
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the interest of a custom ROM on a device like the zenfone 9 is obvious, it allows to increase the duration of the software support which Asus ends after only 2 years.
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The Zenfone 8 is supported by LineageOS, maybe the 9 will be too.
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It requires some folks to volunteer to develop the custom ROMs, such as Lineage. It is unofficial if the person's efforts don't meet the long term requirements for Lineage and those who maintain the original.
I'm in the process of learning how to make an AOSP ROM myself, so if I succeed you'll see a thread from me about it!
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Well, with A13 not anymore. There is no more home gesture bug, it works smoothly on 3rd party launchers. I'm using Niagara and the experience is great finally!
Not sure what you mean on custom ROMs, as the bug was a A11 and A12 issue, not custom or OEM ROM issue. I had multiple ROMs on my previous OnePlus 7T Pro and the home gesture was the same on all ROMs on 3rd party launchers. It was due to how Android worked with the recent apps menu as it wasn't separate from the launcher, but was using the OEM launchers' recent apps, so if you had a 3rd party launcher, the original one was still running in the background, providing the recent apps menu. That is why the but was there. So no custom ROM could have fixed that.
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How is the beta for you? Do you have any screenshots or links with the changes that have been made? Thanks.
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How is the beta for you? Do you have any screenshots or links with the changes that have been made? Thanks.
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Beta doesn't really feel like a beta, no major bugs discovered yet, nicely suitable as a daily driver. Here is the official changelog:
Please back up your data before upgrading to Android 13. If you want to downgrade your device’s software version to Android 12 by official software package, it will erase all data from your device’s internal storage
Upgraded system to Android 13
Revamped Mobile Manager, Contacts, Phone, Emergency Dialer, File Manager, Calculator, Clock, Gallery, Weather, Sound recorder, Settings, Data Transfer, Local backup, and so on
Adjusted Quick Settings panel, notification tray, and volume panel to Android 13 design
Added the notification permission feature. You can adjust the permission of each apps in the Apps & notifications Settings
System clipboard added "Auto delete" and editor features
Added the QR code scanner option for the lock screen shortcut feature, and the Control from locked device feature in the Security & lock screen setting
According to Digital Wellbeing setting, system color scheme can be set to automatically switched by the bedtime option
Adjusted the Vibration & haptic strength setting, Display and font size setting, and the width/length of navigation white bar when choosing gesture navigation
Changed to the Blocked numbers setting in Phone to stock behavior. You will not receive calls or texts from blocked numbers
Removed the Call duration setting
Added the Themed icons option in the Wallpaper & style setting. Support more color combinations
Added link quick share feature in ASUS Launcher
Some 3rd party apps are not compatible with Android 13 yet
Seems omnirom will be out for Zenfone 9, at least lots of activity at their git
https://gerrit.omnirom.org/q/status:merged