I'd like to keep the reliability and functionality of the stock ROM, just without all the Google invasion-of-privacy stuff. Does such a ROM exist?
TIA,
Tom
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Hey Guys!
Just installed CWM onto my phone. I have one question as the title says. If I install the home base ROM, how do i later install the Stock ROM back without losing anything? Like CWM or the unlocked bootloader etc?
Would like to try out differenct kernels on my phone now. But I need to know whether i can go back to stock without losing anything.. Data / Apps would be fine.
Another question, which is the best kernel? Home base rom without any bloatware is the one I am thinking of getting into. Please advise.
Don't bother with home base. Development is dead and home base is based on out dated code. Your best bet is joker's ROMs and kernels. Skinny will give you a Sprint bloat free ROM while retaining all the core functionality of the stock moto ROM. For example, the stock music player gives you shoutcast and podcast support, this is retained in skinny.
Joker stock gives you a tuned, stock experience. Skinny gives you a light weight screamer. Skinny complete gives you all the improvements of skinny plus webtop+. Joker also has a ton of kernels to play with.
Hey loki. First of all i really appreciate your work out here
Ok so i'll have a look into jokers roms... but again if i wanna get back to stock by removing all the custom kernels?
Hi,
What different between COOK ROM and STOCK ROM?
My phone runs android 4.0.4.
How can my phone recognize a COOK ROM or a STOCK ROM?
Thanks!
Well, from my understanding a "Cook ROM" is based off of AOSP code or something else (So AOKP, AOSP, CM10, etc.) and is actually built in Linux... a stock ROM is something that comes from the manufacturer (it could be modified by developers, but it's usually the ROM that comes in the phone or based on that).
So if you're using a Nexus device, you probably mainly have cooked ROMs and ports as from my understanding, those phones are built from source and have no extra things such as manufacturer overlays. If you have, let's say, a Galaxy S3, you'll have both (Samsung stock ROMs and AOSP cooked ROMs).
But that's just how I interpret it, might be wrong c;
I am very new to android and would like to learn more about the customization of android ROMS. Like what makes the stock rom made for specific devices? Is there a file like modem.bin or something that controls which phones the stock roms will work with?
This ROM was an idea I've had for a while, and now with V2 of my ROM out, it can be a reality.
Essentially, this stock experience ROM is a version of the stock ROM replaced with Google apps and themed with GoodLock and such.
Touchwiz is a but a remnant in this ROM.
Download coming soon(ish)
Not looking for anything fancy, just something slim and stable.
The official 4.3 stock and it's stock kernel would probably be most stable. Or a custom kernel if you want more from your device, from there you could do your own tweaks, removing all the junk and useless apps.
I don't really recommend having 4.3 though... Some apps now doesn't support jellybean anymore, but if you don't use those apps or fine with sideloading outdated versions then that's fine, I think best would be a plain aosp 6.0.1, when I had this phone 2-3 years ago 6.0.1 was full of bugs, but I'm pretty sure it would be pretty refined by now
any 4.4 rom