I'm rooted with unrevoked 3 and I want to remove the root so I can install the ota update. So if I do a factory reset will I be good to go? Also what is the best app to backup all of my apps and settings? Musy be a simple one because I'm clueless wirh this stuff. Thanks
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no, a hard reset will not. a reset only wipes userdata and cache and a few other things. why would you want an ota update???? just downlaod one of the roms our talented devs have created for you (most have the newest ota) and flash.
I would but I have no idea how to flash roms and backup and all of that. I don't even know how to find the roms. Or understand the terminology. And why wouldn't I want the ota update are those good because they fix issues and improve stuff?
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ok, it seems this might be a little more complicated than a 2 sentence answer...
you wouldnt want an ota, not because it is not better than its predecessor, but because it is just what htc put in, and as you know, there is alot of stuff htc is not capable of, not willing to, or not creative enough to put in. that is why you would want a custom rom.
a rom is the Read Only Memory of the phone. it is the stuff that tells it what to do when something happens. it is everything you see and do when the phone is booted up, as well as while it is booting. if your phone is rooted, you can do whatever the hell you want to do with it.
the talented devs at xda (including me minus the talent) have made custom roms based off the ota's. most have little add ons and tweaks. some of the more in-depth ones have bigger changes, or even complete ui changes. these devs have packadged them in update.zip scripts, so that they will easily install on your phone. they can be found in the android dev section (in the evo forum)
before flashing a zip (installing a rom through a script) you will need to wipe everything, so it is reccomended to use the titanium backup app to backup all your apps, as well as the data in the apps.
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Thanks I've been researching for the past 3 hours and I've backed up with rom manager and titanium backup and I think I am ready to install my first rom. I'm looking for a completly stable rom with vanilla 2.2 that will let me use everything that I can use on stock like 4g,market, and everything else. Thanks again
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as vanilla, do you mean the lockscreen??? if you do, easy fix. if you mean stock android stuff, you will have a hard time finding 4g there... i am always willing to help. as an extremely stable rom, i reccomend fresh. very stable and looooooong battery
Well not just the lock screen. I just want stock android with no UI at all. And I want everything to work. Thanks for helping me btw
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I'm pretty sure there are no AOSP roms that have everything working, specifically 4G. I think there might be a couple Sense roms that have sense pretty stripped out that look and feel like AOSP, just dig around the development section.
If it's just the UI you care about, you can always install ADW or LauncherPro and make it look like AOSP. That way you have everything working and you get to keep some of Sense's finer parts, like the smart dialer (the AOSP dialer sucks!).
Ok.I'm thinking about trying the fresh rom is there anything that doesn't work with that? Does 4g work? Anything I should know about it? Lol
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I think dude used the word vanilla as an adjective for plain HTC sense 2.2 and not AOSP.
Fresh is awesome. I have been using it for a while and just updated to the latest one today. It's a sense ROM, so everything works. The dock looks a little different compared to stock but that's it.
Alright cool. Because I'm getting horrible battery life even with having the processor underclocked. As soon as I take it off the charger it drops from 100% to 85% within 10 minutes of no use lol. Also wil titanuim backup work with fresh? Like can I restore e erything with no problems?
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Alright cool. Because I'm getting horrible battery life even with having the processor underclocked. As soon as I take it off the charger it drops from 100% to 85% within 10 minutes of no use lol. Also wil titanuim backup work with fresh? Like can I restore e erything with no problems?
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Titanium should work with any ROM.
FYI, the paid version will allow you to do a one click batch restore of all apps and data.
Yeah I have the paid ver. But what's the point of switching if the only differnce is the dock. Is the battery life THAT much better?
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Yeah I have the paid ver. But what's the point of switching if the only differnce is the dock. Is the battery life THAT much better?
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Switch what? What are you talking about? Fresh ROM? Read the 1st post of the Fresh ROM thread to learn what it features.
I just did the backup and now my pandora and scanner radio apps are gone? Weird
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That's not the only difference, it's the only major VISUAL difference. Most of the other stuff is under the hood. I don't know what kind of battery life you've been getting but with Fresh and king's #11cfs kernel I get great battery life. I put a fresh battery in at 7 this morning and I still have 45%. I was streaming pandora and MeCanto for a couple hours, made a few phone calls, 20 or so texts, and maybe an hour of internet browsing.
Oh I forgot about kernals. How do I install a kernel? Do I have to install a kernal? What is a kernel? Lol
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Those are questions better suited for Google.
Okay? But atleast tell me if I need one. I will be using rom manager to download and install rom.
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I've been running our gingerbread leak for the past couple days, and I was wondering how hard it would be to add a couple things like Google app restore. Any help would be great.
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titanium backup, nuff said, i use it whenever i'm about to flash another rom.
"How good is..." Trying to understand what I can expect from a lag improvement. Any major warnings on apps NOT to freeze (other than home/launcher)?
Really hoping this phone gets some Cyanogen love and/or a debloat of the stock ROM with some feature adds.
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I froze music lilac and music widget but started having problems with bluetooth ad2p. Probably would be a good idea to start a new freeze list.
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Agree on the new list. There are a bunch of posts out there right now.
You definitely see a good improvement from rooting and factory reset?
Is factory reset really needed?
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Why start another when one exists already???
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1407108
@theoski: Please search next time
I just did hard reset and reinstalled apps using titanium backup. It is a little bit faster but nothing revolutionary. The soft is definitely not optimized for this hardware. Reminds me of early days of Atrix 4G. As everyone thinks the dev support will be fairly limited, although there wont be any obsticles like with Atrix when the bootloader was locked for months. With Go Launcher setup took me 20 min to do it.
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Why start another when one exists already???
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1407108
@theoski: Please search next time
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There are a lot of posts in there and I'm not sure which are valid and which are not. I'll post in that thread and ask the OP to update.
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There are a lot of posts in there and I'm not sure which are valid and which are not. I'll post in that thread and ask the OP to update.
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why would any of it be invalid?
I don't mean invalid per se, just that it's not clear which of the items might cause boot issues. It would be nice to have a list of which are bloat apps that can be uninstalled normally, which are bloat that must be uninstalled using Titanium Backup, which are more process oriented items that can still be uninstalled, and which are things someone definitely should not freeze or uninstall.
Really more of a corralling of what's already out there in an updated OP.
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I was reading through the threads over in the Samsung Galaxy S 3 forum today. I came across a very interesting thread about how to flash a new ROM and install all your apps in 10 mins. I will place a link to the thread below for everyone to have a read.
I was curious if anyone has tried this method? I would think this would be the perfect way to flash Nightlies if you use CM. Would save a lot of time. Almost seems too easy to be true.
Let me know your thoughts or experiences with this procedure. Thanks.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766443
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I was reading through the threads over in the Samsung Galaxy S 3 forum today. I came across a very interesting thread about how to flash a new ROM and install all your apps in 10 mins. I will place a link to the thread below for everyone to have a read.
I was curious if anyone has tried this method? I would think this would be the perfect way to flash Nightlies if you use CM. Would save a lot of time. Almost seems too easy to be true.
Let me know your thoughts or experiences with this procedure. Thanks.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1766443
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Sounds interesting will try on my next flash and ill let you know
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Yeah, I've done that in the past as well - I figured it was something along the lines of the Advanced Restore -> Restore Data. I'd only recommend it if you're flashing between two similarly based ROMs though.
It does work pretty well.
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Yeah, I've done that in the past as well - I figured it was something along the lines of the Advanced Restore -> Restore Data. I'd only recommend it if you're flashing between two similarly based ROMs though.
It does work pretty well.
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Ya, I figured it would work going from one nightly to the next or from AOKP to an update to AOKP. Awesome, thanks I will give it a try next time.
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If you're going to restore your data right after flashing, why even wipe it in the first place? An even faster way is to just flash the rom with only wiping the caches.. To me it seems like it's the same thing.
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Seems a little different. One's a dirty flash and you are just flashing a new ROM right over the old one. The other is doing a clean install of the newer ROM and then restoring data and settings. Like I said I haven't tried it myself. Read about it and was intrigued. Thanks for your response.
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Restoring data is the same as not wiping... So why don't you just skip the wiping all together..
Theoretically you can just flash similar Roms without wiping but then you risk the chance of having bugs..
If you don't wipe then how can you ever be sure that it's the rom that is buggy or if it's caused by the data you restored..
I like my Roms the way I like my women..... Clean and smooth
I've always done a clean install and wipe beforehand. Probably will still follow the same procedure. Thanks.
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Thats a complete wrong information/ method. Restoring data via CWM is complete pain in back. I always prefer titanium on restoring part.
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bikrame said:
Thats a complete wrong information/ method. Restoring data via CWM is complete pain in back. I always prefer titanium on restoring part.
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I thought it might be too good to be true. Plus in a way it takes away from the fun of flashing. I love flashing a new ROM, reconfiguring all my settings and reinstalling all the apps. Peace.
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I thought it might be too good to be true. Plus in a way it takes away from the fun of flashing. I love flashing a new ROM, reconfiguring all my settings and reinstalling all the apps. Peace.
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The only thing I restore is user apps and data with rom toolbox .. I haven't had any problems yet doing so.. I suppose you could restore certain system app data without problems but you would have to be very selective which ones
I like my Roms the way I like my women..... Clean and smooth
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The only thing I restore is user apps and data with rom toolbox .. I haven't had any problems yet doing so.. I suppose you could restore certain system app data without problems but you would have to be very selective which ones
I like my Roms the way I like my women..... Clean and smooth
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Ya, same with me. I restore all user apps and data using TB. I never restore system apps
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I use titanium because I could pick and choose which apps to restore and choose which ones to restore data with. With apex, u can restore your desktop and with AOKP backup, you can restore all your settings. I say if I really tried, I can restore everything to my liking in about 15min. With all these tools, I no longer fear doing fresh installs
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I thought it might be too good to be true. Plus in a way it takes away from the fun of flashing. I love flashing a new ROM, reconfiguring all my settings and reinstalling all the apps. Peace.
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I don't. Idk why but I hate when there are constant updates. I feel obligated to flash it because I want the latest and best rom. But its a pain in the butt after a while, especially when you have a nagging gf
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snguyen0730 said:
I don't. Idk why but I hate when there are constant updates. I feel obligated to flash it because I want the latest and best rom. But its a pain in the butt after a while, especially when you have a nagging gf
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I hate having to set up my phone too.. It's not like it takes that long but it's still annoying.. Because of this I am not as flash happy as I used to be..
When a new ROM is released i usually wait until I'm good and ready to set everything up before I try it out
I like my Roms the way I like my women..... Clean and smooth
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I use titanium because I could pick and choose which apps to restore and choose which ones to restore data with. With apex, u can restore your desktop and with AOKP backup, you can restore all your settings. I say if I really tried, I can restore everything to my liking in about 15min. With all these tools, I no longer fear doing fresh installs
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AOKP backup? Is that an option under ROM Control or an app from the market?
snguyen0730 said:
I don't. Idk why but I hate when there are constant updates. I feel obligated to flash it because I want the latest and best rom. But its a pain in the butt after a while, especially when you have a nagging gf
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I'm the same way, I gotta flash the newest version to have the latest and greatest. It's been slow at work lately, I normally wait for the morning and start doing my install and setup at work LOL. With the wife and kids at home it's hard to find time sometimes in the evening to do all the setting up, troubleshooting/testing etc. I really enjoy it though, it has become a hobby for me at least. I want to learn more about Linux and Android though so I can do some of the developing myself.
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AOKP backup? Is that an option under ROM Control or an app from the market?
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App from the market only $2.00. I gladly supported the dev
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App from the market only $2.00. I gladly supported the dev
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Haha the icon for it looks like a unicorn dragging its ass across the ground.. I've seen my dog do it before but never imagined a unicorn doing it
I like my Roms the way I like my women..... Clean and smooth
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Thats a complete wrong information/ method. Restoring data via CWM is complete pain in back. I always prefer titanium on restoring part.
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There is nothing 'wrong' about it. And there is nothing painful about it either.
I'm about to get a new phone and so this one can get a new purpose.
As the title suggests I'm looking for a rom with the least amount of features so it can be used as an mp3 player.
I mean I know I can just go ahead and use it as is, but I'm wondering if there is a Rom that would make the phone use as little resources as possible. Like for example simply lacks the ability to use it as a phone.
I can't help but wonder that if the phone features were taken out, that the device would simply be able to last longer.
Otherwise, what would be the most stable, fast Rom with best battery life and how would I go about disabling / uninstalling the things I would not need to accomplish what I'm trying to do.
And which settings can be disabled without everything else force closing on me.
I think the cm10.1 by tiny has the most optimizations and will work better than any gb Rom. You can then just put it in airplane mode and use titanium to get rid of anything you don't need.
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Thank you. I did nor know cm10 was stable enough. But then, the last time I tried anything close I had issues with the camera which is something I won't need anymore anyway.
Can you think of a list of apps that would be safe to remove considering my purpose? Or perhaps a link to place that has many apps documented already? Obviously I'm referring to system apps that would become useless to me
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I think the cm10.1 by tiny has the most optimizations and will work better than any gb Rom. You can then just put it in airplane mode and use titanium to get rid of anything you don't need.
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I have to disagree with my own ROM being ideal for a media player.
For fast and stable, try insensitive minimalist (de-sensed GB ROM that's quick and light on features) or Bugless Beast (AOSP with a few extra features GB).
I don't have a link for the first one but it's in the inc dev forums somewhere.
http://www.peteralfonso.com for Bugless Beast.
I can't honestly recommend CM10 or CM10.1 for speed and battery life, though it is more fun than gingerbread.
Well I must say I appreciate the honesty. I'm indeed not looking for fun on this device. Simply a decent mp3 player is all it would become.
So thanks for the tips, I will look into them this weekend
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Was actually going to make the same topic. I don't hardly use my incredible anymore but now I have to kinda. Apparently my nexus speaker decided it was going to be an asshole and crap out on me. So now I'm forced out of hand to use my incredible.
So I'd like to know a few things.
- ROM "Technically won't matter" I'll probably throw on sense 3.5 and use beats with other mods I've found.
- Kernel, unsure if new kernels have surfaced and I'd like to know. Aosp and sense.
- Fast, Minimal as he said. Just suggestions because again I'll probably choose 3.5.
- Best musically playable ROM, which one would be the best use for music specifically.
Thanks in advance.
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I've chosen not to root my gn2 but I would still like to customize it as much as I can. I love black out apks and was wondering if somebody knows of any apks I can use on my unrooted gn2 to customize it? A lot of thanks to anybody who can help me...
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MzBossn said:
I've chosen not to root my gn2 but I would still like to customize it as much as I can. I love black out apks and was wondering if somebody knows of any apks I can use on my unrooted gn2 to customize it? A lot of thanks to anybody who can help me...
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Can I ask why not? I get not wanting to go as far as custom roms, but with adblockers and access to the system and data partitions, you can do quite a bit without having to go for a full rom.
Well I'm just comfortable with touchwiz and honestly the last phone I had I thought I knew what doing and bricked. So I lost the courage just getting into all this so I'm a newbie...
:'( but I see all the customizations and would love to have them so I just wanted to take the easy way out and get some apks that would work with my stock...
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Best way to customize your unrooted phone is probaly thru your launcher of choice... there are some that can be customized more than others, basically what your looking for is different themes/icons which you can find for free or buy in the play store.
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What I really want is a black screen planner or a blacked out Facebook, Twitter, transparent multiview a different lockscreen clock... I'm guessing everything I want in going to have to root my phone for huh?
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Actually those can probaly be found doing searches thru xda,or google for sure.
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I had found some but most of them said must root... And the ones that didn't I was afraid to install because I wasn't sure... I'll keep looking though... I thought maybe someone would have a link or something here...
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Can I ask why not? I get not wanting to go as far as custom roms, but with adblockers and access to the system and data partitions, you can do quite a bit without having to go for a full rom.
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Have to agree with lickarock. There's still quite a lot you can do without going all out like full ROMs. If you simply root your phone and load SuperSU (SuperUser), you can load something like ES File Explorer and do simple installs of apk files through there. You really don't have to worry about bricking your phone in that situation.
While I do load different roms on my N2, like you, I just wanted to get blacked out apps also. I'm running blacked out Gmail and Facebook currently, which I loaded through ESFE. Just make sure you uninstall the original apps then install the apks through ESFE and reboot. Everythings running smooth on my phone.
I've had a few scares loading different ROMs where my phone wouldn't boot up and I thought I maybe bricked my phone.......luckily I got it back up and running. Battery pulls suck.......lol
Just be sure to read through all the posts that you find which interest you. Typically, people post issues they are having and possible fixes. If you want to run different roms or something later, just be sure your phone is running the correct specs for it, ie....your baseband version is MA7 vs MC2, not all roms are compatible with multiple versions.
Okay I think I will go that route... ? Say I root it, and 4.2 finally makes its way ota will it still hit my phone or will I have to unrooted in order to get it?
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Okay I think I will go that route... ? Say I root it, and 4.2 finally makes its way ota will it still hit my phone or will I have to unrooted in order to get it?
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You would have to either unroot, or wait for a dev to put out a stock rooted version as far as I know..
From my rat infested note ii
It's some black out apps here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1236579
I believe other apps require root
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MzBossn said:
Okay I think I will go that route... ? Say I root it, and 4.2 finally makes its way ota will it still hit my phone or will I have to unrooted in order to get it?
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What spary said! You're really better off just waiting for one of the devs to roll the updates out.
Again....read the threads all the way through and if you still have questions, do a SEARCH and see if you can find your answers.......if you can't find after searches, don't be afraid to ask ?s.
GL!
If you want a brick-proof(ish) method to get a Root, just Odin a full rooted restore to your phone. Such as this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2241136. Its about as mindless and safe as you can get.
I'm a noob when it comes to rooting/flashing
This phone has been the easiest to root and flash roms to
i used this video as a reference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6BweCW5ck8
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I'm a noob when it comes to rooting/flashing
This phone has been the easiest to root and flash roms to
i used this video as a reference
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Your awesome thank you!!!
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If you choose not to root, there are still several ways to have a highly customized phone.
Personally, I am a fan of rooting. I have rooted every android phone I have had except my Note 2. Long story short, I bought my Note 2 through my business and cannot afford to run into any headaches that can sometimes pop up even to the most experienced flasher. I will say the Note 2 is also the first android phone that I haven't felt the need to root for increased performance. CPU, RAM, Battery life, this phone has all three for days.
I created a thread dedicated to creating a custom look without root. And in many ways this is the most custom phone I've ever had.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2274378
It's a work in progress and I am adding more and more stuff all the time.
Also check out mycolorscreen.com
For a blacked out messaging app you might check out Go SMS Pro. There are downloadable themes and you can make your own.
Dakota0206 said:
If you choose not to root, there are still several ways to have a highly customized phone.
Personally, I am a fan of rooting. I have rooted every android phone I have had except my Note 2. Long story short, I bought my Note 2 through my business and cannot afford to run into any headaches that can sometimes pop up even to the most experienced flasher. I will say the Note 2 is also the first android phone that I haven't felt the need to root for increased performance. CPU, RAM, Battery life, this phone has all three for days.
I created a thread dedicated to creating a custom look without root. And in many ways this is the most custom phone I've ever had.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2274378
It's a work in progress and I am adding more and more stuff all the time.
Also check out mycolorscreen.com
For a blacked out messaging app you might check out Go SMS Pro. There are downloadable themes and you can make your own.
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Thank you that's very informative... I really enjoy touchwiz but I just want to root to remove the system apps that prevent me from installing the blackout apps I want like gmail, playstore, ect... And get rid of the ones I don't want or use but I still want the ota's and touchwiz and thanks to the people in this thread is figured out how to customize it exactly how I want it... Thank You all of you!!!!
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Just root! I was new to samsung and odin with the gn2 and I swear its simple and worth it! You can then go with custom sized touchwiz launcher that you know and want, but looks more appropriate and utilizes the size of the display properly!
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