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MIUI why isn't it popular?

hi all i've been lurking in nexus forums lately and i found miui ( 4.1 is released ) to be totally beautiful and gorgeous it has a really nice theme to it , + it have a ton of customizables ...but there's only about 50 k views ,,why is that so ? it seems to be a well made rom ...so is it so unpopular? i don't have a nexus yet though

because it looks like an iphone. alot of people dont like that look.

tohno said:
hi all i've been lurking in nexus forums lately and i found miui ( 4.1 is released ) to be totally beautiful and gorgeous it has a really nice theme to it , + it have a ton of customizables ...but there's only about 50 k views ,,why is that so ? it seems to be a well made rom ...so is it so unpopular? i don't have a nexus yet though
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Some people like the aosp versions. Generally people have different preferences. I used to love MIUI and use it frequently until I came to the gnexus where the whites were not up to my expectations. However today jb version of MIUI is out and I'll be giving that a go. Hopefully will stick with it.
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I'm not sure about the others, but i've been in the android sphere for over 2 yrs and i never flashed a miui rom. iOS like UI's just don't interest me.
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Zepius said:
because it looks like an iphone. alot of people dont like that look.
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This for me also.

Saying it looks like an iPhone isn't the real reason because you can customize MIUI much easier with it's built-in theme engine - there's hundreds of themes available for it that looking NOTHING like an iPhone and NOTHING like aosp as well.
The reason it isn't popular here is because it runs like crap on the galaxy nexus. If you popped in over at the Desire HD or SGSII forums you'll see it's one of the top ROMs used there because it runs beautifully on those devices.

oh so miui isn't optimized for nexus ? one more thing is there a difference between aokp , aosp , cm10 ?

I don't like closed source ROMs plain and simple. Release your source so others can build on your success.
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It doesn't have to look like iOS at all. I have run Miui with Apex Launcher and it looks nothing like an iPhone.
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tohno said:
oh so miui isn't optimized for nexus ? one more thing is there a difference between aokp , aosp , cm10 ?
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LOL isnt optimized for the gnex? right... AOKP and AOSP and CM10 are almost all the same some have other features the other might not. Just try them all.

akira02rex said:
Saying it looks like an iPhone isn't the real reason because you can customize MIUI much easier with it's built-in theme engine - there's hundreds of themes available for it that looking NOTHING like an iPhone and NOTHING like aosp as well.
The reason it isn't popular here is because it runs like crap on the galaxy nexus. If you popped in over at the Desire HD or SGSII forums you'll see it's one of the top ROMs used there because it runs beautifully on those devices.
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Exactly what I was gonna say

It will grow huge with the latest update. Just wait.
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I just tried it out and it can't currently hold a candle to Jelly Bean in terms of UI smoothness. Deal breaker for me. Also doesn't seem as stable, and chews through battery.
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It is not as smooth as other roms. I like miui a lot, just not on nexus yet. Hope the smoothness comes back.

you guys that have never tried and think its too much like the iphone check this out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hICCWO8vaXU

It doesn't take advantage of GPU rendering and therefore is God awful slow and painful to view. Basically its not at all optimized for the nexus. You can change the scrolling style on the launcher, or use apex/nova, but as a workaround its a poor trade-off.
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Why you ask? Because they refuse to release source.
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1. i'm not particularly fond of its smoothness or appearance. i ran it on my evo for about a day, just to see what all the fuss was about, but was not terribly impressed.
2. closed source. not because i really care either way about re-contributing to the community (sorry guys), but because i've spent enough time working with slightly-less-than-reputable foreign programmers to be cautious of it. before you start ranting about how i'm some kind of racist/anti-chinese douchebag, just stop. i'm not even suggesting that there are sneaky things going on, because it's awfully hard to hide those kinds of things from the rest of the community. their fierce determination to keep all their code/modifications to themselves, for some reason, just makes my spidey sense tingle.

guys today they just updated it to jellbean making it smoother

It's just not butter!!
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For the MIUI users.

MIUI JB.
http://miuiandroid.com/community/threads/miui-rom-2-8-17-ics-jellybean.17608/
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its already been discussed here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1715604

dingokevin said:
MIUI JB.
http://miuiandroid.com/community/threads/miui-rom-2-8-17-ics-jellybean.17608/
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Follow your sig, and you will be fine

Gorjess said:
its already been discussed here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1715604
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Actually, this isn't the same group that released it. One is MIUI Android in UK and MIUI.us in US. There was a long time that MIUI.us didn't update, so I think it's a good idea to have both listed.

Tell MIUI that we hate the iOS solid-Neverchanging-boring UI, and I will use their ROM.

Ensifolk said:
Tell MIUI that we hate the iOS solid-Neverchanging-boring UI, and I will use their ROM.
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I agree with you about the default iPhone appearance, but that was never how I left it. The theme engine along with the sheer number of themes available lets you make it look pretty much any way want. For my two cents it was what set it apart from other ROMs. That being said, I understand that the themes for ICS ROMs are somewhat limited. I imagine that the number available for JB is going to be pretty slim in the beginning. They also tend to work in incremental updates, so slow improvement over time. Things can be a little buggy in the very beginning. It took about 2 months after they released their GB version that it ran smooth enough on my Evo to use as a daily driver.

Pierceye said:
I agree with you about the default iPhone appearance, but that was never how I left it. The theme engine along with the sheer number of themes available lets you make it look pretty much any way want. For my two cents it was what set it apart from other ROMs. That being said, I understand that the themes for ICS ROMs are somewhat limited. I imagine that the number available for JB is going to be pretty slim in the beginning. They also tend to work in incremental updates, so slow improvement over time. Things can be a little buggy in the very beginning. It took about 2 months after they released their GB version that it ran smooth enough on my Evo to use as a daily driver.
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The main thing for me is, we bought Android by choice, I used an iPhone and it looked so boring for me, a phone for those who are 50 years old or less than 15. So why MIUI is trying ti copy their UI ? I don't get it, one of the main things google merged to Android was an app drawer, they even tend to take it away from their home launcher. Their GB MIUI was oh god ! An exact Copy of iOS! on ICS they even changed the task manager ! to look exactly like iOS! Why China has/want to copy everything? Android is more successful the way it is.

Ensifolk said:
Tell MIUI that we hate the iOS solid-Neverchanging-boring UI, and I will use their ROM.
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I think that "we" should be replaced by "i"
It does looks like iOS (infact its the most blatant copy of iOS) but it's never been sued by Apple.. which-is-awesome
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Gorjess said:
I think that "we" should be replaced by "i"
It does looks like iOS (infact its the most blatant copy of iOS) but it's never been sued by Apple.. which-is-awesome
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Its free so there is no money to sue for.
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Some people like it some don't. I do. You don't.
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Im not asking anyone to hate it, I've used it, It's a good ROM when stable, some nice features. But the over all UI and iOS-wanna-be is what hecks you. Lets say you are running MIUI and you meet some of your friends, he has no clue about Android, he has an iPhone? And he'll be like? Oh this look exactly my phone but with some more options ( At the time Google is trying their best to lessen the claims that Android copied iOS ). Instead, show him the Vanilla Jelly bean! And he will **** in his pants...

Anything like ViperRom for the Galaxy Nexus?

There is a ROM for most popular HTC phones called "ViperRom". It is probably the most insane ROM I've ever seen, simply because of the sheer amount of tweaks.
The greatest feature I have seen on it is live, on the go framework tweaking. Load some .pngs into your phone, and use the built in editor to select them and use them as images in your status bar, such as the battery, signal, wifi, or ring mode images. There is no installable theme or .mtz file needed to theme the images; just select them from the tweaks menu.
Is there any ROM that has this ability or can be built to add this ability for the GSM Galaxy Nexus? Because that would be awesome.

nope. just a whole bunch of aosp ROMs that are almost exactly alike
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lowrider262 said:
nope. just a whole bunch of aosp ROMs that are almost exactly alike
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Yup. -_-
Only Roms that give you a new UI experience is:
Paranoid Android
Miui
That is it.
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If I have helped you.... hit that sexy thanks button. ^_^

I think JBSourcery has some unique stuff also no? I haven't tried it though.

Ya jbsourcery will let you do a lot of theming on the phone. I'd check it out if I were you
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lowrider262 said:
nope. just a whole bunch of aosp ROMs that are almost exactly alike
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Yeah i kind of noticed that myself. Seems like we need some new different types of ROMs around here. The sense and Firefox ROMs are good examples of what this phone needs more of.
tgyberg said:
I think JBSourcery has some unique stuff also no? I haven't tried it though.
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jboyer0000 said:
Ya jbsourcery will let you do a lot of theming on the phone. I'd check it out if I were you
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Looks like the closest I'm going to get is JBSourcery. Not quite what I was looking for, but oh well.
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Recently I've been thinking of starting a ROM but it seems that life is not letting me I would like to create something different from the rest.

I'm pretty jealous if that's what viperrom shouldve been like! Coming from an evo3d it was just another stock ROM with no bells and whistles
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I can't believe the amount of people in here crying about the AOSP roms.
You bought a galaxy NEXUS. Not "sense-box-2230349039" or "blur-spaz-X08" or whatever the hell else you're looking for.
If you got a NEXUS device hoping that you'd be surprised by sense/b2g/windows/Android2.2/MacOS/whatever-else to be available...and working without show-stopping bugs...You have no idea what a NEXUS device is.
Nexus:
Get's updates straight from google (+yakju +takju -toro -toroplus...there's often a middle man) or in simpleton terms...
ANY DEVELOPERS WHO BOUGHT A NEXUS ARE FANS OF ANDROID AND WANT TO BUILD ANDROID. NOT SOME AFTERTHOUGHT SKIN WITH CLOSED/SEMI-CLOSED/"SOON-TO-BE-AVAILABLE" SOURCE.
If you came in to the game just to cry about the lackluster roms you shouldn't own the phone.

Jubakuba said:
I can't believe the amount of people in here crying about the AOSP roms.
You bought a galaxy NEXUS. Not "sense-box-2230349039" or "blur-spaz-X08" or whatever the hell else you're looking for.
If you got a NEXUS device hoping that you'd be surprised by sense/b2g/windows/Android2.2/MacOS/whatever-else to be available...and working without show-stopping bugs...You have no idea what a NEXUS device is.
Nexus:
Get's updates straight from google (+yakju +takju -toro -toroplus...there's often a middle man) or in simpleton terms...
ANY DEVELOPERS WHO BOUGHT A NEXUS ARE FANS OF ANDROID AND WANT TO BUILD ANDROID. NOT SOME AFTERTHOUGHT SKIN WITH CLOSED/SEMI-CLOSED/"SOON-TO-BE-AVAILABLE" SOURCE.
If you came in to the game just to cry about the lackluster roms you shouldn't own the phone.
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um I'm not "crying" about anything. I love aosp which is the exact reason I bought this phone. just answering the guys question. last time I checked this was the Q&A section not the nexus aosp elitist rant section.
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kcls said:
Yeah i kind of noticed that myself. Seems like we need some new different types of ROMs around here. The sense and Firefox ROMs are good examples of what this phone needs more of.
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You will likely never get a Sense ROM on the Nexus and if you do it will be a port from another device. If you enjoy sense, you should stick with HTC devices. I came from a Sensation that had 1.9 million sense ROMS with few AOSP offerings.
The Nexus is the exact opposite. It's going to give you a 'vanilla' Android experience without the skins that you'll see from other manufacturers.
For me, I love the stability of the 'stock' builds and I can get enough customization through APEX launcher and some creativity.
Here is a great example of how much you can customize this device (and mind you, Black Bear is doing all of this without root): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1804627

Jubakuba said:
I can't believe the amount of people in here crying about the AOSP roms.
You bought a galaxy NEXUS. Not "sense-box-2230349039" or "blur-spaz-X08" or whatever the hell else you're looking for.
If you got a NEXUS device hoping that you'd be surprised by sense/b2g/windows/Android2.2/MacOS/whatever-else to be available...and working without show-stopping bugs...You have no idea what a NEXUS device is.
Nexus:
Get's updates straight from google (+yakju +takju -toro -toroplus...there's often a middle man) or in simpleton terms...
ANY DEVELOPERS WHO BOUGHT A NEXUS ARE FANS OF ANDROID AND WANT TO BUILD ANDROID. NOT SOME AFTERTHOUGHT SKIN WITH CLOSED/SEMI-CLOSED/"SOON-TO-BE-AVAILABLE" SOURCE.
If you came in to the game just to cry about the lackluster roms you shouldn't own the phone.
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I guess I just had the wrong idea about the nexus. I kind of thought it was the phone that would have the most development, be it ROMs being ported, built, or whatever. Currently my prepaid Virgin Mobile Optimus V has a wider selection of "different" ROMs than the Nexus does. I guess I was wrong. I was by no means trying to start a fight, however, so I sincerely apologize if anything I said offended you in any way.
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You will likely never get a Sense ROM on the Nexus and if you do it will be a port from another device. If you enjoy sense, you should stick with HTC devices. I came from a Sensation that had 1.9 million sense ROMS with few AOSP offerings.
The Nexus is the exact opposite. It's going to give you a 'vanilla' Android experience without the skins that you'll see from other manufacturers.
For me, I love the stability of the 'stock' builds and I can get enough customization through APEX launcher and some creativity.
Here is a great example of how much you can customize this device (and mind you, Black Bear is doing all of this without root): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1804627
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Yeah I have seen the forums for sense phones. It's like the Nexus forums, but replace the "AOSP" label before all the ROMs with "Sense". Like I said above, I kind of just thought the nexus was the phone that had the widest variety of development. I'd love to be able to try out sense or touchwiz or motoblur on my phone, even if I am a fan of stock android. I guess this us not the phone for that.
Oh, and I know a lot about theming Check out my deviantART in my signature and you'll see
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I'm Coming To GN3!! --Questions!

Hey guys! I am very excited about coming to this device! I developed on the Galaxy Note 2 and still will continue to..but i am also going to dev for this device! I will be receiving my Galaxy Note 3 later today and i had a few questions.
--Does this device support ROMs cooked by Android Kitchen?
--Are there any CM ROMs out there?
--I also need ideas for a ROM!
I will begin development soon and i look forward to getting to know all of you guys! Very excited!

Yea we need fixes more than anything first.
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Droid Premium said:
Hey guys! I am very excited about coming to this device! I developed on the Galaxy Note 2 and still will continue to..but i am also going to dev for this device! I will be receiving my Galaxy Note 3 later today and i had a few questions.
--Does this device support ROMs cooked by Android Kitchen?
--Are there any CM ROMs out there?
--I also need ideas for a ROM!
I will begin development soon and i look forward to getting to know all of you guys! Very excited!
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Hello! Glad to have another dev for this device! This phone is smoking hot! As for your questions.. Yes it should be all right! But a test will obviously be in order As for Cm roms.. Non yet! Would be nice, but the features on TW are so nice and this phone can run it amazingly. And for my opinion on a rom would be maybe a highly themed/customizable rom. Kinda like chameleon or avatar rom.
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All I can say right now is thank goodness for Wanam's Exposed, that app covers so many things all by its lonesome. I'd be rocking Darthstalker but it changes something that keeps me from visiting most sites via tethering, if your familiar with Team Venom Viper rom for the HTC One that was the best rom I ever used as far as the customization and all the addons and such accessible from the hub they add in, I was so spoiled by that rom it's hard to imagine using anything with less feature rich. I'm sure something like that takes a group effort whereas some of you guys work alone but I would donate my left one for Venom on this phone.

OPGT said:
Hello! Glad to have another dev for this device! This phone is smoking hot! As for your questions.. Yes it should be all right! But a test will obviously be in order As for Cm roms.. Non yet! Would be nice, but the features on TW are so nice and this phone can run it amazingly. And for my opinion on a rom would be maybe a highly themed/customizable rom. Kinda like chameleon or avatar rom.
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Sadly i wont be getting the GN3 just yet. The guy never showed and so i dont have it just yet. I can still dev for the device and work with it some for yall if you want! I will be getting the note 3 soon though.

[ROM Request Thread] Want something create/ported? Devs wanna try something new?

Just started this to see what other users might be interested in, plus it will hopefully fuel the interest of our excellent developers to spice up our phone some more. I will kick it off.
I personally love AOSP and especially AOKPA (AOKP with Paranoid Android features) ROMs and would really love to see one here. If that is too boring, then perhaps someone can make something fresh and unique? Maybe a hybrid ROM based on a Stock ROM with AOKP Rom Control or CM Interface built in with as many AOSP apk files that you can get working. It has only been done to my knowledge on Samsung SGS2 by jazzk and can be found here. I used to use this ROM and it was incredible.

Battery life of the stock ROM plus AOKP love........
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More stock based custom roms.
Like the G2V5 Rom.....
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Beavers & Ducks!

Custom CM and Stock kernels. Overclock/underclock, zram... the works. This is something that i miss a great deal from my Galaxy S3 days...

+1 for more custom stock based roms... Stock rooted is the best battery and stability I've gotten. Would love more options for that combo.
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paranoid android 4 running on kit kat? some kernel optimization would be nice too..perhaps get our phone to run with same specs as the s4?

custom stock also. keep pressing the button key for quick memo

+1 for custom stock based roms. Still can't believe we are stuck on 4.1.2 LG needs to pick it up
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Support for the F240 variants.

alimta11 said:
Support for the F240 variants.
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+1

anyone else for WebOS on the G Pro?
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Don't know if i can post links read the "everyone one read thread"
Probably just a dream but first else u.i??? Already linux based
But think the company has it locked from a jerk like me
Just YouTube "first else u.i demo" from the creator. Slickest ui i have ever seen on a smartphone
Just imo.

StandingDespite said:
Don't know if i can post links read the "everyone one read thread"
Probably just a dream but first else u.i??? Already linux based
But think the company has it locked from a jerk like me
Just YouTube "first else u.i demo" from the creator. Slickest ui i have ever seen on a smartphone
Just imo.
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I'm pretty sure they've closed up shop. There's a First Else launcher called Splay in the Play Store.

Mrfuess -I'm pretty sure they've closed up shop. There's a First Else launcher called splay
Thanks for the heads up!!, not compatible with my device lol just emailed them maybe I'll here something..yeah its def been a couple years i just cant let
Go of it wish it had made it to the market i would have grabbed one.
Btw cant thank you enough for the omni rom it's been workong great.
Enjoy the time off.
Thanks again dude

Ubuntu mobile, maybe?
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Would love a custom kernel with full tweaks

sens 5 always loved htc sense
but cant say bad thing about stock

Gotroot said:
Would love a custom kernel with full tweaks
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This would be great for CM11
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Theme-able stock with option to have dark UI. I've tried a few kitkat roms and nothing satisfies me more than the stock rom. :good:

just port the stock rom for LG Gx, (basically a G pro with 4.3) ......for our phone and every one would be happy as lark
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