Hey guys
I'm was just wondering which are the main difference between this two roms?
Thanks
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Hey i mean they're both great, and everyone has his favs but i like AOKP even more than apex because there exist even more settings to perfectly fit to your sense. Little differences do exist but nothing really groundbreaking(installed launcher, more/less updates... )
Its a hard choice but your cannot make much wrong
i went from apex to aokp and for me aokp is much better with all the customization and updates. The dev for apex is pretty busy and doesnt get a chance to update his rom as much as aokp.
I always liked Gummy for battery life but he is using the 4.0.3. Right now I'm using Axi0m and it's like AOKP but MUCH smoother.
Battery = Gummy
Smoothness = Axi0m
They all pretty much have the same features of AOKP now, which makes AOKP last on my choice list. Axi0m is a 4.0.4 hybrid, which may contribute to the speed. I use scrollable Twitter and Facebook widgets and Axi0m is the only rom that doesn't cause shutter when I give them a hard flick (top to bottom, etc). Just my opinion!
Thanks for responding guys.
I been using Apex for the last week and I had zero reboots, crashes, nada!
Running really smooth with nice tweaks and great battery life.
Time to try AOKP
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I see that the darkside rom has the option for both touch and touchless. I was curious if it made a difference other than personal taste, or if one runs better than another.
Yes much slower.
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Thank you for clearing it up. Touchless it is!!
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I don't think so, stock rom for this phone is actually pretty snappy.
So I don't think it matters that much which one you go with.
I prefer TW myself.
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Honestly the only thing I noticed was it freed up a lil ram but I could tell a difference in feel. I like TW it looks nice with the 5 icon dock.
I think its more about software optimization & hardware, most high end phones shouldn't struggle at all jumping from apps to menus etc.
Touchwiz is actually a really light overlay. Compared to htc's sense it runs quite fast
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This is actually bonestock compared to anything from HTC. Its snappy and fast as anything I've used, I would argue faster...
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Touchwiz is a really light launcher. The biggest performance difference you're going to get is gonna be from removing the bloatware.
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Touchwiz is a really light launcher. The biggest performance difference you're going to get is gonna be from removing the bloatware.
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+100
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i tried go launcher, adw luancher and launcher pro. Now i'm back to TW. I realize I like to keep things as simple as possible.
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i tried go launcher, adw luancher and launcher pro. Now i'm back to TW. I realize I like to keep things as simple as possible.
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I agree with you 100% touchwiz isn't bad at all especially on a phone like this a performance difference would be hard to notice
From a Galaxy better than yours.
I also prefer TW over all the other launchers. I like mine nice and simple
You can also try the modded TW 4.5 launcher floating around here as well. Still TW but you can adjust more things and have 5 icons in the dock
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+ 1 for TouchWiz. I meen you bought a Samsung GS2 = TouchWiz. I have a Sensation with Sense 3.5 and it's Nice, but my GS2 will Smoke it Hands down.
I can say that I didn't care for touchwiz myself...I'm just spoiled using Nexus phones before this with CM7 & CM9 I've got ADW with CM7 on mine. Simple as you can get right there...though trebuchet on CM9 is worlds ahead of ADW...
i dont know exactly what the Touchless version does, but you can just install a third party launcher (i use go launcher ex) and freeze or uninstall Touchwiz launcher in system/app
Touchwiz is AOT more than just the launcher.. its the dialer, contacts, messaging, the status bar, the list keeps going..
A "touchless" rom i would expect to have non of these enhanced apks.
I personally do not think the twiz slows the phone down. if anything it gives it a better apeal to the eye without bogging performance.
So to answer the question.. No it does not slow anything down.
The touchless darkside uses zeam launcher which actually reminds me of tw. Try it out see if you like it... If not go back to tw
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i wanted to like zeam... but touchwiz was more responsive. so +1 on touchwiz.
Ok, I decided to start this thread in order for these roms to get better. It's not just a question of who's the best but this thread aims to provide both groups with users expreriences in order for their roms to get better. In order for us to do that we need to state our:
** likes for each rom
** dislikes
** battery life
** other bugs
** suggestions
If you ask why I choose those to roms, it's just because they're my two favorites. Respect to all devs here us their work is simly amazing. Thread starts while AOKP is on build 3 and CNA on 3.6 release.
The only thing that I hate about aokp is their notification toggles. It doesnt fit at all!! (In the JB statusbar) while the power widget from cm10 fits like google put it in. So if aokp redisigns their toggles it would be nice.
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CNA has an unroot option in the menu. Personally I prefer to have an unrooted device, but I like the customization of the ROM. It can be the best of both worlds.
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thegtfusion said:
The only thing that I hate about aokp is their notification toggles. It doesnt fit at all!! (In the JB statusbar) while the power widget from cm10 fits like google put it in. So if aokp redisigns their toggles it would be nice.
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See the toggles are what I love about aokp. I know I'm in the minority. Those toggles are stock jelly bean toggles just FYI.
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See the toggles are what I love about aokp. I know I'm in the minority. Those toggles are stock jelly bean toggles just FYI.
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same here, those toggles are my favorite, that power widget is the first thing i get rid of - i think it's an eyesore.
I was on CNA and its good but missing some features that I like in AOKP & CM10. Like the cm10 percentage battery and Led options like in aokp Also the navbar soft key customization. The main thing I noticed about CNA that I didn't like was, receiving text messages is slow, it takes a long time to get a text from the person. The only other ROM to be slow with receiving SMS was MIUI jellybean.
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CNA has an unroot option in the menu. Personally I prefer to have an unrooted device, but I like the customization of the ROM. It can be the best of both worlds.
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where? I've never seen this option
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As of now I am running liquid smooth with Franco and tw add on. I'm pretty sure the battery life is worse than straight stock and not sure if it's due to Rom, kernel, or add on. Normally which influences battery life more?
Also, I've been searching but haven't found anything as far as a Rom with tw cooked in? Does one exist? The reason I ask is because I prefer the tw style, layout, and colors. The black and blue of most nexus roms/themes just bores me.
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I've been using nova for a month or so. Pretty nice, but lacks in features. So i stumbled upon apex and it seemed really rich and nice, especially the previews. The only problem.. is that its really lagggy.. and it uses like 80mb ram + How can i make it not lag like in app drawer and going to previews. I have force gpu thingy in developer options enabled. I have aokp jb rom and trinity 1420mhz cpu and 537 gpu kernel
It's just sluggish in general, on stock and nova. If i rapidly scroll through the appdrawer and the widgets. No problem no lag. But with apex it struggles to load the widget icons when scrolling and lags. And it shows in normal use
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I've been using nova for a month or so. Pretty nice, but lacks in features. So i stumbled upon apex and it seemed really rich and nice, especially the previews. The only problem.. is that its really lagggy.. and it uses like 80mb ram + How can i make it not lag like in app drawer and going to previews. I have force gpu thingy in developer options enabled. I have aokp jb rom and trinity 1420mhz cpu and 537 gpu kernel
It's just sluggish in general, on stock and nova. If i rapidly scroll through the appdrawer and the widgets. No problem no lag. But with apex it struggles to load the widget icons when scrolling and lags. And it shows in normal use
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Yeaaaaaah I had that as well. Just down to coding I believe. So now I switched to codenandsammy using the touchwiz port... honestly is so damn smooth its a joke. Couldn't tell you how to fix the apex lag issue.
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Yeaaaaaah I had that as well. Just down to coding I believe. So now I switched to codenandsammy using the touchwiz port... honestly is so damn smooth its a joke. Couldn't tell you how to fix the apex lag issue.
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What's that? I really want to know!
Apex launcher has lately lost its speed. Just not so great anymore.
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What's that? I really want to know!
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Oh go to the android development thread and look for codenanesammy. Back up your ROM and flash it, really worth it. Make sure your gnexus is gsm model
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holo launcher HD is pretty neat aswell, brings a ton of options. bases on googles original launcher2.
I've been using Nova since I got ICS and I love it. No lag and no complaints. Smooth as butter. Sometimes the CPU governor can cause some lag (like conservative or powersave). Double check to make sure that either of those aren't set.
Apex Launcher has become increasingly laggier recently. I switched over to Nova when it was on sale, and it's been so much smoother for me. Little to no lag or stuttering going through homescreens or when bringing up the app drawer.
This thread in the Galaxy II forum has all the resources you need to make a reasonable TouchWiz based Galaxy III lookalike on your DZ/G2. Have a look at the attached images.
TouchWiz is a light and simple launcher. Overall I am impressed with the speed and smoothness. I am running it over the latest build of Flinny's CM10.1 and it is smoother and cleaner than either the built in Trebuchet or Nova. It is well worth deleting Trebuchet with Rom Toolbox (or equivalent) otherwise it tends to run in the background and hog resources. Should work with any AOSP/CM ICS/JB. Not sure what it would do to a Sense rom? It is less of a memory hog than most launchers. Once booted and settled down, I get about 200meg of user ram
Enjoy!
Thanks, Looks awesome downloading now
tried and didn't work
I saw on the original thread about not working. for me I flashed .zip's and still had apex as my launcher. Will look more at it tonight.
coool!!
Not bad, not bad.. but sense is rulezzz)))
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Thanks for pointing this out . Works like charm ! :good:
thanks for nice theam
If you want theme along with this launcher, you can get it from playstore. Just search for touchwiz 5.0
It would completely give a TouchWiz looks.
Thanks...