I'm surprised no one has made any sense roms for the Gnex yet. Is it not as simple as porting over a different phone's rom and adding the on-screen keys?
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I'm surprised no one has made any sense roms for the Gnex yet. Is it not as simple as porting over a different phone's rom and adding the on-screen keys?
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1) its not that easy to port stuff over
2) most people who bought the Nexus do not like sense
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If it was that simple I'm pretty sure it would have been done?
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theres a lot of framework needed for Sense, and it runs deep. If you've had an HTC phone like the Rezound u see how it's impossible to totally strip Sense down to aosp, and vice versa. Since its not supported by HTC, someone would have to basically do it from scratch, I don't think most devs find it worth the time/effort to try it. I did however see Paullie Vicious start work on one a few months ago, but nothing really came of it
We have nexus cuz most of us do not like sense. Plus its too bloated
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Seems like no one is doing much for the nexus. I came from og evo and they ported every phone to it. Nexus seems dead.
my nexus is the bestist!
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Seems like no one is doing much for the nexus. I came from og evo and they ported every phone to it. Nexus seems dead.
my nexus is the bestist!
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Why? Because everything is vanilla android? That is the whole point of the nexus. Nobody bought the nexus because they wanted sense ports... they bought it for the clean android android experience.
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I don't know.. I didn't buy the nexus for a aosp experience.
I didn't buy it for sense either.
Now I have a droid incredible I've used sense, but with the amount if memory sense would be great for this phone. I do kinda hate limited by aosp only.. it would be nice to have variety honestly.
There really isn't a reason to have 50+ Roms running around when most include all the same features and optimizations.
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Seems like no one is doing much for the nexus. I came from og evo and they ported every phone to it. Nexus seems dead.
my nexus is the bestist!
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You guys answering the OP's question arnt helpful at all.:sly:
OK so there is two ports happening and are in progress and just going into work.
There is a Sense 4.0 port by Nello92 & a team. He has been working on the SOB since the release of the Sense 4.0(March) now u probably wonder, "March??? WTF is taking so long!?!??!"
Well there are 3 things stopping him & the team.
1. SD doesn't work properly.
2. He has a life he needs to live so he does this on his free time
3. He is making this almost from scratch ( using a Nexus S port as base)
Now there is a Sense 3.6 port that has just started(no thread yet) because everyone says they've given up since no one has the answer tot he SD issue.
Nello92 is a stubborn SOB and believes(HELL TO THE YEAHYE!!!) it is possible to fix SD.
So in his eyes, development will continue.
Sense 3.6 is a new concept, so keep your eyes peeled for a thread.
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I don't know.. I didn't buy the nexus for a aosp experience.
I didn't buy it for sense either.
Now I have a droid incredible I've used sense, but with the amount if memory sense would be great for this phone. I do kinda hate limited by aosp only.. it would be nice to have variety honestly.
There really isn't a reason to have 50+ Roms running around when most include all the same features and optimizations.
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^This
Exactly what i want to say:highfive:
Hahahahaha. Uh no not everyone. People bought the Nexus because the Nexus is a device full of development.
Look at the N1. Continuing development like a BOSS.
People bought the Nexus FOR OPTIONS too. Not for only pure experience.
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I bought the nexus for speed . NOW I WANT SENSE !!
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I bought the nexus for speed . NOW I WANT SENSE !!
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I know right??? I wanna try out Sense 4. The first Skinned Android ROM that caught my Eyes(& Motoblurr). Touchwiz can die IMO(not offending the Touchwiz lovers, I know u nex users are out there waiting for a proper port).
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Well I mean.. I did buy the nexus because its an upgrade worth getting. Can't technically say but in my eyes the pinnacle of the android devices, similar to the droid incredible. Even though the nexus relay doesn't have a lot of Roms. I guarantee it will go down in history as a great device like the incredible.
So I got this because I knew development was great, a lot of users jumped ship here from the incredible forum. It was free, specs are fantastic, the size fits my hand greatly. I did also buy it because it had jelly bean, well could get jelly bean.. and because I knew aosp is particularly fast. So in a sense yes I did kinda buy it for aosp but not in a literal sense.
I dunno.. I kinda wished there was some new type of OS I guess. You do get tired of the same stuff.
Touchwiz comes to mind..
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A bear poo's in the woods.
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Have no clue what your talking about.... you think people just hit buttons and stuff piles out? The only team I know of that have build bots is cyanogenmod and they work their asses off on everything. Everybody else doesn't have some machine that does **** for them. I dare you to say that to a true dev. And so what if the OP doesn't post in a month. He has other crap to deal with.
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The answer given is probably correct though; not many gnex owners are interested in sense. Or touchwiz. Or some other bloated ui.
If you feel sense is that important to have, you kind of bought the wrong phone. A quick search would have shown there are no sense ROMs.
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Dayuuuum!!!! This was a question on why there are no Sense Roms, and then this turned into an argument.
Just CHILLAX
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The answer given is probably correct though; not many gnex owners are interested in sense. Or touchwiz. Or some other bloated ui.
If you feel sense is that important to have, you kind of bought the wrong phone. A quick search would have shown there are no sense ROMs.
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Again, people also bought the Nexus for Choices. Not just AOSP.
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Petrovski80 said:
The answer given is probably correct though; not many gnex owners are interested in sense. Or touchwiz. Or some other bloated ui.
If you feel sense is that important to have, you kind of bought the wrong phone. A quick search would have shown there are no sense ROMs.
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(Face palm) yes there is.
From my understanding its kinda in a broken state like the port for the incredible. And you have to re root unless its been fixed?
As for cyanogen mod.. I feel they've kinda been stunted. I've used their recent Roms and I'm not at all impressed.
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Related
QuBe2 from Nexus S forum ported a Stock HTC Sense 2.1 + Android 2.3.3 to Nexus S!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1490709
Talk about moving backwards in OS versions
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QuBe2 from Nexus S forum ported a Stock HTC Sense 2.1 + Android 2.3.3 to Nexus S!
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this is a port from the Nexus s 4G and Swamp goblin has ported it over i only have port it from 4G to work with 3G
BTW: is it even posibble to get GB on GNexus
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this is a port from the Nexus s 4G and Swamp goblin has ported it over i only have port it from 4G to work with 3G
BTW: is it even posibble to get GB on GNexus
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... Why would you want to? I mean it's possible but why take all the progress we made, and flush it down the toilet?
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... Why would you want to? I mean it's possible but why take all the progress we made, and flush it down the toilet?
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i know you can better wait for the sense 4.0 builds
"Samsung Galaxy Nexus > Galaxy Nexus General >"
Hmmm...
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... Why would you want to?
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Because he can... No other reason.
Why do I eat an ice cream sundae and drink a slurpee outside in minus 25 degree weather, while it's snowing, in the middle of winter? Because I can.
Okay so first we get 50,000 battery threads, then 20,000 Galaxy Nexus is slower than a flying bumblebee, and now we're on track for 1,000 Sense port threads. Why can't you people just join in someone else's topics?
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the question is:
WHY?
Why is this in the Galaxy Nexus section? Should be moved to the Nexus S general section. In any case, seems like a stride in the backward direction.
lol
why htc
I agree that this shouldn't be in galaxy nexus general. But if we got a GB sense port, we would all flash it by curiosity.
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I agree that this shouldn't be in galaxy nexus general. But if we got a GB sense port, we would all flash it by curiosity.
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I owned a Sense phone (Thunderbolt) and no, I wouldn't tarnish my phone by installing that crap.
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I owned a Sense phone (Thunderbolt) and no, I wouldn't tarnish my phone by installing that crap.
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I owned several. Legend, Desire, Desire HD, and Sensation. I loved them all. I like sense but like aosp even more. It personal preference. But don't tell me you wouldn't be curious enough to flash sense on your Nexus I'm not saying keeping it on there.
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I owned several. Legend, Desire, Desire HD, and Sensation. I loved them all. I like sense but like aosp even more. It personal preference. But don't tell me you wouldn't be curious enough to flash sense on your Nexus I'm not saying keeping it on there.
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http://bit.ly/y02d3A
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http://bit.ly/y02d3A
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understood
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I agree that this shouldn't be in galaxy nexus general. But if we got a GB sense port, we would all flash it by curiosity.
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I have removed sense from all my phones that came stock with them, I would not put sense on a phone.
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Unfortunately I believe he meant to post it here, in hopes of more excitement. Since the nexus s folks are probably well aware of this. I'm going to let this remain for now, since there is a chance that someone may share his sentiments (albeit very very slim chance).
I'm not sure however why you would want sense on a nexus.
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Seeing Sense on my Galaxy Nexus would scar me for life. I have already seen too much of Sense...terrible things, things that cannot be unseen. I wake at night in fear that my Nexus wants to suggest matching contacts. Noooooo. I kid, I don't think Sense is that bad. It is what it is.
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If I wanted to see any "skins" it'd be either Asus' or Huawei's.
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I would love to port touchwiz over to galaxy nexus and I would love to get some developers on and plus this would be my first rom ever and I would need help to build this rom
People usually root to get rid of touchwiz.
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I know that people root to get rid of touchwiz but I would like to port touchwiz to galaxy nexus and build it to be better then touchwiz from Samsung
I'm sorry. Looks like you're alone on that boat.
Good luck though
Take a look at this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1535715
i will help anyone who want to get touchwiz ported over to galaxy nexus
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i will help anyone who want to get touchwiz ported over to galaxy nexus
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Not to question you, but do you actually have the skills to do this? Something like this is not an easy task for people that know what they are doing so when you say you will help, does than mean you will test or can you actually contribute?
While some do not like TW, I do not understand why people would complain if there are more options for you phone. If you do not like it, move on to something else but don't tell people not to do it.
If the new TW was ported with all the new features in the SGS3 I am sure people would jump on it. Even the TW haters.
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I would love to port touchwiz over to galaxy nexus and I would love to get some developers on and plus this would be my first rom ever and I would need help to build this rom
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why????????????????????
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why????????????????????
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Compared to sense its a God sent oh how I hate sense ui
by me, for me and I love you
Galaxy s3 end of this month, why bother???
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may just start project with port galaxy s3 to nexus
This is blasphemy...that is all
LOL, why in the world would you want to have touchwiz on the nexus?
As I say that, it's better than sense 4.0. Nothing is better than stock ICS imo.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1061883
U can install it as a normal apk, or if u're rooted u can also push it to /system/app to enable delete apps directly from app drawer. In that same section u'll find another thread with tw launcher. This is of course TW4. Anyways, i've lived the tw experience and my final thought was "i'm never going back" , it was for sure my worst android experience.
And finally, as a response to the guy that claims that tw is a God in comparison to sense, i would propose to go jump off a cliff. They both suck and are no way close to vanilla feel, but if i had to choose between those 2 , i would go with sense, i've tried all sense versions up to sense 3.5 and neither tw3 nor tw4 are not even close.
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rayiskon said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1061883
U can install it as a normal apk, or if u're rooted u can also push it to /system/app to enable delete apps directly from app drawer. In that same section u'll find another thread with tw launcher. This is of course TW4. Anyways, i've lived the tw experience and my final thought was "i'm never going back" , it was for sure my worst android experience.
And finally, as a response to the guy that claims that tw is a God in comparison to sense, i would propose to go jump off a cliff. They both suck and are no way close to vanilla feel, but if i had to choose between those 2 , i would go with sense, i've tried all sense versions up to sense 3.5 and neither tw3 nor tw4 are not even close.
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A bit much there. Some people like like touchwiz because of some of the features it brings to the table that, quite frankly, should be in the Galaxy Nexus. The one that is bothering the HELL out of me right now is Wifi-Direct.
The S2, running Gingerbread, has a fully functioning, built-in Wifi-Direct Application. The Nexus? Does not. (Also every single video codec native to it without needing an app)
The S3, will have a better camera app, S-Beam, and a whole host of other features, that are only included with TouchWiz.
The features I've mentioned are not limited by the hardware differences between the S2 or even the S3 in comparison to the Nexus.
It's not always about looks, it's about features as well. I doubt telling someone to go jump off a cliff if they don't agree with your opinion on design is warranted.
Not a fan of touchwiz or sense
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Jump off a cliff was metaphoric of course (didn't expect i would need to explain that). Anyways, all this stuff is a matter of taste, and yes there are people who like tw, for whatever reasons. As i mentioned i spent time in both worlds, the only feature I liked in tw was the memo app. The features in sense such as widgets (weather, stocks, htc email, news feed and so on), more practical and nicer lockscreen, better transition and scrolling animations, recent apps and settings shortcuts in starus bar, and visually nicer and more colorful UI etc... plus, the whole general feel and smoothness of sense, i'm not talking about sense 4, although htc will polish the software on one x in future updates. Unless someone hadn't lived with both UI's his/her arguements are not valid.
Anyways back on topic, the "features" u mentioned in ur post above are directly integrated into the samsung framework and other system files, and u can see the progress of such ports in the gnex dev section. But that's not the point, people who NEED TW features should go and buy samsung phones with tw, gnex is clearly not the best choice for them.
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OK some of you guys need to understand that if wants to bring TW to the galaxy nexus so be it. I'm tired of reading crap about how "why would you want it" if you don't want it don't flash it when there's a touchwiz rom simple as that. Don't sit here and tell him you hate TW for what ever reason. He is asking for help to port it. If u are not going to contribute then don't say anything at all.
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Why buy a gnex if you want a manufacturer overlay?
Seems kind of strange to me. I got a gnex because I wanted pure google.
The Sensation forum is also full of people complaining they don't want sense.
It's all very strange, like buying a vw golf and being disappointed that you can't put a 7 litre v10 in it.
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Why buy a gnex if you want a manufacturer overlay?
Seems kind of strange to me. I got a gnex because I wanted pure google.
The Sensation forum is also full of people complaining they don't want sense.
It's all very strange, like buying a vw golf and being disappointed that you can't put a 7 litre v10 in it.
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So you're last sentence is inferring the Galaxy Nexus is a mid range Android "vehicle" and Sense is a more advanced custom engine that it can't handle?
I know that's not what you meant, but the analogy was hmm
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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.
sent from my Galaxy Nexus running RasBean!!!!
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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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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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
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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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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.
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I think JBSourcery has some unique stuff also no? I haven't tried it though.
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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.
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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.
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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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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
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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.
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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.
gbarayah said:
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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Okay so I had a Dinc2 before this and my dad just got the DNA... I really miss Sense haha
To get to the point: I am nowhere near a developer but I think I could port Sense to the Gnex if I had some help. If anyone is interested in trying to do this let me know!
I will probably try to get Sense from either the DNA or the X, the X has the same screen resolution so it may be easier... either way lets see what happens! I've already tried twice and it failed. Like i said... I'm no dev
I have the vzw Gnex so i'd start with a toro build and go from there if we can get it working properly!
You have way more important things to worry about than screen resolution...
People with more experience have tried and failed. Don't waste your time, but try if you really dare. Like the other guy said, the screen resolution isn't the only problem. It's probably the least most important issue.
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Yeah dudes there is a lot of stuff.. Ya really think its that bad huh? Damn that's disappointing. I think a sense ROM would be pretty boss for the community. Make all of the ones who bailed on the gnex jealous hah
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Getting it to boot would be fairly simple compared to getting everything to somewhat work...
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Sense is an HTC skin, no? The X is Moto
and doesn't have Sense does it?
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smtom said:
Sense is an HTC skin, no? The X is Moto
and doesn't have Sense does it?
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Sense is HTCs version of android, its pretty sweet
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PatimusXPrime said:
Sense is HTCs version of android, its pretty sweet
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sweet is far from an accurate depiction of it.
sense is far deeper than 'a skin'. its in the kernel, the modules, the drivers, everything....its a bloated version of android that needs to die.
whaaaat! i mean okay its not amazing but it is kind of cool cmonnn
PatimusXPrime said:
whaaaat! i mean okay its not amazing but it is kind of cool cmonnn
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"Cool" is an opinion. Its difficulty to work with (unless your device has Qualcomm silicon) is a fact.
063_XOBX said:
"Cool" is an opinion. Its difficulty to work with (unless your device has Qualcomm silicon) is a fact.
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Yeah i think this was a bad idea may try to do something else though. A productive use of my time for once
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A sense port would be fun to play around with, but it was attempted about a year ago, and ended up being abandoned. There is do much that is closed source in sense that it would be an uphill battle to get it working. It would basically take an htc sense developer to make this work... So who knows someone on the htc dev team?
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instead of this, check out this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2298210
i'm forming a team to try our luck with WebOS!
Pirateghost said:
sweet is far from an accurate depiction of it.
sense is far deeper than 'a skin'. its in the kernel, the modules, the drivers, everything....its a bloated version of android that needs to die.
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Lol'd.....Seriously, though.