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[Q] Launcher

I may just be asking to be flamed, but I have to know how come the stock launcher (NON TOUCHWIZ) hasn't been put out yet. Yes I know of Launcher pro and others. The sprint ID one that has been removed from the good roms was pretty good. Also Marcuant from the Epic forums has a ICS beta that's awesome and the launcher on it is cool. Anyway to port that or is the Source files from ICS needed to make that happen?

Truballa11 said:
I may just be asking to be flamed, but I have to know how come the stock launcher (NON TOUCHWIZ) hasn't been put out yet. Yes I know of Launcher pro and others. The sprint ID one that has been removed from the good roms was pretty good. Also Marcuant from the Epic forums has a ICS beta that's awesome and the launcher on it is cool. Anyway to port that or is the Source files from ICS needed to make that happen?
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I'm a little confused as to what you are looking for. If you mean the stock Gingerbread launcher (since that is what we are on) there are a handful of them available in the market.

ASOP Launcher. Or the new ICS launcher. Maybe it's a clone but it's the [email protected] http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1295515 He has no pics but I did flash the rom on a buddies epic and it runs smooth. The launcher doesn't have the bugs that the other clones do.

Truballa11 said:
ASOP Launcher. Or the new ICS launcher. Maybe it's a clone but it's the [email protected] http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1295515 He has no pics but I did flash the rom on a buddies epic and it runs smooth. The launcher doesn't have the bugs that the other clones do.
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The launcher works perfectly on our GS2 FYI.

https://market.android.com/details?id=mobi.SyndicateApps.ICSv2&feature=search_result

Thanks for the quick responses. I've played with that one before and it's still laggy and the quicklinks on the right doesn't work well. I really just want someone to abstract the launcher out of the sprint id that's stock android so I can use that as my daily. Oh Snap. This one works well. SMS doesnt work.

Truballa11 said:
Thanks for the quick responses. I've played with that one before and it's still laggy and the quicklinks on the right doesn't work well. I really just want someone to abstract the launcher out of the sprint id that's stock android so I can use that as my daily. Oh Snap. This one works well. SMS doesnt work.
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The one I linked you to is what Marcusant is using in his ICS themed rom. If you wanna use the stock gingerbread launcher, you've already got it. Just clear defaults on TouchWiz launcher and hit home, select it from the menu. Or use the app 'Home Switcher' and select it in there. Done and done.

I love this launcher. Is there any way to reduce the number of screens from 5 down to 3?

ICS update a huge mistake?

So I finally went ahead and updated my s2 with the ICS update and I'm sort of 'bleh' about it. After I first updated I was having a huge wifi issue with the wifi disconnecting after a minute or so then connecting then disconnecting etc etc. Once I got that fixed I've figured out that I'm just not that excited with the stock ICS, anybody else have mixed feelings? Or did everybody root/flash it immediately? Lol
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Have you tried factory resetting after the update? Because it does clear a lot of the issues..

noodles2224 said:
Have you tried factory resetting after the update? Because it does clear a lot of the issues..
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I did the reset and I have cleared up most of the issues, it's just the overall feel of ICS which is 'bleh' to me I guess. Maybe once I root it and put a nom nom twang on it I'll change my mind. I was just curious if people who went from a rooted/flashed s2 to the stock ICS were a little disappointed like I was.
From my s2 (stock ICS)

I definitely wasn't disappointed in what ICS offers.
For a truer Android ICS experience (imo) you need to take a shot at AOKP! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1654564

Eh I'm not too impressed with it either. Don't see much of a difference from gb except for the animations, the long press home for recent apps(which i never use). I didn't really want to update but since no one is working on gb roms or themes i decided to update
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For you guys feeling underwhelmed-- are you using the stock Samsung launcher? Because that will leave you feeling like ICS was a minor upgrade. Try Apex launcher, free in Google Play. It's going to give you an ICS experience. Good luck!

The ICS update is completely and totally worthless as long as it still has TouchWiz on it. AOSP/AOKP is the way to go if you want the real ICS experience.

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The ICS update is completely and totally worthless as long as it still has TouchWiz on it. AOSP/AOKP is the way to go if you want the real ICS experience.
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(In your humble opinion )

MikeyNumnums said:
So I finally went ahead and updated my s2 with the ICS update and I'm sort of 'bleh' about it. After I first updated I was having a huge wifi issue with the wifi disconnecting after a minute or so then connecting then disconnecting etc etc. Once I got that fixed I've figured out that I'm just not that excited with the stock ICS, anybody else have mixed feelings? Or did everybody root/flash it immediately? Lol
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u a troll? i flash the stock rooted ICS from Mr. X and i been trying to making it lag and so far its running like a champ! nothing wrong with it, everything work as it should, i felt bad for those user with galaxy nexus, now they got nothing on us except for screen size.
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The ICS update is completely and totally worthless as long as it still has TouchWiz on it. AOSP/AOKP is the way to go if you want the real ICS experience.
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then get apex launcher and delete the touchwiz launcher? is it really that complicated?

G1_enthusiast said:
u a troll? i flash the stock rooted ICS from Mr. X and i been trying to making it lag and so far its running like a champ! nothing wrong with it, everything work as it should, i felt bad for those user with galaxy nexus, now they got nothing on us except for screen size.
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then get apex launcher and delete the touchwiz launcher? is it really that complicated?
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Maybe they were talking of the TouchWiz infrastructure, not only the launcher. I have to disagree though, to each there own taste. For now Touchwiz ROMS got AOSP beat in reliability and everything generally works (aka, Darkside vs AOKP or CM9) Reason being, Touchwiz was made and developed for the SG2, buy highly paid programmers and organizations. AOSP is more grass roots, its a labor if luv, for the most part. Ill take more time, but at the end, AOSP will be the one to have!!

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The ICS update is completely and totally worthless as long as it still has TouchWiz on it. AOSP/AOKP is the way to go if you want the real ICS experience.
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Actually i like touchwiz, except the launcher. Im on aokp right now and its definitely an awesome rom, however im finding myself missing the tw music player, and the swipe to call or text,
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MIUI Port Team

Does anyone want to form a team for MIUI porting? The ROM I have is working almost flawlessly, missing just signal. Everything else works (as far as I know). Anyone willing to help?
By the way, for helping me progress thus far, I couldn't have done it without xboxfanj. I'm a noob and am just getting the hang of this, hence, xboxfanj helped with most of this stuff.
MIUI is an awesome ROM allowing customizable themes that can change literally everything. You can change the status bar, lockscreen, home screen, and more all in just one app called themes. Plus, the ROM is super fast and has a lot of toggles, and much more to come with the help needed. Please, this ROM is one of my favorites, if you guys can help, it is much appreciated.

I can't help, but I'm curious as to what base you're using..CM or TouchWiz?
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cm, cant use touchwiz as a base for a aosp based rom. also to the op try contacting sbrissen

Alex1123 said:
cm, cant use touchwiz as a base for a aosp based rom. also to the op try contacting sbrissen
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You are incorrect in your answer, it's already been done. So, my question still stands to the OP. As far as I know, patchrom currently only works with ICS however. Maybe you have sources beyond mine. Here's something to look into though. https://github.com/MiCode/patchrom

LetsBeSirius said:
Does anyone want to form a team for MIUI porting? The ROM I have is working almost flawlessly, missing just signal. Everything else works (as far as I know). Anyone willing to help?
By the way, for helping me progress thus far, I couldn't have done it without xboxfanj. I'm a noob and am just getting the hang of this, hence, xboxfanj helped with most of this stuff.
MIUI is an awesome ROM allowing customizable themes that can change literally everything. You can change the status bar, lockscreen, home screen, and more all in just one app called themes. Plus, the ROM is super fast and has a lot of toggles, and much more to come with the help needed. Please, this ROM is one of my favorites, if you guys can help, it is much appreciated.
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I posted this the other day... Maybe it will point you in the right direction..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35155077#post35155077

mulhiny said:
You are incorrect in your answer. So, my question still stands to the OP
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are you sure? ive never seen a miui rom that used touchwiz as base

Alex1123 said:
are you sure? ive never seen a miui rom that used touchwiz as base
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I'm sure. I edited my last post with some more info. I'm pretty sure the international S3 used TW as a base. Also, I'm sure that on the Evo 3D the MIUI is now using a Sense base.

mulhiny said:
I'm sure. I edited my last post with some more info. I'm pretty sure the international S3 used TW as a base. Also, I'm sure that on the Evo 3D the MIUI is now using a Sense base.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1937809
i think patchrom is to build from the miui source and might use some things from say sense or tw to fix things like wifi camera etc.. idk but ive never heard of miui built with a tw base. When i had a Epic 4g touch they said we first needed a cm7 rom in order to begin making a miui rom.

Alex1123 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1937809
i think patchrom is to build from the miui source and might use some things from say sense or tw to fix things like wifi camera etc.. idk but ive never heard of miui built with a tw base. When i had a Epic 4g touch they said we first needed a cm7 rom in order to begin making a miui rom.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1854028 Is this not touchwiz? Maybe I'm missing something.

I will work on porting MIUI once I get home from work later today so stay tune for results I will be needing a tester when i have something so anyone who wants to test just PM me and later I will send you a link once I have it set up ..thanks guys and can't wait to get that miui love out their
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mulhiny said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1854028 Is this not touchwiz? Maybe I'm missing something.
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ah i see actually he just bundled some apps from tw like back when i had a galaxy nexus they had a touchwiz theme that included the launcher and s voice and some widgets. he said that he wanted to add some sammy features to miui so he did lol see tw roms use a different framework and most apps wouldnt work on miui however some people have taken there time to port over launchers and apps and put them there roms.
its like the opposite of putting https://play.google.com/store/apps/...?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5taXVpLm1paG9tZTIiXQ.. on a touchwiz rom

They have touchwiz based miui on the international note 2, and the at&t note 2. I had it running on my sprint note 2 the other day, but was unable to get the radios to function properly. I had signal, but couldnt select the network I wanted it on and apns werent fuctioning properly. Miui v4 is supposed to be based on stock rom, not aosp, its just easier to port aosp than incorporate it into stock.

shiftr182 said:
They have touchwiz based miui on the international note 2, and the at&t note 2. I had it running on my sprint note 2 the other day, but was unable to get the radios to function properly. I had signal, but couldnt select the network I wanted it on and apns werent fuctioning properly. Miui v4 is supposed to be based on stock rom, not aosp, its just easier to port aosp than incorporate it into stock.
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Thank you! I was beginning to think I was crazy lol..
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mulhiny said:
I can't help, but I'm curious as to what base you're using..CM or TouchWiz?
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I used CM beta (before alpha 1). xboxfanj helped me get partial signal working. There was 3g at first, but then something about sim card activation came up, and then i pressed dismiss..and well.. that made me lose signal. After that I got signal but with emergency calls only.

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I posted this the other day... Maybe it will point you in the right direction..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35155077#post35155077
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(To reply to what you were saying in the post)
Indeed we do have a starting point. However, I used the updated version of MIUI for the int'l model to port. It's literally almost done. Only flaw is signal as far as I can see at the moment.

If I remember correctly, aren't all of the Note 2's basically the same thing with the exception of the modems and Networks? (GSM vs CDMA?) Isn't the International version using GSM?
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LetsBeSirius said:
(To reply to what you were saying in the post)
Indeed we do have a starting point. However, I used the updated version of MIUI for the int'l model to port. It's literally almost done. Only flaw is signal as far as I can see at the moment.
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thats the same issue they had with cm and now the only issue cm has is keeping data enabled anyways hopefully you can figure this out

Good luck on the radios. I tried another today using the i9300 aosp version and it boots, but com.android.phone fc's like crazy, then notepad ++ was jacking up when I started editing smali's

shiftr182 said:
Good luck on the radios. I tried another today using the i9300 aosp version and it boots, but com.android.phone fc's like crazy, then notepad ++ was jacking up when I started editing smali's
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I had that issue before, but I decided to undo the changes and just stick to emergency calls only at the moment. However, I didn't use the aosp version. It's not as easy as just changing stuff. Once you do so, another problem will occur. It's so annoying >.< That's why I've asked to form a team. I have 2 others so far. Xboxfanj and lbxmobbin & they do great work. We're literally almost done.. But don't ask for an ETA, just know that it's coming VERY VERY soon.

LetsBeSirius said:
I had that issue before, but I decided to undo the changes and just stick to emergency calls only at the moment. However, I didn't use the aosp version. It's not as easy as just changing stuff. Once you do so, another problem will occur. It's so annoying >.< That's why I've asked to form a team. I have 2 others so far. Xboxfanj and lbxmobbin & they do great work. We're literally almost done.. But don't ask for an ETA, just know that it's coming VERY VERY soon.
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Cool, let me know if you need any help. I got the aosp version on the international to boot today after I ported it over our cm10, and get a signal, but after a reboot no service.
If anyone wants to play with the international http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1973677

[Q] note 2 4.2.2 roms

Ok well I get strait to the point I love my note 2 and would love to run a 4.2.2 rom .I have used pacman...aokp...and a couple others but it seems that no matter which one I used sending mms or reciving them does not work. Any help would be appreciated .exact situation is go into stock messaging app choose an attachment and try to send it but it will just stay in the sending stage and eventually fail after an hour and as for reciving .I dont recieve anything from anyone when it comes to mms .I know it isnt my network because when I use any 4.1 or 4.1.2 rom it works perfectly.:crying:

Use a different sms/mms app like handcent or GoSMS.

DarkManX4lf said:
Use a different sms/mms app like handcent or GoSMS.
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I would rather find a way to use the stock one since anyone else who has these roms dosnt have this issue

infinititech89 said:
I would rather find a way to use the stock one since anyone else who has these roms dosnt have this issue
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I have this issue all aosp roms have these issues they will get worked out as is took 4 months to get the galaxy s3 aosp roms to be 99% bug free. Flash back to a touchwiz rom update your prl and profile then flash your aosp ROM. Go SMS is better than the stock touchwiz or aosp imop lots of useful features.

infinititech89 said:
Ok well I get strait to the point I love my note 2 and would love to run a 4.2.2 rom .I have used pacman...aokp...and a couple others but it seems that no matter which one I used sending mms or reciving them does not work. Any help would be appreciated .exact situation is go into stock messaging app choose an attachment and try to send it but it will just stay in the sending stage and eventually fail after an hour and as for reciving .I dont recieve anything from anyone when it comes to mms .I know it isnt my network because when I use any 4.1 or 4.1.2 rom it works perfectly.:crying:
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Try when you install to format system then flash and flash the radio also. Not saying that is the problem. But could help rest the most issue. I'm using pac with no issues
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I have the same exact issue and have found no solution. Combine that with the fact that GPS won't work over LTE and it's enough for me to just stick with TW which is performing near perfect for me.

SantinoInc said:
I have the same exact issue and have found no solution. Combine that with the fact that GPS won't work over LTE and it's enough for me to just stick with TW which is performing near perfect for me.
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Yea tw seems to be the way to go I guess I will just wait for the official 4.2.2 release I have put to much time and effort into this lmfao about 2 weeks

lbcoach3347 said:
Try when you install to format system then flash and flash the radio also. Not saying that is the problem. But could help rest the most issue. I'm using pac with no issues
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How do I go about flashing the radios hate to sound like a noob but have to start leaning some where lol

infinititech89 said:
How do I go about flashing the radios hate to sound like a noob but have to start leaning some where lol
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you can just download the radio zip file and flash through twrp or other recovery.

smccall said:
I have this issue all aosp roms have these issues they will get worked out as is took 4 months to get the galaxy s3 aosp roms to be 99% bug free. Flash back to a touchwiz rom update your prl and profile then flash your aosp ROM. Go SMS is better than the stock touchwiz or aosp imop lots of useful features.
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Hope they fix it soon because my note 2 has been my fav device but I love stock android and keeping up to date with the latest and greatest in android ! Note 3 were are you lmfao

Touchwiz via Whoomp!!
infinititech89 said:
Yea tw seems to be the way to go I guess I will just wait for the official 4.2.2 release I have put to much time and effort into this lmfao about 2 weeks
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Guys I haven't experienced any issues when I flashed Whompasaurus, which is basically a souped up version of stock. It gave me the ability to overclock at 1.8Ghz, keep my touchwiz features for s-pen etc., and allowed me to do it all through AROMA, an interactive user interface of installing what I wanted to keep stock and what I didn't care about installing. Give it a shot....

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Guys I haven't experienced any issues when I flashed Whompasaurus, which is basically a souped up version of stock. It gave me the ability to overclock at 1.8Ghz, keep my touchwiz features for s-pen etc., and allowed me to do it all through AROMA, an interactive user interface of installing what I wanted to keep stock and what I didn't care about installing. Give it a shot....
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They are talking about aosp roms. Like cyanogen. Whompasauras is based on stock.
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Possible New Note II User, couple of questions?

Hi Guys,
Been an HTC guy, all my Android life. Thinking of picking up my first Sammy with the Sprint's version of Note 2. Just had a couple of questions about software and ROMs:
1. Are you guys expecting a Port or Updates from the new S4, coming to the Note 2? If so, when? Or if they've been ported already, can someone point me to the ROM or mods for those?
2. Been familiar with Sense and AOKP/CM10.1 for some time now. Never used TouchWiz. What are most of you driving with here? TouchWiz light and snappy enough with balance of pretty to be used as your Daily Driver, or are you guys AOKP kinda guys here as well? Either way, can you make some ROM recommendations for a new guy? I'd like to experience the Sammy experience, before moving on to AOKP, if possible?
Any other tips you can give me before I switch? I will be switching from an EVO LTE with CarbonROM running on it. Thank you for your time.

It's pretty much a 50/50 when it comes between TouchWiz or AOSP. There is already an s4 system dump.
For Rom recommendations I would suggest if you want TouchWiz stay on stock that's my opinion. And if you want AOSP is suggest CyanogenMod.
PAC rom is good too but for me I love simplicity. So that's why I'm currently on stock right now or CyanogenMod
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I was an HTC guy before coming to Sammy. I can say I wasn't all that thrilled with Touchwiz, compared to Sense.
I ended up ditching Touchwiz for Nova Launcher and a couple extra widget paks (HD widgets for clock and Android Pro Widgets for Timeline aka Friendstream and Contact favorites).
I am very happy with this combination.
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S4 firmware (4.2.2) will hit out device by the end of May.
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Chuck_IV said:
I was an HTC guy before coming to Sammy. I can say I wasn't all that thrilled with Touchwiz, compared to Sense.
I ended up ditching Touchwiz for Nova Launcher and a couple extra widget paks (HD widgets for clock and Android Pro Widgets for Timeline aka Friendstream and Contact favorites).
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I was the same at first, but in the long run, I actually Prefer TW to Sense. By miles. Stock TW is (usually, with perhaps a small bit of configuring) faster, and makes more intuitive sense (haha).
AOSP is of course loverly, but TW has a few features w/o totally obscuring Android that I think are ok, even worth it.

Thank you everyone for the response guys!
Just was wondering that I should try out TW for a bit, since I have never used it daily before. The gimmicky features from Sammy on the S4 though... like the Camera app and gestures and eyes thing for scrolling... do you guys think those will be/can be ported to the N2?
Thanks again for everyone's input... getting excited! Just not sure if the N2 will be too much of a phone for me to hold LOL!

ProFragger said:
Thank you everyone for the response guys!
Just was wondering that I should try out TW for a bit, since I have never used it daily before. The gimmicky features from Sammy on the S4 though... like the Camera app and gestures and eyes thing for scrolling... do you guys think those will be/can be ported to the N2?
Thanks again for everyone's input... getting excited! Just not sure if the N2 will be too much of a phone for me to hold LOL!
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Those are coming to our device either this month or next month. And before this device, I as a big time rooter, but I say stay stock, it has everything you could ever need.
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I too switched from HTC for 3 years.. And I can say I haven't been happier!!! Tw does take some getting used to after sense, but none the less its every bit as good as sense IMO... If I want a tweaked stock tw ROM, I suggest checking out the lab rats ROM.. Its pretty cartoonish stock, but the updater is chocked full of themes and different apps. Its been an amazing ROM. I used to be a flashaholic til the rats came my way. Not to mention they gotta be the friendliest, goofiest, most entertaining group of devs I've seen yet and as for requests, if its possible its usually pretty quick turnaround and they enjoy all they do probably even more than we do!!! Give it a shot and I can almost bet you will keep coming back to the lab!! Of course this is just my opinion, but there are many more who share it!! As well as, of course, some that don't..
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Everyone,
Thank you for your wonderful responses. I just brought home the N2 and it's a MONSTER !!! LOL!
I do want to stay TW for a bit though... so can you guys recommend the most UP TO DATE, and MOST CUSTOMIZEABLE TW ROM with hopefully the LEAST about of bugs and MOST amount of speed? (LOL! I know, talk about Eutopian demands, right !?)
An example of that ^ from the EVO LTE world is Team Venom's ROM...
I will Root though,because I need apps like Titanium Backup to fully set me up on the new device...
Thank you again for all your help! Looking forward to loving the Sammy world !
And oh, for the folks saying that GS4 camera and other features are coming to N2... do you think there will be some features that will NOT work on the N2 for Hardware or Kernel (firmware) issues? Thanks again!

ProFragger said:
Everyone,
Thank you for your wonderful responses. I just brought home the N2 and it's a MONSTER !!! LOL!
I do want to stay TW for a bit though... so can you guys recommend the most UP TO DATE, and MOST CUSTOMIZEABLE TW ROM with hopefully the LEAST about of bugs and MOST amount of speed? (LOL! I know, talk about Eutopian demands, right !?)
An example of that ^ from the EVO LTE world is Team Venom's ROM...
I will Root though,because I need apps like Titanium Backup to fully set me up on the new device...
Thank you again for all your help! Looking forward to loving the Sammy world !
And oh, for the folks saying that GS4 camera and other features are coming to N2... do you think there will be some features that will NOT work on the N2 for Hardware or Kernel (firmware) issues? Thanks again!
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There will be some things that won't work properly due to hardware restrictions, but most everything that doesn't rely on hardware, we should be getting at some point..
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Thanks again for the responses guys. Tried my first few ROMs last night... JellyBomb... LabRats... Nice ROMs, but they are too "modded" and touched for my taste...
What ROM can you recommend that's kinda Stock, debloated, keeps the original spirit of Stock at it's heart, with performance enhancements?
Is Synergy a good one?
Also... what's the later build? M7 or something after that? I am forgetting the name right now ...

ProFragger said:
Thanks again for the responses guys. Tried my first few ROMs last night... JellyBomb... LabRats... Nice ROMs, but they are too "modded" and touched for my taste...
What ROM can you recommend that's kinda Stock, debloated, keeps the original spirit of Stock at it's heart, with performance enhancements?
Is Synergy a good one?
Also... what's the later build? M7 or something after that? I am forgetting the name right now ...
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Mc2 is the latest... Not sure on which ROM would be to ur liking tho as I've been stuck on lab rats for months. They practically cured my flashaholism... Lol
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Mc2 is the latest... Not sure on which ROM would be to ur liking tho as I've been stuck on lab rats for months. They practically cured my flashaholism... Lol
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Hey sparytrainor,
Thank you for your response. Per your recommendation, I tried the Lab Rats ROM, but found a NUMBER of issues with them:
1. I didn't like the annoying PnB Bootanimation, and tried changing it via their built Customization app, but it just booted into Recovery and did nothing ...
2. The kept prompting an update, annoying
3. Flashlight toggle didn't work
Just seemed way too customized to me, without a whole lot of value for those changes.
I am now trying Stock MC2, Rooted and DeOdexed, but I can't seem to boot in. TWRP says, it needs to fix Root permissions at the end of the flash and in both cases (Fix or Not), the phone reboots and sits at the Samsung GN II screen...? Am I missing some firmware requirements here?
When I get that ROM going, I hope to debloat it with TB, and find ways to tweak it a bit, like find a Battery mod or something maybe...?
Thanks again for everyone reading my thread!

ProFragger said:
Hey sparytrainor,
Thank you for your response. Per your recommendation, I tried the Lab Rats ROM, but found a NUMBER of issues with them:
1. I didn't like the annoying PnB Bootanimation, and tried changing it via their built Customization app, but it just booted into Recovery and did nothing ...
2. The kept prompting an update, annoying
3. Flashlight toggle didn't work
Just seemed way too customized to me, without a whole lot of value for those changes.
I am now trying Stock MC2, Rooted and DeOdexed, but I can't seem to boot in. TWRP says, it needs to fix Root permissions at the end of the flash and in both cases (Fix or Not), the phone reboots and sits at the Samsung GN II screen...? Am I missing some firmware requirements here?
When I get that ROM going, I hope to debloat it with TB, and find ways to tweak it a bit, like find a Battery mod or something maybe...?
Thanks again for everyone reading my thread!
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OK, in the updater, go into settings and select reboot type and select the recovery u use. This will fix the reboot and install not working.
Also there are fixes in the updater for all the other issue u mentioned with the ROM other than the flashligt , which I use one from the play store anyway..
Check out the updater website for previews of the mods and themes.
http://updater.team-nocturnal.com/labrats/
And as for the other issue, mine says it needs to fix root sometimes as well, but I swipe to fix and everything goes fine. If you didn't update to mc2, u may need to. Here's a link for that as well..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2240961
Good luck to u.. Happy flashing and enjoy your new favorite phone!!!
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sparytrainor said:
OK, in the updater, go into settings and select reboot type and select the recovery u use. This will fix the reboot and install not working.
Also there are fixes in the updater for all the other issue u mentioned with the ROM other than the flashligt , which I use one from the play store anyway..
Check out the updater website for previews of the mods and themes.
http://updater.team-nocturnal.com/labrats/
And as for the other issue, mine says it needs to fix root sometimes as well, but I swipe to fix and everything goes fine. If you didn't update to mc2, u may need to. Here's a link for that as well..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2240961
Good luck to u.. Happy flashing and enjoy your new favorite phone!!!
Sent from my SPH-L900 using xda premium
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Thank you again, friend, that seems to have worked !
Couple of follow up questions:
1. In the LabRats ROM, if your Swipe to Capture function working?
2. Is there a "safe list" available for the apps I can uninstall to de-bloat?
3. If you run into a faster, less bulky ROM, please share with me , thanks!
Actually that goes for everyone else, as well. Please share your thoughts and inputs if you happen to have some cool ROM recommendations for TW ROMs that are the lightest and the fastest an least buggy !
Thanks guys!

You'd have to search around for a list of what can and can't be removed.. Or u can do like I did and make a backup so if u remove something that breaks the ROM, u can restore ur backup in twrp and be right back where u started..
Swipe to capture has to be turned on in settings. By default it is off.. I used it to take this screenshot for u..
As for a debloated ROM, you might do well with nowiz aosp in development section..can't get much more debloated than that..
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sparytrainor said:
You'd have to search around for a list of what can and can't be removed.. Or u can do like I did and make a backup so if u remove something that breaks the ROM, u can restore ur backup in twrp and be right back where u started..
Swipe to capture has to be turned on in settings. By default it is off.. I used it to take this screenshot for u..
As for a debloated ROM, you might do well with nowiz aosp in development section..can't get much more debloated than that..
Sent from my SPH-L900 using xda premium
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Couple of questions bro:
1. What's the eye icon in your screen shot in the notification bar? I never get that...
2. What theme are you using? Link to that theme and other cool ones like it? (I love Red themes )
3. As for the swipe to screen, I've had the right settings enabled, but for the life of me, I cannot get that feature to work ... Even tried it on a friend's stock GS3, nothing. Saw videos on YouTube as well, mimicking the same thing, still no go ... wonder what's up?
As always, much appreciate your kindness and help !

We can help a lot more if you post in our lab rats thread.
I removed about as much as I could without complaints. I personally would remove more, but I wanted to keep the users happy. I would remove s voice, email, calender, Google search, Google now, voice recorder, and voice search. Themes are in the updater and screen shots are on our Web site. All PATB can be removed via the updater.
The eye is smart stay that you must turn on. Flashlight works perfectly fine for everyone else as well as swipe to capture.
Thank you sparytrainor!
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