Hello,
I have just took the plunge and bought the Samsung galaxy note 2 instead of a nexus 4. As you will see from the signature I own a galaxy nexus and love a bit of rooting. I have had a look at the rom's available over the past few days, the one that takes my fancy is JellyBam. What I am looking for is a rom with icons like my gnexus (or preferably not touch wiz ) but maintains the features Samsung have implemented i.e the multi tasking, S-pen compatibility and other handy touch wiz features without the ugly interface.
I am looking for a bit of advice as i'm not particularly familiar with the developers for the phone, obviously AOKP , CM , and Paranoid Android brings back memories. From what I have said above can anyone recommend any Rom's which would fit the bill. Batter life isn't a real issue, stability with speed and customization features hit the top of the list which JellyBam seems to offer. The most important feature is the duel screen multi-tasking which I wish to keep. Also any advice on kernel choice would be great as trinity kernel's arn't avilable.
Much appreciated for your advice and I can't wait to give a contribution to the community on this awesome phone,
Thanks J
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Just got my Note 2 last night Awesome device, a bit bigger than my old international One X running CM10, but getting used to size. I rooted it out of the box, man it was the easiest quickest root ever for me. Just installed a stock ROM and simple ICS blue theme to start off, and try out the S-Pen and Touchwiz features. So far so good, running on Straight Talk ATT sim, very fast, great service today so far. .
I have been on stock AOSP Android for years, Nexus-One, Nexus-S, Galaxy Nexus, One X running CM10. I did have the Galaxy S II running a good stock Touchwiz ROM and heavily ICS theme which I liked a lot.
Curious what are you running ? Stock Touchwiz based ROM, or AOSP CM10.1 ROM ? I love AOSP, but are any of the CM10 based ROM's for the Note II good enough as a daily ROM with little bugs ? But AOSP ROM's on the Note II get rid of all the S-Pen features and note writing ? I mean the S-Pen is a big deal on the Note phones, would suck to lose all those features, but then again AOSP is awesome if a good stable and quality ROM.
Of the AOSP ROM's which one for our Note II is the most stable, and offer custom DPI and cool features above and beyond just stock nightly CM10.1 ? And of the stock Touchwiz ROM's which is your favorite, with cool themes and dark apps ? So many to chose from
I am using Nova launcher, and makes the phone look more stock, with cool features, and the 6 x 6 grid fits the Note perfectly. I am shocked actually with Nova on a stock rom, it does feel act very much like stock AOSP.
Thank you
When im still on note 1, i keep changing rom in between aosp or tw custom rom. Aosp or cm rom give my note 1 lag free and smooth experienced. But im personally will get boring after 1 or 2 days with those rom. That was because those aosp make my note 1 just similar to other bigger screen devices. Without tw or spen features i cant see any special of my note 1. Since im personally using a lot of photo editing for my daily job.
When came to note 2. Im totally never consider any other type of rom beside Tw based rom. Even note2 still using A9 chips. But with quadcore+2gb ram strong hardware spec, now a days all tw based rom available are just running smooth and responsive as other type of rom.
Therefore, im personally will comment that, i bought note 2 not only the bigger screen. The main point drive me to bought note 2 is about the features and the great utilities of spen on snote.
Without spen features, it just a normal large screen devices. I dont see the point why i would buy note 2 if i would go other type of rom beside tw based rom.
Indeed, everyone have their own choice and taste and nothing wrong at all. Maybe some of them just like the bigger screen only and prefer the pure android experienced. But all this depend on different person of choices. Nothing to argue.
I has tried so many snote replacement app on my note 1. But at the the moment, still no single app able to come close to origin snote.
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I have had my Note II since launch and I have always had the stock ROM installed. I kind of miss vanilla Android OS from my Nexus so I'm looking into flashing a brand new vanilla stock rom, I have absolutely no time to look into finding the best combination of kernel/rom/radio.etc to get the best out of the note in vanilla.
What combination of ROM/Kernel/Radio..etc did you guys find best to run on the Note II and get its full potential with good stability/battery life? I use my phone heavily for productivity and I don't care much for games.
mmk92 said:
I have had my Note II since launch and I have always had the stock ROM installed. I kind of miss vanilla Android OS from my Nexus so I'm looking into flashing a brand new vanilla stock rom, I have absolutely no time to look into finding the best combination of kernel/rom/radio.etc to get the best out of the note in vanilla.
What combination of ROM/Kernel/Radio..etc did you guys find best to run on the Note II and get its full potential with good stability/battery life? I use my phone heavily for productivity and I don't care much for games.
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Use AOSP roms like Cyanogenmod , AOKP, Paranoid Android etc. Use a kernel that will save your battery. Make sure it is compatible with the rom. You can find it in development section
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Ya I know, but which ROM out of all these coupled with a decent kernel(stock maybe) gives me the best overall experience? Has anyone tried using the Paranoid droid as their primary daily driver?
I'm sorry to say that they are all great but for different reasons. While I've toyed with AOKP and PA, it's CyanogenMod that fulfills my needs the best. My reasoning is that I am looking for a clean and simple experience in my AOSP roms. While the others may give more options, CyanogenMod make the greatest effort to stay within Google design guidelines for Android. Overall this gives the rom a feeling of being cleaner and less cluttered than the others.
Kernel wise I've found neak, perseus, and Red pill are all great. Currently using neak because the configuration app is (again) simpler than stweaks (which the other two use).
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dr.m0x said:
I'm sorry to say that they are all great but for different reasons. While I've toyed with AOKP and PA, it's CyanogenMod that fulfills my needs the best. My reasoning is that I am looking for a clean and simple experience in my AOSP roms. While the others may give more options, CyanogenMod make the greatest effort to stay within Google design guidelines for Android. Overall this gives the rom a feeling of being cleaner and less cluttered than the others.
Kernel wise I've found neak, perseus, and Red pill are all great. Currently using neak because the configuration app is (again) simpler than stweaks (which the other two use).
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Do you get a decent batterylife?
poope said:
Do you get a decent batterylife?
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Battery life is still quite good compared to a lot of other phones out there but noticeably worse than the stock rom. I've encountered this on all the kernels and both AOKP and CyanogenMod. Haven't tested pa extensively but I can't see it being any better than the others.
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I have the T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II (Galaxy Hercules) and I am wondering what you guys think is the best ROM for great battery life, good performance and lots of customization? I am familiar with cyanogenmod, miui, and paranoid android; however, I have not gotten to try any yet- just read about them. It seems like people like paranoid android, but I am very picky about my icons and the look of my interface. I like the new Nexus look and some of the newer cleans icons, and will love a ROM with plenty of customization. Thanks!
Edit: If my phone can run Jelly Bean 4.2.2, then that is preferred but not needed for the ROM
AOKP. Look for it in the dev section. The Milestone update 1 should be suitable for your needs. Also it comes with the Nexus boot animation so that will be nice
CM is having a couple of problems with the recent nightlies that's why AOKP.
Start flashing and you be the judge. Most will say the same.
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I personally liked either this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2242144 or this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2130852 <----- this one for lots of nice cool themes
Try this, it's an unofficial version of CM. Favorite ROM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2182407
Hello,
I just got my S4 from T-mobile and I ran a Qaud score on the stock ROM which was around 12,000. Then I just flashed AOKP and am now only getting around 6,500. Any idea why? How can I fix this?
I love vanilla Android, but I will have to go back to modded stock if I can't get the same fast speeds.
Thanks in advance,
-Jesse.
PS I would post this in the actual ROM development thread, but I am not allowed to post there since I am new =/
re: AOSP/AOKP/CM roms
razorj7 said:
Hello,
I just got my S4 from T-mobile and I ran a Qaud score on the stock ROM which was around 12,000. Then I just flashed AOKP and am now only getting around 6,500. Any idea why? How can I fix this?
I love vanilla Android, but I will have to go back to modded stock if I can't get the same fast speeds.
Thanks in advance,
-Jesse.
PS I would post this in the actual ROM development thread, but I am not allowed to post there since I am new =/
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The best thing to do is only flash the Samsung Touchwiz Tmobile M919 4.2.2 based custom roms .
You will also find that there will be no wifi calling in any of the AOKP/AOSP/CM roms.
Have you ever heard the audio playback in videos in any of the AOKP/AOSP/CM roms?
It's so quiet that you can hardly hear it without a headset and bluetooth does not work properly.
Also the camera in those roms have about 50% of the options and features when compared to the samsung camera.
The lcd screen/user interface of the camera does not look professional when compared to to the samsung interface.
Another thing, none of the new features which are related to touchwiz and samsung will be available in those roms.
For example: smart screen, smart stay, screen mirroring, s beam, air view, air gesture, voice control and more.
Good luck!
razorj7 said:
Hello,
I just got my S4 from T-mobile and I ran a Qaud score on the stock ROM which was around 12,000. Then I just flashed AOKP and am now only getting around 6,500. Any idea why? How can I fix this?
I love vanilla Android, but I will have to go back to modded stock if I can't get the same fast speeds.
Thanks in advance,
-Jesse.
PS I would post this in the actual ROM development thread, but I am not allowed to post there since I am new =/
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Don't hold much in scores. They can be easily adjusted with a few build prop edits with no real bonuses to real world use.
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Hi,
I Would like to explain abit more,
The Hardware in each phone is different, and Samsung (or any other brand) will write thier drivers for thier hardware parts.
when a new phone comes out, the community attend to port a clean android build for that device, but they are not always able
to write a driver as good as Samsung does, please keep in mind that most of the reference guides of the hardware are secret.
so basically, it's always takes time since the device comes out, until there is a good working version of AOSP/AOKP rom...
BUT and this is a big BUT, for the S4 device, google announced that they are going to release a version of SGS4 with AOSP on it,
probably they did a good job writing (or porting) the hardware parts for the device..
i belive that when google will release thier version of SGS4, we are going to get much better AOSP/AOKP roms.
Hi Guys,
I have a T800 on the way (in the U.S.) and am doing my research on the device and OS/ROM options. I am relatively new to android but have a technical background (I'm a developer, and joined the xda forums back in the windows mobile days)
My main question is which ROM I should go with, options seem to include:
- Samsung's 4.4 or 5.0 releases
- Cyanogenmod or BlissPop (i.e. non-touchwiz based ROMs, if I understand correctly?)
- Ironrom or other tweaked touchwiz based ROMs, if I understand correctly
I bought this mainly as a browser / reader device to replace my (jailbroken) iPad 3, which now feels ancient and slow and has a cracked screen. The lack of RAM is pretty annoying. Also very annoyed with the brightness levels when trying to read at night, hence the OLED based tablet. I think I would like a stock android like option, however I am not super familiar with Samsung's custom UI and I would like some opinions at a high level on what the pros and cons would be going for CM vs a tweaked (de-bloated?) samsung experience.
Thanks in advance!
sethk said:
Hi Guys,
I have a T800 on the way (in the U.S.) and am doing my research on the device and OS/ROM options. I am relatively new to android but have a technical background (I'm a developer, and joined the xda forums back in the windows mobile days)
My main question is which ROM I should go with, options seem to include:
- Samsung's 4.4 or 5.0 releases
- Cyanogenmod or BlissPop (i.e. non-touchwiz based ROMs, if I understand correctly?)
- Ironrom or other tweaked touchwiz based ROMs, if I understand correctly
I bought this mainly as a browser / reader device to replace my (jailbroken) iPad 3, which now feels ancient and slow and has a cracked screen. The lack of RAM is pretty annoying. Also very annoyed with the brightness levels when trying to read at night, hence the OLED based tablet. I think I would like a stock android like option, however I am not super familiar with Samsung's custom UI and I would like some opinions at a high level on what the pros and cons would be going for CM vs a tweaked (de-bloated?) samsung experience.
Thanks in advance!
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Flashing a tweaked Touchwiz rom gives you some great things that can reduce lag and such. Those roms are for if you want a better rom whilst keeping all the Touchwiz features. Its smooth and such yes.
For CM based roms, those are what get you an stock android feel. But you will lose fingerprint scanner ability and multiwindow and some things that Touchwiz roms has. CM roms are great for the stock android feel, smoothness and has no stuttering, good battery life, customization and less ram load/usage from my experience.
I myself prefer liquid smooth rom since well it is butter smooth! Feels great and does most tasks easy and with no problems.
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Honestly I have no problems using the stock rom. Something like ironrom is a good stock option.
However just lately I've taken to running rooted stock and just debloating and removing stuff I don't need and modifying the kernel to my own needs.
Lately a ton of roms have popped up, so there's plenty of choice.
I won't use anything that loses functionality.
Thanks guys - I got my T800 and am just finishing up the stock Lollipop upgrade. Bought a 64GB microsdxc for backups etc., so I will try out common apps for a couple of days and with the feedback above I will probably give a custom ROM or two a go this weekend (after doing my homework/research in advance).