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[Q] Barebones / Minimalist ROMs?

Hello,
I am looking for an absolute barebones / minimalistic ROM. I have checked the dev forums and looked through them, but nothing stands out as being literally the bare essentials.
I literally just want what makes the OS run, no bloatware, no excess settings. Just absolute minimum.
I am looking for a stable (!), good-battery (!) and bare-bone (minimal) ROM for my LG Nitro HD P930.
Any suggestions on how this can be achieved with any of the roms would be great if one doesn't already exist. I thoroughly dislike processes running in the background. I have no need for things like wifi direct, torch, calendar, calculator etc. I know most of these I can take out, but I'd prefer a rom that already has the absolute minimum.
Thanks

You could flash HoNo!'s stock roms and then use Titanium Backup to remove everything you don't want.

mattman86 said:
You could flash HoNo!'s stock roms and then use Titanium Backup to remove everything you don't want.
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That's unfortunately a part of my problem. There are so many apps in ParanoidAndroid in titanium backup that I don't know if I can safely remove. I guess i can freeze 1 by 1 and uninstall it all. Thanks

Sandpapers said:
That's unfortunately a part of my problem. There are so many apps in ParanoidAndroid in titanium backup that I don't know if I can safely remove. I guess i can freeze 1 by 1 and uninstall it all. Thanks
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I believe Mattman is referring to something like this: HO!NO! P930 AT&T Official V20c CWM-Flashable!, but this does have all the stock apps which you will need to uninstall/replace.
Surprisingly Mattman didn't mention his own ROM: [ROM][P930] Liquid Nitro. Which has most of the unnecessary apps already removed.
Though, I feel that you are looking for an AOSP ROM, like the experience you'd get running a nexus device? A completely vanilla android OS. The closest thing you'll probably find is CM9.1, for ICS, or "stable" CM10, for JB: Cyanogenmod 9 & 10. Cyanogenmod is based on the AOSP that Google creates for the nexus devices. The CM team has made tweaks and added functions and apps that are not in AOSP, e.g. FileManager and Apollo.

Gotcha, thank you. What I may end up doing is finding a ROM that has what I want in it, then 1 by 1 deleting apps to find whats stable on and off. A lot of the google backend apps and things are mainly what I want to take out.
Things like
dev tools 1.0
document viewer 4.2
download manager
drm protected content
exchange services, etc etc
There is just so much stuff. Was hoping there was someone with a completely bare minimum to the point where I literally CANNOT turn off anything else or it doesn't work. That's more or less what I am looking for.
Time to experiment!
Thanks again

Sandpapers said:
Gotcha, thank you. What I may end up doing is finding a ROM that has what I want in it, then 1 by 1 deleting apps to find whats stable on and off. A lot of the google backend apps and things are mainly what I want to take out.
Things like
dev tools 1.0
document viewer 4.2
download manager
drm protected content
exchange services, etc etc
There is just so much stuff. Was hoping there was someone with a completely bare minimum to the point where I literally CANNOT turn off anything else or it doesn't work. That's more or less what I am looking for.
Time to experiment!
Thanks again
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I wish! I literally remove 20 things from a cm based ROM. JellyBam had like 30 i removed just to trim it down. I delete almost everything after i flash a ROM
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X0dus said:
I wish! I literally remove 20 things from a cm based ROM. JellyBam had like 30 i removed just to trim it down. I delete almost everything after i flash a ROM
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Can you list what you've deleted? I want to know what if safe or not to delete.

vctshim said:
Can you list what you've deleted? I want to know what if safe or not to delete.
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I'll make a backup someone today and reflash HO!NO! CM9 and share what all i delete; sure.
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Android Keyboard 4.0.4 (replace w/ 4.1.2 Gesture Keyboard)
Android Live Wallpapers
Apollo
Awesome Beats (optional)
Black Hole
Browser (using Chrome)
Bubbles
CM Updater
CM Wallpapers
Downloads 4.0.4
Email
Exchange Services
Google Search
Magic Smoke Wallpaper
Live Wallpaper Chooser
Movie Studio
MusixFX
News and Weather
Nova (only if using Trebuchet)
Phase Beam
Sound Recorder
Talk 4.0.4
Voice Dialer
Wifi Direct
Anyone else has some to add, please do so as I'd like to know what can be deleted safely too.

Siri, S-Voice, Voice Commands

I am relatively new to flashing roms and playing around in the root of the phone, So I was wondering if S-voice is disabled or deleted on all custom roms or only the few roms I have tried.
I am currently running android version 4.2.2 with the 3.4.44- underwear kernel if anyone knows how to install a voice command software like S-voice that can access your apps for I found that usful on the stock OS of the phone for making appointments on the fly and texting while driving that would be awesome.
I appreciate any responses thank you

I'm running Jelly beans and it has them. Granted it's 4.1.2, but it is available for AT&T as well. Give it a try, you'll be able to pick the options you'd like during install.
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build.prop: SPH-D710 vs d710 - Effect on the Play Store

Stock based TW rom's use SPH-D710 in build.prop. But this gives less app's (that work just fine) in the Play Store. For example. Real Racing 3 is missing when using SPH-D710. Other custom rom's use d710 (many AOSP based roms). Which in return gives more available app's. Such as, Real Racing 3 is available.
Which is truly correct? I always have to go in and change the build.prop to get some of the app's that are missing. If "d710" works and gives more app's, why are not all of the ROMS using this as default?
Is this just something many of the developer's do not know about?

SPH-D710 is the official model number, d710 is used in AOSP builds simply because most devs name their working folders d710 instead of SPH-D710. SPH-D710 would be the correct build number, the reason d710 shows more apps is because the Playstore no longer sees the device as a compatible or incompatible device, it registers as an unknown or generic android device on their server so it doesn't know if it's a phone or a tablet or what the proper configuration is. The problem with that is some of the apps won't work even though they can be downloaded, mostly tablet apps with no phone UI included, which can be fixed using Per App DPI in AOSP roms or using Xposed in TW.
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I think I will leave it set as d710. I like the choice of atleast seeing personally if a app/game will work, then having no choice at all. I know Real Racing 3, Most Wanted, and I am sure many other's work just fine. These app's are not available to me (unless I side load, which is not convenient) with it set as SPH-D710.

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I think I will leave it set as d710. I like the choice of atleast seeing personally if a app/game will work, then having no choice at all. I know Real Racing 3, Most Wanted, and I am sure many other's work just fine. These app's are not available to me (unless I side load, which is not convenient) with it set as SPH-D710.
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Just check in description for tablet only, if your rom doesn't have xposed or PAD in it. Some games say they aren't compatible not because they won't play but because the device will lag and it's simply because of the specs and the dev doesn't want to be inundated with "this game sucks" and bad ratings due to the device specs alone. The Playstore will show all apps on d710 just because it doesn't see it as an actual model number but a generic build so it assumes the user knows what the device is tab/phone and what it's capable of running spec wise. Oh and stay away from the Heros Memory Game on there that thing has some super shady permissions it can intercept and send and receive texts and calls and redirect outbound calls and texts to other numbers without you knowing, basically it can tap your phone and has no legitimate use for the permissions cuz its just a memory game like the old kids game where you match 2 images from a group of cards
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[Q] Minimum Rom

I have been away from the XDA forums for a while but have recently got back in here and have been reading about my Spring Note II. I have not been able to locate a Rom that i would consider a (lite or light Rom) with absolutely bare bones as far as the apps on it. I do not want anything extra other than what it take to run this phone. I have experience with rooting as i have rooted every one of my phones and i go through them like crazy. If there is not a Rom out there like this does anyone have a link or list of all the apps that can safely be remove. I have been going through trial and error but it takes so long to remove an app wait to make sure it stays stable then back up & repeat. I know this has probably been mentioned before so please hang tight with me as i do not post random questions i havent tried to find myself first
Have tried Whompasaurus 4.2 & MacksROM Allstar

not that I'm aware. Some stuff is pretty obvious.
I prefer to get rid of as much as I can because I use different app, and I want my storage space for other stuff.

lovekeiiy said:
not that I'm aware. Some stuff is pretty obvious.
I prefer to get rid of as much as I can because I use different app, and I want my storage space for other stuff.
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The obvious things I can get rid of easily. Its all the com.'s & different push services plus the apps with no icons just little Androids that im not sure of

Digiblur is debloated if you want Touchwiz. Slimrom is great if you want to go to Aosp.
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[Q] Tuns of newbie questions!

So for Christmas I got a nexus 7 32GB tab, now ive been browsing the site for a couple weeks now reading about rooting, roms and kernals.
I saw the thread in general about one click rooting ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2381698 )
and have decided that is most likely the way ill go, how its shown in the first video.
Now for roms ive been thinking that paranoid android may be the best for me, as from what ive read and understood it doesn't have all those google apps the nexus comes with unless you install the google package? can anyone comfirm this? just want to make sure I didn't read it like a tard.
Now lets say that rom is a good one and I should be good to go, what kernals or kernals should I get?
if the kernel I download I don't like is it easy to switch them out for another or do I have to reset and reroot the tablet and reinstall the roms and kernel? same goes for the rom as well, are they easy to swtich for another? can you have more then one rom on a tablet?
and last of all so say I install paranoid, and decide on a kernel and it all goes well, and is looking good, how do I download apps? do I need the google apps to do this?
super new to this and any help would be much appreciated!

AngelicKnights said:
So for Christmas I got a nexus 7 32GB tab, now ive been browsing the site for a couple weeks now reading about rooting, roms and kernals.
I saw the thread in general about one click rooting ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2381698 )
and have decided that is most likely the way ill go, how its shown in the first video.
Now for roms ive been thinking that paranoid android may be the best for me, as from what ive read and understood it doesn't have all those google apps the nexus comes with unless you install the google package? can anyone comfirm this? just want to make sure I didn't read it like a tard.
Now lets say that rom is a good one and I should be good to go, what kernals or kernals should I get?
if the kernel I download I don't like is it easy to switch them out for another or do I have to reset and reroot the tablet and reinstall the roms and kernel? same goes for the rom as well, are they easy to swtich for another? can you have more then one rom on a tablet?
and last of all so say I install paranoid, and decide on a kernel and it all goes well, and is looking good, how do I download apps? do I need the google apps to do this?
super new to this and any help would be much appreciated!
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A lot of good questions. Before you start flashing roms and/or kernels you should read as much of each specific thread as you can stand. You need to have an idea of what kind of problems if any users are experiencing, that way you can hopefully make an informed decision. I personally would never read just the first couple posts and start flashing. Don't get me wrong, there are definitely some good roms and kernels out there and there is nothing wrong with experimenting. And yes, some roms do require gapps. And you do need at least some of the google apps (gapps) to be able to use the Play Store. They will tell you if they are not included in that specific thread.
As far as kernels go you need to be careful. Read, read, read! If you start playing with overclocking and voltages you can easily create problems for yourself. Do you know what to do if you get stuck in a boot loop? Or start getting random reboots? Not trying to talk you out of doing anything, hell I use custom kernels myself. it's just that it's not that hard to end up with a really nice paperweight! Sometimes going from one kernel to another you will need to dirty flash your rom or flash the system image to get a clean start with a new kernel. Good luck!

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Since the Nexus 7 is pure stock already, if you have no reason for a custom ROM, you probably don't need it. Just use Closed Framework with Gravitybox module, you can get some customization. Also consider candy shop with zip themed, you can customize your navigation buttons and stuff.
As for kernels, use either elementalx or franco kernels. Those are probably the two most popular.
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very much appreciate the quick replies.
Not really trying to mess with voltages or cpu stuff or overclocking. Really just wanted to make it a bit more customizable. which is what I thought the paranoid android ROM would be used for.
Wouldn't mind perhaps better battery life, which is what kernals are used for as well from my understanding?
Ive literally read every forum ( nexus 7, nexus 7 2013, android forum as well ), the top forum stickies and also gone through the pages in the sub forums and such for search of questions I may have.
But from what im gathering I think I just need to delete(is that possible or is it just disabling apps?) and maybe download some more aps for customization like clocks and weather widgets(not sure if that's exactly what a widget is), instead of all this rooting and unrooting stuff.
like when I click the circle with 6 dots in it to show me all the apps on my tablet, I honestly don't want half of them even on my tab
Bascially what I just want is a minimalistic screen where I don't have tuns of icons everywhere as I wont use 3/4th of it such as gmail, keep, people, play newsstand, hangouts, and apps that the stock tablet comes with.
edit: also any way without unrooting to install and snes emulator or play pc or ps1 games? digging some super Mario or diablo clone hack and slashj

AngelicKnights said:
very much appreciate the quick replies.
Not really trying to mess with voltages or cpu stuff or overclocking. Really just wanted to make it a bit more customizable. which is what I thought the paranoid android ROM would be used for.
Wouldn't mind perhaps better battery life, which is what kernals are used for as well from my understanding?
Ive literally read every forum ( nexus 7, nexus 7 2013, android forum as well ), the top forum stickies and also gone through the pages in the sub forums and such for search of questions I may have.
But from what im gathering I think I just need to delete(is that possible or is it just disabling apps?) and maybe download some more aps for customization like clocks and weather widgets(not sure if that's exactly what a widget is), instead of all this rooting and unrooting stuff.
like when I click the circle with 6 dots in it to show me all the apps on my tablet, I honestly don't want half of them even on my tab
Bascially what I just want is a minimalistic screen where I don't have tuns of icons everywhere as I wont use 3/4th of it such as gmail, keep, people, play newsstand, hangouts, and apps that the stock tablet comes with.
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You can disable most everything, I have a lot of the google apps disabled that I have no plans on using and all of the apps you mention can be disabled. There are things you can do when rooted to help battery life but there are also things you can do without being rooted. Like turning off wifi always scanning, or always on while sleeping. Adjusting sync. Disabling apps. If rooted you can use Greenify to hibernate apps without disabling them. The paid version of Greenify allows you to hibernate system apps but you have to have Xposed Framework installed to get the paid version to work and Xposed only works with dalvik and not art. Lots of options! Sorry, I haven't used any emulators. Do a search of the whole q/a thread, you'll find something I'm sure.