Hey I'm just wondering I know it's kind of hard to measure without getting into benchmarks score before and after, but have you guys notice a big difference in speed when you guys were stock then going to a custom rom? Just would like to know if there's any incremental speed bump. Just want to know if I should bother rooting and all that stuff because this phone is fast already stock. I'm fully aware of all the cool things rooting does so it's not a question of whether I should root or not but I'm more interested if the phone feels a lot snappier, thank you.
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Well that all depends on the rom or kernel itself. There isn't really one custom rom. Lots of different options mate.
Rooting isn't hard. I'd recommend it. I was on stock since August till last month when I got bored and decided to root.
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Hey I'm just wondering I know it's kind of hard to measure without getting into benchmarks score before and after, but have you guys notice a big difference in speed when you guys were stock then going to a custom rom? Just would like to know if there's any incremental speed bump. Just want to know if I should bother rooting and all that stuff because this phone is fast already stock. I'm fully aware of all the cool things rooting does so it's not a question of whether I should root or not but I'm more interested if the phone feels a lot snappier, thank you.
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First of all as far as rooting goes there is a big difference between rooted and un-rooted phones.
There are so many excellent apps which require the phone to be rooted or they simply won't work.
Also if you plan to use custom roms your phone must be rooted, all custom roms are pre-rooted.
The custom roms are generally faster than stock roms although to be honest it's not something which
you would really notice when using most applications or games which you may have installed.
The main advantage the custom roms have over stock is that they have a lot more features, settings,
options, themes and they are fine tuned to use less battery power than stock roms.
I would suggest to only flash and use stock based custom roms. (Samsung Galaxy S3 Jellybean v4.1.1 custom roms)
Using other roms like the ported roms or CM/AOKP/AOSP Android roms generally cause more problems
than they are worth, not to mention the fact that none of them have the Wifi calling feature which is only
found in stock based Samsung Galaxy S3 Jellybean v4.1.1 custom roms.
The AOKP/AOSP/CM and ported roms are excellent for those people who like to experiment with their phones.
Good Luck!
Yeah lately getting bored of stock, itching to hack away. All my previous phones needed rooting to actually function right like the g2x. this one has been the first one to worked great stock. Thanks for the info
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Question is voodoo supported for this phone? If not other audio enhancements?
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daxecutioner24 said:
Question is voodoo supported for this phone? If not other audio enhancements?
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Voodoo sound is obsolete but there are many other audio hacks which work even better
like DSP Audio, Awesome Beats, Volume+ and others which all work with our phones.
None of them come with the stock firmware.
Most all of the Samsung Galaxy S3 T999 custom roms will have an option for one of
the above audio enhancements.
Thanks junky
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I have to say that CM / AOSP 4.2.2 ROMs are light years smoother than stock touchwiz, but touchwiz scores higher in quadrant because there is proprietary code that Qualcomm gives to OEMs for optimization. AOSP ROMs are open source and thus that secret sauce is not included.
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I have to say that CM / AOSP 4.2.2 ROMs are light years smoother than stock touchwiz, but touchwiz scores higher in quadrant because there is proprietary code that Qualcomm gives to OEMs for optimization. AOSP ROMs are open source and thus that secret sauce is not included.
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Yeah, that explains the sometimes 1000 pt. difference in the CPU category in quadrant tests (between TW and AOSP). Do you think that "secret sauce" offers any real world advantage? I mean, what does that optimization that Qualcomm is providing to Sammy really do? I also find AOSP 4.2 to be smoother somehow... but the 1000 lower score concerns me.
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Hey guys, new here, been lurking for a long time...
Just wondering, I've rooted but decided to keep stock ROM. I'd like to wait untill JB comes along before I try any other ROMS. I actually quite enjoy stock. Do most people prefer that, or do you guys try different ROMS the first chance you get? What do you think the ratio is here?
Samsung did a great job on Stock.. I'm sure the bait is those smart features. I miss them the most, and otherwise it's stable and its fast even without jellybean.
I love the stock based roms! I like trying all the flavors out there, but thus far these are my faves.
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The stock ROMs are great (those smart features are great). However, there is so.etching about the elegance of vanilla android that is so addictive. The jb ROMs are really fast and quite stable with great battery life.
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I love the stock ROM. I'm playing with a cm10 nightly right now,and after about 5 hours of use I'm headed back to stock,lol. AOSP is great but TW has so many features & its 100% stable, so that makes it hard for anything not as stable to compete w/ it IMO.
I love stock
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Samsung did a great job on Stock.. I'm sure the bait is those smart features. I miss them the most, and otherwise it's stable and its fast even without jellybean.
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I love Stock because of the general stability it brings
I'm not gonna mess with ROMs since no rom is as stable as stock. I don't like touchwiz tho
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I like stock for stability and smart features. That doesn't mean I'm using the garbage touchwiz interface though.
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Samsung did a great job on Stock.. I'm sure the bait is those smart features. I miss them the most, and otherwise it's stable and its fast even without jellybean.
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Yea its great
All the stock roms are the same....but they are more stable than all the others.
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Hey guys,
Ive been using stock and android révolution but i have the feeling that the stock was better, what about you guys ?
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I've got the same feel. Don't no if I right
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I've got the same feel. Don't no if I right
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So I'm not alone to think that. So right now Myrkin are you using Android revolution or the stock one ?
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Stock works great, it's fast and responsive, unless you have to have root, I wouldn't bother at the moment.
I used ARHD on my HTC One X because it was better than stock but JB on the Note 2 is super!
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Stock works great, it's fast and responsive, unless you have to have root, I wouldn't bother at the moment.
I used ARHD on my HTC One X because it was better than stock but JB on the Note 2 is super!
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yup me too. i flash arhd 1.1 on my note 2 and it feels a lil laggy. It even make my 3g connection crawl like a tortoise. I was quite dumbfounded cos i tot it suppose to perform better. But wen i flash it back to stock. it feels so much better n my 3g connection was fast as per normal. so i shall stick to stock while the roms gets improved in due time
Ive been using the Perseus alpha24 kernal for a few days now, smooth fast and noticablely better battery life, havent tried a ROM yet, like you, waiting till they are a bit better.
Yes, I agree.
For now, stock is the best for stability and performance.
It needs time to make custom rom better than stock
imho
Stock forever.
I think its a very subjective topic and its only a matter of time before the mods close this thread (maybe)...
I personally like stock on Note 2. Nothing more needed
Unless it AR HD! Well thats stock too
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I think its a very subjective topic and its only a matter of time before the mods close this thread (maybe)...
I personally like stock on Note 2. Nothing more needed
Unless it AR HD! Well thats stock too
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I don't see why they will close this thread I'm just asking for your experiences with custom roms and I'm sharing mine, I'm not wasking what is the best roms amongst all the roms available on the forum but just if at the moment the stock is better than any other custom roms that's all.
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Yeah, I have not used custom roms atm, I just disable what I don't want and that's it. But I wish there was a vanilla Jellybean to try out. Don't need overclocking, but I want undervolted rom to squeeze more juice.
It's nice to know that some of you love the stock experience out of the box. I'm getting my Galaxy Note 2 in November. Obviously many of us like to tinker, so I'm already pleased that the list of custom roms is growing for the Galaxy Note 2.
im flash addict and always was using custom rom but for note 2 stock+root=the best
To me Note 2 needs no rooting and flashing, works great the way it is and I like it that way.
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Alright so we got our jelly bean update and so far all the stock based custom ROMs are stable from the most part, mod have been added for speed tweaks and battery life. So far so good. Now what? Lol what do we do in the meantime? Just find mods and see what people would like and see if they can be implemented in ROMs? I've flashed almost everything and TW on every ROM is stable if the source was official JB for t999. The AOSP ROMs are stable for the most part with very minor things not working. Kernels have squeezed as much performance from the board of this phone as much as possible (don't expect any kernel to bring you 7000+ on quadrant). So what now? The o my progress that's happening mostly is getting aosp 4.2 on this by tw is descent in my opinion. What will you guys be doing in the meantime? Look at other threads and find mods?
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Find a stable rom and actually USE your phone.
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Find a stable rom and actually USE your phone.
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It's refreshing not having to keep up with the grind every now and then. Especially with the holidays upon us, time is scarce and free time is better spent doing other things than dealing with crackflashing habits.
Exactly. What now is what annoys me about xda. It makes it seem like people don't actually enjoy their phone. I actually found xda by mistake back she. I had a vibrant. I actually left for a while because I was pretty much the same way. Flashing and reseting y phone pretty much daily trying out new ROMs. When things got stable I asked the same question as op. Realized I never actually used my phone. I don't root very much but come here for advice and for new news. I've tried flashing roms but I actually use my phone and have a life to live. Be happy things are stable. That's my advice. Its an addiction.
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I'm pretty set on the rom I'm using (JB touchwiz) now but would like 4.2 camera to fully work, skipping tracks with screen off... everything else works just the way I want. So little mods is all I can ask for and want now a days.
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been searching on things I can do to make it more my rom and found a splash screen image changer http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1928751(the Galaxy S 3 image you see, before the boot screen) applied a white theme from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1988960 I'm becoming more and more close to a super stable my rom. All that is left in my opinion as options for us until 4.2 AOSP is made.
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Find a stable rom and actually USE your phone.
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Lol actually, i do use my phone. Back when we had ICS, there was jelly bean but i kept going back and fourth between jelly bean AOSP and stock TW ics. found that TW was solid but had a few issues with Bluetooth which i used with my Bluetooth headsets. So I was on AOSP and back and fourth. I have been on JB TW since it dropped and haven't flashed since. lol so i guess im just adjusting to not flashing weekly. But even when flashing, i would use my phone pretty often. for now, im going to just stay here, add the mods that i want, and look for the ones i need (skip track with volume rocker w/ screen off) and then i will delete the app from my phone and come here every 2 weeks.
Now we wait for 4.1.2 so we can get multi view like the note 2.
Other than that, most of us will have moved on to SGS4 by the time the S3 gets 4.2.
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Now we wait for 4.1.2 so we can get multi view like the note 2.
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That's what I'm waiting for
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Anyone know of a mod to record video in the background with the screen off? Id love this on stormy days to record driving around ...
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I thankfully got this out of my system back with my Vibrant. At some point I just realized that I was doing... Nothing with my phone. I'd switch out ROMs and the like, but ultimately.. I just went back to stock with a custom kernel and a few tweaks for speed and performance. But mostly had it set to spiffy fast and ultra usable.
I've done the same with my GS3. I didn't care much for the ROMs I have seen out there, so went back to stock. Now I have Jelly Bean on here, with a custom kernel and rooted. Got it running outrageously smooth and fast. What more do I need? My phone is as good as it is going to get until 4.2 and hopefully whatever comes after that.
So I use it. I show it off to people. I achieve great computing and processing needs when out and about. I like my phone. I don't need anything more out of it than what I got.
I just hang out at XDA for if anything new ( feature, app, etc. ) comes out that seems neat, if an error crops up, or quick fixes.
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Alright so we got our jelly bean update and so far all the stock based custom ROMs are stable from the most part, mod have been added for speed tweaks and battery life. So far so good. Now what? Lol what do we do in the meantime? Just find mods and see what people would like and see if they can be implemented in ROMs? I've flashed almost everything and TW on every ROM is stable if the source was official JB for t999. The AOSP ROMs are stable for the most part with very minor things not working. Kernels have squeezed as much performance from the board of this phone as much as possible (don't expect any kernel to bring you 7000+ on quadrant). So what now? The o my progress that's happening mostly is getting aosp 4.2 on this by tw is descent in my opinion. What will you guys be doing in the meantime? Look at other threads and find mods?
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well, i would disagree with you there.
as far as your question, we should just enjoy our devices.
mt3g said:
I'm pretty set on the rom I'm using (JB touchwiz) now but would like 4.2 camera to fully work, skipping tracks with screen off... everything else works just the way I want. So little mods is all I can ask for and want now a days.
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I am on JB touchwiz and i am running the 4.2 without any issues at all. You need to make sure you uncheck the location tagging option when installing it. The photosphere feature is fantastic and have all my Crapple user friends drooling over it, also the new gallery is better as well. I have the new 4.2 keyboard but prefer swype and the new google calendar. LOL.
To clarify, I am running both, stock camera and 4.2 camera with no problem.
I know that Pimp My Rom is a Universal tweaking app for most phones, but does it really help considering that Task's ROM is so polished? Are the tweaks really helping out the performance of the phone or the speed of the connections. Anyway to compare before and after ?
I wouldn't touch pimp my rom unless I was running stock tw most certainly not with tasks aokp. Just saying.
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Yeah I guess your correct, I always see people commenting about PMR , V6 or lightning tweaks for devices . I guess many of these tweaks would be considered for older devices and less developed ROMs. Just wondering if anyone has anyone done comparisons?
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Id add a diff kernel though, the LeanKernel gives me better battery on tasks aokp
If you were to do anything i would suggest a nandroid first, just in case something goes wrong.
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Yeah I guess your correct, I always see people commenting about PMR , V6 or lightning tweaks for devices . I guess many of these tweaks would be considered for older devices and less developed ROMs. Just wondering if anyone has anyone done comparisons?
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I have watched most of the apps you mentioned from beta or before. They are pointless to roms like tasks. The tweaks are alot of different settings that do little to nothing unless your stock or on a less developed rom. If you look deep down in those apps they are just settings to different things that already have a custom setting from task and aokp that any developer can change.
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Is a 4.1.2 slower than a4.2.2 ROM?
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Is a 4.1.2 slower than a4.2.2 ROM?
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That's a question that is hard to quantify really. Yes, 4.2.2 has a tendency to be faster but its also not bogged down by TouchWiz either and most of the other bloat is gone from the ROMs as well. Its not really a fair comparison especially when you factor in that 4.2.2 uses 3.4 kernels and 4.1.2 does not.
Slightly, I don't feel it's very noticeable tbh. I am speaking from custom 4.1.2 Roms though.
Any custom rom should blow out non rooted stock imo. Regardless if it's touchwiz based or AOSP. These custom roms are debloated and tweaked for better performance.
I was absolutely happy with Touchwiz Roms. I only went to AOSP roms cause I wanted to try something new.
The only thing I miss are the extra camera features from touchwiz. Other than that, AOSP roms offer a lot for you to play around with.
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