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Hey everybody; just wondering if it's normal to constantly be flashing different things - kernels, recoveries, ROMs, etc. I just got my phone three weeks ago and I just can't stop long enough to decide if I'm happy with something before I try flashing something else. I think I need serious help, I just can't seem to stop. I'm getting insane battery time now using the stock rom from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739426 and using ktoonsez kernel. So far I have managed to survive just over twelve hours without flashing something...:laugh:
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Hey everybody; just wondering if it's normal to constantly be flashing different things - kernels, recoveries, ROMs, etc. I just got my phone three weeks ago and I just can't stop long enough to decide if I'm happy with something before I try flashing something else. I think I need serious help, I just can't seem to stop. I'm getting insane battery time now using the stock rom from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739426 and using ktoonsez kernel. So far I have managed to survive just over twelve hours without flashing something...:laugh:
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Lol. Yeah its a common addiction on these forums. Don't worry. You will get tired of stuff not working or setting everything back up and eventually stick with something. It may take a year though lol.
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GladdBag said:
Hey everybody; just wondering if it's normal to constantly be flashing different things - kernels, recoveries, ROMs, etc. I just got my phone three weeks ago and I just can't stop long enough to decide if I'm happy with something before I try flashing something else. I think I need serious help, I just can't seem to stop. I'm getting insane battery time now using the stock rom from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739426 and using ktoonsez kernel. So far I have managed to survive just over twelve hours without flashing something...:laugh:
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Haha you... have the flashing fever
Gizmoe said:
Lol. Yeah its a common addiction on these forums. Don't worry. You will get tired of stuff not working or setting everything back up and eventually stick with something. It may take a year though lol.
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Or if he gets lucky enough and meets a hrd brick.
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I Got the bug on my gs2. Tried to develop but than life got crazy. I can take up a lot of time
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Hey. After I flash a new rom, the phone is super quick and respones very well. Buy after a few days, it starts to get laggy. When I am presaing the soft keys it takes a couple of seconds to respond, apps loading times can reach about 20 seconds, contacts loading too. I am using the GSM Gnex with CNA 3.8 rom and franco kernel r298. The lags occurred with XenonHD too. Dont get me wrong, I am not complaining about the developers, I am just trying to figure out if I am doing something wrong.
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bar_rodoy said:
Hey. After I flash a new rom, the phone is super quick and respones very well. Buy after a few days, it starts to get laggy. When I am presaing the soft keys it takes a couple of seconds to respond, apps loading times can reach about 20 seconds, contacts loading too. I am using the GSM Gnex with CNA 3.8 rom and franco kernel r298. The lags occurred with XenonHD too. Dont get me wrong, I am not complaining about the developers, I am just trying to figure out if I am doing something wrong.
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Are you rebooting your phone or just leaving it on for weeks at a time?
I remember someone saying it has to do with the zram optimizations in roms and kernels. at first it makes things faster and the the idea implemented is good in theory but over time it makes things unbearably slow. i dont know the technical reasons for this, someone with more knowledge than me may be able to explain it.
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I forgot to mention, its getting worse when I download or update app from the Play Store. During the download process the phone realy lagg.
063_xbox, the phone restarts itself sometimes when I use it...
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bar_rodoy said:
I forgot to mention, its getting worse when I download or update app from the Play Store. During the download process the phone realy lagg.
063_xbox, the phone restarts itself sometimes when I use it...
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Obviously downloading from the Play Store is using system resources (RAM, a % of the processor etc.) so a slow down is to be expected.
The phone restarting itself =/= to rebooting it regularly. Just like your computer you shouldn't leave it running 24/7. Sometimes you just need to give your phone a restart.
I think the lags are related to the heatcof the Gnex. Maybe the my cheap case makes it worse. I will check without case so it have more contact with the air. I will report the results.
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I've noticed the same lag after few days. It's really frustrating to see your phone very fast and then kind of choppy....
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It looks almost like a memory leak. (That was a big problem on exynos devices runing cm10). It happened to me today (latest nightly cm10), Once my free ram was less than 100 mb the phone became noticeably less responsive.
Sane here!!! Thought it was just me... lol. I was running black bean baked! I love it but became super laggy! Almost threw it across my room lol. But just clashed slim bean and hope its bad ROM coding :-/.
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I understand that custom roms do have great features but let me tell you something, after I switched from the S3 I decided not to flash any rom, I just used the nexus toolkit to root it and of course install franco kernel, since then the experience has been amazing, I'm just very careful with the apps I install, cheers!
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I've experienced the same on about every JB setup I've tried. A reboot tends to purge assets and get me truckin' again for several days though.
I recommend keeping it stock you people, stock almost never lags unless u use the google+ app
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Let me just chime in with the same advice as the previous poster: Try the stock rom. 99% of your problems will magically disappear.
lsv-1 said:
I understand that custom roms do have great features but let me tell you something, after I switched from the S3 I decided not to flash any rom, I just used the nexus toolkit to root it and of course install franco kernel, since then the experience has been amazing, I'm just very careful with the apps I install, cheers!
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Wow! If you only knew that no matter which ROM you're running, the majority of bugs are caused by the kernel. You did not make a smart choice on kernel my friend.
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Soldier-2Point0 said:
Wow! If you only knew that no matter which ROM you're running, the majority of bugs are caused by the kernel. You did not make a smart choice on kernel my friend.
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Ok, so, what kernel you think is a smart choice my friend?
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Ok, so, what kernel you think is a smart choice my friend?
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Stock, of course! :wink: :wink:
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Are you rebooting your phone or just leaving it on for weeks at a time?
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Soldier-2Point0 said:
Stock, of course! :wink: :wink:
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Yup u are right. Many people used to tell that Franco kernel is the best and stuff but even that after using for a few days gets slow whereas in stock all that crap doesn't happen. I still use Franco because games work smoother on it compared to stock. Even the battery life is inconsistent. Just try stock after weeks and Franco right after a reboot still stock will be overall faster and smoother.
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Stock, of course! :wink: :wink:
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LOL, unfortunately I need franco's kernel (or any other custom kernel) to do things that the stock doesn't allow, i. e modify the colors of the screen (I hate yellowish whites) use pgm2 aka slide to wake, use louder patch and modify specific cpu parameters.
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lsv-1 said:
LOL, unfortunately I need franco's kernel (or any other custom kernel) to do things that the stock doesn't allow, i. e modify the colors of the screen (I hate yellowish whites) use pgm2 aka slide to wake, use louder patch and modify specific cpu parameters.
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Yeah, that the point. I want to change the screen color settings... Franco's kernel allows you to do that.
I am going to change to team EOS rom and check it for a few days. If I have problems with that one I am going back to stock rom.
Hey, i tried out JellyBam and i keep getting weird things like internet connection problems and sometimes it will go into safe mode. Can someone tell me which roms will be good for a daily driver with the least amounts of bugs?
The People's Rom....good day
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Every single ROM for this phone is great one way or another.
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I personally got freegs3.... Love the stock look and very stable.
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I love using Team Sonic-FreeGS3. I started using them from their JBv1 and currently on v3. I have yet to have any major issues with it.
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The People's Rom....good day
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I'll second that for TPR. You can't go wrong with TPR and Morpholgy! Sooo many options!!!!
joshuadjohnson22 said:
Hey, i tried out JellyBam and i keep getting weird things like internet connection problems and sometimes it will go into safe mode. Can someone tell me which roms will be good for a daily driver with the least amounts of bugs?
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Well it depends, most roms will be fine if they are <= the version of the current Samsung release, but if they are higher, than you can expect things like 4G and some other misc things not working because these things have to be built from source and its harder to get working when there is no foundation to work off of. Just a general tip for any Android phone
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ROMs are very personal preference oriented. I could tell you that FreeGS3 is awesome, but you could find things that you don't like about it.
Everyone has their own preference.
The idea is to either find the one that you like JUST ABOUT everything in and everything that YOU do works in it and stick with it or eventually just make your own. I'm going to guess that you're not quite that informed on the topic of cooking ROMs. Don't take that the wrong way, I'm not saying you're incompetent in any way, just drawing the conclusion that if you were attuned to it, you'd probably not be asking here and already be making it the way you like Besides, it's no easy feat, I know.
So, instead of taking someone else's word... I would suggest simply getting a good Titanium Backup of your stuff and start swapping out ROMs here and there and just trying them out for a day or two, see how it works out.
If it's not quite what you want, just try another one.
Now if you care for my opinion, personally, I've found that FreeGS3 works for me because it has a nice mix of the Stock Look and Feel with all the extra added feature sets.
I recommend team shotgun! The best rom it has all the Google apps stocked!
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I rooted and installed custom roms just for multi Window bit decided to unroot when the ota AT&T update for multi window came out... since then I noticed a decent amount of batt decrease and a slighr lag here and there... considering going back to cleanrom... also noticed that pulling a app over from multiwindow bar sometimes only allows full screen not half.... please someone talk me out of it... I do like stock for ease of updates etc...
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Its all peraonal preference my friend. Its your phone. Do what you want to with it:thumbup:
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mrklc1974 said:
I rooted and installed custom roms just for multi Window bit decided to unroot when the ota AT&T update for multi window came out... since then I noticed a decent amount of batt decrease and a slighr lag here and there... considering going back to cleanrom... also noticed that pulling a app over from multiwindow bar sometimes only allows full screen not half.... please someone talk me out of it... I do like stock for ease of updates etc...
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One of the best thing about custom roms is that you get all the goodies before the updates that sometimes come months later if at all.For me,when I flash a custom rom on my android device it finally becomes mine.Until then you are literally AT&T/Verizon's etc,etc,etc *****.With all that useless crap on your phone that is forced on you without a choice.I personally like to have full control over what is on my device especially because now a days these "toys" cost as much as my laptop.Again,my personal preference.If anything I would try to talk you into re-rooting.LOL
p.s I am running cleanRom and it is absolutely the bees knees.
technut said:
One of the best thing about custom roms is that you get all the goodies before the updates that sometimes come months later if at all.For me,when I flash a custom rom on my android device it finally becomes mine.Until then you are literally AT&T/Verizon's etc,etc,etc *****.With all that useless crap on your phone that is forced on you without a choice.I personally like to have full control over what is on my device especially because now a days these "toys" cost as much as my laptop.Again,my personal preference.If anything I would try to talk you into re-rooting.LOL
p.s I am running cleanRom and it is absolutely the bees knees.
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Amen. The battery life, at least in my experience, is unquestionably superior on Jedi vs stock, and i fought hardddd to stay stock like constantly diagnosing wake locks and battery usage.
Or you can flash a different kernel
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mrklc1974 said:
I rooted and installed custom roms just for multi Window bit decided to unroot when the ota AT&T update for multi window came out... since then I noticed a decent amount of batt decrease and a slighr lag here and there... considering going back to cleanrom... also noticed that pulling a app over from multiwindow bar sometimes only allows full screen not half.... please someone talk me out of it... I do like stock for ease of updates etc...
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Well...duh...did you honestly expect something better than what you had ? Did you suddenly expect a pushed update from AT&T to offer you a better experiance than those 3 custom roms ? Ease of updates...? I don't get it...Are you actually trying to say relying on a OTA update is easier than actually flashing a new update yourself ? Are you saying waiting and waiting and hoping you get a good ota download and it flashes properly for you..is better than being able to flash and being able to reflash if you actually need it ?
Sorry if I sound rude...but come on...get real would you...You knew the benifits going in and why you rooted it and flashed them..and now you want folks to paint a all rosey picture that a full blown unrooted phone is better than a rooted one running those 3 custom roms...Sorry...it ain't going to happen unless it is coming from someone who didn't install something correctly..or just perfers the bloat and limitations of a stock phone..
If you want & like the stock feel and look...flash Scott's AT&T special edition of his Clean rom..It's debloated..and he has linked to some theming for it..
If you want to go way beyond..wait for Truth's new one out later today or tommorrow..It's fully themed..debloated..has all the latest & greatest available..is fast..and everything works on it..What more could you want...
Personally...I won't ever run a stock phone on purpose after the allowable return time for it..Triangle away has removed the worry of returning it for service..and TWRP has made flashing anything a non issue as well..
It's your phone..run it the way you want to..and be happy..but please don't ask on a developers forum to be convinced to stay on a stock rom..that is just plain lame...IMHO
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I know exactly what you mean and I did feel the same way. Samsung has done an amazing job with this phone. However I have used Jedi, miscoms international roms, cleanrom, now on cleanatt. I have found with a on a custom kernel either persus or the aslyum/note2core. As long as I undervolted and didn't over clock my battery life was a lot better than stock and phone was much quicker and responsive over stock and still had all the great features. We have some awesome devs here for roms and kernels. To me is a very hard choice on what rom to stay on as well as kernel. They are all amazing in there own ways and in my opinion all awesome. I hope no devs flame me I'm just saying they are all very intelligent people at this and I see great things in all there work. AS FOR NOW. I'm on Scotts dedicated at&T. I have took around 40 user and system apps that "I" consider bloat and running persus kernel with the profile zip of 2 offered. My battery life is insane. All day of heavy use and still about 70perecnt left after 8 hours or so. Hope I may have helped you or someone else. I love open source
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I have been over clocked to 1800 and above on Jedi and pulled over 2 days off charger with over 8 hours screen time. If you want to stick with stock look, Clean Special build and definitely a kernel. They pull the debugging crap out, optimize voltages, etc. Kernel devs have been working magic...and finding bugs that Sammy, HTC, missed
Edit...patiently waiting for that Blackout later today.
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mrklc1974 said:
... considering going back to cleanrom... .... please someone talk me out of it... I do like stock for ease of updates etc...
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Well...if you want to stay stock...you could try disabling various stock apps that you don't need via settings:app mgr...it's hard to hurt anything and you can always re-able them.
other than that
I think updates are "cleanrom" are pretty easy. Named "clean..." for a reason and I feel like it's stock with added benefits. Have fun deciding.
mrklc1974 said:
I rooted and installed custom roms just for multi Window bit decided to unroot when the ota AT&T update for multi window came out... since then I noticed a decent amount of batt decrease and a slighr lag here and there... considering going back to cleanrom... also noticed that pulling a app over from multiwindow bar sometimes only allows full screen not half.... please someone talk me out of it... I do like stock for ease of updates etc...
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Custom rom always. I ran my Note 2 stocked for 2 days and could not stand it. I had to because I was out of town for those 2 days. I suggest you load the Jelly Thunder Blackout 3.0 ROM asap. You'll love it.
I bought a second one white this time just got this reason. One to root to death and one totally stock. Just got the ota on the stock one and already miss tapatalk in the multi window. Once the allshare bug gets fixed universally (built into ROM) I think they both will be rooted
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Jelly thunder is where its at the dark theme is everywhere
The reason it goes full screen on some apps is because not all apps work with half screen. Not stock anyway.
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just_visiting said:
Custom rom always. I ran my Note 2 stocked for 2 days and could not stand it. I had to because I was out of town for those 2 days. I suggest you load the Jelly Thunder Blackout 3.0 ROM asap. You'll love it.
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running that since day one! Jedi didn't play some of my videos so didn't use it! Plus blackout is what you want. Much better!
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Jelly thunder is where its at the dark theme is everywhere
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Agree 100%, geared for the older folks on xda. Lol
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Yeah im running jelly thunder on my note 2. But some reason its model is galaxy nexus.. but im loving roms. Come back to the dark side. Less bloat ware. And everything you need on your phone.
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808shorty said:
Yeah im running jelly thunder on my note 2. But some reason its model is galaxy nexus.. but im loving roms. Come back to the dark side. Less bloat ware. And everything you need on your phone.
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Well u did not follow complete instructions on installing the rom. You will be running into problems if u don't fix asap.
Has the 4.4 update fixed random reboots for anyone? I am have not gotten the 4.4 OTA yet, but was hoping it may fix the reboots.
Right now I get a reboot even two days or so, mostly (not always) when the screen is off. I am pretty sure it's a software issue, at least for me.
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cowisland said:
Has the 4.4 update fixed random reboots for anyone? I am have not gotten the 4.4 OTA yet, but was hoping it may fix the reboots.
Right now I get a reboot even two days or so, mostly (not always) when the screen is off. I am pretty sure it's a software issue, at least for me.
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I still get them with 4.4.
Thanks, there goes my hope...
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cowisland said:
Thanks, there goes my hope...
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I had this issue... maybe 2 or 3 time / week
after upgrading to 4.4.... it happened, but only once in the last 2 weeks...
So i'm not sure if there is an improvement or not
Just got the OTA. Will report back in a couple of days.
After the second JB OTA I had no reboots, so I know it's possible! Overvolt baby overvolt...
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Reboots
I've had no reboots for a couple of weeks, when I don't install any unknown apps. As soon as I install a few unknown apps, I start getting 1-4 reboots per day. I've already tried flashing a fresh factory image and a ton of other things. I'm fairly certain that anyone with reboot problems should create bug reports and flood google with every single bug report until they fix it. In another six months, they'll probably say that they no longer officially support the device or something equally messed up.
support dot google dot com /nexus/contact/bugreport
I have my n7 for about a week and had no single reboot yet.
Running on 4.4 (ART).
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