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How can i remove bloat from a rom?

i got a rooted rom that i'm going to install. but i want to know some things i can do:
1 - how i can remove the bloat?
2 - what bloat is safe to remove?
3 - are there risks to removing some bloat that the system might need?
heres the link thats got the rom i want to mod:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1771687

After you flash the ROM, install titanium backup. You can remove bloatware with that app. Anything T-Mobile you can remove.
They call me "Jelly" cuz jam don't shake like this!

Don't you prefer to install custom rom? Many custom roms have bloat already removed. I recommend FrostyJB, very stable, most of bloat removed, long battery life.
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Jelly419 said:
After you flash the ROM, install titanium backup. You can remove bloatware with that app. Anything T-Mobile you can remove.
They call me "Jelly" cuz jam don't shake like this!
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i'll do that.. thanks.
HajmeR said:
Don't you prefer to install custom rom? Many custom roms have bloat already removed. I recommend FrostyJB, very stable, most of bloat removed, long battery life.
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can you recommend an ICS-based custom rom? i dont like JB at all.. thanks.

xenin said:
can you recommend an ICS-based custom rom? i dont like JB at all.. thanks.
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I wasn't using any ics based roms so nothing from my personal experience. I know that there was Frosty based on ics, I saw it somewhere. If it is as good as his jb based then you should be happy with it. I recommend going to development forum and checking the most popular roms, you should find something interesting. Sorry for not providing much help in that matter. I just don't have much experience with sgs3 ics based roms.
Good luck
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HajmeR said:
I wasn't using any ics based roms so nothing from my personal experience. I know that there was Frosty based on ics, I saw it somewhere. If it is as good as his jb based then you should be happy with it. I recommend going to development forum and checking the most popular roms, you should find something interesting. Sorry for not providing much help in that matter. I just don't have much experience with sgs3 ics based roms.
Good luck
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thanks anyway.. i appreciate the follow up.

Cyanogen mod 9
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Android_Monsters said:
Cyanogen mod 9
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That has no bloat, but also you lose Samsung exclusive (tw based) futures like motion or smart stay, and it may have more bugs. But this is very good option for some. I'm running right now one of cm10 based ROMs and I love completely bloat free experience. Battery life is incredible. But I miss smart stay and few motion gestures.
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Root & install SU + BusyBox.
Install terminal emulator from the market.
Fire up the emulator & go to town on APKs in /system/app.
For the APKs you find annoying & not spelled to your preference....or you simply wanna claim a Fatah on, delete.
Win.

[Q] Need help with Camera

Where can I find a modded Galaxy S3 camera app, that can toggle the shutter sound? I have 4.1.2 camera, but the quality sucks on it, and it lacks options I missed in the Stock camera. Thanks if anyone can help me

Are you rooted? What Rom are u using? That option is included in most custom roms, most of which have the stock camera apk. I am using FreeGS3 by clark44. The cam is amazing and the rom is quick and smooth with no major issues and updates are released fairly often.
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dbenney said:
Are you rooted? What Rom are u using? That option is included in most custom roms, most of which have the stock camera apk. I am using FreeGS3 by clark44. The cam is amazing and the rom is quick and smooth with no major issues and updates are released fairly often.
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I am rooted, running Jellybam v3.2.0.

4.2.2 ROMS

Is there any real difference between CarbonRom and liquid smooth ROMS as both are based on 4.2.2 !!

There are minor differences between the two. Honestly, I've been switching between the two for a few weeks now, and I still don't know which one I like better. They are both supported regularly by awesome devs.
I know this isn't the answer you wanted, but I'd say try them both out and see which one you prefer. I eventually landed on Liquid Smooth, but it wasbasically a coin toss.
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smartguy10 said:
Is there any real difference between CarbonRom and liquid smooth ROMS as both are based on 4.2.2 !!
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From what I noticed in general daily use, LiquidSmooth has an hdr feature in their camera, and a few more customization options (qs tiles color settings, notification drawer) but probably only because they have a more current release. I'm pretty sure Carbon will implement these features as well in their next release.
Performance wise, at least for my phone, there aren't any noticeable differences. Both use linaro (i think) but then again, results vary for each phone.

Yeah liquidsmooth has hdr feature but no photosphere which can be flashed also. Basically it all comes to what features are included in both rom and which gets regular updates through goo manager
Does liquid smooth has options to disable camera shutter sound .
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smartguy10 said:
Yeah liquidsmooth has hdr feature but no photosphere which can be flashed also. Basically it all comes to what features are included in both rom and which gets regular updates through goo manager
Does liquid smooth has options to disable camera shutter sound .
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Yes, if you put your phone on mute or vibrate the shutter sound is off. It basically follows your devices sound profile lol.

Don't see a need to start another thread another 4.2.2 roms so I will ask here. In any of them can I set it up so if i have a pattern for the lockscreen I don't have to put it in when accessing the camera?
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shazo85 said:
Don't see a need to start another thread another 4.2.2 roms so I will ask here. In any of them can I set it up so if i have a pattern for the lockscreen I don't have to put it in when accessing the camera?
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Lockscreen camera widget. Can take a pic literally from the lockscreen!

I can't find anything on the market with that name. Can you post a link to it? Everything I have tried I still have to put in the pattern to unlock the phone before I can use the camera.

shazo85 said:
I can't find anything on the market with that name. Can you post a link to it? Everything I have tried I still have to put in the pattern to unlock the phone before I can use the camera.
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Bro you are running the newest Liquid Smooth (v2.1 STABLE) right?! If you are:
1. Go to settings
2. Go to "Lockscreen" (right under "Interface")
3. Scroll all the way down to "Widgets"
4. Check the "Camera Widget" box (shows the camera widget on lockscreen)
5. Lock your phone
6. Wake your phone up, and from the lockscreen scroll to the right and... BAM there's your camera and you can take a pic from the lockscreen!
Hope that helps!

No, I'm not. I have not rooted yet. I was wondering if one of the roms talked about did what I was looking for. Now that I know Liquid Smooth rom does I plan on rooting this weekend and running it.

shazo85 said:
No, I'm not. I have not rooted yet. I was wondering if one of the roms talked about did what I was looking for. Now that I know Liquid Smooth rom does I plan on rooting this weekend and running it.
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Built right into the ROM. But it is built into most (if not all) 4.2 based ROMs.

Camera can't connect

Hello all, as the title states, I'm getting a camera error when flashing any aosp based Rom. Camera works great on tw based roms, but not aosp. I ONLY clean flash, and even tried fixing permissions with no luck. Can anyone help?
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Can you explain, connect to what?
Have a great day!

edfunkycold said:
Can you explain, connect to what?
Have a great day!
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sorry, i guess i had better get detailed (i've been around long enough to know better). So here goes.....
up until here recently i've been comfortable and satisfied enough with TW. i haven't really wanted to try aosp. but the times they are a changing and im really interested in halo and the different UI changes that come after 4.1.2
i'm very comfortable flashing between cwm and twrp and have a decent enough knowledge about android flashing(4th modded android device).
Now on to it.....
The past few days i've wanted the new features enough to break away from TW and try something fresh and new. I'm not a dirty flasher and 9 out of 10 times i format /system right along as part of the process using both twrp and cwm(depending on op's installation instructions). so far i've tried slim bean, liquid smooth, pac-man, and paranoid with the same outcome...
when trying to open up any camera app, whether native or downloaded from play store, an error message pops up that states 'Can't Connect to Camera', then the app closes itself
at the suggestion of someone else, i've rebooted into recovery, wiped cache/dalvik, fix permission, then rebooted with a 0% success rate.
i just can't seem to figure it out and have been using google with no luck...........PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!
any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, Thanks
edit: is there any way to make a tar file out of a rom zip and flash via odin?- nvm

Ok you should go into app manager in settings and clear data there or if you use Titanium backup clear data for that particular app itself.
You do know the camera and gallery Ecole one in the same on 4.2 or higher. Which means that if you have deleted or frozen the gallery itself or done anything to it it will also do what you are describing.
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Ok you should go into app manager in settings and clear data there or if you use Titanium backup clear data for that particular app itself.
You do know the camera and gallery Ecole one in the same on 4.2 or higher. Which means that if you have deleted or frozen the gallery itself or done anything to it it will also do what you are describing.
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thanks again for the quick reply, i was unaware of the gallery being the same app as the actual camera app, that's good info to have
but that fact makes this even weirder as i can access the gallery just fine, still no camera
i took your suggestion and cleared data for the gallery in both 'manage apps' and 'titanium' with no success.
the aosp roms boot up and operate just fine with the exception of the camera
anything else you could think of, thanks again

Anyone else have any idea?
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Look in the thee and app section you will find 4.2 camera there, just delete yours ad flash one of the ones you find.
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edfunkycold said:
Look in the thee and app section you will find 4.2 camera there, just delete yours ad flash one of the ones you find.
Have a great day!
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FYI - With some of the newer phones (Like my Virgin Mobile MG2 baseband) the camera will "not connect" with any CM / AOSP ROMs. Ive tried several different camera (Photosphere and such) with no joy. Ill keep checking though.

Should I try flashing a different baseband? I'm on md4 right now.
Also, I tried flashing the nex2zip 4.2 camera with the same results. Gallery works, no camera
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Have you dropped your phone recently?
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No, I didn't drop phone recently. This is not a hardware issue as the camera works just fine on tw based roms. Also, I don't believe this is a "newer" s3 as aosp roms boot up and operate just fine.
Thanks for the response tho
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Do you have any other gallery, camera, photo app etc... That could be interfering? It doesn't make sense. Also anything synced like Picasa, G+ etc... Shut that down.
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lancemulvihill85 said:
No, I didn't drop phone recently. This is not a hardware issue as the camera works just fine on tw based roms. Also, I don't believe this is a "newer" s3 as aosp roms boot up and operate just fine.
Thanks for the response tho
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Exactly which ROMs have you tried? Sorry, just getting in some details.
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Exactly which ROMs have you tried? Sorry, just getting in some details.
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no need to be sorry, I appreciate you trying to help. In my 3rd post, I mention the roms I've tried, so far....
Slim bean 4.2.2
Slim bean 4.3
Liquid smooth 4.2.2
Pac man 4.3
Paranoid android 4.2.2 and
Paranoid android 4.3
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lancemulvihill85 said:
no need to be sorry, I appreciate you trying to help. In my 3rd post, I mention the roms I've tried, so far....
Slim bean 4.2.2
Slim bean 4.3
Liquid smooth 4.2.2
Pac man 4.3
Paranoid android 4.2.2 and
Paranoid android 4.3
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Have you tried one of the cyanogenmod 10.1.3 RCs? Do a clean install and try that. I would also try the Cm10 (4.1.2) version to see if it fails there too.
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edfunkycold said:
Do you have any other gallery, camera, photo app etc... That could be interfering? It doesn't make sense. Also anything synced like Picasa, G+ etc... Shut that down.
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Never thought about g+ interference. Great idea, I'm out off town right now, when I get home tomorrow I'll definitely try getting rid of or disabling that
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Whiplashh said:
Have you tried one of the cyanogenmod 10.1.3 RCs? Do a clean install and try that. I would also try the Cm10 (4.1.2) version to see if it fails there too.
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I never thought to try cm 10. I'm currently running moar Rom as my daily for now, I'll definitely try that one and the rc3. I've been away from home for a couple days and will try when I get back
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Whiplashh said:
Have you tried one of the cyanogenmod 10.1.3 RCs? Do a clean install and try that. I would also try the Cm10 (4.1.2) version to see if it fails there too.
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Never thought to try cm10, and will also try the rc, thanks a lot for trying to help guys
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I'm interested in this thread as the same thing is happening to me. Currently running MD4 stock, and each time I back up to flash a non-Touchwiz ROM and flash it, the camera stops working. Currently tried CM 10.1.0 stable, CM 10.2 nightlies, Slim Bean 4.2.2, Slim Bean 4.3, Vanilla Rootbox 4.2.2, Vanilla Rootbox 4.3, and PAC-Man 4.3. Reflashing stock MD4 from Odin, restoring the TWRP backup, or flashing MOAR or a similar Touchwiz ROM gets it working again. Want to get this working since I want a different ROM, preferably Slim or the like. Camera firmware starts with GK.

[ROM] [VECTUS] GN2 [V0.6] 4.4.2 (02-09-2014)

Ok I don't have a fancy Name folks... So GoogleNote2 (GN2) will suffice... This is just a little hobby rom I use. It's based on CM and designed to mimick the Nexus 5. So KISS is the word (keep it simple stupid). This rom is not fancy at all... It's vanilla actually. But thats for a reason... So YOU the user can add what you like and take away... Make it YOUR kitkat if you will... There's no fancy pics, no fancy graphics... It's just a rom...
What's in this (v0.6)....
Yes I know it's v0.6, It should actually be v1.4, is that even more confusing?... Yep
Based on CM, it has all CM parts. IE all issues CM has
MANY tweaks. Foe example (naming a few and not all):
Screen density 280
Wifi Scan Interval 325
Window Max Events 175
Lots of init.d Tweaks (some not all):
SD Card speed 7168
Zipalign on Boot
Battery Calibration
Ziplaign Data
This rom uses XTweaks found HERE (Plus my own and some of XTweaks adjusted for the N2)
NO SMS/MMS app (download what you want or use Hangouts or may I suggest 8sms?)
Moffice
Sprint Voicemail
Playstore
Google Launcher
SolCalendar
Has N5 Alarms, Notifications, Ringtones, and Bootanimation
NOTE: I don't have an agreement with Google therefore I don't need to use Gapps (the playstore is included)
How to flash:
First time installing to your Galaxy Note 2 (SPRn2) L900, or coming from another ROM:
- If you use a recovery OTHER than CWM based. I can't help you.
- Copy the rom ZIP to your SDCard
- Boot into Recovery
- DO A DATA WIPE / FACTORY RESET
- DO A CACHE WIPE
- Flash the rom zip from SDCard
- Reboot
- Don't restore system data using Titanium Backup!
- Restoring Apps + Data might cause problems and is not recommended, avoid it if possible!
- Once you boot allow it to call Sprint
- Hit 1
- Hit end
- Hit skip
- Hit skip
- set up your phone....
Thanks:
CyanogenMod for CM
Samsung for the N2
Google for android
LG FOR THE N5
DorianX for XTweaks
gyrene2083
My own wallpapers HERE (just DL and unzip to your sdcard)
Source HERE
ROM:
v0.6
size: 287 MB
md5: 5fe576f4d85c3a35bf00f2c81d8f5b8b
DOWNLOAD 1
DOWNLOAD 2
Tester 02-09-2014 HERE
XDA:DevDB Information
GN2 for the Sprint Note 2, a ROM for the Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II
Contributors
VECTUS, gyrene2083
ROM OS Version: 4.4.x KitKat
ROM Kernel: Linux 3.0.x
ROM Firmware Required: Be on a Sprint Note 2 TW rom
Based On: CyanogenMod, and Nexus 5 Aosp
Version Information
Status: Testing
Current Stable Version: Note Yet
Created 2014-01-25
Last Updated 2014-02-09

Nice !
Thanks for making a plain Nexus like rom I may just have to try this out !

I would assume this rom is awesome!

Amazing Rom if it works like it says........ wonder if the note 3 will get it ? will it be called .7 version ?

oka1 said:
Amazing Rom if it works like it says........ wonder if the note 3 will get it ? will it be called .7 version ?
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Ha, Maybe I could port it... It does boot btw lol:good:

so far so good! thanks for the new rom; very smooth!!:good:

Does hdmi out work on this rom? Or is that a no go on all cm based roms
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That's, as far as I know, a no for note 2 AOSP ROMs general.
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bonebeatz1234 said:
Does hdmi out work on this rom? Or is that a no go on all cm based roms
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Hmmm. If it doesn't work on other aosp ROMs before I didn't add it... Interesting question that I will look into most definetly... :good:

If you get that working I'm done with tw. I use it alot if you can get that going that Would be awesome
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Think I found a hdmi fix will try it out in a bit
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Well I tried this out and figured I would share my thoughts. First the Op needs a bit of fixing.
1. kernel is stated as 3.4 when it is a 3.0.xx kernel.
2. Sms/mms is stated as not installed but you have hangouts installed
Everything looks good and seems to run OK. Although there is little difference between this and the cm11 source it is made from. Now don't take any of this as negative feedback. Keep up the good work. Looking forward to seeing how this evolves.
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Lookin forward to giving this a go.
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jlmancuso said:
Well I tried this out and figured I would share my thoughts. First the Op needs a bit of fixing.
1. kernel is stated as 3.4 when it is a 3.0.xx kernel.
2. Sms/mms is stated as not installed but you have hangouts installed
Everything looks good and seems to run OK. Although there is little difference between this and the cm11 source it is made from. Now don't take any of this as negative feedback. Keep up the good work. Looking forward to seeing how this evolves.
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1. Yes I've corrected that typo. My apologies and thank you for bringing it to my attention.
2. I'm not sure what you are stating except what I have already stated. As I stated in op it doesn't have an Sms/MMS app but does include hangouts. Other SMS apps (downloadable from the playstore) will work if you need one and I suggested 8sms.
Thank you for your feedback and I didn't take anything negative from it at all. I actually appreciate you taking the time to post:good:

Thank you for keeping this device alive. Love the ROM

Error (509)
This account's public links are generating too much traffic and have been temporarily disabled!:crying::crying::crying:

yes it seems dropbox has a traffic issue or they limit the bandwith to downloads or how many users can access that one file. which is over 1million atleast
I recommend using Goo im

broken camera
Great ROM nice and smooth. One problem is camera doesn't work I flashed it twice and can't get it to work.

shawn1482 said:
Great ROM nice and smooth. One problem is camera doesn't work I flashed it twice and can't get it to work.
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just snapped a few pics.... worked fine for me

shawn1482 said:
Great ROM nice and smooth. One problem is camera doesn't work I flashed it twice and can't get it to work.
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OP said he downloaded camera 360 then his regular one started working.
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crking1980 said:
Thank you for keeping this device alive. Love the ROM
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I don't use Goo but uploading to androidfilehost for a 2nd DL. I didn't think this would need a second DL for traffic lol... But uploading now...
Edit: Uploaded. Its download 1
shawn1482 said:
Great ROM nice and smooth. One problem is camera doesn't work I flashed it twice and can't get it to work.
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Yes as the op stated camera may or may not have an issue... I used Camera360 from the playstore and it worked... I'm still working the issue:good: