[Q] enhancing the Google Edition experience - T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4

For those of you who've tried the Google edition Roms for the M919, you know that these are some of the best ways to enjoy a stable 4.3 Nexus-like experience on our phone. I personally enjoy the VirginRom, thanks to it's stability and also the patience and kindness of its developer, Mr. Virginia (check out his thread in Dev section).
My question is, what apps or mods do people use to enhance the Nexus experience on these Roms. For example, what app is good for adding notification toggles? Is there a mod for changing quick settings? Etc. Thanks.

Dr. Fed said:
For those of you who've tried the Google edition Roms for the M919, you know that these are some of the best ways to enjoy a stable 4.3 Nexus-like experience on our phone. I personally enjoy the VirginRom, thanks to it's stability and also the patience and kindness of its developer, Mr. Virginia (check out his thread in Dev section).
My question is, what apps or mods do people use to enhance the Nexus experience on these Roms. For example, what app is good for adding notification toggles? Is there a mod for changing quick settings? Etc. Thanks.
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For quick toggles, get widgetsoid, change it to black and put notification icon to none and you have a touchwiz/jb like status bar
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MrPapito429 said:
For quick toggles, get widgetsoid, change it to black and put notification icon to none and you have a touchwiz/jb like status bar
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Cool, I'll check widgetsoid out. Haven't used it since Froyo. I was using Settings Extended, simple and nice looking. But maybe Widgetsoid allows for larger toggles.
Too bad stock Android doesn't allow for Quick Settings customization, like CM 10.1 and CM 10.2. It just makes sense.

Dr. Fed said:
Cool, I'll check widgetsoid out. Haven't used it since Froyo. I was using Settings Extended, simple and nice looking. But maybe Widgetsoid allows for larger toggles.
Too bad stock Android doesn't allow for Quick Settings customization, like CM 10.1 and CM 10.2. It just makes sense.
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Juggernaut 5.0 rearranging quick toggles

I'm using the latest juggernaut and love it (smooth and stable). One missing feature is not being able to use quicktoggle settings. I've replaced the system ui apk and framework from another ROM and got it working but it made the notification bar laggy. Anyone have any suggestions?
Sadly I have never bothered trying to move the toggles on Juggernaut. However the current ROM and Kernel that I am using at the moment give me spectacular battery life and is very very smooth, even whilst underclocked. It also has the ability to rearrange the toggles out of the box. Refer to my siggy for my setup.
grimmjaw said:
I'm using the latest juggernaut and love it (smooth and stable). One missing feature is not being able to use quicktoggle settings. I've replaced the system ui apk and framework from another ROM and got it working but it made the notification bar laggy. Anyone have any suggestions?
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[JB] AOKP VS. CNA... Helping devs out!

Ok, I decided to start this thread in order for these roms to get better. It's not just a question of who's the best but this thread aims to provide both groups with users expreriences in order for their roms to get better. In order for us to do that we need to state our:
** likes for each rom
** dislikes
** battery life
** other bugs
** suggestions
If you ask why I choose those to roms, it's just because they're my two favorites. Respect to all devs here us their work is simly amazing. Thread starts while AOKP is on build 3 and CNA on 3.6 release.
The only thing that I hate about aokp is their notification toggles. It doesnt fit at all!! (In the JB statusbar) while the power widget from cm10 fits like google put it in. So if aokp redisigns their toggles it would be nice.
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CNA has an unroot option in the menu. Personally I prefer to have an unrooted device, but I like the customization of the ROM. It can be the best of both worlds.
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thegtfusion said:
The only thing that I hate about aokp is their notification toggles. It doesnt fit at all!! (In the JB statusbar) while the power widget from cm10 fits like google put it in. So if aokp redisigns their toggles it would be nice.
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See the toggles are what I love about aokp. I know I'm in the minority. Those toggles are stock jelly bean toggles just FYI.
RogerPodacter said:
See the toggles are what I love about aokp. I know I'm in the minority. Those toggles are stock jelly bean toggles just FYI.
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same here, those toggles are my favorite, that power widget is the first thing i get rid of - i think it's an eyesore.
I was on CNA and its good but missing some features that I like in AOKP & CM10. Like the cm10 percentage battery and Led options like in aokp Also the navbar soft key customization. The main thing I noticed about CNA that I didn't like was, receiving text messages is slow, it takes a long time to get a text from the person. The only other ROM to be slow with receiving SMS was MIUI jellybean.
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Winesnob said:
CNA has an unroot option in the menu. Personally I prefer to have an unrooted device, but I like the customization of the ROM. It can be the best of both worlds.
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where? I've never seen this option
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Stock Galaxy S3 Drop Down Menu?

Hello All
I'm currently on MS Team ROM which comes with 15 toggle menu and was wondering if I can get back the stock one?
Thank you
https://sites.google.com/site/vertumusworld/Ice-Cream-Sandwich-Domination
ILS_SuperNova said:
Hello All
I'm currently on MS Team ROM which comes with 15 toggle menu and was wondering if I can get back the stock one?
Thank you
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I believe you can flash mod for the stock toggle from raubkatze thread.
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losta said:
I believe you can flash mod for the stock toggle from raubkatze thread.
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Yeah this should work since MS roms are sammy based I believe, however, you won't get the authentic detail to detail touchwiz pulldown that you got with your s3 out of the box but it comes pretty close, and the extra mods like being able to change the status bar transparency and the colour of the notification close bar make it a fair trade off.
CardiacArrest said:
Yeah this should work since MS roms are sammy based I believe, however, you won't get the authentic detail to detail touchwiz pulldown that you got with your s3 out of the box but it comes pretty close, and the extra mods like being able to change the status bar transparency and the colour of the notification close bar make it a fair trade off.
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Smart Statusbar for AOSP ROMS

I got really tired of waiting for Samsung to release the JB update for my Bell Canada S3 and installed Task's AOKP ROM. I love the ROM and prefer the stock Google experience but miss some of the cool features Samsung added, mainly the ability to show the status bar in a fullscreen apps such as a game. Here is a video for those that don't know about this feature.
I have always been annoyed that i had to press the home button and exit out of my game/video to answer a text, change songs or whatever else might pop up on the notification bar and found myself using this allot when i got the S3, switch to AOKP i needed this back. Its just so simple and i'm surprised its not a native feature in Android.
But thankfully there is an app for that called Smart Statusbar which works well on my S3 and its free. I have tried this in MX Player and all my ga,mes like Angry Birds, Cut the Rope, Dead Trigger etc and it works on all.
TIP: Swipe from the bezel down and not from the top of the touch screen.
Thanks for the info. I am downloading the app now and going to try it out.

			
				
this was one of the features i missed the most coming from iOS to android.
Thank you very much!
Nice find!
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Awesome! Can't believe more people don't know about this.
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Anyone notice lag with this when in full screen games?
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nope
Thanks for the info.... its a great help////
just to point out it works on Android 4.2
Hopefully not a huge necropost, but this feature actually wasn't removed.
You have to swipe TWICE in stock TW. I used this app for a while before discovering it here:
http://techsplurge.com/10451/15-samsung-galaxy-s3-tips-tricks/
I'd have fewer apps installed, but to each his own.
ikjadoon said:
Hopefully not a huge necropost, but this feature actually wasn't removed.
You have to swipe TWICE in stock TW. I used this app for a while before discovering it here:
http://techsplurge.com/10451/15-samsung-galaxy-s3-tips-tricks/
I'd have fewer apps installed, but to each his own.
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That is the feature in TouchWiz that he was missing in AOKP.
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Duffman14 said:
That is the feature in TouchWiz that he was missing in AOKP.
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Sheesh, I'm blind....thanks,

Extinction of TouchWiz ROMs

So has development of TW ROMs stopped? Is there not any mods or tweaks left to make a unique TW ROM? I'm kind of getting bored of having the same styled ROMs because honestly all CM based ROMs are pretty much the same because of the fact that they are all CM based obviously. It was nice having TW and CM7. Then getting CM9 and CM10 and now CM10.1 but it seems that all the ROMs have the same basic settings and themes.
Avatar ROM was a little different and I liked it but not too much different since its also CM10.1 based. What I'm really looking for is a TW ROM with all the mods that they're used to be like the lockscreens and clock position in status bar and all the little things that made TW ROMs better. Do any of those even exist anymore for any phone?
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You not so satisfied with The People's and Legacy? I don't use them but they still seem popular after all this time.
And why not take time to theme and mod CM ROMs yourself? Themes, lockscreen mods, launchers and widgets are scattered around for you to revamp the experience. Personally I don't like non-AOSP style, but to imitate a GS3 I downloaded a "GS3-Addon", did a bit modification to it and flashed upon a CM10 nightly, which in the end turned out to be REALLY, REALLY similar experience to the real TouchWiz 5!
Just saying, you can try similar tricks yourself, though it takes some time
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AndyYan said:
You not so satisfied with The People's and Legacy? I don't use them but they still seem popular after all this time.
And why not take time to theme and mod CM ROMs yourself? Themes, lockscreen mods, launchers and widgets are scattered around for you to revamp the experience. Personally I don't like non-AOSP style, but to imitate a GS3 I downloaded a "GS3-Addon", did a bit modification to it and flashed upon a CM10 nightly, which in the end turned out to be REALLY, REALLY similar experience to the real TouchWiz 5!
Just saying, you can try similar tricks yourself, though it takes some time
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Could you post a screenshot of your TW 5? I'd like to see how close you've gotten. And your right about all that but I'm honestly just missing the good old TW ROMs that had amazing battery life and many tweaks and themes and stuff. I used to theme TW ROMs and worked on a few mods and I was doing pretty good but that was last summer. Since I started college I haven't really had much free time to work on that kind of stuff.
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lilajrestnom said:
Could you post a screenshot of your TW 5? I'd like to see how close you've gotten.
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Not SO close actually TW-specific apps are mostly missing. But apps like S Note, Super Video (floating video player on S3), TW5 launcher and widgets are all there. More I can't remember.
I'll post screenshots 2 days later as we're having tests these days and my E4G is currently on CM10.1 so I have to restore the nandroid backup.
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AndyYan said:
Not SO close actually TW-specific apps are mostly missing. But apps like S Note, Super Video (floating video player on S3), TW5 launcher and widgets are all there. More I can't remember.
I'll post screenshots 2 days later as we're having tests these days and my E4G is currently on CM10.1 so I have to restore the nandroid backup.
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Its cool don't worry about the screenshots.
Do you know a way to get the lockscreen on cm10.1 to be like it was on 10 and 9? I mean to have the rings with the shortcuts before the actual unlock pattern? Is there a way to change that? I wanna start working on my ROM to make it the way I actually want.
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lilajrestnom said:
Its cool don't worry about the screenshots.
Do you know a way to get the lockscreen on cm10.1 to be like it was on 10 and 9? I mean to have the rings with the shortcuts before the actual unlock pattern? Is there a way to change that? I wanna start working on my ROM to make it the way I actually want.
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nope, I don't know how to make it like that, sorry.
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I believe there is an option for that in settings-->lock screen somewhere in that menu
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phonehunter59 said:
I believe there is an option for that in settings-->lock screen somewhere in that menu
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It's not there in CM10.1, I checked.
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@lilajrestnom Hey I have an idea. Settings - Lockscreen - check "Maximize widgets". In this way you'll have to long press the lock icon on the bottom of the screen to bring up the lock security, which I think is just what you want. This is tested to work with "pattern" lock security.
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AndyYan said:
@lilajrestnom Hey I have an idea. Settings - Lockscreen - check "Maximize widgets". In this way you'll have to long press the lock icon on the bottom of the screen to bring up the lock security, which I think is just what you want. This is tested to work with "pattern" lock security.
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Ya I've done that and that's the closest I can get to what I actually want. I really just wanted the real rings before the pattern lock but it seems like that's the best I can do for now thanks tho.
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