I've been using stock-based custom roms for about 6 month. But I feel like the roms kinda 'heavy' with touchwiz and all samsung bloatware. I wanted to use a lighter rom (CynogenMod and other pure android). But I'm afraid I cannot use S Note apps as Im a student and use the S note to take any kind of notes. Any S note cant be used, any other way to make it work on those roms?
Thank you in advance n have a nice day
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I may be way out of line here and if so I apologize - however coming from the Galaxy Nexus to the Galaxy Note 3 I'm mostly pretty happy except with certain aspects of Samsungs software stupidity that I can't seem to get rid of. I've been using the GEL and its amazing but I want to get back to "stock android" as much as possible. This means getting rid of the assnine Gingerbread-era settings menus, dialers, people app and other apps that look like they were plucked from my Droid X from 3 years ago.
Am I being unreasonable when I look at the available ROM's on the T-mo section and see that there aren't any kitkat ROMs available yet? Is there a development hurdle for the Galaxy devices that makes it impossible to make a AOSP-based ROM? (As if it needs to be said, I'm not a developer).
I love the hardware and the S-pen functionality (why I bought it), but I need to rid myself of the 90's era UI that samsung has foisted on us. Am I missing a ROM out there that can fulfill my needs?
I don't think there is anything aosp that can offer what tw had to offer when it comes to s pen functionality.
I had the note 2 before this and was running paranoid ROM which didn't have the cool s pen features.
What I've used the most is the pen window feature. Taking a quick note or using the calc has been handy.
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Defenestratus said:
I may be way out of line here and if so I apologize - however coming from the Galaxy Nexus to the Galaxy Note 3 I'm mostly pretty happy except with certain aspects of Samsungs software stupidity that I can't seem to get rid of. I've been using the GEL and its amazing but I want to get back to "stock android" as much as possible. This means getting rid of the assnine Gingerbread-era settings menus, dialers, people app and other apps that look like they were plucked from my Droid X from 3 years ago.
Am I being unreasonable when I look at the available ROM's on the T-mo section and see that there aren't any kitkat ROMs available yet? Is there a development hurdle for the Galaxy devices that makes it impossible to make a AOSP-based ROM? (As if it needs to be said, I'm not a developer).
I love the hardware and the S-pen functionality (why I bought it), but I need to rid myself of the 90's era UI that samsung has foisted on us. Am I missing a ROM out there that can fulfill my needs?
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We all feel your pain brother.
I have owned 3 Samsung Galaxy devices before this one and all have had AOSP/AOKP/CM10.2
For some reason or another, a developer not made a bare bone AOSP rom.
Which we all want.
Believe me when I say, we all know touchwiz is getting annoying.
My current setup is Stock Deodexed Debloated with the AOSP theme found in the "Themes and Apps" section, also with the Kit Kat Launcher.
I downloaded all of the Nexus 5 apps (Calendar, Camera, Gallery, Clock, etc. And deleted the Touchwiz ones.
This is as close as we can get for now .
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Hi everyone !
I am looking forward to buy the Note 10.1. I want it mainly for drawing but I really love AOSP ROMs.
Here is my question : Will I be able to draw using the amazing presure level functionality on an AOSP ROM ?
I would like to use the ArtFlow app for drawing as I really love it, and as it is said to support S-Pen I wonder if it would still work on a AOSP ROM.
Thanks in advance for your answers.
There are S-Pen alternative apps available on the market. You will need Samsung framework ported to AOSP to work .. Which is not possible.
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Grea09 said:
Hi everyone !
I am looking forward to buy the Note 10.1. I want it mainly for drawing but I really love AOSP ROMs.
Here is my question : Will I be able to draw using the amazing presure level functionality on an AOSP ROM ?
I would like to use the ArtFlow app for drawing as I really love it, and as it is said to support S-Pen I wonder if it would still work on a AOSP ROM.
Thanks in advance for your answers.
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Are there even any AOSP ROMS available for the Galaxy Note 10.1" - 2014? I want one sooo badly!!:crying:
I'm torn between the Note 4 and the Nexus 6; I like the quick updates on Nexus, plain vanilla UI, water-resistance....
But the Note 4 has many great things going for it, not least of which are a better camera and the S-pen. If I do go with that phone, I'd like to make reasonably sure I can continue upgrading the ROM well past Samsung's EOL... But I'd also want to make sure that such things as S-pens, heart rate, UV sensors, and the like will actually be usable with custom ROMs.
Those of you with experience with Samsung Notes int he past -- is this a reasonable thing to expect? (I remember how long it took for the camera on the HTC Vision to work on custom ROMs.... but many things have changed since...)
So coming from experience that ranges between many custom roms on many phones. I think its less an issue to need to have custom roms nowadays than it was before. But there is plenty of custom touch wiz roms in the community. I think when you get the note, you have to know you are getting proprietary software and drivers for the wacom technology (s pen). Prob same for other stuff (uv, etc). Sorry answer is, get Note 4 I'd stock is okay with 2 years of legit Samsung updates. If not, get nexus. And any custom roms are gravy.
note 4 probably wont have custom roms. if that is what you are looking for get a nexus 6
I always used a custom rom that had every thing working. There are both types normally depending on what you want. Like a Philly steak with wiz or without lol.
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You are assuming we can get a custom recovery. That is by no means certain.
Custom Roms are possible with the Developer edition!!
Hey guys,
I bought one of these tabs and the specs are pretty good but i hate UX. Its enough for me to return it.
I'd rather not flash to CyanogenMod and instead use a regualr plain ole KitKat or Lollipop AOSP stock Rom.
Does such a beast exist? I've looked everywhere.
Cheers.... Shane
"Stock" is a really confusing term to use. Stock for this device means TouchWiz. I think you mean something like GPE (Google Play Edition) or Nexus type ROM, without any manufacturer customization. Some may consider this "stock Google" in a sense. But as very few actual devices have come with such a thing out of the box, its hard for me to consider this "stock".
Even calling CM and the like "AOSP" is a stretch. CM and many other "AOSP" ROMs have so many customizations at this point, its hard to see any relation to the original Android OS as it comes from Google.
Ok, rant over.
I haven't seen anything like that (Nexus or GPE ROM for this device), unfortunately. I'd say just bite it and flash either CM11 or Slimkat, as they are IMO much less laggy and bloated then TouchWiz.
Have you guys tried Lollipop yet? I have (Nexus) and OMG it's actually quite a few steps backward and definitely not ready for prime-time. In fact, I heard it's even worse on Tablets compared to Phones.
I'm GLAD this tablet is only on 4.4.2 -- I would love a 4.4.4 upgrade, but that's it. I do not want Lollipop to hit the Galaxy Tab Pro series until at least Android v5.1 or 5.2 so that some of the horrible design decisions have been reversed, or at least adjusted.
I agree that Lollipop is not ready for prime time. I installed from the factory images on both a Nexus 7 and a Nexus 10 -- and the rolled back to KitKat. Biggest issue for me was unavailability of Xposed Framework.
At this point I'm happy to stay with this ROM plus my Xposed tweaks:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...-rooted-deodex-t320xar1ang1-08-02-14-t2836052
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shane.kelly55 said:
Hey guys,
I bought one of these tabs and the specs are pretty good but i hate UX. Its enough for me to return it.
I'd rather not flash to CyanogenMod and instead use a regualr plain ole KitKat or Lollipop AOSP stock Rom.
Does such a beast exist? I've looked everywhere.
Cheers.... Shane
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Just get the Google Now Launcher. I dislike the Touchwiz laggy UI as well. When I intalled GNL the lag went away + I still had the extra Samsung features!
Hi guys,
Received my tab S4 as upgrade from my Tab S3 from work yesterday. It is awesome. However.
What's up with the low number of custom roms? S3 was already in low supply, but here it's even more. Is it too hard, or are there just too few chefs? Or is the consensus to root the S4 and debloat/customize it on stock rom?
Instant edit Or even better: the few cooked roms that are there are all you need
I think it's something to do with the lack of an AOSP or even LineageOS version for the Tab S4, meaning any custom ROMs we'll get are from those crazy enough to screw around with the stock Samsung OS