For a n00b (in this context anyway!), there is a huge amount of options available.
I've pretty much decided on using the NARK kernel, but the ROM choice is a hard one. Stock Sammy, AOSP, Omega, PA etc.
While I love stock, the S-Note popup is rather handy. Although for an ultimate experience I would sacrifice it. I like minimalism, consistency, and efficiency.
NARK or otherwise, what are the current 'killer' combos for ROMs and kernels? In terms of speed, fluidity and battery life.
Any pointers from the gurus out there would be very much appreciated :¬)
b0se said:
For a n00b (in this context anyway!), there is a huge amount of options available.
I've pretty much decided on using the NARK kernel, but the ROM choice is a hard one. Stock Sammy, AOSP, Omega, PA etc.
While I love stock, the S-Note popup is rather handy. Although for an ultimate experience I would sacrifice it. I like minimalism, consistency, and efficiency.
NARK or otherwise, what are the current 'killer' combos for ROMs and kernels? In terms of speed, fluidity and battery life.
Any pointers from the gurus out there would be very much appreciated :¬)
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Why would a so called guru respond to this.
Read up on the kernels and roms. See which have the features you require/want. Make a back up and flash.
Then you can decide for yourself instead of getting the views of people who may want something different than you.
Hi!
Do you know what ROM is the fastest (with better performance) for our Nexus? I don't care if it is Stock or Custom, all I want is the better performance/battery life rom possible.
I am now with CM11 unoficial by playfulgod and I like it because it is 4.4, but the phone takes too long to open the apps and lags a little bit in fast transactions....
EDIT: I also don't care about the version, 4.4, 4.3, 4.2, 4.1, anything... the changes are minimal from 4.1 to 4.3 and 4.4 has its pros and cons
Flash and find out. Thats your best option.
Edit: Wrong section. Sorry. How the h*ll did i end up in Galaxy Nexus section.
I'm using CM official nightlies and find it quite good. I found 4.3 faster but like others have said it's a case of trying different rom / kernel combinations. What works well for me night not be much good for you and vice versa. A lot of different factors come into play. Apps used, background apps etc.
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badboy47 said:
I am using N5 Port with Franco Kernel. Its very fast with great battery life. Every kernel has its own pros and cons. Try different kernels.
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YOU ARE POINTING HIM TO A NEXUS 4 ROM! :banghead:
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all roms give the fastest and good performance.. its all depend on you.
so far after 1 week experiments.
i use gnex + extended battery + slimkat 4.4.1 + A.S.K.P kernel + odexed + run perfomance scripts + tweak build prop = superb. already 4 hour screen on... with over 50% balance battery..
galaxy nexus i9250
I have just flashed Gummy's 4.4 rom just trying it out from BelieveRom. I was looking for something faster with some of the new features and this had most of them. Real smooth so far with steady battery use on stock kernel. Will try some other kernels to see if it will add the butter.
I'm running swordrune10's cm11 its pretty good
memaro_maro said:
all roms give the fastest and good performance.. its all depend on you.
so far after 1 week experiments.
i use gnex + extended battery + slimkat 4.4.1 + A.S.K.P kernel + odexed + run perfomance scripts + tweak build prop = superb. already 4 hour screen on... with over 50% balance battery..
galaxy nexus i9250
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Care to lay out all the tweaked build prop, performance scripts? How big is this extended battery? Is it the one from Verizon that Samsung made or is it one of those big 3,000+ sized ones that makes the phone super thick? seeing 4 hours of screen on time and only half battery used seems too good to be true.
thanks guys!
I will try a few roms here and give you the feedback later
The performance were only good on 4.1.2
dsummitt said:
Care to lay out all the tweaked build prop, performance scripts? How big is this extended battery? Is it the one from Verizon that Samsung made or is it one of those big 3,000+ sized ones that makes the phone super thick? seeing 4 hours of screen on time and only half battery used seems too good to be true.
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im use the super big extended battery.. 4000 mah.. its big but worth it.
i dont like to use power bank as alternative.
im using pure performance™ scripts.. but carefull in scripting, it may cause overwrite the existing build.prop.
additional of using performance control. apk> download from fdroid repo. its seem to be easy to use for tweaking ram performance. especially for noob likes me.
sorry for my bad english..
galaxy nexus i9250
Thats pretty nice. It seems way big for me though. I'm not a make the phones a slim as you can kind of person, but i do like a happy medium.
Vanir is pretty smooth and fast. Battery isn't greatest but performance kicks ass on my toro. 4.4 flies but still has black boxes
Yes, Vanir is very smooth. But the most important is to install custom kernel. For now the best are ASKP and Mpokang SuperRAM. If you install one of these kernels, i think every ROM will be smooth.
I suggest to try MetalOmni - very fast 4.4 ROM.
ITS ALL YOUR OPINION. FLASH AND FIND OUT. These threads arent even allowed. And on top of that: how would you feel if you had put alot of effort into making a ROM and people dont like it because its "slow". Just try and find out seriously. Youre maybe the 100th with this thread. This will probably be closed in a couple of days.
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well, then I will have to flash all the roms there are to see for myself which one is the best in terms of speed. considering that there are at least 5 different roms just for 4.4 and for 4.3 (and previous) there are much more roms... I would need to flash about 20 roms (or more) and test them at least a day or two to see which ones are better... By my calculations, I will need at least 1 month. Considering that android isn't my life, I have many other things more important to do, I will spend more than a month doing that testing thing...
So, do you really think I can test them all for myself? Shouldn't I ask here for names of the best roms in terms of speed that many members have tested? This way I will only test the 3/4 most mentioned, not the all 20. I know that the developers do a lot of work in their roms, but there are ones better than others for many things, I don't think the developer of rom X would mind if I prefer the rom Y from other developer because it is faster. Maybe the rom X has more options and other things, but lacks in speed, so the developer of rom X isn't interested in making a rom for speed, it isn't inferior to the other rom, just different.
If this thread is locked, even finding it unfair and kind of stupid, I don't really care. I already got a few opinions and I'm testing some roms here. Thanks a lot for the ones who helped me and aswered this thread.
Rayaxe said:
well, then I will have to flash all the roms there are to see for myself which one is the best in terms of speed. considering that there are at least 5 different roms just for 4.4 and for 4.3 (and previous) there are much more roms... I would need to flash about 20 roms (or more) and test them at least a day or two to see which ones are better... By my calculations, I will need at least 1 month. Considering that android isn't my life, I have many other things more important to do, I will spend more than a month doing that testing thing...
So, do you really think I can test them all for myself? Shouldn't I ask here for names of the best roms in terms of speed that many members have tested? This way I will only test the 3/4 most mentioned, not the all 20. I know that the developers do a lot of work in their roms, but there are ones better than others for many things, I don't think the developer of rom X would mind if I prefer the rom Y from other developer because it is faster. Maybe the rom X has more options and other things, but lacks in speed, so the developer of rom X isn't interested in making a rom for speed, it isn't inferior to the other rom, just different.
If this thread is locked, even finding it unfair and kind of stupid, I don't really care. I already got a few opinions and I'm testing some roms here. Thanks a lot for the ones who helped me and aswered this thread.
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You want the fastest and super smooth? OmniMetal (ROM come with Mpokang kernel). You will be happy and let me know how it works out..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2532320
Gummy AOSP 4.4 ROM with Mpokang kernel SuperRam!
The fastest of all. Mpokang kernel is miles ahead of other kernels. Most RAM and fastest performer!
antypas said:
Gummy AOSP 4.4 ROM with Mpokang kernel SuperRam!
The fastest of all. Mpokang kernel is miles ahead of other kernels. Most RAM and fastest performer!
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Well, you got me curious.
I am currently testing SlimKat ROM and it looks fast enough for me.
Unfortunaly, it's still on beta (4.4 KitKat), so you might expect a few bugs.
Still, it's a good ROM, in my opinion.
I just got myself an M8 which I unlocked and started using 4 days ago. I am used to using the Galaxy S phones and Ktoonsez Kernel for my devices. I am completely new with this device and currently running the LeeDroid ROM and I am wondering if anyone has any kernels they recommend for this device. I am looking for the best balance of Performance, Battery and ease of customization.
Thanks!
I find kernels don't make much of a difference, for my usage... So I usually use whatever comes with the rom.
But I do know two of your reasons contradict each other. Performance and battery life. Usually you slightly sacrifice one for the other.
Edit: Stock kernels, and ones included with roms are already designed for a good balance. Older devices needed more tweaking to gain different outcomes, but newer devices aren't nearly as impacted by kernel tweaks. My opinion of course.
Anybody body know if there's any stock Android Pie builds in development? Something smooth, clean, and silky? Man! I sure do miss Bugless Beast! By Alfonso in Nexus days.
Thanks guys!
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Anybody body know if there's any stock Android Pie builds in development? Something smooth, clean, and silky? Man! I sure do miss Bugless Beast! By Alfonso in Nexus days.
Thanks guys!
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Just curious...what are you looking for specifically that is special/unique that doesn't exist in actual Stock Roms provided monthly by Google? Can't get more stock than actual Stock.
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Just curious...what are you looking for specifically that is special/unique that doesn't exist in actual Stock Roms provided monthly by Google? Can't get more stock than actual Stock.
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Usually that would be a developer that's based solely on stock that would keep the graphics drivers updated with speed tweaks Etc. But it looks like those days are gone.
LOVE ME PLEASE said:
Usually that would be a developer that's based solely on stock that would keep the graphics drivers updated with speed tweaks Etc. But it looks like those days are gone.
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Back in the OG Droid, Droid Razr Maxx days I used to fully invest time and energy to run custom Roms as I also wanted to take advantage of overclocking CPU to maximize the performance of my device (which typically were underclocked by the OEMs). But, I haven't had to go that route in some time. I find the Stock experience provided by Google to be pretty good from a performance standpoint and the Pixel XL experience as far as monthly updates has also been exceptional. If you still have your heart set on having control of CPU clock speed settings and additional custom tweaks not available in the Stock experience - you should look at some of the custom kernels (or Roms) available. I believe there are custom kernels that will run with the true Stock Rom that will provide you greater flexibility.
Good luck.
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Back in the OG Droid, Droid Razr Maxx days I used to fully invest time and energy to run custom Roms as I also wanted to take advantage of overclocking CPU to maximize the performance of my device (which typically were underclocked by the OEMs). But, I haven't had to go that route in some time. I find the Stock experience provided by Google to be pretty good from a performance standpoint and the Pixel XL experience as far as monthly updates has also been exceptional. If you still have your heart set on having control of CPU clock speed settings and additional custom tweaks not available in the Stock experience - you should look at some of the custom kernels (or Roms) available. I believe there are custom kernels that will run with the true Stock Rom that will provide you greater flexibility.
Good luck.
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Thanks!
Funny, I am currently running an custom Kernel on top of stock Android. You're absolutely right about Google's stock builds and performance. You gave great information because that's in fact what I am doing to date. Custom ROMs today are becoming too bloated with issues and issues. Again, thanks, and have a great day.
LOVE ME PLEASE said:
Thanks!
Funny, I am currently running an custom Kernel on top of stock Android. You're absolutely right about Google's stock builds and performance. You gave great information because that's in fact what I am doing to date. Custom ROMs today are becoming too bloated with issues and issues. Again, thanks, and have a great day.
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I have been thinking about at least experimenting with a custom kernel. Out of curiousity - which one are you running and what has been your experience? Why did you opt for the one you chose? (battery life, performance tweaks, customizations, etc...)?
Thanks
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I have been thinking about at least experimenting with a custom kernel. Out of curiousity - which one are you running and what has been your experience? Why did you opt for the one you chose? (battery life, performance tweaks, customizations, etc...)?
Thanks
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ElementalX Kernel.
Well, I picked this one mostly because he's an OG of the kernel scene. I personally don't do anything extra as far as extra features. But I just keep the script on his preferred settings, and I click install. I'm not into the overclocking, but I'm not too shy to underclock. I usually install custom kernels because of security updates and performance updates that they add due to Google's monthly developer updates.
You're welcome, no worries.
So I just picked up a pixel 3 and the battery life is fairly mixed but I guess I was spoiled with my previous device (Oneplus 5).
Will installing a custom kernel improve my battery life? I haven't really bothered since my Galaxy S2 which was a shambles.
If so, are there any specific kernels which aim to do this by default?
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So I just picked up a pixel 3 and the battery life is fairly mixed but I guess I was spoiled with my previous device (Oneplus 5).
Will installing a custom kernel improve my battery life? I haven't really bothered since my Galaxy S2 which was a shambles.
If so, are there any specific kernels which aim to do this by default?
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Today, stock Google kernels are very efficient. Most kernel devs will tell you the same. There is just not much margin left for them to improve upon battery-wise. That being said I use EX Kernel because I like the ability to tinker and have more control over the phone. I like EX's battery monitor that is part of his kernel manager. There are quite a few good custom kernels out there. If you haven't done so already, just lurk in one or two of the kernel threads and see what people are discussing. With respect to your current battery life, don't forget to give it several full charging cycles and in a week or so it will likely show an improvement. That, and you're probably "playing" with it more and that will wear off too! :laugh:
There will be none to negligible difference. Custom kernels are more for staying up to date with incremental kernel patches and other upstream stuff as well as things like color and haptic control.
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And to fix memory management issues