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Well, I'm not a big fan of Sense, so I've been using the G2 ROM with LauncherPro Plus and whatever overclocking kernel is the most current.
Does CyanogenMod really have anything to offer me, assuming I dump ADW Launcher for stock Froyo launcher or LauncherPro?
lots of options under cyanogenmod settings.
give it a shot, its worth looking at.
CM somehow felt more snappier.
Or just have a look at their entire change log u will get an idea about what is included
Gave it a shot for about 24 hours with LauncherPro - it's very nice, I'll give it that. It's basically stock with some very useful options.
Battery life and other bugs still need to be addressed before I can switch to this though. In the meanwhile, is it possible to get the CyanogenMod Power Widget (the one for the home screen) in stock ROMs?
Can someone explain in more detail what the "very useful options" are?
What is the RC3 like? I mean are you really confident having Cyanogen RC3 on your phone? Like, are there apps that won't install for some reason? Or apps that would crash? Or some thing not working like backlight for example? Or can it sometimes lock the phone up so I won't get alarm clock waking me up for work?I ask these questions because at the moment I depend on my phone very much and would not want to flash anything that is not rock stable.
schriss said:
What is the RC3 like? I mean are you really confident having Cyanogen RC3 on your phone? Like, are there apps that won't install for some reason? Or apps that would crash? Or some thing not working like backlight for example? Or can it sometimes lock the phone up so I won't get alarm clock waking me up for work?I ask these questions because at the moment I depend on my phone very much and would not want to flash anything that is not rock stable.
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well its an RC so therefore it should be "stable" under CM's definition of stable.
Its not a nightly or a beta....
TBH, the battery indicator is so nice that I switched to cyanogenmod. I still really miss that, I've yet to void the warranty on this one. My power button had completely stopped working and the fear of getting a $530 bill for voiding my warranty has been too much for me to void it again. Especially since my power button is starting to go bad on this new N1 too.
Some of the nice things cyanogen does are offering phone and messaging sliders to the lockscreen, power widgets in the notification bar, a black notification bar, FM Radio, always display music controls on the homescreen, trackball wake/unlock, quiet hours, etc. Probably most of what you get from CM you can get somewhere else if you look, but CM makes it all organized and easy to do. My phone also does feel snappier since I switched to CM, and so I think it has better performance than stock. Hope this helps.
I played around with cm11 but I decided I'm not ready for it yet, so I'm back on sense 5.5 KK 4.4 ARHD. Even though I liked the cm11 very much what I really miss about it is the snappy vanilla sounds it has for unlock/lock/touch..
If anyone could upload them into a flashable/nonflashable zip it would be amazing.
Edit:: I did manage to extract the ogg files from the cm11 ROM.. I guess it is no longer needed for me but others might want it.
Edit2:: appearntly , changing the 'tick' or 'touch' sounds in system data cripples the speakers, basically does a weird sharp static sound every time you 'tick' or 'touch' anything even on silent which got me worried, but switching back to stock 'tick' sound fixes the issue.. Anyone has an explanation to why this is behaving like this?
I recently flashed Cyanogenmod 11 onto my HTC One M8, and I'm loving the **** out of it. However, it has some flaws. As it is a nightly version, I'm totally cool with that, and I'm wiling to try and work around them. However, the speakers sound noticeably worse. At max volume they crackle like crazy and searching the settings menu, I noticed there is no "Boomsound" setting as there is in the stock OS, and in the GPE os. Just wondering if anyone has any insight, maybe a way to flash boomsound on separately, or if you think CM will add that in at a later date, or anything really. Loving this phone and OS, and I'd like to get all I can out of the awesome speakers.... thanks!
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I recently flashed Cyanogenmod 11 onto my HTC One M8, and I'm loving the **** out of it. However, it has some flaws. As it is a nightly version, I'm totally cool with that, and I'm wiling to try and work around them. However, the speakers sound noticeably worse. At max volume they crackle like crazy and searching the settings menu, I noticed there is no "Boomsound" setting as there is in the stock OS, and in the GPE os. Just wondering if anyone has any insight, maybe a way to flash boomsound on separately, or if you think CM will add that in at a later date, or anything really. Loving this phone and OS, and I'd like to get all I can out of the awesome speakers.... thanks!
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Boomsound is proprietary HTC software. It will probably never go to CM. However, there are EQ setting for any sort of effect you may want... never noticed a difference with Boomsound besides slightly louder audio. I did notice the crackling at max volume, but didn't really use speaker at max too often so it didn't bother me much.
You can always use GPe+Xposed for bugfree and customization. That's my setup.
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I recently flashed Cyanogenmod 11 onto my HTC One M8, and I'm loving the **** out of it. However, it has some flaws. As it is a nightly version, I'm totally cool with that, and I'm wiling to try and work around them. However, the speakers sound noticeably worse. At max volume they crackle like crazy and searching the settings menu, I noticed there is no "Boomsound" setting as there is in the stock OS, and in the GPE os. Just wondering if anyone has any insight, maybe a way to flash boomsound on separately, or if you think CM will add that in at a later date, or anything really. Loving this phone and OS, and I'd like to get all I can out of the awesome speakers.... thanks!
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Same issue! Such distortion!
We need to port boomsound.
I've heard of using ViPER4Android as a replacement for Boomsound, but not actually tried it myself.
...when it should be something like Hype, Compare, Choose.
I'm just posting this because it's crazy how we become kind of addicts to the cutting edge versions of Android, no matter how it really works on our device, it is just awesome because it works, on our beloved 3 years old nexus.
I'm the kind of guy who really search for smoothness, all around the system. I just can't stand a frame drop. It's kind of creepy. No, seriously, I look for details, and there's some things in KitKat I don't like. But all that said, and as I once read, if your eyes see at 15 fps it's not my fault lol. So, here they are:
- Notifications panel / Quick settings animation. Yes, guess what, the frame drop here is aweful. It stutters like hell. Just do it, expand the status bar and hit the tile many times, that's not smooth at all.
- RAM usage. They can say KK is optimized and bla bla, but real thing is that there's less free RAM than JB. It's a fact. You can go all the way of how Android manage memory and stuff, well, I rather more free RAM.
- Home button responsiveness. It just lags. Test it, open an app, something heavy e.g. Facebook app, and press home button. Now do the same but use back button. Give it a few tries if you didn't notice the difference at the first time.
- High battery drain.
There are some other things but you get the point. I felt less responsiveness in general, when multitasking, etc. So I decided to go back to Android 4.3.1 JB, CM 10.2.1 in my particular case. Oh yes, this feels awesome. Notifications panel / Quick settings animation is fully smooth, I've more free ram, Home button reaction is fast again, multitasking is great. I also realized that I missed the Vanilla ui. This is definitely where I'm staying.
So my conclusion is, you can follow the hype but don't stay just with the new things, make your own judgement, compare and choose what's your most suitable rom/android version out there
NOTES:
- I've been watching a lot of YouTube videos looking for this issues I've mentioned, so I discard problems with my Maguro in particular.
- I'm comparing both Android versions with the same apps (around 140 total apps), so there's no factory reset placebo effect.
- They're all present on different roms i.e CM, PA, and some others, so its KK related I guess.
- A particular thing about CM 10.2.1 is that it cames with a modified phase beam live wallpaper that slows down the launcher/system, don't get wrong this first bad impression , try another live wallpaper and you'll see how smooth is it. It runs great, using live or static wallpapers. What I did was delete the phasebeam.apk and push the stock 4.3 phasebeam.apk, that works good :good:.
- Hey! There's some good KK themes for old Theme Chooser if you want the KK look.
Anyway, here's another reason to not to ask what's the best rom for my GN.
This is just my personal opinion.
Hope you've enjoyed the post, and go try yourself!
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...when it should be something like Hype, Compare, Choose.
I'm just posting this because it's crazy how we become kind of addicts to the cutting edge versions of Android, no matter how it really works on our device, it is just awesome because it works, on our beloved 3 years old nexus.
I'm the kind of guy who really search for smoothness, all around the system. I just can't stand a frame drop. It's kind of creepy. No, seriously, I look for details, and there's some things in KitKat I don't like. But all that said, and as I once read, if your eyes see at 15 fps it's not my fault lol. So, here they are:
- Notifications panel / Quick settings animation. Yes, guess what, the frame drop here is aweful. It stutters like hell. Just do it, expand the status bar and hit the tile many times, that's not smooth at all.
- RAM usage. They can say KK is optimized and bla bla, but real thing is that there's less free RAM than JB. It's a fact. You can go all the way of how Android manage memory and stuff, well, I rather more free RAM.
- Home button responsiveness. It just lags. Test it, open an app, something heavy e.g. Facebook app, and press home button. Now do the same but use back button. Give it a few tries if you didn't notice the difference at the first time.
- High battery drain.
There are some other things but you get the point. I felt less responsiveness in general, when multitasking, etc. So I decided to go back to Android 4.3.1 JB, CM 10.2.1 in my particular case. Oh yes, this feels awesome. Notifications panel / Quick settings animation is fully smooth, I've more free ram, Home button reaction is fast again, multitasking is great. I also realized that I missed the Vanilla ui. This is definitely where I'm staying.
So my conclusion is, you can follow the hype but don't stay just with the new things, make your own judgement, compare and choose what's your most suitable rom/android version out there
NOTES:
- I've been watching a lot of YouTube videos looking for this issues I've mentioned, so I discard problems with my Maguro in particular.
- I'm comparing both Android versions with the same apps (around 140 total apps), so there's no factory reset placebo effect.
- They're all present on different roms i.e CM, PA, and some others, so its KK related I guess.
- A particular thing about CM 10.2.1 is that it cames with a modified phase beam live wallpaper that slows down the launcher/system, don't get wrong this first bad impression , try another live wallpaper and you'll see how smooth is it. It runs great, using live or static wallpapers. What I did was delete the phasebeam.apk and push the stock 4.3 phasebeam.apk, that works good :good:.
- Hey! There's some good KK themes for old Theme Chooser if you want the KK look.
Anyway, here's another reason to not to ask what's the best rom for my GN.
This is just my personal opinion.
Hope you've enjoyed the post, and go try yourself!
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I agree with the problems you mentioned and i do want speed, stability and smoothness.
I noticed those things when i first upgraded to KK.
To overcome those challenges, i tried all the roms (CM Remix, Cm11, PA, Omni, Omni FML, geyers, AOKP, etc..) with stock kernels and then with DIRTY V and Fancy.
More ram is available with dirty v, fancy and stock PA kernel.
Afterall, i choose my personal set up which is smooth and stable for my device. i am satisfied with it now.
With Android you always have a choice of tweaking, upgrading or downgrading from JB > KK. so choose whats best for you :good:
Even I've been thinking of try CM 10 for a while but I just can't leave KitKat. For me, latest Android version is important but this lag makes me feel bad. So I try to manage the performance using better kernel and not using apps like Facebook but it isn't enough. There is still lag in some or the other screen.
I bought Galaxy Nexus in last 9 months only so I couldn't use Android 4.3 roms much and thus I don't have much info about them. What do you think, should I give it a try? Also, which rom would you recommend?
Thanks.
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Even I've been thinking of try CM 10 for a while but I just can't leave KitKat. For me, latest Android version is important but this lag makes me feel bad. So I try to manage the performance using better kernel and not using apps like Facebook but it isn't enough. There is still lag in some or the other screen.
I bought Galaxy Nexus in last 9 months only so I couldn't use Android 4.3 roms much and thus I don't have much info about them. What do you think, should I give it a try? Also, which rom would you recommend?
Thanks.
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As I said, you'll have to try my friend
If you want my opinion, CM 10.2.1 Stable is awesome. Rock solid. You should make a nandroid backup of your current rom and go try some 4.3 stuff! In worst scenario you'll be restoring the nandroid and that's it!
hemantv said:
Even I've been thinking of try CM 10 for a while but I just can't leave KitKat. For me, latest Android version is important but this lag makes me feel bad. So I try to manage the performance using better kernel and not using apps like Facebook but it isn't enough. There is still lag in some or the other screen.
I bought Galaxy Nexus in last 9 months only so I couldn't use Android 4.3 roms much and thus I don't have much info about them. What do you think, should I give it a try? Also, which rom would you recommend?
Thanks.
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try the paranoid 3.99 based on 4.3
I remember it was really smooth
Kustaa said:
As I said, you'll have to try my friend
If you want my opinion, CM 10.2.1 Stable is awesome. Rock solid. You should make a nandroid backup of your current rom and go try some 4.3 stuff! In worst scenario you'll be restoring the nandroid and that's it!
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I agree with you on everything you said. I think I even went back to CM 10.X (not sure the exact one), but it was much better than anything I had before. I am on PA 4.44 and my data loses connection often and not sure why. The version of CM though, I would put it on airplane mode and my battery would still be drained the next day when other versions I didn't have that issue. That's one reason I went to another ROM, but it appears I am just going through ROMS like crazy trying to find the one I like most. To me...battery life is the most important.
decisions.
when i stopped using google framework with all those apps you dont have to use...
i found my battery lasting much longer
setting my kernel to lazy...while turning up voltage and over hertz. gives it enough speed...with enough "crash"
to stay up for 3 to 4 days, just sitting there
and 1 to 2 while in normal use.
and using up my data....well no one is going to get much up time like that
Hey guys! Got a G3 D855 here, rooted with IOroot and bumped (TWRP installed), Build number: KVT49L / Software version: V10h
Thinking to flash a custom ROM, but I'm so used to Xposed Framework (G3 TweakBox mainly), that I don't know if I'm ready yet to go to a Custom ROM Lollipop... I was thinking either to stay in stable Custom ROM Kitkat, like CM11 and having the Xposed and every feature that I'm used to, or move to a ASOP lollipop ROM or CM12.
What you guys think? Anyone very used to Xposed, moved to Lollipop? Which features are you missing the most?
Or you think, I should do the step towards lollipop and can get the features I was getting from Tweakbox from apps with root acess in the playstore?
Thanks!
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What you guys think? Anyone very used to Xposed, moved to Lollipop? Which features are you missing the most?
Or you think, I should do the step towards lollipop and can get the features I was getting from Tweakbox from apps with root acess in the playstore?
Thanks!
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Just like you, I was sceptical about switching to Lollipop since I'd lose Xposed. However, after flashing Lollipop I have not regretted it at all; I fell in love with it right away.
The only thing I'm actually missing is G3 Tweaksbox, but I can manage without it for now
Regarding module alternatives, have a look at this outstanding article:
Alternatives to popular Xposed modules | Prepare for Android Lollipop / ART
Great help Megaritis! Will flash Lollipop today! Any custom ROM recommendation?
The real problem is autonomy, hard to reach 4h screen on
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The real problem is autonomy, hard to reach 4h screen on
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What do you mean? The battery life is bad on Lollipop compared to KitKat or on Lollipop custom ROM?
Battery is good on both.
Try Lollipop. If you dont like it you can always go back.
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Battery is good on both.
Try Lollipop. If you dont like it you can always go back.
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Trying to decide now either CM 12 or an ASOP ROM, I heard that are some things that ASOP's just can't fix, like receiving MMS while connected to wi-fi... I head something like this and I wonder which else common problems, have the ASOP's have.. Any1 knows?
Thanks!
I installed Lollipop as soon as I got the OTA. 2 days later I am very displeased. I expected some inconvenience but it is a lot worse than I expected.
1st - The autonomy is really affected. I can't give any number because my kitkat + SETCPU profiles were tweaked a lot and provided me a big autonomy, way higher than stock kitkat.
2nd- The atrocious new sound profiles that got me late at work and that many people are complaining about. Do not disturb is nothing like the quiet mode we all loved.
I'll try and draw a tree showing how it works
so you got 3 sounds profiles you can cycle through from the notification quickaccess.
--Sound
--Vibrate Only
--Do Not Disturb (which is supposed to replace the quiet mode but failing hard)
In DnD :
//Calls and Notifications
----All
----Priority Only (see below)
----None
//Piority ("Allow certain features to interrupt when Priority Only. Alarms always have priority) That makes you think you just have to set DnD as Priority only and remove everything from priority so only the alarms would ring out.......
That sounds lovely except every single time you get out of DnD it resets the Calls And Notifications setting to all and when you'll reenable DnD it will go to None and shuts down everything.
So, in order to have the same behavior as the quiet mode in kitkat you have to do the following :
Notification bar > Settings > Sound > Do Not Disturb > Calls and Notifications > Priority Only.
This EVERY SINGLE night as you'll remove DnD every morning of course.
Not to mention that the alarm will ring but not wake screen so you got unlock your lockscreen and then turn off your alarm.
I think I should whine though, this mess preventing me from sleeping I have no use for alarms anymore, like Lollipop devs I guess.
It is a mess at the moment so don't bother, the issues exceeds by far the benefits.
The best thing to do would be : Do a nandroid back up of your existing KK ROM then flash AOSP>CM12 and see which one you like. Everybody have their own priorities and you be the judge of your own likes/dislikes. I have tried both AOSP and CM 12 but returned to stable KK V10N. I have a small kid and I have to have a nice camera app and I was not convinced with the AOSP/CM 12 camera apps. Stock Camera app has to do with the OEM framework and can't be replicated in AOSP/CM 12 ROMs. Secondly (it may sound shallow), I could not stand the big navigation bar. You can use tweaks to make it smaller but the navigation bar buttons does not change in proportionate to the size of navigation bar. SImply put, they look ugly. I personally did not find any speed d or battery life difference. Giving up Xposed and aforementioned features were not worth the trade off for ME. Again, this is what I experienced, your experience may be totally different than mine and that's all right
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@iKoyy, may be this update will help:
http://www.talkandroid.com/230286-android-5-1-to-roll-out-in-february-2015/