Hi guys,
Like many of you, I've tested lots of different ROMs. After all, that's the beauty of owning a Google Phone.
However, I can't seem to find ONE ROM that fits all my needs. I was wondering how many of you would like something like this:
- Stock-based
- MIUI notification bar toggles (Cyanogen's would also be fine though)
- Battery Percentage Icon
- Themable (AOSP)
- Compatible with most kernels out there (so that we can choose whichever we want)
- No copyrighted things from other devices (ie. ringtones, apps, etc.)
I've yet to find a ROM that suits all these needs. Cyanogen is not stable or smooth enough to my liking, when compared to the stock experience. MUIU is beautiful, but a bit heavy and not really optimized for SAMOLED (even the darker theme uses very little pure black). Most of the other ROMs don't have notification bar toggles. The ones that do are based on Cyanogen or MUIU, so it's not much different from using one or the other.
The closest ROM I've seen to this is Amethyst, but it's been discontinued by the developer, and it's a bit limited on the notification toggle options. Heck, MIUI is perfect with so many toggles all easily accessible from the notification bar.
Does anyone else feel that way? Maybe if enough people would be into this, perhaps a developer could feel it's worth doing something like that. Or am I alone in my wishes?
Regards!
I too have went through a ton of roms on this phone, and the one that i keep coming back too is the NSCollab series of roms (currently on 1.0.43). it has the stock launcher so it is really smooth and has the app drawer that i love, also has notification buttons and other settings from cyanogen. You can also flash the theme chooser to have a few different looks to the rom, but the best thing i have like about it is that its really stable and fluid
Zuluzulu might be what you are looking for. Its really cool looking and stable. The batterylife is incredible, and it is clockable to 1.4 ghz since it use the netarchy kernel.
CM even the latest RC 1 consumes all my battery in less than 24 hours.
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lfmmoura said:
Hi guys,
Like many of you, I've tested lots of different ROMs. After all, that's the beauty of owning a Google Phone.
However, I can't seem to find ONE ROM that fits all my needs. I was wondering how many of you would like something like this:
- Stock-based
- MIUI notification bar toggles (Cyanogen's would also be fine though)
- Battery Percentage Icon
- Themable (AOSP)
- Compatible with most kernels out there (so that we can choose whichever we want)
- No copyrighted things from other devices (ie. ringtones, apps, etc.)
I've yet to find a ROM that suits all these needs. Cyanogen is not stable or smooth enough to my liking, when compared to the stock experience. MUIU is beautiful, but a bit heavy and not really optimized for SAMOLED (even the darker theme uses very little pure black). Most of the other ROMs don't have notification bar toggles. The ones that do are based on Cyanogen or MUIU, so it's not much different from using one or the other.
The closest ROM I've seen to this is Amethyst, but it's been discontinued by the developer, and it's a bit limited on the notification toggle options. Heck, MIUI is perfect with so many toggles all easily accessible from the notification bar.
Does anyone else feel that way? Maybe if enough people would be into this, perhaps a developer could feel it's worth doing something like that. Or am I alone in my wishes?
Regards!
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You can flash the systemui.apk that I made over a stock rom and get the notification toggles and still be able to theme the phone but be ware if you flash a theme copy the drawables to your system ui or loose the toggles. Its in nexus a themes and apps
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Is there a way to get CRT effect and over scroll glow for a rooted stock KE7 or KF2.
I know it is possible with custom ROMS but most those ROM's have TW 4 Launcher stripped off. I don't want to loose TW4 launcher for a better battery.
How does TW4 grants you better battery?
Also, in the Development section I think there's patches for original roms.
Edit: Here for CRT : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1064037&highlight=crt+effect
I'm pretty sure overscroll glow is around here too. Use search tool
Hey there,
I am searching for a ROM with following requirements:
- Resizeable Navbar, want it a bit smaller
- Opacity of navbar and statusbar background should be changeable, want it transparent
- Should be smooth but no need to be extremely fast in every benchmark, I'd prefer a longer battery life
- Gridsize should be changeable, but could be done by nova launcher etc. if not by the rom itself
- Changeable statusbar symbols would be nice
Any suggestions wich ROM would fullfill most criteria?
Thanks!
I would go for AOKP any time. It's fast, smooth, stable and customizable. In combination with Apex Launcher it can do everything you want and for different statusbar icons there are lots of cool themes suppported by AOKP.
clandes said:
I would go for AOKP any time. It's fast, smooth, stable and customizable. In combination with Apex Launcher it can do everything you want and for different statusbar icons there are lots of cool themes suppported by AOKP.
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But can I change the status/nav bac opacity? I tried it some days ago, but I can't remember that feature, but I'll just flash it again and have a look ^^
laba86 said:
But can I change the status/nav bac opacity? I tried it some days ago, but I can't remember that feature, but I'll just flash it again and have a look ^^
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Yes, you can change both statusbar and navbar transparency simultaniously. It's under ROM Control/General UI about halway down the menu.
clandes said:
Yes, you can change both statusbar and navbar transparency simultaniously. It's under ROM Control/General UI about halway down the menu.
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Ah okay thank you! Maybe you can also tell me the difference between the normal AOKP ROM and the unofficial release from Roman?
Right now I am downloading build 2 of the official ROM.
One last question ^^ does it come with another kernel? If not which kernel would you recommend?
AW: Which ROM would you recommend me?
I don't know the included kernel.
I would go with the Build 2, because this one is more stable.
As kernel I would choose franco's kernel, for me it has awesome battery life and very good perfomance.
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I would go with Paranoidandroid, it really is on of the most custom ROM's out their at the minute bringing amazing features to Android. You can change the Nav bar size and colour or or go with tablet UI completely. Battery life would be more ROM, and kernel specific so thats a matter of opinion really.
Im running Slim bean. Really responsive. You can customize Nav bar I'm using the assassins creed nav bar icons and you can change colors and everything, running with their inverted apps, the less whites the better battery. On Franco's kernel also.
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I personally use Xylon ROM (tons of features even compared to AOKP), Paranoid Android is also fantastic, I'm on Harsh kernel, smoothest experience and great battery life (5hrs+ screen on), was a Franco fan till I tried Harsh
Paranoid Android is where it's at.
panaroid, Xenon HD, Xylon....etc..
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Paranoid Android using pie controls while still retaining the status bar is a dream come true once you get used to it.
It doesn't slow me down at all and the extra screen real estate is something that I wouldn't want to live without (especially in browser, youtube, video and games).
laba86 said:
Ah okay thank you! Maybe you can also tell me the difference between the normal AOKP ROM and the unofficial release from Roman?
Right now I am downloading build 2 of the official ROM.
One last question ^^ does it come with another kernel? If not which kernel would you recommend?
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nexus 4 builds come with stock kernel..
Official KILLRom. It's not on XDA, but it's easy to find.
There are many options as you cab see. Try then out and stick with the one that you love the most.
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How is aokp in terms of battery drain? I've heard that it drains a lot. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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Paranoid android. Before I would switch between several roms but now with the several most recent updates for PA I'm not leaving that ROM anymore
cm10.1 jellybrO
AOKP hands down.
Thanks all, I tried Xylon and liked it a lot, but suddenly my play store app disappeared and I don't know how.
Then tried Paranoid but I don't like the menu interface and went to AOKP.
AOKP was very fine until now, but my play store disappeared again. I have absolutely no idea what is happening.
But I will open another thread for this problem. Wouldn't be appropriate here.
Are there any Lollipop TW ROMs that currently have inverted AOSP apps (dialer, contacts, clock etc) as an optional Aroma install? I'm looking to update my old install of Project Chaos but would really miss all the majestic blackened apps I've grown to love.
Also are there any black/blue or holo themes for Lollipop? I find Material Design and the sheer amount of white incredibly power wasteful and horrid to look at since it doesn't take advantage of OLED at all.
As far as I know, I was the only other person doing this, and I stopped a while ago as moved to CM
Best bet is to do you it yourself dude
Can someone please point me out a heavily themed Rom with colourful glossy icons and beautifully themed frameworks I need a beautiful looking OS rather then skinny n fast . These days all roms are shaping like vanIla android . Miss one page book themes
jacktackle said:
Can someone please point me out a heavily themed Rom with colourful glossy icons and beautifully themed frameworks I need a beautiful looking OS rather then skinny n fast . These days all roms are shaping like vanIla android . Miss one page book themes
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Use resurrection remmix Android 7.1.2 and full substratum support so so can use as many themes you want (it's aosp based not a TouchWiz based one)
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You definitely would prefer an AOSP ROM for theming capabilities
Or maybe try MIUI?
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You definitely would prefer an AOSP ROM for theming capabilities
Or maybe try MIUI?
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I'm a touch wiz fan don't like aosp or anything that is not Original only need Original to be polished
jacktackle said:
I'm a touch wiz fan don't like aosp or anything that is not Original only need Original to be polished
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Renovate Edge/Dream might be your choice because it gives the ability to theme the notifications and more which is not available on Touch Wiz roms.
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I'm a touch wiz fan don't like aosp or anything that is not Original only need Original to be polished
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Try MIUI the ports are TW based
Thanks guys went back to king rom 6.0 who cares as long as i get what i want. S8 ports are handycap in smart view