Hey folks! My buddy just got the Galaxy Note and I was telling him about the awesome Developer custom firmware and mods...BUT then he told me, nothing beats the Official Firmware aka GingerBread with, in my opinion the Horrible TouchWiz UI. So I wanted to know your thoughts?
Am I wrong about TouchWiz being a bad representation of the Beauty of Android and not being Optimized for the Note...or am I biased?
All responses are welcome
Obviously it depends on what you prefer but i definitely prefer custom roms cause a) they usually are a lot smoother and b) they look better. And of course there's couple features you don't have on stock. Have a try?
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I love ICS to death, but the lack of toggles in the notification bar really put a damper on things. I would recommend a Custom ICS ROM like CM9, or the sorts. Just look through the threads to see which was has the least amount of problems, or suits you best.
omac_ranger said:
I love ICS to death, but the lack of toggles in the notification bar really put a damper on things. I would recommend a Custom ICS ROM like CM9, or the sorts. Just look through the threads to see which was has the least amount of problems, or suits you best.
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I've been using ics stunner 5.0 for a day now and there is a bunch of toggles to use and I think this is the best rom I have had on my note. Doesn't feel like having a beta rom at all
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Stunner works surprisingly well. I am using Alba jp6 atm. And it rock! No issues I can find.
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Stunner works surprisingly well. I am using Alba jp6 atm. And it rock! No issues I can find.
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I really like this apex launcher and I don't have any issues either. Is there some kind of launcher like this in alba?
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cs_allu said:
I really like this apex launcher and I don't have any issues either. Is there some kind of launcher like this in alba?
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you can use Apex with any ICS ROM.
cs_allu said:
I really like this apex launcher and I don't have any issues either. Is there some kind of launcher like this in alba?
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not by default. But just download it from play store
I like the ICS ,but im using GB because when i compare with both
I feel GB is more smooth then the ICS
But ICS is look nice then GB for me...
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you can use Apex with any ICS ROM.
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Okay sounds rational never used any launchers than tw so didn't know. Which ics rom u people prefer btw?
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Oh this is NICE...A lot of Opinions I see, great! Keep em coming
My absolute ideal ROM would be a proper AOSP ROM(With fully optimized and compiled kernel) and Samsung's premium suite S-Note app. But for now I'm happy with AOSP CM9 ROM that I've been using as a daily diver.
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My absolute ideal ROM would be a proper AOSP ROM(With fully optimized and compiled kernel) and Samsung's premium suite S-Note app. But for now I'm happy with AOSP CM9 ROM that I've been using as a daily diver.
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TOTALLY agree with you.
my perfect ROM is 100% AOSP experience(no more touchwiz please) with FULL S-Pen functionality.
this would be perfect.
I'm still on stock GB, as I have a custom ICS ROM on my tablet and don't see the new features as enough of a reason to void my warranty having played with it for a while - and I'd like to get premium suite when it comes out too.
I did like TW when I first got the Note, especially the list display of the apps menu, but having tried various launchers (inc. sPB shell) I keep ending up back with ADW Ex which I love the tweakability of. It takes a while to learn what the different settings do but you can get a great UI experience from it once you've got it set up just right. I think TW would be so much better if you could tweak it a bit more to your own preferences.
I probably will root my Note and install a lean, custom ROM once my year's warranty is up, just for the performance benefits and lack of bloatware, but for now I'm happy with GB.
Dragooon123 said:
My absolute ideal ROM would be a proper AOSP ROM(With fully optimized and compiled kernel) and Samsung's premium suite S-Note app. But for now I'm happy with AOSP CM9 ROM that I've been using as a daily diver.
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darkinners said:
TOTALLY agree with you.
my perfect ROM is 100% AOSP experience(no more touchwiz please) with FULL S-Pen functionality.
this would be perfect.
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+1 on pure ICS plus "S-pen premium suit applications"
AllAboutAndroids said:
Hey folks! My buddy just got the Galaxy Note and I was telling him about the awesome Developer custom firmware and mods...BUT then he told me, nothing beats the Official Firmware aka GingerBread with, in my opinion the Horrible TouchWiz UI. So I wanted to know your thoughts?
Am I wrong about TouchWiz being a bad representation of the Beauty of Android and not being Optimized for the Note...or am I biased?
All responses are welcome
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There's nothing wrong with touchwiz, imho. I personally prefer adwlauncher but I could live with touchwiz if I had to. To each their own.
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Will the cyanogenmod rom available for galaxy tab?It would be great and I think there are lots of people will use it.
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Until we have a fully working custom recovery image, that will work on any tab version and with any bootloader, no one will be interested in making custom ROMs.
My 2cents...
With the stellar performance of JMC and replacement launchers what would be the advantage? I have removed all bloatware and this thing runs like lightning man. JMC + Launcher pro + lower lcd density (200 here) I could not be happier
I'm happy with my Tab as it is. Imho, id rather have Gingerbread than CM or most other rom makers.
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GANJDROID said:
I'm happy with my Tab as it is. Imho, id rather have Gingerbread than CM or most other rom makers.
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I'm with you on this. I could care less about custom roms I just want gingerbread and an oc kernel
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mcp2009 said:
I'm with you on this. I could care less about custom roms I just want gingerbread and an oc kernel
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I think that's literally all we need. For me, my Tab is for daily use for work etc so I don't need a fancy rom to, lets face it, show off because that's what most roms are about these days. No custom rom is more practical than stock. Yeah, some things you may not like, but that's what they Market is for, alternatives to pre-installed apps.
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Adam g has updated oxygen 2.2.2 rom for galaxy s2 with hd video recording .
Download search oxygen on google.
http://forum.oxygen.im/viewforum.php?id=7
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Is it good rom, I never tried it before!
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Mhm I like it. But can't decide between CM7 and Oxygen
Why great rom makers are getting away from xda ???
They are not releasing thier work on xda.
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It was best n simple aosp android rom for htc desire.
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Oxygen ROM on the Nexus-S is AWESOME. It is a pure vanilla stock Android style ROM, no bloatware, no carrier UI, but just the way Google meant Android to be. And it is crazy fast and smooth, with great battery life, can only imagine the Galaxy S2 would be out of this world with this ROM.
yes it feels blazing fast '
battery also seems batter lets see hoz it.
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Why great rom makers are getting away from xda ???
They are not releasing thier work on xda.
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Well, look at MIUI-Galnet, they HAD to move away from XDA because of their donation schemes (Something to do with new devices) I think with Oxygen & DevNull it's just an agreement with the CM7 team since Oxygen is the same just a different framework. Not sure really.
But, all in all, I prefer AOSP always have, it's what I miss about my Nexus S & One basicalle
Nitroz said:
Well, look at MIUI-Galnet, they HAD to move away from XDA because of their donation schemes (Something to do with new devices) I think with Oxygen & DevNull it's just an agreement with the CM7 team since Oxygen is the same just a different framework. Not sure really.
But, all in all, I prefer AOSP always have, it's what I miss about my Nexus S & One basicalle
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Not entirely true, the reasons Adamg moved away from XDA were the lack of moderation here and the 'dumb' questions being posted here. Those are also the reasons most devs move away here...
Zorachus said:
Oxygen ROM on the Nexus-S is AWESOME. It is a pure vanilla stock Android style ROM, no bloatware, no carrier UI, but just the way Google meant Android to be. And it is crazy fast and smooth, with great battery life, can only imagine the Galaxy S2 would be out of this world with this ROM.
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i totally agree! but my "problem" is, the SGS2 is just so freakin fast, i never had any speed issues on the stock rom and battery life isnt very different.... i WANT to use oxygen, but with this phone i would just get less features (no ukw-radio e.g.) :-/
(and if i dont want some crap/bloatware, i just remove/freeze it with titanium)
totally different story on other phones, Oxygen on my Desire was a total game-changer, just unbelievable what a difference it was compared to the stock htc rom!
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i totally agree! but my "problem" is, the SGS2 is just so freakin fast, i never had any speed issues on the stock rom and battery life isnt very different.... i WANT to use oxygen, but with this phone i would just get less features (no ukw-radio e.g.) :-/
(and if i dont want some crap/bloatware, i just remove/freeze it with titanium)
totally different story on other phones, Oxygen on my Desire was a total game-changer, just unbelievable what a difference it was compared to the stock htc rom!
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Yes, this is the funny thing that I ended up using a Samsung ROM (Cognition) after trying all the other options simply because it is fast as well, but has all the extra features (most importantly - for me - the wide video format support and the hw accelerated browser). It seems that Samsung is the first manufacturer that finally starts to get the hang of cooking a functional and fast ROM .
I am using this rom and I think it is simple, fast, good on battery life. I will keep it for a while. Thanks to Adam and the poster.
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I wonder... Is there a built-in RTL text support in this ROM?
waiting for bluetooth to work. oxygen was (IMO), the best rom for my desire but i use bluetooth daily
Yeah, Adam G is in my opinion one of the best chefs out here. He just makes roms that work with almost no bugs.
+1 to AdamG and thalamus for their great work! Been using Oxygen on my desire for more than 8 months, not I have it on my s2 as well
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waiting for bluetooth to work. oxygen was (IMO), the best rom for my desire but i use bluetooth daily
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Latest version supposed to have support for bluetooth ..http://forum.oxygen.im/viewtopic.php?pid=7564#p7564
ready to give it a go, need some time to be able to wipe all and set everything up from scratch. probably next week at this point
quick Q to those who have installed it - what toggles are available in the drop down menu?
ta
Its customizable like CM7. You choose which ones are up there, their order, and color.
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is there a way to install Theme Chooser in this ROM????
Lets see how many users are using Custom Rom , Stock Samsung ROM , MIUI or CM7....
Vote at your will.
Using my own custom sammy rom . I like to put my own touch to them lol. CM7 is ok but i find anything AOSP roms have flaws but props to the devs.
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My custom ROM too. Aosp.
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Technology Evolves, Android Evolves.
HydrOG3N is THE Revolution.
Oxygen 2.3.2, or HydrogenMod.
Aosp for me all the way.
Regards
To be fair, stock would be the most used rom.
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To be fair, stock would be the most used rom.
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Heh, true that. I guess most people are just using stock roms, maybe with a custom kernel. This phone works fine the way it is actually, there are just some little flaws that can be fixed with a couple of hacks, and some colours which are a bit out place, but we have some nice themes after all.
Aosp roms are blazing fast tho, really unrivaled in terms of smoothness if you wanna play games...the problem with those is that they aren't 100% bug free as the ones i was using on my Desire, so i find it hard to use them as a daily driver for more than a few days every now and then on this particular phone.
Hyperdroid androidmeda with speedmod kernel.
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Galnet MIUI ICS builds. Far better than anything else.
stock 2.3.5 PT + juicedefender
thats it
checkk
CheckROM with ICS syndicate theme work perfect for me!
You're going to get a biased result asking on xda, as its where people who like modding go. Most users will not know about xda or bother with custom roms and be using stock
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im a little bit confused because i come from nexus one, where the biggest part use CM builds, but here there seems to be a more even distribution among users..... any special reasons?
Was on cognition for a long while. on darky ROM now.
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pinkster said:
im a little bit confused because i come from nexus one, where the biggest part use CM builds, but here there seems to be a more even distribution among users..... any special reasons?
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I prefer Samsung custom roms because they are so freakin smooth. Excellent stock browser, I love TouchWiz and the launcher, superb camera interface, and an awesome video player app.
Hyperdroid all the way-official ROM of the 2012 Olympics.
You guys wants me to add more poll items for Custom Stock ROM ?
I'm trying out omega and liking it so far,
Reason why the large distribution is because really, the phone works as is pretty well. It just needs a few tweaks to get rid of that garbage late night battery full alert and a couple other things. Since most people are looking for stock + tweaks, there's a lot of different tweaks available.
WajkIUI... i hope the spelling is right.. excellent ROM
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I am using CM7 nightlies with SPB Shell 3D.
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hyperdroid androidmeda. flashed it about 2 days back. works well for me
Afternoon all,
just bought a galaxy tab 10.1 but not entirely impressed. Feels a bit laggy to me. I have an ipad2 too which hardly lags and works flawlessly.
Galaxy feels and looks better but what would i need to do to reduce the lag? whats the best rom available
I notice the lag alot when i swipe.
Install ADW Ex launcher if you want to stay stock, or flash the ICS ROM, and kiss the lag goodbye.
You are truly not seeing the potential with tab with the stock touch wiz.
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All you need to do is read a few threads asking virtually the same question in the past several days.
The ability/willingness to search and read will save you countless problems and repeating of question already answered and here for the finding.
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Benzoman said:
All you need to do is read a few threads asking virtually the same question in the past several days.
The ability/willingness to search and read will save you countless problems and repeating of question already answered and here for the finding.
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ta,
can i install the task14 rom straight away? at the moment my tab hasnt been touched with any software modifications.
|flyte| said:
Install ADW Ex launcher if you want to stay stock, or flash the ICS ROM, and kiss the lag goodbye.
You are truly not seeing the potential with tab with the stock touch wiz.
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+1 for ADW Launcher.
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ta,
can i install the task14 rom straight away? at the moment my tab hasnt been touched with any software modifications.
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Sockmonk3y's Sticky guide in the development section tells you exactly what to do. I like how he added a section right into the guide saying, if you want a custom ROM, now is the time. Sure helps know when to do it.
Personally, I like go launcher hd, which is just out of beta and the options to customize and theme it are almost non-existing so far, so I can't say its the best. I like go launcher ex a lot with So many themes and stuff to customize it rocks. But if you decide to go with go launcher hd later its a pain to start over.
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try apex launcher
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try apex launcher
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Only nice if your running an ICS ROM.
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I running apex on my sgs2 with ics so if it can be used when the gtab gets ics that will be sweet.
Not long now...
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We all need some Ice Cream .................
rafter_01 said:
Afternoon all,
just bought a galaxy tab 10.1 but not entirely impressed. Feels a bit laggy to me. I have an ipad2 too which hardly lags and works flawlessly.
Galaxy feels and looks better but what would i need to do to reduce the lag? whats the best rom available
I notice the lag alot when i swipe.
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I would suggest you root your tab immediately and if you are not too concerned with the Camera you should install ICS Kang from AOKP. But other wise best HC choice is GalaxyTask 14.
Galaxytask14 has some lag but the ICS roms are literally flawless and has amazing mods and one of the biggest secrets behind the ICS speed is that they do not have Samsung's bloat-ware.
So if you are one of those people who loves flawless experience at the expense of camera (until Samsung releases a rom with the Camera driver) ICS would be your best friend and believe me I have come from IOS too so I was always after total smoothness that I have found in ICS.
Hope this helps .................
And I am completely overwhelmed by how good this phone is!
I've been away from XDA for a very long time and figured I'd come back and see what the community is like for the S4.
Hopefully I'll be able to contribute towards this awesome phone on here, somehow.
Thanks
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Great, welcome! Now all you need to do is to root and rid your phone from the god-awful TouchWiz framework!
(The above reflects my opinion only. Of course you might like TouchWiz (I mean the UI, not the launcher with the same name))
Theshawty said:
Great, welcome! Now all you need to do is to root and rid your phone from the god-awful TouchWiz framework!
(The above reflects my opinion only. Of course you might like TouchWiz (I mean the UI, not the launcher with the same name))
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Thanks mate!
I cant say im a fan of TouchWiz and am greatly interested in the I9505 stock ROM. I love vanilla android! I'll root it a little later and explore my options
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jimbo.levy said:
Thanks mate!
I cant say im a fan of TouchWiz and am greatly interested in the I9505 stock ROM. I love vanilla android! I'll root it a little later and explore my options
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Coming from a Galaxy Nexus, I wouldn't possibly think you'd like TW.
The vanilla rom is awesome. Running it right now and it's great albeit a little feature-less. I'll run this until I dare jumping to CM
(The vanilla rom I'm running is the m3dd0g's v2 one together with the proper kernel by Ausdim, in case you wanna try those out)
m3dd0g's rom: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2340783
Ausdim's kernel: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2342298
Do not try Android 4.3 if you want root. In can currently not be rooted and it's almost exactly the same as 4.2 (the 4.3 one is a leak so it's expected to act funnily and not have a lot of features).
Cheers.