I'm super excited that it finally came in the mail. Whats the first thing I should do to, or with it?
Don't be shy you guys, throw some ideas at me.
For a root, I'm thinking cm10.1 (Should I leave the kernal or change it?)
Best nexus 4 feature? Or any cool things about the phone that would take me a month to figure out on my own?
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I'd recommend leaving stock rom, unlock, root, and install franco kernel. Go into settings, about phone, repeatedly tap Android version, and a smiling jellybean will pop up.
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Hmm, didn't think to do that. I'm going to read it now. Thank you for the advice!
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I checked, mine was fine upon arrival. Did you have a different experience?
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I'd recommend leaving stock rom, unlock, root, and install franco kernel. Go into settings, about phone, repeatedly tap Android version, and a smiling jellybean will pop up.
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I unlocked it. Thank you for suggesting the franco kernel. I think I read somewhere that the franco kernel with cm10 was brilliant. I would leave it stock, but I feel like I've gotten to know the phone quite well already lol. I haven't played the jelly bean game yet btw. Good tip.
Definitely throw on Franco's kernel. If you also get his kernel updater app, I would recommend changing your screen gamma settings to match this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=39012344#post39012344. I brought down the red a little bit because I like my colors to be a little cooler . I personally think this is the way our screen colors should have been calibrated all along as it looks so much better.
AW: [Q] Just got my Nexus4!!!
But with that Kernel I wont recieve OTA updates anymore right ?! So how to update later ?
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check the battery life, and download some games to check its performance, and also in taking pics or audio. anyway, just the respect you are concerned.
post in the correct section
First thing is download the factory image from Google so you have it to hand should you need to go back to stock. Also make sure you know adb/fastboot commands and don't use toolkits (they're for the lazy). Make sure you understand how to reboot the unit should something go wrong and generally read every guide you can on here before doing anything
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First thing is download the factory image from Google so you have it to hand should you need to go back to stock. Also make sure you know adb/fastboot commands and don't use toolkits (they're for the lazy). Make sure you understand how to reboot the unit should something go wrong and generally read every guide you can on here before doing anything
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Finally, some good advice. I'd also recommend creating a nandroid in recovery BEFORE flashing anything. It might be a good idea to save a copy on your computer. Could save you some hassle later.
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First thing is download the factory image from Google so you have it to hand should you need to go back to stock. Also make sure you know adb/fastboot commands and don't use toolkits (they're for the lazy). Make sure you understand how to reboot the unit should something go wrong and generally read every guide you can on here before doing anything
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I should have took your advice. I bricked my phone :/
In my defense it was at 6 in the morning after a long and stressful night at work. Very depressing.
Also, would you mind if I stole your signature? lol
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I should have took your advice. I bricked my phone :/
In my defense it was at 6 in the morning after a long and stressful night at work. Very depressing.
Also, would you mind if I stole your signature? lol
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How did you brick it? Wrong ROM/kernel?
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hey folks, just noticed my nexus won't vibrate at all. tried messaging settings and all options are checked. I've tried as much as possible to get this to vibrate with no luck. think it's toast?
does it give you the little bumb right when you turn it on?
take the battery out put it back in then hold the power button. it should give a vibrate then. if not, then yea you need a new vibrator.
Not going to say it.....just not going to say it. =p
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Will you two get a room. Sorry had to.
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not going to say it.....just not going to say it. =p
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lmfao
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Happened to me once. Powering the phone off then on again fixed it.
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thanks for the reply guys. Did a battery pull and still no luck. This is my wife's phone so its not rooted, and with all the games she plays I'll never hear stop hearing about the loss of progress. Installed a few different keyboards to see even if the haptic would fire up, no luck. She said it worked a few weeks ago, but noticed recently that it's gone. I went through ever setting I can find to try to test and and still not a shake.
Sounds like ur gonna have to use ur factory warranty.
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thats what I was thinking...ok my device is rooted so I can use titanium. Her device isn't. Is there any way to pull her game saves off the device without a root? If the nexus had oneclick root/unroot I'd rip that off no problem. The two rooting methods are quite different, and especially with this going back don't want anything to void the warranty.
Yea bro, sounds like your wife wore out her vibrator. You can root without unlocking the bootloader iirc then use titanium then unroot. Copy the backup to your PC then swap phones
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been looking through root posts, haven't seen a 2.3.4 that doesn't wipe....
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been looking through root posts, haven't seen a 2.3.4 that doesn't wipe....
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you should be able to do a
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adb pull /data/ /data/
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adb pull /sdcard/ /sdcard/
that will copy her data partition where the games are and the sdcard partition to a folder wherever you ran the command. i haven't tried this but without root there isn't much you can mess up
adb is new to me. this unrooted crap annoys me, compared to using my cap. So firing up cmd, running those two commands with the device in (recovery menu?), should pull the data files? now when I get a new phone back, I will be rooting hers, would I drop the data files back in?
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adb is new to me. this unrooted crap annoys me, compared to using my cap. So firing up cmd, running those two commands with the device in (recovery menu?), should pull the data files? now when I get a new phone back, I will be rooting hers, would I drop the data files back in?
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Yea pretty much. It doesn't have to be in recovery but if you are make sure to mount the partitions.
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I actually have this problem. It happened in the first month I got the phone. Someone on the forums recommended that I do a factory reset. But because I didn't root and I don't want to reinstall everything, so I just use the nexus s without vibration. The vibrate will fix itself once a month for a couple days and then die again so I dunno what it is. Please let me know how you fix it. Thanks!
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This device is blazing fast most of the time, but it will inexplicably lock up, completely, for a few minutes at a time for seemingly no reason. Right now it's frozen on a youtube video and I can't turn it off or use the screen. The device is also unusable really when installing apps, and will lag heavily in Google Now sometimes.
Is this just me? Or 4.2.1?
Just you. My N7 is still operating at warp speed and doesn't lock up..
Faux kernel / paranoid android
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Are you stock? If so I heard people saying turning off the sync for currents will help, for Google now lag I feel its performs better if you turn off the hot word in setting. But with that you can't say Google and start voice search
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I'm stock 4.2.1 and don't have those issues. I do have currents (and various other apps) disabled, so like previous response said try that. Otherwise maybe go with a factory reset.
When my gnex updated to 4.2 it's performance suffered until I factory reset, now it's been much better.
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My best guess would be you have installed an app that is not compatible with 4.2.
How about posting a list of what you have installed, if you use multi-user, and if you are stock (not rooted), and we can give comments.
I agree. I'm running PA and rock solid. I was also rock solid on stock.
I've never had it lock up. I flashed a Trinity kernel once that caused sleep of death... but it was a known issue.
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I'm stock 4.2.1 and don't have those issues. I do have currents (and various other apps) disabled, so like previous response said try that. Otherwise maybe go with a factory reset.
When my gnex updated to 4.2 it's performance suffered until I factory reset, now it's been much better.
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I have currents disabled. Which others do you have disabled?
rmm200 said:
My best guess would be you have installed an app that is not compatible with 4.2.
How about posting a list of what you have installed, if you use multi-user, and if you are stock (not rooted), and we can give comments.
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I have a pretty decent amount of apps installed. I'll post them in a minute, but no, I'm not multi-user, and I'm stock. I'll root and put a new rom on this thing if it's worth it, I figured it'd be fine the way it came.
btw, here are my androbench results. Are these slow?
apps:
These are what I disable.
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These are what I disable.
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thanks, I'll try disabling those.
Over 100 apps in total, my andronbench write speed is clearly an error so just compare read and app open macros.
My apps open much faster than yours, which I'd put down to PA ROM and kernel. Maybe your write speed is a bit slow?
Can you download "forever gone" from market and try a full fill and delete? Apparently helps reset the memory controller to improve performance.
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Over 100 apps in total, my andronbench write speed is clearly an error so just compare read and app open macros.
My apps open much faster than yours, which I'd put down to PA ROM and kernel. Maybe your write speed is a bit slow?
Can you download "forever gone" from market and try a full fill and delete? Apparently helps reset the memory controller to improve performance.
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I did forever gone earlier today.
bump.
I just want to know if I should restore, root and flash a new rom on this thing. Can someone check out my androbench scores and tell me if they're normal?
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Set up as followed: latest version of slim bean ROM, and latest faux kernel.
I just set this up a few hours ago, apps and all and then the phone reboot and all my settings, passwords,etc had been reset. Its like the phone did a partial factory reset and honestly I am stumped . It so happen to do this right after I deleted set CPU...any input would be helpful.
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Set up as followed: latest version of slim bean ROM, and latest faux kernel.
I just set this up a few hours ago, apps and all and then the phone reboot and all my settings, passwords,etc had been reset. Its like the phone did a partial factory reset and honestly I am stumped . It so happen to do this right after I deleted set CPU...any input would be helpful.
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Well first of all, I believe this should be in the Q&A Section.
Second thing: I have had this happen to me too. I was running _Motley's kernel and I had the same thing happen. I believe that this was caused by me UV'ing too much. If you're OC'ed, I'd lower it. If you're UV'ed, I'd raise the voltages too. It may have just been one of the little quirks of Android and may be impossible to reproduce.
Best of luck,
Connor Baker
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Well first of all, I believe this should be in the Q&A Section.
Second thing: I have had this happen to me too. I was running _Motley's kernel and I had the same thing happen. I believe that this was caused by me UV'ing too much. If you're OC'ed, I'd lower it. If you're UV'ed, I'd raise the voltages too. It may have just been one of the little quirks of Android and may be impossible to reproduce.
Best of luck,
Connor Baker
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Thank you and I will remember that for next time.
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Make sure fsync isn't ticked off. Sounds like it could be that..
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Make sure fsync isn't ticked off. Sounds like it could be that..
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Fsync? Where's that option?
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I had Franco's 110, then flashed Faux's kernel resetter and Motley's 37 one after another. Phone now would not turn on. I searched other threads and it seems like holding vol + and - together with Power, should fix it. However in my case,only the led turns on and stays solid red.
Any ideas?
Check and make sure you didn't flash a Nexus 7 kernel version.
If you did its toast.
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Rest in peace if n7 kernel..
The Kernel file name is motley_422_n4_exp_build_37
However, Kernel resetter was downloaded from N7 thread, for some reason I was under impression its the same file...
The file name is grouper-faux123-reset-kernel-4.2.2
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However, Kernel resetter was downloaded from N7 thread, for some reason I was under impression its the same file...
The file name is grouper-faux123-reset-kernel-4.2.2
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Kernel resetter is just the stock kernel. If you got it from the N7 forum its the N7 stock kernel.
Sorry.
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You can't even boot to the bootloader ?
Farewell Nexus 4.
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Never rooting the Nexus if i get it, such a fragile phone...
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Never rooting the Nexus if i get it, such a fragile phone...
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Hi,
This is not the phone that is fragile, it's what the user do with it... If you flash a kernel from a Nexus 7 to the Nexus 4... for me it's legitim to have "a little problem"... It's the same thing for all the phones, try to flash a kernel from another phone instead the one make for your phone and see the result...
If you don't read correctly and don't paid attention at what you do or flash... It's not the phone that is the responsible...
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Hi,
This is not the phone that is fragile, it's what the user do with it... If you flash a kernel from a Nexus 7 for the Nexus 4... for me it's legitim to have "a little problem"... It's the same thing for all the phones, try to flash a kernel from another phone instead the one make for your phone and see the result...
If you don't read correctly and don't paid attention at what you do or flash... It's not the phone that is the responsible...
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Yea, but a lot of people have been having problems with the infamous "Red light of death" after simply rooting, or letting the phone battery completely deplete itself. I'm still gonna get this phone, but I'm kinda cautious. Does it come with a warranty from Google?
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Yea, but a lot of people have been having problems with the infamous "Red light of death" after simply rooting, or letting the phone battery completely deplete itself. I'm still gonna get this phone, but I'm kinda cautious. Does it come with a warranty from Google?
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This issue and the battery issue you are referring to aren't related.
The N4 led just flashed red when there is an error. It could be a variety of things.
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This issue and the battery issue you are referring to aren't related.
The N4 led just flashed red when there is an error. It could be a variety of things.
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Has it happened to you?
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Has it happened to you?
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No. I don't do things to my phone that cause problems.
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abdi7451 said:
Yea, but a lot of people have been having problems with the infamous "Red light of death" after simply rooting, or letting the phone battery completely deplete itself. I'm still gonna get this phone, but I'm kinda cautious. Does it come with a warranty from Google?
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You bought a Nexus device. Use it. Root it. Flash it. Play with it. You worry too much. Stop being so paranoid. Again, if you carefully do the correct steps you will get the results you desire. If you miss a step you will be sad that you screwed up your phone. If you're in math class and you miss a step to the formula to the equation you will get it all wrong. Pay attention to all the little details. You will be a pro at rooting in the future if you follow the steps meticulously.
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So...as I understand I should just throw it in the garbage now?
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You bought a Nexus device. Use it. Root it. Flash it. Play with it. You worry too much. Stop being so paranoid. Again, if you carefully do the correct steps you will get the results you desire. If you miss a step you will be sad that you screwed up your phone. If you're in math class and you miss a step to the formula to the equation you will get it all wrong. Pay attention to all the little details. You will be a pro at rooting in the future if you follow the steps meticulously.
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So everyone with the red light of death is an idiot that didn't follow the steps?
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So...as I understand I should just throw it in the garbage now?
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It may be able to be repaired. Here's the same problem from the other day.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2208312
There is a link to a JTAG service in that thread.
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have you tried flashing the factory image via fastboot? can you get into the bootloader?
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It may be able to be repaired. Here's the same problem from the other day.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2208312
There is a link to a JTAG service in that thread.
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thank you, I guess thats the only option left
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have you tried flashing the factory image via fastboot? can you get into the bootloader?
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nope, I just can make the Led flash for a quick second:crying:
abdi7451 said:
Never rooting the Nexus if i get it, such a fragile phone...
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yeah not fragile at all. people don't know what they are doing (no offense guys). they just need to READ everything. the stickies at the top of the forums explain everything in detail. flashing a kernel for a completely different device is just asinine. as long as people arent stupid about things, fastboot can always save their asses.
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So everyone with the red light of death is an idiot that didn't follow the steps?
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im guessing so. i had the "red light of death" last night. i was using my phone at like 2% battery left, rebooted it and it said i had 5% left. big whoop my battery calibration is a little jacked. well i kept using it and instead of going through the shutting down thing when the battery died, the screen just went blank. again, because the battery calibration is way off. so i plug it in, and the light turns red for about 10 seconds. then the light turns off, and the battery charging icon appeared. i waited 10 mins for it to get a small charge then booted right up. not a single problem. i really dont get why everyone is having such freak accidents and problems with this phone.
Hi everyone,
I posted a few months back whether I should buy a Nex 4 or not. Now that I did, I have another Q.
With my old Galaxy S, i HAD to root and install ROMs cuz it was reaaaally slow. Now, with the Nex 4, it's super fast that I'm not even thinking about ROMing it any time soon. However, I was wondering about rooting it. Does rooting affect the speed? it made my GS faster. Will it do the same for the Nexus?
Thanks.
Just rooting won't actually do anything but installing the right apps will. Of course if you overclock it it will get faster, but personally I underclock it to save battery. I'd say it is definitely worth rooting it. You never know you might feel like installing a ROM later so it can't hurt to root now. Basically everything rooting did to your GS it will do to your N4 but the nexus is already fast.
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I'd suggest a kernel change at least. The stock kernel made my phone very hot sometimes and the battery life sucked.
Unlock bootloader, root, start modding and theming, or flash custom rom, have fun, and ignore all the idiot trolls here.
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I'd suggest a kernel change at least. The stock kernel made my phone very hot sometimes and the battery life sucked.
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I dont agree. Stock rom and stock kernel. Awesome. Provided that if you have not set sync setting for least times.
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Same situation here, from Galaxy S to Nexus 4... well, I've rooted, installed Franko Kernel... and here stops my modding, now enjoying the speed . The only problem is that now every phone I touch, feels slower compared to the nexus
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Just rooting won't actually do anything but installing the right apps will. Of course if you overclock it it will get faster, but personally I underclock it to save battery. I'd say it is definitely worth rooting it. You never know you might feel like installing a ROM later so it can't hurt to root now. Basically everything rooting did to your GS it will do to your N4 but the nexus is already fast.
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I'd suggest a kernel change at least. The stock kernel made my phone very hot sometimes and the battery life sucked.
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Unlock bootloader, root, start modding and theming, or flash custom rom, have fun, and ignore all the idiot trolls here.
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Thanks guys, I'm thinking of a kernel to save a little more battery and at the same time play some heavy duty games.
Any suggestions?
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I dont agree. Stock rom and stock kernel. Awesome. Provided that if you have not set sync setting for least times.
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true. Still, I wanna try a good kernel just to see if things get better.
Travel_Mate said:
Same situation here, from Galaxy S to Nexus 4... well, I've rooted, installed Franko Kernel... and here stops my modding, now enjoying the speed . The only problem is that now every phone I touch, feels slower compared to the nexus
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A GS mate! :highfive: I totally agree when it comes to any other phone being slow. I'll stop by Franko kernel's thread after root. Thanks :good:
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I dont agree. Stock rom and stock kernel. Awesome. Provided that if you have not set sync setting for least times.
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To each his own.
I rooted my Gnex the first day I got it. Although I plan on staying stock for awhile on the N4 since my favorite custom rom (CM) seems to be a bit glitchly atm.
What I did for an while was run stock-rooted for a bit. I turned ALL animations in Dev Options to .5 and my phone was flying! Quick to menus, opening and closing apps, and saving RAM. Battery life was great considering I'm a stickler when it comes to WiFi and Data toggled. Than I would run either PACman or Paranoid Android. Both were fluid experiences. But nothing beat Stock Rooted speeds.
It just matters what you're looking for. Try ROMs out, there's plenty of them out there! Good luck and happy rooting!
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Honestly I thought exactly like you when I first got this phone but I eventually decided to root and install custom ROMs and I like my phone a lot better. I think you should
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