Should i do it? why or why not?
I want nexus for the zero shutter camera + jellybean and stock android. Tired of waiting around for jellybean for this device and ive tried all the roms, but unfortunately they have one glitch or another that just ruins it for me.
I might be trying to trade with someone on Xda (is this against ToS?) (bad idea?)
Any advice on how to do this securely/ not get screwed?
I dont really care for Spen and huge screen size, id never put either to the use they deserve, i just use my phone for communication/social networking. i used to browse reddit alot but when i discovered thumbnail viewer addon + reddit enhancement suite, that all changed. i cant even bring myself to read normal web pages anymore on my note, i just goto my laptop for reading.
I have never flashed a brick kernel. Does the galaxy nexus have a brick kernel problem? If so how to check the one im getting isnt potentially bad?
The phone itself does have small cosmetic damage. It hasnt affected the performance of the phone what so ever.
http://imgur.com/v5NIs,iqC19,CTjjL
http://imgur.com/v5NIs,iqC19,CTjjL#1
http://imgur.com/v5NIs,iqC19,CTjjL#2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21nPfWY-qrE&feature=youtu.be
If you are interested, let me know.
0 shutter camera was a feature back in android 4.0.2 after that google decided to use autofocus because the pics quality was horrible... jellybean aosp runs infinetely better on note than nexus... flash cm10.... you Will regret about loosing your screen and power.. i own a nexus(wich its in a box since i got my note)
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msedek said:
0 shutter camera was a feature back in android 4.0.2 after that google decided to use autofocus because the pics quality was horrible... jellybean aosp runs infinetely better on note than nexus... flash cm10.... you Will regret about loosing your screen and power.. i own a nexus(wich its in a box since i got my note)
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Ive tried all the different cm10 roms and im very thankful to the devs. However there are some glitches i cant get over like notification volume causes all volume to mute/requires manual adjustment < annoying as hell. My internal drive completely dissapearing. Soft reboots, hard reboots, memory leaks, etc. the list goes on. I guess i just want a nexus device so i can be rid of these issues.
As for the camera i was unaware zero shutter was bad. I never looked into it i just wanted to be able to takes pictures of my baby and she moves around alot. Figured zero shutter could make it to where i could catch some photos of her since she is fast.
EDIT: what rom would you suggest?
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Doomstick said:
Ive tried all the different cm10 roms and im very thankful to the devs. However there are some glitches i cant get over like notification volume causes all volume to mute/requires manual adjustment < annoying as hell. My internal drive completely dissapearing. Soft reboots, hard reboots, memory leaks, etc. the list goes on. I guess i just want a nexus device so i can be rid of these issues.
As for the camera i was unaware zero shutter was bad. I never looked into it i just wanted to be able to takes pictures of my baby and she moves around alot. Figured zero shutter could make it to where i could catch some photos of her since she is fast.
EDIT: what rom would you suggest?
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Get cm9 its stable with no glitches until cm10 its ready remember its Just a preview,samsung its about to release jb for note so cyanogenmod team Will be able to complete the rom
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i changed from galaxy nexus to galaxy note so i have some experience about NEXUS for u:
- quality of camera is too bad (note better)
- battery life is about 3.5 - 4 hours on screen (note better)
- in all roms from stock to cook is smoother than galaxy note (Nexus better)
- more roms than NOTE
- Especially ANDROID 4.1
Thanks to all of you who are WAY smarter than me, I have been able to root, flash and load custom ROMs. You guys rock.
The main reason I did all that was in hopes of improving the handwriting with a stylus so I could take notes on my tablet at work instead of on paper, but the quality is still terrible. (I've tried numerous note taking apps) Is there any way to improve that with any certain ROMs?
I am running CM10-FLEX V6_SuperCharged with Aroma installer.
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CinderellaOhio said:
Thanks to all of you who are WAY smarter than me, I have been able to root, flash and load custom ROMs. You guys rock.
The main reason I did all that was in hopes of improving the handwriting with a stylus so I could take notes on my tablet at work instead of on paper, but the quality is still terrible. (I've tried numerous note taking apps) Is there any way to improve that with any certain ROMs?
I am running CM10-FLEX V6_SuperCharged with Aroma installer.
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The ROM is not really the issue, there's no high quality digitizer on the A500 so nope, probably not. Galaxy 10.1, Note 2 and the Lenovo (defunct) are the only one's I'm aware of with a decent digitizer. You can see if Vision Objects, etc will put out a version of Notes for the generic Android device, that would probably be your best bet but it's not going to be Tab quality.
Unless I'm missing it, or the flash of my ROM didn't work right, the google camera on my device from the pure nexus edition I flashed (http://forum.xda-developers.com/gala...on-s4-t2837239 doesn't seem to have Slow Motion video capturing which I really would like to have .
Is there a way I could just get the old S4 camera to somehow work with the device? (I was googling for one but couldn't find one.) or I take it that was designed custom by samsung for their software? If not the default one that I had from stock, is there another one some of you recommend?
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Unless I'm missing it, or the flash of my ROM didn't work right, the google camera on my device from the pure nexus edition I flashed (http://forum.xda-developers.com/gala...on-s4-t2837239 doesn't seem to have Slow Motion video capturing which I really would like to have .
Is there a way I could just get the old S4 camera to somehow work with the device? (I was googling for one but couldn't find one.) or I take it that was designed custom by samsung for their software? If not the default one that I had from stock, is there another one some of you recommend?
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I don't think you can get it working on the google roms since it was made for the Touchwiz system. If you want to just tinker and try, you can try the S5 camera or the Note 3 camera but as far as I know they won't work.
Ah ok, Thanks Deadly for replying. That's a real shame, I don't like all the bloat that came with my AT&T S4, but the touchwiz camera does seem much better. I'll go look at one of the modified touchwiz ROMs available and try one of them.
Hi, I am a new Note 4 user and I am totally happy with, except TW. I hate its look and feel and I am searching for an alternative.
I've always been a fan of CM. The main problem is that I need a perfectly working S-pen, that's the reason I bought N4 in the first place. I am also concerned about camera performance, if I switch to CM.
So, is there any way to have everything around S-pen (air command, S-memo etc) working absolutely perfectly on CM. Also, will I be able to have the same camera performance?
I'd greatly appreciate the opinions of Note 4 CM12.1 users who have actually achieved camera performance and perfect S-pen functionality. Thanks!
Most of the Spen functionality can be brought back by using the app 'Spen Command' you will have to Google it. Camera quality is almost identical. If you need better low light quality then you can get a custom camera from the CM12 thread.
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I'm intrigued by these custom ROMS for the Galaxy S4, but I want to know what I'd be getting into if I used one.
What, if any, hardware features of the S4 would I be giving up? With the stock firmware, the phone can take temperature, humidity, and barometric readings. Are those sensors still enabled?
Are all the camera features in the stock ROM enabled, including panoramic camera?
Where do I find a list of bugs in the released ROM?
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I'm intrigued by these custom ROMS for the Galaxy S4, but I want to know what I'd be getting into if I used one.
What, if any, hardware features of the S4 would I be giving up? With the stock firmware, the phone can take temperature, humidity, and barometric readings. Are those sensors still enabled?
Are all the camera features in the stock ROM enabled, including panoramic camera?
Where do I find a list of bugs in the released ROM?
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Sensors will always be installed since they're hardware feature but if software doesn't support it it won't work last time I tried it doesn't
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Robert3750 said:
I'm intrigued by these custom ROMS for the Galaxy S4, but I want to know what I'd be getting into if I used one.
What, if any, hardware features of the S4 would I be giving up? With the stock firmware, the phone can take temperature, humidity, and barometric readings. Are those sensors still enabled?
Are all the camera features in the stock ROM enabled, including panoramic camera?
Where do I find a list of bugs in the released ROM?
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Bugs can be found listed in the rom threads.
Unfortunately bugs can differ from user to user. So it's more of a trial and error process. You'll have to find a rom that appeals you, flash it and test for yourself.
In terms of features, you will be giving up the air gestures, the smart stay crap (which never worked for me), and Samsung's camera app.
The CM camera app isn't that advanced. It does have some features, but not as many as the Samsung camera app. And yes, it does have a panorama option.
I've never actually used any of those environmental readings sensors, nor have I seen anybody else mention anything about them in rom threads or in any rom review I saw.
You give up some stuff, but you also gain some stuff. There certainly is a performance improvement over stock firmware. Ram consumption is also lower (I generally have around 1.2 GB free ram), meaning you could do more multitasking.
If you rely on those Samsung features, then stay on the stock rom and just root it.
For me, custom ROMs nearly always beat stock roms, hands-down, and this has held true from my old ZTE blade (Orange San Francisco), two Galaxy S2s, and my S4, probably down to the greater level of user-input that goes into them, rather than the design-by-committee process that OEMs use to try & impose their brand over the vanilla Android os.
I only moved to this S4 (i9505) within the past month or so, so the experience is still quite fresh in my mind...
I agree with much of the advice of the "try it and see" variety, but I also understand that for some of us, we only have the one phone, so when you're using it as your daily device, you don't always fancy going on a magical mystery tour of trying out multiple roms, if it's likely you're just going to go back to the rom you got rid of, and have a massive task of putting everything back the way it was, having wasted a day of experimenting...
1) I hated the bloat that came with the Sammy rom - sure, there's a tool (debloater) that can block certain apps from running, and if rooted, can remove them from the phone - along with a "safe-list" of apps that you can safely remove without breaking any features of the phone.
The bloat isn't just a problem for OCD-esque reasons, these apps take up space, they can run at inopportune times, update themselves using your data, eat up clock time and generally get in the way of having a device that only does what you want it to, when you want it.
Most custom roms tend to give you a (mainly) clean slate to work from, allowing you to pick & choose the functionality you want by installing apps manually - so (like me for example) if you only want to access gmail through your web browser (just like you would on a PC), and don't want a half decade's worth of emails syncing between your device memory & the web, you don't end up with multiple email clients on the handset all clamoring to be by synced 24hrs a day...
Battery life is a MAJOR factor here - I saw a big improvement after debloating the stock rom, and even better since going to CM12.1....
2) Cyanogen (like most custom roms) give more options regarding features that the stock roms bake-in.
For example, heads-up notifications are screwy in the Sammy roms - I'd get a notification of an SMS received in the notification bar. I'd drag-down, double-tap it, but then I'd have to manually un-lock the screen before the SMS app popped-up and displayed the message. Some people hate heads-up notifications full-stop.
Seemingly minor features like these, that after a while begin to really bug you are often controllable in custom roms like CM, or just plain old implemented better, after real-life user input and advice has been given.
3) User control; It's silly how much additional control you can gain from a well thought out custom rom, and the popular ones tend to be well thought out (as they garner a lot of user-input).
For example, in CM you have a additional control over root access in the device settings, fine-tune the interface and gives more fine control over many aspects of the device that if you're used to the Sammy rom you'd think can't actually be accessed...
As to what you'd give up - other users have pointed that out.
All I can say is I'm quite demanding and I've found nothing that I can't do if I need it - for me it has only been a positive.
Some people say the CM camera is less sophisticated than the Sammy one - I personally prefer the simplicity; There's an abundance of high-end camera apps for those times you want to take a studio quality photo, with detailed light readings, composition aids, etc... But mostly when you're taking a quick phone-cam shot, the ease of use is the main factor (and who doesn't tweak their photos at home with photoshop anyhow?)
So a simplecam as the default and the option to go high-end later is for me, the better way round....
I know some of this has strayed slightly off the specific questions you asked, but having made the same change you're thinking of in the past few weeks, I thought that giving some food for thought might be appreciated... Hope it helps...
I very much appreciate the replies. This is the kind of help that's so valuable. Just to clarify something, if an app makes use of hardware features on the S4, it should work as well with the custom ROM as the stock ROM? My motivation in asking all this is that Southern California Metrolink introduced an app to buy train tickets, but it doesn't work with Android 4.4.4. So I want to upgrade. Thanks again.
Unless the app has root restrictions, it should work.
Changing to custom roms you would only lose most Samsung features, mostly because the touchwiz stuff needs the touchwiz framework to function.
That ticket app is not an exclusive thing. It also uses NFC I guess, or a QR scanner. So, as long as NFC or the Camera works you should be fine.
If worse comes to worse, you can always flash back the stock firmware.