I am starting to get tired of stock S4 without any extra features, and have been looking at all the roms. I have a limited choice since there are some only for the AT&T variant, and I have the Koodo(Is this telus?) variant.I want to be able to choose what toggles I have in the notification bar, and also get rid of the high volume warning, along with the clear defaults warning. From what I can see, the only ones that can do that are the ones source code based ones, which means I cannot use any S apps. I really only need S Planner, as everything is on my google calender, and S voice, since it's awesome.
Anyone have any ways to have the s apps on the Source code based roms or any alternatives?
If you find an answer to this, and/or find a ROM that has the air gestures (mostly hand wave over turned off screen to quick view stats, and hand wave to answer call), let me know!
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Maybe this should go in dev, forgive me if so, I've been in the romming and rooting scene since the d1 but never really got my hands into actually editing files for myself. With that said I was wondering for the transformer if there is a way to turn off or clear the notification bar of all non running notifications easily? Disable some things like the sd card notification always being on? Have more than 5 or 6 whatever the limit seems to be down there? And maybe make a suggestion for a willing dev to try to make an almost phone style pull up notification area for all notifications..if thats even remotely possible. Probably not based on the framework? Who knows, even if it cleared the bottom and brought up a seperate window that'd be awesome. If none of that is possible, is at least getting rid of the sd card icon possible? Thanks guys.
Oh btw, I am running the latest prime 1.5 with the clem kernel. Willing to alpha/beta/flash zips etc.
Me too!
I think those are good suggestions and i'd be keep to test any solutions anyone here comes up with
Great suggestions and I completely agree. I'm sure with the right developers working on it that anything is possible. I am still waiting for full facebook integration like HTC sense has. It'd be nice to get desktop notifications from FB and Twitter etc...
You can modify the layout (xml) it yourself, Use Apk-tools 1.4.1.
I came to N4 from the GS3, and while the N4 is a million times better, I miss a few features already.
I can live without multi app windows and cartoon colour menus, but I miss these features in particular:
Blocking mode (mutes certain sounds at night)
Quick toggles in notification bar - Yes N4 has a similar function through pressing the button, but I mean, the ribbon of toggles.
Pop-up play video to watch video over what ever else you are doing - I have one for youtube that works well but the app for floating videos was rubbish but surely this is an easy task for a quadcore phone so I'm hoping there is a way.
I'm currently unrooted and will remain unrooted until I really feel desperate for a root function, so non-root ways if possible, please, although Root solutions will be usefull if there aren't alternatives - I don't flash roms either (because I don't trust myself with the duty and dont have a cheap device to practice on first, if i ever do then i may become a rom flasher.)
Thanks for any help you give
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I came to N4 from the GS3, and while the N4 is a million times better, I miss a few features already.
I can live without multi app windows and cartoon colour menus, but I miss these features in particular:
Blocking mode (mutes certain sounds at night)
Quick toggles in notification bar - Yes N4 has a similar function through pressing the button, but I mean, the ribbon of toggles.
Pop-up play video to watch video over what ever else you are doing - I have one for youtube that works well but the app for floating videos was rubbish but surely this is an easy task for a quadcore phone so I'm hoping there is a way.
I'm currently unrooted and will remain unrooted until I really feel desperate for a root function, so non-root ways if possible, please, although Root solutions will be usefull if there aren't alternatives - I don't flash roms either (because I don't trust myself with the duty and dont have a cheap device to practice on first, if i ever do then i may become a rom flasher.)
Thanks for any help you give
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Most roms already have quicktoggles or sometimes "power widgets" and a number of other similar functionality (slimbean for example has power widget, plus the notification shortcuts that would sit as a ribbon/strip over the notifications.)
Blocking mode, that's called Quiet Hours on a lot of roms, slimbean has it, CM10 has it, and so forth, likewise you can just make a profile switcher since it also has profiles, say you have 'gaming profile' if you want to mute various notifications or alerts.
So they're there, just mainly in custom roms (non-root probably won't give you what you want outside of just a lil power widget on the home screen).
http://slimroms.net/index.php/slim-bean-features
Hi all,
I have owned my Nexus 4 for about 4 months now, and while I love the ability to customize my experience, I am always looking at ways of customizing that streamline things instead of adding more functionality. Rather than having 12 ways to do one thing at all times, I'd rather have the single best way to do 12 things at my disposal. I don't need HALO, the notification shade, and a notification widget all running at once to inform me about new notifications. When I look at the ROM scene on XDA, it seems like people are really interested in adding things to the standard android experience, but nobody seems to be working on trimming the unnecessary features away while adding things that work better/look and feel more elegant. I don't just mean debloated GApps packages, I mean ROMs that use Android's customizability do things better than Google intended.
To give a personal example, I am running stock Android on the Matr1x kernel with the Xposed framework installed to enable Pie Controls so I don't waste screen space, change the battery indicator to a circle/percentage, quick settings to get easy access to torch, settings, wifi, etc in the notification shade, and unicon to enable custom icons in the Google Experience Launcher so all my icons are uniform. This way I have as much information as possible easily accessible at all times, and my phone has a standardized look throughout. However, I feel like I am sticking it all together with tape and strings, and I am still stuck with some of stock android's bloat. It would be great if there were some people out there who shared a similar desire for streamlining the Android experience. Do any of you at XDA have any advice for me as I look for such a ROM, or is this about as good as it's going to get? If I could code I'd just do it myself .
Anyway, thanks for your time!
Downloaded7 said:
Hi all,
I have owned my Nexus 4 for about 4 months now, and while I love the ability to customize my experience, I am always looking at ways of customizing that streamline things instead of adding more functionality. Rather than having 12 ways to do one thing at all times, I'd rather have the single best way to do 12 things at my disposal. I don't need HALO, the notification shade, and a notification widget all running at once to inform me about new notifications. When I look at the ROM scene on XDA, it seems like people are really interested in adding things to the standard android experience, but nobody seems to be working on trimming the unnecessary features away while adding things that work better/look and feel more elegant. I don't just mean debloated GApps packages, I mean ROMs that use Android's customizability do things better than Google intended.
To give a personal example, I am running stock Android on the Matr1x kernel with the Xposed framework installed to enable Pie Controls so I don't waste screen space, change the battery indicator to a circle/percentage, quick settings to get easy access to torch, settings, wifi, etc in the notification shade, and unicon to enable custom icons in the Google Experience Launcher so all my icons are uniform. This way I have as much information as possible easily accessible at all times, and my phone has a standardized look throughout. However, I feel like I am sticking it all together with tape and strings, and I am still stuck with some of stock android's bloat. It would be great if there were some people out there who shared a similar desire for streamlining the Android experience. Do any of you at XDA have any advice for me as I look for such a ROM, or is this about as good as it's going to get? If I could code I'd just do it myself .
Anyway, thanks for your time!
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Plus one for this. Are you running KitKat 4.4.2?
4.4.1 at the moment as I haven't found the time to flash the update manually. Glad to see someone else gets where I am coming from .
So now that the cricket vareint has root, what are some edits we should make in a custom rom for it? I am new to developing so bear with me, but when my rom comes into production it's going to be called the people's rom. I am only starting with the basis of it to be extremely user friendly and customizable, probably using smart launcher as the default? give me some ideas, other developers help me make it happen!
I've found a few neat hacks, for example you can remove or rename /system/vendor/overlay and it will remove a bunch of cricket branding, however it may cause unintended side effects, I haven't really noticed any issues but ymmv.
Also if you look around someone has modified maxxaudio to not require the boom key, if you flash that you won't have to hit the boom key to increase audio quality.
In the root thread I started someone posted how to enable WiFi hotspot as well, I would include that.
I'm planning on doing some ui tweaks, will post here if I manage to do anything useful. Main thing I want to do is hide the brightness slider in the notification drawer and bake in the status bar brightness control you can get with gravitybox. Also I want to enable the stock Android power menu, but IDK how far I'll get with that.
One more thing, I'd just stick with the stock launcher or one that's very lightweight when it comes to filesize, since it's not difficult to install them off the play store and not everyone will like smart launcher
I ask because I'm always on the hunt for my perfect ROM and I have yet to find it.
My perfect ROM would contain only what was needed to boot the phone, connect to the network and connect to wifi, and it would contain a good phone app as well. Nothing else, the bare minimum.
I don't need an SMS app, I use PulseSMS and I like it a lot.
I don't need an email app, I use Nine Mail.
I don't need a music player or an equalizer, I don't listen to music on my phone.
I don't need a browser, I use Chrome.
Everything else I do need, Contacts, Calendar, Camera, Clock etc etc, can be installed from the Play Store.
Yes, I know all about the ways to uninstall apps. The problem is if the ROM I am using upgrades, all of the apps I uninstalled come back so I have to uninstall them again.
Yes, I know how to disable apps I don't want. Several reasons why that doesn't satisfy me.
First, some ROMs include apps that can't be disabled. So if the SMS app can't be disabled and I install Pulse, now I've got two SMS apps on my phone which is a waste of space.
Second, even if the unwanted apps can be disabled, they are still there. Still taking up space that can be used by things I do want.
Yes, I know I can build my own custom ROM. I've tried it and I don't understand the process well enough to debug the myriad of problems I always run into.
Yes, I have a bare minimum approach to things like this. But consider how small the download would be for a ROM like this.
So far, Slim ROM comes the closest to what I want, but even that includes some apps I'd prefer not be included. Also, I'm not sure how active Slim is these days. There hasn't been a lot of activity over the last few months.
So, that's my perfect ROM. Active and minimal.
How about you?
What type of platform/base are you looking for? In terms of bare mobility versus stock? I can take most ROMs strip them down to the point of being functional is easy. The hard part is keeping up with kernel and platform changes.
You might want to try Velocity Rom... it's almost as bare minimum as possible although you get a messaging app(you can't avoid that since all roms out here will definitely have a messaging app and it's fine). On top of this you get all the customizations. Though I'm not currently on it, but you will like it's bareness:silly:
Just Google for Velocity rom.
Cheers!
Rondeau79 said:
What type of platform/base are you looking for? In terms of bare mobility versus stock? I can take most ROMs strip them down to the point of being functional is easy. The hard part is keeping up with kernel and platform changes.
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The base doesn't matter much, as long as it works. Maybe aosp, if such a thing is possible.
For the platform, the latest and greatest, of course.
jayadev01 said:
You might want to try Velocity Rom... it's almost as bare minimum as possible although you get a messaging app(you can't avoid that since all roms out here will definitely have a messaging app and it's fine). On top of this you get all the customizations. Though I'm not currently on it, but you will like it's bareness:silly:
Just Google for Velocity rom.
Cheers!
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Yes, I tried Velocity. It looks good but the SMS app can't be disabled. At least in the one I tried. At least with Slim it can be.