Oi everyone,
ive been wondering, since I honestly love the PA rom and the colours that come with it... is there any way to flash franco kernel and keep the colours you get once you flash the stock PA? I gave franco a try a while ago, mostly because i planned to undervolt, but being used to PA colours, those that came with franco were simply unbearable for me I dont want any 3rd party apps to fiddle with the ips panel settings, id like simply to keep the PA colours + franco
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Just got my Nexus, won't be using it much until my case/screen protector arrive!
What ROM do you guys recommend, I narrowed it down to a couple.
Glazed Jelly Bean
ParanoidAndroid (I think there was another popular variant of this as well?)
Looking for just silky smooth, stable, long battery life, Improvements in audio quality, picture quality or anything else welcome too.
What do you guys recommend for a launcher as well?
I might consider dual booting Ubuntu on this thing too! Does it work well?
I would recommend keep PA for first week, flash franco r25 kernel and xlouder patch.
Next week flash Glazed with above combo. After that decide for yourself which you like more
I have flashed 6 differenr ROMS, its fun I change it every week.
So dont ask, try it out for yourself all different roms all are good in their own way.
My advice is to combinate 3 roms with 3 kernels
Roms:
Glazed
SmoothRom
PA
Kernels:
Franco
M-kernel
Bricked
There will be 9 combinations. Flash first combination of your choosing, then install all the apps you will use, then batch back them up with titanium backup.. Then everytime you flash another combination, batch recover all the apps to newly flashed rom.. It'll take 30 mins at most to install all from scratch.. I'd advice you try each for at least 2 days (roms and kernels need to settle) then find the one best fits your needs..
Mine is Glazed + Franco R25 (for 2 days)
I tried PA and it didn't do it for me. I dislike tablet UI and there are still traces of it even if you choose not to use tablet UI. Such as in settings, the main page is hard coded to display dual panel view. You can change it so it doesn't show dual panel in sub menus but it doesn't help me and it's done through DPI changes. There are also going to be blue boxes around the home screens when you move between screens. There is no option to change text color on the lock screen. I've read many good things about PA but those minor UI things bother me to the point that I don't want to use it. I'm not a fan of tablet mode on the 7", but that's just me.
Right now I run xenonHD and is working great for me. Does what I want and haven't noticed any bugs. I use it with Franco kernel.
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I have to say Ive been looking at the ROMS on offer and having a hard time making a decision which one to pick. Usually I dont have any bother but with this tablet I still cant decide. I guess we are spoilt for choice lol
Running stock rooted. For all my other phones I've ended up on CM, and I think the N4 will end up the same.
How's battery life with the CM10.1 Nightly kernel? (Would probably flash to Franco anyways, but just curious).
Performance (smoothness, etc)?
Little additions you love on CM not in stock (Quick toggle the widgets, etc)?
Let me know anything else!
ace7196 said:
Running stock rooted. For all my other phones I've ended up on CM, and I think the N4 will end up the same.
How's battery life with the CM10.1 Nightly kernel? (Would probably flash to Franco anyways, but just curious).
Performance (smoothness, etc)?
Little additions you love on CM not in stock (Quick toggle the widgets, etc)?
Let me know anything else!
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I've been an avid user of faux123's kernel. I mostly used the enhanced stock. The kernel is smooth as heck, but from day to day use I do not see a whole lot of difference between that and cm10.1 nightly kernel as far as battery life is concerned. The reason I recently quit using faux123 enhanced stock was because it recently starting making my hands free calling in my explorer do some weird stuff. Once I reflashed the rom (simply to just put the cm10.1 kernel back on) the problems went away.
can some one calibrate the color values on the stock 4.3 kernel or if someone could provide a DIY guide...plzzz i would really love to use 4.3 if it wasn't for the washed out colors. oh and i don't wanna use any apps or script to do the trick...
Stock kernel doesn't support gamma/color configuration.
You must install a custom kernel and use an app to calibrate the colors.
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Lol..I thought Moles created a new thread for 4.3...There was a thread with the same name for 4.2 as well
colours on 4.3 are nice imo, could never stand halfbreed super over contrast ones myself
.just saying
I was a big fan of Halfbreed..Flashed Faux kernel & jumped to Halfbreed right away..Dont know why but But surprisingly i did not like it..Stock colors are so good..Perfectly Balance & Bright as well
Hey guys, I recently bought a Nexus 4 (I will get it tomorrow, but will have to wait more for screen protectors and case) and coming from an Xperia T it's like I'm a kid in a candy shop; all those kernels and ROMs, my head is spinning.
So my plan is to enjoy stock Android for 15 minutes and then root/unlock the device right away. Now, couple questions for you guys:
1, I've seen some Linaro builds of both ROMs and kernels here and there. Does it speed up the phone much? Does it make it worse (see: overheating)? Also, I don't know if I can run a stock toolchain ROM with a Linaro kernel or vice versa. How about that?
2. Regarding the kernels, I'll never stick to stock so will change to a custom one. I heard faux's and franco's (remember the latter from his very first release on the Optimus One ) are the best ones on the market and they both have customization apps. Now for what I've seen, faux's kernel provides more customization on the app, but don't know how does it perform in real-life situations, nor I do with franco's (altough I tend to prefer this one for the per-app settings). Could you guys give me some informations about this?
Thanks a lot
-Bytecode
Bytecode said:
Hey guys, I recently bought a Nexus 4 (I will get it tomorrow, but will have to wait more for screen protectors and case) and coming from an Xperia T it's like I'm a kid in a candy shop; all those kernels and ROMs, my head is spinning.
So my plan is to enjoy stock Android for 15 minutes and then root/unlock the device right away. Now, couple questions for you guys:
1, I've seen some Linaro builds of both ROMs and kernels here and there. Does it speed up the phone much? Does it make it worse (see: overheating)? Also, I don't know if I can run a stock toolchain ROM with a Linaro kernel or vice versa. How about that?
2. Regarding the kernels, I'll never stick to stock so will change to a custom one. I heard faux's and franco's (remember the latter from his very first release on the Optimus One ) are the best ones on the market and they both have customization apps. Now for what I've seen, faux's kernel provides more customization on the app, but don't know how does it perform in real-life situations, nor I do with franco's (altough I tend to prefer this one for the per-app settings). Could you guys give me some informations about this?
Thanks a lot
-Bytecode
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1. 4.2.2 ROMs and Kernels are inteechangable. You can use any kernel with any ROM, even the stock one. However, with 4.3 , you have to match the build number of the ROM with the kernel type.
Sidenote : The Nexus 4 does not normally overheat. The glass gets warm because it's a good heat conductor, and pulls the heat out. Don't worry about it.
2. While Franco seeks to be the perfect balance between performance and battery life, faux gives you a choise: either performance or battery life, or both, in a balanced way.
I was in a similar situation as you are about a week ago. I came from a Galaxy Nexus and couldn't wait for my Nexus 4 to arrive. I too spent a lot of time in the Development forum trying to figure out which ROM would work well for my needs. In the past, I have never run stock Android. However, that was before the launch of 4.3.
Right now, I am still running stock (a whole week later!) and am really enjoying the smooth experience. With root, I can use Xposed framework to implement the few mods that I like.
Overall, I am very happy with the device. I'd give stock a try - at least a day or two, and see if it meets your needs as well.
Thanks all, I'll give both a shot. I'll give stock a shot too. First days will flash ROMs on ROMs and I will find the stablest for me
Sorry, but this is "what is the best rom/kernel" thread. Try them out for yourself and see what works for you. You mentioned some of them so just flash them first and see how they work, they're free. Personally I like franco and semaphore kernels, Neo is a good kernel for performance too, for roms I stick to the big names like CM, AOKP, SlimRoms and Paranoid.
Hey Bytecode,
Try slimbean, you probably remeber popdog's slimbean for p500, it is 10% of real slimbean on good device You will not need any custom kernel with it.
I flashed franco's kernel as my first "custom" kernel, but as soon as I rebooted I noticed that it was waaay to bright, my app colours weren't as nice anymore, just over saturated basically (i'm on lowest brightness). I have no idea how to fix it and it's hurting my eyes. Any help?
cheers
Install Franco kernel updater and change the color profiles till you find something you like.
I prefer the g47 personally.
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