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Halo For Stock Roms

Now that the PA team have made Halo open source, is there a reason it can't be converted to work on stock-based roms like Omega and WanamLite? Or, in a similar way Samsung applications can't work without the Samsung framework, will Halo not work on non-PA/AOKP based roms? I see there is a similar app with limited functionality by the name of Floating Notifications but it's not the same.

I've had this thought, anyone else like to comment?

You got it right. It needs major coding into the base system and with Samsungs framework being closed sourced it will most likely not be am option.
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[Q] AOSP vs GPe

What are the differences between AOSP and GPe ROMs (that are noticeable). I know that the GPe is based off of the TW framework, but they look very similar otherwise. I'm trying to decide if I want to switch over to the 4.3 AOSP ROM posted a few days ago.
Thanks guys :beer:

Cheater912 said:
What are the differences between AOSP and GPe ROMs (that are noticeable). I know that the GPe is based off of the TW framework, but they look very similar otherwise. I'm trying to decide if I want to switch over to the 4.3 AOSP ROM posted a few days ago.
Thanks guys :beer:
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I saw this on the Verizon forum for the 4.3 AOSP ROM
@Elvis_Marmaduke -
For those who are still having trouble getting it. GE is made by Samsung and is a Samsung"ROM" if you will. It's like touchwiz without all the bloat and custom menus and features. AOSP is from Google. Not specialized per phone nor do they have the closed Qualcomm drivers so you may not get as high benchmarks and stuff. But most real world performance they will be pretty similar.
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@Dubbsy -
I thought I said it elsewhere. But anyway GoogleEdition is not AOSP. And AOSP is not GoogleEdition. I was following Brood's progress on a REAL aosp project. When be posted works in progress and his source I decided to play with it.
This is not meant to replace Google Edition 4.3. I'm still working on my Google Edition 4.3 port. It hasn't been friendly at all. B-d from Sprint has been having the same issues I am. Every time I have a "clearly this is the problem" moment... It's not the problem. At least not the main problem.
Comparing GE's 4.2.2 to 4.3 update and the effects to real AOSP it's like comparing cacti and puppies. Besides that, GE's 4.3 is older than this 4.3. JSS builds I've been reading have wake lock issues but while running it I've gotten nothing but amazing battery life
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@Cruiserdude -
This is NOT Google Play Edition, this is actual AOSP. But yes, 4.2.2 GPe is heavily TW based, while 4.3 GPe is AOSP based with some TW on top. Dubbsy will have to fill you in on the specifics.
My guess is that the decision to offer a "stock" experience S4 happened fairly late in the development process, possibly to silence those rumors of a Google/Samsung rift that were going around a few months ago. Samsung would have already had access to early 4.3 code, so they wouldn't have wanted to build a new 4.2.2 rom from the ground up. So they likely just used an engineering build they had, that had all of the lower level TW stuff but without any of the actual features or themeing built in. Which is presumably what they'd use to develop their TW builds, so they can test features individually with the base they need, but not have so many variables as they track down bugs. Either way, they probably already had something like this laying around, that only needed minor tweaking to become the GPe software. That way they didn't waste effort on software that they'd be replacing after only a month or so, anyway.
That way they could focus right in on developing the 4.3 GPe software so it'd be ready for a prompt release. Which would explain why it's much more heavily based on AOSP, though still with enough TW built in for a few things like the Smart Cover to work. Not to mention it'll likely take them awhile to have a solid 4.3 TW base.
Note that all the above is pure speculation on my part, with the exception of the actual distinctions between versions that I mentioned.
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I hope that helps!

I'd hold off on the 4.3 aosp until I get all the framework edits done if you need it to be a complete ROM. You'll have data but voice is messed up. telephony isn't setup properly for CDMA handoffs. Didn't notice it until someone pointed it out.
It's one heck of a smooth build though :good: Brood's doing a great job

Is there a stable ROM like this available?

I'm sorry to ask, but I'm having a lot of trouble going through ROMs here, and a lot of them haven't been updated in forever or aren't yet stable. I don't really have the time to flash a bunch of different ROMs either. :\
Is there a stable ROM that is TouchWiz, Google Edition or not, with the TouchWiz camera, that is themed as AOSP? I don't mean something like TriForce ROM where the text is blue in the status bar, but I mean it's really themed like stock AOSP (gray notification icons, matching blue signal icons, blue clock, correct font, etc)
Really I'd just love to have GE with the TouchWiz camera, but that has seemingly stopped development since mid August I believe. I don't mean to sound like I'm complaining if it comes off that way. I am very grateful for what the developers have created. I just can't find what I'm looking for.
If that is not available, what would be the most simplistic, stable, up to date (I'd prefer 4.3) TouchWiz ROM out there? I don't want any funky themes.
Sorry for asking again. Thank you

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2446861
Maybe this.
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PwnCloud said:
I'm sorry to ask, but I'm having a lot of trouble going through ROMs here, and a lot of them haven't been updated in forever or aren't yet stable. I don't really have the time to flash a bunch of different ROMs either. :\
Is there a stable ROM that is TouchWiz, Google Edition or not, with the TouchWiz camera, that is themed as AOSP? I don't mean something like TriForce ROM where the text is blue in the status bar, but I mean it's really themed like stock AOSP (gray notification icons, matching blue signal icons, blue clock, correct font, etc)
Really I'd just love to have GE with the TouchWiz camera, but that has seemingly stopped development since mid August I believe. I don't mean to sound like I'm complaining if it comes off that way. I am very grateful for what the developers have created. I just can't find what I'm looking for.
If that is not available, what would be the most simplistic, stable, up to date (I'd prefer 4.3) TouchWiz ROM out there? I don't want any funky themes.
Sorry for asking again. Thank you
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SACs custom ROM is my favorite and it works flawlessly, He is currently v7.2, but I'm guessing will update soon. Everything works great and if you use 3minit settings you can make it blue, or theme however you want. If you want stability and an awesome ROM I would check it out, I have tried many others and always go back, not even a point to try others for me anymore.
Check it out - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2359590

XDA is a development site not a support site. As such members are expected to do the research, read through the development threads and decide what is BEST for them. The only results that would be posted here are what each member has found to be BEST for them by experimentation based on their phone/usage/setup/apps/signal strength. Please take the time to read through those development threads to learn all about the software you are about to drastically alter your very expensive device with.
Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your cooperation.
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Have a great day!

Verizon's S5 with AOSP

Are our phones compatible with the new designed dialer or any other stock apps? I'm trying to get my look changed so I used HK themer with the new theme type coming out and it changed a few things but I'm curious to see if there is a way to theme our phones more since we can't get roms. I'm not talking about sms or phone apps from Google play, I mean deeper theming.
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Really...no one knows?
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samsung black edition i9505, but the wallpaper options are not the black wallpapers.

I got a black edition s4 i9505, but the wallpapers are not like the ones on the unboxing videos I saw. It had none of the black wallpapers supposedly exclusive to the black edition. Was I tricked?

Sir,
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Good luck

Sounds to me like its a normal i9505 ROM running on it. Or its a mist black front with the back of a back edition bought from eBay or Amazon. You can download the black edition firmware from samobile.