I'm thinking about flashing a Google Play Edition ROM on to my S4 i9505 but I keep wondering if I'll miss any of the Samsung features if I do. Have you made the swap and did you miss any Touchwiz features?
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la1986 said:
I'm thinking about flashing a Google Play Edition ROM on to my S4 i9505 but I keep wondering if I'll miss any of the Samsung features if I do. Have you made the swap and did you miss any Touchwiz features?
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I tested this GE ROM on my i9505 and I was really impressed. So smooth and real Android "feeling", what I missed was
SmartStay
S Planner Widget
Samsung Camera
Amount of shortcuts for settings
I know that some parts can be fixed with e.g. xposed framework and gravity. At least this annoying "unlock SIM card" bug was there.
Nevertheless the GE ROM is the better ROM in my eyes, finally I switched to CM 10.2 nightlies for testing.
Cheers
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Hello just switched from i5 to my new galaxy S4 I did own a nexus 4 in the past one of the best phones I've ever had.
But I'm not feeling the touchwiz on this s4 everything seems confusing and complicated not a fan of the Samsung apps aswell. How can I make this more simple like the nexus 4 for example
PS heard about rooting but never done it before
Can you guys help please
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bash156 said:
Hello just switched from i5 to my new galaxy S4 I did own a nexus 4 in the past one of the best phones I've ever had.
But I'm not feeling the touchwiz on this s4 everything seems confusing and complicated not a fan of the Samsung apps aswell. How can I make this more simple like the nexus 4 for example
PS heard about rooting but never done it before
Can you guys help please
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You could try a new launcher before rooting if you want to start out slow. Nova is pretty nice for example.
Here's a good place to start reading about rooting: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2219803
bash156 said:
Hello just switched from i5 to my new galaxy S4 I did own a nexus 4 in the past one of the best phones I've ever had.
But I'm not feeling the touchwiz on this s4 everything seems confusing and complicated not a fan of the Samsung apps aswell. How can I make this more simple like the nexus 4 for example
PS heard about rooting but never done it before
Can you guys help please
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You can try out the i9505G rom.. Pure nexus experience. However if you've never rooted or flashed a rom before I suggest you install one of the many launchers available in the play store. Nova launcher is one of the best ones out there.
Hi, I had exactly the same issue, recently switched from iOS to HTC Sense 5 and now to S4. I personally hate touchwiz and find it unusable but love the s4 hardware, so I tried several launchers which did not really address my issues with TW. Without any experience and a bit of research I rooted my phone, installed a custom recovery and flashed GE 4.3 Rom. Works flawlessly, except for a battery drain which is going to be fixed soon.
I highly recommend this - definitely the best phone I've used.
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Hi, I had exactly the same issue, recently switched from iOS to HTC Sense 5 and now to S4. I personally hate touchwiz and find it unusable but love the s4 hardware, so I tried several launchers which did not really address my issues with TW. Without any experience and a bit of research I rooted my phone, installed a custom recovery and flashed GE 4.3 Rom. Works flawlessly, except for a battery drain which is going to be fixed soon.
I highly recommend this - definitely the best phone I've used.
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I will flash the google edition rom when google actually release it ''officially'' for the GT0i9505. I have read somewhere on this board that they wanted to do this @ a later date.
Start out slow with a custom launcher like Nova Prime and then read up on rooting and flashing, once you feel comfortable, flash the GE rom and enjoy the AOSP feel.
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I recommend Nova Launcher if you don't know about flashing Custom ROMs. otherwise Jamal did a pretty good job at his 4.2.2 GE ROM for the i9505.
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Thanks for ur replies guys much appreciated
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bash156 said:
Hello just switched from i5 to my new galaxy S4 I did own a nexus 4 in the past one of the best phones I've ever had.
But I'm not feeling the touchwiz on this s4 everything seems confusing and complicated not a fan of the Samsung apps aswell. How can I make this more simple like the nexus 4 for example
PS heard about rooting but never done it before
Can you guys help please
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Flash the Google edition of the S4 Rom and you'll feel right at home especially coming from a nexus 4.
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I eventually got round to rooting my i9505 the other day and now I'm looking for an AOSP ROM that has the Samsung camera, video player and other useful apps. Has anyone seen anything among the numerous options available that offers this?
Cheers.
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not gonna happen... best you'll manage is a touchwiz rom with JB domination theme...
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So at very best, a GE ROM or even CM10.1 with the Galaxy camera APK that I've seen mentioned would be a good start!?!?
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I will leve that. To many good features are does not exist on custom Roms that are already available in the ugly and not usable touchwiz interface
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So at very best, a GE ROM or even CM10.1 with the Galaxy camera APK that I've seen mentioned would be a good start!?!?
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sure but half the features on the camera don't work.
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sure but half the features on the camera don't work.
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And that's the only thing putting me off taking the plunge at the moment. I think I'll just start with getting some bloatware off there as it is and see how that goes.
Cheers.
I just received the S4 today and, honestly, I already can't stand Touchwiz after only two hours. I made it two months with Sense on my HTC One without switching to a Google Edition rom, so that says something.
Anyway, over at the HTC board the developers are in the progress of porting Sense apps to the Google Edition rom which is really awesome. I was wondering if the same was happening over here. There aren't many Samsung apps I do want, but there are a few that would be nice to have.
Oh, also is there a mod to make the whites better on this thing? Even in movie mode things like my Beautiful Widgets widget look murky. Otherwise, the screen is pretty great. I prefer keeping it in Standard mode because it's a decent balance between oversaturation and true colors. Thanks!
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Have you checked Play Store? There's quite a few stock Samsung apps on there
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Please I want to ask if there is any rom for GT-I9595 that has aokp and samsung features like air gesture, smart stay etc?
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Please I want to ask if there is any rom for GT-I9595 that has aokp and samsung features like air gesture, smart stay etc?
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None of the AOKP/AOSP/CM10 type roms have any of those Samsung features like air gesture, smartstay,
S Beam, Smartscreen, smartpause and many other features which make the phone so good.
One of the biggest things you will notice if you flash any aokp/aosp/cm10 type roms is the camera,
you will lose the full featured camera app which came with the phone and instead you will find
a different camera which is no where near as good as the original stock camera.
The camera which comes with these aosp/aokp/cm10 roms not only lack features but they look
like something home made, or something which is not finished yet compared to the stock camera.
What I would suggest is to flash a Samsung Galaxy S4 Touchwiz 4.2.2 based custom rom.
Any and all of those roms will have all the features lacking in aosp/aokp/cm10 type roms.
Why not try the " Omega v12 JB 4.2.2 " custom rom for your i9505 phone. It would be an excellent choice.
Good luck!
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None of the AOKP/AOSP/CM10 type roms have any of those Samsung features like air gesture, smartstay,
S Beam, Smartscreen, smartpause and many other features which make the phone so good.
One of the biggest things you will notice if you flash any aokp/aosp/cm10 type roms is the camera,
you will lose the full featured camera app which came with the phone and instead you will find
a different camera which is no where near as good as the original stock camera.
The camera which comes with these aosp/aokp/cm10 roms not only lack features but they look
like something home made, or something which is not finished yet compared to the stock camera.
What I would suggest is to flash a Samsung Galaxy S4 Touchwiz 4.2.2 based custom rom.
Any and all of those roms will have all the features lacking in aosp/aokp/cm10 type roms.
Why not try the " Omega v12 JB 4.2.2 " custom rom for your i9505 phone. It would be an excellent choice.
Good luck!
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Thanks Mate for taking ur time to answer.
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Snd I think without those features the phone is not a galaxy s4. Lol
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Hi all, I have been using the galaxy series since E4G and have used both stock based ROMs and AOSP based. I am currently on Sac's ROM 3 and have been curious about running AOSP on my gs4. So anyone that that has made the change to AOSP, did you miss any features only available to TW based ROMs? Like the stock camera? Or calendar app? I use Nova Launcher so I don't really care about the TW launcher.
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I actually prefer the stock camera and calendar in aosp over tw.[emoji3] I'm a huge aosp fan and always used those type of roms. There are so many 3rd party apps out now for those who don't prefer aosp stock gapps..
jflte/LS 3.1/Pokernel
The ## dialer diag features in ASOP ROMs is often missing, and perhaps was missing in every ASOP ROM evaluated to date.
dante32278 said:
Hi all, I have been using the galaxy series since E4G and have used both stock based ROMs and AOSP based. I am currently on Sac's ROM 3 and have been curious about running AOSP on my gs4. So anyone that that has made the change to AOSP, did you miss any features only available to TW based ROMs? Like the stock camera? Or calendar app? I use Nova Launcher so I don't really care about the TW launcher.
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I installed cm11 and the voicemail feature was missing, I prefer touchwiz due to more completeness but asop seems a bit quicker with less lag, you won't have the camera with touchwiz due to software optimization.
Check these pictures out. I took them using aosp camera that's in PA gapps. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2758046 To me its just as good as tw cam. If you use Banks's gapps gives you the Google cam with photosphere and other cool effects.. Then there are tons of apps that can tweak different things..
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flashback7 said:
Check these pictures out. I took them using aosp camera that's in PA gapps. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2758046 To me its just as good as tw cam. If you use Banks's gapps gives you the Google cam with photosphere and other cool effects.. Then there are tons of apps that can tweak different things..
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How'd youd get that good quality, im on aosp and mine dont ever seem that great
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Aweshocked said:
How'd youd get that good quality, im on aosp and mine dont ever seem that great
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My guess is just daylight. I've had AOSP camera take pics as good as touchwiz but ONLY outside during the day. Indoors with florescent lights or at night never came out as good.
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