Hey there,
I'm just coming to the note 3 from the S3. I hope I made a good choice
I've always used AOSP ROMs with the ability to change dpi, else my device just feels clunky. Having more information on screen, akin to a PC, really boosts productivity.
Which ROMS (either AOSP or TW) support DPI switching? What's best from your experience?
With Note 3 however, TW or at least Samsung Keyboard seems to be necessary for just one reason - one-handed keyboard mode. Otherwise it seems AOSP can do everything just as well. I don't need any of the pen stuff personally, smart stay, etc. Is there a way to get a one-handed keyboard on AOSP?
Otherwise the TW apps are just slow and bulky IMO (for example messaging can't handle 10k sms without lag)
The S3 with paranoidandroid worked very well to force the browser to think its a 600p form-factor tablet and show tabs at the top of the window. SMS convos would show 10 messages in one window and same goes for email or contacts. This was super efficient and worked well! Why isn't this the norm?
you have many rom with multi dpi
just look in title of the thread
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Samsung is great. They may be slow to update, but when they update, they do it right. People complained that it took so long for the update, but they do a lot more than other companies. Samsung creates the absolute best tablet experience since they now take note of stock android and only built upon it rather than change it (Sense 3.0, MotoBlur, TouchWiz 3.0)
Quick Apps:
Multiple quick apps open at once are now supported and the apps themselves are much improved. Having access to calendar and calculator are very handy. You can check email without exiting or minimizing a game and the task manager has quite the pretty facelift.
Music App:
Not only is it Samsung's best music app yet, I think it provides a better tablet music experience than any other music app out there (that I've tried). Google Music is close, but I love the quick app/mini app.
-SoundAlive enhancements are great, allowing you to simply improve the clarity and bass of a song without touching an EQ. EQs are nice, but you always have to sacrifice something (add bass and treble, lose mids)
-Customizeable navigation. Never seach with Year, Composer, Genre, etc? Disable them.
-Quick App. Quick access to playlist, volume, and navigation in any app. No need to minimize or quit.
-Scrollable Widget. Full playlist access right from the homesecreen.
-One negative is the no social features such as last.fm, facebook sharing, or the like...I don't care about those features anyway...I don't even know what scrobbling is.
App Drawer:
-Can finally organize apps by name. Or customize it as before.
-Built-in function to Hide Apps. Samsung finally allowing us to hide their own bloatware.
-Continuous looping. Swiping doesn't force you to enter the Widgets panel.
-App drawer allows application uninstalling.
-Instant Play Store access from the menu, like stock.
Other Apps and Features:
-Browser has built in desktop page request feature, page saving for offline viewing, network printing, instant homescreen shortcut creation, incognito mode, color modes, inverse mode for night reading, text scaling, search engine chooser, and sharing features. Holy crap.
-Beautiful Accuweather widget, but only truly compatible with TouchWiz
-S Planner is a calendar and task list app, which could be as good as Google Calendar, but it still bolstered by the quick app.
-Built-in Photo and Video Editors (I know this isn't new, but it's still nice)
-Find My Mobile. Remotely track, lock, or wipe your tablet.
-Automatic power saving features below a battery threshold.
-Tilt to move apps/widgets from one homescreen page to another.
Visual Changes:
-Google Search and App Drawer bar is less intrusive and more concise.
-Quick Launch buttons now have more varied icons.
-Black status bar without having to mod...nice.
-Reskinned clock, notification window, and notification toggles. Green...ehh.
-Added "Restart" to the Power Menu.
Performance Changes:
-The choppiness has been reduced quite a bit, though it's inconsistent. You can have every quick app open and the performance will not get worse. This is WAYYY too big a deal to so many people. I know it sullies the experience of buttery smoothness like the iPad, but unless you spend all day transitioning home screens, it doesn't diminish functionality. PocketNow even went as far as to say that the lag often renders the tablet unusable, which is preposterous, and went on to say that the tablet is a 3.5/5 rather than a 4.5/5 because of it. Other than home screen transitions and additions, the performance is top-notch, and a custom launcher can be used to smooth it out completely. However, you will lose some of the features listed above (though other launchers have most of them anyway).
-I am getting much better WiFi reception. I haven't seen whether the Bluetooth breaks up/slows down the WiFi connection anymore...if someone would like to check/confirm that for me, it would be much appreciated.
With all the the features that Samsung throws in (that allow you to opt out or hide), I would pick the Tab 7.7 over the Excite 7.7 any day. With the ICS update, this tablet is truly the best small tablet on the market today, IMO. Considering the S-AMOLED Plus screen, the incredible battery life, the top-notch performance, the expandable storage capacity, and all of the features listed above, if you are unhappy with this tablet, you are impossible to please and shouldn't be allowed money to purchase tablets.
I know some of the features above are in 3.2, but I can't remember which exactly. All I know for sure is that the Excite doesn't have all of these.....but it does have a USB port...hmm..
Dont mind do a video on animation for our ics tablet? I wanna compare on jb hee
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Agreed, samsung have done a great job here on the 7.7. ICS upgrade is so good, no real need for custom rom, touchwiz phone app and music are better than pure ics offerings. Also wifi tether works so well I ditched my home internet connection and wireless accespoint..
I run cm9/aokp on my galaxy 10.1v as the stock android is 3.2 and a 3rd party ics is a major improvement so have experience of both stock and custom roms.
After switching between tablet and phablet UI's, trying to decide which one I liked better, I decided I want a hybrid of the phablet and the tablet UI (like a thablet?, this name stuff is getting ridiculous). I want one bar on the bottom of the screen with my nav buttons in the middle, and the status/quick setting on right, and the notifications on the left. Is there currently any way to do this?
I made an awesome MSPaint mock-up of what I'm talking about.
I don't know of any way to make these changes without writing your own custom ROM.
I really like the layout you are proposing. It's genius! It's a perfect combination of the classic Honeycomb interface and the new 4.1 phone-UI-on-tablet interface.
You should talk to a ROM developer about this layout.
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This is a thread for those coming from an AOSP ROM like Vanilla Android or CyanogenMod or even from other OEM overlays like Sense. What would you say are the good and LG features?
For me, good:
Heads up display implantation of incoming calls when screen is on that ensures you don't break your workflow.
Little hovering window to show a call is in loudspeaker in the background with the time on it
Though almost standardised, having call controls in the notification drawer
Bad:
Auto expanded notifications
Unable to disable the clips tray
Unable to remove toggles from within the drawer
Battery percentage being to the left of the battery
Unable to customise lockscreen
Implementation of software navigation keys breaks functions like hiding the keyboard
Customisation of the share intent with everything being ticked all the time
I only had my phone for half a day, but already some software feature I really like:
"Clip Tray" (Multi-clipboard).
Double-knock to wake and go to sleep (I don't use knock-code, haven't tried it yet)
And something I really don't like:
Keyboard sluggishness. When I type (using flow), it's always 1 or 2 words behind... I'm going to replace it quickly with Google keyboard or SwiftKey
Protagoras said:
I only had my phone for half a day, but already some software feature I really like:
"Clip Tray" (Multi-clipboard).
Double-knock to wake and go to sleep (I don't use knock-code, haven't tried it yet)
And something I really don't like:
Keyboard sluggishness. When I type (using flow), it's always 1 or 2 words behind... I'm going to replace it quickly with Google keyboard or SwiftKey
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Agree with you about the keyboard... I hate it. I was using s4 with keyboard ported from s5. Is sluggish and i keep typing space more often..
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I've noticed that the keyboard is sluggish with more than one language selected.
I really like the keyboard. Haven't tried swipe input on it yet. Overall i'm really impressed by the UI. Its got great flat icons, beautiful selection of wallpapers and lots of options to customise.
Knock on and knock code are great. Clip tray is a very useful feature and the popup reply notifications for the messaging app are really handy and have stopped me from using Hangouts as my main SMS app.
The downsides so far are no search on server within the email app and no option to show the weather on the smart notice widget without turning on GPS. Also for some reason LG took out the wireless storage feature from the G2 which was very useful. They should have kept it.
Bad:
When adding contacts, the default option is to add to "Phone" with no way of changing it.
Oversharpening of text. More obvious on certain fonts with black text on white background.
Camera options are way too limited.
Overall I'm quite happy with the software. Looks pretty good and some of the added features are quite useful.
Hello there,
I'm looking for a real multi dpi touchwiz. I can't stand those big ass ugly buttons and use a dpi of 298. Broken are then Kamera, Dialer, Contacts, Incallui, clock and so on but these are the most essential. There are some roms out there that claim to be multi-dpi like X-Note. I tried V6 and its nothing like on the screenshots. Its better but far from being perfect.
Are there any tutorial or anything that i propably could mod the apks myself? For now i use Appsettings for those apps but this breaks the whole feeling. I was on AOSP but the CM roms are still to laggy.
Thanks!!!
Get nova launcher, xposed plugin, app settings and change dpi to any app that have problem. You can also don't change dpi to system (so everything, camera etc will work) and change through app settings dpi to launcher and every other application that you want.
I already do this with very good result. In Touchwiz even if you change dpi you still cant have many icons in a row so you just see smaller icons without any benefit.. Thats why you need nova.. This photo is without change dpi in system. Just with app settings.
sosimple said:
Get nova launcher, xposed plugin, app settings and change dpi to any app that have problem. You can also don't change dpi to system (so everything, camera etc will work) and change through app settings dpi to launcher and every other application that you want.
I already do this with very good result. In Touchwiz even if you change dpi you still cant have many icons in a row so you just see smaller icons without any benefit.. Thats why you need nova.. This photo is without change dpi in system. Just with app settings.
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yeah i knew of that practice but its not what i want, dpi scaling has to be across the whole system, everthing should be small so thats no solution for me sadly. I tried it that way but my "OCD" kills me when i see the big status bar. I propably will switch to another phone soon if i dont find a good solution to that. Sony did that great.
n3v3rm1nda said:
yeah i knew of that practice but its not what i want, dpi scaling has to be across the whole system, everthing should be small so thats no solution for me sadly. I tried it that way but my "OCD" kills me when i see the big status bar. I propably will switch to another phone soon if i dont find a good solution to that. Sony did that great.
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I would advise waiting until Android 5 is released as a source on AndroidTech said that Touchwiz will be multi DPI due to the number of different devices that samsung are releasing as they have rebased Touchwiz, unfortunatley i cannot post a link as i have not made enough posts yet.
The multi DPI ROM's are not normally very good and if you cant wait i would go with the nova launcher approach as advised above!
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I would advise waiting until Android 5 is released as a source on AndroidTech said that Touchwiz will be multi DPI due to the number of different devices that samsung are releasing as they have rebased Touchwiz, unfortunatley i cannot post a link as i have not made enough posts yet.
The multi DPI ROM's are not normally very good and if you cant wait i would go with the nova launcher approach as advised above!
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I don't believe that Touchwiz will become multidpi the way the friend above wants.. Almost all Touchwiz version have the same rows and columns, so i dont believe that this will change.. Anyway we will wait and see..
The big ui is a problem, this is true..
I would change dpi to ui AND use nova. This was what i did in every phone and i was perfect. Here my problem is that I also want the finger scanner, and if i change dpi to ui, the indicator of finger scanner is out of correct position..
Noone has solve this, and i didn't expected either when i bought s5.
The truth is that after knox, the xda community support is not as in past..
I hope Samsung change this, otherwise sails will drop more (there are already 60% down..)
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I don't believe that Touchwiz will become multidpi the way the friend above wants.. Almost all Touchwiz version have the same rows and columns, so i dont believe that this will change.. Anyway we will wait and see..
The big ui is a problem, this is true..
I would change dpi to ui AND use nova. This was what i did in every phone and i was perfect. Here my problem is that I also want the finger scanner, and if i change dpi to ui, the indicator of finger scanner is out of correct position..
Noone has solve this, and i didn't expected either when i bought s5.
The truth is that after knox, the xda community support is not as in past..
I hope Samsung change this, otherwise sails will drop more (there are already 60% down..)
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had i known that i would have so much grief with this samsung phone i hadn't swapped it with my Z2. The phone was nice but just too heavy. Camera wasn't the best too, but the software it came with is awesome. Sony and HTC made a good Slowmo software where you could choose to start the slowmo. Samsung doesn't has it. Their whole software packet is just kinda buggy. Look at the animations while opening the gallery and camera. Completely broken.
I hope Android 5 and their will to bake something good will reverse my anti samsung feelings right now. One fact that i love about the Galaxy series : Swapable battery. Thats just awesome!
I don't know why the standard dpi is 480 on almost all phones today. Like they think I'm 100 years old and my glasses are thick as glass bottoms .. i don't know. What where they thinking?
Had CM running for some time but the battery and smoothness is just not there. There i could use 298 perfectly fine but its just to laggy to use it right now. I don't know. Debating with myself right now to switch back but i will miss the good battery life and camera probably horribly ....
Hello.
I have a Samsung Galaxy Note (GT-N8000). It has the original Android 4.1 and I want to upgrade it.
I am not sure if I should install Omnirom. So I want to know if it will be worth. I prefer roms that are lightweight, easy to use and a little bloated.
I tried Cyanogenmod and I hated it, because it is only for cellphones and for that reason it is poor for tablets.
Compared to the standard tablet GUI, CM has an unneeded upper bar. Everything could fit on the bottom bar instead of using two bars. The touch keyboard has fewer options and the number keys are not independent. Furthermore, my language needs diacritics. The menu where apps are listed cannot be managed easily. The standard GUI lets me uninstall apps, sort apps, move apps and create folders.