OK so I got round to rooting my N10 after unrooting it ages ago so I could take the 5.0 upgrade.
I only rooted It never put a custom recovery on it. Would you say it's worth putting a recovery on it? Looking at the Android development for this device it looks rather dead in that front.
I was thinking about flashing blisspop but it looks like it's been abandoned.
Is it better just sticking with stock on this device?
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Hello,
it depends on your needs: custom ROMs bring many extra features and patches. For example latest cm ROM includes the fix for the stagefright exploit (look over the internet).
There are many interesting feature out there such a button to close all recent apps, edit your tiles and many more.
The drawback is that this may result in a more bad user experience as our device is quite old
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I think I am going to stick with stock.
I would have loved to have tried your kernel though
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Hi, i'm a little bit scared about modifying it. Is there a real big difference in performance between the stock rom and a custom with a kernel at stock frequencies? And i've seen a lot of methods about unlocking/rooting it, but i am scared if i brick it... Is there a 100% safe method to unlock and root it? And i've heard about a problem with the buggy stock recovery, will i have this problem if i flash cwm?
Sorry for the huge number of questions and for my bad english
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Personally I found that there is not a great deal of difference between stock ROM and many of the custom ROMs out there. For me it is more to do with having the freedom to get tore into the tablet.
There is never a 100% guarantee that yo won't mess up when rooting and installing custom software, however the vast majority of users on here have managed to do it safely with the tools available.
If you are going down the path of rooting and customs, may I suggest you give the team EOS ROM a try coupled with Franco kernel. They work together like a dream. Also paranoid android ROM for something different . Though I found it to be a little slow for my liking.
Finally clemsyns elite kernel if you want crazy performance, but it does eat the battery
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Rooting is quite painless and reasonably safe if you follow the directions closely. The one click rooting methods, elsewhere in this forum...work well.
Myself, I prefer the stock rom. The custom roms might offer better performance, but can be buggy at times. although. I do switch back and forth to try them out. Remember, these roms
are all works in progress, so do not be surprised if something does not work the way you think
it should.
Thanks for the answers. I'm thinking about only rooting it. Will i receive the ota for a new update?
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As long as you keep the stock recovery you can keep doing ota updates
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In my experience, OTA never worked to well.. but there are ways around it, for example... backing up your apps, then load a fresh updated factory image. then just restore your apps..
Titanium backup is one such app, but there are others .
So far no matter what I try I cant brick it oh I can get it stuck but theres always a way to fix it. And like some others here I have tried I believe every ROM out there. Not one really stands out "different" for ME then any other. Nexus root toolkit is by far the easiest to use for me. If your into battery life so far Stock wins hands down.
Unlocking and rooting the Nexus is really simple and pretty much foolproof. I'll admit there isn't that much of a difference between stock and custom ROMs because the N7 with JB is already a beast. I just like custom ROMs because you have the ability to make it faster if you want to (I have my CPU over clocked by 500 MHz and my GPU over clocked by 300 MHz thanks to clemsyn's elite kernel) the only reasons why I wanted to put a custom ROM on this was because I missed the 3 in 1 shutdown menu and the ability to remove the notification shae toggles, other than that I don't mess with much because JB is already buttery smooth. Gone are the days when you have to root, OC and install custom ROMs just to get good performance out of your device like I had to do with the OG droid.
I would definitely at least root the device for the time being. Aside from some customization options in a few custom ROMs I actually really enjoy stock on my N7... I would also take a look at ... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1905961 once you have it all ready to go... I found it made an improvement to my Wifi and GPS by a fair bit, no custom rom needed.
I'm coming from using a Nexus S for two years where I did a lot of ROM and kernel flashing. So far, the N4 has been solid and I haven't found a reason to root it or flash a new ROM yet. For those who have rooted and flashed a custom rom, what are your thoughts? Any notable improvements over the stock rom/kernel?
I asked this question here as well.
Pro's of rooting; adaway, better toggles, aosp browser. (watch paranoid android for buttonless navigation)
Cons of rooting; less social life due to flashing things constantly.
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I'm coming from using a Nexus S for two years where I did a lot of ROM and kernel flashing. So far, the N4 has been solid and I haven't found a reason to root it or flash a new ROM yet. For those who have rooted and flashed a custom rom, what are your thoughts? Any notable improvements over the stock rom/kernel?
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I have had also used nexus s for 2 yrs,its a small phone compared to this I remember friends telling me nexus s is a big phone. I am also proud owner of nexus 4 for 2 weeks
My nexus 4 is rooted, before arrived I had all setup on my PC all the drivers, adb, clockwork, it was rooted before I opened the box
Its rooted mainly because of ads, i hate ads, and firewall, and titanium backup, few network tools...
I had flux kernel to try changing colors.
I have stock kernel and rom now and planing to flash AOKP JB4.2 v2 when it comes out.
I would root install a kernel of your choice to get better battery life. I'm on PA with Franco r31 and get over 4 hour of screen time. O. Stock , my screen time was under 3 hours
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Go for it. If you like stock ROM then just flash kernel since franco and others have patch the wake lock bug that was killing battery life. I wouldn't go for a few custom ROM out there since it is unstable and could be unpleasant to use. Those ROMs are usually the ones with Linaro optimizations. If you want stock experience with customization, then try AOKP. I'm very impressed with AOKP so far.
I wanna get the best gaming performance out of this tablet... Also looking into themes as well...
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1) Read a ton of posts here in all the subforums for the Nexus 7.
2) Read a lot more, then actually put some of the newfound knowledge
3) ?!?!?!?!
4) PROFIT!!!
Basically, you need to do a lot of research and figure out what you want to do with the device which is quite capable indeed, but nobody can decide what you are looking to do except you.
Unlock the bootloader first. And root it?
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I would say unlock the bootloader but leave it pure stock (but rooted) for a while... how else will you know if modding it actually does anything meaningful unless you have a familiar baseline to compare (future) mods against?
The point of doing the unlock early is so you won't be wiping a heavily customized ROM in a week or two just to get the bootloader unlocked.
If you have already spent time customizing and want backups of apps & data before the reset (& b4 rooting), look into the Carbon backup app.
After the factory reset happens, make a full Nandroid backup of the 100% stock ROM and get a copy of it OFF the device. You may want it later for various reasons.
Good luck & enjoy
I only got mine a few days ago and since the. I have
- tried editing out the nav bar via build.prop which ended in a soft brick
- did the 1 step unlock, root, flash recovery, install apps on the 4.0 all in one in development
- flashed dirty aokp so I could use the hidden nav bar option, surpassingly there was a option during flash to choose which kernel you wanted based on what performance or battery life
I really only use my nexus for reading with a little bit of gaming here and there so I went with Francos kernel, in my opinion you should definitely look into a rom that gives you the choice to choose which kernel you want so you can try them all out, I believe this option is called aroma installer in rom features. Dirty aokp list which ones are good for gaming and which are not so it's definitely a good place to start I guess.
Still a newb myself seeing as the last android device I came from was a kindle fire with cm7 yearsnago
Hello Mates,
i always rootet my smartphones and flashed custom rooms before. I bought the S4 few months before and i think its a fast device.
I would like to know your opinion: Do you recomment me to use a custom rom? If yes,,,,why? What will be the plus?
THank you in advance
Best Regads
Dude.... Development?
Wrong section. This is for Q&A
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You have 78 posts, but still you post in the wrong section -___- You better not flash a new ROM on your phone, because somehow you will make a mistake in this too, no matter how easy it is.
Me Gusta!
Hi, i've bought my S4 2 weeks ago. First i did was to accept the new firmwareupdate by Samsung. As i know now, this was a mistake, cause of the new bootloader.
But after rooting and flashing the EchoeROM, everything is fine. No bloatware anymore, great Kernel with super performance...
I think, if you will root your phone, you can try all the awesome custom Roms. If it's not good for you, you always can flash back to stock.:cyclops:
Back when I bought my S4 the first thing I did after my phone booted for the first time was the gaining root access. Just a few days later I flashed the first custom ROM and it was awesome. For me an unrooted Android is not the full Android experience.
Where can I find the download in op? Looking for stoppostingquestionsindevelopment.zip
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Where can I find the download in op? Looking for stoppostingquestionsindevelopment.zip
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Problem reports' posts are much more than developement's ones. So it may be easily understood why wrong placed posts do exist...
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My s4 is the first device that I have ever rooted and installed a custom rom on..... I won't be going back to stock.
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no way.... all custom sucks
no match for TouchWiz still few ppl thinks using PACMAN/CM/PA/SLim/etc is moreeeee helpfull
but no HD icons on custom ROMS this sucks
For me rooting is a must I live in South Africa we receive our first ota firmware a few days back,since the phones release!Custom roms are therefore a must. But even if we were getting more frequent updates I would still root my phone because I love it!!!!!!!!!
Hi,
I installed AOSP 4.3 and I'm happy so far, very stable, fast (you don't know how S4 is fast until you install AOSP) and beautiful! Also, did I mention no Samsung ***** bloatware xD?
All the best,
~Lord
"We think so supersonic and we make our bombs atomic" - Eagle Fly Free (Helloween)
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Hey everyone, I've been away for a very long time from this device (and forum obviously), I need some help catching up. My device is currently running rastapop rom (5.0.1) with CWM 6.0.4.7. I want to renew my device with a clean, latest and stablest rom, I dont care about features or Android version. Can anyone recommend me a good, solid rom, and provide some details regarding the installation? (e.g should I update bootloader or CWM?)
Many thanks in advance.
I found that the latest stock 5.1.1 on a nexus 4 is very stable without any issues.
Latest build of purenexus rom is awesome.
I had been away from this phone for a while as well and I have to agree the latest Pure Nexus is butter(first I updated to the latest official 5.1.1 to get the latest partition updates.). Better than average battery life, super stable. I've yet to have a single reboot or any other unpleasantness.
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un.droid said:
Hey everyone, I've been away for a very long time from this device (and forum obviously), I need some help catching up. My device is currently running rastapop rom (5.0.1) with CWM 6.0.4.7. I want to renew my device with a clean, latest and stablest rom, I dont care about features or Android version. Can anyone recommend me a good, solid rom, and provide some details regarding the installation? (e.g should I update bootloader or CWM?)
Many thanks in advance.
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The first thing you should do is to flash the latest twrp recovery, CWM is not maintained anymore for the nexus 4.
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