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Hi guys,
Like many of you, I've tested lots of different ROMs. After all, that's the beauty of owning a Google Phone.
However, I can't seem to find ONE ROM that fits all my needs. I was wondering how many of you would like something like this:
- Stock-based
- MIUI notification bar toggles (Cyanogen's would also be fine though)
- Battery Percentage Icon
- Themable (AOSP)
- Compatible with most kernels out there (so that we can choose whichever we want)
- No copyrighted things from other devices (ie. ringtones, apps, etc.)
I've yet to find a ROM that suits all these needs. Cyanogen is not stable or smooth enough to my liking, when compared to the stock experience. MUIU is beautiful, but a bit heavy and not really optimized for SAMOLED (even the darker theme uses very little pure black). Most of the other ROMs don't have notification bar toggles. The ones that do are based on Cyanogen or MUIU, so it's not much different from using one or the other.
The closest ROM I've seen to this is Amethyst, but it's been discontinued by the developer, and it's a bit limited on the notification toggle options. Heck, MIUI is perfect with so many toggles all easily accessible from the notification bar.
Does anyone else feel that way? Maybe if enough people would be into this, perhaps a developer could feel it's worth doing something like that. Or am I alone in my wishes?
Regards!
I too have went through a ton of roms on this phone, and the one that i keep coming back too is the NSCollab series of roms (currently on 1.0.43). it has the stock launcher so it is really smooth and has the app drawer that i love, also has notification buttons and other settings from cyanogen. You can also flash the theme chooser to have a few different looks to the rom, but the best thing i have like about it is that its really stable and fluid
Zuluzulu might be what you are looking for. Its really cool looking and stable. The batterylife is incredible, and it is clockable to 1.4 ghz since it use the netarchy kernel.
CM even the latest RC 1 consumes all my battery in less than 24 hours.
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lfmmoura said:
Hi guys,
Like many of you, I've tested lots of different ROMs. After all, that's the beauty of owning a Google Phone.
However, I can't seem to find ONE ROM that fits all my needs. I was wondering how many of you would like something like this:
- Stock-based
- MIUI notification bar toggles (Cyanogen's would also be fine though)
- Battery Percentage Icon
- Themable (AOSP)
- Compatible with most kernels out there (so that we can choose whichever we want)
- No copyrighted things from other devices (ie. ringtones, apps, etc.)
I've yet to find a ROM that suits all these needs. Cyanogen is not stable or smooth enough to my liking, when compared to the stock experience. MUIU is beautiful, but a bit heavy and not really optimized for SAMOLED (even the darker theme uses very little pure black). Most of the other ROMs don't have notification bar toggles. The ones that do are based on Cyanogen or MUIU, so it's not much different from using one or the other.
The closest ROM I've seen to this is Amethyst, but it's been discontinued by the developer, and it's a bit limited on the notification toggle options. Heck, MIUI is perfect with so many toggles all easily accessible from the notification bar.
Does anyone else feel that way? Maybe if enough people would be into this, perhaps a developer could feel it's worth doing something like that. Or am I alone in my wishes?
Regards!
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You can flash the systemui.apk that I made over a stock rom and get the notification toggles and still be able to theme the phone but be ware if you flash a theme copy the drawables to your system ui or loose the toggles. Its in nexus a themes and apps
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Just want to know the names of ROMs that have the most tweaks. Thanks in advance
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AOKP and Xylon probably.
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Cm 10 or PA or AOKP....
But I prefer PA rom its outstanding....runs so smooth my man...just try it out...and add franco kernel with it and your set!!!!
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Cm 10 or PA or AOKP....
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cm10 is months behind aokp and pa.
i really want to try pa. but as i was reading through the paranoidandroid thread, i noticed the guy that builds it out doesnt necessarily have the same end game as i do. but i will still give it a try sooner or later.
xylon most likely
codefireX
Customizations and tweaks without compromising smoothness and performance. Bleeding edge seems like, as far as performance modifications go.
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You should check out BR11 by Codefirex or PA which i haven't tried yet but it is very customizable.
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Thanks guys I'll try em later.
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PA is a solid choice.
I enjoyed it for a while on my Note, would switch back and forth between it and vanilla CM10.
PA allows one to customize the presentation of Android better than any other ROM but whether or not usability is improved as far as practical application seems to usually be more a function of app limits than user. What I mean by this is that as far as UI layout, colors etc go - nothing comes close to touching this ROM. But the user experience beyond design is largely based on how a given app has been designed to be interacted with in different form factor layouts.
So for example, you switch your Gmail to display in tablet mode . If you find your user experience improved, it's because the Google dev team behind the Gmail app did a good job designing its different layouts.
As far as tailoring your Android experience to your own desire, your limits are design limits: colors, layouts, etc
ROMs like codefireX have a customization and user experience philosophy based more around function and practical application than design. So while I do not have the choice to change layout, colors etc per app, I can change/add functionality and buttons to the nav bar, the behavior of expanding the notification shade is different, I can modify power menu options etc.
Neither philosophy is necessarily superior to the other but I found myself more attracted to that codefireX offered than what PA offers.
What PA can accomplish is impressive in its own right but my user experience is better served by being able to do more in a wider variety of areas than specializing and excelling in general aesthetics and presentation.
That being said, PA is less performance and power user oriented. The performance hit on the hardware and limitations of the Note was very marked, the N4's beefy internals can easily take the performance hit the invasive per app modifications and hybrid engine generates. While PA seemed to me to be as smooth as any, it definitely wasn't close to being the fastest. It seemed to me to be as fast (maybe a tad slower) than stock but it's not as fast as some of these other ROMs (codefireX included).
So honestly, you should probably try a variety of ROMs out and see which suits you best. I found myself diverging from the philosophy behind PA but you might enjoy it best. It was just no longer the right setup for me.
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rlaw said:
PA is a solid choice.
I enjoyed it for a while on my Note, would switch back and forth between it and vanilla CM10.
PA allows one to customize the presentation of Android better than any other ROM but whether or not usability is improved as far as practical application seems to usually be more a function of app limits than user. What I mean by this is that as far as UI layout, colors etc go - nothing comes close to touching this ROM. But the user experience beyond design is largely based on how a given app has been designed to be interacted with in different form factor layouts.
So for example, you switch your Gmail to display in tablet mode . If you find your user experience improved, it's because the Google dev team behind the Gmail app did a good job designing its different layouts.
As far as tailoring your Android experience to your own desire, your limits are design limits: colors, layouts, etc
ROMs like codefireX have a customization and user experience philosophy based more around function and practical application than design. So while I do not have the choice to change layout, colors etc per app, I can change/add functionality and buttons to the nav bar, the behavior of expanding the notification shade is different, I can modify power menu options etc.
Neither philosophy is necessarily superior to the other but I found myself more attracted to that codefireX offered than what PA offers.
What PA can accomplish is impressive in its own right but my user experience is better served by being able to do more in a wider variety of areas than specializing and excelling in general aesthetics and presentation.
That being said, PA is less performance and power user oriented. The performance hit on the hardware and limitations of the Note was very marked, the N4's beefy internals can easily take the performance hit the invasive per app modifications and hybrid engine generates. While PA seemed to me to be as smooth as any, it definitely wasn't close to being the fastest. It seemed to me to be as fast (maybe a tad slower) than stock but it's not as fast as some of these other ROMs (codefireX included).
So honestly, you should probably try a variety of ROMs out and see which suits you best. I found myself diverging from the philosophy behind PA but you might enjoy it best. It was just no longer the right setup for me.
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i went ahead and stuck pa on my phone last night. i wasnt impressed with the speeds or the confusion. definitely going to try codefirex next.
phermey said:
i went ahead and stuck pa on my phone last night. i wasnt impressed with the speeds or the confusion. definitely going to try codefirex next.
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Be aware the latest build (11) introduced issues with its toolchain that causes chrome/opera mobile browsers to crash on certain sites. The regular aosp browser works perfectly. (it's my assumption it's the new toolchain causing this, little else changed)
If you depend on chrome/opera mobile, try to find the 10.1 build.
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To a novice user, ParanoidAndroid may seem a bit daunting, and lacking in features. However, many thematic add-ons–such as extra toggles and notification widgets–will definitely come in time. Battery icons can easily be injected yourself. I wrote a brief tutorial on how to do so here.
Here's a short album I made of a few unique features to ParanoidAndroid (and will likely stay unique to the project). Pay attention to the nav/notification bar. It can be a different color depending on the app you are using. Further, no other ROM today allows you to consolidate the nav and notification bar, à la tablet UIs. Also, I attached a few cropped photos highlighting zoom buttons that I put in place myself. Theming is REALLY easy to do. Independent dpi and layout.... now there's something you won't see on CM10, Codefirex, AOKP, etc. ParanoidAndroid is very innovative in this regard and is really the only current pre-release ROM that is capable of providing a significantly different user experience.
We need PACMan ROM. Paranoid, with AOKP and CM10 all baked in. That was my DD on the Skyrocket. Definitely miss it.
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I am a flashaholic like many here.
That being said, not sure which I like better.
TW has the features such as MW and Spen, but CM12 is so nice and clean with some great custom theming and flexiblity.
TW batt life is better, but CM seems a bit snappier.
Hate TW lockscreen and love CM's.
What do you prefer and why?
SageWilliams said:
I am a flashaholic like many here.
That being said, not sure which I like better.
TW has the features such as MW and Spen, but CM12 is so nice and clean with some great custom theming and flexiblity.
TW batt life is better, but CM seems a bit snappier.
Hate TW lockscreen and love CM's.
What do you prefer and why?
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Cm12 , too much delay on TW
I like stock Android but I'll never like CM (forever buggy), and I don't see any point of using CM on a Note device. So regardless of my hatred towards TW I will still prefer it anytime and any day over CM.
i dont know
What Samsung features are missing when you install CyanogenMod ROM? I noticed that all of the cool, stock lockscreen effects are missing. But what about things like:
Super fast boot time
multi-window
S Beam
Screen Mirroring
Floating Messages
S Pen
Etc
I tried CM only for couple of hours (that was quite honestly enough for me), and S Pen features were obviously missing, same for Multi Window, and most importantly for me the display profiles weren't there, I mean the ones you find under Settings- Display, Cinema is the one I use, and I won't use anything else, and CM doesn't have anything like that, they have some colour temperature altering option however, but quite honestly that was nowhere near same as Samsung's preset calibration. Another thing is, the camera photo quality won't be like stock TouchWiz camera, and then there is the call quality!
It was way too many things to compromise for me, for little speed bump.
Was in CM till the Lollipop came and yes I don't use much TW features even though I am in TW now.
but after Lollipop, TW is better in performance and battery (without Greenify or Xposed), I've freezed a few apps though..
Im using Lean Kernel and TW base gives better battery anyday!
ithehappy said:
I tried CM only for couple of hours (that was quite honestly enough for me), and S Pen features were obviously missing, same for Multi Window, and most importantly for me the display profiles weren't there, I mean the ones you find under Settings- Display, Cinema is the one I use, and I won't use anything else, and CM doesn't have anything like that, they have some colour temperature altering option however, but quite honestly that was nowhere near same as Samsung's preset calibration. Another thing is, the camera photo quality won't be like stock TouchWiz camera, and then there is the call quality!
It was way too many things to compromise for me, for little speed bump.
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Was in CM till the Lollipop came and yes I don't use much TW features even though I am in TW now.
but after Lollipop, TW is better in performance and battery (without Greenify or Xposed), I've freezed a few apps though..
Im using Lean Kernel and TW base gives better battery anyday!
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Thanks, I think I'll stick with TouchWiz then!
Right but it's more to personal preference. Most importantly I hate the interface. TW is much better looking for me. I can live with some lags.
CM, overall it's fast but it has some lags when opening a dialer or so. And the battery life is terrible. No matter which rom i've tried on my note 1 & 3 nothing is better than TW.
If i want a stock android i will get a nexus.
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Lol
For me TW is the ugliest.
Never used gimmicks so for me there is no point in TW. Haven't touched stylus in a year, I don't multi task. And there are apps that work even better than Samsung spen apps other than snote, but Microsoft note is great.
Can't compare nexus phones to others as their design and hardware isn't best compared to Sony and htc, and some Samsung phones. I like Samsungs hardware but I have cm on all my devices. I like smoothness of CM if you can sett it up the way you want. Never ever lags here.
For me SoT is up to 8 hours and I'm happy as I have no problem charging phone wherever am I.
If CM was so bad it wouldn't be so popular and used by millions.
And those that buy a Samsung device just like others buy an apple, there is no way they can accept anything else.
Those willing to try new things can try themselves and see if it is working for them or not. Everything else is bull****, as I have listened to those before and this way missed my dream OS till I tried different ones and finally found what I was looking for.
TW is best for those that can't live without it. TW is the worst for those that don't like it.
CM is best for those that like it. CM is worst for those that see no point in it.
nijom said:
Was in CM till the Lollipop came and yes I don't use much TW features even though I am in TW now.
but after Lollipop, TW is better in performance and battery (without Greenify or Xposed), I've freezed a few apps though..
Im using Lean Kernel and TW base gives better battery anyday!
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I agree totally. Before tw lollipop, I couldn't stand tw. Now it feels just as fast as some cm roms, save for a few lightning fast ROMs like slim and validus and minimal.
I do enjoy cm/slim a lot because of all the well designed themes and built in mods/cherry picks.
On tw you need to use xposed, or an app, to achieve different tweaks. But if you cook up a ROM with those features, you're all set. Cough cough aryamod layers, mods, cough cough
I do need more battery life, so sadly I can only use tw for the time being.
But I can find touch wiz app alternatives that suffice when on cm. Although camera quality isn't as good.
I guess I'm a perfect candidate for multi boot...
Tw average sot for my usage: 6 to 7hr
Cm average sot for my usage: 4 to 5hr
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Hi All,
I have flashed a lot of ROMs on my OnePlus X, but every-time I decide either to go back to the stock Oxygen OS or OEM based ROMs such as Flyme/ H2OS or Color OS.
The reason behind is every-time I flash Cyanogen/ AOSPA based ROMs, it doesn't feels as Solid as the stock ROM, looks like something is missing (the UI doesn't feels polished, the colors don't seem punchy).
Everything is cool with Cyanogen/ AOSPA like battery usage, smoothness, customisation etc., but the feel which the stock/ OEM based ROMs have is missing from these ROMs.
You may have observed the differences between the two.
It can be my feeling only, but I wanted opinion from you guys about this.
I'm using OxygenOS 2.2.1-X with Android N-ify and PerfectColorBar Xposed modules.
Thanks in advance.
I think what you are experiencing is a placebo effect that stock is more refined than CM and AOSPA. Regardless of whether this is true or not, I believe that for you it is a placebo effect because if you really do think CM and AOSPA have an unmatured UI, then you should not be using PerfectColorBar because that too has glitches. PerfectColorBar isnt so perfect, in some instances the colour is incorrect. CM and AOSPA are the more refined custom ROMs anyway, which to me seem equally matured in terms of UI as stock. As for some other custom ROMs i do agree they they seem unrefined, such as AICP where the bluetooth share button is coloured in the gallery while the other buttons are in white.
What OP has said is so true, as it is also happens to myself. All this time, I thought it only me that have that feelings.
So, beside the weak LTE signal bug that plagued almost MM ROM for OPX (at least for E1003 in Asia region as confirmed by a lot users already), the half-backed feelings of custom ROM is what makes me always going back to my OOS TWRP backup.
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I think what you are experiencing is a placebo effect that stock is more refined than CM and AOSPA. Regardless of whether this is true or not, I believe that for you it is a placebo effect because if you really do think CM and AOSPA have an unmatured UI, then you should not be using PerfectColorBar because that too has glitches. PerfectColorBar isnt so perfect, in some instances the colour is incorrect. CM and AOSPA are the more refined custom ROMs anyway, which to me seem equally matured in terms of UI as stock. As for some other custom ROMs i do agree they they seem unrefined, such as AICP where the bluetooth share button is coloured in the gallery while the other buttons are in white.
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Thanks for your opinion mate but PerfectColorBar is working absolutely perfect for me. I was using FlatStyleColorBar before but that plugin was causing slowness while opening apps, that's why replaced with this one.
Anyways, the placebo effect thing might be true for me
luckily (?!) i only booted oos once to enable usb debugging etc [emoji16]
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prabhat.singh.836 said:
Hi All,
I have flashed a lot of ROMs on my OnePlus X, but every-time I decide either to go back to the stock Oxygen OS or OEM based ROMs such as Flyme/ H2OS or Color OS.
The reason behind is every-time I flash Cyanogen/ AOSPA based ROMs, it doesn't feels as Solid as the stock ROM, looks like something is missing (the UI doesn't feels polished, the colors don't seem punchy).
Everything is cool with Cyanogen/ AOSPA like battery usage, smoothness, customisation etc., but the feel which the stock/ OEM based ROMs have is missing from these ROMs.
You may have observed the differences between the two.
It can be my feeling only, but I wanted opinion from you guys about this.
I'm using OxygenOS 2.2.1-X with Android N-ify and PerfectColorBar Xposed modules.
Thanks in advance.
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Yes exactly same issue with me ...all the rom which are CM and AOSP Base seems dull color to me as compared to Chinese rom like color os ,flyme ,and stock rom.. it feel even AOSPA ROM also seem good
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Well I do agree with OP. You have to realize OOS and H2OS are especially made for oneplus devices. This means full work on this devices. They HAVE to make it look good to sell it hehe.
CM on the other hand is generic for all devices. Also any variant coming from it.
Just with one feature which is tristate key states on H2OS show how specific the ROM was built, on CM I don't use them for nothing at all. On h2os it has a beautiful UI when changing modes, and those modes actually make sense and are useful.
The thing here is OOS is really bad in my opinion. H2os is really really good, but for some reason I keep coming back to AOSPA or Sultans ROM hehe. It's more customizable and has some really handy features.
But with ROMS is all about taste. Each person has a different opinion, so just use the one you like the most and you'll be happy
feligoni said:
Well I do agree with OP. You have to realize OOS and H2OS are especially made for oneplus devices. This means full work on this devices. They HAVE to make it look good to sell it hehe.
CM on the other hand is generic for all devices. Also any variant coming from it.
Just with one feature which is tristate key states on H2OS show how specific the ROM was built, on CM I don't use them for nothing at all. On h2os it has a beautiful UI when changing modes, and those modes actually make sense and are useful.
The thing here is OOS is really bad in my opinion. H2os is really really good, but for some reason I keep coming back to AOSPA or Sultans ROM hehe. It's more customizable and has some really handy features.
But with ROMS is all about taste. Each person has a different opinion, so just use the one you like the most and you'll be happy
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Yeah, OOS on the OPX feel like a beta test rom. I switched with sultan cm13 three week ago, i'll wait OOS 3.0 but for now i stay on it, it work well enough for a daily use. In fact there are some bugs here and here but it's like nothing compared to OOS 2.2.1-X...
prabhat.singh.836 said:
Thanks for your opinion mate but PerfectColorBar is working absolutely perfect for me. I was using FlatStyleColorBar before but that plugin was causing slowness while opening apps, that's why replaced with this one.
Anyways, the placebo effect thing might be true for me
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Well, the reason of flashing custom ROMs, mods etc is that you want to take control of your device. You get barebone stock android. You can easily theme, customize icons, fonts etc. Want better sound quality, flash somethings, use greenify with all its feature working etc.
I remember the first time I flashed custom ROM on my note 2, it was kind of shock to me because of so much changes in look, but smoothness was what kept me there. Sometime later, I could not imagine myself going back to TW.
There are some very good ROMs and with proper theming, you can not even tell the difference (except smoothness in Custom ROMs ). Rest is your opinion, if you don't like something, noone can make you .
But the strange thing is, I don't have this kind of weird feelings of half-baked ROM when I flashed Pure Nexus, Cataclysm, or CM variant on my Nexus 5. Even everything seems better than stock ROM from Google.
motherninja said:
But the strange thing is, I don't have this kind of weird feelings of half-baked ROM when I flashed Pure Nexus, Cataclysm, or CM variant on my Nexus 5. Even everything seems better than stock ROM from Google.
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It may be because Nexus are made to be used with stock android and flashing other custom ROM based on stock android doesn't makes much of a visual difference.