I am considering this smartphone. It seems there is no CM port for it and am wondering how bloated the stock Rom is.
Any feedback?
Uqbar said:
I am considering this smartphone. It seems there is no CM port for it and am wondering how bloated the stock Rom is.
Any feedback?
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The stock ROM is mostly original google stuff. Even RRO layers are working with this ROM if you root your device.
Only a few apps needed for the rear display are installed.
What about latest Rom?
Uqbar said:
What about latest Rom?
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The latest ROM is installed on my phone. Four games, 2048, sudoku, dame and chess. The yota apps for configuration, news, sports, travel, store etc. Abbyy lingo (a translator), aeroflot, cabinet (a file manager) That's it. Nothing new i think. And well if've you root the phone you could kick out any app you do not want.
Edit: The phone / ROM runs very smooth.
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Hi all,
I'm new to android & I'm equally frustrated about the lack of internal storage. I'm on a 16GB S4 I9505 & like many users, out of box storage is limited. I would like to know if there's a custom rom that works well despite being clean, smooth & allows better battery life than the stock JB 4.2.2.
I've tried using Titanium Backup to try removing bloatware like S Health & ChatOn but the list is too long to carry on removing one by one. Not mentioning I do not have much knowledge about android & am worried that if I removed the wrong app, might screw up the phone itself.
Therefore I'm searching for a clean custom rom which is debloated, runs smoothly & give me more battery life out of the device.
I tend to browse the Web, text, watch videos on YouTube & maybe just some games. Any recommendations would be welcomed & please help me by providing more information such as what bloatwares are removed etc as I might still need some of the basic apps.
Regards.
Try the CyanogenMod roms. They are fully clean and pretty fast. Before you flash it ,make a backup of your phone/ rom so you can switch back to it if you don't like it.
--edit: you can find those roms in the official galaxy s4 i9505 development forum.
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PleaseClickHere said:
Hi all,
I'm new to android & I'm equally frustrated about the lack of internal storage. I'm on a 16GB S4 I9505 & like many users, out of box storage is limited. I would like to know if there's a custom rom that works well despite being clean, smooth & allows better battery life than the stock JB 4.2.2.
I've tried using Titanium Backup to try removing bloatware like S Health & ChatOn but the list is too long to carry on removing one by one. Not mentioning I do not have much knowledge about android & am worried that if I removed the wrong app, might screw up the phone itself.
Therefore I'm searching for a clean custom rom which is debloated, runs smoothly & give me more battery life out of the device.
I tend to browse the Web, text, watch videos on YouTube & maybe just some games. Any recommendations would be welcomed & please help me by providing more information such as what bloatwares are removed etc as I might still need some of the basic apps.
Regards.
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Hi,
You have a choice of ME2 or ME3 stock slim-line de-bloated ROMS.
Look HERE
malybru said:
Hi,
You have a choice of ME2 or ME3 stock slim-line de-bloated ROMS.
Look HERE
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+1 ^^
If you dont wanna loose ALL the samsung/touchwiz features then above is a good option.
If you like stock rom, BUT find its usually just a little to slow/bloated
And also like the ability to flash custom kernel/recovery then the rom's in the link posted above are really nice.
You could do all the things to the your base rom to make it the same as the ones in above posted link, but the 1 file flash via odin is so convenient for most.
mmywro save
Swanseatom said:
+1 ^^
If you dont wanna loose ALL the samsung/touchwiz features then above is a good option.
If you like stock rom, BUT find its usually just a little to slow/bloated
And also like the ability to flash custom kernel/recovery then the rom's in the link posted above are really nice.
You could do all the things to the your base rom to make it the same as the ones in above posted link, but the 1 file flash via odin is so convenient for most.
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Hi, thanks for your reply.
I kept reading about custom kernels etc but I'm not really sure what it does & which one is the better ones or best out there.
malybru said:
Hi,
You have a choice of ME2 or ME3 stock slim-line de-bloated ROMS.
Look HERE
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What's the difference between ME2/3? Region difference?
PleaseClickHere said:
What's the difference between ME2/3? Region difference?
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Hi,
ME3 is the latest version.
Sent telepathically from my S4
I recently installed and played with Task650's AOKP ROM, and loved the stock jelly bean apps like phone, contacts, and messages. However, I have some circumstances that made me flash the stock firmware back. I would really like to have the stock Google apps instead of the stock Samsung ones, is it possible to install them on stock firmware? I tried to restore via Titanium Backup, but to no avail.
Also, I really enjoy the IR blaster feature, and noticed it was not functional on the AOKP ROM, will it be supported on any future ROMS. Or are the device drivers kept under Samsung lock and key or something? Will the Google version coming out have a firmware that supports the hardware? Pending its ability to do so, will that firmware be available to install on ATT devices?
I am a first time Android user as of a few weeks ago, and am not looking back. I realized that all of the features I had to jailbreak and tweak on the iPhone are available easily! I've been scouring the forums and soaking up as much as possible.
Thanks
when you install aosp-based firmware, you then have to immediately follow that up with flashing gapps (usually posted in the dev's thread) to have the stock google applications.
some of the touchwiz features, including IR, are not available on aosp.
xBeerdroiDx said:
when you install aosp-based firmware, you then have to immediately follow that up with flashing gapps (usually posted in the dev's thread) to have the stock google applications.
some of the touchwiz features, including IR, are not available on aosp.
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I guess I should have worded my first question a little better. Is there any way to flash the gapps to a device running touchwiz?
Dankchild said:
I guess I should have worded my first question a little better. Is there any way to flash the gapps to a device running touchwiz?
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my bad. gapps packages are for aosp roms. google apps are generally included in touchwiz roms. if there are specific ones that are not included, you can find them on the google play store
Dankchild said:
I guess I should have worded my first question a little better. Is there any way to flash the gapps to a device running touchwiz?
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You're not looking for the gapps. You confused "Google apps" with "AOSP system apps made by Google". There's a thread in Themes and Apps for running CM10.1's mms.apk on TW. Minor bugs introduced. I'm not sure that I've ever seen AOSP dialer/contacts running on TW, but search around. If people have gotten it working on other devices, then there's hope.
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Check the t-mobile thread. I remember seeing some stock based roms themed to resemble aosp. They used the mms and dialer apk from aosp.
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Awesome, thanks a lot.
Dankchild said:
I guess I should have worded my first question a little better. Is there any way to flash the gapps to a device running touchwiz?
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no need for gapps with TW.
I need a ROM that is close to stock TouchWiz; default Samsung Kernel (need HDMI output support), Note 3 Camera, full S-Pen support, stock modem and such. Just need something fast, reliable and clean.
Ah...How nice it would be to have an AOSP ROM with stock camera, S-Pen support, multiwindow etc
Same here.. been looking for one too..
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Colton127 said:
I need a ROM that is close to stock TouchWiz; default Samsung Kernel (need HDMI output support), Note 3 Camera, full S-Pen support, stock modem and such. Just need something fast, reliable and clean.
Ah...How nice it would be to have an AOSP ROM with stock camera, S-Pen support, multiwindow etc
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Well... flash the stock ROM with Odin, then root it. In case you don't want that...
Here, lads: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2649176 I used to flash different ROMs every 2-3 days, until one day I knew I wanted a stable ROM. And as f***ing ugly TouchWiz is, it's the real deal and Samsung took care it's stable. I tried first stock rooted, but it kept missing something, something I couldn't mod myself, because I am no dev. Then I found this ROM. Stable, and still with a tweak here and there. I'm using it with Lean kernel (3.9.3 works), and so far - no problems.
As for wishing that Samsung would release the source of the S-Pen and their camera... that's too much.
I for one use MultiX v2.0 it's based on 4.4.2 ROM with very little modifications regarding the interface.
I've got a better battery life with this ROM than with the original Rom + Root + XPosed (and Greenify), so there are some optimisations regarding that too.
It has all the standard features of TouchWiz/Note 3 and you can even select what apps to install (for example the samsung apps if you need/use them).
I haven't tested the HDMI output since i don't have a cable, but in theory it should work, the others stuff work as expected (S-Pen, GPS, Camera, ...)
verszipo said:
I for one use MultiX v2.0 it's based on 4.4.2 ROM with very little modifications regarding the interface.
I've got a better battery life with this ROM than with the original Rom + Root + XPosed (and Greenify), so there are some optimisations regarding that too.
It has all the standard features of TouchWiz/Note 3 and you can even select what apps to install (for example the samsung apps if you need/use them).
I haven't tested the HDMI output since i don't have a cable, but in theory it should work, the others stuff work as expected (S-Pen, GPS, Camera, ...)
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Might give that a try... Would I need a clean install?
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dodgebizkit said:
Might give that a try... Would I need a clean install?
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With any custom ROM it's best to do a factory reset before installing the ROM, or you might end up with all kind of weird stuff. MultiX's Aroma installer also has options to do the wipes (factory reset) before it installs anything.
Make sure you follow the steps listed on the ROM's thread (this goes for all ROMs, not just MultiX), it will save you from a lot of trouble.
Oh, it's also not a bad idea to make backups of all the apps/data you have. If you have a custom recovery then it's also a good idea to make a complete backup from the recovery (make sure you have enough space on your phone or SD card, depending where you make the backup).
P.S. also make a backup of the EFS partition (multiX's aroma installer can do that too), just in case, you know the saying : "better safe than sorry"
(i've made EFS backups on all my phones, and i never had to use those backups in about 6 years of Android usage, but i still do them cause once i might just need it)
+1 for MultiX ROM. it looks better than stock TW (it had custom skins), it's as stable as stock but without the Samsung bloat and you can set a custom DPI while maintaining correctly sized stock apps.
By far, the best TW ROM!
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TW Rom
CivZ FlexKat is very Cool and battery friendly without tons of modding's.
This rom is based on the Samsung 4.4.2 and won't contain heavy mods or themes, install what you want.
Super Fast and Famous Rom with lean kernel will be the best in my opinion.Your phone will fly..
N910c user here with the latest 5.1.1 Firmware from SamMobile (N910CXXS2CPK1_N910COLB2COJ5_N910CXXU1COJ5).
Is it good/bad to flash an older ROM? A Custom ROM that based on an older firmware?
The device is currently on stock and rooted.
Mods: Please do delete/move this thread if there is a similar thread or wrong thread section.
Thanks!
Anyone?
Your questions are not easy to answer. It's all personal preference.
Some like ROMS that are as close to stock as possible, some like ROMs that are slim as possible, and don't have all the stock apps and want to install something else. Like a different messenger or launcher or email app.
Some like to have the latest and greatest on the phones or a Custom ROM that is based on another firmware. The problem there is most don't understand that the firmware was never built for their model of phone, so it won't always work right.
dicksteele said:
Your questions are not easy to answer. It's all personal preference.
Some like ROMS that are as close to stock as possible, some like ROMs that are slim as possible, and don't have all the stock apps and want to install something else. Like a different messenger or launcher or email app.
Some like to have the latest and greatest on the phones or a Custom ROM that is based on another firmware. The problem there is most don't understand that the firmware was never built for their model of phone, so it won't always work right.
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Oh... I see your point
Thanks for the answer!
By all means, I just want to debloat my stock n910c using a custom rom like SimplROM but it seems that I am out of the current release.
Laicure said:
Oh... I see your point
Thanks for the answer!
By all means, I just want to debloat my stock n910c using a custom rom like SimplROM but it seems that I am out of the current release.
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Just root, download titanium backup and remove all the bloat you dont want. No need to flash custom rom
callumbr1 said:
Just root, download titanium backup and remove all the bloat you dont want. No need to flash custom rom
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oh yes I just did that. I just don't have a concrete list of freezable apps for Note 4 so I am leaning on pre-made ROM if possible. I think I'll just do it on my own. Thanks, by the way
Laicure said:
oh yes I just did that. I just don't have a concrete list of freezable apps for Note 4 so I am leaning on pre-made ROM if possible. I think I'll just do it on my own. Thanks, by the way
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SimplROM Lite is about as slim as you can get. SimplROM is pretty good. There's a lot more dependencies then there used to be.
Take is slow and keep doing backups. If something breaks you can go back and bypass what you removed and move on.
Laicure said:
oh yes I just did that. I just don't have a concrete list of freezable apps for Note 4 so I am leaning on pre-made ROM if possible. I think I'll just do it on my own. Thanks, by the way
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If you have a good look on here somebody has posted a list of all bloatware removed from stock rom just be very careful when freezing or removing any apps highlighted in red as they are all the system apps
Great replies! Thanks!
I'll be listing my Titanium Back-up freezed apps here on weekend
Then I'll iterate it for updates as I freeze apps and go on my usual usage
Sooo.... Has anyone made a tweaked version of official S4 Lollipop ROM? I mean ROM that doesnt lag and hang all the time? I actually like the latest original software, but it just lags too much...
Check out these ROM https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3397330 or DeHAWKs Thread
GTI-9300 said:
Check out these ROM https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3397330 or DeHAWKs Thread
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OK! Thanks, let's try this one.
Well. Too much UI modifications made to this one. Shame.
That is the point of custom rom. You can get or buy Package disabler Pro and use it on official rom to disable arround 150 applications in fresh official rom. If you really want fast rom. You need custom rom and you need get rid of the google apps, google background service cause 90% of lag. There are custom apks that work without google apps and market, like moded youtube etc. I was running almost a year without gapps. 1% battery los over night, etc.
Sigh. I was talking about ui customisation, not apps. I know how these things work. I was asking, is there stripped and not hanging version of original ROM. Apparently not.
tardolus said:
Sigh. I was talking about ui customisation, not apps. I know how these things work. I was asking, is there stripped and not hanging version of original ROM. Apparently not.
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At dehawks roms there is no ui modification
The official rom shouldn't be lagging, you probably need a new phone. Or you can get a new motherboard for $40 and replace it yourself. Does it lag even after factory resetting?