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Which roms have multiwindow?

Hello everyone,
I ordered a Nexus 6P, it should be here in a couple of days.
I'm coming from a Note 5 and one feature I really want to keep is Multi-window. What roms currently have a fully functional multiwindow feature? I know omnirom used to have it, not sure if they still do. Omni Rom's site doesn't even list it anymore.
Marshmallow's crappy multiwindow isn't a preferred option, as it's really half baked.
Android N has it, but I hear the developer previews get really laggy after a while.
Thanks

That's the only multi window there is for now. I suggest you to try N preview, I heard the new one runs relatively stable.

bouncynemoss said:
Hello everyone,
I ordered a Nexus 6P, it should be here in a couple of days.
I'm coming from a Note 5 and one feature I really want to keep is Multi-window. What roms currently have a fully functional multiwindow feature? I know omnirom used to have it, not sure if they still do. Omni Rom's site doesn't even list it anymore.
Marshmallow's crappy multiwindow isn't a preferred option, as it's really half baked.
Android N has it, but I hear the developer previews get really laggy after a while.
Thanks
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Multi-window on N Preview is extremely smooth, compared to the experimental MW in Marshmallow. Plus it now lets you play YouTube videos simultaneously while carrying out tasks in the second window.
I have been using N preview since the second release, I agree that it may freeze some times, but only when a lot of memory hogging apps are running. Otherwise, pair it with a decent custom kernel (I use ElementalX), and you will be fine. And anyways, if it doesn't suit your device, you can always roll-back to MM.

I wonder if someone will port Android N's Multi Window to Android M.
I really dont like N so far.. The cluttered cards in NF tray, the massive recents tabs, and the ridiculously tiny google keyboard when setting custom DPI. Its a huge mess, and I doubt those things will be fixed.

imatts said:
I wonder if someone will port Android N's Multi Window to Android M.
I really dont like N so far.. The cluttered cards in NF tray, the massive recents tabs, and the ridiculously tiny google keyboard when setting custom DPI. Its a huge mess, and I doubt those things will be fixed.
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You do realize its a developer's preview/BETA right ? So its kinda gonna be a mess since they're still working the kinks out AND asking for feedback. So those complaints you have? (Which are legitimate i agree) Click the little N button in the the pull-down menu and let google know. That's how an open beta works.Hopefully they fix it and if not the bright minds here on XDA probably can. I myself gave feedback on how it'd be nice to have an expanded power menu for power users.

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You do realize its a developer's preview/BETA right ? So its kinda gonna be a mess since they're still working the kinks out AND asking for feedback. So those complaints you have? (Which are legitimate i agree) Click the little N button in the the pull-down menu and let google know. That's how an open beta works.Hopefully they fix it and if not the bright minds here on XDA probably can. I myself gave feedback on how it'd be nice to have an expanded power menu for power users.
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I am familiar with the reporting process, and I have made dozens of suggestions.

MIUI 8 Have multi window feature....
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What rom would you like to see on the Axon 7?

I was wondering what kinds of roms the community would like to see on this device. I am getting this phone soon and would like an AOSP-based rom on the axon 7.

Something close to pure Nexus !
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tupirujp said:
Something close to pure Nexus !
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AOSP base rom then LoL, same here i have never use a AOSP Rom and will be a good start with this device....coming from LG G4 here

DrakenFX said:
AOSP base rom then LoL, same here i have never use a AOSP Rom and will be a good start with this device....coming from LG G4 here
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I used an aosp rom on my desire eye (rip) and everything was great except for android wear. Everything else was good. There was even an option in the aroma installer to overclock the cpu.

Dirty unicorns. That what I'll build if our when I buy this device. Fling gesture is where it's at. @bigrushdog is the genius for that.
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I had the Nexus 6p for a while ... But a friend lost his phone and I sold it .... So I run that ROM for a while ?
And I have a att note 3 now and I was kind of interest it on these axon 7 but the future don't look to good for these phone !
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CM13, of course!

xtermmin said:
CM13, of course!
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What about CM14?

CyanogenMod... only CyanogenMod!
By the way, here is the reason why
"Using the Axon 7 reminds me of a Samsung phone from three or four years ago. I don't mean the UI—MiFavor 4.0 doesn't look bad. It's just overloaded with buggy features that probably don't need to exist. It feels cluttered. At the same time, features that I do want like lock screen notifications and Do Not Disturb mode are made less accessible."
http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/08/10/zte-axon-7-review/

awsomjgp said:
What about CM14?
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Even better!

klanac8901 said:
CyanogenMod... only CyanogenMod!
By the way, here is the reason why
"Using the Axon 7 reminds me of a Samsung phone from three or four years ago. I don't mean the UI—MiFavor 4.0 doesn't look bad. It's just overloaded with buggy features that probably don't need to exist. It feels cluttered. At the same time, features that I do want like lock screen notifications and Do Not Disturb mode are made less accessible."
http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/08/10/zte-axon-7-review/
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Yeah, the lockscreen bell thing looks quite annoying and pointless. I understand why they did it (to look at the background) but they should at least have the option to reverse it (defaults to show and then you can hit the bell to hide it).

Pure nexus

Maybe some Omni or crDroid (my favorite based on CM) !

awsomjgp said:
I was wondering what kinds of roms the community would like to see on this device. I am getting this phone soon and would like an AOSP-based rom on the axon 7.
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Resurrection remix.. once you use this rom...you can't go back...
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I'm using SlimSaber on my OnePlus One at the moment, and I really like it. But really, I'm fine with any AOSP ROM. I just want stock Android.

Cyanogen Mod or stock Android. Then its all over. I can be happy with this purchase.

I voted AOSP. I'd like to see something stock-like, with the addition of a system wide equalizer (Dolby atmos, V4A, etc.), dark mode, and a few of the USEFUL features on the Axon. Camera tweaks would be nice if the ROM bakers can find any tunable parameters/flaws in the OEM's software.

CM all day. AOSP is just too devoid of some things that are nice and lacks much baked-in customization. CM, for me, strikes that balance well. Sure, Xposed can get you there too, but that's a lot more complicated to setup for just some more basic options.
Really, all that's important at the end of the day is have a solid HW enablement overlay available. Then any ROM can be ported much more easily.

CyanogenMOD
CyanogenMOD

PACMan ROM! ?
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will there be a AOSP ROM for mate9

i mean .. emui is great.. but i think lots of people love aosp ROM more.

I agree entirely. But there seem to be a very limited number of developers working with Mate 9/Mate 9 pro.
I would not hold my breath, waiting for AOSP. Though I saw a beta unofficial release of LineageOS for Honor 8 Pro, which should be very close to resembling the Mate 9 Pro.
But lets hope for some developer love for these excellent devices.

If I were you I wouldn't hold my bread. Unfortunately Mate 9 lack of devs. I really don't understand why. This device is amazing.

amunarjoh said:
I agree entirely. But there seem to be a very limited number of developers working with Mate 9/Mate 9 pro.
I would not hold my breath, waiting for AOSP. Though I saw a beta unofficial release of LineageOS for Honor 8 Pro, which should be very close to resembling the Mate 9 Pro.
But lets hope for some developer love for these excellent devices.
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Every Cyanogenmod (now known as LineageOS) has been buggy. I had one ASOP for my LG G3 and it was perfect, never a bug. Now I don't bother with LineageOS and only look for ASOP.
In the case of the Mate 9 I am very happy with EMUI 5.0. I have been able to remove 90% of the bloatware. I have root. I have a 3rd party launcher. About the only thing I would like is to have custom icons and size for the navigation bar and some customization of the Status bar.

It would be great to run dirty unicorns on these phone .
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miui 9 for s8 and s8+

Will there be q dev willing to port miui 9 for our devices ?

Why would you want to do that? IMO, MIUI is a worse Android Experience than what Samsung offers you. And you loose all of the Samsung provided features for a worse skin.

shirruy said:
Will there be q dev willing to port miui 9 for our devices
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I honestly can't believe someone actually wants that software. Don't think anyone will because no one except you will use it.

AP02 said:
MIUI is a decent skin. I prefer it to Samsung Experience.
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Fair enough. I've only seen it so I don't have any actual hands on experience with it.

I would really recommend buying MI devices if you prefer MIUI skins. Why buy expensive hardware when same thing is available for cheap.

Who wants the skins?? The Os managment tools
The ram memory management is the best than in any other roms
I wish it will be ported to s8, there is no real custom rom available to our device yet.

I really want it! And for several good reasons too. Been using MIUI 8 and 9 for a year now. and some of th features are very nice in MIUI.
The best ever feature is the ability to LOCK APPS IN MEMORY. so they will never quit unless its an emergency. On all other androids ive used with for example Pokemon go. it never stays in memory. but on MIUI on Mix 2 i could lock the apps I wanted and they were never ever killed=) awesome! also the app launcher is genious. moving around and deleting several apps at once. and! the most important one. its freakking snappy!!!!!!!!!!!!! MIUI 9 was the best ever android experience I have ever had. no lag, slowdowns opening apps chrome etc. it just worked. and was there, when I wanted it. FAST!!!!!!!
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Exactly!!!!! =)
RAM management FTW!
deliad said:
Who wants the skins?? The Os managment tools
The ram memory management is the best than in any other roms
I wish it will be ported to s8, there is no real custom rom available to our device yet.
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I think xda developer just can't develope miui 9 or color 0s 5 rom for s8.. they are just porting s9 also yeah without s9 camera.... common show something....

I agree that MIUI on S8 might be a strange and surprising idea but if You had the chance to work on a Xiaomi phone with MIUI (that cost 150USD tax not included) You would maybe considering the same thing. The idea is not bad but I think MIUI wasn't designed to be displayed in better resolution and on the best screen on the market (Super AMOLED). Maybe the TOP Xiaomi phones would overcome the resolution problem but it may be a need for a new colors to look great on Super AMOLED.

Worst Android Experience??
I don't know what were you smoking, but MIUI offers more features than Touchwiz
I've used MIUI phones for years, and it still has more features than this crappy Touchwiz

jasleen_ss said:
Why would you want to do that? IMO, MIUI is a worse Android Experience than what Samsung offers you. And you loose all of the Samsung provided features for a worse skin.
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why is it worse than touchwiz?

I miss MIUI too. And the software support from Xiaomi. Xiaomi is by far the OEM with the best software support.

It would be great to have miui on the 8+

i'd love to see miui 9 or 10 on our devices.. i made a request thread on miui forums too http://en.miui.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=3194310&highlight=galaxy+s8

MadSilence said:
I really want it! And for several good reasons too. Been using MIUI 8 and 9 for a year now. and some of th features are very nice in MIUI.
The best ever feature is the ability to LOCK APPS IN MEMORY. so they will never quit unless its an emergency. On all other androids ive used with for example Pokemon go. it never stays in memory. but on MIUI on Mix 2 i could lock the apps I wanted and they were never ever killed=) awesome! also the app launcher is genious. moving around and deleting several apps at once. and! the most important one. its freakking snappy!!!!!!!!!!!!! MIUI 9 was the best ever android experience I have ever had. no lag, slowdowns opening apps chrome etc. it just worked. and was there, when I wanted it. FAST!!!!!!! !
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Samsung Experience:
Lock apps: Click on recent apps button > top right 3 dots > lock apps (also available in good lock 2018)
Move/Delete several apps at once: On samsung home launcher > hold the app > select items > click on the apps you want to uninstall/move/disable/create folder > select your choice at the top of the screen

You can run Miui PORTROM to attempt porting MIUI to the Galaxy S8. I tried that with the Galaxy S2 (Skyrocket) but nobody offered to help with the fixing of port rom rejects (when portrom fails to insert MIUI kernel code).
Plus there's the thread about Roll your own skinny MIUI. The post goes into massive details about removing much of the Chinese apps and so on. I'd never keep using MIUI unless I was certain nothing in MIUI is phoning home to China.

Kizoky said:
Worst Android Experience??
I don't know what were you smoking, but MIUI offers more features than Touchwiz
I've used MIUI phones for years, and it still has more features than this crappy Touchwiz
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I don't remember TouchWizz much but MIUI certainly (and thats good for me) has not as many options to configure as Samsung Experiance on Oreo in Galaxy S8 for example.

I hope for a miui v10 on s8+ . That will make the best device ever. Maybe there is an exynos issue here.

Blitzz.666 said:
I hope for a miui v10 on s8+ . That will make the best device ever. Maybe there is an exynos issue here.
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There is only license issue. No hope for that to ever happen officially.

androidbadboy said:
There is only license issue. No hope for that to ever happen officially.
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Brightness issues on custom ROMs

Hey guys, the one thing I liked about the stock ROM was that I could make the screen really dark and really bright. It's much more limited on the AOSP ROMs I've tried. Is there any ROM that gives me more control over brightness?

its the way they designed android pie which is stupid af. also tested it on my friends android one device its the same as the custom roms on lavender.

aron11195 said:
its the way they designed android pie which is stupid af. also tested it on my friends android one device its the same as the custom roms on lavender.
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Wait, but stock Xiaomi ROM for this device is also Pie!

Lauriso said:
Wait, but stock Xiaomi ROM for this device is also Pie!
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yup but its a heavily skinned pie. just like any other oem os. most custom rom devs prefer closer stock android experience.

Lauriso said:
Wait, but stock Xiaomi ROM for this device is also Pie!
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Yeah, but Xiaomi actually fixes the bull**** google does to Android, that's why it takes longer for us to get android updates.

aron11195 said:
yup but its a heavily skinned pie. just like any other oem os. most custom rom devs prefer closer stock android experience.
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But brightness levels have nothing to do with skinning, no? If Xiaomi could change it, so could any other dev maybe?
My other two gripes with MIUI are the stupid notification behaviour and lack of colored music notifications + album art as background (yes that's important!) ?.

is there a fix?

Lauriso said:
But brightness levels have nothing to do with skinning, no? If Xiaomi could change it, so could any other dev maybe?
My other two gripes with MIUI are the stupid notification behaviour and lack of colored music notifications + album art as background (yes that's important!) .
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I feel the album art as background too, but i prefer to stay on MIUI for better stability overall, plus i got really used to the MIUI skin so i don't feel like changing.

Gonime said:
I feel the album art as background too, but i prefer to stay on MIUI for better stability overall, plus i got really used to the MIUI skin so i don't feel like changing.
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But how about notification behavior? I totally hated that because I want all my unread notifs to always stay in the notif bar + lockscreen.

Also, what is the best place to suggest / discuss implementing changes to MIUI? The official forums seem either dead or I get generic replies and little views.

Lauriso said:
Also, what is the best place to suggest / discuss implementing changes to MIUI? The official forums seem either dead or I get generic replies and little views.
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I believe you'd have to enter the closed beta program to do that, the inscription is not always open though, you'd have to check mi community for more info.

Thanks.
While we're talking - does anyone else have the issue where 4G doesn't reconnect after calls? Sometimes it does after a longer while, but it's much quicker to enable/disable airplane more to get it to reconnect. I actually remember having a similar issue while on the stock ROM too.