well, to keep it short.
thinking about rooting & flashing my SM-A500FU
Which Kernel and Rom would you guys recommend me for daily usage (WA, Facebook, some games and stuff)?
Used to do it long time ago, now im absolutely lost
thanks!
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Long term lurker, new member.
Had my I9100p for a year now and have only just got round to rooting and playing about with roms, god knows what took me so long!
Rooted 2 weeks using the Exynos exploit and patched the bug.
Installed Titanium Backup Pro and begun tinkering and freezing apps.
Spent a day or two convincing myself I was only rooting to freeze bloatware and improve performance and battery life.
Decided I wanted a new ROM as I was bored of ICS.
Flashed CWM recovery with the Clockwork Mod app.
Made complete backup using CWMR and TBpro
Chickened myself out for a few days.
Committed. Downloaded Rootbox V3.2 (slightly older and running 4.1.2 but this was an I9100p ROM) and saw the light. Speed and battery life through the roof. Light usage day, (40+ texts , Twitter/FB checking , 20 mins of phone calls and maybe 20 minutes of internet browsing) only used something like 25% of the Battery.
Got bored of 4.1.2 and wanted to see 4.2 in action.
Downloaded and flashed JellyBam V7.7 (Yesterday)
Customised the look, played about with it, got lost in all of the settings.
Changed my RIL as it was not working particularly well, think it may be because my Baseband is for the i9100p but im running an i9100 ROM.
Flashed NFC enabler from a thread on this forum , activated NFC and gave me the options back, however couldnt seem to disable the NFC just kept re-enabling itself and drank 30% of the battery overnight by keeping the phone awake for 10 hours(the time from me flashing it to me getting up the next morning).
Flashed the NFC remover. ( I can live without NFC )
Today I have mostly spent trying various tweaks and settings to help battery life(disabled media scanner, apparently a known bug which can drain battery). Will give it a few days before making a call on whether I keep Jellybam or flash to another ROM/back to rootbox.
A few minor bugs I have seen so far include,
Loss of screenshot ability due to disabling media scanner for battery life- Not a major dealbreaker but a bit of a PITA at times.
Soft reboots on unlocking, still see a few people beginning to mention this on the JellyBam forums.
[*] Fairly major- No data or 3G connections.
It is addictive, I want to flash another ROM and compare the differences already!
So thanks to all of the hard work people on this forum have put in and to all of the developers who make things like this easy and possible to the masses, although you may have destroyed all of my free time for the near future!
yep, it is addiction... flash flash flash flash
Hi... I hear ya bro... I'm on a super nexus ROM for about 4weeks. But I'm getting ready for a change. Thinking of trying a cyanogen ROM next...
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Just reflashed back to RootBox - I loved the look of the JellyBam but the contant soft reboots and the issues with the signal drove me to dispair in one day! haha
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Just reflashed back to RootBox - I loved the look of the JellyBam but the contant soft reboots and the issues with the signal drove me to dispair in one day! haha
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Welcome to the club.
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Can't wait to try out Rootbox, have been hearing mostly good stuff about it.
Hey!
I am interested in getting the Galaxy Note 3 - SM-N900W8, Canadian variant from windmobile.
Just want to inquire about couple of things, if the current users can give input, would really appreciate it!
Firstly, If I want to flash a custom rom? Which one is good in terms of performance, battery life, and no FC and etc. (I am talking about TW samsung roms). What kernel do I have to flash, so I can use the custom roms?
Secondly, if I dont want a custom, and just want to stick to my stock rom, how do I debloat from samsung and google apps? Can I do this without using the custom recovery (to avoid tampering knox)?
Thirdly, how is the battery life on an untampered note 3? What custom and kernel improves the battery life and by how much? The usage is mixed from web browsing lightly on HSPA+ to emails, texting, whats app, and calling for 20 to 30 minutes.
And is the home button resolved? Like is the new batch of note 3 not having this issue or any other?
Thank you so much!
I havent rooted my own phone yet because I don't want to lose my warranty to knox quite yet. However, I think it's too early to speak of which roms/kernels are good, since there aren't many of them out there yet. Give it a month more at least. The Note 3 home button issue was extremely overrated. I haven't had the issue at all and none of my friends who also bought the Note 3.
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Thanks so much!
But, I did go to store and found the home button issue though. So, there is a new batch coming out, so im gonna see how it is.
So since your on stock. how is the battery then?? like normal usage, mix of web browsing, music, calls, texting, and gaming (30min max)?
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Thanks so much!
But, I did go to store and found the home button issue though. So, there is a new batch coming out, so im gonna see how it is.
So since your on stock. how is the battery then?? like normal usage, mix of web browsing, music, calls, texting, and gaming (30min max)?
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I don't play much. It's not a part of my daily routine, I only do it when I am extremely bored. I usually use my phone for Tapatalk, radio when I'm wandering around in the house, text/phone of course and then reading on Reddit quite a lot. I usually have 2-3 hours of screen and 15-20 hours in total before I run out. So it keep juice for a whole day pretty much, however if you play for an hour or two, you'll get in trouble. I have 4g, wifi, GPS and sync on as well as 100% brightness. honest opinion about the battery ;disappointed. I'm sure rooting can help a lot though.
Remember that some has better experience with the battery than me, but there are others who is disappointed as well. My impression in general is 1 day usage with stock and 2 days with root where you have debloated and greenified everything (maybe even custom kernel and rom) When I read the forums.
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9,5 hours at work, 2x Exchange Push (Mail by Google - Kitkat apk), 1 IMAP Idle (Aquamail), 1 hour Navigon Navigation, 45 minutes calltime -> 67%
This is really great. With every other phone I had before (iPhone5, Lumia 920, etc.) I would be at 0-40% with that usage.
Hello XDA!
So, I've recently gotten into rooting and custom ROMS, kernels etc with my SM-N9005.
And as you might know, this can result in having to take your battery out and in a lot.
And I've noticed that when I first got the phone, there used to be way more "force" from the 4 pins that connects the battery.
So is it a bad thing to take the battery out too much of your phone? I kind of liked the "force", but it's mostly gone now.
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Hello XDA!
So, I've recently gotten into rooting and custom ROMS, kernels etc with my SM-N9005.
And as you might know, this can result in having to take your battery out and in a lot.
And I've noticed that when I first got the phone, there used to be way more "force" from the 4 pins that connects the battery.
So is it a bad thing to take the battery out too much of your phone? I kind of liked the "force", but it's mostly gone now.
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Firstly...
why do you need to plug out your battery too much, just for rooting, flashing recovery, and flashing custom ROM ?
My battery still intact on its place since D1, though I've just rooted few weeks back, and do flashing custom ROM quite a lot during these past few weeks, but I never plug out my battery.
So basically, why do you have to do that ?
Basically, everything which is "forced" is always hurt and not good if you understand what I mean. hehehe
But, so long as your battery now is still working correctly, try not to plug out so many times, unless you really really in need to do that.
And if your reason is flashing custom ROM, no way man. Please follow the instructions on each custom ROM you flashed, for sure, there shouldn't be any step asking you to plug out battery.
Cheers.
About two months ago I upgraded my Maguro Galaxy Nexus from 4.2-BETA1 to 4.6-BETA6,
and since then my phone has a lot of bugs,
it take a lot of time to switch between screens,
sometimes it just lock itself for no reason,
and I get a lot of 'System.UI has stopped', and recently my phone just turned off while charging (I had to take the day off :crying, and to turn it on I had to pull the battery out.
do you have any idea why it happens?
what is the last known stable version?
can I downgrade without wipe my device? I don't wan't to install all the apps again.
thank you.
That's a big jump. You should clean flash.
#stayparanoid
So I was using this phone as my main phone and moved to custom rooms due to issues with video playback on stock roms. However, I now barely use this phone but it needs to remain on for a couple of texts or phone calls a week or random app usage, most of the time it remains idle so I believe the power savings if dose works should be noticeable? Anyways, I wanted to know which rom would have the best battery life since I don't really care about features etc, but I don't want the phone to be unstable for day to day use in the future, just in case as it is my backup phone. I'm currently on optimised cm 13 from a couple of months ago on a i9505.
Thanks for any input.
It seems to be a general consensus that TouchWiz ROMs have better battery life than costucustom ROMs. So maybe you should start there.
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So I was using this phone as my main phone and moved to custom rooms due to issues with video playback on stock roms. However, I now barely use this phone but it needs to remain on for a couple of texts or phone calls a week or random app usage, most of the time it remains idle so I believe the power savings if dose works should be noticeable? Anyways, I wanted to know which rom would have the best battery life since I don't really care about features etc, but I don't want the phone to be unstable for day to day use in the future, just in case as it is my backup phone. I'm currently on optimised cm 13 from a couple of months ago on a i9505.
Thanks for any input.
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KitKat firmware is the best for battery life.