Could someone answer my queries. Planning to buy one (4/64 variant)
1. Ram type? Lpddr4x? If so, how's the ram management?
2. Charging speed on aosp roms? Any kernel for improvement?
3. Widevine L1 on aosp roms?
4. Can this run at full clock speed (2.2ghz) on aosp roms?
5. Official android Q support in future?
6. Thin display digitiser? I mean, does the display panel feels close to the fingers when touched or there's a gap. (like on older Mi phones) And punchy colors?
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Hey everyone. After noticing that Moto X Style (Pure) is getting a lot of new ROM's of different base I am starting to be curious .
What is the best advantages and disadvantages of all bases: stock, CyanogenMod, AOSP, AOKP?
I will try to flash some of them, but right now I don't have time to experiment, so I created thread for this question.
Earlier I was Samsung Galaxy S3 proud owner, but after experience with TouchLAG, ou sorry, TouchWiz, I tried a lot of bases, but the main disadvantage of all but stock ROM's was that all "drivers" for my device was gone! - camera quality and speed, audio loudness and quality, screen colours, battery life, and other features was gone. Also battery life on outher ROM's is not so good, and a lot of bluetooth wakelocks was coming to. The main advantage of custom ROM's was speed and ability to modify everything!
So now, I am looking for answer, what will I loose after installing custom ROM to my device.
1) I suppose that Moto features like moto display and all gesture controls will be gone? But is it possible to add ambient display to work with IR sensors of Moto?
2) After my Galaxy S3 experience, I am curious will I loose my camera quality, audio, and other? Will it loose some of its juice?
I am TruPureXMM and Frakenclark user with Xposed (GravityBox) and other stuff, so basically I have all functions that I want, but, maybe with custom ROMS its possible to gain some battery life and some perfomance.
Feel free to write comments, I want to know what is your experience with custom ROM's, what did you like, what not!
I know what rooting and custom ROMs are, I had a Nexus 5 and I was a flashoholic. In weird turn of events now I have an S5 and some questions popped up. Here they are (You can answer just one or few, I'm just interested in everything, so maybe that is too much questions a bit, sorry) :
1. What stuff would I lose if I went away from stock to LineageOS? (Camera blobs, fingerprint scanner, heart rate monitor, gestures, etc?)
2. Is the battery saver on stock comparable to alternatives on LineageOS (or any other ROMs)?
3. What are advantages of Lineage over stock? (Other that getting rid of all the bloat)
4. How can I get maximum battery life on my G900F?
5. Can I flash other S5 version ROMs on G900F? ( I know that probably not, but what are the most simmilar versions that wouldn't brick if I flashed baseband/recovery/bootloader on mine)
6. Battery mods?
7. It's my first time having an Amoled device, now most of my things are set to total black for battery saving reasons, any tips and tricks?
8. Tell me anything you think that I shloud be aware of.
ashirviskas said:
I know what rooting and custom ROMs are, I had a Nexus 5 and I was a flashoholic. In weird turn of events now I have an S5 and some questions popped up. Here they are (You can answer just one or few, I'm just interested in everything, so maybe that is too much questions a bit, sorry) :
1. What stuff would I lose if I went away from stock to LineageOS? (Camera blobs, fingerprint scanner, heart rate monitor, gestures, etc?)
2. Is the battery saver on stock comparable to alternatives on LineageOS (or any other ROMs)?
3. What are advantages of Lineage over stock? (Other that getting rid of all the bloat)
4. How can I get maximum battery life on my G900F?
5. Can I flash other S5 version ROMs on G900F? ( I know that probably not, but what are the most simmilar versions that wouldn't brick if I flashed baseband/recovery/bootloader on mine)
6. Battery mods?
7. It's my first time having an Amoled device, now most of my things are set to total black for battery saving reasons, any tips and tricks?
8. Tell me anything you think that I shloud be aware of.
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1. Camera quality,HeartRate
2.maybe since im new to lineage i saw the extreme power saving mode(new to me)
3.actually its faster lol
4.hmm... Greenify? Close some apps remove u usable apps etc.
5.g900f (qualcom base)
6.i dont know im new to 14.1
7.well yes black backround is always a go for amoeled devices (not sure if 14.1 theme is working i havent tested yet i lile white lol)
8.crash? freeze?( Lineage 25/01/17 build is currently having a incompatible with opengapps latest releases so flash 19/01/17)
All working fine..
dotgeo said:
1. Camera quality,HeartRate
2.maybe since im new to lineage i saw the extreme power saving mode(new to me)
3.actually its faster lol
4.hmm... Greenify? Close some apps remove u usable apps etc.
5.g900f (qualcom base)
6.i dont know im new to 14.1
7.well yes black backround is always a go for amoeled devices (not sure if 14.1 theme is working i havent tested yet i lile white lol)
8.crash? freeze?( Lineage 25/01/17 build is currently having a incompatible with opengapps latest releases so flash 19/01/17)
All working fine..
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Thanks!
1. Oh..
2. That is cool! How does it work?
3. Yeah, I never saw stock running faster than CyanogenMod, same probably goes here.
4. Thanks, I used greenify on my other devices.
5. So, just this one, ohkays.
6. I meant hardware mods. Like on Nexus 5 you could cut a piece of metal and insert a LG G2 battery, which was bigger in capacity. I know there are "increased capacity" batteries for S5, but I don't know which are legit.
7.
8. Okay
Hello, since few days, Mokee 90.0 (Android 9 Pie) is available here : https://download.mokeedev.com/z2pro
OTA Updates several times a week!
Good battery drain... :good:
Say what you think!
which kernel does it have? lineage/nameless/fixy?
Best rom ever
Best Rom? What are you mean?
Stability, Game performance or Battery live?
Is OIS working here? Whats about Heart Rate Sensor.
Here are less comments.
toom11 said:
Best Rom? What are you mean?
Stability, Game performance or Battery live?
Is OIS working here? Whats about Heart Rate Sensor.
Here are less comments.
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Good game performance, good battery life, ois I don't know and heart sensor I don't think so.
Should the OTA updates be applied daily or can you do that like once a week (and use the latest differential update file) ?
Is there a mokee settings / custom UI tuner menu in this ROM? I've downloaded and flashed 2 different versions of the ROM but I can't find some custom settings that I'd expect for a custom ROM.
Hello,
After changing tons of phones in last weeks/months, i finaly got my s5 mini, my dream phone it seems. It is of a perfect size for me and it is very grippy due to rubber back cover. Now i want to improve it as much as i can. I want to stay on stock 6.0.1 rom (unless u see there is any point in downgrading ?). I will first say what i did and then ask what i can do to improve it further.
What i did:
1. turn all animations to 0 in developers options
2. turn off s voice
3. disabled all apps i could that i dont need
4. turned off a bunch of other things i dont need
What i need help with:
1. what else can i do to further improve performance
2. google maps app seems a bit slow. Any way to improve it or is this phone simply to weak
3. any tips for camera, how to take better photos/video, any settings i should change ?
No one ?
Hello,
I personally think its kind of funny that someone says that the s5 mini is their dream phone in 2019. I mean its kind of old and outdated now and while I can of course understand that you like the size of it and the rubber back, there are many alternatives which also dont break the bank. I think without rooting or flashing another Rom, your experience is not going to get better than it already is. The s5 mini is not the most powerful phone you know. Anyways I used a galaxy s5 mini from 2014 untill 2018 and I was never really happy with it. It was always slow and sluggish, though the camera was good for 2014 and what I really liked about it was its ip67 certification, I got into the pool with it xD. I ran it on Android 4.4.2 for most of its live, mainly because I rooted it in 2015 and thus couldnt update to a newer version of Android. But in late 2017 I decided to factory reset and flash a stock Android 5 Rom via Kies. After that I updatet to 6.0.1 Marshmello, but in early 2018 the hole thing was to slow for me and I threw a custom Rom on it. Android 8 but it was in beta and very buggy so I flashed Resurection Remix with Android 7.1.2. It was already way faster and more modern than on the stock Rom. But then I found a Kernel that would let me overclock the cpu from 1.4 Ghz to 1.6 Ghz and the Gpu from 400 mhz to 600 mhz. So i used that Kernel and the phone was actually very useable. The first time in 4 years of ownwership, I was really happy with my s5 mini. I bought a new phone (Honor 9) though only like 6 weeks after flashing the Kernel lol. The Honor 9, after 1 year has never let me down tough and im very very happy with it.
S5 mini G800F
Hi there,
I'm happy with my S5 mini (G800F), but I really need an Dual SIM device with better battery life and will have to get one soon. Battery life is weak point.
I have installed LineageOS 14.1 (Android 7.1.2), didn't have success to install Gapps though. Using F-Droid and YalpStore. There are some bugs with the camera (it stops working) but after restart works fine again.
It is an OK device, but a bit slow and with short battery life.
Unfortunately from 2-3 weeks there is a problem with my main microphone and is not the mic itself but some motherboard bad connection or something. Works fine with headset but it is not really convenient
According to some people if one switches Off the LTE the battery life is better.
Instead of Gmaps I'm using HereWeGo, OruxMaps and Sygic - all for free.
About the camera: I am using Open Camera. The camera app of LOS 14.1 is really plain Of OpenCamera I like the DRO option, but it takes a few seconds to generate the picture.
Hope you will find the best way to use your S5 mini. It is very cute device with so many advantages like notification LED with RGB, ambient light sensor, NFC, IR, AMOLED, small size and weight... I will miss all of this in such a small and ergonomic package.
I understand your point. There are no more under 5" devices with normal specs. So sad...
Best regards!
Hi, i have this device now. ¿Which rom its the most stable and smooth?
Zsheoran said:
Hi, i have this device now. ¿Which rom its the most stable and smooth?
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I can't say for sure, but I quite like Viperos and AOSPExtended Oreo. Not using it actively anymore though.
Zsheoran said:
Hi, i have this device now. ¿Which rom its the most stable and smooth?
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I recommend the unofficial LineageOs 16 custom rom for you. This is the most stable rom I’ve ever seen for the S5 mini.
Only Requirement is to have the G800F model.
Otherwise you will break you phone.
Im running CrDroid 5.12 on my g800f with the Spookcity Kernel and Magisk. Although I'm using a Oneplus 5 as my main device I'm very happy with the results. You can run Android P roms like Posp, LineageOS, CrDroid, bootleggers or Aosp (extended). I think you can get very happy using POSP with Open Gapps nano/Pico. But CrDroid is the only rom, which is getting updated. It also is the only Pie rom supporting NFC.
OC Kernel 1.6
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m0cg3PQV1XGGPSbBIi1QxuhTDaulX6EL/view
CrDroid
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5-mini/development/rom-crdroid-5-0-pie-t3880298
POSP
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5-mini/development/rom-posp-v2-2-t3921291
Bootleggers
https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=1395089523397969246
Open Gapps
https://opengapps.org/
Magisk
https://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/magisk/official-magisk-v7-universal-systemless-t3473445
This might be a pretty late reply, but I hope it can help.
If you want to stay on Marshmallow, I would really recommend rooting your device. I can't tell you exactly which, but you can deactivate a lot of system apps with root, which can improve performance in some scenarios (Look at some debloat script from other Samsung phones - a lot of the apps are the same). For deactivating system apps I use this app. Alternatively you could try to deactivate system apps without root with ADB.
In my opinion the Google apps are all very slow and all the system apps slow your device down a lot (from my experience the Google Play Services and especially the Google Play Store), which is why I either use microG on the Stock ROM or at least deactivate what I can.
Sadly you can't push much more performance out of this phone, especially not without a Custom ROM. It has four pretty weak CPUs and one really bad GPU - don't expect to be able to play any even slightly demanding games, better stay at those 2D titles. The only way to make it feel faster is to use the lightest
- OS (in my opinion any Android 6 ROM)
- system apps (disable unnecessary-seeming ones - but be very careful!) <- of course only on Stock ROM
- third-party/user apps (if an app is slow, look for alternatives - for example you could look at OSMand or MAPS.ME istead of Google Maps)
Pokemetti2 said:
This might be a pretty late reply, but I hope it can help.
If you want to stay on Marshmallow, I would really recommend rooting your device. I can't tell you exactly which, but you can deactivate a lot of system apps with root, which can improve performance in some scenarios (Look at some debloat script from other Samsung phones - a lot of the apps are the same). For deactivating system apps I use this app. Alternatively you could try to deactivate system apps without root with ADB.
In my opinion the Google apps are all very slow and all the system apps slow your device down a lot (from my experience the Google Play Services and especially the Google Play Store), which is why I either use microG on the Stock ROM or at least deactivate what I can.
Sadly you can't push much more performance out of this phone, especially not without a Custom ROM. It has four pretty weak CPUs and one really bad GPU - don't expect to be able to play any even slightly demanding games, better stay at those 2D titles. The only way to make it feel faster is to use the lightest
- OS (in my opinion any Android 6 ROM)
- system apps (disable unnecessary-seeming ones - but be very careful!) <- of course only on Stock ROM
- third-party/user apps (if an app is slow, look for alternatives - for example you could look at OSMand or MAPS.ME istead of Google Maps)
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The Google app is a mandatory update with the new Play Store layout and app updates eat into the storage of the phone.
Hello, I'm gonna buy OnePlus 6T and I have several questions:
1. How about SOT? On stock kernel and custom?
2. How about custom roms? Good? Stable or not?
3. How about in-screen fingerprint? Good or not? Speed of
authorization?
4. How about gcam? Good? Any bugs?
5. Does this phone has got AntiRollBack software and how it works?
6. How about OOS? Good or need to move to custom rom?
all these questions have been asked and answered dozens of times, so please search and you will find multiple responses to EVERYTHING you asked about
ALYSKY said:
Hello, I'm gonna buy OnePlus 6T and I have several questions:
1. How about SOT? On stock kernel and custom?
SOT 7-8 hours---predicted but i'm too busy to use a phone for 7-8 hours a day, and this is on all stock oxygen os with stock kernel.
2. How about custom roms? Good? Stable or not?
sorry, i have no idea but stock is just fantastic, so no inclination for me to go custom for now.
3. How about in-screen fingerprint? Good or not? Speed of
authorization?
i have stopped using the in screen fingerprint reader as my fingers are very dry,rough and skin is peeling and it doesnt work for me... i just use face unlock.
4. How about gcam? Good? Any bugs?
good and yes always has bugs, but fortunately, stable builds are available.
5. Does this phone has got AntiRollBack software and how it works?
i have no idea on this. stock oxygen os ota builds are good.
6. How about OOS? Good or need to move to custom rom?
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1. How about SOT? On stock kernel and custom?
6h during a normal day (mobile data, outside, etc.), 11h at home (wi-fi, social media, youtube, streaming, etc)
2. How about custom roms? Good? Stable or not?
Haven't tried it yet, but from what i've heard custom ROMs are going to give you jagged screen edges on the corners. oneplus phones display are actually rough, there's a software black overlay that hides it. the overlay doesn't exist in custom ROMs.
3. How about in-screen fingerprint? Good or not? Speed of authorization?
Mine's very fast, but the speed is inconsistent. I think it has something to do with environment brightness, because I notice it gets very slow in dark rooms.
4. How about gcam? Good? Any bugs?
I tried gcam but lowlight shots have this weird red/bluish hue, i'm pretty sure there's a fix but i'm too lazy to look it up. i use the stock camera because it's pretty similiar to gcam and it's more reliable imo.
5. Does this phone has got AntiRollBack software and how it works?
Not sure about this one
6. How about OOS? Good or need to move to custom rom?
Coming from OneUI, I'm very satisfied with OOS. It has all the things I need. Only downsides that i can think of are no internal audio recording, white notifications when using dark theme, and "Calls and notifications will vibrate" notification when you're screenshotting with vol up + power button