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this is just a poll to see what rom is being used the most. sorry if i missed anyones. i just put down the ones that look like people still use. if you would like to share which one you use you could also add which version.
edit.... damnit!!!! forgot to add "waiting for froyo to be more stable" :/ dont know how to edit the poll options
fresh now but might revert back to damage i get errors
Froyo as my daily
Right now Im using Pure Hero. If I dont like it my plan is to go to Damageless again.
Damage 2.08.1
Can't find anything else that I like yet. It's stable, fast and reliable. For me anyways.
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DamageControl v2.09.01
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riggsandroid said:
Damage 2.08.1
Can't find anything else that I like yet. It's stable, fast and reliable. For me anyways.
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DamageControl v2.09.01
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Why do I see 0 votes for damagecontrol? lol
I was on the XDA app, couldn't see poll. But I voted now.
CM6 is my daily. I do not have the problems people are having. Runs smooth
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Nfinite mostly but I nandroid over to froyo every so often to tweak it. I am ready to give up and wait for something stable though.
Aloysius I think I was lured by the pretty screens and constant updates.
I normally use Damage 2.09.01, but I'm trying froyo for the moment. Extremely fast, and very stable, but it doesn't play wma audio, and you cant delete multiple text threads without deleting every thread...Not deal breakers by any means, and the battery life is waaaaaay better.
Yeah I'll vote when I get on the computer.
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I normally use Damage 2.09.01, but I'm trying froyo for the moment. Extremely fast, and very stable, but it doesn't play wma audio, and you cant delete multiple text threads without deleting every thread...Not deal breakers by any means, and the battery life is waaaaaay better.
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Hey I'm a newbie on here, so could you share a link to the froyo you're using?
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Damage control 2.08.1 is still the most stable/fast rom I've used. FTW
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Hey I'm a newbie on here, so could you share a link to the froyo you're using?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=722122
Thank you, brother
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zenexp with darchs uv #15 kernal as of today,ask me again tomorrow
im surprised that only 2 people are using dd 2.7 lolol
I run the damageless sprint.zip as my main, but I often try out others. Nandroids are a great thing! Oh, and it's not an option in the poll, so I can't vote. :/
I have a Captivate for my wife for Christmas. She is not electronically deficient, but is not the type that is going to want to keep tweaking and changing ROMs. I do stuff like this all the time, for myself and for her, but just do not have the time to learn it all on this particular platform. I am hoping just to get a push in the right direction, not necessarily newb handholding.
So, are there any good recommendations for a "one-time good-enough tons-better-than-stock" ROM that I can get on this phone and have her be happy with it? Thanks!
Tough one
Cognition had some stable 2.1 roms that are nice.
also has 2.2 roms
Axura is great 2.2 but you will have to use google voice for voice mail notifications to work.
For casual user, avoid roms with over click kernels, just my opinion
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I would have to say Cognition it's pretty rock solid.
I'd wait till' they officialy release froyo for cappy and people start making roms with it. At least it's what I'm gonna do since most 2.2 roms have problems.
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I'd wait till' they officialy release froyo for cappy and people start making roms with it. At least it's what I'm gonna do since most 2.2 roms have problems.
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I would disagree that most 2.2 roms have problems. Some do require more knowledge of what you are doing though
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Tough one
Cognition had some stable 2.1 roms that are nice.
also has 2.2 roms
Axura is great 2.2 but you will have to use google voice for voice mail notifications to work.
For casual user, avoid roms with over click kernels, just my opinion
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I would have to say Cognition it's pretty rock solid.
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^^^this^^^
mcord11758 said:
Tough one
Cognition had some stable 2.1 roms that are nice.
also has 2.2 roms
Axura is great 2.2 but you will have to use google voice for voice mail notifications to work.
For casual user, avoid roms with over click kernels, just my opinion
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Thanks. Cognition looked like the best option. I looked through that and Perception, and it seemed like they were both good...but there seems like there is always some underlying little issue. Stuff like having to work around getting voicemail, or a wired headset not working like it should.
I think I will just run with the latest Cognition, and if she finds something squirrely it can go back to stock until 2.2 is released. Any recommendations for working with Cognition?
Read up on the lag fix. I believe it uses voodoo. To disable create a folder in the voodoo folder on the sd named disable-lagfix reboot
If you look to apply themes make sure you disable first. To enable delete folder, reboot
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Read up on the lag fix. I believe it uses voodoo. To disable create a folder in the voodoo folder on the sd named disable-lagfix reboot
If you look to apply themes make sure you disable first. To enable delete folder, reboot
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So the lagfix does not agree with themes? Is there any other disagreements VooDoo has?
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So the lagfix does not agree with themes? Is there any other disagreements VooDoo has?
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Voodoo changes the filing system on the phone from rfs.to ext 4. The utility you use to flash themes, clockwork recovery does not always play nice with ext 4. It is safest to disable the lagfix to apply changes like themes then once applied turn it back on
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Voodoo changes the filing system on the phone from rfs.to ext 4. The utility you use to flash themes, clockwork recovery does not always play nice with ext 4. It is safest to disable the lagfix to apply changes like themes then once applied turn it back on
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I understand now. Thank you very much; that is very helpful!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=847728&page=4
Well this guy is really good at making a rom. im downloading his 1.3 version (should be equal too, if not better), but the 1.2, FREAKING AWESOME! Its my go to rom when i have issues with other roms. Definitely easy to use. only problem was one app was funky, but its the apps fault, others complained about it (on the games website). has the muli touch keyboard and has some great lagfix options. can even overclock IF you really need too. Well hope this helped, if not, best of luck and Merry Christmas!
Bumping up my own ancient thread. My wife has been happily running her Captivate with Cognition for over a year and a half now. It is starting to get a bit long-in-the-tooth and glitchy. With all of the changes over this time, I certainly would like to update it. For daily, average use it looks like CM9 is a safe bet. Are there any JB roms that are worth it and stable? Is there much to be gained from JB over ICS?
Also, I have never had to restore before. I have done some searching and some googling, but nothing seems too clear to me. What all do I need to do to save everything (contacts, calls, messages, applications, app data, pictures, etc.) so that it can be seamlessly transitioned to a new ROM?
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Bumping up my own ancient thread. My wife has been happily running her Captivate with Cognition for over a year and a half now. It is starting to get a bit long-in-the-tooth and glitchy. With all of the changes over this time, I certainly would like to update it. For daily, average use it looks like CM9 is a safe bet. Are there any JB roms that are worth it and stable? Is there much to be gained from JB over ICS?
Also, I have never had to restore before. I have done some searching and some googling, but nothing seems too clear to me. What all do I need to do to save everything (contacts, calls, messages, applications, app data, pictures, etc.) so that it can be seamlessly transitioned to a new ROM?
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I figure I will try one more post in hopes of some help, otherwise I will gladly take the hint and really dig deep into it.
In my opinion CM10 is a great improvement! The current installs all seem to factory reset, so you loose all your apps.
If you stick with CM9 you can flash right over top of what's there. Of course wiping the dalvik and flashing gapps too.
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In my opinion CM10 is a great improvement! The current installs all seem to factory reset, so you loose all your apps.
If you stick with CM9 you can flash right over top of what's there. Of course wiping the dalvik and flashing gapps too.
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So I can flash from Android 2.2 to 4.0 without impacting any of the data on the phone? That seems almost too good to be true!
I read a certain thread last night from beginning to end both had good points from both sides that made me think a little bit and i thought i would put this list of apk files together real quick hoping it might help some people out there.
I take no credit for any of these what so ever! it is just a list of apk files I have gathered from my learning and flashing of my own personal phone.
thank you to all the devs out there for putting together all the roms, themes, hacks, tweaks, fixes and all that you do! I greatly appreciate all of you and all of your work! and dealing with people like me (junior member) and our noob questions.
Disclaimer: I am in no way responsible for anything that goes wrong with your phone from flashing these. I am not responsible for what you choose to do with your phone.
Well with all that said here is the list:
(seems i can only upload so much at one time so this is broke up into several posts)
more apks......
more apks........
MOOOORE......
still more...
more!!!!!!!!!!
ive done a lot of flsshing as you can see
cuz i got more!!!
i sure hope this helps someone cuz it definitly taking some time lol
still going.....
still more.....
and more...
this is it all done for now.
Awesome but for apks like email remember to say which build its from because froyo version usually only half work on ginger
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Awesome but for apks like email remember to say which build its from because froyo version usually only half work on ginger
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thx but i suppose they will have to just try and see if it works (and hopefully they do a backup first) for those then cuz i honestly have no idea what its from ive done plenty of flashing on my phone (some froyo and some ginger) and got these over time when they were included with whatever i flashed.
Just pull which ever version you have on your phone now and replace it
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isnt SetCPU 2.24 a paid app..
SetCPU
as for the rest of the apps wouldnt it be easier to have bundled them all together in a zip folder and have users download from megaupload or other fileshare websites.
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But you can download 2.24 setCPU on that link from the developer?
im confused..
The dev gave it away for free to any one who bothered to look on xda first so it should be okay unless he specially said were not allowed to distribute on xda
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I think you are supposed to redirect to the original thread for set cpu. There are many better apps for OC'ing anyways.
are these all themed or something? seems that quite a few are already readily available in the market.
are these all themed or something? seems that quite a few are already readily available in the market.
They r not themed, in op this is just what I've collected over some time and thought I would share it with all of xda, there is just about every stock apk that comes with the epic out of the box. in case for example someone flashes a rom and wants the stock "feedsnupdates widget" back after flashing now they can get it easily. I thought this might help some devs out there not to have to answer some questions repeatedly in a rom thread. The others I just had so posted all of them. If u don't need/want any of these don't download it, should u ever though beause u flashed a rom and want something that wasn't included it in then u might find it here.
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What can been done with a rooted camera? I would like to know if it's worth doing.
Cheers. :beer:
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I take from the lack of any replies, there is little benefit to be gained. :what:
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Try Googling "what are the benefits of rooting". If you're interested in starting to modify your device, start getting use to plenty nights of research. 97% of all your questions will already be answered and easily available.
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Try Googling "what are the benefits of rooting". If you're interested in starting to modify your device, start getting use to plenty nights of research. 97% of all your questions will already be answered and easily available.
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Seriously you mean asking in the specific forum for the benefit of others who have already done this, is answered with "Google it".
Pretty poor show.
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Hope you continue to get many more views/replies to this post.
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Rooting will give you access to lot of new Custom Roms and it will make your device up to date. . Its just like you modifying your car with different different engines to make it better. If any lags then that is taken care of with custom ROMs... And many more....
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Mayank.Mishra said:
Rooting will give you access to lot of new Custom Roms and it will make your device up to date. . Its just like you modifying your car with different different engines to make it better. If any lags then that is taken care of with custom ROMs... And many more....
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Not exactly, all rooting does, is essentially gives you "Admin" rights to the system, to change/add things to the system as you see fit.
If I take you car analogy, it would be more like this "You have a car, and you need to get to a part of the engine that is covered by a panel, but you need a special screwdriver to open it", rooting is the equivalent of you getting that screwdriver.
Nothing has actually change to the car, other than you can now get access to parts you couldn't before.
Technically for Samsung devices at least, you don't even need to be rooted to install a modified ROM, as there are guys out there, capable of creating ROMs that are pre-rooted and will flash to your device like an official variant using Odin.
Custom ROMs in the zip variety, can only be flashed with a custom recovery, which as yet, does not exist for the GC and neither do any custom firmware builds.
But to answer the OP, I am rooted and I have done things like change the DPI of the screen to something that I personally find more appealing to use. As well as add photoshpere abilities to the camera. You could when rooted, delete / disable pre-installed apps that you don't need or use.
But equally you could also break things rather easily too, if you mess around with things you shouldn't.
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Not exactly, all rooting does, is essentially gives you "Admin" rights to the system, to change/add things to the system as you see fit.
If I take you car analogy, it would be more like this "You have a car, and you need to get to a part of the engine that is covered by a panel, but you need a special screwdriver to open it", rooting is the equivalent of you getting that screwdriver.
Nothing has actually change to the car, other than you can now get access to parts you couldn't before.
Technically for Samsung devices at least, you don't even need to be rooted to install a modified ROM, as there are guys out there, capable of creating ROMs that are pre-rooted and will flash to your device like an official variant using Odin.
Custom ROMs in the zip variety, can only be flashed with a custom recovery, which as yet, does not exist for the GC and neither do any custom firmware builds.
But to answer the OP, I am rooted and I have done things like change the DPI of the screen to something that I personally find more appealing to use. As well as add photoshpere abilities to the camera. You could when rooted, delete / disable pre-installed apps that you don't need or use.
But equally you could also break things rather easily too, if you mess around with things you shouldn't.
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Thanks Raven
This is more of the answer I was looking for, as far as rooting goes I do have experience with my other devices ie Sgs 3, Note 10.1 & Note 2. I really was more interesed in the GC specifically as its a new device to me.
Could you please tell me more about what you have done with the DPI change ie what benefit does it give?
Other than photo spheres is there any other goodies to be had?
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funb0b said:
Thanks Raven
This is more of the answer I was looking for, as far as rooting goes I do have experience with my other devices ie Sgs 3, Note 10.1 & Note 2. I really was more interesed in the GC specifically as its a new device to me.
Could you please tell me more about what you have done with the DPI change ie what benefit does it give?
Other than photo spheres is there any other goodies to be had?
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If you check out the 2 pics I've attached, one is the standard dpi the other is set to 240.
As you can see the icons are smaller and the screen looks less "Teletubby" lol.
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Here's another example, the text etc... gets smaller but you get more detail on it.
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Check goo manager, there are 2 nightlys for carbon rom for our device. Used to run it on the Gnex. Pretty slick features.
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Great find, I wonder when they will post up a thread. Let us know your experience if you try it out!
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Tried nightly 3. Didn't notice any issues at all. The options for carbon seem practically endless.
It's now on nightly 4. He should start a thread to get the word out.
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Yea I tried it too, out just like good olé carbon
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wotandsdwys said:
Check goo manager, there are 2 nightlys for carbon rom for our device. Used to run it on the Gnex. Pretty slick features.
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I'm sure Carbon is a good rom but can anyone give an idea of what it can do that the device cannot do on the stock rom with custom launcher and third party apps? Since the Sprint S4 version does not have it's own changelog (at least I didn't see one) not sure what features are working and what doesn't. Also, don't you lose all the air gestures, eye tracking, etc when going to AOSP rom?
I tried nightly 3 and I kept getting setup wizard fc. do I have to flash an aosp kernel or does it come with one.
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I tried nightly 3 and I kept getting setup wizard fc. do I have to flash an aosp kernel or does it come with one.
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you need gapps
opz187 said:
you need gapps
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I had gapps. That was the first thing to fc.should had mention it in my first post.
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CCallahan said:
I'm sure Carbon is a good rom but can anyone give an idea of what it can do that the device cannot do on the stock rom with custom launcher and third party apps? Since the Sprint S4 version does not have it's own changelog (at least I didn't see one) not sure what features are working and what doesn't. Also, don't you lose all the air gestures, eye tracking, etc when going to AOSP rom?
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Yes your going to loose the entire set of unique TW features that come with the S4 - air gestures, smart scroll, etc. A lot of people don't care for those features, me personally, I like to show them off but I don't ever really use them.
A lot of people absolutely despise the TW interface. And yes some of it can be changed with third party apps and mods but not all of it. Some people want the clean AOSP experience, you can easily theme your entire interface (dialer, messaging, unique colors, blah) with themes from the play store without the need for downloading a bunch of third party apps for each individual thing you want to change. Also native DPI changer is included in a lot of AOSP roms. It's really just personal preference. None of the Samsung bloat, Sprint bloat, awful TW colors, just check out roms like AOKP, AOSPA, CM, etc, on other devices.
I recommend checking out Slimbean for our device to get the general gist of what AOSP roms provide you with.
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Does anyone know of any good aosp kernels?
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inlineboy said:
Yes your going to loose the entire set of unique TW features that come with the S4 - air gestures, smart scroll, etc. A lot of people don't care for those features, me personally, I like to show them off but I don't ever really use them.
A lot of people absolutely despise the TW interface. And yes some of it can be changed with third party apps and mods but not all of it. Some people want the clean AOSP experience, you can easily theme your entire interface (dialer, messaging, unique colors, blah) with themes from the play store without the need for downloading a bunch of third party apps for each individual thing you want to change. Also native DPI changer is included in a lot of AOSP roms. It's really just personal preference. None of the Samsung bloat, Sprint bloat, awful TW colors, just check out roms like AOKP, AOSPA, CM, etc, on other devices.
I recommend checking out Slimbean for our device to get the general gist of what AOSP roms provide you with.
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CCallahan said:
I'm sure Carbon is a good rom but can anyone give an idea of what it can do that the device cannot do on the stock rom with custom launcher and third party apps? Since the Sprint S4 version does not have it's own changelog (at least I didn't see one) not sure what features are working and what doesn't. Also, don't you lose all the air gestures, eye tracking, etc when going to AOSP rom?
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I really liked Slimbean but ended up going back to TW, AOSP is getting there, but I ran into too many bugs that I didn't have to deal with when I was using TW. I miss just being able to switch roms as I please, but my job kind of requires me having a phone that works, all the time, and quickly. Hopefully in the next week or so those issues are fixed because they seem to be on the nightly (or in the process of being fixed on the nightly) (all my problems were with signal and calling. Ex: distorted voice, bars were all over the place and I randomly lost signal in places where I had full bars of 4G with TW)
Just a word of caution if you decide to hop ship from touchwiz.
Besides that, AOSP>Touchwiz because I sure as hell only use the features to show off, i'd much rather have a stock unified UI than having to download apps to achieve that. It's also alot quicker since you don't have the framework of TW and the features weighing it down :good:
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Does anyone know of any good aosp kernels?
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ktoonz released an aosp version of his kernel which IMHO is the absolute best. thread is in original development...
Can someone post a link I've looked for this carbon ROM but could not find it
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Check goo manager, there are 2 nightlys for carbon rom for our device. Used to run it on the Gnex. Pretty slick features.
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Carbon was ok, but... I really liked JBSourcery and wouldn't mind seeing it come to our phone. But if I had my choice I would take a Caulklin ROM in a heartbeat. Man I am all over the place.
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Carbon was ok, but... I really liked JBSourcery and wouldn't mind seeing it come to our phone. But if I had my choice I would take a Caulklin ROM in a heartbeat. Man I am all over the place.
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I would take his rom any say over anything else. Ran his all the time on the e4gt
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So, I noticed this is the first aosp ROM where Bluetooth works for calling. Nice, my new daily.
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shizkoff777 said:
Can someone post a link I've looked for this carbon ROM but could not find it
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download goo manager. click on browse compatible ROMs...
inlineboy said:
Yes your going to loose the entire set of unique TW features that come with the S4 - air gestures, smart scroll, etc. A lot of people don't care for those features, me personally, I like to show them off but I don't ever really use them.
A lot of people absolutely despise the TW interface. And yes some of it can be changed with third party apps and mods but not all of it. Some people want the clean AOSP experience, you can easily theme your entire interface (dialer, messaging, unique colors, blah) with themes from the play store without the need for downloading a bunch of third party apps for each individual thing you want to change. Also native DPI changer is included in a lot of AOSP roms. It's really just personal preference. None of the Samsung bloat, Sprint bloat, awful TW colors, just check out roms like AOKP, AOSPA, CM, etc, on other devices.
I recommend checking out Slimbean for our device to get the general gist of what AOSP roms provide you with.
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I'm familiar with AOSP roms (ran them on many other phones) but was specifically asking about Carbon. Not bagging on AOSP roms just seems like a larger sacrifice with all the newer features of the S4. Granted I do think a lot are gimmicky and don't work that well but do use Smartstay & IR functions.
Just curiosity more than anything.
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I'm familiar with AOSP roms (ran them on many other phones) but was specifically asking about Carbon. Not bagging on AOSP roms just seems like a larger sacrifice with all the newer features of the S4. Granted I do think a lot are gimmicky and don't work that well but do use Smartstay & IR functions.
Just curiosity more than anything.
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Check this link out!
http://goo.im/devs/carbon
And anyone else that wants to learn about the features of Carbon specifically!
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CCallahan said:
I'm familiar with AOSP roms (ran them on many other phones) but was specifically asking about Carbon. Not bagging on AOSP roms just seems like a larger sacrifice with all the newer features of the S4. Granted I do think a lot are gimmicky and don't work that well but do use Smartstay & IR functions.
Just curiosity more than anything.
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you wouldn't lose IR function. smart remote is compatible with sgsiv and aosp.