i only have my note for a month or so, i did a bit of research on roms, bur comparing to my old p990 the number of roms for n7000 is really massive
already checked number of sites as well i.e. http://www.galaxynoteroms.com/ but can't find rom that is right for me
basically i want stock based rom (with working pen, hdmi, fm radio) but tweaked so it is smoother (and preferably without that annoying 1,5 second lag after home button is pressed) i don't need any additional eye candy, disabled camera sounds and enabled call recording would be nice extras but i guess i could find ways to do it separately
which rom can you recommend to start my search?
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Loving Froyo so far. I flashed Pauls version since I did not want to go back to stock.
With that said:
1 - What is the best way to show off what Flash can do? I know Hulu is not working (at least for me). Would like to see what it can do... something impressive (other than flash on my phone of course, ha).
2 - Now that I am stock (still rooted with Amon Recovery) I am already missing the track ball to wake up my phone. If I want to keep it stock (for now), is there a way I can make this mod myself without flashing a developers ROM?
3 - What is everyones fav feature of 2.2?
1) Try miniclip.com, some awesome games can be found there.
2) Chances are we'll have to deal with stock 2.2 until CM etc bring out their own releases.
3) The new gallery is great, peak works great and it loads much much quicker
First of all, Sorry! I know this question was asked like billion times over and over, and the amount of opinions is equal to the amount of the people who comment, but still.
Currently I'm running stock deodexed XXJVO ROM with CF-Root kernel.
The phone never was stable 100%, but the last days are horrible. Waze stuck (need hard reboot), phone turns off at night (=I dont have alarm clock = I late to work), it FCs and/or reboots randomly.
Now I want to get clear about the ROMs. There are 2 kind of them:
1. ROMs based on stock Samsung roms
2. ROMs based on Googles roms (like miui and CM)
Am I right?
Right now I don't have time nor the interest to play with really custom roms (miui/cm) since I'm not sure how stable they are (am I wrong about their stability?).
I just need phone that calls, surfs the web, sends sms, take photos, records videos and allows me to use GPS for navigation while I drive. For this reason I prefer to go with the roms based on stock Samsung roms (again correct me if I'm wrong. Maybe roms like MIUI/CM are stable enough for day-day use without flashing and reflashing the nightly every few days).
I need suggestion for either full ROM or combination of ROM and Kernel that will unleash the full potential of my phone with the minimum lags/FCs/reboots/etc.
From fast reading here I understood that Semaphore kernel is good enough (of course any other suggestions are welcomed). What do you think about combining it with stock deodexed ROM? Or maybe you have other more preferable ROMS (I don't have any preference to specific rom, however there are some things I can't live without and they are: a) NON increasing ringtone b) preferably root c) Ability to theme the phone, All other fixes/tweaks are optional and are in state of "nice to have").
Thanks a lot for reading this long posts, understand me and helping!
Have a good day and an awesome weekend!
I think you should try stock jvu and latest Semaphore kernel.
And convert to ext4.
That's fast enough.
BTW MIUI and CM7 are very fast and stable.
**tapatalked with galaxy s on CNA and Glitch kernel**
Flash mint berry miui, it's fast and will fit your requirements
Thanks for the replies!
dark_knight35
Stock JVU you mean stock, or stock and deodexed?
Should I bother and try MIUI/CM? (As I understood there is also ICS ROMs, what are those?)
hassaan123
Thanks, Ill consider this. Tough I'm a bit afraid about MIUI/CM since those are different ROMs.
More comments are welcomed!
Team ICSSGS RC4.2 the best for we till now
i wouldnt prefer miui/cm for gps. i used mintberry for 2 months but after the first weeks of pure stabilty it began to random reboot more than twice a day. reflash, new version everytime the same.
the ram management was also horrible in my eyes. i dont really like the cm kernels. they are updated too fast and it seems that they are never really stable for some reason. my battery life was horrible on miui. also annoying is that you always has to clear your memory manually before you want to play a game which isnt even in 3D. plus 720p is always choppy because they want to use more ram which is taken from the reserved memory for video recording. ah the compass isnt working too sometimes... depends on kernel but i didnt find a kernel which works
i am back on darky 10.4.2 with semaphore kernel. darkcore is also very good kernel with good stabilty and battery but i dont use it because i need voodoo color for my display...
especially for you skwo i would prefer the base versions from darky. they are kinda pure samsung with some tweaks and then you can try the dark core which is brought with and if you dont like it switch to semaphore. the standart theme is also very decent and if you dont like you can still customize your phone with the ota app such as things like camera hack (that annoying under 10% thingy that doesnt let you use your cam) or the exteneded toggepanel.
i understand good what you want. i mean its really cool to have such a great community which is working on so much roms but they are too heavy customized sometimes. everything seems so overloaded and the most skins doesnt fit with they own colors they use. i mean there are so much ics themed roms but with 15 different blue tones, that doesnt look "professional" and make android look like a bad designed mess
Kodon
Thanks a lot for this helpful reply!
I heard the same about MIUI/CM/ICS ROMs, that they lack 720p video recording (which is sort of important to me), and how some issues with GPS, and not stable enough.
Yea I tried darky once, didn't like it. I consider trying it again (with maybe different kernel).
The theme is not that important to me, I just put some AOSP theme that adds the battery percentage indicator. I used to play with the phone few months ago (was a ROM hopper and liked to customize it), these days I'm too busy for all this and just need a smart-phone that works.
skwo said:
Thanks for the replies!
dark_knight35
Stock JVU you mean stock, or stock and deodexed?
Should I bother and try MIUI/CM? (As I understood there is also ICS ROMs, what are those?)
hassaan123
Thanks, Ill consider this. Tough I'm a bit afraid about MIUI/CM since those are different ROMs.
More comments are welcomed!
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You can try Faryaab's jvu (deodexed&rooted). It's hear in general section.
I think a jvu/cm9/miui rom is better for you than ics, coz they are bit buggy.
**tapatalked with galaxy s on CNA and Glitch kernel**
CM7 battery life is not good and call is not stable like rock.
MIUI battery life is better than CM7 but is not good. Call is rock
MIUI / CM7 video recording 720P is sucks. (temp fix = Change bit rate to 1000000)
ICS video playback is bad and some apps will not work or FC. (still on development)
Stock battery is good / call is stable / video playback and 720 recoding is good / but speed is low.
There is not a BEST ROM for all things.
If u can be happy with low speed stocks are awesome.
Best way: Try one to one all ROMs and choose the best for self needs.
Vogie said:
CM7 battery life is not good and call is not stable like rock.
MIUI battery life is better than CM7 but is not good. Call is rock
MIUI / CM7 video recording 720P is sucks. (temp fix = Change bit rate to 1000000)
ICS video playback is bad and some apps will not work or FC. (still on development)
Stock battery is good / call is stable / video playback and 720 recoding is good / but speed is low.
There is not a BEST ROM for all things.
If u can be happy with low speed stocks are awesome.
Best way: Try one to one all ROMs and choose the best for self needs.
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if you try every rom for sgs you are busy for the next 2 years. the most roms are in the first week very good till every app fills their cache and the partition is getting fragmented. the only method in my eyes to see if a rom is good is to use it for 3-4 weeks. even the battery does need 2-3 loading cycles which can take 4-5 days if the battery use is good and you want to see how it works when its recalibrated after flash.
especially we galaxy s users need to see others opinion in a thread like that. you really cant go through every thread and search for feedback between the whole bug reports and advices for bootloops
I can't decide between stock XXJVU (also not sure if I want the deodexed one) or DarkyRom or some other simple ROM that based on JVU (like SauroM). Any suggestions?
Go for stock jvu, odexed, add andip's theme, remove bloatware, use go launcher with ics theme, semaphore kernel 2.5.0 with ext4
Doesn't get any better than this
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Thanks a lot! Going to flash
Why so many post ?
Try MIUI (mintberry is very good) and revert to stock rom if you aren't happy.
MIUI has a lot of new things : it's not only the launcher and themes; Miui based on Ginger is stable. I try regulary to return to stock rom and every time I reflash an MIUI, too many things are missing on stock roms or CM7 !
Hello all very long time lurker but am here now for some help. So a few questions and description of what i wish to achieve.
I have a POS iPod touch 4th gen that I have had 2 and half years or something and really want to replace. Also have an Xperia X10 and shortly will have an LG Optimus 2X. The X10 will function for phone duties until the Xperia TX become available in Australia.
Back the the O2X though. Now turning an android phone into a Portable Media Player (PMP) is something I have been wanting to do for a while now. Naturally though this brings up a few things that will not be needed.
For the music front end I will be using Player Pro and Pics and videos will primarily be held and viewed in QuickPic.
The phone will still need to retain wifi and bluetooth capabilities, however I want to fully disable all other forms of connectivity as I will have no need of it and will not be using a sim in the phone as this will be dedicated to music, movies and pics. So does anyone know the best way gor me to go about that?
I will also have a hell of a lot of unused and unwanted apps. I would love to be able to really strip the phone back and free up as much space as possible. Now in the past I have been able to uninstall pre-installed apps from my X10. I am just unsure how to go about it on the O2X. Does anyone know how I would go about completely removing the phone, contacts, calander, stock music, stock gallery and other assorted apps?
I would also need to be using a kernel with the voodoo sound mods for the wolfson DAC. Now I was wondering if there was any recommendations there?
Finally I would also like a recommendation of the most stable ICS based ROM to go with the voodoo kernel. I would like the ROM to also include a modifiable set of notification bar widgets so I can easily turn on and of things like wifi, bluetooth, gps, airaplane mode and adjust brightness. Anyone know of anything that would fit the bill?
Must also come with a working camera app (does not need to has video recording working or panorama just basic camera duties please). Any other suggestions that you may think of feel free to post them.
Thanks for taking the time to read this and hope some of you can help me out here on my project to make an Android PMP out of a great little Android Phone.
Stoner
Note to mods: hope I am posting in the right section, feel free to move it if I am not.
Since connectivity is already built in into the android OS, you can't disable it, but I think keeping your phone in airplane mode all the time should do the trick. Anyway, taking out the sim card already disables all connectivity that involves telecommunications.
If you want to remove system apps, you have to root your phone first. The forum already has so many guides on rooting. Then all you have to do is use any root file manager, go into system/app and delete the apps there. Not everything can be deleted though, some are crucial for the functioning of the phone.
The other way is to download a rom, open the zip and delete everything you don't need that's under system/app and install it. No guarantees that your phone will boot up though, if you happen to hit an app that is crucial for the rom to work. Then you can flash the rom and it's done.
There are many kernels that use voodoo, just find one that fits any rom of your choice.
Finally: ICS roms still have some bugs, seeing that you are going to use it as a PMP, I recommend not upgrading to ICS or later until roms made from LG's sources start popping out. I hear that CM10 (that runs on jellybean) will be released shortly after LG releases their ICS update.
Almost all roms have a camera app, no worries there!
TL;DR Install any rom you'd like that seems to fit the bill. Root your phone, open the particular rom's zip file and remove apps you don't need that are in system/app, flash it to your phone (with recovery mode of course). Flash kernel to your liking.
Looks like LG is no better than Sony when it comes to OS Updates haha
shall look at stock based Rome for now then. Try and find a JB skinned one if possible.
Then play trial and error with what apps I can remove before flashing and which I have to leave and possibly just freeze. New it was something simple but its been a while. I hope I can remove all the basic apps that make it function like a phone otherwise I guess I will make do with freezing and hiding them. Love removing all clutter possible.
Will be waiting to see if CM10 can come along much less buggy than all the CM9 and ICS ROMs that I have looked at. Silly LG hampering the development of ROMs because there isn't an official ICS update to work off and its late 2012 already. Hoping for some good news though with what I have read about SK and them getting ICS.
First off, let me start by saying I know this thread probably should be under the 3.99 RC2 Paranoid Android Captivate development thread, but I haven't made 10 posts yet (any question I've ever had has been asked already and every bit of advice I've ever had has been given already).
Now, I was running PA 2.54 for Samsung Captivate. I just upgraded to the 3.99 RC2 last night, and I'm befuddled. What happened to all of the features? The settings are not as in depth and customizable as they once were. The three major qualms I have are the absence of the slide to unlock shortcuts on the lockscreen (or whatever they're called, and I'm talking about the shortcuts that you were able to place on the lock ring), the inability to edit the functions of the four hardware keys (you're able to edit the home and menu keys, but not the search key, which I really enjoyed), and the lack of performance options in the settings menu. Why are these missing? I understand this is a release candidate I'm running, but that has nothing to do with the absence of these features. It just seems odd to me that I upgraded my version of PA, and now these key features that sold me on said rom are missing. Does anybody have any input or explanations?
FYI I'm running NOVA launcher, not Trebuchet (which came as the default launcher on PA 2.54), but I can't see how this has anything to do with my problem(s).
Any input would be greatly appreciated! And I apologize again if this is in the wrong area of the forum! Thanks a lot!
I haven't tested the latest ported PA, but in my experience light AOSP ROMs run much better on Captivate. The hardware is just too limited to handle all full-featured ROMs bells and whistles and offer smooth UI in the same time. If you want to see/test all custom ROM features without changing ROMs often, then try PAC-ROM. It's an All-in-One package with features from CM, AOKP and PA.
Well, PA runs smoothly on my Captivate, but I get where you're coming from. I actually flashed PAC Rom for a day, but switched back because it wouldn't run smoothly at all. By far the choppiest performance I've ever seen from a ROM, even though I love the idea of it. I'm now running Dirty Unicorns, which has all of the features I want, since, like PAC Rom, it uses features from PA, AOKP, and CM, but it is much less resource intensive.
Hi,
I'll receive my HTC One soon and I don't know what kernel and rom install...I have read many subject about it but it still be confuse in my mind and I don't want to spend a lot of time trying every kernel and rom. If you could help me to choose a kernel and rom (even the stock one it doesn't matter), it would be very nice.
Here is what i expect from my phone (from the most important) :
1 - Stability
2 - Autonomy
3 - Ergonomy (for exemple having very fast and accessible settings)
4 - Performance
And if possible, I'd like to (but this point must not counter the two first points) :
- Activate the HTC logo to lock and unlock screen OR lock and unlock via the tactil screen or gyroscope (with movment)
So, wich kernel and wich rom for my use ?
Pardon my english, I hope you got what I meaned and thank by advance!
I would simply stay on stock rom for best stability. the second best alternative would be to get s-off and convert your sense htc one into a GPE, for faster update cycle.
either way, you'd want with both a custom kernel such as elementalx for dt2w etc. for further customization you might want xposed + mods such as gravity box and others. for now however xposed doesn't support art runtime (some say art is much faster than dalvik, but myself didn't find it any more performant )
good luck
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Rom comparison threads are not allowed. People prefer different roms for many different reasons, so no one rom is best for everyone.
I'd stay stock for a while, but to the dev section and read up on some of the ROM threads. then when you are ready to flash, you can try out the ones that interest you and see which ones you like.
As Stated It is all user choice. What may work for me may not work for you. I also advise you to stay stock for a while and do some reading. Re-writting the OS on your device is not something to be taken lightly. You could end up with a paper weight that is nothing more then a skipping stone. Do you research and put he time into it and you will save yourself alot of grey hair and heart ache.