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Anyone else feel like this?

http://mobilesyrup.com/2013/05/27/i-think-im-done-hacking-my-smartphones/
Skins were horrible, but I'm really liking what OEMs are doing now, this article literally took the words out of my mouth.
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From time to time you might feel like that. But it does not mean that you can't tamper with a phone, especially a nexus one.
Yes if I would buy an s4 the only thing that I would is root it just for the sake of TB.
But with the nexus you can do anything and is super easy to return to where you were.
And no counter or avoiding warranty by unlocking the bootloader you just need 3 words to lock or unlock it and of course a backup
I don't say you have to become a crack flasher but trying mods and roms will make you have a better perspective and even convince you that stock is better.
Anyway, everything is up to you.
You can always leave it at stock and wait for that much desired OTA.
Cheers mate
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I only flash custom ROM's and Kernels for performance, not so much additional features or looks.

No, I don't feel like this because I own a nexus device.

Kinda off topic question: what does everyone need titanium backup for? I always see people saying "the only reason I root is for TB", but why would you need to backup your apps if your not flashing Roms?
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lowrider262 said:
Kinda off topic question: what does everyone need titanium backup for? I always see people saying "the only reason I root is for TB", but why would you need to backup your apps if your not flashing Roms?
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You can uninstall or freeze system apps with tb.
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You can uninstall or freeze system apps with tb.
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Oh, ok. I've been using root explorer to delete system apps for so long I forgot TB could do it too.
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Ice Cream Sandwich was the end of custom ROMs on the phone for me. I have CM on my N7, however, I feel it runs better. I always buy a phone and make it make me flash something else. Since the Galaxy Nexus, I have had no need to do this.
lowrider262 said:
Kinda off topic question: what does everyone need titanium backup for? I always see people saying "the only reason I root is for TB", but why would you need to backup your apps if your not flashing Roms?
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Agreed, it's circular logic. Especially now that game stats/etc will be saved so you can pick your phone or tablet up and still be at the same spot in the game.
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You can uninstall or freeze system apps with tb.
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You can disable system apps with the OS since ICS, too.

I love Flashing Hacking Modding all the good things that goes with owning a Nexus.. :good::good::good: But I don't go over the top... See my banner

crachel said:
Ice Cream Sandwich was the end of custom ROMs on the phone for me. I have CM on my N7, however, I feel it runs better.
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Agreed, Android has been closing the gap, if my current ROM/source wasn't available I'd happily rock stock.

I bought a nexus 4 because I love hacking, customizing and bricking my phone and all this stuff, I love it, no regrets, I dont want to go back to touchwiz and timescape...

If stock android had customizable notification toggles built-in I'd probably stay 100% stock. And yes I know there's apps on the market but Ive tried them & didn't like.
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This is why I own a Nexus 4.
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There’s a reason that the HTC One benchmarks lower on CM10.1, despite running Android 4.2.2, than it does on Sense 5.0, which runs Android 4.1.2
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I used to feel like this. Back when I had a g2x I flashed because I HAD to frequently. Every ROM would inevitably become unstable and I would find myself looking for a new ROM to flash. Annoying as hell really. My n4 is rooted stock 4.2.2 w/ franco kernel for help with battery drain. I truly yearn for the day that I don't have to do anything to a phone. Not even root. Will the nexus line eventually come pre-rooted as well as unlocked? A man can dream can't he?
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I don't feel like I need to install a custom rom with this device. Tweaking it with a few mods gets me what I need. I still don't get why some refuse to mod the phone because they want to get the next ota update. Once it is released, all one has to do is flash a rooted version that should appear here within 24 hours.

lowrider262 said:
If stock android had customizable notification toggles built-in I'd probably stay 100% stock. And yes I know there's apps on the market but Ive tried them & didn't like.
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This and I want Google to give the option to unlink the bloody notification and call volume. I also want brightness slider in the notification or quick settings, dont understand why no one apart from Samsung considers the importance of the slider.
Oh and did I say battery percentage? While it's not exactly a deal breaker but still does not make any sense why stock android doesn't have it.
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uploder said:
I used to feel like this. Back when I had a g2x I flashed because I HAD to frequently. Every ROM would inevitably become unstable and I would find myself looking for a new ROM to flash. Annoying as hell really. My n4 is rooted stock 4.2.2 w/ franco kernel for help with battery drain. I truly yearn for the day that I don't have to do anything to a phone. Not even root. Will the nexus line eventually come pre-rooted as well as unlocked? A man can dream can't he?
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Oh man! A former G2x user... that also lives in Central NJ. Remember when we were waiting for the O2x ICS update? No HW acceleration or anything, it sucked.
I don't flash nearly as often as I used to like I did with my G2x. I stick with ROMs for much longer now. I'm happy with CM10.1

uploder said:
...Will the nexus line eventually come pre-rooted as well as unlocked? A man can dream can't he?
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I don't understand why it doesn't come pre-rooted. Just like enabling the Developer options, there should be some method needed to enable root, aside from the whole custom recovery custom root solution thing. Normal users aren't exposed directly to root, and power users who need root, can easily enable it. And... new users can root too without the need of those toolkits :good:

espionage724 said:
I don't understand why it doesn't come pre-rooted.
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Because it's a giant security hole..

Can anyone help me figure out what's keeping my phone up (wake locks)

When I saw these stats from my gsam app I got pretty worried and confused. Can any one help me figure out what is exactly keeping my phone up so much?
I dont have Google now enabled so I'm not sure what the heck "Google services" are waking my device that many darn times. this is a screenshot from yesterday. I downloaded wakelock detector and I'll post screenshots from that too.
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Here are screenshots from today which even though I've barely been using my phone I'm still getting pretty bad drainage. I'm on viper 1.2.1 stock kernel any help is greatly appreciated please don't tell me to reflash the Rom though as I'm almost positive it's not an issue with the Rom itself
Thanks for any help guys really appreciated
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Not quite sure. I guess the first step would be to start disabling any google made apps that you dont use..... Do you have any consistent running background programs? When was the last time you rebooted your phone?

Toxicoblivion said:
Not quite sure. I guess the first step would be to start disabling any google made apps that you dont use..... Do you have any consistent running background programs? When was the last time you rebooted your phone?
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I posted screenshots from the wake lock app and it looks like I'm getting high wake locks from the lockscreen. Is this normal? I rebooted my phone and I don't have any consistently running apps that I know of.
If anyone else could give any input
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milesjohnson said:
I posted screenshots from the wake lock app and it looks like I'm getting high wake locks from the lockscreen. Is this normal? I rebooted my phone and I don't have any consistently running apps that I know of.
If anyone else could give any input
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my wakelock for lockscreen says 54s (x163)
IdleScreen:event_15 (29s) (x42)
IdleScreen:command_15 (25s) (x121)
But these should just be swiping up for unlock and putting in my pattern..... so..... yeah. no idea. Do you use Greenify?

Why is sense 5.5 crap?

Every sense 5.5 Rom I try they all have the same issues. Like can't create a new text because the icons on top do absolutely nothing. Changing the sms notification sound fc the app.
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sailio said:
Every sense 5.5 Rom I try they all have the same issues. Like can't create a new text because the icons on top do absolutely nothing. Changing the sms notification sound fc the app.
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not all of them i'm running insertcoin and have none of those problems.

Aldo101t said:
not all of them i'm running insertcoin and have none of those problems.
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I've used that one as well. Is there a new file structure or anything? I did that when I went to 4.3
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sailio said:
I've used that one as well. Is there a new file structure or anything? I did that when I went to 4.3
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new build 6.0.2 i'm running 6.0.1

I've used insert coin, viperone, and others. I'm talking firmware not Rom version. Just kinda frustrating. I like 5.5 but so many issues with it. Currently running stock with goodies 2.09 and that's 4.3
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sailio said:
I've used insert coin, viperone, and others. I'm talking firmware not Rom version. Just kinda frustrating. I like 5.5 but so many issues with it. Currently running stock with goodies 2.09 and that's 4.3
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i'm on firmware 3.04.651.2 the rom firmware is 3.62.401.1

Aldo101t said:
i'm on firmware 3.04.651.2 the rom software is 3.62.401.1
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fixed

Frankly, I'm just going to wait for the 4.3 kernel source to be released and tweaked. I've played with several 4.3 ROMs, but if I can't Swipe2Sleep/Swipe2Wake, there's aren't enough advantages to 4.3 5.0 or 5.5 to make me switch yet. Just my opinion.

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lol thanks

Just seems that 5.5 is insanely buggy... Love the ui though. Just wish I had better luck. I know everyone puts in tremendous amount of work into these ROMs. I really appropriate all of that don't get me wrong. So many ROMs have moved to 5.5 and I just don't get how they deal with the bugs
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sailio said:
Just seems that 5.5 is insanely buggy... Love the ui though. Just wish I had better luck. I know everyone puts in tremendous amount of work into these ROMs. I really appropriate all of that don't get me wrong. So many ROMs have moved to 5.5 and I just don't get how they deal with the bugs
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There is a bug with how HTC implemented the Android Developer Options in settings. You need to go to Settings/Developer Options/Advanced and turn on animations. Everything will work then.

sailio said:
Just seems that 5.5 is insanely buggy... Love the ui though. Just wish I had better luck. I know everyone puts in tremendous amount of work into these ROMs. I really appropriate all of that don't get me wrong. So many ROMs have moved to 5.5 and I just don't get how they deal with the bugs
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thats why i keep my sense 5.0 rom up
sense 5.5 will continue to have some bugs because its not a 100% sprint rom

flex360 said:
thats why i keep my sense 5.0 rom up
sense 5.5 will continue to have some bugs because its not a 100% sprint rom
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This. There is no official 5.5 for sprint yet - all of the existing 5.5 roms are ports, and they've all been out a relatively short time. They'll eventually work out the bugs, or Sprint will come out with an official 5.5, and everyone will switch over to that base. Personally, I'm happy running a bug free 5.0 rom until then. Plus, I use the islandia camera theme like all the time and I'm in no rush to lose that.

I was just really frustrated at work so a phone that was acting up didn't help. Thank you all
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sailio said:
I was just really frustrated at work so a phone that was acting up didn't help. Thank you all
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It happens

MJA update: Have you made the jump? What are the differences? Do you think it's worth

Just a general post to see if those of you who got the update to work, if you really think it's worth it? Is it one step forward, two steps back? Are you happy that you updated or sorry you did? No, this post isn't necessarily a question post, just one to get people's opinions on the update in one place and not scattered between a few threads. Mods, if you feel this is redundant, that's fine. I'm just trying to generate some activity and input from the users on the update.

I did it and it seems a lot smother. But then I cf-autorooted and restored a nandroid of carbon rom. Don't know why but I seem to get better service.
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I did it solely for the modem. I am back on OctOS already. Won't know if the modern is any better till tomorrow, it didn't really improve anything at my house so I'm not getting my hopes up...
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Seems smoother... but if i run a benxhmark, i score a few 100 points lower then i did with 4.2.2
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When clicking on Google search to open Google now, it will randomly force close. It starts to load my cards, then shuts down. I've cleared app data and same results. Happens randomly. Anyone else?
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Google working fine for me.
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Works fine when first opened as in your screen shot, set it up and then open it and kill the app then try and reopen it. Half time closes on me. Un installed latest and reverted to previous update and works fine.
Odd thing too, is it doesn't do this in landscape mode only portrait.
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Mine is set up, and it works landscape too
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starkillers said:
Works fine when first opened as in your screen shot, set it up and then open it and kill the app then try and reopen it. Half time closes on me. Un installed latest and reverted to previous update and works fine.
Odd thing too, is it doesn't do this in landscape mode only portrait.
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I had the same thing but seemed to fix it by clicking in the search box and typed something quickly before it forced closed.....now working fine. Odd.
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I usually try to avoid statements like this because of placebo, but TW seems a lot snappier.
Also the new 3G and 4G icons are really nice. The keyboard enhancements are really nice.
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mjs2011 said:
I usually try to avoid statements like this because of placebo, but TW seems a lot snappier.
Also the new 3G and 4G icons are really nice. The keyboard enhancements are really nice.
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You really like the new signal icons? I may be the boy one who thinks hey looks really goofy Hhaha. Yeah th me keyboard is much much better. Boy can I tell the difference with the enhancements to the display.
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reverepats said:
You really like the new signal icons? I may be the boy one who thinks hey looks really goofy Hhaha. Yeah th me keyboard is much much better. Boy can I tell the difference with the enhancements to the display.
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I think the reason I like them so much is because my eyes suck, so I can finally tell the difference between 3 and 4 now. Haha!
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3g icons suck big time. Looks like smeone took the small one and streched it in photoshop. Regarding benchmarking i scored this on antutu which makes me wonder how cheatfull is samsung on benchmarking. Am on stock 4.3 and rooted.

Agreed. The 3G icon looks aweful!!!

There are more fonts to change the phone to. Mobile Data is missing from the drop down. Reading mode was added. GSM data roaming was opened up while all roaming was turned off. It does feel much smoother.
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4.3 Update Is A Must!!!
In my case i only get 4G in my sons room now with the new update i get 4G in my kitchen so a big tweak improvement on the modem side of things... I cant believe i havent been on xda for months!!!

would love to update but im still hoping someone will post the firmware/modem for rooted users to flash.. lets say i dont want to wait for someone to post it.. and i would like to update now.. im rooted.. with twrp running sacs rom... what will i have to do to update?? do i have to use triangle away then flash stock mf9 odin tar?? or can i just flash the stock tar file without using triangle away?? also when i update to the new base... will i be able to use CF-ROOT?? for sure?? geeze is this worth it really?? i see that some people are borking there wifi also>> what is making that happen??

P.Mobile said:
would love to update but im still hoping someone will post the firmware/modem for rooted users to flash.. lets say i dont want to wait for someone to post it.. and i would like to update now.. im rooted.. with twrp running sacs rom... what will i have to do to update?? do i have to use triangle away then flash stock mf9 odin tar?? or can i just flash the stock tar file without using triangle away?? also when i update to the new base... will i be able to use CF-ROOT?? for sure??
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You can update and keep root... I odined back to mf9 and used cf auto root to gain root access back. I then went into superSU and checked survival mode(keeps root even after ota). After that I downloaded the update and put it on my sd card. Once there I went into stock recover uodated from sdcard and now I have 4.3 still rooted.
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It's been pretty laggy for me and I'm really irritated that I can't use TB to restore my apps. I regret making the update.
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But, did you trip the knox flag?
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App drawer darker [solved]

Hello I have a problem a long time ago, same with older sense versions. The problem is after I install a new App and then I go to the App drawer its darker than usual. I have to hit home and then its normal again. Screenshot attached to see the difference. I use stock rom with custom kernel. It did happen before too when the phone was completly stock
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MaRcIuPT said:
Hello I have a problem a long time ago, same with older sense versions. The problem is after I install a new App and then I go to the App drawer its darker than usual. I have to hit home and then its normal again. Screenshot attached to see the difference. I use stock rom with custom kernel. It did happen before too when the phone was completly stock
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Do you change the speed of animations in developers? Set it back to 1 if you on 0.5
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I had that on all sense 5.5 ROMs. After upgrading to sense 6 it dissapeared. Obviously it was some kind of sense 5.5 bug and changing animartion speed didn't help. I even asked service about it, but they didn't know how to fix it

feuerkette said:
Do you change the speed of animations in developers? Set it back to 1 if you on 0.5
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That did work! Thanks. After i set it back to 1x had to reboot and now its okay. Weird stuff. Solved!
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