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any suggestion?
Best is a matter of opinion test see what works best for you
Cheezys right. They all offer different things. All depends what your looking for. Some have themes available, some are heavily modded, some are very close to stock, some rely on xposed for mods, you have to decide and read through the op of every rom. Theres about 5 or 6 out, womt take long to read through them. Also i dont think this type of thread is allowed, but not sure....
Hey Cheesy my son has that shirt in your avatar. We got it in Virginia Beach this summer lol
Personal preference that fit your needs...
Like the others have said, it's all a matter of personal preference. However, since you've asked it in a form of a question, I can give you my 2 cents.
I have 3 Note 4's in the household.
I have flashed every worthy ROM that is available for the N4 currently.
I have real world experience on it's performance, battery life, tweaks etc...
Out of the available ROM's IMO I would recommend FireKatv3 as it is literally flawless. I have had zero issues with it and the battery life is insane. Nothing is broken and you won't be left with a bunch of stuff that you probably won't end up using. Whether you're a power user, gamer or a "casualite" who just reads books and check emails, this ROM is very versatile...ie...it's clean. Very clean. Straight forward. No bs, just pure goodness. Give it a shot. You won't be disappointed.
The battery life is by far the best out of the ROM's that I've tried.
Although benchmarks are ehhh...whatever....for what it's worth, I've hit 50K + in AnTuTu on Stock Kernel and have yet to see any ROM hit that STOCK. Some may have but with the use of CPU apps....that doesn't count.
I have zero lag whatsoever. It's scary fast.
Everything just works...like I said it's light, simple, clean & extremely refined.
You can't go wrong....
Bottom line: I can use any ROM that I want. If there is something better, I will use it. Simple as that. Most importantly, I don't settle for 2nd place. That should say enough.
Good luck!
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Like the others have said, it's all a matter of personal preference. However, since you've asked it in a form of a question, I can give you my 2 cents.
I have 3 Note 4's in the household.
I have flashed every worthy ROM that is available for the N4 currently.
I have real world experience on it's performance, battery life, tweaks etc...
Out of the available ROM's IMO I would recommend FireKatv3 as it is literally flawless. I have had zero issues with it and the battery life is insane. Nothing is broken and you won't be left with a bunch of stuff that you probably won't end up using. Whether you're a power user, gamer or a "casualite" who just reads books and check emails, this ROM is very versatile...ie...it's clean. Very clean. Straight forward. No bs, just pure goodness. Give it a shot. You won't be disappointed.
The battery life is by far the best out of the ROM's that I've tried.
Although benchmarks are ehhh...whatever....for what it's worth, I've hit 50K + in AnTuTu on Stock Kernel and have yet to see any ROM hit that STOCK. Some may have but with the use of CPU apps....that doesn't count.
I have zero lag whatsoever. It's scary fast.
Everything just works...like I said it's light, simple, clean & extremely refined.
You can't go wrong....
Bottom line: I can use any ROM that I want. If there is something better, I will use it. Simple as that. Most importantly, I don't settle for 2nd place. That should say enough.
Good luck!
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dude, thanks alot, i found your insight very informative, i spent all night last night flashing roms, trying to get a feel but i kept seeing firekat had sooo many responses, i felt it meant more happy and interactive people.
So far battery is killing me on any ROM
I was gonna suggest instead of saying what's the best rom to say What's the most stable, bug free rom?
Because it's all personal preference, but bugs and stability aren't you know.
I found iunlock review very informative and it seems that's the first I want to try out.
They all seem good, but I want stability more than anything since we don't have many customizations right now.
They all are the BEST....for the people that are using them. Are you looking to use someone else's best or what is best for you? The only way you will know and learn is if you try a few.
No such thing exist. We have good Roms nothing that is the best. Best would be take every Dev and they build one epic ROM without any type of kang.
BAD ASS NOTE 4
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dude, thanks alot, i found your insight very informative, i spent all night last night flashing roms, trying to get a feel but i kept seeing firekat had sooo many responses, i felt it meant more happy and interactive people.
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You're welcome. If you have any questions feel free to PM. Good luck! [emoji106]
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They all are the BEST....for the people that are using them. Are you looking to use someone else's best or what is best for you? The only way you will know and learn is if you try a few.
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You do have a great point, however, my observation and recommendation are all based on facts such as battery life, bug free, snappiness, performance etc...which are all factual experiences and not an opinion. Ex. Benchmark, that is factual data. I have yet to see any other ROM break 50k+ w/ (stock kernel). So again, for what it's worth, if the OP is a power user, that kind of data would mean something to him.
Battery life is the biggest kicker for most people. The efficiency of FireKatv3 is hands down undeniable. Again this is factual data from my experience, therefore, it's not an opinion.
Bug free. I have zero issues and nothing is broken with FKv3. What I'm reporting here is just factual information. Me out of all people absolutely hate bugs! They are annoying and annoying. [emoji107]
This brings me to...refinement. IMO I believe a lot of bugs exist because some dev's when putting together a ROM, rip out things that are needed for other core functions = bugs. It could also be a compatibility issue, however, I would much rather have something built from an organized fashion over the opposite method. I like something that's clean, light without clutter and that functions. Although this may be my opinion, I think there's enough info there to help someone make a sound decision.
Like I've said, I can be using any ROM right now and I will if I find that something is better than the luxury that I'm driving now. I have the money, you have the money spend it on the best at the given time. We've already made the right choice with buying the Note 4 [emoji106]
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ThC23 said:
I was gonna suggest instead of saying what's the best rom to say What's the most stable, bug free rom?
Because it's all personal preference, but bugs and stability aren't you know.
I found iunlock review very informative and it seems that's the first I want to try out.
They all seem good, but I want stability more than anything since we don't have many customizations right now.
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Stability and Bug Free = FireKatv3 at the moment. No random boots, no lag, no broken functions, nothing but silk.
As of right now, no other ROM, can match my battery life.
BTW I forgot to mention, that the other two N4's in my house are all running a different ROM at the moment.
iunlock said:
Like the others have said, it's all a matter of personal preference. However, since you've asked it in a form of a question, I can give you my 2 cents.
I have 3 Note 4's in the household.
I have flashed every worthy ROM that is available for the N4 currently.
I have real world experience on it's performance, battery life, tweaks etc...
Out of the available ROM's IMO I would recommend FireKatv3 as it is literally flawless. I have had zero issues with it and the battery life is insane. Nothing is broken and you won't be left with a bunch of stuff that you probably won't end up using. Whether you're a power user, gamer or a "casualite" who just reads books and check emails, this ROM is very versatile...ie...it's clean. Very clean. Straight forward. No bs, just pure goodness. Give it a shot. You won't be disappointed.
The battery life is by far the best out of the ROM's that I've tried.
Although benchmarks are ehhh...whatever....for what it's worth, I've hit 50K + in AnTuTu on Stock Kernel and have yet to see any ROM hit that STOCK. Some may have but with the use of CPU apps....that doesn't count.
I have zero lag whatsoever. It's scary fast.
Everything just works...like I said it's light, simple, clean & extremely refined.
You can't go wrong....
Bottom line: I can use any ROM that I want. If there is something better, I will use it. Simple as that. Most importantly, I don't settle for 2nd place. That should say enough.
Good luck!
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i will try that!thanks!
Are you anywhere around this battery life? Just curious. Im pretty happy with this but i am curious if all the optimizations for battery life are working on Fire....honestly was going to flash it and try. I achieved this on Darthstalker and stock kernel. I did 10 hrs screen today but only 22hrs total.
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That would be epic! However, it would turn into Baskin Robbin (no "s") with 1 flavor.
Variety and having a choice is awesome and part of what makes up our phone frenzy culture.
There is a best ROM. But two in particular are at a close 1st, it's just that I believe and have seen one code to be a lot cleaner than the other.
BACARDILIMON said:
No such thing exist. We have good Roms nothing that is the best. Best would be take every Dev and they build one epic ROM without any type of kang.
BAD ASS NOTE 4
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You're welcome. If you have any questions feel free to PM. Good luck! [emoji106]
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You do have a great point, however, my observation and recommendation are all based on facts such as battery life, bug free, snappiness, performance etc...which are all factual experiences and not an opinion. Ex. Benchmark, that is factual data. I have yet to see any other ROM break 50k+ w/ (stock kernel). So again, for what it's worth, if the OP is a power user, that kind of data would mean something to him.
Battery life is the biggest kicker for most people. The efficiency of FireKatv3 is hands down undeniable. Again this is factual data from my experience, therefore, it's not an opinion.
Bug free. I have zero issues and nothing is broken with FKv3. What I'm reporting here is just factual information. Me out of all people absolutely hate bugs! They are annoying and annoying. [emoji107]
This brings me to...refinement. IMO I believe a lot of bugs exist because some dev's when putting together a ROM, rip out things that are needed for other core functions = bugs. It could also be a compatibility issue, however, I would much rather have something built from an organized fashion over the opposite method. I like something that's clean, light without clutter and that functions. Although this may be my opinion, I think there's enough info there to help someone make a sound decision.
Like I've said, I can be using any ROM right now and I will if I find that something is better than the luxury that I'm driving now. I have the money, you have the money spend it on the best at the given time. We've already made the right choice with buying the Note 4 [emoji106]
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Stability and Bug Free = FireKatv3 at the moment. No random boots, no lag, no broken functions, nothing but silk.
As of right now, no other ROM, can match my battery life.
BTW I forgot to mention, that the other two N4's in my house are all running a different ROM at the moment.
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The only factual data you provide is based on your own experience, your own usage, your own device, your own signal strength, your own setup....etc...no one uses their phone exactly as you so where as you may use your phone a certain way and think this out of how many ROMs is the best battery life for you..it may not be so for someone with weaker signal, more syncing, a game player, someone who dirty flashes versus a clean flash, someone who overclocks their kernel, someone who chooses a different governor/IO scheduler...there are millions of iterations that you have determined work best for you....so no, there can be no facts regarding battery life...look through the development threads...every ROM has someone claiming horrible battery life somewhere in the thread...Also note many claiming THAT particular ROM has been the best for battery life than any other...Unless you set baselines...clean flash, set governor/scheduler, same signal strength, same apps set to sync at same intervals, same brightness, etc...there is no way for anyone to ever say for a fact that one ROM is the best for everyone.
Hopefully the OP will have as good experience with your suggestion as you have. Just my opinion that asking what's the best ROM is like asking what's the best car...it depends on what you will use it for, where you will use it, your driving habits....blah blah blah....you get my point...thanks for offering your insight and helping out the OP.
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So far battery is killing me on any ROM
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Need more kernels from the kernel gods, these guys hold that key.:good::good:
I flashed a kernel the other day @89% battery showing, after the flash, it said low battery...lol. We need more kernels, they will come!
@iunlock
dude it's been a while since i've been on samsung since the galaxy s3, the developer is saying for best results odin flash the stock then flash firekat, would that erase everything in my internal memory?
Do those ROM'S include the S-Apps? The pen and it's integration is why I got a Note 4 in the first place.
Does a stock ROM exist that is basically everything from Samsung but no carrier bloat?
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Temetka said:
Do those ROM'S include the S-Apps? The pen and it's integration is why I got a Note 4 in the first place.
Does a stock ROM exist that is basically everything from Samsung but no carrier bloat?
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Yes. FireKatv3. The Dev actually likes TW and understands the simple fact that TW has come a long way, whereas a lot of others still seem to bash on TW, not recognizing it's improvements for whatever personal reason. If you want something closest to stock it's going to be FireKatv3, hands down.
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KennyG123 said:
The only factual data you provide is based on your own experience, your own usage, your own device, your own signal strength, your own setup....etc...no one uses their phone exactly as you so where as you may use your phone a certain way and think this out of how many ROMs is the best battery life for you..it may not be so for someone with weaker signal, more syncing, a game player, someone who dirty flashes versus a clean flash, someone who overclocks their kernel, someone who chooses a different governor/IO scheduler...there are millions of iterations that you have determined work best for you....so no, there can be no facts regarding battery life...look through the development threads...every ROM has someone claiming horrible battery life somewhere in the thread...Also note many claiming THAT particular ROM has been the best for battery life than any other...Unless you set baselines...clean flash, set governor/scheduler, same signal strength, same apps set to sync at same intervals, same brightness, etc...there is no way for anyone to ever say for a fact that one ROM is the best for everyone.
Hopefully the OP will have as good experience with your suggestion as you have. Just my opinion that asking what's the best ROM is like asking what's the best car...it depends on what you will use it for, where you will use it, your driving habits....blah blah blah....you get my point...thanks for offering your insight and helping out the OP.
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You're absolutely right....but might I add that I did mention having 3 Note 4's in the household. Let alone my brother and friend who is around a lot. That makes 5 note 4's. Therefore, I would assume that, that fact alone would add a lot more credibility to my 2 cents, than my 2 cents stemming from just my use and habits alone.
User habits vary yes..I agree. I'm a Power user, the other user is medium and 3rd is very conservative. My brother works in a very bad signal area (middle of nowhere) and friend is a gaming maniac. It's almost a perfect scenario I know. But pretty darn neat in respect to this situation.
I'm sure the OP has enough to make a sound decision to make him happy. At the end of the day that's all that matters.
As a fun thought, I'd bet he will end up with either one of the 2 ROM'S that I have in mind.
[emoji106]
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tykalx said:
@iunlock
dude it's been a while since i've been on samsung since the galaxy s3, the developer is saying for best results odin flash the stock then flash firekat, would that erase everything in my internal memory?
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If you Odin stock, yes...that'll clean house.
If you have any more questions, post a question in the ROM thread and there's a lot of good folks that'll help you as well.
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Temetka said:
Do those ROM'S include the S-Apps? The pen and it's integration is why I got a Note 4 in the first place.
Does a stock ROM exist that is basically everything from Samsung but no carrier bloat?
Sent from my SM-N910T using XDA Premium HD app
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I forgot to mention something. Like I was saying about the dev actually liking TW and understanding all the great things that make a Note a Note, his ROM will give you a peace of mind, knowing that those functions you enjoy are not broken.
Hope this helps.
Everyone is different. For me I like my ROM to be close to stock as possible. I also look for ROM where OP get quick reply.
It seems to me all ROM have good battery life. Even by itself, the N4 battery life is just wonderful.
Dont care what anybody said and don't believe it until u show actual proof. THIS PHONE WILL LAG. Right now on FKV3 and is much MUCH better experience than stock rom. But doesnt matter what rom developer do to this actual rom, it will still lag on this phone until samsung or lollipop do something.
I know there's people that will go against me and say that there's no lag. Simply show video proof doing a few multitasking videos, will start seeing long loading delay. Scrolling on facebook, gallery, magazine, appstore etc full of stutter and lag. U will say that is an app problem, have my m8 next to me doing super smooth 60fps scrolling without stutter or lag.
Thinking on returning my 4 noted (yes 4 notes 4) for nexus 6. all rooted same rom, get 49k in atuntu and 4 unit lag/stutter.
Which is in your opinion the best rom to flash on the nexus 6 having stability no bugs and features????
Opinions pls
I think you'll find that for the most part, the majority of the ROMs here are pretty stable, but in the end it's up to you to decide which one you'll stay on. It's a very subjective choice
eggydrums said:
I think you'll find that for the most part, the majority of the ROMs here are pretty stable, but in the end it's up to you to decide which one you'll stay on. It's a very subjective choice
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At that my friend, answers this question perfectly.
Liquid smooth
Or as stated any.
There is no best Rom like what eggydrums said. Asking this question is like going into a car store and asking what's the best car. One rom doesn't fit everybody's needs. Some people look for minimalism, or features, or whatever. There is no best Rom. Every rom has its own unique features, pros, cons.
But if you're looking for opinions, obviously I'd say my rom chroma. I provide support and literally reply to every reply in the rom thread. But it contains the essentials, nothing more and nothing less. Doesn't fit everybody's needs.
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There're several ROMs which you can flash in order to see which one do you like the most
zephiK said:
There is no best Rom like what eggydrums said. Asking this question is like going into a car store and asking what's the best car. One rom doesn't fit everybody's needs. Some people look for minimalism, or features, or whatever. There is no best Rom. Every rom has its own unique features, pros, cons.
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I usually just post this from evernotes
"Best" ROM.
There is no such thing as a best ROM. The question itself is ambiguous. "Best" is obviously a subjective term.
What I want from a ROM may well differ from what you want from a ROM, ergo - what is best for me could be worst for you.
If you are asking what the most popular ROMs are, or which ROMs people are using, you can see which threads stay around on the first few pages (and have the most posts) in the Android Development or Original Android Development forums. You can also see what other people are running by reading the What are you running on your Nexus 5 thread.
If you are asking which is the most stable, being a Nexus device - they're all pretty stable.
If you are asking which is best on Battery, ROMs only affect battery if they have a feature that is badly coded. You will likely be able to read about this in the ROM threads. ROMs do not impact battery life. The only impact to battery life are your apps, your settings, how you use the phone and mostly, environmental issues such as Phone Signal.
For tips about improving battery life, please read [Battery Life Help] Troubleshoot battery issues here!
"Best" Kernel
There is no such thing as the "Best" kernel. What we all want from a kernel is different. Again, many people have the misconception that Kernels affect battery life. Let's get this cleared up. Although Kernel devs will build in optimisations and efficiencies that will improve battery life, these are very, VERY tiny...and if 1 kernel has these optimisations, they likely all have.
People will often say "Kernel x is better than kernel y for battery life". This is actually wrong. Kernels respond to user settings. Setting up the governor to favour either battery life or performance is simple enough to do, you just have to do some learning. The reason people think Kernel x is better than y is because developers set their kernels up with their preferred governor settings. This is what we refer to as out-of-the-box settings. The out-of-the-box settings for kernel x may well produce better battery results than the out-of-the-box settings for kernel y, which favour performance. The fact is, you as the user have the ability to tune kernel x or y to perform the same, be that battery or performance - so start learning how to do this yourselves - that way, you can choose the kernel based on the FEATURES you want, and not the fictional performance benefits of one kernel over another.
Hope this helps
@rootSU I was thinking about making a copy paste of certain faq. Certainly not a bad idea haha. Usually threads with best are not allowed on xda as well
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zephiK said:
@rootSU I was thinking about making a copy paste of certain faq. Certainly not a bad idea haha. Usually threads with best are not allowed on xda as well
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xda let best threads exist as of several months ago
So if we say a rom that is not encrypted and has the ability to recive updates so i dont have to flash everytime , and also has nice features that stock lolipop has not, wich one would you guys recomend?
1. mine is the att variant and the boot logo is way too loud anyway to change this?
2. what's the best camera app for this phone
3. best kernel? i'm running clean rom
Anyone?or can anyone forward me to thread that answers these questions?
paniro187 said:
Anyone?or can anyone forward me to thread that answers these questions?
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Please don't break the rules. Bumping within 24 hours is against them.
paniro187 said:
1. mine is the att variant and the boot logo is way too loud anyway to change this?
2. what's the best camera app for this phone
3. best kernel? i'm running clean rom
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1. Check in the /oem partition. Also Rule 1 is use search
2. Using search, search for best camera. There are a couple of threads on this. Best is subjective, meaning there is no best, just what people like the most.
3. As above...
There is no such thing as the "Best" kernel. What we all want from a kernel is different. Again, many people have the misconception that Kernels affect battery life. Let's get this cleared up. Although Kernel devs will build in optimisations and efficiencies that will improve battery life, these are very, VERY tiny...and if 1 kernel has these optimisations, they likely all have.
People will often say "Kernel x is better than kernel y for battery life". This is actually wrong. Kernels respond to user settings. Setting up the governor to favour either battery life or performance is simple enough to do, you just have to do some learning. The reason people think Kernel x is better than y is because developers set their kernels up with their preferred governor settings. This is what we refer to as out-of-the-box settings. The out-of-the-box settings for kernel x may well produce better battery results than the out-of-the-box settings for kernel y, which favour performance. The fact is, you as the user have the ability to tune kernel x or y to perform the same, be that battery or performance - so start learning how to do this yourselves - that way, you can choose the kernel based on the FEATURES you want, and not the fictional performance benefits of one kernel over another.
Hope this helps
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Well the point of search being the first rule is because we don't want to answer the same question a million times. If you're that lazy you wont search and demand to be spoon fed join android forums where they're happy to do that. If you want to learn to develop, this is the right place - where learning is the journey. But to be here you must follow the rules and not call people names.
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just leave him alone and stop feeding the troll
Closed. I'll come back and deal with some of you a bit later....
EDIT: Looks like one of my fellow Moderators cleaned up the mess.
Protip: if you are looking for help or advice, don't be a jerk to the people who are trying to help.
Just looking for the top 3 ROMs I should try. Right now I'm running chroma.
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Just looking for the top 3 ROMs I should try. Right now I'm running chroma.
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How are you defining top?
Top = Most popular: Look for the thread with the most posts, or read the "What are you using" threads
Top = Best: No such thing as best. It's subjective. Look for the features you want by reading about each rom
Top = Most Stable: It's unquantifyable
Top = Alright already, just give me recommendations please: Tell us what you're looking for.
Hope this helps.
Are you coming from an iPhone or something? This is android world, even better, nexus world. Try a billion ROMs and pick your top. Each ROM out there is best by user preference
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How are you defining top?
Top = Most popular: Look for the thread with the most posts, or read the "What are you using" threads
Top = Best: No such thing as best. It's subjective. Look for the features you want by reading about each rom
Top = Most Stable: It's unquantifyable
Top = Alright already, just give me recommendations please: Tell us what you're looking for.
Hope this helps.
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Are you coming from an iPhone or something? This is android world, even better, nexus world. Try a billion ROMs and pick your top. Each ROM out there is best by user preference
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I am coming from the note series which vzw had there devices locked down. Before that I had the HTC one max and DNA which I ran viper Rom which was very customizable which I don't think n6 has.
Welcome to the nexus world. Seriously though it's user preference. My favorite right now is cyanidel. I hate layers but I'm sure a lot of good layers ROM out there
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thayl0 said:
I am coming from the note series which vzw had there devices locked down. Before that I had the HTC one max and DNA which I ran viper Rom which was very customizable which I don't think n6 has.
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You can use any Nexus 6 ROM on any other Nexus 6 device, so that is not a concern.
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You can use any Nexus 6 ROM on any other Nexus 6 device, so that is not a concern.
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Thank you. I'm glad I got this phone even though I think the camera is complete crap one a phone this good but I like the phone itself way more then note series i actually feel like I own my phone rather then being stuck on stock.
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Thank you. I'm glad I got this phone even though I think the camera is complete crap one a phone this good but I like the phone itself way more then note series i actually feel like I own my phone rather then being stuck on stock.
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The Camera isn't special. I think it is average. I can get good shots, particularly with HDR+. It's never going to be Note 5 quality though.
I tried several roms, but my favourite are:
1) Sillness - very near to stock, very stable and fast, extra customizations, no bloatware
2) Euphoria - my personal favourite. fast, stable, highly customizable.
3) I haven't tried CM based roms, but its worth exploring
These are also the only ones that don't crash from what I've tried
I don't know about the OP but I am also new to the Nexus 6 world, getting my phone tomorrow. What is the best rom for battery life, all things being equal? I heard Chroma is good?
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I don't know about the OP but I am also new to the Nexus 6 world, getting my phone tomorrow. What is the best rom for battery life, all things being equal? I heard Chroma is good?
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Ahh, time for my stock answer. It's not all relevant to you but it fits...
"Best" ROM.
There is no such thing as a*best*ROM.* The question itself is ambiguous.* "Best" is obviously a subjective term.
What I want from a ROM may well differ from what you want from a ROM, ergo - what is*best*for me could be worst for you.
If you are asking what the most popular ROMs are, or which ROMs people are using, you can see which threads stay around on the first few pages (and have the most posts) in the Android Development or Original Android Development forums. You can also see what other people are running by reading the What are YOU running on your Nexus 6??? thread.
If you are asking which is the most stable, being a Nexus device - they're all pretty stable.
If you are asking which is*best*on Battery, ROMs only affect battery if they have a feature that is badly coded.* You will likely be able to read about this in the ROM threads.* ROMs do not impact battery life.* The only impact to battery life are your apps, your settings, how you use the phone and mostly, environmental issues such as Phone Signal.
For tips about improving battery life, please read [Battery Life Help] Troubleshoot battery issues here!
"Best" Kernel
There is no such thing as the "Best" kernel.* What we all want from a kernel is different. Again, many people have the misconception that Kernels affect battery life.* Let's get this cleared up.* Although Kernel devs will build in optimisations and efficiencies that will improve battery life, these are very, VERY tiny...and if 1 kernel has these optimisations, they likely all have.
People will often say "Kernel x is better than kernel y for battery life".* This is actually wrong.* Kernels respond to user settings. Setting up the governor to favour either battery life or performance is simple enough to do, you just have to do some learning.* The reason people think Kernel x is better than y is because developers set their kernels up with their preferred governor settings.* This is what we refer to as out-of-the-box settings.* The out-of-the-box settings for kernel x may well produce better battery results than the out-of-the-box settings for kernel y, which favour performance.* The fact is, you as the user have the ability to tune kernel x or y to perform the same, be that battery or performance - so start learning how to do this yourselves - that way, you can choose the kernel based on the FEATURES you want, and not the fictional performance benefits of one kernel over another.
Hope this helps
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See post #15
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See post #15
asking about the best battery life is like asking which chocolate cake is the best; its all about what you do, what you like, how you set it up etc, so there is no "intelligent" answer to that question.
I think Danarama's answer was absolutely perfect..:good::good:
Thread closed. Unusually for a Q and A thread...
When someone asks a very subjective question about "what is the best this or that", expect a huge range of opinions, not answers or anything conclusive.
When someone takes the trouble to provide a comprehensive response, XDA and its members do NOT expect or welcome abuse from others.
We used to delete "Best" questions - I wonder why.
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lol I know I am asking a lot but hoping y'all can help
I had the OPO (One Plus One) and the Op2 is not to my liking because my OPO filled up and ran out of storage. I have over 500 apps (don't ask lol) and use a lot of them.
That being said my OPO finally died. After almost 2 years I accidentally lost it in a buggy and the gears got the case and phone quite well unusable. I used to LOVE Samsung because of the external SD and easy ROM flashing with included root (superuser) in the rom. The S6 is nice but here we go again no external SD. The Note 5 is nice, but again no External SD.,
Sooooo.... Onto the Note 4. Quad core because t-mobile does not have the octa-core version for sale. Which is cool in many benchmarks I see ran for it the Snapdragon outperforms the Exyos. Also 4gb memory vs 3gb is not that much to write home about I won't miss too much. PLUS the Note 5 has no IR emitter for remote use so yea. I liked that feature. NOTE 4 IT IS.
The more I read up on it though the more I find issues and I want to be sure I can resolve them NOW vs later. Did many searches here so please do not tell me to search. Been there done that. I am overwhelmed and actually pretty happy that there is so much good development for the phone. But I find myself hours and hours of reading and still on the sideline wondering what I want.
Thus I figured I would ask you all, who have been there done that and find out what the differences are in what I want and what would fit me best. NOTE THIS IS A NOT WHATS BETTER THAN OTHER THREAD - JUST WANT SOME FACTS AND IDEAS WHAT WOULD SUIT ME BEST IN CHOOSING A CUSTOM ROM WITH ROOT ACCESS BUILT IN HOPEFULLY AND A KERNEL TO GO WITH THAT ROM.
I will be adding a zerolemon extended battery. I know after reading I need a Rom and/or kernel that supports this to show the right battery percentage. This has to be factored in.
Here's some other stuff I would like (not need, just a wish list) that may help you find me a nice rom and kernel combo. REMEMBER I AM JUST ASKING WHAT YOU THINK WOULD WORK FOR WHAT I NEED/WANT AND WHY. Thanks in advance for the help.
I would LIKE a nice black background texting and phone and contact look. In my Galaxy S4 I had a few years back one rom I installed was black with neon phone pad keys and a neon look to the contacts and even the texting was black with yellow and blue and red and green text bubbles - was so cool. I HATE white backgrounds or light color backgrounds, but alas if there is nothing avail it is what it is. I do use swiftkey and it has some cool dark keyboards but I mean the actual texting app and phone screen backgrounds.
As stated need a rom/kernel that has extended battery support
Do NOT need all the fancy CPU tweaks. Its cool to overclock and such but not needed. Either way - with or without overclocking is cool. I have rom toolbox pro so I can do most anything in there anyways.
Would LOVE extended volume controls and extended power menu so I have screenshot and boot into recovery and such on the power menu - but hey isn't that what xposed framework is for and I just install an app there that does it. lol Been there done that I LOVE xposed - but if a rom has this built in why not get it and save me a step
Speaking of xposed do any roms have xposed pre-installed? I know, asking for a lot here but if some do please top of the list. Otherwise will install xposed myself That's why I am doing a custom recovery. DO YOU suggest CWM or TWRP or?
NEED TO KNOW HOW ROM WORKS. Some I see are based on 5.1 lollipop some on older 4.4. I am all for upgrading to 5.1 (woohoo) my OPO was on 5.1 and loved it. I am thinking its easy to keep phone NO updates brand new out of box keep the 4.4 stock and put my own recovery and I can use a custom rom to jump to 5.1 so that way there is NO Samsung or t-mobile updates to lock anything. I remember in my Galaxy s4 my 1st one I made the MISTAKE of upgrading the stock o/s then my custom recovery showed the yellow 1 in the corner after I added my custom rom. After that did the rom 1st NO system updates - I figure its best to do the same here with Note 4 right? or??? PLUS I read the note 4 gets kinda buggy on 5.1 so hoping some awesome developers have fixed this and maybe some newer roms or older roms now updated have fixed this and the note 4 does 5.1 as smooth as 4.4 lol
Any other info? I am not locked on the Zerolemon - any ideas there too would help - but amazon has it for $55 now thats cheap for zerolemon and it has a case like otterbox with the belt clip so yayyyy Ultimately I would LOVE a waterproof case with extended battery but been searching a while for that no luck lol.
Thanks again people. I just got tired of searching all the roms and the reading hundreds of posts - some thousands of posts for extended battery support, then there's 100 ideas on best kernel to match and I find myself 20 pages from the last thread trying to see the most recent posts from past month or 2 seeing what is best now vs what was best when the rom 1st came out and comparing which is really best and its just too UGH! I am a technical guy and will be here for weeks checking everything out. I am finally just asking for your advice and what you think is best for what I want and narrow down my search a lil to keep me from being here so long doing it on my own.
MAINLY I AM JUST ASKING AFTER TRYING SEVERAL ROM AND KERNEL COMBINATIONS WHICH DO YOU FEEL ARE BEST SUITED FOR MY NEEDS AND WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND AND WHY - I DON'T WANT THIS IS BETTER THAN THIS JUST RECOMMENDATIONS ON GOOD ROMS WITH A KERNEL FOR THAT ROM OR MAYBE STAY STOCK KERNEL IDK.... U TELL ME WHAT YOU ALL FOUND THAT WORKS GOOD. THAT FIT THE ABOVE CRITERIA AND I WILL LOOK AT ALL AND CHOOSE WHAT I WANT.
you posted a question in the development section. Bruhh
Just read the rom ops
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SelfElevated2 said:
you posted a question in development thread. Bruhh
Just read the rom ops
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Yes posted the Q here as my Q is about development (roms and kernels) lol
drtechnology said:
Yes posted the Q here as my Q is about development (roms and kernels) lol
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Lmao. Trust me it's in the wrong place. Development section is for the posting of Roms and kernels. Not questions.
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What you want is either note 4 general section or Q and a section
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Lmao. Trust me it's in the wrong place. Development section is for the posting of Roms and kernels. Not questions.
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What you want is either note 4 general section or Q and a section
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ok ur right I guess lol- they can delete this or keep it - I will repost in another area - the right area
You have an addiction, and the fact that note 4 fulfils and surpases what you are looking for. Want help you 6 months down the road when you discover all the red dots all over ur body and start itching for another phonr. So no matter what section you write this on unless it's from rehab, you will not be satisfied with any answers. Take care and good luck!
drtechnology said:
lol I know I am asking a lot but hoping y'all can help
I had the OPO (One Plus One) and the Op2 is not to my liking because my OPO filled up and ran out of storage. I have over 500 apps (don't ask lol) and use a lot of them.
That being said my OPO finally died. After almost 2 years I accidentally lost it in a buggy and the gears got the case and phone quite well unusable. I used to LOVE Samsung because of the external SD and easy ROM flashing with included root (superuser) in the rom. The S6 is nice but here we go again no external SD. The Note 5 is nice, but again no External SD.,
Sooooo.... Onto the Note 4. Quad core because t-mobile does not have the octa-core version for sale. Which is cool in many benchmarks I see ran for it the Snapdragon outperforms the Exyos. Also 4gb memory vs 3gb is not that much to write home about I won't miss too much. PLUS the Note 5 has no IR emitter for remote use so yea. I liked that feature. NOTE 4 IT IS.
The more I read up on it though the more I find issues and I want to be sure I can resolve them NOW vs later. Did many searches here so please do not tell me to search. Been there done that. I am overwhelmed and actually pretty happy that there is so much good development for the phone. But I find myself hours and hours of reading and still on the sideline wondering what I want.
Thus I figured I would ask you all, who have been there done that and find out what the differences are in what I want and what would fit me best. NOTE THIS IS A NOT WHATS BETTER THAN OTHER THREAD - JUST WANT SOME FACTS AND IDEAS WHAT WOULD SUIT ME BEST IN CHOOSING A CUSTOM ROM WITH ROOT ACCESS BUILT IN HOPEFULLY AND A KERNEL TO GO WITH THAT ROM.
I will be adding a zerolemon extended battery. I know after reading I need a Rom and/or kernel that supports this to show the right battery percentage. This has to be factored in.
Here's some other stuff I would like (not need, just a wish list) that may help you find me a nice rom and kernel combo. REMEMBER I AM JUST ASKING WHAT YOU THINK WOULD WORK FOR WHAT I NEED/WANT AND WHY. Thanks in advance for the help.
I would LIKE a nice black background texting and phone and contact look. In my Galaxy S4 I had a few years back one rom I installed was black with neon phone pad keys and a neon look to the contacts and even the texting was black with yellow and blue and red and green text bubbles - was so cool. I HATE white backgrounds or light color backgrounds, but alas if there is nothing avail it is what it is. I do use swiftkey and it has some cool dark keyboards but I mean the actual texting app and phone screen backgrounds.
As stated need a rom/kernel that has extended battery support
Do NOT need all the fancy CPU tweaks. Its cool to overclock and such but not needed. Either way - with or without overclocking is cool. I have rom toolbox pro so I can do most anything in there anyways.
Would LOVE extended volume controls and extended power menu so I have screenshot and boot into recovery and such on the power menu - but hey isn't that what xposed framework is for and I just install an app there that does it. lol Been there done that I LOVE xposed - but if a rom has this built in why not get it and save me a step
Speaking of xposed do any roms have xposed pre-installed? I know, asking for a lot here but if some do please top of the list. Otherwise will install xposed myself That's why I am doing a custom recovery. DO YOU suggest CWM or TWRP or?
NEED TO KNOW HOW ROM WORKS. Some I see are based on 5.1 lollipop some on older 4.4. I am all for upgrading to 5.1 (woohoo) my OPO was on 5.1 and loved it. I am thinking its easy to keep phone NO updates brand new out of box keep the 4.4 stock and put my own recovery and I can use a custom rom to jump to 5.1 so that way there is NO Samsung or t-mobile updates to lock anything. I remember in my Galaxy s4 my 1st one I made the MISTAKE of upgrading the stock o/s then my custom recovery showed the yellow 1 in the corner after I added my custom rom. After that did the rom 1st NO system updates - I figure its best to do the same here with Note 4 right? or??? PLUS I read the note 4 gets kinda buggy on 5.1 so hoping some awesome developers have fixed this and maybe some newer roms or older roms now updated have fixed this and the note 4 does 5.1 as smooth as 4.4 lol
Any other info? I am not locked on the Zerolemon - any ideas there too would help - but amazon has it for $55 now thats cheap for zerolemon and it has a case like otterbox with the belt clip so yayyyy Ultimately I would LOVE a waterproof case with extended battery but been searching a while for that no luck lol.
Thanks again people. I just got tired of searching all the roms and the reading hundreds of posts - some thousands of posts for extended battery support, then there's 100 ideas on best kernel to match and I find myself 20 pages from the last thread trying to see the most recent posts from past month or 2 seeing what is best now vs what was best when the rom 1st came out and comparing which is really best and its just too UGH! I am a technical guy and will be here for weeks checking everything out. I am finally just asking for your advice and what you think is best for what I want and narrow down my search a lil to keep me from being here so long doing it on my own.
MAINLY I AM JUST ASKING AFTER TRYING SEVERAL ROM AND KERNEL COMBINATIONS WHICH DO YOU FEEL ARE BEST SUITED FOR MY NEEDS AND WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND AND WHY - I DON'T WANT THIS IS BETTER THAN THIS JUST RECOMMENDATIONS ON GOOD ROMS WITH A KERNEL FOR THAT ROM OR MAYBE STAY STOCK KERNEL IDK.... U TELL ME WHAT YOU ALL FOUND THAT WORKS GOOD. THAT FIT THE ABOVE CRITERIA AND I WILL LOOK AT ALL AND CHOOSE WHAT I WANT.
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If you post it in Q&A section, you'll get a lots of good reply & suggestions. About your question:
ROMs:
-TEKXodus N4 (most popular here, you have to flash either Emotion & Beast Mode kernel with it)
-N5 Express
-Maximum OvrDriVE
-ABSTRK Rom
-CM Remix
Kernel option:
-Emotion
-Beast Mode
Please remove the post from here, it looks bad in development section.
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If you post it in Q&A section, you'll get a lots of good reply & suggestions. About your question:
ROMs:
-TEKXodus N4 (most popular here, you have to flash either Emotion & Beast Mode kernel with it)
-N5 Express
-Maximum OvrDriVE
-ABSTRK Rom
-CM Remix
Kernel option:
-Emotion
-Beast Mode
Please remove the post from here, it looks bad in development section.
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It does not give me an option to delete my post or I would have. Waiting on a mod to do it
Plus I have this exact same question posted in Q&A - exact copy and no replies at all yet. So I was hoping posting in the correct area would work but alas has not
Thanks for the help. As long as those all do what I mentioned above I will check them all out and see the differences in each outside of what I want and choose what I feel is best! I am thinking, MAYBE if I can find a good Themer for root, I can just upgrade to stock 5.1.1 then root then theme my OS to a dark theme for dialer and sms and such.
AlbGol said:
You have an addiction, and the fact that note 4 fulfils and surpases what you are looking for. Want help you 6 months down the road when you discover all the red dots all over ur body and start itching for another phonr. So no matter what section you write this on unless it's from rehab, you will not be satisfied with any answers. Take care and good luck!
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My addiction is finding the perfect phone for what I use them for. I use them for holding my 500+ apps, loads of picture taking, video and movies and just everyday use
If you have not read my original post, The NOTE 5 is out. Sleeker, better body and newer. The Note 4 has a newer, better phone already - or so some think. T-Mobile ONLY has the 32gb. And an unlocked international 64gb or 128gb costs double that of note 4 and still has no SD card slot. On the other hand the Note 4 has 128GB SD and 32 GB Internal for 160 total. More than ANY note 5 will ever have.
Then for the benchmarks, after seeing several antutu and other programs comparing between the 2 phones, I find video and such is way higher on note 4. Sure Note 5 excels in memory but in processor is a lil less. Turns out Snapdragon's 4 core in Note 4 (which is what is in T-Mobile Version) slightly outperforms octa core Samsung Processor in International version. And think of it this way - Octa core breaks tasks up 2 ways 4 cores each. Quad core breaks tasks up into 4 ways single core each. Meaning better battery life as I am using only 1 core at a time for most stuff vs the minimum used ion octa core is 4 cores at once.
I LOVED My OPO - One Plus One - but the lack of an external SD even with all my cloud storage proved a deal breaker and its sad I loved that they were half the price as samsung and just as good The note 4 has SD card, has zerolemon - I will love it for years to come no worries
Depends on what you really want, but for me I like FireKat rom (4.4.4). With LoBoToMy black theme. I also use Xposed modules which work great on 4.4.4. 7 hours SOT is pretty easy on stock battery and one user has hit almost 10 hours (he also posted his method to achieve this and it is not by turning everything off). It's based on TouchWiz so you keep the great camera and spen functionality.
Note that if you are on 5.1.1 DOK2, you cannot downgrade and your options are more limited.
Also, in general, use twrp and cf-autoroot. And just install Xposed yourself.
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Cm 13 Remix if you wants AOSP, it's got a ton of stuff added on top which is why it's "remix". It is probably closet to what would be on a OPO.
TEKHD it you like custom development. His ROM is a Frankenstein version of Touchwiz. Looks beautiful runs great. Great sound enhancing mods.
Also you can try stock systemless rooted, if you just want to get used to TouchWiz.
Really all of the ROMs that have active development right now a good. But the 3 above would be a good place to look first just to narrow down you search.
I am using official CM12. It's not the latest and greatest, but I find CM12 to be nexus stable. I do miss having marshmallow but the CM13 remix rom I had difficulty with getting started.