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[Q] Advice needed whether to buy or not this phone?

Hey guys . Hi.
I'm thinking of buying this device. It got amazing specs on paper but need to know its performance practically.
Here are some of my questions!
1. How's the sound quality of this phone?
2. Tell me your reviews and experience on this device.
3. Tell the bugs you find .too.

Shriharsh said:
Hey guys . Hi.
I'm thinking of buying this device. It got amazing specs on paper but need to know its performance practically.
Here are some of my questions!
1. How's the sound quality of this phone?
2. Tell me your reviews and experience on this device.
3. Tell the bugs you find .too.
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The phone straight of the box is not all that 'flash'...in order to reach it's full potential you will need to flash newer firmware and/or customs roms...for increased sound quality you will need Voodoo Sound, and I would recommend PowerAmp also. Once all that is complete you'll have one hell of a phone (seriously)
Sent from my GT-I9000 using Tapatalk

Some questions on rom manager
After i install rom manager and put custom clockwork mod recovery ,would i still need pc to flash roms with odin or i can do it without pc?
Also it would be nice if someone tell the procedure on how to install roms using rom manager?

Shriharsh said:
Hey guys . Hi.
I'm thinking of buying this device. It got amazing specs on paper but need to know its performance practically.
Here are some of my questions!
1. How's the sound quality of this phone?
2. Tell me your reviews and experience on this device.
3. Tell the bugs you find .too.
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1. There is a fair bit of support for sound quality on this device. I am no audiophile, but I think its pretty good. There is a Voodoo Control app that lets you get a little more in depth with all of this, a quick search for it might help you figure out if its what you're looking for.
2. I love my SGS. Tons of fun ROM's available, ported apps, despite what some say I experience great battery life, with the upgrade to 2.3.3 I have great GPS. The screen is extraordinary, and it has one of the best community followings on XDA
3. There are some bugs with the GPS system. Some people experience poor satellite locks. There are a few different things that can cause it, most with viable workarounds or fixes. Other than that....the only bugs I've found have been software, and usually fixed by Dev's.

beaver2233 said:
The phone straight of the box is not all that 'flash'...in order to reach it's full potential you will need to flash newer firmware and/or customs roms...for increased sound quality you will need Voodoo Sound, and I would recommend PowerAmp also. Once all that is complete you'll have one hell of a phone (seriously)
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and what about bugs?

Shriharsh said:
and what about bugs?
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Varies depending on what rom/firmware you choose as stated above about GPS, however I don't use it so doesn't worry me...
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out of the box my phone had 2.2 froyo which has been ok for me. The best thing about the phone and android platform is how much you can change.
The thing that made me choose this over HTC is the screen is it's a more manageable size and the screen is covered in gorilla glass - MUCH harder to crack/break. So many of my friends have cracked iphones and HTC's.
Flashing to late gingerbread/good custom rom's makes the phone incredibly quick compared to stock and much more fluid and usable.
No regrets on this phone, except that the SII is out soon ;D

beaver2233 said:
Varies depending on what rom/firmware you choose as stated above about GPS, however I don't use it so doesn't worry me...
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tell me more about rom manager and how it works?

gorilla Glass?
i dont think galaxy S comes with gorilla glass !!!

johnmerlyn said:
i dont think galaxy S comes with gorilla glass !!!
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gsmarena has mentioned that it is powered by gorilla glass. Have a look here http://xrl.us/bhk6hi

Powered by gorilla glass?
It has gorilla glass but gets absolutely no power from it....
Lol anyways!
quit asking questions and just buy the farking thing!
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Shriharsh said:
tell me more about rom manager and how it works?
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Rom manager ? There's no real need for that in my opinion, to start off you just use Odin (on your PC, very simple) to flash an updated stock firmware, 2.3.3 probably best. Once that's done you download any rom you want from the Galaxy S Android Development Thread. However to do all this, including using Odin, you (the phone) MUST have both download mode (with phone off, hold home button + volume down + power) and recovery mode (same but volume up instead of down). Pretty sure 95% of them do have these modes.

I would definitely recommend buying an i9000 right now.
The hardware is solid and reasonably future-proof, including some features that newer phones lack such as the AMOLED screen and Gorilla Glass. The 1Ghz processor may not be dual core as some of the newer phones will be sporting, but in real day to day usage the performance difference between dual core and single core CPUs is not really noticable, assuming you aren't doing heavy gaming on your phone.
The i9000 modding community is very strong so even once Samsung stops providing software updates to the phone, you will still be able to get the latest and greatest thanks to XDA devs. Often the ROMs you can get here will be superior to the stock ROMs for such phones as the Galaxy S II (and probably even III). You can also opt to install Cm7 on the i9000 now to ensure your phone will be getting regular updates for at least a few years to come.
Lastly, now that the Galaxy S II and other next gen phones are being released, you should be able to get a great deal on an i9000.

There are two major bugs for the international SGS line.
The first one, lag, can be fixed pretty easily, if you don't mind rooting your phone and generally doing things that void your warranty. The main problem is to do with the file system used on the phone. It may seem fine at first but it bogs down after a while and a week or two later can be pretty unusuable. Although this varies from person to person, and a lot of the newer firmwares are a lot better than the old ones. Still this is pretty easy to fix permanently if you have a problem, just flash a kernal supporting voodoo lagfix or universal lagfix and then convert the filesystem.
The second major problem is the GPS. User experience varies very greatly for this, some report their gps working perfectly all the time whist others claim it to be literally useless. The problem seems to be a combination of hardware and software and there are a lot of fixes which have widely varrying success rates and may work perfectly for one person but be useless for another. In my experience the gps is probably not reliable enough for navigation but will do alright. Sometimes it locks to an accuracy of 5m - other times 5km. If you consider GPS an important function, then I would probably have to recommend you look elsewhere.
Gingerbread, the latest version of android is available for our phones, but it has a few bugs in it. So some people prefer running the later version of froyo which are very reliable and there is lots of support and extras for. However as gingerbread is more commonly adopted it is starting to take over and get many of the extra features that are available for froyo.
Alternatively, the phone now has official cyanogenmod support after a long time of it being unofficial and too hard to make work as an official version. This will enable you to run the latest and greatest android versions for some time to come but at the moment it drains battery much faster than samsung based roms.
As for gorilla glass, it's certainly a great thing to have, and much better than normal glass, but by no means does it make your phone invincible to scratches and cracks. Some people may still prefer to use a screen protector, some people do not, it's really up to you to decide that. However I've seen far too many expect gorilla glass to mean invincible and they get a big scratch on their 3rd day or something and then complain too much. Having tried it with and without a screen cover, the plain glass does feel a little bit nicer, but if you get a good quality cover it's almost unnoticeable. Just take care of your phone either way.
Now as for sound, out of the box it is pretty average. However it has a high quality audio chip and its average sound output is due to rushed sound drivers. Supercurio has essentially reworked the sound drivers and has made a huge difference to the sound making it very high quality. There is a free version and a paid version. The Free version gets pretty much all the same stuff but you have to use a custom kernal with voodoo sound built into it. The paid version only requires your phone to be rooted and it can inject the voodoo sound drivers into any kernel. The best bit about this is you always get the latest version of voodoo sound without having to flash anything new. Even if the kernel you use has an old version of voodoo sound, using the paid up you will always get the newest. The paid version also gets the latest new features before they are brought to the free one.
EDIT: One last thing, try and have a look at the display model. The Galaxy S uses a pentile matrix sub-pixel layout which some people find looks funny and they cannot stand it. If the screen looks fine to you then don't worry about it. It looks fine to me.

I was rushing anxiously to buy the sgs 2 but fortunately I stopped to check out s1 and gave myself a chance to try it, after using that amazing phone, no need for the dual processor of the s2 with the present apps on the market now, maybe later on.
What I love in this phone:
1. Amazing screen
2. Compact size
3. Sound quality (boosted by voodo)
4. Fair processor speed.
I switched from htc hd2
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Shriharsh said:
Hey guys . Hi.
I'm thinking of buying this device. It got amazing specs on paper but need to know its performance practically.
Here are some of my questions!
1. How's the sound quality of this phone?
2. Tell me your reviews and experience on this device.
3. Tell the bugs you find .too.
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Since I bought this phone 8 months ago and still using it I reccomend you to buy.
Here are my asnwers to your questions. Please note that these are depending on my experience and opinions. It is impossible for me to be very objective.
1. Sound quality is perfect. I was using Iphone 3g before. Compared to iphone it is perfect. But it may such compared to some other devices that I did not used or have knowledge about it.
2. The screen is awesome. Color, sensitivity are perfect. Little bit less resolution than I phone but the look is better than iphone (iphone 4 of course). The battery life is about same compared with these kind of devices. Speed is reasonable. The thing that I do not like is the back button can be touched accidentaly easily resulting exiting programs. Not a big deal.
3. Bugs are dependable. If you flash a lot of roms like me, or install applications out from the market it is possible to have some bugs.

[Q][N2E] Cyanogenmod 7

Is anyone working on a port of Cyanogenmod 7 for the N2E?

Good Question!!! Should go to general section.
I have not heard any one working on it yet. May be some one is doing something silently and will post one its ready for test. I do not expect to run to many apps on the Eink display. So the nooted version is good enough for me.

This would take a long time. CM7 is made for color devices, and even normal ports take some time. The devs would have to put off everything else and by the time we got one the World would be moving to to better and greater things.... but you're welcome to hope

ikingblack said:
This would take a long time. CM7 is made for color devices, and even normal ports take some time. The devs would have to put off everything else and by the time we got one the World would be moving to to better and greater things.... but you're welcome to hope
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Not true at all, this really wouldn't be that much different then a port for any other device. Android is not compiled to be "color specific" or even screen type specific for that matter. This is the reason you see wvga, qhd etc. Its really just dependent upon pixel density and this is just a build.prop modification to take care of that. But there would be other problems that would not be solved such as video due to obvious restrictions of e ink.
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Well... I looked into it a while ago and found that there is a bit more to the eink display then what is in the asop kernel in cm7. There is a module that controls the eink refresh and dsp with the stock kernel and probably a few other things that are needed. I was partially successful mixing the kernel from stock with cm7 user space, however, obviously things were missing to the point it wouldn't come up far.
I am by no means an expert on cm7 though.

I have no plans to make a port. I don't even have a Nook touch.

Ditto.
(and... ten.)

Switching from S3 to M7

Hi, I am a visitor from the s3 forums,
I am thinking of switching to the HTC one,
Background about me: Have rooted all my previous android devices (TF101. Captivate (sgh-897) Gnex, s3)
I have a couple questions,
Questions:
Any quirks?
How different is sense from aosp
How much storage are you given? (32 GB)
Are the devs nice here?
Is it hard to root and unlock bootloader?
What is s-off and what does it do?
Does the beats amp work with AOSP roms?

Coming from the S4, I personally love this phone. Sense is much better than Touchwiz. Easy to root and unlock the bootloader. The Devs are some of the best I've seen. Very helpful, and the Roms are pretty much flawless
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The devs are awesome here very committed and helpful. But you do get your odd xda member who is really rude. Sure it's the case anywhere though. It's easy to root and unlock bootloader. Takes about ten minutes longer than a nexus if you know what your doing. S off is a bit harder. But that's probs cause I don't know what am doing with that yet and don't feel a need for it. Not sure about last question .
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dbaler said:
Hi, I am a visitor from the s3 forums,
I am thinking of switching to the HTC one,
Background about me: Have rooted all my previous android devices (TF101. Captivate (sgh-897) Gnex, s3)
I have a couple questions,
Questions:
Any quirks?
How different is sense from aosp
How much storage are you given? (32 GB)
Are the devs nice here?
Is it hard to root and unlock bootloader?
What is s-off and what does it do?
Does the beats amp work with AOSP roms?
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1. quirks:
(hardware) camera issues if the phone is manufactured pre-july 2013 (check the forums for details, search for "red tint").
(cosmetic) check for gaps between the white plastic and the aluminium parts of the phone - they are less then 1/5mm but if you're a maniac like me, you will notice, if not you will probably not even notice them.
(hardware) check for dead or stuck pixels - you need to be really thorough as the pixels are sooooo small. The dpi for this phone is ridiculous, you'll love it!
Be sure to get a phone that has valid warranty as all these problems are warranty-covered!
2. sense:
sense is a love or hate thing - i personally love it. it's like a polished aosp with very eye-catching animations and design and much improved features (example: the mail app is brilliant, the calendar is awesome, the browser is blazing fast and still supports flash player, the dialer is brilliant, the camera interface is very well organised, the gallery app is very nice, etc..). If you do not like it you can always go GPE and run aosp roms anyway.
3. storage:
the phone comes in 32 or 64 GB storage variants. For the 32 GB option which i have, the user space available when i do a factory reset is of 29.98 GB.
4. devs:
the devs are a blessing. Really nice and helpful and always keep us up-to-date with custom ROMs
5. root and unlock:
the unlocking process is a piece of cake ans also is rooting. You will find a bunch of very informative tutorials both step-by step text and also video tuts on the forum. If you have difficulties, you can also ask questions on that threads and the users will surely give you a helping hand.
6. s-off:
s-off is basically a more advanced bootloader unlock. It allows you to do more modifications to your phone then bootloader unlock such as: downgrading, flashing custom HBOOTS, flashing radios, etc. The process of S-offing itself is very easy but you have to be very well documented in advance as you have to prepare the phone for the process and s-offing differs according to your current HBOOT version. But, of course, there are very detailed threds regarding this also.
7. beats:
yes, this feature is also available for GPE AOSP
P.S. is you come from the S3 or any other Sammy the first things you will notice:
-the screen will look very unimpressive at first because it's a SLCD and not an AMOLED. This means more accurate color gamut. The AMOLED tends to exaggerate color tones and this makes it look more vibrant. In time though you will notice that the SLCD is superiour in color reproduction as the range of colors it reproduces is higher and also, when you print or look at pictures taken with the phone on a pc screen or tv you will notice that they correspond to what's actually displayed on the phone itself. The dpi capability of the phone's display is also ridiculous..AFAIK it is the best on the market.
-the power/unlock button is idiotically placed (left top side) - WTF were htc thinking..but i got used to it and you will probably do too.
-the build quality and design is superb. The phone feels like a solid piece of matter in your hand. It doesn't squeak or squeal as the sammys plastic casing does. YOU WILL LOVE THIS
-the sound quality is superb. Both on speakers and also on headphones (especially if you have HQ headphones - do not be fooled into buying beats: they are good but too expensive for what they offer. You can get better headphones for that money (i reccomend jays - www.jays.se))
-overall, you will notice that the phone feels more premium, more mature than the samsung. The sammy feels more like a toy, while the htc feels more like a device. Both have their issues and problems but i have come to love this phone and hope you will do too.
Hope i covered all your questions and welcome to the HTC side of Xda!

upgraded from Galaxy S2 a few days ago
The Screen;
I love amoled - People always mention how saturated it is like a bad thing. The cartoony colour effect is beneficial in making text etc 'pop' on screen. I don't use the phone as a primary 'picture' viewer. However, the HTC screen is awesome . I thought low light reading in the dark would strain the eyes but it doesn't. The colour and contrast range is brilliant.
Button layout;
The volume buttons are indented and flat so you can't even feel where they are. The power button is all the way on the top, and then you have to get your thumb to the bottom of the screen and flick up. This is next to impossible with one hand. Being used to already pressing either power button as I took my galaxy out of pocket this is annoying. On stock sense you can't even deactivate the lock screen.
Apparently Kernals let you tap the home buttom or volume button to unlock the phone. A few apps use the phones sensors to 'wake' the screen so I'm going to play about with it.

qbanlinxx said:
Coming from the S4, I personally love this phone. Sense is much better than Touchwiz. Easy to root and unlock the bootloader. The Devs are some of the best I've seen. Very helpful, and the Roms are pretty much flawless
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So, if I were to get the att version, would I be able to flash the roms on this forum straight, or would i have to the get the international version?

not a lot of custom roms???

going to get my tmobile moto x in a few days, there doesnt seem to be many roms here, why? most them are for verizon dev version.

claudiuslu2011 said:
going to get my tmobile moto x in a few days, there doesnt seem to be many roms here, why? most them are for verizon dev version.
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Simply put, they aren't needed.
This phone is sheer perfection especially with root and Gravity Box installed

gunnyman said:
Simply put, they aren't needed.
This phone is sheer perfection especially with root and Gravity Box installed
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exactly. the moto x is the moto x because of its features. there is no point in putting cm on it and losing those features

gunnyman said:
Simply put, they aren't needed.
This phone is sheer perfection especially with root and Gravity Box installed
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will i be able to make the nav buttons smaller and swap them around with gravitybox? on kitkat?

claudiuslu2011 said:
will i be able to make the nav buttons smaller and swap them around with gravitybox? on kitkat?
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Dont know about swapping them, but yes, you can change nav bar dimensions and even remove it if need be. And yes, on KK.
To answer your original question, I always looked for dev support before buying a phone. The main reason why I had the N4 and N5 and also the reason why I sold my iPhone 5. But then I kinda grew tired of doing nandroids, constantly reading up on ROM/ kernel threads, flashing, tweaking, UV'ing etc. just to get a faster phone with good battery life. The Moto X is all that and more OOTB. What little aesthetic tweaks I would like are all available through XPosed (removing nav bar, custom QS Tiles).
The way I see it; the iPhone is on one end of the spectrum with no customization whatsoever and solid performance, the Nexus devices are at the other end where you have dev support but you will be on a CONSTANT hunt to flash the next best thing. The X however gives you the best of both worlds. The MAJOR selling point, at least as far as I am concerned, is the small footprint of the phone. It is easily used one handed, unlike the behemoths of the android world.
Also, you cant beat touchless control and AN. Its been a revelation for me. I say go for it :good:

Nexus 6 Custom ROM Recommendations

Hello,
I'm basically looking for custom rom recommendations. I have had my Nexus 6 for almost a month now and I have been running it stock, rooted with TWRP. This is my first Android phone. (Previous IOS / iPhone User from 3G to the 6)
These are the features that I would require:
STABILITY! I don't want a rom that is going to be laggy, crashing, rebooting, etc.
Layers Support? (I wan't to run a dark theme, which I believe requires layers?)
Nav Bar Control. I would like to be able to modify / hide the nav bar to avoid burn in.
Status Bar Control. I would like to modify status bar. Battery % placement, etc.
Double Tap to Wake / Sleep
Reboot option when holding power button rather than just power off
Notification LED Control Built In
That is about it I guess. I would like a ROM that provides all of these features "baked in". If the ROM does not have all of these, I don't feel it is worth flashing from stock. I am mainly looking at "The Pure Nexus" and "Chroma" roms, which if I am not mistaken both offer all of the features I listed? Does anyone want to be so kind as to give me the pros and cons between these two? I am open to other roms as well as long as they offer the features listed. Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe most custom roms offer the features I listed?
I have manually flashed system images (MRA58K, MRA58N, MRA58R) but I have never flashed a custom rom. So I do not know much about them. To be honest I am happy with stock and perfectly content. I just think it would be nice to gain the extra features that I listed.

Rektifying said:
Hello,
I'm basically looking for custom rom recommendations. I have had my Nexus 6 for almost a month now and I have been running it stock, rooted with TWRP. This is my first Android phone. (Previous IOS / iPhone User from 3G to the 6)
These are the features that I would require:
STABILITY! I don't want a rom that is going to be laggy, crashing, rebooting, etc.
Layers Support? (I wan't to run a dark theme, which I believe requires layers?)
Nav Bar Control. I would like to be able to modify / hide the nav bar to avoid burn in.
Status Bar Control. I would like to modify status bar. Battery % placement, etc.
Double Tap to Wake / Sleep
Reboot option when holding power button rather than just power off
Notification LED Control Built In
That is about it I guess. I would like a ROM that provides all of these features "baked in". If the ROM does not have all of these, I don't feel it is worth flashing from stock. I am mainly looking at "The Pure Nexus" and "Chroma" roms, which if I am not mistaken both offer all of the features I listed? Does anyone want to be so kind as to give me the pros and cons between these two? I am open to other roms as well as long as they offer the features listed. Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe most custom roms offer the features I listed?
I have manually flashed system images (MRA58K, MRA58N, MRA58R) but I have never flashed a custom rom. So I do not know much about them. To be honest I am happy with stock and perfectly content. I just think it would be nice to gain the extra features that I listed.
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You will get the same answer everyone gets. Try them out and make up your own mind. To be honest if you are content then stay stock. Flashing roms is not really something to do and forget about. All custom roms are always beta releases. No matter what the thread says. As this is a development forum you will find that rom devs like to experiment and that means somethings get broken while other things get fixed

if i were you, if your happy with stock, leave it stock..
if you like something different, then its for you to find out. if you got problems, u can always ask (or do search)..
same thing as development, if it aint broken, dont break it.

zelendel said:
You will get the same answer everyone gets. Try them out and make up your own mind. To be honest if you are content then stay stock. Flashing roms is not really something to do and forget about. All custom roms are always beta releases. No matter what the thread says. As this is a development forum you will find that rom devs like to experiment and that means somethings get broken while other things get fixed
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I guess I was expecting this type of answer, which makes sense to me now that I think about it. I will just have to try some out and go from there. I mean, that is what having a Nexus device is all about? When I finally made the switch from IOS to Android (3 weeks ago) it was for a Nexus Device for a reason. I did want stock android, for a nice clean UI with no bloatware. However, I also made the switch because I wanted further customization. I was / am content with stock, but after having my Nexus 6 for a few weeks there are some additional features and customization that I would like. So I have half of what I wanted already, and its time to go get the other half!
Off I go, to brick my phone!
haha... J/k.

Rektifying said:
I guess I was expecting this type of answer, which makes sense to me now that I think about it. I will just have to try some out and go from there. I mean, that is what having a Nexus device is all about? When I finally made the switch from IOS to Android (3 weeks ago) it was for a Nexus Device for a reason. I did want stock android, for a nice clean UI with no bloatware. However, I also made the switch because I wanted further customization. I was / am content with stock, but after having my Nexus 6 for a few weeks there are some additional features and customization that I would like. So I have half of what I wanted already, and its time to go get the other half!
Off I go, to brick my phone!
haha... J/k.
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Many people make the same mistake thinking the nexus is all about flashing roms. It really isnt. It is a developmental device for developers to test their apps out on without all the OEM BS messing things up.
Where the nexus devices really shin is if you are looking to get into development. Then it is the perfect device. You dont have to deal with all the closed sourced binaries and source code from other OEM devices.
Dont be afraid to brick, It happens to everyone. My advise is stay away from the toolkits until you can do what you need to by hand. All toolkits do for new users is make things worse if things go wrong.
I ran stock on my device which I just recently got for less then a day myself.

Well I just flashed my first custom rom, ever in my life! Went smooth as silk. I did a nice full wipe in TWRP. I then installed "The Pure Nexus Project" rom, followed by their google apps. I kept the same kernal I was using. It is just the modified stock kernal that allows root, provided by chainfire in method 1 of his rooting android 6.0 thread.
So far I am pleased! Just being able to have my battery percentage NEXT to the battery icon made it all worth it. LOL

zelendel said:
Many people make the same mistake thinking the nexus is all about flashing roms. It really isnt. It is a developmental device for developers to test their apps out on without all the OEM BS messing things up.
Where the nexus devices really shin is if you are looking to get into development. Then it is the perfect device. You dont have to deal with all the closed sourced binaries and source code from other OEM devices.
Dont be afraid to brick, It happens to everyone. My advise is stay away from the toolkits until you can do what you need to by hand. All toolkits do for new users is make things worse if things go wrong.
I ran stock on my device which I just recently got for less then a day myself.
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Thank you for your advice. I am currently not using any toolkits, nor do I plan to. I would like to be at least somewhat in control when I flash my device. lol. I am a pretty big techy, and I do have some coding in my background. I manually flashed my Nexus 6 to 6.0 straight out of box with no issues. Fastboot and ADB commands were stupid easy to figure out. I am still pretty noob to Android though. I just never really got into phones and such before. I just bought every new iPhone on release and used it. (3G to 6) I finally got sick of IOS and wanted something I could have fun with and tinker. That is why I went with a Nexus device. Well, actually mainly for the stock, clean Android experience, but tinkering as well.

As someone who's tried every combinations of ROM/kernel for the N6, I prefer Cataclysm with Uber Despair or Elite kernel. Definitely the smoothest, feature-filled experience I've had especially on Marshmallow.