New Nexus 6 Owner! - Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Dumped my Verizon Note 4 because lack of root and what not! Picked up my Nexus 6 today! Whats the best ROM currently? I know all have different benefits and what not I am mainly looking for battery life and good performance.

joeyac02 said:
Dumped my Verizon Note 4 because lack of root and what not! Picked up my Nexus 6 today! Whats the best ROM currently? I know all have different benefits and what not I am mainly looking for battery life and good performance.
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question go into the q&a section, not into general.
and besides that point, theres no such thing as best rom, not on a nexus anyways. all our roms have access to source, so there's no hacking needed to get it running, unlike for other phones. besides the fact that battery life and performance isnt up to roms. battery life all depends on your use and the quality of your network data/phone signal. and performance would be attributed to how you set up your cpu. as there are many differing ideas how to set up your cpu, that would be all depending on you.
edit.. i asked a mod to move the thread into q&a. go one with the thread normally now

There is no best ROM. Look what's out there and determine that what is the "best" ROM for you based on developer to user feedback, amount of updates, amount of features, stability, user feedback, etc.

"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

rootSU said:
"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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I know there isnt a "best" rom. Guess I should have worded it differently lol. Thank you for all that insight though. Ive rooted and run custom roms before and loved it. Just out of the loop a bit.

I run stock ROM, rooted and encrypted. I use Franco Kernel because it has the features I want, and he's written an excellent companion app to keep the kernel up to date, as well as let you easily adjust kernel settings. Good stuff.
When a stable CM12 is out for N6, I'll probably switch to that. Running CM12 nightlies on my N7 LTE with good success, but I need the "guaranteed" stability of a milestone release for my phone.

TheAmazingDave said:
I run stock ROM, rooted and encrypted. I use Franco Kernel because it has the features I want, and he's written an excellent companion app to keep the kernel up to date, as well as let you easily adjust kernel settings. Good stuff.
When a stable CM12 is out for N6, I'll probably switch to that. Running CM12 nightlies on my N7 LTE with good success, but I need the "guaranteed" stability of a milestone release for my phone.
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lol!
its cm, there's no guaranteed stability with any version. there are nightlies that are more stable than any milestones.

TheAmazingDave said:
I run stock ROM, rooted and encrypted. I use Franco Kernel because it has the features I want, and he's written an excellent companion app to keep the kernel up to date, as well as let you easily adjust kernel settings. Good stuff.
When a stable CM12 is out for N6, I'll probably switch to that. Running CM12 nightlies on my N7 LTE with good success, but I need the "guaranteed" stability of a milestone release for my phone.
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simms22 said:
lol!
its cm, there's no guaranteed stability with any version. there are nightlies that are more stable than any milestones.
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Agreed.. a stable build is generally one with more fixes put into it vs checked in features.
The only stable rom is whatever google puts out because they have the resources to actually do QA and testing.
More than the CM maintenance person for our device can do anyways.

simms22 said:
lol!
its cm, there's no guaranteed stability with any version. there are nightlies that are more stable than any milestones.
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lol
Absolutely agree! (thus having "guaranteed" in quotes) But with a "stable" release, you're less likely to encounter a show-stopper in my experience.
For instance, the other day, I put the latest nightly on my N7, and it killed it. It would boot okay, but System UI would crash constantly. Accept the error message, and crash again. I turned it off at that point, and flashed the next nightly the day after. Problem solved.
Now, the last nightly I successfully installed broke recovery, and the new nightlies won't flash. I haven't bothered fixing that yet because the nightly on it right now is generally playing nice with everything.
My N6 is personal, but I use it a lot for work. I need to know that it's going to work every time I grab it. I just can't be sure of that with a nightly.

TheAmazingDave said:
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Absolutely agree! (thus having "guaranteed" in quotes) But with a "stable" release, you're less likely to encounter a show-stopper in my experience.
For instance, the other day, I put the latest nightly on my N7, and it killed it. It would boot okay, but System UI would crash constantly. Accept the error message, and crash again. I turned it off at that point, and flashed the next nightly the day after. Problem solved.
Now, the last nightly I successfully installed broke recovery, and the new nightlies won't flash. I haven't bothered fixing that yet because the nightly on it right now is generally playing nice with everything.
My N6 is personal, but I use it a lot for work. I need to know that it's going to work every time I grab it. I just can't be sure of that with a nightly.
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thats one reason i dirty flash all the time(not cm, but an aosp rom). if an update is no good, things crash and such, i just reflaah the older version(right in top, and it boots up fine again. no wiping anything. also, and most importantly, make a backup in recovery. that way if an update is no good, all you have to do is restore that backup, and all will be like before you flashed it. i used to be a cm fanboy, from day one to about 3-4 years ago. and i know cm really well. many times a nightly could be much more stable then a milestone

joeyac02 said:
Dumped my Verizon Note 4 because lack of root and what not! Picked up my Nexus 6 today! Whats the best ROM currently? I know all have different benefits and what not I am mainly looking for battery life and good performance.
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Nothing is best here That completely depends on you taste. I like Parandroid cause of the perfection it comes with. Even Alpha version is much stable than most of the ROM's beta version. It completely depends on your personal taste

Related

LG Optimus 4X Rom Performance

I wanted to make a thread where users will post their benchmark result screenshots of their custom or original roms, because we have a lot of rom's for our device an everyone is bragging how their rom is faster, better for gaming, better for this and that, so let's go post your benchmark results screenshots... In post make a not about details, like CPU frequency governers ETC, and of course what rom you used... Let's start competition
Maybe admins will make this a sticky thread...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1886286
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1826604
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2260790
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2236309
Sorry but I do not think that admins will mark this a sticky thread as we already have all this.
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ectoplasma22 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1886286
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1826604
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2260790
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2236309
Sorry but I do not think that admins will mark this a sticky thread as we already have all this.
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I wrote this because many screenshots are made without posting which rom they use, which kernel and other stuff like cpu frequency, governors etc... Everybody are just posting benchmark screenshots without saying on what were those screenshots were made...
I want to start a really good competition on which rom is really fastest...
djfoxserbia said:
I wrote this because many screenshots are made without posting which rom they use, which kernel and other stuff like cpu frequency, governors etc... Everybody are just posting benchmark screenshots without saying on what were those screenshots were made...
I want to start a really good competition on which rom is really fastest...
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Benchmarks mean nothing at all. If a ROM feels fast when you use it then it is fast.. I've seen ROMs with a great benchmark but they feel slow because they are slow to respond to user interaction.
And trying to run a competition to see which is fastest, best etc does a massive disservice to ALL developers.
SimonTS said:
Benchmarks mean nothing at all. If a ROM feels fast when you use it then it is fast.. I've seen ROMs with a great benchmark but they feel slow because they are slow to respond to user interaction.
And trying to run a competition to see which is fastest, best etc does a massive disservice to ALL developers.
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Confirmed!
There is a tendency to laziness, lately, because of which, new users, instead of reading threads and trying to understand what they are about, make up shortcuts to figure out "which xxx is the best". Change xxx with"rom", "kernel", "build" or whatever crosses your mind.
This behaviour does not bring any help to anybody: not to the noobs, who will not really understand WHY an xxx is better than others, nor for the developers, who will not have any real feedback from their work (at the very end, if xxx scores better than yyy, then yyy will be perceived as "better", "more up to date", something else?).
In my opinion this should be considered as a disguised attempt of making a "best rom" thread, and should be closed by mods.
Ottonet said:
Confirmed!
There is a tendency to laziness, lately, because of which, new users, instead of reading threads and trying to understand what they are about, make up shortcuts to figure out "which xxx is the best". Change xxx with"rom", "kernel", "build" or whatever crosses your mind.
This behaviour does not bring any help to anybody: not to the noobs, who will not really understand WHY an xxx is better than others, nor for the developers, who will not have any real feedback from their work (at the very end, if xxx scores better than yyy, then yyy will be perceived as "better", "more up to date", something else?).
In my opinion this should be considered as a disguised attempt of making a "best rom" thread, and should be closed by mods.
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I have observed that on installing a nightly build, the performance is generally good for first 10-12 hours and then the responsiveness starts degrading.
A restart helps.
So, the question is when should you run the benchmarks?
prem911 said:
I have observed that on installing a nightly build, the performance is generally good for first 10-12 hours and then the responsiveness starts degrading.
A restart helps.
So, the question is when should you run the benchmarks?
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You shouldn't. Benchmarks mean nothing. If you are perceiving a slow-down after 10-12 hours then you should try to diagnose the cause of that - does a reboot fix it? Do you need to do a cache or dalvik wipe? Can you get away with just killing all open apps.
Stop worrying about benchmarks, and worry more about how YOUR phone feels to YOU.
prem911 said:
I have observed that on installing a nightly build, the performance is generally good for first 10-12 hours and then the responsiveness starts degrading.
A restart helps.
So, the question is when should you run the benchmarks?
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I wonder why I have been quoted.
Apparently you did not even read my post.
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I tested a bunch of roms, Slim,Vanir, Pac,AICP, Beanstalk, Mokee, Avatar, Omni...Some 4.3 Some 4.4
All I can say that I really liked most 4.3 roms, but their battery performance was weird-lacking.
I dont really like KitKat 4.4 that much but apart from the early CM11 releases, most 4.4 ones are battery friendly. I get decent battery life.
I had one day at 8 hours, 2 to 1:30 hours screen on time, and in the end of the day I had 20-30% left. Thats ok for me.My battery is nearly 1 year old now, so they fared good.
That said. I think that KitKat in general does a better job at memory handling aswell, I get always 500MB free memory in most 4.4 roms.
IN 4.3 roms, that wasnt always the case.
Whatever the case, my conclusion is that newer roms, that have been ported recently, fare better because they are based on latest CM builds. Earlier roms, which were just ported to our device...well...it depends.
My testing was so that I tried each of these roms for 1 day. Maybe thats not enough, so dont go around bashing me for inaccuracy. Best way to test things is to try them out yourself. I never tried any benchmarks on these roms because I dont care about benchmarks.I usually set animations to off or 0.5 on each of these roms. I dont play games on my phone aswell.
Personally, my recommendation is to try out 4.4 roms firstly, then try out earlier roms.
I currently use a CM nightly.
Keep in mind however that I do NOT use google play or any gapps. So most if not all ROM experience has been smooth, with the exception of 1 Rom.
I can name it, but that would not be fair, but I think that one came together with Gapps.
So my other advice is that gapps are huge memory hogs and battery eaters.
shadowcore said:
I tested a bunch of roms, Slim,Vanir, Pac,AICP, Beanstalk, Mokee, Avatar, Omni...Some 4.3 Some 4.4
All I can say that I really liked most 4.3 roms, but their battery performance was weird-lacking.
I dont really like KitKat 4.4 that much but apart from the early CM11 releases, most 4.4 ones are battery friendly. I get decent battery life.
I had one day at 8 hours, 2 to 1:30 hours screen on time, and in the end of the day I had 20-30% left. Thats ok for me.My battery is nearly 1 year old now, so they fared good.
That said. I think that KitKat in general does a better job at memory handling aswell, I get always 500MB free memory in most 4.4 roms.
IN 4.3 roms, that wasnt always the case.
Whatever the case, my conclusion is that newer roms, that have been ported recently, fare better because they are based on latest CM builds. Earlier roms, which were just ported to our device...well...it depends.
My testing was so that I tried each of these roms for 1 day. Maybe thats not enough, so dont go around bashing me for inaccuracy. Best way to test things is to try them out yourself. I never tried any benchmarks on these roms because I dont care about benchmarks.I usually set animations to off or 0.5 on each of these roms. I dont play games on my phone aswell.
Personally, my recommendation is to try out 4.4 roms firstly, then try out earlier roms.
I currently use a CM nightly.
Keep in mind however that I do NOT use google play or any gapps. So most if not all ROM experience has been smooth, with the exception of 1 Rom.
I can name it, but that would not be fair, but I think that one came together with Gapps.
So my other advice is that gapps are huge memory hogs and battery eaters.
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+1 on this.
Currently im using CM11 Latest nightly (18 Jan 14) + iodiak kernel 9.5.
Aside the double push the power button to wake up the phone from deep sleep, it works flawless for me.
Edit : for the double push the power button, there is already a work around for it in this post (Click Me)

Is anybody else finding stock to be better than most custom ROMs?

No offense to the great developers that take their time to build ROMs, but I keep finding myself restoring a stock backup no more than 2 days after flashing a ROM. I don't know, I've just noticed that at least for me, no ROM has been as smooth as stock 5.0.1. All 5.0.2 builds I've tried (Pure, Chroma, Lollipop Dream) simply don't feel as smooth. I use Franco's kernel on everything I use, I don't even touch the settings. Other than that, it's using the Modaco Mod pack and Viper Audio. Again, I'm not trying to offend nor troll post or anything, but I really can't be the only one that is experiencing this.
With all the nexus phones I had, I wondered this. Few seemed as fast, fluid, or bugfree. @Sykopompus made a fantastic n5 ROM. Probably best I used. A lot of devs I felt overloaded the features and it slowed the performance down. I have a note 4 now running CM, and have almost nothing extra installed. Less than 1 screen of apps in app drawer. Lean equals speed. Your not bashing devs, just stating an opinion. Those guys put in thousands of hours working on a thankless task, pretty much for free. You have variety, keep trying.
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questions go into q&a, not general. ill ask a mod to move the thread there.
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well, considering that you only tried popular roms, not good roms, stock would probably be better. all(ok, not all, but most) those roms in the android development section are just the aosp rom with features cut and pasted into it. so i wouldnt expect much. there are good rioms, like @rascarlo Rastapop, that actually get developed, and worked on for real, that are as smooth or smoother than stock(original development section). and franco kernel on everything? francisco is one of my friends, but i stay away from his kernels, as i dont like their actual performance.
Nope. SlimROM and Sensei kernel FTW.
Clean ROM is typically my favorite, as it is a debloated stock with a few tweaks. Always super stable.
First time using custom ROM and kernel. I don't really see any difference in ROM so I may go back to stock but kernel is a keeper for me.
No, Validus runs rings around stock!
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I think it depends on how you use your rom....
I can only speak for me but custom rom does make the difference for me. I do follow known good dev from other phones currently I am on Liquid Smooth and it is very nice. I do not play games and am a IT Eng so I use lots of apps for work all together (Dropbox, Evernotes, Exchange mail, personal email, scanning docs to fax or email, GPS for travel, conference call, call recording, call blocking app to give me peace from work, calendars for work, family, kids school events, clubs I am over, church, other...so many calendar activities, hotspot usage) and it goes on and on
Custom rom allows me root and ad blocking, system tweaks, speed for all many productive apps I use and many used at same time...so the tweaks that I need only a custom rom can give this to me where OEM rom can not and lacks the special tweaks a GOOD developer adds for better battery, performance which includes kernel tweaks to give the overall boost...
I think average person does not need a custom rom for this phone but I need bit more boost just on my work and personal load and how I use my phone
interesting discussion,
I came in to see if any roms are allowing my flash drive to work natively. Similar to lolipolloza for the N9.
I am also a little overwhelmed with the options in the two dev forums now as to what to flash.
After trying the most popular builds I am running a deodexed debloated stock/ with elemental kernel for the DT2W and the nova launcher for its abilty to offer a clean UI.
If I could use the USB storage without a third party app would be great.
If you're talking about smooth, most of those ROMs/kernels are smooth. You didn't really specify your setup on stock ROM (in other words, what kernel are you using?).
If you're using stock kernel with stock ROM, then its most likely the mpdecision effect where your CPU frequency is boosted up to higher clocks to ensure the smoothness, but this comes at a price of battery. Try using other kernels or configuration set ups with ROMs. Its more or less the kernel that is what causes the smoothness, not so much the ROM. The ROM plays a role in it but the kernel is what plays the biggest role.
Also, to note, I think its kind of funny because you messaged me about testing my ROM yesterday and then I see this thread.
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well, considering that you only tried popular roms, not good roms, stock would probably be better. all(ok, not all, but most) those roms in the android development section are just the aosp rom with features cut and pasted into it. so i wouldnt expect much. there are good rioms, like @rascarlo Rastapop, that actually get developed, and worked on for real, that are as smooth or smoother than stock(original development section). and franco kernel on everything? francisco is one of my friends, but i stay away from his kernels, as i dont like their actual performance.
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To be completely fair, CM is a ROM that "actually gets developed and worked on for real" but yet it can not be as speedy as stock due to all the extra added features.
As far as the other comments, I rather not comment
But to OP, try other kernels.. kernels is what significantly makes a device "smooth" and see if your results come up differently. One kernel doesn't fit everybody's needs.
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With all the nexus phones I had, I wondered this. Few seemed as fast, fluid, or bugfree. @Sykopompus made a fantastic n5 ROM. Probably best I used. A lot of devs I felt overloaded the features and it slowed the performance down. I have a note 4 now running CM, and have almost nothing extra installed. Less than 1 screen of apps in app drawer. Lean equals speed. Your not bashing devs, just stating an opinion. Those guys put in thousands of hours working on a thankless task, pretty much for free. You have variety, keep trying.
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I have a n6 one too BTW because I have a n6, I just don't have a thread for it yet and might never make one because I share everything with everyone
zephiK said:
If you're talking about smooth, most of those ROMs/kernels are smooth. You didn't really specify your setup on stock ROM (in other words, what kernel are you using?).
If you're using stock kernel with stock ROM, then its most likely the mpdecision effect where your CPU frequency is boosted up to higher clocks to ensure the smoothness, but this comes at a price of battery. Try using other kernels or configuration set ups with ROMs. Its more or less the kernel that is what causes the smoothness, not so much the ROM. The ROM plays a role in it but the kernel is what plays the biggest role.
Also, to note, I think its kind of funny because you messaged me about testing my ROM yesterday and then I see this thread.
To be completely fair, CM is a ROM that "actually gets developed and worked on for real" but yet it can not be as speedy as stock due to all the extra added features.
As far as the other comments, I rather not comment
But to OP, try other kernels.. kernels is what significantly makes a device "smooth" and see if your results come up differently. One kernel doesn't fit everybody's needs.
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I did mention what I use though; Franco with stock settings, and currently switched to the new test build of Lean. I did message you because I wanted to try other ROMs and at the same time try to contribute when it comes to testing
I can't compare as I have never used stock, but everything I'm using seems smooth to me. Someone mentioned that ElementalX kernel had a bit of stutter in the unlock and recents menu, but the Dev said that it's hard with custom kernels trying to drive the display (though he has a solution to that). Maybe the issue is that franco kernel works better on stock than it does on other roms and that all custom kernels (included in custom roms) have this problem.
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I did mention what I use though; Franco with stock settings, and currently switched to the new test build of Lean. I did message you because I wanted to try other ROMs and at the same time try to contribute when it comes to testing
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You didn't mention what kernel you used with stock rom. For your custom rom setup you did, if you were using Franco and stock rom then that's another story. Try using other kernels, lean kernel is a great kernel and is what I recommend using after Franco. It stays pretty close to stock and uses mpdecision
I have had two testers that do that and I don't really talk to them with exception of one. You can't test something you're not using on a daily basis.
The purpose of testing is not to get the zip early and then get away with it. Feedback and bugs are expected to be reported otherwise I'm not gaining much from sending test builds and not getting anything back.
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zephiK said:
You didn't mention what kernel you used with stock rom. For your custom rom setup you did, if you were using Franco and stock rom then that's another story. Try using other kernels, lean kernel is a great kernel and is what I recommend using after Franco. It stays pretty close to stock and uses mpdecision
I have had two testers that do that and I don't really talk to them with exception of one. You can't test something you're not using on a daily basis.
The purpose of testing is not to get the zip early and then get away with it. Feedback and bugs are expected to be reported otherwise I'm not gaining much from sending test builds and not getting anything back.
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"I use Franco's kernel on EVERTHING I use, I don't even touch the settings. Other than that, it's using the Modaco Mod pack and Viper Audio."
And I wasn't trying to get away with it. I've been on XDA for years so don't think I'm trying to take advantage over anybody, man.

[Q] best roms for nexus 6??

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
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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
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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?

Best Kernel for [5.1.1][LMY47X] Chroma – 05/12/2015 HELP!

Can anyone recommend the best kernel for this build of Chroma? Is the lean kernel the best one to use? I will be switching over from Liquid Smooth due to the amount of screen casting problems and other little things to this rom to give it a try.
Thanks for any help!
jwleonhart said:
Can anyone recommend the best kernel for this build of Chroma? Is the lean kernel the best one to use? I will be switching over from Liquid Smooth due to the amount of screen casting problems and other little things to this rom to give it a try.
Thanks for any help!
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Why not try the one it ships with before begging for help to find a replacement?
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akellar said:
Why not try the one it ships with before begging for help to find a replacement?
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Well although you seem to have a very slick mouth, if you want to know the details of why I ask it is because the person I currently live with has just installed this rom. It comes with the Franco kernel 3.10 and there seem to be problems going on. Headphone jack doesn't seem to work as well as a few small other things. Battery life also being one of them... so I am asking what people think is the best kernel to be using for this rom, something that is obviously compatible and works well.
That is why I am "ASKING" for help, not "BEGGING" as you seem to put it. Didn't your mother ever tell you if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all?
Try Zen kernel or hells-Core, both are fantastic.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nex...3-10-zen1-dollar-drink-night-bfs-msm-t3062814
https://plus.google.com/communities/115269166678032690242
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
For what its worth, i like ElementalX
Franco
jwleonhart said:
Well although you seem to have a very slick mouth, if you want to know the details of why I ask it is because the person I currently live with has just installed this rom. It comes with the Franco kernel 3.10 and there seem to be problems going on. Headphone jack doesn't seem to work as well as a few small other things. Battery life also being one of them... so I am asking what people think is the best kernel to be using for this rom, something that is obviously compatible and works well.
That is why I am "ASKING" for help, not "BEGGING" as you seem to put it. Didn't your mother ever tell you if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all?
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Im on latest chroma with the kernel it came with......i have no issues with nothing.........i just received a rma nexus 6 though

New to nexus

Just looking for the top 3 ROMs I should try. Right now I'm running chroma.
thayl0 said:
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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danarama said:
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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bigstunta101 said:
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.
thayl0 said:
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
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...
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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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