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Another new rom hits the scene. This one is brought to us from drewgaren on the droidxforums. The original thread can be found Here.
Here is a excerpt of features-
Removed:
-Blockbuster (Bankrupt Company)
-3G Mobile Hotspot (Use Barnacle or Wifi Tether)
-Amazon mp3 (Market App)
-Kindle (Market App)
-(Maps (Market App)
-Street View (Market App)
-VZ Navigator (Market App)
-Skype (Market App)
-Weather Widget
-Digital Clock Widget
-Blur News and News Widget
-File Manager
-Toggle Widgets
-Stock Music App
-Additional Blur
-Additional Files
-VVM (Use Google Voice, If you need it goto my site on how to get it back)
-Majority of Bloatware
Featured:
-Motorola 2.3.1.5 Fully Deoxeded Froyo (Yummy!)
-Selection of Blur Basically only the social stuff and the universal inbox. Calender is still there, but most everything else is gone.
-Rooted
-Build.prop tweaks (credit to Beesley)
-Optimized
-4 Launchers to choose from
-New Battery tweaks
-New ^3 (Cubed) Music Player by Default for saved space (if you don't like it and want the stock back see my site)
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For installation instructions and download link please visit the original thread that is posted above.

Thanks a lot for this Gimpeh!
Tired of all the crap running in background and wasting memory and cpu. Rooted and was going to use Titanium or Root Explorer to kill the crap, but yours looks a more organised method.
Will apply it tonight when home and see how it goes.
Cheers

*sigh* every rom we get seems like its the exact same stuff just with a different name

Joe92T said:
*sigh* every rom we get seems like its the exact same stuff just with a different name
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Until birdman cracks the bootloader or the obsidian people get the bootstrapping working then we will be limited to what can be done on a rom.

G- are you using this? and if so- what do you think?

Joe92T said:
*sigh* every rom we get seems like its the exact same stuff just with a different name
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I was reading through the OP and thinking the same thing.
Here's to waiting for CVCPS's Obsidian ROM.

avlfive said:
I was reading through the OP and thinking the same thing.
Here's to waiting for CVCPS's Obsidian ROM.
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+1
+10 for BB! FTW!

This rom is the best so far. I know they all seem to be the same but the speed of this is crazy fast...
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Looks like I'm gonna give this Rom a try...what could go wrong? (brick)

Pretty good except I ended up reverting because alot of my commonly used apps were gone.

jkpair said:
Pretty good except I ended up reverting because alot of my commonly used apps were gone.
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That's actually the point of most of these ROMS. Provide a fast & stable base to work from. Everything you wanted/used is available in the Market. Just add back the things YOU want (and thus none of the stuff you didn't use in the first place).

good fast rom. nice to have options. I too am looking forward to obsidian but its not here yet so i say lets play with whats here. who knows i might not like obsidian i have no idea so i'll try all that come out and hopefully learn some things along the way. Thanks for the rom

Zaphod-Beeblebrox said:
That's actually the point of most of these ROMS. Provide a fast & stable base to work from. Everything you wanted/used is available in the Market. Just add back the things YOU want (and thus none of the stuff you didn't use in the first place).
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Yeah I found out how to do that after I reverted. I just jumped the gun. Oh well I kinda got an idea on how to make a rom so I will be working on one and post results. Still a n00b.
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Just wondering which rom is fastest...im using the tranq. Rom by top hat...not bad at all....haven't tried many others but wanted a blurless rom... need all your input...thanks in advance...
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[ROM] Embrace MIUI 12.31.03 | English | Deodexed | Adblocking

This rom is a modification of stock MIUI 12.31.0 featuring updated/removed apps, wallpapers, themed widgets and more. It is currently in testing stage.
The goal is to keep a stable stripped down MIUI with minimum applications and focus on customization.
This is a early rom, some things may not work (however I have had no issues thus far) Please do not whine if something does not work, instead explain what is not working, use screenshots if possible (menu+volume down) and let me know if you can replicate the issue.
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Removed: (If you want these most can be downloaded from the market)
Twitter
Facebook
FM Radio
MIUI Gallery (until it is less buggy)
Google car home
Google voice
Chrome to Phone
Youtube
Added:
Gallery has been tweaked - Should be slightly faster
Sense calculator
Themed camera
Flash should be working again
Added new boot animation
Custom Fonts
New Transitions
Gingerbread Apps
Themed Tweetdeck (Themed widgets)
Themed Launcherpro (Themed widgets)
Nexus S Live Wallpaper
Modified hosts file to block ads (Please donate to app developers or buy the full version of applications, this was done to block ads in websites)
To be removed:
Nothing!
To be added:
Make SWG by Lucas Schwidt the default theme
Change default wallpapers
Galaxy Fascinate Live Wallpapers
Remove USB Debugging icon
Circle Battery Icon
50% Transparent notification panel
SMS Timestamp fixed by default
Thanks:
MarkHUK
n_i_x
warttack
MIUI devs
rori~ (Transparent Tweetdeck Widget)
Signals23 (themed LauncherPro)
XDA-Developers
Known Bugs:
None!
Downloads:
Latest version
Embrace MIUI 12.31.03
Previous Versions
Embrace MIUI 12.31.02
Embrace MIUI 12.31
Images: Click here for images
If you have any application requests, hotfixes or would like to design wallpapers/icons or ringtones/notification tones please let me know. This is a going community based rom.

My only question is "why?"

wdfowty said:
My only question is "why?"
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1. A lot of people have been having problems with MIUI Releases hotfixes come out but do not get added to the roms.
2. A lot of people use launcher pro along with MIUI this saves them a step
3. People don't like ads, especially not ones that take up half of the screen on certain websites.
4. MIUI is a testing rom, by removing/replacing the broken applications and aspects of the rom people can have a stable, minimal MIUI.
5. I am bored, seriously this is a big reason. I decided to get bored and start customizing a rom to my liking, I feel others may like it as well... some will some will not.
6. Some people that I personally know have had friends of theirs root there phone and install a rom for them and were uncomfortable using recovery to flash hotfixes so their friends (usually me) than hotfix the phones, update it to the way they want, etc... its a time waster to have to do updates after every new update to MIUI this one will be updated after all the hotfixes for the roms are out.
7. Why not?

Thank you! I love this rom
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papi92 said:
Thank you! I love this rom
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No problem, please let me know if you run into any issues. Main goal is stability and cleanliness.

First post has been updated with latest release.
Please report any issues that you are having.
Enjoy!

Embrace said:
1. A lot of people have been having problems with MIUI Releases hotfixes come out but do not get added to the roms.
2. A lot of people use launcher pro along with MIUI this saves them a step
3. People don't like ads, especially not ones that take up half of the screen on certain websites.
4. MIUI is a testing rom, by removing/replacing the broken applications and aspects of the rom people can have a stable, minimal MIUI.
5. I am bored, seriously this is a big reason. I decided to get bored and start customizing a rom to my liking, I feel others may like it as well... some will some will not.
6. Some people that I personally know have had friends of theirs root there phone and install a rom for them and were uncomfortable using recovery to flash hotfixes so their friends (usually me) than hotfix the phones, update it to the way they want, etc... its a time waster to have to do updates after every new update to MIUI this one will be updated after all the hotfixes for the roms are out.
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TBH, I've never tried MIUI on the Inc. It used to be my rom of choice on my Nexus One. So I had no idea that all these apps were broken, so that makes sense to remove them. But why remove the notifications? That;s what threw me off.
Embrace said:
7. Why not?
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Good answer

wdfowty said:
But why remove the notifications? That;s what threw me off.
Good answer
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Just the notification tones. I find most people use custom tones. I will most likely release a version without them removed.

I know this is kind of noob question but I'm going to ask anyway. Can you change themes like other Miui roms? Thank you for your time.

domino27 said:
I know this is kind of noob question but I'm going to ask anyway. Can you change themes like other Miui roms? Thank you for your time.
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Yes you can

I leave miui and all of a sudden there are people releasing miui roms for the Incredible. Where was everyone when I was asking for help cuz I was getting burnt out with weekly releases?
Good job tho...
When I return to miui (maybe when they move to gingerbread) I hope people don't disappear
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I actually started this while you were working on 12.18 I think it was, didn't have enough time to get it all sorted out before the 12.24 release, which I found too buggy to work with. 12.31 is great though!
It seems like everyone is releasing very stock roms though. I am trying to slim them down a bit and give MIUI noobs a place to start.
You are a hero to us all n_i_x!

Thank you embrace for your hard work.and yes, nix please come back.i love the incredible dev community.
Sent from my HTC Incredible using XDA App

First thread updated with latest version.

I got alot of reboots but I loved the speed
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Alarm clock?
Just curious why you removed the clock app? There is no way to set an alarm without it right (short of downloading another alarm app of course)?
I like the minimialist design, but personally I would like to have that + the ringtones (or at least some option besides the obnoxious 'rave' one.)

papi92 said:
I got alot of reboots but I loved the speed
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Where are you getting the reboots? Can you replicate them?
Thanks
jp1353 said:
Just curious why you removed the clock app? There is no way to set an alarm without it right (short of downloading another alarm app of course)?
I like the minimialist design, but personally I would like to have that + the ringtones (or at least some option besides the obnoxious 'rave' one.)
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I am going to be releasing a new pack today with the ringtones and I am re-adding the clock app as well.
Thank you for your feedback

They are random im still on original release . Im using the windows phone launcher from market.
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Anytime I get it to reboot my logcat doesn't save. Im logcatting using phone. Maybe I need to change kernel
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Oh maybe bc I restored data from other miui rom? Ill try clean install
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How can I install the TouchWiz calendar in CM7?

I loved the calendar from when I was on stock, but switched to CM7 for obvious reasons. I cannot stand the calendar though and was hoping I could somehow get the TW one back. Anyone know how?

You can't. CM7 has differnt framework.

gotsflat4love said:
You can't. CM7 has differnt framework.
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Damn I was afraid of hearing that. Do you know of any free calendar apps that are very simple like that one and have a dark UI?

Business Calendar was named the best android calendar application by Lifehacker.com.
https://market.android.com/details?id=netgenius.bizcal&feature=search_result
Doesn't have a dark theme but it's a great app. The only one I could find in my quick search with a dark theme is Gemini Calendar:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.gemini.calendar&feature=search_result
It looks pretty slick, you'd have to try it out to see if you like it.

Thanks I'll check them out.

sageDieu said:
Business Calendar was named the best android calendar application by Lifehacker.com.
I second that recommendation, been using Business Calender for a few months now, and I love it.
However.. it's not free, is it?
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Messaging app

I just had a thought. I really don't like the revo's messaging app (Mms.apk)
What would happen if I replaced it with the Mms.apk from another system? Like from CM7 or something? Would I lose the ability to text message? Maybe lose MMS?
Has anyone tried this on the revo?

Felt adventurous and backed up my phone, and then tried it.
Installed the AOSP 2.3.3 Mms.apk and it seems to work.
Will report back soon with full testing info.

Well, SMS works but MMS doesn't. I tried using the Mms.apk from CM7 for the Thunderbolt but had the same problem. Anyone know how to modify a stock AOSP Mms.apk to work on the Revo?

If you want a new Mms app there's tons of apps like Go Sms Pro, Handcent and some others Handcent and Go Sms pro are the most popular ones. Both of which are free.

Handcent +1

drt054 said:
Handcent +1
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Is it any good? I've been pro Go Sms since I got my first Android phone since day 1.

Gel Pen6 said:
Is it any good? I've been pro Go Sms since I got my first Android phone since day 1.
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I like chompSMS better. More themes available.

spc_hicks09 said:
I like chompSMS better. More themes available.
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I checked chomp out just now and It doesn't really catch my eye and handcent doesn't either just something about Go products catches my eye.

I gave handcent another shot last night, didnt even make it a couple hours....although I hate how the stock one looks on the revo, i just like how fast and smooth it is compared to third party apps. They all get too bloated with features imo
also, go and handcent seem to consume quite a bit of RAM

revo_65 said:
I gave handcent another shot last night, didnt even make it a couple hours....although I hate how the stock one looks on the revo, i just like how fast and smooth it is compared to third party apps. They all get too bloated with features imo
also, go and handcent seem to consume quite a bit of RAM
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Yeah, I get where you're coming from, but I still don't like how the LG app works. I love the stock android messaging app. I do not understand why carriers feel the need to get in there and fiddle with every damn thing in the OS. I almost wish Google and the OHA had pulled an Apple, and restricted the carriers from screwing with Android. I understand "open is open", but some of these OEM android systems are just horrible. MotoBLUR, anyone? -shudder-
I think it would have been good to require carriers, if they wanted to release a phone with a "tinkered" android OS on it, to also provide a ROM download to users who would like to just have a stock experience. No BLUR, no Sense, no LG whatever, no TouchWIZ..

threevolve said:
Yeah, I get where you're coming from, but I still don't like how the LG app works. I love the stock android messaging app. I do not understand why carriers feel the need to get in there and fiddle with every damn thing in the OS. I almost wish Google and the OHA had pulled an Apple, and restricted the carriers from screwing with Android. I understand "open is open", but some of these OEM android systems are just horrible. MotoBLUR, anyone? -shudder-
I think it would have been good to require carriers, if they wanted to release a phone with a "tinkered" android OS on it, to also provide a ROM download to users who would like to just have a stock experience. No BLUR, no Sense, no LG whatever, no TouchWIZ..
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Sense messaging app is just... horrible. BLUR is decent LG is ok and TouchWIZ looks like garbage.

Gel Pen6 said:
BLUR is decent
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You spelled "utter bloated crap" wrong

Here's the one that I just started using yesterday, sms and mms are working fine for me:
http://205.196.122.19/jf263azi8b1g/0ut04hvxra0rvoj/Mms.apk
It's the (very) basic mms but with a black background. I'm pretty sure I grabbed it off of http://forum.sdx-developers.com/index.php?topic=17790.0 but I'm not 100% sure since the download link is down on that site now. The screenshots are also on that site (v1.1)
edit: nevermind... it won't send mms

Gel Pen6 said:
Is it any good? I've been pro Go Sms since I got my first Android phone since day 1.
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Never had any issues, don't know what some people are complaining about. There are themes but you can also just change the color of the background, the incoming font and out going font, bubbles or no bubbles and change the colors of the bubbles.. very customizable. Think someone in here made a handcent theme in the themes and apps section.

drt054 said:
Never had any issues, don't know what some people are complaining about. There are themes but you can also just change the color of the background, the incoming font and out going font, bubbles or no bubbles and change the colors of the bubbles.. very customizable. Think someone in here made a handcent theme in the themes and apps section.
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I might not have saved it but if you search within the handcent themes for "volted ice" I think I made one and saved it. Can't remember though if it was for Volted Ice or GingerFusion.
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What's Your Daily Driver ROM?

I've been trying different ROM and each one seems to have their own unique hiccups. I'm looking for a ROM that stable and have all the features as a stock ROM. So far the closest to that is Aurora Full Note7 by Lanc-City. The only issues I'm having is that it sometimes it lag, mms group text doesn't work, and charging does not charge right.

[ROM] Maximum OvrDriVE 6.0.1 MM V3.2 (8/24/16) [910T/910W8/910T3] has been good, however, the dev has moved on so there is no continued development on it.
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If you want everything working then go stock, root, install xposed with your favorite modules and get a good launcher.
I go back and forth between stock and project L ROM by Lanc-City.
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I was using EPJ2 for a while and it's the best stock update so far. Had no issues with barely any lag. But I rooted I am now using Aurora 3.1 since I miss my note 7 lol. I had to use Textra since group messaging isn't working and no wifi calling. It's so far filling that void. I'm sure a lot of ex note 7 users can relate.

AICP and Broken are amazing

My daily driver, seemingly forever, will remain Emporia ROM (AKA Rapture ROM) on 5.1.1 Lollipop
I don't have an explanation why, but this ROM is WAY more fluid in every single aspect of the UI than any other ROM on marshmallow or Lollipop, and I have tried them all. Yes I am aware you can set animation speeds to be faster, etc. But even with them set to the default speed of 1x (I default use .5x for most), the entire ROM is more FLUID. Each transition is more smooth, every app opens faster and without lag, scrolling in every single app is WAY more fluid, etc. I actually noticed a huge visual difference between this ROM and stock or custom MM. The user experience is just way better in every way than Maximum Overdrive, Stock MM, Stock LL, etc.
Battery life is approximately the same for me on both MM and LL using Greenify on both. Doze doesn't seem to make a difference at all for me, when using greenify on both versions of Android. I get within 15 minutes of SOT on either one, so battery life is practically the same.
Finally, Lollipop still has all the features that Samsung so foolishly removed in MM! Namely, Smart Select is still amazing, it still has the engine for optical character recognition that is missing in MM, it still can select multiple things, and it can still open apps if it detects and address/phone number/etc!
So, basically, Emporia is the best ROM for me, and I have literally tried all of them. I do miss the full screen action memo's of Lollipop, but the extreme speed and fluidity throughout the system, never encountering a single bug, and the amazing features still present in Smart Select beat out all the insignificant improvements of MM.
Plus, I ported an AOSP theme for the notification area to Emporia ROM, that makes it a much more lovely experience.

aznmode said:
I was using EPJ2 for a while and it's the best stock update so far. Had no issues with barely any lag. But I rooted I am now using Aurora 3.1 since I miss my note 7 lol. I had to use Textra since group messaging isn't working and no wifi calling. It's so far filling that void. I'm sure a lot of ex note 7 users can relate.
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Is this the stock that you used?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4-tmobile/general/odin-firmware-epj2-tw-6-0-1-note-4-t3486992

My daily driver is the N5/N7_6.0.1_port V1 and I use Nova launcher, a dark icon pack, dark wallpaper and (Google-inspired) Material Design dark from the samsung theme store. Basically looks like clean, dark AOSP on top and has all the Samsung features underneath.
Everything from the font and theming is smaller and more refined in the Note 5 which makes a huge difference to me and really is a big reason why the Note 5's screen looks more nicer than the Note 4 screen imo (they're both 1440p!).
Everything is quite stable but the stock camera app doesnt work (for me, I dont know abt others) (I use a third party app) and I also use a third party app for video playback (I cant find the stock video app). Keep in mind this is a chinese n5 port and there is some chinese characters next to the time and date. Time to brush up on some chinese I guess. (I havent seen any other chinese on it thou lolz)
Its pretty good for a port though based on fluidness. And yes I tried the Emporia ROM recommended earlier. I loved it and everything WaterMan said was true but the Note 4 default theming and fonts are too big imo for a quad HD screen. Also that's where I got my inspiration to get the Material Design dark theme so my notification bar and settings look like stock aosp (Thanks WaterMan!).
I also use a snapdragon-optimized chromium browser so its more snappier.
And that's my daily driver, for now. Lolz
PS: be sure to upgrade to EPE3 (6.0.1) before flashing.

hypercane said:
My daily driver is the N5/N7_6.0.1_port V1 and I use Nova launcher, a dark icon pack, dark wallpaper and (Google-inspired) Material Design dark from the samsung theme store. Basically looks like clean, dark AOSP on top and has all the Samsung features underneath.
Everything from the font and theming is smaller and more refined in the Note 5 which makes a huge difference to me and really is a big reason why the Note 5's screen looks more nicer than the Note 4 screen imo (they're both 1440p!).
Everything is quite stable but the stock camera app doesnt work (for me, I dont know abt others) (I use a third party app) and I also use a third party app for video playback (I cant find the stock video app). Keep in mind this is a chinese n5 port and there is some chinese characters next to the time and date. Time to brush up on some chinese I guess. (I havent seen any other chinese on it thou lolz)
Its pretty good for a port though based on fluidness. And yes I tried the Emporia ROM recommended earlier. I loved it and everything WaterMan said was true but the Note 4 default theming and fonts are too big imo for a quad HD screen. Also that's where I got my inspiration to get the Material Design dark theme so my notification bar and settings look like stock aosp (Thanks WaterMan!).
I also use a snapdragon-optimized chromium browser so its more snappier.
And that's my daily driver, for now. Lolz
PS: be sure to upgrade to EPE3 (6.0.1) before flashing.
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The stock camera was working fine for me...the sports shot, food shot, etc. extensions weren't.
Can you post some screenshots of your setup? ?
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AriaNoob said:
The stock camera was working fine for me...the sports shot, food shot, etc. extensions weren't.
Can you post some screenshots of your setup? ?
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I've never used those features before Now I want them!
Here you go!
The red icons are purposely not coherent (egg).
For a minimalistic dark setup, simplistic dark black and/or grey icons maybe some sophistication but very minimal and clean.
I took pics of Material design dark and Material design black themes. (Disclaimar: black theme is $1)
Wallpaper from 244 Quad HD Wallpapers for Galaxy Note 4 collection on XDA.

Material design black

I'm using CM-Remix but it's giving me mad problems. Mainly, the Google app keeps crashing and it locks up when rebooting, sometimes requiring 2 or 3 reboots or wiping cache. It's godawful annoying but my hatred for TouchWiz is the only reason I torture myself with this ROM.
I'm looking for a new ROM myself. Looks like a new build of DirtyUnicorns is coming very soon. I may give that another shot.

hypercane said:
I've never used those features before Now I want them!
Here you go!
The red icons are purposely not coherent (egg).
For a minimalistic dark setup, simplistic dark black and/or grey icons maybe some sophistication but very minimal and clean.
I took pics of Material design dark and Material design black themes. (Disclaimar: black theme is $1)
Wallpaper from 244 Quad HD Wallpapers for Galaxy Note 4 collection on XDA.
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Very niceee! [emoji106]
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Ovrdrive, my phone is solid.

dermo529 said:
I'm using CM-Remix but it's giving me mad problems. Mainly, the Google app keeps crashing and it locks up when rebooting, sometimes requiring 2 or 3 reboots or wiping cache. It's godawful annoying but my hatred for TouchWiz is the only reason I torture myself with this ROM.
I'm looking for a new ROM myself. Looks like a new build of DirtyUnicorns is coming very soon. I may give that another shot.
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Weird because I'm using it and I don't have any problems!!

I've been on AICP for several months, very stable. Resurrection Remix is getting close to being pretty stable, it crashes the phone when uninstalling apps - only problem I found that prevented me from dailying it.
Gonna try going back to TW for a while for better camera usage, will be flashing Overdrive 6.0.1 for the first time.

gogent said:
Is this the stock that you used?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4-tmobile/general/odin-firmware-epj2-tw-6-0-1-note-4-t3486992
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Looks like it but mine was done via OTA before I decided to root.
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I have no clue what's going on with my phone as every ROM I tried is either lagging, freeze, or randomly reboot. I'm thinking about going back to stock. When I was on stock it would lag as well but not as bad as what I'm experiencing now. I'm currently using my phone without my microsd card to see if that is the culprit.