Haven't seen one of these threads yet for this phone. I'm trying to decide which ROM to flash on my freshly rooted vzw s6 edge and would be very interested in hearing about your experiences. It's a little crazy trying to understand everything in those huge threads.
Which ROM(s) did you try? What do you like about them? What notorious issues do they have?
My biggest problems are battery life, the aggressive ram management, and memory leakage (or whatever is causing my phone to become slower throughout the day). Have these been fixed? Do S6 (non-edge) ROMs work?
nvertigo said:
Haven't seen one of these threads yet for this phone. I'm trying to decide which ROM to flash on my freshly rooted vzw s6 edge and would be very interested in hearing about your experiences. It's a little crazy trying to understand everything in those huge threads.
Which ROM(s) did you try? What do you like about them? What notorious issues do they have?
My biggest problems are battery life, the aggressive ram management, and memory leakage (or whatever is causing my phone to become slower throughout the day). Have these been fixed? Do S6 (non-edge) ROMs work?
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For the Verizon S6 edge there are very few available roms to choose from. This is likely because there are only three developers. The most popular thread in the Android Developement sub forum is the first one I recommend you look at.
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Hey, guys.
I'm rather new here, and I've only recently been sucked into the Android cult. So far, this means in the past few months I've amassed:
An Archos 5 Internet Tablet
A Samsung Captivate
A Motorola Atrix 4G
And I've got a B&N Nook Color on the way.
One thing I've noticed, is that most devices seem to have a "general modding information" type of thread, which is more or less geared towards noobs, giving them enough information to push them in the right direction when getting started with their device. I've noticed that no such thread really exists for the NC. The Captivate forum is very strong in this regard, as I'm sure the Atrix forum will be once it grows wings. So, among the things I'm wondering:
What ROMs are available for the Nook Color?
What are the pros and cons of each?
What capabilities are present and missing in the stock firmware?
What device-specific tools or utilities are available?
Any general caveats with this device?
Thanks for being excellent, guys.
I'd be happy to see something like this as well.
I'm not totally new to android. I stumbled through rooting my old Droid and my old HTC Magic, but I may as well be considered a noob as I've forgetten almost everything (sold those phones a while ago)
From what I've read, it's incredibly simple to try out various distros without making any changes to the device itself, so trials with each one should be a breeze. I guess the most important questions are:
What releases are available?
What release works best overall?
What release has the most active development community?
How does one go about installing to eMMC after booting from SD?
Any input would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
While I'm still a novice and can't speak to all your questions, I feel like my general caveats are mostly in regard to screen sensitivity. It's not horrible, but I'm sure you've seen the complaints about the corners of the screen especially. I've tried a few fixes and none of them seem to work, but the general functionality of the thing is fantastic. I tried overclocking for the first time yesterday and minus a few weird issues, it's great. I wouldn't say it's totally necessary, but that little speed boost makes it a little more fun to use.
Essentially, it's a great device to tinker with and for learning the ropes in terms of Android stuff, I feel. I'm new to all of it and learning a lot.
junkrobot said:
While I'm still a novice and can't speak to all your questions, I feel like my general caveats are mostly in regard to screen sensitivity. It's not horrible, but I'm sure you've seen the complaints about the corners of the screen especially. I've tried a few fixes and none of them seem to work, but the general functionality of the thing is fantastic. I tried overclocking for the first time yesterday and minus a few weird issues, it's great. I wouldn't say it's totally necessary, but that little speed boost makes it a little more fun to use.
Essentially, it's a great device to tinker with and for learning the ropes in terms of Android stuff, I feel. I'm new to all of it and learning a lot.
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Okay, sounds good. Thanks.
I hadn't heard about the screen corner issue at all, actually. Is that a ROM-specific problem, or could it be hardware-based? I would imagine a problem like that would be based on hardware.. I guess I'll find out tomorrow.
I really don't have any intent to overclock the thing. Honestly, I don't really think it'll need it. Battery life is kind of a big deal to me. Besides, I've heard of SetCPU causing weirdness across various platforms, over- or underclocked.
Any thoughts on CM7 nightly builds for the NC?
I think the corner issue is something to do with the hardware as well since every calibration effort I've made has been sort of useless. I'm still tinkering with SetCPU at the moment and I've experienced a few oddities with overclocking such as random restarts, so I may be going back to stock kernel soon.
I haven't tried out the CM7 builds yet, but they are mighty tempting.
Hey all,
I've searched around and had no luck, so figured I'd ask directly
After bouncing between various roms, most recently cyanogen 6.12, I have been feeling like the low amount of memory on the droid is not considered with modern day apps. Are there any roms which have an emphasis on being minimalist and emphasize performance above glitter and features? I'm hoping to hold out for a Galaxy S II (USA - Verizon user here), but my droid is tragically slow. It improved since removing rom manager for whatever reason, and I have already moved all the apps I can to my SDcard, and I use clearcache.
Not really sure what else to do besides perhaps try to find another rom entirely. Any recommendations would be very much appreciated =)
Cheers
Mohdoo said:
Hey all,
I've searched around and had no luck, so figured I'd ask directly
After bouncing between various roms, most recently cyanogen 6.12, I have been feeling like the low amount of memory on the droid is not considered with modern day apps. Are there any roms which have an emphasis on being minimalist and emphasize performance above glitter and features? I'm hoping to hold out for a Galaxy S II (USA - Verizon user here), but my droid is tragically slow. It improved since removing rom manager for whatever reason, and I have already moved all the apps I can to my SDcard, and I use clearcache.
Not really sure what else to do besides perhaps try to find another rom entirely. Any recommendations would be very much appreciated =)
Cheers
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I think you might be able to try supercharging your Droid, zeppelinrox's thread explains it all.
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I know most of the benefits of rooting a phone and how it's limited on the Bionic. But what I want to know is, what's the hype over ROMs?
Also, do certain ROMs excel at certains "tasks" or needs? Is one better at exploiting security holes in networks to strengthen security? Is one better at privacy? I know some DEVs say "This is for pure performance" or "optimal battery life" Since most of you have 2-3 ROMs in your slots, is there a reason why you won't just pick one and stick with it?
I know one reason, from what I have read so far, is that there are issues with some of the ROMs. Like the sought after CM ROM. This is supposedly THE ROM to get. But unfortunately there's issues with the camera and docking and BT, among others. So does this mean that Eclipse or Liquid Smooth or Icarus HD or Synergy or Wizzed Bean actually have those things working that CM lacks? Or is that why there's people with 3 ROMs flashed since one has dock and the other has BT. I know it's a matter of taste, but is there one that is better overall or are they kinda the same just little differences?
I apologize if this post irritates people or DEVs. I am in the process of fixing up my phone (in other threads) and I am hoping to kinda have a new phone. Mine needs new life.
I have been reading a bunch of HTC One vs S4 threads and been watching them. And I feel like everyone is making the comparisons on each stock, which makes sense. But I was wondering which is better when rooted and both having a custom rom and kernel. Since I know that having a custom rom and kernel can make the overall performance better.
For Example, people were complaining about the lag on the S4 so they switched to the One. But I feel like if those people would've have rooted it and put a custom rom or kernel, it might have helped the lag.
So which device do you guys think is better with custom rom and kernel improvements?
Which one has a bigger improvement with custom roms and kernels?
Thanks guys And if there is a thread like this comparing the roms and kernels of each device against each other, then post a link and I can ask to close this thread.
Posted this in the S4 forum as well to have opinions on both sides and not just on one side, which isn't fair.
choboii said:
I have been reading a bunch of HTC One vs S4 threads and been watching them. And I feel like everyone is making the comparisons on each stock, which makes sense. But I was wondering which is better when rooted and both having a custom rom and kernel. Since I know that having a custom rom and kernel can make the overall performance better.
For Example, people were complaining about the lag on the S4 so they switched to the One. But I feel like if those people would've have rooted it and put a custom rom or kernel, it might have helped the lag.
So which device do you guys think is better with custom rom and kernel improvements?
Which one has a bigger improvement with custom roms and kernels?
Thanks guys And if there is a thread like this comparing the roms and kernels of each device against each other, then post a link and I can ask to close this thread.
Posted this in the S4 forum as well to have opinions on both sides and not just on one side, which isn't fair.
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It's not different at alllllllllllll.
It's not allowed, and everyone here will say the HTC One.
There's no point to this, promotes arguments and trolling. Don't start it.
All your questions require knowledge and use of both phones. I know a few people have both but a lot of people here haven't spent £1000 on 2 phones, so will only own the HTC One. Therefore the S4 answers will be a load of crap
I am getting tired of reading about comparisons and threads turning into arguments because of such issues. Bottom line is, devices should be fairly compared on a stock basis and not with custom ROMs or kernels. There are benchmark tests and others available online, just use Google and you'll find everything you're looking for. They are both great devices and that competition in the latest technology, features and market price are what make the world of smartphones better, which in turn benefits us.
choboii said:
For Example, people were complaining about the lag on the S4 so they switched to the One. But I feel like if those people would've have rooted it and put a custom rom or kernel, it might have helped the lag.
So which device do you guys think is better with custom rom and kernel improvements?
Which one has a bigger improvement with custom roms and kernels?
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This is not different. Please use the search feature and ask your question in an already existing thread.
To answer your questions though, I switched from the HTC One(running TrickDroid/ARHD, Bulletproof kernel) to the Galaxy S4(running WanamLite, ktoonz kernel) and now back to the HTC One(ARHD, Beastmode kernel). The HTC One has, by far, been the better experience. It's smoother, faster, and more responsive than my S4--on top of that, I actually used the "unique" features of the One(Blinkfeed, Zoe, etc) whereas on the SGS4 in an effort to smooth it out, I turned most of it's "unique" features off. Overall, I found most of it's "unique" features to be very gimmicky.
Here's what it comes down to: Neither phone is better than the other. There is no "best" phone. The closest you can get is picking a phone that has the features YOU want and that are important to YOU.
Hello all,
I own an AT&T HTC M7, originally with CID CWS__001. I have SuperCID'd the phone, tried various international edition ROM's, but all seem to eat my battery up like a little kid finding a bag of M&M's. The battery life always seems OK for the first few days, then all of a sudden it begins dwindling at a rate where I can literally watch 1% dropping every maybe 15 seconds while using the phone for extremely basic stuff. Restarts don't seem to fix the issue, and these are mostly Sense 6 ROM's. There are a few older ROM's that also seem to cause me problems, and it can be a hassle to have to consistently keep my apps off of RAM and force close them. So, due to this ongoing issue, I decided to revert back to a stock RUU with my phone, rooted it, and now have no battery issues. However, I hate being stock!
So, since the AT&T section is truly lacking in regards to decent non-stock ROM's, I'd like to get some personal opinions as far as Sense 6 based ROM's that provide good performance and battery life, including firmware/radio combinations. I live in Florida if that would help anyone with this. Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
I haven't experienced this dude. I get slightly better battery life...