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which phone after Galaxy MINI ?

I plan to change the smartphone, and I have some ideas on my next smartphone I want to choose and I solicits your opinion on this choice, I wish to have constructive answers please.
I want a smartphone that is either Xiaomi MI-2S or the the samsung galaxy S3.
Your opinion?
Thank you in advance.

Go for mi-2 if you want to be stuck with miui, as xiaomi didn't released kernel sources. S3 will give you more freedom in roms to choose from

But level performance the mi2 is more strong than the Samsung galaxy s3, and more low level of price.
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radnou974 said:
But level performance the mi2 is more strong than the Samsung galaxy s3, and more low level of price.
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maybe it is, but you can't install anything else than miui on it, because there is no other rom for this phone... why don't you try nexus 4? it have really great dev support (better than s3) and is cheaper than s3

Nothing beats nexus 4 yet! But unfortunately its availability is extremely like low
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hsay said:
Nothing beats nexus 4 yet! But unfortunately its availability is extremely like low
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have you tried amazon.com?

yackovsky said:
have you tried amazon.com?
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he's talking about situation in india..we only have N7 from playstore till now, no N4 :/

The Alchemist said:
he's talking about situation in india..we only have N7 from playstore till now, no N4 :/
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well, patience is the key to everything

enext.in have Nexus 4 but its costly.
Typed from a small touchscreen.

The MIUI MI-2S have 13MP APN QuadCore 1,7 GHz
in 32Go version.

radnou974 said:
The MIUI MI-2S have 13MP APN QuadCore 1,7 GHz
in 32Go version.
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Yeah it is a beast with miui v5.
Typed from a small touchscreen.

And there's no cm10.1, aokp or anything other than miui... If you love it, then go for it. I'd rather save up for something else, or wait for nexus 5 (should be out in 3, 4 months)
*edit: not that I have something against miui, specific-wise mi-2s is awesome phone, but the fact that xiaomi is holding back on kernel sources, is preventing any serious development, and this me no gusta...

yackovsky said:
*edit: not that I have something against miui, specific-wise mi-2s is awesome phone, but the fact that xiaomi is holding back on kernel sources, is preventing any serious development, and this me no gusta...
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Yeah true, The development for Nexus , S3 etc. is much more vast and great ROMs like Parandroid, MIUI, CM10 everything is available. :thumbup:
Typed from a small touchscreen.

Mi have dual boot and can install AOSP

yackovsky said:
And there's no cm10.1, aokp or anything other than miui... If you love it, then go for it. I'd rather save up for something else, or wait for nexus 5 (should be out in 3, 4 months)
*edit: not that I have something against miui, specific-wise mi-2s is awesome phone, but the fact that xiaomi is holding back on kernel sources, is preventing any serious development, and this me no gusta...
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I think 3-4 months is still early for Nexus 5. AFAIK Google's been always keeping about 11 months time gap b/w new Nexus....so in my view it'll take some time.
But still who knows what's Google planning.
I'm also in mood of buying Nexus ( 4 ) but part of me wants to wait for Nexus 5.

why don`t wiat and buy galaxy 4 or samsung galaxy nuxes ???

The best reasons why i prefer the Xiaomi MI2S is the ration price/performance/quality and the xiaomi is the best after what i saw.

Your call .. buy it.. you will not regret.
Typed from a small touchscreen.

radnou974 said:
The best reasons why i prefer the Xiaomi MI2S is the ration price/performance/quality and the xiaomi is the best after what i saw.
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Yeah, but it's really closed source. I like MI2S is because the price, you can overclock a Nexus 4 to get processor performance like MI2S.

F4uzan said:
Yeah, but it's really closed source. I like MI2S is because the price, you can overclock a Nexus 4 to get processor performance like MI2S.
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but with no tweak you get better performance as a nexus 4 overclocked, which can be broked.
So if i compare the Nexus 4 and the Xiaomi MI2-S without hesitation i take xiaomi.

Note 5 moaning ehhh! Just port 5 to 4!

I keep seeing posts by people moaning about note 5 for what ? Sammy don't care about xda members.
Why don't we get all the best developers of note 4 owners to work together to port the Base of note 5 ROM over to note 4 and then they can all go each there own way and work on the ROM as they please.
PS. I think Sammy didn't include the ext sd because idiot Google started introducing the vague restrictions on what you can do with the ext sd. That combined with there war with apple.
I will go for note 5 when it comes to UK only because it has the spen which no other phone has so like so many others I won't be moving to LG or what ever.
Please developers work together in porting it over so we can get it faster to note 4.

this is always the dream/hope.

Zionator said:
Why don't we get all the best developers of note 4 owners to work together to port the Base of note 5 ROM.
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It would still be touchwiz. Thus slow and a waste of time.

When we get officialy 5.1.1 porting Roms like s6 edge and note 5 will be easier right? And they will even work better than they already do?

i finally had a fast touchwiz woth simplerom thaks for the devs :thumbup:
give it a try if your sick of tw lag
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I got Bobcat ROM and I am using 3c toolbox and no lag. Thus fast and worth the time.

such a rom port would probably only be possible for note4s with exynos!
a snapdragon port would be nice, although I highly doubt that that would possible!

TML1504 said:
such a rom port would probably only be possible for note4s with exynos!
a snapdragon port would be nice, although I highly doubt that that would possible!
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And why wouldn't that be possible?
There where a lot of things devs said wouldn't be possible when the note 3 came out with the knoks chip but e still got our root sorted and able to flash custom roms and let alone rooting without triggering the knoks.
So I can assure you its possible but the more top devlepors that works together on it the better and quicker it will happen.
Sadly they ain't interested in doing so. They just working on roms for note 4 that are already working as that's easier.
Seems like we need a rough Dev to kick start this project.

TML1504 said:
such a rom port would probably only be possible for note4s with exynos!
a snapdragon port would be nice, although I highly doubt that that would possible!
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The s6 and s6 edge are exynos too but Dr.keetan here on xda and friedrich420 on echoerom forum succeded in porting them to the note 4 f variant which is a snapdragon. So it should not be impossible

jizang said:
The s6 and s6 edge are exynos too but Dr.keetan here on xda and friedrich420 on echoerom forum succeded in porting them to the note 4 f variant which is a snapdragon. So it should not be impossible
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i wish it were possible to do this without breaking knox.
Knox is a security show stopper for me.

senectus said:
i wish it were possible to do this without breaking knox.
Knox is a security show stopper for me.
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Yes that would be nice

Zionator said:
And why wouldn't that be possible?
There where a lot of things devs said wouldn't be possible when the note 3 came out with the knoks chip but e still got our root sorted and able to flash custom roms and let alone rooting without triggering the knoks.
So I can assure you its possible but the more top devlepors that works together on it the better and quicker it will happen.
Sadly they ain't interested in doing so. They just working on roms for note 4 that are already working as that's easier.
Seems like we need a rough Dev to kick start this project.
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It surely is possible and it comes. Think of the S6 Edge ports.
But it will take time, until someone figures it out.

i have been looking into note 5 firmware and have a build that boots to bootanimation then reboots after 1-2 minutes but thats it

Of course it doesn't help that there is only an exynos note 5 and a good chunk of us has snapdragon
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See proof that air command is working on note 4 5.1.1 am still working on the port

allenjthomsen said:
See proof that air command is working on note 4 5.1.1 am still working on the port
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great man! Keep up the good work please!
It's sad to see Note 5 ports for the S6 and no ports yet for our beloved Note 4!

I really hope someone ports the Note 5 software to the note 4. I keep checking xda every couple of days in hope of something popping up. To me it made no sense porting the Note 5 software to the S6 when it has no S Pen???

allenjthomsen said:
See proof that air command is working on note 4 5.1.1 am still working on the port
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Lol as i see u have alot of N5 Apps its unreadable icons i know its related to new qmg lol anyway u can use my N5 new QMG converted to PNG its that's what u want mate
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i can only say that some one (i dont say name at the moment) have a working s6 edge 5.1.1 port on the sprint n4 and when its finished the rom will be released from him. but first we are tryng to get n5 aircommand working

geiti94 said:
i can only say that some one (i dont say name at the moment) have a working s6 edge 5.1.1 port on the sprint n4 and when its finished the rom will be released from him. but first we are tryng to get n5 aircommand working
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Lol i can guess & say who's [emoji14][emoji14] its sac23 lol
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Leak android 6.0.1 g900f

One user has received the update 9n a Galaxy S5 G900f.
Soon will have it it seems.
http://www.sammobile.com/2015/12/27...obably-released-by-mistake-for-the-galaxy-s5/
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That is some very good news.

well i saw the video and if this is really the mashmallow update for galaxy s5 it will be very disappointed, because the only new thing i see is the icons and the rest are still the exact as lollipop , and this sucks
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I think is from Algeria or Morocco or Tunisia French language
BUILD G900FXXUCOL4 or COK4

I really hope this is a very early version, because the leaked firmware is basically Lollipop S5 with new icons...
Hopefully the guy who received it cooperates in providing a ROM dump instead of trying to sell his phone.

it will be the same as lollipop with the diffrence of icons usual samsung bullsh-t good news is once we get it we can port s6 and s6 edge roms hopefully

I hope New Camera API is implement. so we can play with manual Camera.

i guess that it's a fake because theres another video on his channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw86a2-atEY <- same buildnumber -,-

warboss said:
i guess that it's a fake because theres another video on his channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw86a2-atEY <- same buildnumber -,-
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Hi , it not same buildnumber
in your youtube limk the version is: -- G900FXXU1COK4
and in this post the version is: -- G900FXXU1COL4

fake s*** he delete some comments

people seem to think that the latest android version will bring the latest touchwiz/features of the note 5 and s6 to the s5. it won't and why would you expect it? it's an old phone. samsung want you to pay for a new phone to get newer features

mikeyaj said:
people seem to think that the latest android version will bring the latest touchwiz/features of the note 5 and s6 to the s5. it won't and why would you expect it? it's an old phone. samsung want you to pay for a new phone to get newer features
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Correct
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warboss said:
i guess that it's a fake because theres another video on his channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw86a2-atEY <- same buildnumber -,-
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Not really, don't you think about the article on Sammobile?
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mikeyaj said:
people seem to think that the latest android version will bring the latest touchwiz/features of the note 5 and s6 to the s5. it won't and why would you expect it? it's an old phone. samsung want you to pay for a new phone to get newer features
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The S4 did get S5 UI and some of its features when it got updated to Lollipop

trettet said:
The S4 did get S5 UI and some of its features when it got updated to Lollipop
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I prefer the S5 UI, the icon images for example have more material design that it's successors *cough* *cough* the S6
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trettet said:
The S4 did get S5 UI and some of its features when it got updated to Lollipop
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so it didn't get the s5 features or ui
it got some bits and pieces
the s5 won't get anything of interest from the s6 or note 5

I would say that as long as we get 6.0.1 is a good thing. I mean is not like we're not going to run some custom ROM anyway. If it is on the latest android version we will probably be able to get some of if on all of the new features that marshmallow offers via mods.

Some tests on Galaxy 6 edge proved that Android 6 was much more multi threads processing better than Android 5 Lollipop. Hope the same things would come to our G900F
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The Marshmellow TouchWiz looks bad. When will Samsung come up with something cool?

ansariaamir_leo said:
The Marshmellow TouchWiz looks bad. When will Samsung come up with something cool?
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Never?
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Galaxy Note 5 OFFICIAL Nougat RELEASED, possible port for Galaxy Note 4 (N910C)?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b3IbkOrkYtE
The official Galaxy Note 5 Nougat firmware has been released on SamMobile. Since Nougat is the most complete Android version in existence while also improving battery life marginally, I think it would be amazing if someone could port the Galaxy Note 5 ROM for the Galaxy Note 4 International Exynos variant (N910C).:fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed:

Someone stop him..

beefx said:
Someone stop him..
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?? I'm just expressing my thoughts, I reckon it'd be a good idea. Why would you not want Nougat on your device? We finally have an official Nougat rom from Samsung for the Galaxy Note series, so now it would be possible to port it, right?

No, it's not possible. The Note 5 has completely different hardware.

gabripranzo said:
No, it's not possible. The Note 5 has completely different hardware.
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Hm, if that's the point why there are so many N5, N7 and S7 ports?

and2 said:
Hm, if that's the point why there are so many N5, N7 and S7 ports?
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They are all marshmallow based, the developers mix the codes and port apps, UI and so on.

gabripranzo said:
They are all marshmallow based, the developers mix the codes and port apps, UI and so on.
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OK. What about the Note 3 (Snapdragon)? There are n7, n5 and s7e ports. All different HW, chipset and OS version. I just wanna say nothing is imposible mate and the hopre dies last.

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Hm, if that's the point why there are so many N5, N7 and S7 ports?
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I don't have a Note 3. I suppose some device with similar hardware received marshmallow, so there was a base to port other firmwares.

We should wait for Galaxy Tab S2 9.7 because it has the same hardware of our Note 4 (Exynos) and it will have Nougat update.

villiamiguel said:
We should wait for Galaxy Tab S2 9.7 because it has the same hardware of our Note 4 (Exynos) and it will have Nougat update.
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And maybe someone knows when it is going to happen?

End of april lol

and2 said:
Hm, if that's the point why there are so many N5, N7 and S7 ports?
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difference in bootloaders, android 6.0 and android 7.0 have different bootloaders so it impossible to port. Devs will try to port Tab s2 firmware after android nougat release for it. coz N4 and Tab s2 have identical hardware.

Well i think thats not going to happen until note 4 will get an official nougat update because as far i know to run any nougat ported touchwiz roms on any variant of note 4 require a touchwiz nougat kernel and sadly none of the note 4 model will get nougat update.

Galaxy Note 5 OFFICIAL Nougat RELEASED, possible port for Galaxy Note 4 (N910C)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b3IbkOrkYtE
The official Galaxy Note 5 Nougat firmware has been released on SamMobile. Since Nougat is the most complete Android version in existence while also improving battery life marginally, I think it would be amazing if someone could port the Galaxy Note 5 ROM for the Galaxy Note 4 International Exynos variant (N910C).

Lol

Or the 910V!
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To port a certain firmware the device has to be on the same software level or the hardware should be the same eg: The note 7 "Grace UX" came out with marshmallow so devs were able to port it to the note 4. The next scenario is where the hardware is of the same. The note 5 has a 7420 exonys chip set while the note 4 has the 5433 chip set. So this is clearly impossible. Our best bet is the Samsung Tab s2 which has a exonys 5433 chipset and is due to receive nougat somewhere by the end of may

vishudha98 said:
To port a certain firmware the device has to be on the same software level or the hardware should be the same eg: The note 7 "Grace UX" came out with marshmallow so devs were able to port it to the note 4. The next scenario is where the hardware is of the same. The note 5 has a 7420 exonys chip set while the note 4 has the 5433 chip set. So this is clearly impossible. Our best bet is the Samsung Tab s2 which has a exonys 5433 chipset and is due to receive nougat somewhere by the end of may
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One thing that confuses me, is that devices like the Galaxy S4 and even the Galaxy S4 mini, have completely stable roms running Nougat, even though Samsung stopped updating those after Lollipop. I see AICP, ResurrectionRemix and all these other projects that create this amazingly rock stable rom for the devices, yet for the Exynos variant of the Galaxy Note 4, there doesn't seem to be any movement. :crying:

Xephyrex said:
One thing that confuses me, is that devices like the Galaxy S4 and even the Galaxy S4 mini, have completely stable roms running Nougat, even though Samsung stopped updating those after Lollipop. I see AICP, ResurrectionRemix and all these other projects that create this amazingly rock stable rom for the devices, yet for the Exynos variant of the Galaxy Note 4, there doesn't seem to be any movement. :crying:
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I used to own a samsung s4 myself before i switched to the note 4 and it was the i9505 (snapdragon variant). Android Open Source (AOSP) roms are possible only for snapdragon devices because the soc's are open source and exonys as we know is manufactured by samsung and samsung does not release the sources thats why AOSP roms are not easy to port to exonys variants. I regret switching phones because the s4 has so many stable aosp roms while the exonys variant's get nothing. Hope i answered your question

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I used to own a samsung s4 myself before i switched to the note 4 and it was the i9505 (snapdragon variant). Android Open Source (AOSP) roms are possible only for snapdragon devices because the soc's are open source and exonys as we know is manufactured by samsung and samsung does not release the sources thats why AOSP roms are not easy to port to exonys variants. I regret switching phones because the s4 has so many stable aosp roms while the exonys variant's get nothing. Hope i answered your question
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Ahh yes, I had a feeling it had something to with the chipsets. It's a shame, I paid full price recently to buy the Exynos variant specifically for modding. I chose Exynos over the Snapdragon variant because the Exynos chip is 64bit compared to the Snapdragon which is 32bit, so it seemed like a better choice given that the Android ecosystem is headed towards 64bit ever since Lollipop and so I would be future-proofing my device. Unfortunately now it seems Exynos is a lot more difficult to make roms for I guess it's almost like comparing the PS3 with the Xbox 360: PS3 has more power than the 360, but the PS3's CBE chip is so much more difficult to make games for. Here's hoping for a long and fruitful development life for the Exynos Galaxy Note 4 :fingers-crossed:

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Ahh yes, I had a feeling it had something to with the chipsets. It's a shame, I paid full price recently to buy the Exynos variant specifically for modding. I chose Exynos over the Snapdragon variant because the Exynos chip is 64bit compared to the Snapdragon which is 32bit, so it seemed like a better choice given that the Android ecosystem is headed towards 64bit ever since Lollipop and so I would be future-proofing my device. Unfortunately now it seems Exynos is a lot more difficult to make roms for I guess it's almost like comparing the PS3 with the Xbox 360: PS3 has more power than the 360, but the PS3's CBE chip is so much more difficult to make games for. Here's hoping for a long and fruitful development life for the Exynos Galaxy Note 4 :fingers-crossed:
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Also samsung doesnt advertise their exonys devices as 64 bit and marshmallow for the device is also a 32 bit os. In short samsung doesnt utilize the full capacity of the note 4's 64 bit chipset. But the advantage is that since the device and the chipset is made by the same company the phone is more fluid and responsive than its snapdragon counterpart. Something similar to googles pixel, software and hardware made by same company

vishudha98 said:
Also samsung doesnt advertise their exonys devices as 64 bit and marshmallow for the device is also a 32 bit os. In short samsung doesnt utilize the full capacity of the note 4's 64 bit chipset. But the advantage is that since the device and the chipset is made by the same company the phone is more fluid and responsive than its snapdragon counterpart. Something similar to googles pixel, software and hardware made by same company
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Out of curiosity, which rom have you found to be the best and most stable for the Exynos variant? Or are you using stock?

Xephyrex said:
Out of curiosity, which rom have you found to be the best and most stable for the Exynos variant? Or are you using stock?
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I regularly switch between stock and custom roms. The best ux based roms are Pirobot v6, Doola v12 and DN7 v0.1
If youre looking for something close to stock erobot v19 would be the best

vishudha98 said:
I regularly switch between stock and custom roms. The best ux based roms are Pirobot v6, Doola v12 and DN7 v0.1
If youre looking for something close to stock erobot v19 would be the best
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Yup, v19 seems to be the best. I've found that battery life is abysmal when on UX roms :/ plus, there are far too many bugs from DN7 that I tried. I stuck with erobot 19 and am using Samsung's GoodLock and it works amazingly well. To be honest, I'm not bothered about the GraceUX anymore; Samsung's GoodLock literally does it all while looking sleek. So I've found erobot + GoodLock is the best combo so far! Only downside, fingerprint lock screen doesn't seem to be functional, but other than that, everything else is golden. I was tempted to head back to stock rom but it seems that Samsung cloud doesn't allow the Galaxy Note 4 on stock rom to backup and restore music and other files from Samsung Cloud. The only way I've found Samsung Cloud's backup/restore to fully work is by using erobot and hence why I've stayed away from stock.

vishudha98 said:
I regularly switch between stock and custom roms. The best ux based roms are Pirobot v6, Doola v12 and DN7 v0.1
If youre looking for something close to stock erobot v19 would be the best
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There is something which I'd hoped you could help me with, I'm on erobot 19 as you know, for some reason the multiwindow tray keeps popping up randomly. It's the tray that pops up when you hold the back key but it seems to pop up randomly even when I'm not holding down the back key. Do you have any ideas how to stop that from happening without completely disabling multiwindow feature?

Xephyrex said:
There is something which I'd hoped you could help me with, I'm on erobot 19 as you know, for some reason the multiwindow tray keeps popping up randomly. It's the tray that pops up when you hold the back key but it seems to pop up randomly even when I'm not holding down the back key. Do you have any ideas how to stop that from happening without completely disabling multiwindow feature?
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I havent run into this issue when i was on erobot but that was v18 i havent tried v19 yet. sorry

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I havent run into this issue when i was on erobot but that was v18 i havent tried v19 yet. sorry
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I've noticed that whenever I receive notifications on my device and I am using it at the time, I would hear the notification sound (for example, received a new email) and then the multi-window tray opens up. Strange indeed.

Xephyrex said:
I've noticed that whenever I receive notifications on my device and I am using it at the time, I would hear the notification sound (for example, received a new email) and then the multi-window tray opens up. Strange indeed.
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Thats strange indeed. Also thats the old multi window isnt it? The new one is accessed through the app switcher

vishudha98 said:
Thats strange indeed. Also thats the old multi window isnt it? The new one is accessed through the app switcher
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I don't think it is the old one, i mean i can see the split screen option above the app card when in recents but then you also have the option to open the app tray which has a bunch of apps in it that you can open in pop-up view.
I would take a screenshot of it but the side multiwindow tray disappears when i try to.

Good lock is causing the popup. All versions after .10

raul6 said:
Good lock is causing the popup. All versions after .10
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Oh right, which version of GoodLock would you recommend then?

24.0.10 from apkmirror.com