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I really like TouchWiz on GS3 but since we have no idea when VZ is going to approve the JB version of it (hopefully soon, but who knows), I like to know which current Rom you guys think is the best.
Of course this is very subjective, but everything is on the table.
I'm looking for answers along the lines of:
I prefer rom-X
Pros: its fast, unbloated and stable
Cons: 3G/4G handoff is hit or miss, camera app is poor.
Something along those lines would be great.
Thanks in advance
sololhj said:
I really like TouchWiz on GS3 but since we have no idea when VZ is going to approve the JB version of it (hopefully soon, but who knows), I like to know which current Rom you guys think is the best.
Of course this is very subjective, but everything is on the table.
I'm looking for answers along the lines of:
I prefer rom-X
Pros: its fast, unbloated and stable
Cons: 3G/4G handoff is hit or miss, camera app is poor.
Something along those lines would be great.
Thanks in advance
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Flash each and try it yourself. JB ROMs seem to have random issues that some people experience. Nandroid your current setup and give a few a shot. It's the best way to find out what works for you, and not for others.
Personally I like clean rom the best.
Everything works on the 2.5 version. Extremely stable, great battery life.
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mustbepbs said:
Flash each and try it yourself. JB ROMs seem to have random issues that some people experience. Nandroid your current setup and give a few a shot. It's the best way to find out what works for you, and not for others.
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Of course I'm already doing that, I'm looking at JellyWiz now. However it can take days to put a rom through its paces
I just wanted to get some opinions from others. For example I might only talk on my phone once or twice a month(I mostly use sms). I wouldn't want to leave town, decide to make a phone call and find out that the 9 button on the dialer doesn't work. Conversely, for the life of me I can't figure out why anyone would want to use voice search (S-voice, Siri, whatever). If that happens to be broken in a specific rom I couldn't care less.
sololhj said:
Of course I'm already doing that, I'm looking at JellyWiz now. However it can take days to put a rom through its paces
I just wanted to get some opinions from others. For example I might only talk on my phone once or twice a month(I mostly use sms). I wouldn't want to leave town, decide to make a phone call and find out that the 9 button on the dialer doesn't work. Conversely, for the life of me I can't figure out why anyone would want to use voice search (S-voice, Siri, whatever). If that happens to be broken in a specific rom I couldn't care less.
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I agree with you. However, not everyone is experiencing the same issues as everyone else. You've got to see what debilitating issues your phone has
Jellywiz is definitely top notch. Has all the amenities that I wanted in a jb touchwiz rom. Coming from a galaxy nexus, its as close to perfection as I could get. But like its been said, try them out for yourself
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Jellywiz is the best in my opinion. It's super fast and stable, I'd use it on a daily basis but I'm not a fan of TouchWiz.
hank3fan said:
Personally I like clean rom the best.
Everything works on the 2.5 version. Extremely stable, great battery life.
Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk 2
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Cleanrom is an ICS touchwiz rom. It should be very stable.
Jellybean is being built without source, Jellywiz has been running great. Minor flaws but they vary from person to person, phone to phone. The best way is to backup and give them a try!! Your the only one that can decide what's stable enough for you.
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hank3fan said:
Personally I like clean rom the best.
Everything works on the 2.5 version. Extremely stable, great battery life.
Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk 2
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To bad that aint a jelly bean rom. Scott hasnt developed a jelly bean rom yet. Clean Rom 2.5 is ICS
Bought my 10 year old this tablet last year for Xmas and it's laggy as all get out IMO. Love my android phones and will never switch, but I also love by iPad /gasp!
I am wondering if unlocking and rom'ing this thing will really make enough difference.
I have rooted and rom'ed every phone I have ever had, but I also use them daily so I get to play around with roms and figure out whats stable and works really well. I am also a little nervous about this thing, so many instructions and various ways to do things depending on which update your on.
The tab is 4.2.1 10.6.1.24.5
Any opinions on this and/or suggestions on what roms to try out if I go for it?
arcsum68 said:
Bought my 10 year old this tablet last year for Xmas and it's laggy as all get out IMO. Love my android phones and will never switch, but I also love by iPad /gasp!
I am wondering if unlocking and rom'ing this thing will really make enough difference.
I have rooted and rom'ed every phone I have ever had, but I also use them daily so I get to play around with roms and figure out whats stable and works really well. I am also a little nervous about this thing, so many instructions and various ways to do things depending on which update your on.
The tab is 4.2.1 10.6.1.24.5
Any opinions on this and/or suggestions on what roms to try out if I go for it?
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Unlocking and flashing custom ROMs is a major improvement over stock. If you want stability and performance, CROMi. If you want performance and cutting edge, CM or another KK ROM.
Just be careful about what to flash and always ask questions is there is any doubt.
cmendonc2 said:
Unlocking and flashing custom ROMs is a major improvement over stock. If you want stability and performance, CROMi. If you want performance and cutting edge, CM or another KK ROM.
Just be careful about what to flash and always ask questions is there is any doubt.
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Thanks, think I will check it out. Wish there was a path back to stock though.
arcsum68 said:
Thanks, think I will check it out. Wish there was a path back to stock though.
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You can always reflash the stock ROM to go back to stock, but only if you haven't bricked your tablet.
Made a backup of the stock unrooted rom, then rooted and backed up the apps. Loaded up Cromi and all is working well. So far I cant say it's that much of an improvement, with the exception of browsing. Flash will be nice too.
Should I feel like its a huge improvement? Maybe I needed to pick a different kernel.
Hi I came from the Nexus 5 community. Sorry if my understanding of the Oneplus is not up to the standard. Just want to know if the Android 5.0 custom ROMs are ok to be flashed? Do they contain any major bugs and are they good to be considered to be as daily driver?
I use it as daily ROM, and i don't got any problems yet, i update my phone once a week.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/development/rom-resurrection-remix-lp-5-2-0-t2971715
CalamitySir said:
Hi I came from the Nexus 5 community. Sorry if my understanding of the Oneplus is not up to the standard. Just want to know if the Android 5.0 custom ROMs are ok to be flashed? Do they contain any major bugs and are they good to be considered to be as daily driver?
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Read the OP and the last ten pages or so of the thread of the ROM you want to flash.
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CalamitySir said:
Hi I came from the Nexus 5 community. Sorry if my understanding of the Oneplus is not up to the standard. Just want to know if the Android 5.0 custom ROMs are ok to be flashed? Do they contain any major bugs and are they good to be considered to be as daily driver?
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Please keep in mind the disclaimers "Alpha Version....". I use CRDroid 5.01-20141211-bacon as my DD. Great Battery life.
I use temasek unofficial cm12 as daily driver for about a month now no problems. It also gets updated very regularly like every day pretty much with new fixes
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shadowman110 said:
I use it as daily ROM, and i don't got any problems yet, i update my phone once a week.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/development/rom-resurrection-remix-lp-5-2-0-t2971715
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I'm using cm-12-20141220-UNOFFICIAL-bacon and the main issue I have is with the camera:
1. Using Cyanogen official camera APK, is slow / laggy and basically not great to use.
2. Shoot a 4k video and It seems that the 4k playback is laggy as hell and pretty much not usable. I use MX Player and I can't get H/W to work. But as mentioned, taking a video on 4K is slow while actually filming.
3. If you try to use any 3rd party camera app with Flash on, you'll get split exposure on a single image. Which means that you have to use CM camera, but again, this is a slow to operate. You can feel it's not smooth like using Google Camera.
4. If you use google camera to take 4K video, you'd still get the slowness while filming and playback is lagging all over.
All in all, this is my main complaint on using this phone.
Can anyone confirm these issues?
ek69 said:
I use temasek unofficial cm12 as daily driver for about a month now no problems. It also gets updated very regularly like every day pretty much with new fixes
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Same here. Very stable for a DD.
CalamitySir said:
Hi I came from the Nexus 5 community. Sorry if my understanding of the Oneplus is not up to the standard. Just want to know if the Android 5.0 custom ROMs are ok to be flashed? Do they contain any major bugs and are they good to be considered to be as daily driver?
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Most of the bugs have been mentioned on the last ten pages of THIS thread. For me, the slightly regressed battery life and the audio issues were enough to drive me back to CM11s. It is good for a Alpha though
Galactus said:
Most of the bugs have been mentioned on the last ten pages of THIS thread. For me, the slightly regressed battery life and the audio issues were enough to drive me back to CM11s. It is good for a Alpha though
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What's the best 11s ROM/kernel comno in your opinion
paniro187 said:
What's the best 11s ROM/kernel comno in your opinion
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Stock CM11s or Calkulins version alongside stock or Franco's kernel. Should be good with either.
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Pretty awesome. Stock ROM. I'm reluctant to use the the Franco kernel because it said I have to change the build prop to keep root. Which I have no idea how to do
So, just received my new OPO yesterday in the mail. Immediately I unlocked it and rooted it. Then I went into doing some research about which ROM/kernel combination is the best on this forum. I don't know too much about flashing and all of that so I didn't want any ROMS that were too different from the vanilla (stock) lollipop look and feel. I've watched videos and flashed CM12 nightlies (including installing CyanDelta, to update the nightlies) and the AK kernel which a lot of people have been using. I have a couple questions for you and would appreciate it if you could respond to each of them stated bellow:
1. The camera on this ROM seems to be pretty poor. The stock camera app (not the google camera app) takes pictures but the quality is poor. I'm coming from an iphone 5 which had a worse spec'd camera but the performance was better. I'm guessing its the software behind IOS that made it good. But is there a ROM or something i could do to improve the camera's image quality? It looks good before taking it but after wards when i go back to look at the photo it comes out terribly blurry. I need to figure this out and see if its a defect in my unit or if its normal.
2. Which ROM/kernel do you suggest as something stable. I want one with good battery life but still gives me buttery smooth performance. I also want it as stock lollipop as possible. I'm currently running CM12 nightly (2/21) with AK kernel as stated before. And which kernel settings do you suggest?
3. I use WugFresh's bacon tool kit to flash roms and to root and everything and i was wondering if there was a way to have an app automatically install roms and kernels for me. I've heard of Titanium Backup but i'm not too familiar with its features. Can you suggest a program or app that would make the process simple and user friendly?
Before flaming me please understand that I HAVE read through many posts and ROMS and would personally like to have my questions answered in one complete post.
Thank you!
served24 said:
So, just received my new OPO yesterday in the mail. Immediately I unlocked it and rooted it. Then I went into doing some research about which ROM/kernel combination is the best on this forum. I don't know too much about flashing and all of that so I didn't want any ROMS that were too different from the vanilla (stock) lollipop look and feel. I've watched videos and flashed CM12 nightlies (including installing CyanDelta, to update the nightlies) and the AK kernel which a lot of people have been using. I have a couple questions for you and would appreciate it if you could respond to each of them stated bellow:
1. The camera on this ROM seems to be pretty poor. The stock camera app (not the google camera app) takes pictures but the quality is poor. I'm coming from an iphone 5 which had a worse spec'd camera but the performance was better. I'm guessing its the software behind IOS that made it good. But is there a ROM or something i could do to improve the camera's image quality? It looks good before taking it but after wards when i go back to look at the photo it comes out terribly blurry. I need to figure this out and see if its a defect in my unit or if its normal.
2. Which ROM/kernel do you suggest as something stable. I want one with good battery life but still gives me buttery smooth performance. I also want it as stock lollipop as possible. I'm currently running CM12 nightly (2/21) with AK kernel as stated before. And which kernel settings do you suggest?
3. I use WugFresh's bacon tool kit to flash roms and to root and everything and i was wondering if there was a way to have an app automatically install roms and kernels for me. I've heard of Titanium Backup but i'm not too familiar with its features. Can you suggest a program or app that would make the process simple and user friendly?
Before flaming me please understand that I HAVE read through many posts and ROMS and would personally like to have my questions answered in one complete post.
Thank you!
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1. Changing ROMs will have no effect on the camera performance. I had taken some really outstanding photos with this camera though, and so have many others (there's a photo sharing thread in the general section if you'd like to see them). Can you show some examples of bad photos you've taken?
2. There's an entire thread dedicated to this subject, it's a sticky in the general section. Take a look if you really want guidance. But you must remember it's impossible to answer because what one person likes the next person will hate. You're just going to get one hundred different opinions. The moral of this story? Test for yourself and find out.
3. Why are you using a toolkit in the first place? It really isn't necessary. Plus, it's allowing you to do things to your device without actually knowing what's going on. You're bypassing some really crucial learning and experience, and it's this much needed experience that will get you out of trouble in future. Which leads me to the next point, toolkits cause problems, just look through the q&a section and you'll see thread after thread of people saying "I was doing X with this toolkit and now my phone won't boot". Flashing ROMs is simple, flashing kernels is simple, even using fastboot to flash the stock images is simple, a monkey could do these things. It might seem daunting at first but after a couple of times you'll be completely comfortable doing it. Noobs use toolkits, and those noobs that continue to use toolkits will continue to be noobs unless they take some initiative and get their hands a little dirty. If you need help I have a very easy to understand guide thread here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2839471
Anyway, there are apps that will flash ROMs for you, but do not use them. They are unreliable and end up bricking phones. It only takes a minute to flash a ROM/kernel in your recovery anyway, and at least you know you're doing it right.
That should answer all of your questions, and if you have any more please do ask.
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One thing I forgot to mention. Titanium Backup is probably the single most important app you can have on a rooted phone. It has nothing to do with flashing ROMs, bit it's incredibly important if you are flashing ROMs. You can use it to backup your user apps (along with their data) so when your switch ROMs you can just restore those app backups easily. It has the ability to backup system apps and system data too, but this is something that should generally be left alone when switching ROMs unless you want major problems.
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CM12 + AK + ColorOS Camera Port
MrColdbird said:
CM12 + AK + ColorOS Camera Port
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This is actually EXACTLY my current build. I love the camera too. My battery life is pretty good. Performance is good. What's the difference between ak and Franco kernel? Also, what kernel settings are you running on? What's your battery life on average?
Well, I'm sure this topic has be chewed thousands of times and then chewed again a thousand times more...
So I apologize for that in advance.
But I'm looking for a ROM for my OPO that I will settle with. And the Kernel which works best with it.
I was originally on CM11s (stock) and then tried a lot of different ones during the last few months. I'm currently running MAHDI ROM because it gave me a lot of features which have been interesting enough at the beginning but which I realistically don't need anymore. At least not most of them. And the main reason I don't wanna stay with MAHDI is the amount of crashes I'm having lately with almost any app I'm using including 'Contacts' which crashes often when I just answer the phone call. The phone restarts on it's own, volume bars are all messed up etc. So to sum up, I want to change.
Oxygen OS is not the one I'd like due to the lack of features. I don't need much features that MAHDI offers but I still need some which Oxygen OS does not provide. At all.
I'm planning to change to CM12 (official) and stay there. However, I've heard plenty of bad reviews regarding stability issues, battery extensive drain and some others. How legit are all those reviews? Is it all facts or it's selective like most of the issues users report? Mentioning CM12, I've heard that certain Kernels fix most of the issues, especially the stability ones and the battery drain issue. Please note that battery is quite important to me. I was quite happy with CM11s, not so much with MAHDI but then again, it's not awful. Which kernel works best with CM12 regarding stability and battery life?
Or there are better ROMs than CM12 regarding stability and battery life while not lacking in features?
Again, I know there have been plenty of topics and posts about it but I'd like some help here as I can't dig through thousands of topics and millions of posts to find the proper answer I'm looking for.
Thanks in advance.
There's a ROM review thread here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/best-favorite-rom-kernel-roll-thread-t2886021
My personal favourite is Exodus though. The only reason I'm not on it right now is because it isn't at 5.1 yet (although they say the update is coming in the next days). You don't need a custom kernel with Exodus, the stock kernel performs really well. It's packed full of great features, it's original development too which means it isn't just cherry-picked features. Plus there's a new feature being implemented called Morph that they say is going to be incredible.
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Alright, thanks.
Then I'll wait for the 5.1 version of Exodus and try it out. Which is the best place/topic to follow in order to get notified when it comes out?
Fidel Castro said:
Alright, thanks.
Then I'll wait for the 5.1 version of Exodus and try it out. Which is the best place/topic to follow in order to get notified when it comes out?
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Try to use the search function...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/orig-development/official-vaniraosp-t2890749
If I get the 5.0.2 version now... could I just update to the 5.1 version or I'll have to flash it again once it comes out?
Fidel Castro said:
If I get the 5.0.2 version now... could I just update to the 5.1 version or I'll have to flash it again once it comes out?
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You'll probably have to clean flash it.
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Alright, thanks.
I guess I'll wait for the 5.1 version then.