If anyone has GPS working properly (i.e. When location is set to "device only". Can they please post which ROM and version?
All my searching around hasn't led me to a fix. I'm on Slimkat latest weekly right now... But would switch roms for working gps... But preferably not stock.
This worked for me... Not sure why:
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Try this, it helped me:
* Backup your installation
* Install stock rom, or restore a backup of stock and factory reset
* on stock, go through setup. Then start a gps app like Google maps
* you will be prompted with a dialog, stating location service was turned off and asking you if it would be turned on again. Answer yes.
* restore backup
*gps should now be fixed
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@r2mahara I'm just curious why you would apparently take any custom ROM over stock, what's the aversion, can you explain? I tried a couple of custom Roms and went back to stock. I'm just really curious.
That's a fair question. In the past when I owned previous phones, it was a matter of the manufacturer not updating the software on the phone.
However with the Moto G, the stock firmware is actually pretty good. Everything works... It's been a nightmare finding a ROM that has everything working consistently (GPS, Camera etc).
With things like Exposed modules nowadays, it's less necessary to install a custom ROM when looking for certain features - so that's now a viable option. It's a bit tricky finding the right exposed module to do what you want, if it exists and involves lots of reboots.
For example, I find it extremely useful customising my navbar and adding my own buttons to perform specific operations. With Exposed & Gravitybox, I think I can add 1 extra button, which doesn't cut it. Maybe there's another module that's better for this specific thing, maybe not - it takes lots of time to search and try them.
Some ROMS feel faster - but with high end processors these days that's less of an issue. It's nice having bloat removed, but one can do that oneself with root and TB for example.
So in short, there's less of a case these days. I've been using Slim for years now. I like the feel of it, and I guess I'm just used to the way things are laid out. I never thought about changing until all these weird camera and GPS issues (which seem difficult to fix because not everyone has them).
I have everything working now - so plan on testing new builds and coming back to the current setup if anything doesn't work. But I just might go back to stock until things stabilise a bit more.
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@r2mahara I'm just curious why you would apparently take any custom ROM over stock, what's the aversion, can you explain? I tried a couple of custom Roms and went back to stock. I'm just really curious.
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@r2mahara Thanks for the detailed reply. I am using stock 4.4.3 + xposed (modules DS battery saver, Greenify, gravity box) everything works and battery life is 2 days with average use. Its so good I won't upgrade further (it ain't broke so why try and fix it), that is unless the L version has substantial advantages. You mention xposed and the need to reboot. I believe that this is largely in the past. When I was experimenting and tweaking I don't recall having to reboot at all, or maybe I did the odd soft reboot which is quite quick? - I forget.
Oh, incidently there is a module available that claims to be able to make comprehensive changes to the navbar,
Here is the link
http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.gzplanet.xposed.xperianavbarbuttons
You wrote that everything is working now so this isn't an issue but I thought it was worth mentioning. Cheers!
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This worked for me... Not sure why:
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Which ROM do you recommend? I want to try this but I want to flash a rom via recovery. Thanks in advance.
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@r2mahara Thanks for the detailed reply. I am using stock 4.4.3 + xposed (modules DS battery saver, Greenify, gravity box) everything works and battery life is 2 days with average use. Its so good I won't upgrade further (it ain't broke so why try and fix it), that is unless the L version has substantial advantages. You mention xposed and the need to reboot. I believe that this is largely in the past. When I was experimenting and tweaking I don't recall having to reboot at all, or maybe I did the odd soft reboot which is quite quick? - I forget.
Oh, incidently there is a module available that claims to be able to make comprehensive changes to the navbar,
Here is the link
http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.gzplanet.xposed.xperianavbarbuttons
You wrote that everything is working now so this isn't an issue but I thought it was worth mentioning. Cheers!
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Ok, thanks - Noted about exposed/reboots. I also get about 2 days with slimkat + greenify + mostly on WiFi.
Will keep the link for future reference.
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Which ROM do you recommend? I want to try this but I want to flash a rom via recovery. Thanks in advance.
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The first thing I did when I installed CWM was to make a nandroid backup of the stock ROM - so I used that for the purposes of fixing GPS.
Perhaps there's a stock ROM on these forums that's CWM/TWRP-installable.
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Ok, thanks - Noted about exposed/reboots. I also get about 2 days with slimkat + greenify + mostly on WiFi.
Will keep the link for future reference.
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Hi, well at home on WiFi I get 4 - 5 days, so you might like to try the module DS battery saver, of course I normally use the charger at home but I was curious if DS was doing an effective job and spent a bit of time evaluating it. I was happy enough to keep using it and got the Pro version.
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Hey guys,
I have a VZW HTC One M8 with the following version details:
Cyanogenmod 11-20141112-snapshot-m12-m8
Unlocked bootloader
M8_WLV PVT SHIP S-OFF
CID-VZW__001
HBOOT-3.16.0.0000
RADIO-0.89.20.0222
OPENDSP-V26.2.2-00538-M8974.0106
OS-
eMMC-boot
This phone came to me with a clean Cyanogenmod install on it. I wiped it anyway to be sure. I have an S3 that I've been running CM11 on up until I got this phone so I'm no stranger to Cyanogenmod.
My issues appear to be randomly occurring and I cannot seem to pin down what is causing it or when it actually happens. Here are the various issues I'm seeing:
1. Screen fails to reorient when being turn - this happens system wide, even the home screen fails to reorient. Perhaps a problem reading the gyro sensor?
2. Lux values get stuck, usually at 45. Ambient light sensor?
3. Double tap to wake stops working - need to use the sleep/wake button to turn the screen on. Can still double tap the status bar to turn the screen off
4. Incorrect battery reporting - The battery appears to drain normally and at a consistent pace, however if the phone is shutoff or rebooted I will sometime see a huge drop when the phone boots back up.
I have a screenshot from the phone this afternoon but cannot post it (attachments fail to upload on this forum). I can probably PM it to you though.
I noticed if the phone gets to 5%, sometimes ~15% it will just turn off because the battery has actually died but the OS thinks differently.
The first 3 issues fix themselves after reboot.
Oh and I've noticed that the profiles feature doesn't work properly. If the ring mode is set to vibrate on the work profile, it will stay in vibrate even when it switches back to the default profile which is set to ring mode. The phone will not let me set custom notification sounds with Profiles enabled either. Example: Hangouts uses the notification sound as set by the default in Settings. I cannot change this. I can turn off Profiles and I can change the notification tone on Hangouts all day long.
Not quite sure what I should be looking at here so any guidance or suggestions would be much appreciated. Let me know if you need any more details.
You answered the question yourself in the second sentence of your post.
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You answered the question yourself in the second sentence of your post.
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beaups,
Was really hoping for a more descript answer. Can you please elaborate?
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beaups,
Was really hoping for a more descript answer. Can you please elaborate?
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You are running cm. Probably known cm bugs or possibly you need different firmware. Either way, there's no such thing as a hardware problem until it exists on stock software.
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You are running cm. Probably known cm bugs or possibly you need different firmware. Either way, there's no such thing as a hardware problem until it exists on stock software.
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I forgot to mention in my original post:
I already searched around for the various issues I'm having but was not able to find any mentioning of them in any known issues lists. Was hoping to see if any devs on here had suggestions on things to try.
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I forgot to mention in my original post:
I already searched around for the various issues I'm having but was not able to find any mentioning of them in any known issues lists. Was hoping to see if any devs on here had suggestions on things to try.
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Search better. This took me less than 5 minutes:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=56813202&postcount=3167
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=56733227&postcount=3140
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=56719654&postcount=3130
and many, many more all in that thread, which happens to be the CM thread for your phone.
Oh, and welcome to XDA
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Search better. This took me less than 5 minutes:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=56813202&postcount=3167
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=56733227&postcount=3140
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=56719654&postcount=3130
and many, many more all in that thread, which happens to be the CM thread for your phone.
Oh, and welcome to XDA
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Thanks for those links. I was looking in the official known problem lists for Cynogenmod for these issues to see if they actually confirmed anything. I will look at possibly installing a nightly and testing with that, but I'm a bit reluctant to go that route since this is my daily driver.
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Thanks for those links. I was looking in the official known problem lists for Cynogenmod for these issues to see if they actually confirmed anything. I will look at possibly installing a nightly and testing with that, but I'm a bit reluctant to go that route since this is my daily driver.
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If you are looking for stability, flash a sense based ROM. Its just the way it is.
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If you are looking for stability, flash a sense based ROM. Its just the way it is.
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^ Can't disagree with that, but I loathe the bloatware and manufacturer UI and skins they put on their devices, not to mention the freedom and functionality I lose out on by going back to a more or less stock experience. If I want stock non-CM, I'll just flash 5.0 GPE and see how that goes, but I've already tested with that as well and missed the functionality that CM brings. :/
Win/Lose.
Do you think the firmware (not the ROM/OS) is highly out of date and should be updated by now?
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^ Can't disagree with that, but I loathe the bloatware and manufacturer UI and skins they put on their devices, not to mention the freedom and functionality I lose out on by going back to a more or less stock experience. If I want stock non-CM, I'll just flash 5.0 GPE and see how that goes, but I've already tested with that as well and missed the functionality that CM brings. :/
Win/Lose.
Do you think the firmware (not the ROM/OS) is highly out of date and should be updated by now?
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Yes you should update that firmware. There's an emmc controller firmware update amongst other things included you should have. Have you tried gpe or stock with some of the xposed modules now available?
Hi all,
Ever since CM has been available for my devices, I have been using CM. Tried many other roms, but never really anything that I felt so comfortable with as CM.
Now that CM13 CAF has stopped development ( @myfluxi, you magnificent bastard! You created a great ROM!) I will probably stay on this one for a while but at a certain point move on.
So I started to look into Cataclysm a bit. Any ex-CM users here that went to Cataclysm and never looked back? Or the other way around?
Why exactly?
Please keep it civil, no fanboys or flamewars.
Why don't you try Cataclysm then make your own decision.
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Why don't you try Cataclysm then make your own decision.
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Because of my banking application, every time I try a new ROM (thus factory reset), I have to go back to my bank outside of my office hours, wait in line for forever and have the app reactivated.
So am I a bit reluctant to just switch to see if I like it. Was hoping for some replies from people that switched from one to the other and never went back.
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Because of my banking application, every time I try a new ROM (thus factory reset), I have to go back to my bank outside of my office hours, wait in line for forever and have the app reactivated.
So am I a bit reluctant to just switch to see if I like it. Was hoping for some replies from people that switched from one to the other and never went back.
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i rarely had any issues with Cataclysm. Very stable and smooth rom indeed. Dosent have theme engine though. I Also have been using Chroma and its been great for me. Many CM features inside it. I read somewher that CAFHammerhead will be still going. A different maintainer has stepped up
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I read somewher that CAFHammerhead will be still going. A different maintainer has stepped up
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can you tell me more?
In the CAF forum this information would be highly appreciated - including me!
arrgh
Maybe make a new thread for every rom available asking for comparisons between CM and each:good: particular rom.
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can you tell me more?
In the CAF forum this information would be highly appreciated - including me!
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus5/comments/41qrwr/hammerheadcaf_version_of_cyanogenmod_13_has_come/
Hope this helps a bit. Says it has been merged and this was a day ago.
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Maybe make a new thread for every rom available asking for comparisons between CM and each:good: particular rom.
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Yes, but I'm not interested in other roms other than giving Cataclysm a try. So I'll leave that up to others.
Anything else to add to the topic, or just here to live up to your signature?
I would go for Cataclysm over CM13 as Cataclysm feels more stable & smooth compared to CM13.
CM13 sometimes feels unstable as it is in nightly stage.
Surely the opinion might change when CM13 Stable will be available.
Don't get me wrong.
But CM has its own advantages.
I personally dislike CM because the performance has been worse thay it used to be, and idk why. I would prefer Cataclysm over CM and Chroma over Cataclysm, because the performance in Chroma is just great! I also use the elementalx kernel and limit my cpu to 2.0 ghz for battery. So Cataclysm is much more stable than CM, as CM has alot of problems with systemui right now, and with Cataclysm, you wont have an annoying 'Edit Tiles' button in your quick settings.
c20h25n3o said:
Because of my banking application, every time I try a new ROM (thus factory reset), I have to go back to my bank outside of my office hours, wait in line for forever and have the app reactivated.
So am I a bit reluctant to just switch to see if I like it. Was hoping for some replies from people that switched from one to the other and never went back.
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Why not use titanium backup option as I did? No problems in trying other ROMs
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk
PINki92 said:
Why not use titanium backup option as I did? No problems in trying other ROMs
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk
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Tried it (went to Catcalysm and loved it!) but the backup didn't work.
It brings me to the login page, type my pin and it just doesn't respond. So for this banking app it didn't work, sadly enough
Both the same?
I'm confused!Are these same?How's the battery backup?
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I'm confused!Are these same?How's the battery backup?
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Battery life for me went from barely being able to get through a working day on CM13 to getting home with 40 or sometimes even 50%+ battery on Cataclysm with EX kernel.
So battery was a huge improvement for me, which is what I needed.
Why is cataclysm thread closed? Did I miss something?
Thread is closed at the request of the dev/OP, atl4ntis.
But why without warning? I like catalysm mod and all it extra settings. I hope someone make same mod in the future, when new android version come out.
Can anybody link me to any? I see people in several posts referencing battery life and also temperature issues to be dependent on kernels and which one you chose, but I don't see any to choose lol. A popular one seems to be arde and a Google search doesn't bring anything relevant up. Is there a list of kernels somewhere? I think I'm starting to prefer stock actually. Is there some for stock and cm based?
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Can anybody link me to any? I see people in several posts referencing battery life and also temperature issues to be dependent on kernels and which one you chose, but I don't see any to choose lol. A popular one seems to be arde and a Google search doesn't bring anything relevant up. Is there a list of kernels somewhere? I think I'm starting to prefer stock actually. Is there some for stock and cm based?
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HERE
The Marionette said:
HERE
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Well I clearly stated that I Googled it. I wouldn't be posting this if I didn't. The only real relevant link appears to be the first one and it's in Spanish. Using Chrome to translate I still can't seem to make sense of an organize the links, nor do all of them work. Excuse me for thinking someone might have reorganized them somewhere in English.
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Well I clearly stated that I Googled it. I wouldn't be posting this if I didn't. The only real relevant link appears to be the first one and it's in Spanish. Using Chrome to translate I still can't seem to make sense of an organize the links, nor do all of them work. Excuse me for thinking someone might have reorganized them somewhere in English.
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I also had it translated to English,and I could understand it well.
Group 1 and Group 2 are for STOCK
CM and CM OC are for CM
Aren't most of them included in the ROMs? I've finally got it where I got CM12 not running that hot, at least to the touch anyway. The kernel auditor app still is showing numbers sorta high
I was under the thought that the ARDE kernels dont work with the newer type builds.
One other thing.....they are in .img formats. Isn't that for bootloaders and reocveries? Can you flash a kernel as an img file in twrp?
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Aren't most of them included in the ROMs? I've finally got it where I got CM12 not running that hot, at least to the touch anyway. The kernel auditor app still is showing numbers sorta high
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Flashify will do the job. Free in play store. ?
dongarritas said:
Flashify will do the job. Free in play store. ?
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I used to use it way back in the day with Samsung phones lol. So you can flash a kernel IMG with it? Would that delete TWRP? Or do these kernels have TWRP ingrained or something? Last time last phone I was flashing kernels they were just Zips. That's what I'm used to, I'm just a little confused why they are boot IMG's on this phone.
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I used to use it way back in the day with Samsung phones lol. So you can flash a kernel IMG with it? Would that delete TWRP? Or do these kernels have TWRP ingrained or something? Last time last phone I was flashing kernels they were just Zips. That's what I'm used to, I'm just a little confused why they are boot IMG's on this phone.
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LOT'S of differences in these Chinese phones vs the flagships. All in all, pretty solid phones, but better left with minimal modifying, as the hardware, software, and development just aren't on par. After trying 2 ROM's, with bad result, I am just going to stick with stock rooted, TWRP, and Xposed. You can already freeze/uninstall the little bloat there is, and because of no hardware method of booting into TWRP, risk vs gain just isn't worth it for me. Anyway, I don't think you will lose TWRP by flashing kernel. I'm not knocking any of the dev's......far from it! I just don't feel the need to spend so much time modifying what is such a small footprint (178 elements for me, vs 380 in touchwiz flagships!) for little, if any gain in battery or performance. Just one nerd's opinion.
dongarritas said:
LOT'S of differences in these Chinese phones vs the flagships. All in all, pretty solid phones, but better left with minimal modifying, as the hardware, software, and development just aren't on par. After trying 2 ROM's, with bad result, I am just going to stick with stock rooted, TWRP, and Xposed. You can already freeze/uninstall the little bloat there is, and because of no hardware method of booting into TWRP, risk vs gain just isn't worth it for me. Anyway, I don't think you will lose TWRP by flashing kernel. I'm not knocking any of the dev's......far from it! I just don't feel the need to spend so much time modifying what is such a small footprint (178 elements for me, vs 380 in touchwiz flagships!) for little, if any gain in battery or performance. Just one nerd's opinion.
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Try installing that arde OC kernel i mentioned in the other post. There's not much you even have to mess with with it, it's already set. It has helped out things majorly and I still get stock battery life even.
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Try installing that arde OC kernel i mentioned in the other post. There's not much you even have to mess with with it, it's already set. It has helped out things majorly and I still get stock battery life even.
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I flashed the kernel, and when it rebooted, it stayed stuck at Alcatel screen. Wouldn't respond to adb/fastboot commands, finally decided to try to reflash/update using update software, but when I turned it off, as soon as I plugged it into PC, it would boot to Alcatel screen. So then I tried to put it in download mode, and after many tries,got it there, but update tool would fail at5%, saying device not recognized. Finally, some how trying to get into download mode, it booted into TWRP. Yay!.....or so I thought. I wiped and then restored, and when it booted, back to Alcatel screen. Managed to get it back to TWRP after several tries, and it turned out that something unmounted system. Wiped, restored, mounted, wiped cache and dalvic, put it in freezer, as the only time it gets hot is when I wipe caches.....takes about 5 minutes to update/reboot. Now all is good, but I'm going to stick with stock rooted, as even out of the box I never experienced any lag. I have even underclocked with ROM toolbox pro, 1344 for top cores, 960 for bottom, powersave governor. Still no lag! :good: I have Cricket 60450,btw. This really is a different animal than the EVO and Galaxy phones I have been using since 2010. I dont understand how you can have such wildly different variables with similar hardware....I have a ZTE Warp Elite with 2gb RAM, and when i clear junk/caches it gets down to 10-16% memory usage, and tops out at about 65%. The Idol will clear to mid 40% and quickly gets to low 80%. Is the difference that bad between 5.0.2, and 5.1.1? Anyway, if you get stuck like I did, just keep powering off, and rebooting with power, vol up, down, both, and you can get into TWRP. Wish I could say there was a specific order/procedure to get there, but it just seemed to be a case of repetition. Hope this can be of help if anyone gets stuck at splash for whatever reason, and can't get phone to respond with PC. Also, have any cricket users used the upgrade tool, and if so, did that SIM unlock? Don't know if that's a separate firmware/chip that controls SIM lock. So much for my rambling adventures, but hopefully if someone gets stuck they can use my experience to get into recovery.
Well seeing as this died: https://forum.xda-developers.com/on...m-kernel-unofficial-lineageos-14-1-3-t3626403 time to move on.....
Im looking for a stable ROM:
* Bluetooth must work
* GPS must work
* Clean ROM; Some of the suggestions here already have Magisk or Xposed "built in". That's not very clean and it's intended use.
I need those two features for work.
I also need stability; No random stupid reboots with dev trying to figure out what it might be.
Obviously, features working: 4G,rotation, battery life, Wi-Fi....
Any suggestions?
Thank you
I'm in the same position but finding it hard to come up with a good reason. I tried AOSPext and had a couple of issues (banking apps detecting root) , then found I couldn't flash an update as Oreo encryption isn't supported by TWRP. I need an encrypted phone so i went back to Sultan's.
I think I'll just stick with it, but I'd be interested to hear a good rationale for upgrading...
Security patches?
Directive Oreo features?
i would personally recommend for AOSP Extended Rom, with Franco Kernel, performance is lag free, no stupid random reboot, no force closes only issue so far i am facing is with jio4gvoice its always closes once u change wifi, but this is common for all rom except, stock android 13.1
snandan.gupta said:
i would personally recommend for AOSP Extended Rom, with Franco Kernel, performance is lag free, no stupid random reboot, no force closes only issue so far i am facing is with jio4gvoice its always closes once u change wifi, but this is common for all rom except, stock android 13.1
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Looks really bloated plus it says it has issues with Xposed
And as i said, detects as rooted by banking apps. You can make them work with Magisk but do you really want to break the terms of your bank?
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And as i said, detects as rooted by banking apps. You can make them work with Magisk but do you really want to break the terms of your bank?
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I don't use any banking apps.
1754 posts and you asking this ? ... Cdroid, Resurrection Remix
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1754 posts and you asking this ? ... Cdroid, Resurrection Remix
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I work. I don't have time to be reading forums like the rest of you high schoolers. That's why I'm asking for advice from people that have time.
riahc3 said:
I work. I don't have time to be reading forums like the rest of you high schoolers. That's why I'm asking for advice from people that have time.
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lol i remember seeing Neil Armstrong walk on the moon ,can you say the same ?
riahc3 said:
Well seeing as this died: https://forum.xda-developers.com/on...m-kernel-unofficial-lineageos-14-1-3-t3626403 time to move on.....
Im looking for a stable ROM:
* Bluetooth must work
* GPS must work
I need those two features for work.
I also need stability; No random stupid reboots with dev trying to figure out what it might be.
Obviously, features working: 4G,rotation, battery life, Wi-Fi....
Any suggestions?
Thank you
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Try Dirty Unicorns, or Omni. Bluetooth MAC address wasn't an issue with those. And GPS wasn't a problem. It's your choice, man.
Try TugaPower. Have been on his ROM for the longest time and I can confirm it as a super stable option.
Link - https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/development/rom-tugapower-7-0-t3766296
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lol i remember seeing Neil Armstrong walk on the moon ,can you say the same ?
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Yes.
That statement basically is telling me you work a 9-5 basic job, which requires 0 mental effort as you repeat the same process every single day of you life until you die. Your job is also in danger as you can not only be replaced by a human but even maybe by a robot in a chain line.
My suggestion: doesn't matter if you are old, you only live one life and I doubt you are happy. Do what you really want to do in your life. Go back to studying and actually have a career.
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Yes.
That statement basically is telling me you work a 9-5 basic job, which requires 0 mental effort as you repeat the same process every single day of you life until you die. Your job is also in danger as you can not only be replaced by a human but even maybe by a robot in a chain line.
My suggestion: doesn't matter if you are old, you only live one life and I doubt you are happy. Do what you really want to do in your life. Go back to studying and actually have a career.
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Mods ain't gonna like this kinda shyt, man. Try LineageOS 15.1 official nightlies too. Been using it without any problems with either GPS or Bluetooth (headphones with MIC). Haven't tried AOSIP, could be worth a look but it's your call.
Candy is a good one too.
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Try TugaPower. Have been on his ROM for the longest time and I can confirm it as a super stable option.
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I can confirm, too.
Very stable, includes root with hiding options for banking / online gaming apps (Magisk).
Versions starting from 19.0 are based on official LineageOS.
GPS and/or Bluetooth problems are (at least on my OPO) solved.
Battery life is rather good; enabling deep doze with Greenify or similar apps I get about 4/4,5 hours of SOT.
Last, but not least, this ROM is updated very often (about on a weekly basis).
That statement basically is telling me you work a 9-5 basic job, which requires 0 mental effort as you repeat the same process every single day of you life until you die. Your job is also in danger as you can not only be replaced by a human but even maybe by a robot in a chain line.
My suggestion: doesn't matter if you are old, you only live one life and I doubt you are happy. Do what you really want to do in your life. Go back to studying and actually have a career.
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Being a snob doesn't get you brownie points. Am guessing that you are just a student pretending to be busy and thinks no end of himself. This response also states that you aren't too happy yourself else you wouldn't respond in such a manner.
Every job requires mental effort. Some push the boundaries of your imagination and some.. not so much. But one needs to work to understand this.
So stop behaving and responding like a spoilt brat and do some research on the ROMs next time. It will take less than 30min of your time.
I am running sultan's los 14, which is super duper stable and fine for daily use. I am considering to change for sth better or just newer -- do you still recommend TugaPower based on Oreo ?
I am running agent fabulas POSP 9.0 Superb rom
one of the stable roms so far i used was Candy6 (android 6.1 based). Yes it's full of stuff but incredible stable. Otherwise i suggest the latest Lineage os or some light AOSP rom.
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Well seeing as this died: https://forum.xda-developers.com/on...m-kernel-unofficial-lineageos-14-1-3-t3626403 time to move on.....
Im looking for a stable ROM:
* Bluetooth must work
* GPS must work
* Clean ROM; Some of the suggestions here already have Magisk or Xposed "built in". That's not very clean and it's intended use.
I need those two features for work.
I also need stability; No random stupid reboots with dev trying to figure out what it might be.
Obviously, features working: 4G,rotation, battery life, Wi-Fi....
Any suggestions?
Thank you
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It's not dead actually. On 4pda forum you can easily find builds with security patches and Lineage changes merged, otherwise completely stock compared to Sultan's builds. You can PM me if you don't know how to. I don't think we will ever get anything better in terms of camera and battery performance. I cannot see any improvement in moving to Pie or Oreo while developers don't even bother porting Sultan's amazing camera HAL and other kernel things.
For years I have rooted my phones, and have had just about all the OEM's at one time or another. Since I've had my Pixels, not so much. So I decided to Root my Pixel, and run a custom ROM for the weekend, and today, I had had enough, and went back to stock. It's just not for me anymore. I like for everything to work, and what I get from stock is just perfect for me. Why is everyone else still holding on?
I miss being a flash-a-holic lol. I would always flash alot of custom roms also and my fav was Pure Nexus. i'm currently stock and fine with it well i wanted to try Q so. I still wanted a Pure Pixel rom but it never happened.
I think pretty much the ability to properly backup and restore using Titanium Backup. Otherwise, I as well would be done with root. Sure would make the monthly updates easier...
I have always rooted my devices. From Nexus 6p, Pixel XL, Pixel 2XL, I never felt I needed to, they always ran great and did exactly what I needed. My favorite, including a 2 days battery was Pixel 2 XL.
However, with Pixel 3 XL, the battery, and now the lagging, has been a nightmare. It's like I am dealing with samsumg all over again, like it was with samsumgs, pockets pcs, etc...
I was about to root and flash a custom until I saw your post... which means, not even the custom roms will fix this horrible phone... thats sad... I always buy my pixels on launch date, but I will eagerly wait for the next one, but only buy it 3 or 4 months later, if I buy it. For now, I am now researching between the latest samsung, OPO and Huawei to replace my P3XL, I really can't take it anymore. What a waste of money in this phone, and is not even worth half of what I paid now....
I use a custom rom for customization (changing statusbar color, accent colors, customize reboot menu, change statusbar icons, etc). Use root so I can disable navbar and use pie controls, use tasker and other apps properly, enable fingerprint pay where it is not allowed, and many other things.
I admit on stock you can use tulsadiver's mods to change most of the things a custom rom does, but you have to redo it on every update.
Stock with root and ElememtalX kernel for the extra high brightness mode. Need it because I mount my phone to the handlebars of my motorcycle for Nav. It's ok without it, but so much better with it.
I held off for years before putting a custom ROM on my Pixels, but I finally relented because of some lag on my 3XL. Now I'm running the latest AOSiP with Kirisakura kernel, and everything works beautifully and better than stock. Those of you who are having issues and have nothing to lose should definitely try a custom ROM. I haven't yet found anything that doesn't function better than stock. It's been totally stable and fully functional for me. With better performance and more features, of course.
There are still a couple reasons that keep me flashing custom. Not as many as there used to be. I still enjoy it though. Just like switching Linux Distros. I do it when I'm bored. It's fun.
For me. It's roms. Kernels. Titanium. And ad blockers.
There are lots of reasons to still root. But to each there own.
What finally drove me away from custom ROMs is that devs would stop supporting my device as soon as a new flashier, newer, c00l3r device came out. Basic bugs wouldn't get fixed. They'd be switching forums every few months (XDA? Telegram? Google+?). I'd donate $100 and a month later my favorite features would stop working or be dropped.
In short, lack of long term (6-9 months "long term"?) basic stability in favor chasing the latest new toy. I get it, it's their free time, but that's why I donated, and this is why I left.
This is the first Android device I've had I've kept stock with exception to rooting and a few Magisk modules like ViPER4Android. Other than that, I have to admit I am pretty content with the stock experience.
After almost 3 years (starting with the OG PIxel and XL), I finally installed a custom ROM on the 3XL but left the 3 stock and rooted. I may go back to stock and rooted with Q coming. The biggest reason for me to quit swapping custom ROMs on these devices is that TWRP has really become nothing more than a zip flasher. Multiple slot issues and no real Nandroid functionality makes it so that a custom ROM just replaces stock if you are happy with it and support continues. The time to completely wipe and reconfigure after a custom install just isn't worth it more than once for me.
Data backs up fine on TWRP and restoring it gets back all your settings.
Ad-blocking, ad-blocking, and ad-blocking.
I just can't use a phone that shows adverts - they p1ss me off no end. Not only the fact they take up half the screen, and steal bandwidth, but the tracking is basically illegal but still done relentlessly.
21cdb said:
I held off for years before putting a custom ROM on my Pixels, but I finally relented because of some lag on my 3XL. Now I'm running the latest AOSiP with Kirisakura kernel, and everything works beautifully and better than stock. Those of you who are having issues and have nothing to lose should definitely try a custom ROM. I haven't yet found anything that doesn't function better than stock. It's been totally stable and fully functional for me. With better performance and more features, of course.
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Active edge, and Pixel stand doesn't work as it should. Also with all the custom ROM's I flashed they would just reboot randomly.
djcrystals said:
There are still a couple reasons that keep me flashing custom. Not as many as there used to be. I still enjoy it though. Just like switching Linux Distros. I do it when I'm bored. It's fun.
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I get that. It's one of the reasons that got me into it in the first place.
cantara256 said:
What finally drove me away from custom ROMs is that devs would stop supporting my device as soon as a new flashier, newer, c00l3r device came out. Basic bugs wouldn't get fixed. They'd be switching forums every few months (XDA? Telegram? Google+?). I'd donate $100 and a month later my favorite features would stop working or be dropped.
In short, lack of long term (6-9 months "long term"?) basic stability in favor chasing the latest new toy. I get it, it's their free time, but that's why I donated, and this is why I left.
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Honestly that's actually one of the advantages of still Rooting. Getting the latest software on a device that is no longer supported.
krs360 said:
Ad-blocking, ad-blocking, and ad-blocking.
I just can't use a phone that shows adverts - they p1ss me off no end. Not only the fact they take up half the screen, and steal bandwidth, but the tracking is basically illegal but still done relentlessly.
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dns.adguard.com
jmartin72 said:
Active edge, and Pixel stand doesn't work as it should. Also with all the custom ROM's I flashed they would just reboot randomly.
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Both features work great in the latest AOSiP build. Also haven't had any random reboots.
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dns.adguard.com
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That only works on wifi right? On mobile data it uses your providers DNS?