moto x ROMs on MAXX - Droid Ultra Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I realize most ROMs should work as these are basically the same phones, but when I loaded the Krypton ROM I had on-screen nav buttons. Is there any way to eliminate the buttons on the screen and use the MAXX physical buttons?
Thanks in advance

Carrzy said:
I realize most ROMs should work as these are basically the same phones, but when I loaded the Krypton ROM I had on-screen nav buttons. Is there any way to eliminate the buttons on the screen and use the MAXX physical buttons?
Thanks in advance
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Moto X roms like mine here?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2828366

Topsnake said:
Moto X roms like mine here?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2828366
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you called it a "oiled up sex machine that sometimes blows it knee out" lol
alrighty I'll give it a whirl but just curious as to the extensive install process. Why not just a clean zip install?

Carrzy said:
you called it a "oiled up sex machine that sometimes blows it knee out" lol
alrighty I'll give it a whirl but just curious as to the extensive install process. Why not just a clean zip install?
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IMHO cleaner install and I'm too lazy to package it in a zip.

Topsnake said:
IMHO cleaner install and I'm too lazy to package it in a zip.
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fair enough. Thanks for the support!

are you guys having good experiences using other X roms asides from what Topsnake has put together?

I've been using this-> http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x/development/rom-unofficial-nightly-lollipop-5-0-t2960768
Currently on this-> http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x/development/rom-liquidsmooth-v3-1-moto-x-ghost-t2781356
They are working ok for me on my Droid Maxx... Have tried several of the Moto-x ROMs.

rdenova said:
I've been using this-> http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x/development/rom-unofficial-nightly-lollipop-5-0-t2960768
Currently on this-> http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x/development/rom-liquidsmooth-v3-1-moto-x-ghost-t2781356
They are working ok for me on my Droid Maxx... Have tried several of the Moto-x ROMs.
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Generally you just run into issues with having on screen keys instead of the physical ones.

I agree, the buttons took a little getting used to but there have been no "issues" enough to not use as a DD. The only thing I noticed was the speaker toggle issue. The apk that was written to take care of it, does so no problems there. I miss xposed and ROMToolbox but everything seems operational. I like the LiquidSmooth ROM for the center colored clock but, all the 5.0 ROMs are pretty much the same other than the clock. LS has not been updated since 11/30 - I'll probably stick with the one that gets the most often updates like Joe-Tech.

I install this zip with any 4.4.4 or 5.0 rom for the moto x i install on my maxx. It removes the nav bar and enables the hardware buttons. The keys are mapped a little different, but its easy to get used to. Just make sure you turn off "merge tabs and apps" in chrome settings to get your page tab back by the address bar.

appletonpunk said:
I install this zip with any 4.4.4 or 5.0 rom for the moto x i install on my maxx.
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This zip is not needed for 5.0 ROM's - only 4.4x. But it is nice to have to Maxx hardware keys active and model shows up as xt1080m

Its not needed, but why use the nav bar when we have hardware buttons. Hope we get official lollipop soon.

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Mod nav buttons?

Is there any way to change the nav keys to be smaller and add a menu button?
pretty much all custom ROMs have this, but there aren't any stable ones yet, and I am thinking there might be a framework.res or systemui.apk mod I can make to at least do that much. I hate those big buttons taking up my screen real estate..
I also want to be able to mod this, but it looks like it requires a ROM.
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Zandeer said:
I also want to be able to mod this, but it looks like it requires a ROM.
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The Nexus 4 had a flashable zip that just modified some framework files I believe that you could flash over stock before this was incorporated into every major ROM.
orangekid said:
Is there any way to change the nav keys to be smaller and add a menu button?
pretty much all custom ROMs have this, but there aren't any stable ones yet, and I am thinking there might be a framework.res or systemui.apk mod I can make to at least do that much. I hate those big buttons taking up my screen real estate..
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You could download softkeyz from the play store. It's great for edition the nav keys if your phone is rooted. I use it all the time on my n4.
orangekid said:
The Nexus 4 had a flashable zip that just modified some framework files I believe that you could flash over stock before this was incorporated into every major ROM.
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It'll definitely come, but you're gonna need to be patient. A LOT of people don't even have the phones in their hands yet. Give it a few weeks, let the devs get a chance to work on the phone, and then you'll start seeing the customization options.
contagous said:
You could download softkeyz from the play store. It's great for edition the nav keys if your phone is rooted. I use it all the time on my n4.
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I'll check it out, thanks for the heads up
Vincent Law said:
It'll definitely come, but you're gonna need to be patient. A LOT of people don't even have the phones in their hands yet. Give it a few weeks, let the devs get a chance to work on the phone, and then you'll start seeing the customization options.
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Well I'm not looking for spoon feeding. If someone did it for the Nexus 4, just a tip on which files to mod etc..
In jellybean the navbar pngs were in systemui/res/drawable-*dpiHere*
They're named something like
ic_sysbar_home.png iirc.
You could try editing them in Ps and replace the old ones with edited ones.
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Chromium_ said:
In jellybean the navbar pngs were in systemui/res/drawable-*dpiHere*
They're named something like
ic_sysbar_home.png iirc.
You could try editing them in Ps and replace the old ones with edited ones.
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That's the info I was looking for, I'll go ahead and decompile systemui.apk and go from there.
Interested in this also. If I could just shrink down the size that would be good enough. I had a zip for my ATT LGG2 that did this perfectly. But not sure it will work on N5?
contagous said:
You could download softkeyz from the play store. It's great for edition the nav keys if your phone is rooted. I use it all the time on my n4.
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Does Softkeyz allow you to adjust the size of the keys too or just color and arrangement etc?
Thanks
WMguy said:
Does Softkeyz allow you to adjust the size of the keys too or just color and arrangement etc?
Thanks
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It simply changes the actual image (png file) of the softkey, so if you select an image that is smaller, the softkey will subsequently be smaller.
WMguy said:
Does Softkeyz allow you to adjust the size of the keys too or just color and arrangement etc?
Thanks
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Honestly i can't remember but i think it allowed custom images so my guess is you can make an image within a size limit and it should be fine if you cant change the size of the standards.
I have set my n4 back to factory for my girlfriend and my n5 doesn't have it on yet so can't check right now.
contagous said:
Honestly i can't remember but i think it allowed custom images so my guess is you can make an image within a size limit and it should be fine if you cant change the size of the standards.
I have set my n4 back to factory for my girlfriend and my n5 doesn't have it on yet so can't check right now.
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Softkeyz doesn't appear to support 4.4 yet.
I'll gladly donate to anyone who can shrink down the navbar size on the Nexus 5. And/Or make it transparent on third party launchers. (Nova)
Here's the thread from the LGG2. I doubt it's too hard to do.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2454782
Check out Candyshop thread in the Themes section, looks really promising right now.
orangekid said:
Is there any way to change the nav keys to be smaller and add a menu button?
pretty much all custom ROMs have this, but there aren't any stable ones yet, and I am thinking there might be a framework.res or systemui.apk mod I can make to at least do that much. I hate those big buttons taking up my screen real estate..
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You can use UDN or SoftKeyZ . Both of these work flawlessly

[ROM][4.4.2] MIUI V5 4.9.21 - Digitalhigh Edition

Oh snap! It's that time of year again, kids.
What time, pappa Digitalhigh, what time?
Why, it's MIUI time, children!
What is MIUI?
MIUI is a Chinese ROM. Well, not just any ROM, but the most widely used ROM in the damned country.
Essentially, it's *kind of* an IOS clone...but not really. Or maybe like, if Android and iOS got drunk enough one night to get busy, and that resulted in some kind of bastard wunderOS that has a lot of the sexy sensibility of iOS, minus all the stick-up-the-buttedness that comes with it. It has a full suite of custom software, is 100% themeable, and gets weekly updates.
And it's fast.
Now, as this is my first ever release of this for the M8, please be patient as I get settled into MIUI on this device. As the days and weeks progress, I guarantee you I will be spanking in every goodie I know about for MIUI, and some others I've learned about since then.
In testing so far, I know audio, camera, video recording, phone, and 3g/LTE data work. 3G may be a bit spotty as this is based on GPE and I haven't gotten the data drop fix in yet. But it works, and it works smoothly!
I have yet to test bluetooth, headphones, etc...but this is based on the GSM version by @JTJTJ here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-one-m8/development/rom-miui-v5-htc-one-m8-t2871602
Kernel Source/GPL:
MIUI Patchrom: http://github.com/MiCode
HTC Stock GPE Source: http://www.htcdev.com/devcenter/downloads
Download:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B0OpOqUNqeKkU2pzQ2d4Nm92RVU&usp=sharing
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23681161096069603
MD5: a0d87fa739cc232cc02dcbef912d7426
And as usual, I'll be fleshing out the thread and adding more stuff as time goes on...
I'll take this...
This one too...
Thank you, been waiting a long time
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Will this work with the new firmware.
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Flashing now I'll give you an update on what works and what doesn't. Very excited and was waiting for thing for VZW
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Make sure you do a full wipe before flashing rom including internal storage. Cell coverage is spotty and creating a miui account from set up does not work. Connection to WiFi takes a while the first time but eventually connects. Headphones, speakers and bluetooth do work for me, how ever certain parts of the ROM are still in chinese
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After Flashing Gapps google keyboard crashes and no longer works
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Everything is currently working flawless after enabling LTE, nav bar, and a keybaord.
jake.99x3 said:
Flashing now I'll give you an update on what works and what doesn't. Very excited and was waiting for thing for VZW
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Cool beans. I'm downloading now. Report back later.
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Ohh..excited to see this on the m8
awesome job!
One question, how do I get a nav bar instead of the floating back button like when iOS power button breaks
andybones said:
awesome job!
One question, how do I get a nav bar instead of the floating back button like when iOS power button breaks
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Wondering the same thing. Do you if there is an option for this already as I know that the gsm version has been floating around for a couple weeks so they may have come up with a nav bar.
And what did you do for a keyboard. I just adb pushed swiftkey and installed that
jake.99x3 said:
Wondering the same thing. Do you if there is an option for this already as I know that the gsm version has been floating around for a couple weeks so they may have come up with a nav bar.
And what did you do for a keyboard. I just adb pushed swiftkey and installed that
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I'm thinking a build.prop. edit might bring them up. Or generic.kl file
build.prop edit did the trick
jdeloach said:
build.prop edit did the trick
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Which file did you edit.
sent from me to you.
build.prop
qemu.hw.mainkeys=O
By default it is set to 1
It needs to be 0
jdeloach said:
build.prop edit did the trick
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Damn I miss miui. Last build I used was on my droid x. Can't wait to give this a whirl. What's with the floating back button? That may annoy me. Def, we should have the full set of soft keys instead if possible.
How's it running for you?
Awesome, thanks for this! I haven't used MIUI for ages.
BTW, I love your OPs, always good for a laugh!
It's pretty solid I'd give it a 8/10 for a first build however 4G is not working at all for me. 3G works great along with wifi, I haven't noticed any other problems and am liking the ROM. Does take some getting used to though.
Heeeccccckkkk yyyeeeaaaaa ... thanks so much @digitalhigh
jdeloach said:
build.prop
qemu.hw.mainkeys=O
By default it is set to 1
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Thank you
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jake.99x3 said:
It's pretty solid I'd give it a 8/10 for a first build however 4G is not working at all for me. 3G works great along with wifi, I haven't noticed any other problems and am liking the ROM. Does take some getting used to though.
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You have to go into network settings and pick lte/cdma manually...then it should work. I'm working on it now.

Tesla Rom lovers?

Just letting everybody know that their has been a Tesla ROM developed for Clark. Their is a test version only right now but its still bad ass! Go to android file host and search it. I'm sure we will see it posted to XDA sooner then later.
Great news!
I really liked their rom and used it on my Samsung Galaxy S2.
It was awesome!
But I'm already used to moto display, chop chop for flashlight And double twist for camera...
Will be hard to switch to AOSP for me ?
inb4 thread closed
newHere:) said:
Great news!
I really liked their rom and used it on my Samsung Galaxy S2.
It was awesome!
But I'm already used to moto display, chop chop for flashlight And double twist for camera...
Will be hard to switch to AOSP for me
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Chop chop and double twist are working on it. I've been running it for the last few days now, and it's my favorite ROM. The 03/12 build is better than the 03/13 build. The 03/13 build was chewing up my battery.
spotmark said:
Chop chop and double twist are working on it. I've been running it for the last few days now, and it's my favorite ROM. The 03/12 build is better than the 03/13 build. The 03/13 build was chewing up my battery.
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Is there a save to SD option on camera? I know the AOSP camera doesn't have this option but some of them include CM camera
Makalicious said:
Is there a save to SD option on camera? I know the AOSP camera doesn't have this option but some of them include CM camera
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Nope, you have to move them manually.
I tried it for a day and it seemed very unstable and buggy. But so was Broken OS, and PureNexus. I don't know if it's my phone, or just the ROMs becoming more unstable than they were in February. I haven't found a DD yet.
HikingMoose said:
I tried it for a day and it seemed very unstable and buggy. But so was Broken OS, and PureNexus. I don't know if it's my phone, or just the ROMs becoming more unstable than they were in February. I haven't found a DD yet.
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Surprised to hear that. Mine is running like a champ. Best ROM I've used so far, imo.
spotmark said:
Surprised to hear that. Mine is running like a champ. Best ROM I've used so far, imo.
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Yeah :/ I had really high hopes. At times it seemed great. I wished there was a way to turn their theme from holo blue to red! I've been using black and red themes lately. I wish I could remember the specific issues I had with this one. I know Broken would be working fine, then just crash, and not power up again. Pure nexus only had 3/4 of the features working, and had all the notofication and scrolling lag that the CM ROMs have. Who knows. Could be my device.
HikingMoose said:
Yeah :/ I had really high hopes. At times it seemed great. I wished there was a way to turn their theme from holo blue to red! I've been using black and red themes lately. I wish I could remember the specific issues I had with this one. I know Broken would be working fine, then just crash, and not power up again. Pure nexus only had 3/4 of the features working, and had all the notofication and scrolling lag that the CM ROMs have. Who knows. Could be my device.
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I'm leaning toward it being your phone. Broken ran great for me as did Pure, with the exception of the music bug.
Alpha release is up on their G+ page.
HikingMoose said:
I tried it for a day and it seemed very unstable and buggy. But so was Broken OS, and PureNexus. I don't know if it's my phone, or just the ROMs becoming more unstable than they were in February. I haven't found a DD yet.
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Do you mind describing how it was unstable and buggy? I need feedback in order to fix issues. It's running very well for me right now. And I'm working on porting EAS from bullhead as well
gmillz said:
Do you mind describing how it was unstable and buggy? I need feedback in order to fix issues. It's running very well for me right now. And I'm working on porting EAS from bullhead as well
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I apologize, but I can't honestly remember now. I can't remember if that was the one that would have apps close on me, or open on me without any input, or why I used the word unstable and buggy. If I say something is unstable and buggy, it typically means I had significant issues, beyond the normal one or two things that just don't work. But I unfortunately cannot remember.
I would like to note however, I noticed that restoring my apps and data with TiBu seemed to be causing some of my issues with the ROMs from that timeframe. Because I flashed the same purenexus build twice, once with restoring apps and data, and once by reinstalling everything from the play store, and noticed a huge difference. Using TiBu was much buggier, on the very same build. So it might have been that.
Link??
Restoring system data with TB can cause all sorts of weird issues. I strictly use it to restore apps/data for everything else, but not system data.
Sometimes it helps to wipe internal storage too when moving from one rom type to another (ie, stock based to aosp).
I haven't tried tesla rom yet, but may give it a shot in the future.
gmillz said:
Do you mind describing how it was unstable and buggy? I need feedback in order to fix issues. It's running very well for me right now. And I'm working on porting EAS from bullhead as well
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Thank you for all of you rom maker, you make clark more wonderful . The only hope is to the aosp based rom can support dual sim, by now only brokenrom support dualsim as I know. I tried DU , orion, purenexus and your tesla, they all not support dualsim .I m glad to help to the best of my ability like make logcat ,etc.
humor2008 said:
Thank you for all of you rom maker, you make clark more wonderful . The only hope is to the aosp based rom can support dual sim, by now only brokenrom support dualsim as I know. I tried DU , orion, purenexus and your tesla, they all not support dualsim .I m glad to help to the best of my ability like make logcat ,etc.
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If you could get a logcat on boot and send output of adb shell getprop
gmillz said:
If you could get a logcat on boot and send output of adb shell getprop
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Ok, I will do it right now .
View attachment 3692858
View attachment prop.txt
Here comes the logcat and prop !
THis is for the Tesla0312 rom
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and this is from BROKEN ROM:
View attachment broken.txt
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Anyone else having the 2 below issues or do I need to clean flash again...
1. Holding recents for last app will flip to last app then open recents (not just flip to last app). I tested this over and over with same result.
2. Google maps works but I can't see streets. The GPS showed I was home but nothing else

Why custom room?

I see a few "home-brewed" roms out there but not with their difficulties to install and possible soft bricking.
I don't see any of these roms beating out simply sticking with stock, rooting, exposed framework w/ gravity box, V4A, and secure settings.
This is all that is needed for me to be happy. Until an official rom comes out that has this phone figured out with gapps and have all these mods built in and a bit safer to flash, then maybe then.
So, all in all, I'm happy until this happens. Any one else happy with their set up as of now and if an official rom comes then fine time to play some more?
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Gravity box is working on 8.1 now?
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Diesel_Jeremiah said:
Gravity box is working on 8.1 now?
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Yes. Beta
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Why I cannot edit the subject to "ROM"? Lol.
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jasonbiggs said:
I see a few "home-brewed" roms out there but not with their difficulties to install and possible soft bricking.
I don't see any of these roms beating out simply sticking with stock, rooting, exposed framework w/ gravity box, V4A, and secure settings.
This is all that is needed for me to be happy. Until an official rom comes out that has this phone figured out with gapps and have all these mods built in and a bit safer to flash, then maybe then.
So, all in all, I'm happy until this happens. Any one else happy with their set up as of now and if an official rom comes then fine time to play some more?
Sent from my Pixel 2 using my fingers on the keyboard.
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Nevermind - looks like Systemless xposed is working now. YAY!
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Why I cannot edit the subject to "ROM"? Lol.
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Because custom rooms on phones are much cooler. You can flash any color paint you want on the walls and even flash yourself a man cave. J/K. But seriously, this is the first phone I have ever owned that I'm actually satisfied with the stock Android experience. When I was using an HTC Evo 3D back in the day, I grew quite fond of MIUI so I would love to see an Oreo version of that down the line. For now I'm sticking with stock. I never tried Lineage OS so I may try that as things progress, but not as a daily driver. There is a version of Lineage for my Nvidia Shield TV that I may duel boot to and play with before I try it on my Pixel.
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Nevermind - looks like Systemless xposed is working now. YAY!
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Correction again. My exposed install didn't pass safety net.
Followed these instructions and still failed safety net.
https://magiskroot.net/install-system-less-xposed-framework-oreo/
DJarkIV said:
When I was using an HTC Evo 3D back in the day, I grew quite fond of MIUI so I would love to see an Oreo version of that down the line.
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There are a lot of MIUI launchers, if that's the experience you're looking for - see https://play.google.com/store/search?q=miui launcher . (An app is an app, regardless of which phone it's running on, so the fact that a particular app is running in an HTC won't change anything about it much, if at all, it's just the launcher that makes the real difference.)
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There are a lot of MIUI launchers, if that's the experience you're looking for - see https://play.google.com/store/search?q=miui launcher . (An app is an app, regardless of which phone it's running on, so the fact that a particular app is running in an HTC won't change anything about it much, if at all, it's just the launcher that makes the real difference.)
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What I was actually stating is that the stock Pixel ROM is actually quite nice and useable even for a power user. Whereas the stock ROM for other phones I've owned were the opposite so I actually needed to run a 3rd party ROM to truly enjoy my phone. As far as MIUI, the launcher was not the reason I liked it so much. In fact, I really enjoy the Pixel launcher. (#1) When running a real MIUI ROM you have the ability to master toggle Root. This is a security feature and you can turn root off entirely when not needed and turn it on only when needed. (#2) The built in firewall is very handy. It not only allows you to select which apps can connect to the internet and which ones cannot but specifically which app processes can and cannot. I am able to stop Google services from sending anonymous info behind the scenes while keeping basic functionality of Gapps. (#3) The built in permission manager. Much more advanced than the permission manager on our Pixel 2 phones being that on MIUI there is a list of permissions most people don't know exist. These permissions are not configurable and hidden in most ROMs such as the ability turn off an apps access to your phones unique ID (IMEI, serial #, etc). These advanced permissions can be configured for both user and system apps alike. Again, just giving an app the bare minimum permissions it needs to function correctly without anything extra or intrusive. In addition, I really like the settings menu layout as well as additional settings not found in most AOSP ROMs. However, the last version of MIUI I really used like this was Jelly Bean based so I can only imagine how far it has come since then and I'm looking forward to trying an Oreo based version on my Pixel some time in the future.
I was about to purchase pixel 2 this weekend. While big brother (pixel 2 XL) having certain screen QC issues, I was thinking to get smaller one (even though - not big fan of small screen, small battery and huge bezels, but whatever). I remember my good old days with Nexus 5 with tons of custom ROMs. I was thinking the is going on right now with pixel 2 family.
I was shocked that there''re no custom ROMs so far. Wow... Even TWRP is in beta stage, but pixel 2 has been released months ago. That's weird....
Am I missing smth or got blind all of sudden? Why there''re no custom ROMs???
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I was about to purchase pixel 2 this weekend. While big brother (pixel 2 XL) having certain screen QC issues, I was thinking to get smaller one (even though - not big fan of small screen, small battery and huge bezels, but whatever). I remember my good old days with Nexus 5 with tons of custom ROMs. I was thinking the is going on right now with pixel 2 family.
I was shocked that there''re no custom ROMs so far. Wow... Even TWRP is in beta stage, but pixel 2 has been released months ago. That's weird....
Am I missing smth or got blind all of sudden? Why there''re no custom ROMs???
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A/b partition that Google decided to go for pixel is tough and cumbersome for devs
And most developers moved to oneplus due to less price
Cheers ?
Sent from my Google Pixel 2 XL using XDA Labs
Prattham said:
A/b partition that Google decided to go for pixel is tough and cumbersome for devs
And most developers moved to oneplus due to less price
Cheers
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That's what I was thinking about OnePlus 5T.
I guess whoever wants custom ROM should get OnePlus 5T, but not pixel 2.
starche_old said:
That's what I was thinking about OnePlus 5T.
I guess whoever wants custom ROM should get OnePlus 5T, but not pixel 2.
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Yea pretty much
But on any given day pixel > than OP
Cheers ?
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TWRP isn't in beta anymore
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jasonbiggs said:
Why I cannot edit the subject to "ROM"? Lol.
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Edit > Go Advanced > Title.
You might need to use a PC or view XDA in desktop mode from a mobile device.

Anyone working on TWRP?

Hey guys, I wanted to ask if someone is already working on porting TWRP to the 3a?
If not I might give it a try myself. But I don't really have any experience in porting to a new device. So if someone knows a decent guide I am all ears.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1943625
I hope that someone would try and compile twrp for the 3a. Maybe we can all pitch in for donations to entice someone.
I have a bit of experience in compiling ROMs, but I never tried to port something to a new device before.
That's the reason why I was hoping someone else with more experience is already working on it...
I will do some reading up on the topic later on, depending on the complexity I might try it either way.
I am kinda surprised that one isnt already out. As much as this phone sold thought there would be more development,,,but its only been what a month?
Archangel said:
I am kinda surprised that one isnt already out. As much as this phone sold thought there would be more development,,,but its only been what a month?
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More like 2 weeks.
Yup thanks for pointing that out but you get my point it hasnt been that long that the phone has been released LOL.
nickmv said:
More like 2 weeks.
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iirc the pixel 3 didnt have it for a month or so. so we prob wont see it for another few weeks
Do you think we could just flash a GSI with fastboot and it would work?
Or do we need to disable verified boot first somehow (haven't had a Treble device yet so I don't really know how it works...)?
pretty sure you can just flash them once bootloader unlocked
pbanj said:
pretty sure you can just flash them once bootloader unlocked
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How about Gapps? Any way I can install them without TWRP?
pbanj said:
iirc the pixel 3 didnt have it for a month or so. so we prob wont see it for another few weeks
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I kinda miss the old days of Nexus devices where on day 1, you'd log in to XDA to find a ROMs section with like 50 posts and fully-dev'd mods already.
We got spoiled...
nickmv said:
I kinda miss the old days of Nexus devices where on day 1, you'd log in to XDA to find a ROMs section with like 50 posts and fully-dev'd mods already.
We got spoiled...
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I think with Android becoming more polished with each version and cherry picking custom rom features there becomes less and less a need for custom ROMs. I love having choices but ultimately always returned to stock rooted with a custom kernel with my 2xl.
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I have to be honest. I am not a fan of pie, and the fact so many things are missing that are pretty much standard for every custom room is annoying too.
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I have to be honest. I am not a fan of pie, and the fact so many things are missing that are pretty much standard for every custom room is annoying too.
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What features are you missing?
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Well the biggest issue is the horrible volume controls, next we have the fact that volume to skip songs is not there, full control over the nav bar to change its hight and layout, moving the clock, showing the date next to the clock, circle battery, having recents work without needing to leave the pixel launcher enabled, also the burn in protection and power saving features that some rooms have for oled screens.
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Well the biggest issue is the horrible volume controls, next we have the fact that volume to skip songs is not there, full control over the nav bar to change its hight and layout, moving the clock, showing the date next to the clock, circle battery, having recents work without needing to leave the pixel launcher enabled, also the burn in protection and power saving features that some rooms have for oled screens.
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Du put out a rc. But it's for the xl. Not sure what is different or if it would work on our non xl variant.
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jmtjr278 said:
Du put out a rc. But it's for the xl. Not sure what is different or if it would work on our non xl variant.
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Can't be too much longer now hopefully.
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Can't be too much longer now hopefully.
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Not sure. Don't know if any of their devs bought the 3a non xl. The rc they put out needs to be flashed with fastboot. Still waiting on that TWRP. I really want to know if that will work on our non xl 3a's.
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flocke000 said:
How about Gapps? Any way I can install them without TWRP?
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With the DU RC for the Pixel 3A XL, Gapps are included in the ROM. It's all flashed in Fastboot. There was a comment on their Discord channel about Gapps being included in the ROM and the response was something like, this is just how it will be in Pie.
Of course this has nothing to do with our need for someone to compile TWRP for our device, but I am sure someone will get to it eventually. We all hope.

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