Hi, can someone explain exactly what Cyanogen mods are all about? Are they the premium development and what makes them special? Sorry for such a simple question but I am relatively new to the Android scene Thanks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyanogenMod
try it and decide for yourself if you like it.
I only had my Nexus s for 48 hours....I will have to build up to flashing a ROM, I am rooted though I wanted to know how the real terms performance is different when running Cyanogen.
Cyanogen historically is the best of the best custom ROM with tons of extra, very useful features. Cyan on my nexus one is just awesome and brings so many extra things needed.
performace difference.....not much with the nexus s so far...I use it for the extra features. dropdown bar widgets, two slider lockscreen, incogneto mode in the browser, and other such tweaks. I have used it for so long that i forget what is different about it until i go back to a stock firmware....then i realize why i like it so much. but that's me. The nexus s is nice because it doesn't have another skin on it. i'm just not a fan of them. CM is essential for me on the incredible and my evo. i don't care how much people praise sense i just don't like it. i had a g1 then a nexus one.....sense was fun when it was called rosie and was released on the g1 as an alternate theme....even then it slowed things down.
edit: if anyone says they get 200 more points in quadrant benchmarks that isn't a real world performace increase. you can't feel 200 points....now the ext4 enhancements, those you can feel.
Thank you for all your replies, very useful. I will be sure to try Cyanogen when I have the confidence to make the switch
Hello everybody. I am interested in flashing a custom ICS rom and I was interested to know something people have really liked in ICS as compared to Gingerbread or other OSes, such as general performance or battery life or whatever.
Battery life seems a lot better to me than GB ROMs. My personal favorite has to be the updated keyboard. Auto correct and suggestions are much better now. The overall look and feel is a big step up from Gingerbread (AOSP at least, anyway).
What is the differenece between the two, also which one do you think is better.
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It comes down to opinions some like sense some like aosp.... And aosp =android open source project
Aokp=android open kang project
Aosp...PA...and aokp are all stock android built directly from source
AOSP refers to Android as it comes straight from Google. Some also refer to this as "vanilla" Android. From there, manufacturers often add their own "skin" to the OS to help differentiate themselves from the competition. HTC has the "Sense" skin, Samsung has TouchWiz, Motorola has Blur, and so on. The differences can range from diverging from the "vanilla" color layouts and icons, to completely replacing some of the built-in apps (launcher, browser, music player, camera, etc.) with their own manufacturer-proprietary apps.
Really, if you are looking at custom ROMs, you should think of them as being "Sense-based" and "AOSP-based" rather than "AOSP". The spirit of the AOSP-based ROMs is to remain loyal to the AOSP or vanilla feel. But most AOSP ROMs include a huge number of customizations, extra features, that calling them "AOSP" is a big disingenuous, when they are better called "AOSP-based".
Also, some will refer to AOSP as "stock" Android, but this is confusing. By "stock", they mean as Android comes from Google. But in reality, you can also call the official ROM as it shipped with your phone as "stock" (such as "returning your phone to stock"). Since HTC never intended the phone to run without Sense, it makes it confusing to use the word "stock" for AOSP. Better to just call it AOSP.
What a person likes better is purely a matter of personal preference. Everyone has different aesthetic tastes, and expectations on features and performance. So don't let anyone tell you that one ROM is "better" than another, and don't expect to be told that either. It like asking somebody to tell you what your favorite color is.
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AOSP refers to Android as it comes straight from Google. Some also refer to this as "vanilla" Android. From there, manufacturers often add their own "skin" to the OS to help differentiate themselves from the competition. HTC has the "Sense" skin, Samsung has TouchWiz, Motorola has Blur, and so on. The differences can range from diverging from the "vanilla" color layouts and icons, to completely replacing some of the built-in apps (launcher, browser, music player, camera, etc.) with their own manufacturer-proprietary apps.
Really, if you are looking at custom ROMs, you should think of them as being "Sense-based" and "AOSP-based" rather than "AOSP". The spirit of the AOSP-based ROMs is to remain loyal to the AOSP or vanilla feel. But most AOSP ROMs include a huge number of customizations, extra features, that calling them "AOSP" is a big disingenuous, when they are better called "AOSP-based".
Also, some will refer to AOSP as "stock" Android, but this is confusing. By "stock", they mean as Android comes from Google. But in reality, you can also call the official ROM as it shipped with your phone as "stock" (such as "returning your phone to stock"). Since HTC never intended the phone to run without Sense, it makes it confusing to use the word "stock" for AOSP. Better to just call it AOSP.
What a person likes better is purely a matter of personal preference. Everyone has different aesthetic tastes, and expectations on features and performance. So don't let anyone tell you that one ROM is "better" than another, and don't expect to be told that either. It like asking somebody to tell you what your favorite color is.
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I have always had the doubt of how do the AOSP based roms stand against Sense based roms in term of usability and stability? do thay function correctly and take full advantage of the One X hardware? It's not very clear (at least not to me) in most of the Rom's description.
korlinr said:
I have always had the doubt of how do the AOSP based roms stand against Sense based roms in term of usability and stability? do thay function correctly and take full advantage of the One X hardware? It's not very clear (at least not to me) in most of the Rom's description.
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If you take time to read through the threads a bit, you will find that they are plenty stable, and used by many as daily drivers. Many people find them faster and more usable than Sense based ROMs. But that is very subjective.
And honestly, I can flash a ROM, and be fully configured with all apps and settings in about 20 minutes. Why not just pick a few that look good, and try them? You can read all you want, but it won't tell you for certain whether you will like the ROM or not. Only way to really know, is to try them yourself.
Since all of the bugs haven't been ironed out in cm..you will probably find more stability on sense roms on this device...but say on the HTC inspire sense is very heavy and aosp would give you better battery
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Since all of the bugs haven't been ironed out in cm..you will probably find more stability on sense roms on this device...
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CM10.1 (Android 4.2) is in a fairly early phase, with some bugs. But CM10 (Android 4.1) has been very stable, for a very long time. As far as I know anyway, I'm almost entirely a Sense guy.
If you want to make an apples to apples comparison, there is no Sense based ROM that is Android 4.2 (they are all 4.1). So you are comparing a slightly buggy 4.2 AOSP ROM to one that doesn't even exist (Sense based 4.2). Or comparing the cutting edge to (literally) last year's model.
Again, it just goes back to the subjective nature of picking a ROM. There are probably hundreds of CM users here that will argue that AOSP performs better than Sense.
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CM10.1 (Android 4.2) is in a fairly early phase, with some bugs. But CM10 (Android 4.1) has been very stable, for a very long time. As far as I know anyway, I'm almost entirely a Sense guy.
If you want to make an apples to apples comparison, there is no Sense based ROM that is Android 4.2 (they are all 4.1). So you are comparing a slightly buggy 4.2 AOSP ROM to one that doesn't even exist (Sense based 4.2). Or comparing the cutting edge to (literally) last year's model.
Again, it just goes back to the subjective nature of picking a ROM. There are probably hundreds of CM users here that will argue that AOSP performs better than Sense.
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Yes .. I realize cm 10 is very stable..sorry I don't know what I was thinking with that post
I have used many AOSP based roms as my daily driver, including CM, AOKP, Jellybam, and King Kang. They have always stable and reliable for me. In saying that, ViperXL (which is Sense based) is also very reliable. It comes down to flashing a few and seeing what you prefer.
Hello!
In the forums there are some really good ROM options. Because I like to be as slim as possible with the software on my phone, I prefer vanilla-like ROMs. In this case, there are two for the Moto G that seem very similar, and I would like someone to tell me the differences. One is the GPE ROM made by lost101. The other one is an AOSP build made by Alberto97.
I can understand that a difference are the apps included on each ROM. But as I can modify those after installing any of the ROMs, I would like to know if there are any technical differences between them (like drivers or internal code optimizations), something that goes beyond UI or apps. I would like the get the "fastest performance".
Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
I am not able to go into detail but I can tell you that the GPE one, since it's based on an official release by Motorola, is much more stable and trustworthy for me. I've tested countless roms and the optimized GPE one by lost101 is by far the best. Other roms are built from scratch by excellent devs, but they always end up having various problems for me... Apps that don't work the way they should, bloatware, missing or cryptic features...
Anyway, that is just my opinion.
Although I don't know why, GPE includes some proprietary frameworks and stuff, and therefore is pretty large and heavy. You might not feel it when using, though.
As for me, I'll recommend AOSP any day. Not even CM, if you want to be as light as possible.
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GPE is Motorola's version of AOSP with their own additions like proprietary drivers and apps. AOSP is the base of all Android ROMs so its as minimal as you can get
Thanks, everyone!
From your answers, I understand that the GPE version includes proprietary software from Motorola. I would suppose that these changes are for optimizations on performance and stability, so I think I will go with that as in the end the experience should be improved with those, right?
So question for everyone. If you know me, I'm a flashaholic. I actually just got done using DerpFest. That's actually a pretty gnarly Rom. Definitely stands out from the rest.
But here's the thing. I don't know if it's the kernel that does it or what. But for some reason playing PuBG Mobile is only smooth on OxygenOS. Why is that. Or does anyone know a Rom that is better for performance when it comes to gaming?
It is better because imo 1. OOS has optimizations from OnePlus, 2. it is a CAF (or CAF-like) ROM, which is known to be better than AOSP in terms of performance.