Color OS is the worst ever, it ruins a good phone, is there any way out?
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Picking up my Sprint Nexus-S 4G tonight, will root it, and want a more stock looking ROM, that makes the phone faster/smoother than stock with the pull down menu widgets, but also use the phone a lot, so need good battery life too. Plus I want a cool black and white minimalistic theme too.
Looking around I have decided between these two ROM's;
Oxygen;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1122127
Deck, by kush;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1091153
What would you recommend and why ?
Thanks
Minimal Bread is my favorite minimalist theme.
You'll have to decide for yourself, because both of these roms are good. I've tried them both, Oxygen and Deck's has good batt life and performance. They both are really good. Hopefully you find one that fits you best.
God Bless.
Alright, so I am stuck in a conundrum. I currently have an upgrade/phone switch on Verizon Wireless. I had a Verizon S4 but after all the hell they've played with the bootloaders and chopping development down to only touchwiz based ROMs I'm rather sick of it. Also for some reason both of the phones I had (running Hyperdrive generally) had bad battery life & were quite often running hot. So, my pops wanted an S4 and now I get a chance to change !
Basically my problem comes down to this, I have no idea which phone to pick, so i'm turning to the best android forum out there. Here's what I'm looking at and why.
LG G2
Great screen, amazing specs, no bezel/awesome form factor, not awful for devs (from what I see), good battery life
Moto X
Cleanest stock android, 4.4 & fastest android upgrade, good battery life, feels solid
HTC One
Solid as hell phone, great specs again, good looking (I'd get the BBY blue), dev friendly (relatively)
I'd love to hear what everyone has to say and what they'd go with
tl;dr
need new phone G2, Moto X or HTC One (will root any of them)
First off, I dont want to start an iPhone vs Android war here!
But heres the thing. I have always had iPhones and I think its time for a change. Been waiting for a jailbreak for iOS 9.2 and I cant see it happening anytime soon. As the iPhone is very limited without a jailbreak, I need more functionality in my life, so I am looking towards an Android solution!
Im tech savvy and have no issues with flashing ROM's etc etc. Used to be into Symbian phones back in the day!
So I am looking for a phone that is better than the iPhone 6 in relation to hardware specs. I am also looking for a pure Android experience, the less bloatware the better! But I suppose the choice of phone will be narrowed by the availability of a nice, and well rounded custom ROM.
I would like something with a decent screen size, I dont want a tablet in my pocket, but the screen needs to be no smaller than the iPhone 6.
Not so worried about the cost and build quality is important.
I also note that there are some impending releases coming, so might wait a month or two to see what new phones will be gracing us!
So what do you recommend?
Thanks
TR1PL3D said:
First off, I dont want to start an iPhone vs Android war here!
But heres the thing. I have always had iPhones and I think its time for a change. Been waiting for a jailbreak for iOS 9.2 and I cant see it happening anytime soon. As the iPhone is very limited without a jailbreak, I need more functionality in my life, so I am looking towards an Android solution!
Im tech savvy and have no issues with flashing ROM's etc etc. Used to be into Symbian phones back in the day!
So I am looking for a phone that is better than the iPhone 6 in relation to hardware specs. I am also looking for a pure Android experience, the less bloatware the better! But I suppose the choice of phone will be narrowed by the availability of a nice, and well rounded custom ROM.
I would like something with a decent screen size, I dont want a tablet in my pocket, but the screen needs to be no smaller than the iPhone 6.
Not so worried about the cost and build quality is important.
I also note that there are some impending releases coming, so might wait a month or two to see what new phones will be gracing us!
So what do you recommend?
Thanks
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Oh boy, I wouldn't worry about an iPhone Android war but you're going to start another kind of war (the oem one) if you want a new Android phone check here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1846277
But given the sheer amount of replies I don't think you'll be able to get any help from it. So imo the best phone that has all what you want is the huawei Nexus 6P ( great design and build quality and top notch hardware but most important pure android and fast updates) but im may be a bit too big maybe? (5.7")
Other suggestions maybe motorola since they make great phones with aosp android http://www.google.dz/url?q=http://m...ggLMAA&usg=AFQjCNE0_PMlhvpD9ipMsLFmuauokfuM4A
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Are you comfortable in your own skin? Is your phone comfortable in its skin? Rate this thread to express how you deem the skin on the OnePlus 6T. A higher rating indicates that you love it: it adds just the right amount of features, it's visually pleasing, and overall it's additive to the experience. If this is a Nexus phone (you didn't think we hand-wrote all of these prompts, did you?) then use this rating to indicate how the latest version of Android looks to you.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
If you ask me, OxygenOS is the best thing about this device! I've always perfered stock Android over anything, so I always went with Nexus! Now that Nexus is gone, I'm finding I like OxygenOS MORE! It's like stock with features that no other OEM has put thought into and I LOVE IT!!! I've always used custom roms on all of my phones, but I don't even think this one NEEDS IT!
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If you ask me, OxygenOS is the best thing about this device! I've always perfered stock Android over anything, so I always went with Nexus! Now that Nexus is gone, I'm finding I like OxygenOS MORE! It's like stock with features that no other OEM has put thought into and I LOVE IT!!! I've always used custom roms on all of my phones, but I don't even think this one NEEDS IT!
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My word:good:
Exactly I've been doing the same since G1, and this is the first time I opted out of Nexus and bought OP6T,
Feels like a native Google device to me! Perfect!
IMHO, OxygenOS is the best skin of android. I prefer it even to stock android
Agreed. I've tried stock and oem. This is the smoothest and easiest to use of any.
Have a love hate relationship with the choices Oneplus makes. Gestures? Love them. The fact that the phone wants to make photos and new photo folders for no good reason? Nope. Big Nope. It's just not as easy to set things up to operate as they were on past phones. Oneplus needs to stop idolizing Apple, who makes things much harder than they need to be.
I am loving OOS! But I would love it even more with a true pure black interface theme. The current one is just dark grey.
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I always wanted to have stock android but OOS is very similar to stock android with extra features. That is the main reason I chose OP keeping the price aside. But there are some features which I would like to have in OOS like the now playing feature on pixel.
I love how oos isn't bloated, the amount of customisations that can be done and how good the battery life on the rom is!
I really need a new phone since my OnePlus 5T has just suffered a hilarious death by hammer after I broke the WiFi trying to change the MAC address so I need a new phone, but everything out there just seems so....crap! I regret not getting the shotgun involved but it's a little late for that.
I can't stand the horrible, bloated stock ROMs that phones come with these days so I need something that is very easy to unlock the bootloader, flash a custom recovery, then a custom ROM. My choice would be another OnePlus device, but I don't want to buy another 5T and since the modern ones don't even have a 3.5mm audio jack, it will be completely impractical for me so I won't even consider another OnePlus device again. I find even the stock OnePlus ROMs to be too bloated with the heavy Gapps package.
So what I need is:
High end Android device
Must have 3.5mm audio jack
Must be very easy to install custom ROMs with great ROM support
Not have a stupidly high, battery draining screen resolution where the human eye is the limiting factor due to insane pixel densities
Screen needs to be 6" or larger
Does anything like this even exist?