Wouldn't it be a great idea for a phone maker to buy Nova and make it the default skin over Android? I also hate the way default TW wastes so much space for the icons....loses to much real estate.
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For me, the Touchwiz launcher would occasionally stutter and lag. This started annoying me. Which is why I decided to go for Nova.
Nova is pretty smooth. So far.
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What ROMs/Kernels are you guys using?
After trying BeanStalk, ParanoidAndroid, Alpha, and Goldeneye, I've finally settled on KANGABEAN by iB4STiD with the KT kernel. It's a 4.3 Google Edition ROM. Pure Jelly Bean. Battery life is ridiculously good and it's very smooth and stable.
BeanStalk gave me crashes, ParanoidAndroid had too many annoying features and felt really slow, Alpha was a clusterf*** and was trying to be the jack of all trades but fell short on actual usability, and Goldeneye was based on Touchpiss which I'll never go back to.
After trying BeanStalk, ParanoidAndroid, Alpha, and Goldeneye, I've finally settled on KANGABEAN by iB4STiD with the KT kernel. It's a 4.3 Google Edition ROM. Pure Jelly Bean. Battery life is ridiculously good and it's very smooth and stable.
BeanStalk gave me crashes, ParanoidAndroid had too many annoying features and felt really slow, Alpha was a clusterf*** and was trying to be the jack of all trades but fell short on actual usability, and Goldeneye was based on Touchpiss which I'll never go back to.
That is one big battery........7 hours screen time and what about 3 days on a charge? Let us know how it goes.....
I have been running CyanogenMod 10.2 and love the ASOP feel of it. But then CyanogenMod 10.2 is not pure vanilla Android. They add a ton of customization that you don't find on other ASOP roms.
I do actually have a few of them but I don't carry them around unless I'm traveling. The main problem I have with them is I don't want to use my phone while having it connected to some giant battery back in my pocket...I'd rather have it like this.
My S4 will randomly blink the LED in blue for no reason. I've noticed it a couple times while using the phone. No notifications were received, pending, or anything. Just every once in a while, the LED will blink blue. I'm not concerned about it, just wondering if it's been happening to anyone else.
This has happened to me before on my GE ROM. I fixed it by doing a complete format and reinstalling the ROM.
could it be a calendar reminder? Do you have Google Now running? Could it me notifying something?
No calendar reminders set, and what would Now be trying to tell me? The blinking light isn't consistent. It randomly blinks once, for no real reason. Nothing is showing in my NC, so I don't know what is going on.
Now can notify on a ton of things based on location and prior habits.
Man no clue what the blue light could be....
Here's what I got on my first charge with the ZeroLemon battery. This is on full brightness and LTE (T-Mobile) for all 7+ hours. I also did some quite graphics intensive things (such as playing NBA 2k13, Asphalt 8, and a bunch of flight simulators). Apparently the battery gets to full capacity after six cycles so I'm excited to see how far I can push this thing...
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New update. Just installed it and it seems to add security features. At least, it force closed Mega when I tried to upload a file and said it was unauthorised:
I'm guessing this is the Knox update? My "about device" section says "SELinux status: Enforcing." I'm looking in the security settings and aside from an option to change "security level" from normal to high I can see no way to configure it.
Maybe avoid this update until Sammy have sorted it out a bit better.
I switch between Kangabean, Goldeneye, and Task650's AOKP pretty frequently.
I find it hard to find that sweet spot. Surprisingly, Goldeneye has been giving me the best battery life out of the three... I'm not exactly sure why. Yeah, most of the AOSP ROMs out aren't that stable yet, but I find that AOKP is the most solid out of the bunch. I don't use all of the features of Touchwiz, but I find some of them to be pretty helpful in my daily usage. I enjoy running barebone-stock Android as well, so I tend to backup, wipe, restore, backup, wipe, restore, so on. I think I'm gonna try out MoDaCo Switch since I like switching it up a lot.
I switch between Kangabean, Goldeneye, and Task650's AOKP pretty frequently.
I don't use all of the features of Touchwiz, but I find some of them to be pretty helpful in my daily usage. I enjoy running barebone-stock Android as well, so I tend to backup, wipe, restore, backup, wipe, restore, so on. I think I'm gonna try out MoDaCo Switch since I like switching it up a lot.
Gah. I wanted to try Task650 but the dev is a bit thick and won't support the Canadian variant.
Anyway, I have a One now. Still settled on a Google Edition ROM not too unlike Kangabean. Kangabean was definitely my favourite with the S4. I think Goldeneye indeed gave slightly better battery life but KB was no slouch either.
Why what does it do exactly?
As long as it doesn't stop restore recovery via Odin it should be safe right?
The Knox implementation randomly interferes with and blocks perfectly legit applications for essentially no reason with no setting to turn it off. I'm pretty shocked at Samsung for releasing such a half-assed firmware TBH.
Aside from the Knox stuff it doesn't bring any other new features so there's really no point in going through the hassle of putting this on your phone until the Knox bugs are fixed.
Any battery recommendations? Best deals, preferably OEM (unless there are truly quality, safe alternatives). Thanks in advance.