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Hello everyone,
I ordered a Nexus 6P, it should be here in a couple of days.
I'm coming from a Note 5 and one feature I really want to keep is Multi-window. What roms currently have a fully functional multiwindow feature? I know omnirom used to have it, not sure if they still do. Omni Rom's site doesn't even list it anymore.
Marshmallow's crappy multiwindow isn't a preferred option, as it's really half baked.
Android N has it, but I hear the developer previews get really laggy after a while.
Thanks
That's the only multi window there is for now. I suggest you to try N preview, I heard the new one runs relatively stable.
bouncynemoss said:
Hello everyone,
I ordered a Nexus 6P, it should be here in a couple of days.
I'm coming from a Note 5 and one feature I really want to keep is Multi-window. What roms currently have a fully functional multiwindow feature? I know omnirom used to have it, not sure if they still do. Omni Rom's site doesn't even list it anymore.
Marshmallow's crappy multiwindow isn't a preferred option, as it's really half baked.
Android N has it, but I hear the developer previews get really laggy after a while.
Thanks
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Multi-window on N Preview is extremely smooth, compared to the experimental MW in Marshmallow. Plus it now lets you play YouTube videos simultaneously while carrying out tasks in the second window.
I have been using N preview since the second release, I agree that it may freeze some times, but only when a lot of memory hogging apps are running. Otherwise, pair it with a decent custom kernel (I use ElementalX), and you will be fine. And anyways, if it doesn't suit your device, you can always roll-back to MM.
I wonder if someone will port Android N's Multi Window to Android M.
I really dont like N so far.. The cluttered cards in NF tray, the massive recents tabs, and the ridiculously tiny google keyboard when setting custom DPI. Its a huge mess, and I doubt those things will be fixed.
imatts said:
I wonder if someone will port Android N's Multi Window to Android M.
I really dont like N so far.. The cluttered cards in NF tray, the massive recents tabs, and the ridiculously tiny google keyboard when setting custom DPI. Its a huge mess, and I doubt those things will be fixed.
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You do realize its a developer's preview/BETA right ? So its kinda gonna be a mess since they're still working the kinks out AND asking for feedback. So those complaints you have? (Which are legitimate i agree) Click the little N button in the the pull-down menu and let google know. That's how an open beta works.Hopefully they fix it and if not the bright minds here on XDA probably can. I myself gave feedback on how it'd be nice to have an expanded power menu for power users.
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You do realize its a developer's preview/BETA right ? So its kinda gonna be a mess since they're still working the kinks out AND asking for feedback. So those complaints you have? (Which are legitimate i agree) Click the little N button in the the pull-down menu and let google know. That's how an open beta works.Hopefully they fix it and if not the bright minds here on XDA probably can. I myself gave feedback on how it'd be nice to have an expanded power menu for power users.
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I am familiar with the reporting process, and I have made dozens of suggestions.
MIUI 8 Have multi window feature....
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Hey guys something special for you!
About 1 hour ago xda posted unoffical cm will be released soon for the honor 8!
Im so excited!
Twitter: https://twitter.com/xdadevelopers/status/798144304329826304
screens:
Let us all wait for the magestic moment of release.
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Let us all wait for the magestic moment of release.
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good to hear about the develope activity cant wait much longer for my device and for CM in my opinion CM would perfectly fit on the honor 8
xontec said:
good to hear about the develope activity cant wait much longer for my device and for CM in my opinion CM would perfectly fit on the honor 8
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But based in that screensnot, RIL is broken. Maybe it will take until January or so to have a full stable CM13. After that, CM14.1 should be easy breezy.
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But based in that screensnot, RIL is broken. Maybe it will take until January or so to have a full stable CM13. After that, CM14.1 should be easy breezy.
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Yeah true but its good to hear something offical and see progress on the developing for the honor 8 especially from xda
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Yeah true but its good to hear something offical and see progress on the developing for the honor 8 especially from xda
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Yes sooo goood. This is one huge milestone.
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I don't think we will have fully stable cm soon. But still, good news!
Sun will shine on Honor 8 sooner or later. The first step is taken to embark you all on a wonderful journey ahead. Patience is key so remain calm and hope for the best.
No way! Thanks xda!
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Thank goodness. I love this phone, but EMUI just has some very poor design decisions and sometimes feels like a bad third-party skin even after replacing the launcher. Notifications, especially on the lock screen, are just ugly and react entirely opposite of the way they do in iOS or stock Android, and the only lock-screen theme that supports notifications has the clock in the lower corner of the screen (which is nonsense).
There are also a lot of weird quirks that I've experienced, an example being wallpapers bug out most of the time when I try to set them. Sometimes they don't align the way I set them to and when I try to fix the alignment, it will set the wallpaper slightly off the screen so part of the wallpaper is black space. Perhaps this is just an incompatibility with Nova Launcher, though.
nbmatt said:
Thank goodness. I love this phone, but EMUI just has some very poor design decisions and sometimes feels like a bad third-party skin even after replacing the launcher. Notifications, especially on the lock screen, are just ugly and react entirely opposite of the way they do in iOS or stock Android, and the only lock-screen theme that supports notifications has the clock in the lower corner of the screen (which is nonsense).
There are also a lot of weird quirks that I've experienced, an example being wallpapers bug out most of the time when I try to set them. Sometimes they don't align the way I set them to and when I try to fix the alignment, it will set the wallpaper slightly off the screen so part of the wallpaper is black space. Perhaps this is just an incompatibility with Nova Launcher, though.
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Yea i dont like EMUI too and you're right but i love the phone. I have to say some parts of EMUI are well designed and i really like but some are absolute crap.
In my opinion stock Android or any cm based custom rom perfectly fit on it i cant wait to See how it will act with it.
Super happy to see CM ported to the Honor 8!
CM 13 is already posted in Android Development section, and RIL is working.
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DigiGoon said:
CM 13 is already posted in Android Development section, and RIL is working.
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Yes I already saw but my post was before rls
Didn't expect that fast
WooHoo!!
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 Honor 6X. 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!
Personally i have to admit that i like so much EMUI 5.0. EMUI 4 didn't got the same level of impression on me, while the passage to version 5+Nougat did it instead. It's a very smart UI, clean and easy to approach. I came from LineageOS 14.1 to EMUI 4.1; at the beginning i was disappointed, then i tried to make habit to it. It was transmitting to me a sense of poorness in relation to LineageOS. With 5, I still miss some exclusive Lineage features (hope to get 'em back too) but it is definitely better than his previous version.
Rommco05 said:
In EMUI is everything big with compare to LOS. Huawei anyway make good step forward with EMUI 5 :good: is faster, stable (EMUI 4 was stable too), looks better and have more options for setup battery optimization compare to EMUI 4 and have less lags
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Right man, EMUI has an enormous size of icons, i understand that the display is big but ouch stock EMUI icons are punches in eyes, seems like they're made for cyclops. With a resize of icons thanks to third party launchers, everything comes back to normal luckily
emui5 is classic, one of the reasons that i still stick to my honor phones
Do you guys take money or gift from Huawei? In all this real life threads there are the same guys talking about how great is this phone. That is not so great.
I hope EMUI 6 offers changes in UI.
It should be more similar to AOSP by what I've read
RedSkull23 said:
It should be more similar to AOSP by what I've read
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How similar?
Rommco05 said:
Wow, are u sure? I read too emui6 will be have changed look, but I dont see more aosp, that will be awesome, so Huawei start listening users?
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sniperlife:D said:
How similar?
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I apologise guys, i went to search the same article that I've read yesterday about the similitude with AOSP to link it for you and I've noticed that they have modified the article since that they wrote the phrase as an affirmation, instead that a question. They now wrote that "they'll see if this time EMUI will be more Android Stock or if they'll go in the opposite direction". The thing that is sure is that EMUI 6 should be more user-friendly thanks to suggestions based on previous user experience. Hope to be on custom soon anyway...
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I apologise guys, i went to search the same article that I've read yesterday about the similitude with AOSP to link it for you and I've noticed that they have modified the article since that they wrote the phrase as an affirmation, instead that a question. They now wrote that "they'll see if this time EMUI will be more Android Stock or if they'll go in the opposite direction". The thing that is sure is that EMUI 6 should be more user-friendly thanks to suggestions based on previous user experience. Hope to be on custom soon anyway...
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That's ok bro. I really hope they do it that way.
it was not so exceptional till EMUI 4 but with EMUI 5.0 it has certainly evolved much and became more user friendly.
Notification panel has improved.
shortcut tiles are a big welcome as earlier we had only 8 tile limitation which changed upto 20+ in EMUI 5.
settings are not that good compared to EMUI 3.X (with EMUI 4 onwards, many options are hidden inside another causing multiple hops)
icon changes are welcome but not to impressive.
overall a big step from EMUI 4 but still needs improvement.
Emui 4.1was OK..wasn't an fan.but emui 5 is good expirience
hassanjavaid8181 said:
Emui 4.1was OK..wasn't an fan.but emui 5 is good expirience
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Yes. Lot of improvement over EMUI 4 now and cleaner UI
I just hate EMUI
I am coming from MIUI and MIUI is much much better than emui
Other oem skin like flyme os are also better than emui.
Witch emui i feel like i am behind the competition, it is not well optimized it lags a lot don't have very useful features and basic features like call recording or long screenshot floating dock is also of third class app lock is also feels like some third party app i really wish if i can have MIUI or Flyme os 6 on honor 6x but this devices lacks community support so i will have to live with Emui
Coming from Touchwiz, I'm really starting to like EMUI.
hoping to see emui6 on this.
Me too. Receiving EMUI 6 wikl be great.
EMUI is a bad system. It slows the phone down and is really ugly overall. Lots of useless features and bloatware.
Will there be q dev willing to port miui 9 for our devices ?
Why would you want to do that? IMO, MIUI is a worse Android Experience than what Samsung offers you. And you loose all of the Samsung provided features for a worse skin.
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Will there be q dev willing to port miui 9 for our devices
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I honestly can't believe someone actually wants that software. Don't think anyone will because no one except you will use it.
AP02 said:
MIUI is a decent skin. I prefer it to Samsung Experience.
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Fair enough. I've only seen it so I don't have any actual hands on experience with it.
I would really recommend buying MI devices if you prefer MIUI skins. Why buy expensive hardware when same thing is available for cheap.
Who wants the skins?? The Os managment tools
The ram memory management is the best than in any other roms
I wish it will be ported to s8, there is no real custom rom available to our device yet.
I really want it! And for several good reasons too. Been using MIUI 8 and 9 for a year now. and some of th features are very nice in MIUI.
The best ever feature is the ability to LOCK APPS IN MEMORY. so they will never quit unless its an emergency. On all other androids ive used with for example Pokemon go. it never stays in memory. but on MIUI on Mix 2 i could lock the apps I wanted and they were never ever killed=) awesome! also the app launcher is genious. moving around and deleting several apps at once. and! the most important one. its freakking snappy!!!!!!!!!!!!! MIUI 9 was the best ever android experience I have ever had. no lag, slowdowns opening apps chrome etc. it just worked. and was there, when I wanted it. FAST!!!!!!!
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Exactly!!!!! =)
RAM management FTW!
deliad said:
Who wants the skins?? The Os managment tools
The ram memory management is the best than in any other roms
I wish it will be ported to s8, there is no real custom rom available to our device yet.
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I think xda developer just can't develope miui 9 or color 0s 5 rom for s8.. they are just porting s9 also yeah without s9 camera.... common show something....
I agree that MIUI on S8 might be a strange and surprising idea but if You had the chance to work on a Xiaomi phone with MIUI (that cost 150USD tax not included) You would maybe considering the same thing. The idea is not bad but I think MIUI wasn't designed to be displayed in better resolution and on the best screen on the market (Super AMOLED). Maybe the TOP Xiaomi phones would overcome the resolution problem but it may be a need for a new colors to look great on Super AMOLED.
Worst Android Experience??
I don't know what were you smoking, but MIUI offers more features than Touchwiz
I've used MIUI phones for years, and it still has more features than this crappy Touchwiz
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Why would you want to do that? IMO, MIUI is a worse Android Experience than what Samsung offers you. And you loose all of the Samsung provided features for a worse skin.
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why is it worse than touchwiz?
I miss MIUI too. And the software support from Xiaomi. Xiaomi is by far the OEM with the best software support.
It would be great to have miui on the 8+
i'd love to see miui 9 or 10 on our devices.. i made a request thread on miui forums too http://en.miui.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=3194310&highlight=galaxy+s8
MadSilence said:
I really want it! And for several good reasons too. Been using MIUI 8 and 9 for a year now. and some of th features are very nice in MIUI.
The best ever feature is the ability to LOCK APPS IN MEMORY. so they will never quit unless its an emergency. On all other androids ive used with for example Pokemon go. it never stays in memory. but on MIUI on Mix 2 i could lock the apps I wanted and they were never ever killed=) awesome! also the app launcher is genious. moving around and deleting several apps at once. and! the most important one. its freakking snappy!!!!!!!!!!!!! MIUI 9 was the best ever android experience I have ever had. no lag, slowdowns opening apps chrome etc. it just worked. and was there, when I wanted it. FAST!!!!!!! !
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Samsung Experience:
Lock apps: Click on recent apps button > top right 3 dots > lock apps (also available in good lock 2018)
Move/Delete several apps at once: On samsung home launcher > hold the app > select items > click on the apps you want to uninstall/move/disable/create folder > select your choice at the top of the screen
You can run Miui PORTROM to attempt porting MIUI to the Galaxy S8. I tried that with the Galaxy S2 (Skyrocket) but nobody offered to help with the fixing of port rom rejects (when portrom fails to insert MIUI kernel code).
Plus there's the thread about Roll your own skinny MIUI. The post goes into massive details about removing much of the Chinese apps and so on. I'd never keep using MIUI unless I was certain nothing in MIUI is phoning home to China.
Kizoky said:
Worst Android Experience??
I don't know what were you smoking, but MIUI offers more features than Touchwiz
I've used MIUI phones for years, and it still has more features than this crappy Touchwiz
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I don't remember TouchWizz much but MIUI certainly (and thats good for me) has not as many options to configure as Samsung Experiance on Oreo in Galaxy S8 for example.
I hope for a miui v10 on s8+ . That will make the best device ever. Maybe there is an exynos issue here.
Blitzz.666 said:
I hope for a miui v10 on s8+ . That will make the best device ever. Maybe there is an exynos issue here.
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There is only license issue. No hope for that to ever happen officially.
androidbadboy said:
There is only license issue. No hope for that to ever happen officially.
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Can Someone make Pixel Experience ROM for our device tissot?
link:- hmm. Unable to post link.. ?
Whats the difference between Stock Rom and Pixel expirience? Isnt Android one the Most Pixel ex. you can get?
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Whats the difference between Stock Rom and Pixel expirience? Isnt Android one the Most Pixel ex. you can get?
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Well, I can call this device stock ROM as "Nexus/AOSP Experience". Since Pixel's android looks and feels slightly different (if not different) than nexus and android "one"s.
I might be biased because i'm a fan of Pixel phones (and ex user of Nexus phones). But for now i might better wait and alternatively use Pixel Experinece Magisk module. I would be glad if this ROM will come to our device.
Just saying. No pressure.
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Whats the difference between Stock Rom and Pixel expirience? Isnt Android one the Most Pixel ex. you can get?
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There are differences. Android One feels more like.. AOSP, like a pure Android.. would love to see Pixel features like those pop out menu for on/off, the animated nav bars, etc etc.. plus with regular updates from custom ROMs better than having to wait 'kinda delayed' updated from xiaomi. And longer & better support (hopefully longer even after P) I suppose..
The closest you can get at the moment is by flashing my module via Magisk.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/magisk/module-pixel-2-experience-t3757137/
LouisMuruu said:
There are differences. Android One feels more like.. AOSP, like a pure Android.. would love to see Pixel features like those pop out menu for on/off, the animated nav bars, etc etc.. plus with regular updates from custom ROMs better than having to wait 'kinda delayed' updated from xiaomi. And longer & better support (hopefully longer even after P) I suppose..
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I have seen Pixel Experience rom testing in one Telegram group.. Thats almost stable. Hope one day it will come..