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How can I improve my Nexus 7

For a start im not interested in changing to the newer 2013 version, im over all happy with the Nexus, but I would like to get the best out of the device.
At the moment I'm running pure stock unrooted 4.4.2
Will I benefit from rooting and trying some custom roms ?
Would overclocking help?
Do custom Kernels give a greater performance?

To be honest, one of the most overlooked things to do is to clear out software that you don't use, and is chewing away at system resources. I swear it's the main reason people find they have better performance when they get rid of everything and start from scratch.
That said, if you want to have a play around with other options without mangling your current state, give MultiROM a go. That way you can spawn new setups to play with to your heart's content, but still use the existing setup if something goes awry.

I'll give the same disclaimer you would to someone else: "It depends how you use it.".
In my case that means very little in the way of games: mostly web, e-books, and media. At various times I've run ParanoidAndroid and CyanogenMod, but I'm now back to stock (4.4.2) rooted.
Dolphin browser with a hacked Flash apk (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2548001) got Flash working and between Xposed Framework (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24267797) and Nova launcher, I have all the flexibility I need to tweak things to my liking.
I don't see any noticeable lag, and I recharge every 2-3 days of intermittent usage (I've never pushed it, but it looks like it would go about 6-7 hours of straight NetFlix watching).

[Q] Optimizing your phone?

Hi all,
I have owned my Nexus 4 for about 4 months now, and while I love the ability to customize my experience, I am always looking at ways of customizing that streamline things instead of adding more functionality. Rather than having 12 ways to do one thing at all times, I'd rather have the single best way to do 12 things at my disposal. I don't need HALO, the notification shade, and a notification widget all running at once to inform me about new notifications. When I look at the ROM scene on XDA, it seems like people are really interested in adding things to the standard android experience, but nobody seems to be working on trimming the unnecessary features away while adding things that work better/look and feel more elegant. I don't just mean debloated GApps packages, I mean ROMs that use Android's customizability do things better than Google intended.
To give a personal example, I am running stock Android on the Matr1x kernel with the Xposed framework installed to enable Pie Controls so I don't waste screen space, change the battery indicator to a circle/percentage, quick settings to get easy access to torch, settings, wifi, etc in the notification shade, and unicon to enable custom icons in the Google Experience Launcher so all my icons are uniform. This way I have as much information as possible easily accessible at all times, and my phone has a standardized look throughout. However, I feel like I am sticking it all together with tape and strings, and I am still stuck with some of stock android's bloat. It would be great if there were some people out there who shared a similar desire for streamlining the Android experience. Do any of you at XDA have any advice for me as I look for such a ROM, or is this about as good as it's going to get? If I could code I'd just do it myself .
Anyway, thanks for your time!

Downloaded7 said:
Hi all,
I have owned my Nexus 4 for about 4 months now, and while I love the ability to customize my experience, I am always looking at ways of customizing that streamline things instead of adding more functionality. Rather than having 12 ways to do one thing at all times, I'd rather have the single best way to do 12 things at my disposal. I don't need HALO, the notification shade, and a notification widget all running at once to inform me about new notifications. When I look at the ROM scene on XDA, it seems like people are really interested in adding things to the standard android experience, but nobody seems to be working on trimming the unnecessary features away while adding things that work better/look and feel more elegant. I don't just mean debloated GApps packages, I mean ROMs that use Android's customizability do things better than Google intended.
To give a personal example, I am running stock Android on the Matr1x kernel with the Xposed framework installed to enable Pie Controls so I don't waste screen space, change the battery indicator to a circle/percentage, quick settings to get easy access to torch, settings, wifi, etc in the notification shade, and unicon to enable custom icons in the Google Experience Launcher so all my icons are uniform. This way I have as much information as possible easily accessible at all times, and my phone has a standardized look throughout. However, I feel like I am sticking it all together with tape and strings, and I am still stuck with some of stock android's bloat. It would be great if there were some people out there who shared a similar desire for streamlining the Android experience. Do any of you at XDA have any advice for me as I look for such a ROM, or is this about as good as it's going to get? If I could code I'd just do it myself .
Anyway, thanks for your time!
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Plus one for this. Are you running KitKat 4.4.2?

4.4.1 at the moment as I haven't found the time to flash the update manually. Glad to see someone else gets where I am coming from .

Looking for a really good Galaxy S5 Rom

Some background on my focus on romes. I want to choose one that I intend to stick with from the start, that supports people who love powerful, technological design and functionality for things, like how i got a new rom after being unrooted and unflashed for years with this phone, because my provider had decided I didn't need Advanced Security settings, and so I had no access to a Smart Lockscreen that I wanted to try out. I like having the ability to configure my ui as I see fit. I've been using LineageOS, but it recently got broken when I tried to uninstall substratum, and discovered it had never created an overlays.xml file, and that the recovery zips substratum provided didn't work, leaving me in a permanent bootloop that not even reflashing lineage fixed.
I was massively interested in AllianRom because of the pitch:
"AllianceROM intends to give the user what THEY want. Tired of flashing Roms and having to ask for little changes to suit your taste? Tired of having to manually change colors of the toggles or the battery or move your clock or make statusbar transparent or any of the other multitude of other little color and style tweaks that Android users love? Tired of flashing AROMA installer for every little change you want to make? Tired of having to add your favourite images everytime a new rom comes out?"
However, that one is discontinued, and it sounds like there were extensive steps that needed to be taken to keep things like GPS from being broken. Is there a rom that compares to this one? I value very "techie" roms that give the users the option to change the design of things like the status bar, windows, whatever, and are geared towards the functionality of phones.

Try the latest Resurrection Remix that just came out with 7.1.2. It is well maintained and has the most adjustments the user can utilize.

OOS Roms with customization

Hey guys,
I know there are three OOS Roms out there.
FreedomOS
xXx no limits
ExperienceOS.
What are the differences?
And is there any OOS rom out there with customizations?
E.g. Center clock...
I know there's a Substratum module for that but i prefer inbuilt customization. Don't ask me why..

I understand where you coming from, OOS is pretty ok but sometimes you just want to have those extra customizations built into the ROM it self instead of having to sideload it with some side effect. For me the thing I miss the most in the use my substratum themes. I like having my system show one color for everything themed out nicely, OOS theme is half way done and limited as it still leaves a portion of other things un-themed. IE keyboard, dialer.

I haven't tried any ROMs yet since my device arrived just today, but so far I'm thinking of giving Freedom OS a shot.
As soon as a LOS based ROM like RR becomes stable, I will be switching to that.
And as soon as an AOSP based ROM releases, I'll be switching to that lol

Agree with you guys.
So anyone knows the difference between those three roms?

[Discussion] OxygenOS vs. LineageOS

Background story: I've been an enthusiastic lineage (and cm) user for years. The first thing I did after unboxing any new phone was installing lineage (without even testing the stock rom) because I knew what I got. Few month back I bought two OP5T (one for my gf one for me) and installed lineage. Mine was quite fine but my gf's phone kept having issues (e.g. front cam not working). After a while I had a look at oxygen and I realized that it is not that different or at least not second to none but on the other hand has some advantages two.
Anyway after using OxygenOS for some weeks now I created my list of dis-/advantages:
Advantages over Lineage
- Overall better functionality/ availibility of sensors
• Better camera
• No issues with frontcam
• Faceunlock availible
• No microphone noise on headset during calls
- Gesture navigation (pie control)
- Round battery icon
- Less smaller bugs
- Excellent performance and battery life (prob. Better than lineage even without all those tweaks and possibilities of adjustment)
- Update to Android 8 was faster than lineage itself (if I remember correctly)
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Disadvantages vs. Lineage
Annoying:
- Double tap to wake doesn't work during calls
- Double tap on taskbar to sleep not availible
- Switching songs while display off with Vol up/ down not availible
- Vibration at screen on can't be disabled
I can live with it:
- Change Keyboard notification can't be disabled
- Shifting cursor in text with Vol up/ down not availible
- hold back button to kill not availible
- hold home button to switch to last app (can be worked around by swiping up and hold and then being directed to the recents menu on navigation control)
- Some spam apps
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What are your thoughts/ experiences? Do you have something to add to the lists that I forgot?
And the most important question: do you have solutions or work arounds for the disadvantages that I listed.

Advantage LOS over OOS:
1. Left and Right keyboard arrows appearing on Navigation Bar when keyboard is out.
2. ???

Hi,
I'm in the exact same situation. Using Lineage for years until i tested it on my OP5t!
Honestly, my main concern was to keep my smartphone up to date. But now, we have security updates less than a month late, and may be quicker now that OP5t have trabble project...
Codename Phoenix was for be the best custom rom, but I must say i've nothing to criticize about OOS.
I stick with the betas and have no issue, camera is great, face unlock too, battery life is very good and the phone is very smooth (way better than my colleague s8+).
Not to mention the full screen videos and the gesture mode.
You can just desactivate the spam apps and it's very fine for me!

Advantage LOS over OOS:
1. Trust (Data protection)
2. Compatibility to Google Dialer
3. Switchable Root
4. Untill now faster Update
5. Better , adjustable gestures via xposed edge
Disadvantage LOS over OOS:
1. Camera better on Stock rom
2. Better Voice microphone quality on Stock if Bluetooth headset connected

Completely agree with OP. Finally I am using a stock rom even without rooting it (OB11) and completely satisfied.

Wish I would have read this thread before installing Lineage on a 5T. Same experience. Huge waste of time.
I am a big fan of Lineage and it has always been awesome. My Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 is simply awesome and so has every other device I have ever used it on. Love it.
The 5T is a huge disappointment.
1 - the camera sucks. Even the google hacked camera sucks. - slow and welcome to crash city. HDR+ is second rate.
Front camera crashes
google photos crashes
3rd party cameras are terrible. They take pictures like its 1999. No HDR. If you do install a hacked camera with HDR or 3rd party, get ready to take pics like its 2008 - seconds between the 3 exposures. Time to carry a tripod again.
2 - no face ID. could not get it to work by flashing a hacked face id.
3 - Google Pay - it works if you put the time in to hack it with Magiks.
Those are the 3 main issues. #2 and #3 are important so #2 is the main deal breaker.
I should have tested Oxyogen OS first before installing Lineage. Oxyogen OS is very similar, it has many of the enhancements you are used to. Think of it as a commercial Lineage - it has not lost its roots.
The big deal is the Camera. It is great stuff. Go ahead and test other camera apps and then go back to the one plus camera app. Wow its like coming out of the dark ages.
Just like the post above, stock rom without root is actually fantastic! Dare I say - even better (software) than Vanilla android on a pixel 2XL.
I did open up the boot loader so you can push stuff via adb if for some reason you get stuck in a boot loop.
I hope this post helps someone. I wasted at least 6 hours messing around with hacks trying to get this to work for no reason! Oxogen OS is the rom of my dreams.

avongil911 said:
Wish I would have read this thread before installing Lineage on a 5T. Same experience. Huge waste of time.
I am a big fan of Lineage and it has always been awesome. My Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 is simply awesome and so has every other device I have ever used it on. Love it.
The 5T is a huge disappointment.
1 - the camera sucks. Even the google hacked camera sucks. - slow and welcome to crash city. HDR+ is second rate.
Front camera crashes
google photos crashes
3rd party cameras are terrible. They take pictures like its 1999. No HDR. If you do install a hacked camera with HDR or 3rd party, get ready to take pics like its 2008 - seconds between the 3 exposures. Time to carry a tripod again.
2 - no face ID. could not get it to work by flashing a hacked face id.
3 - Google Pay - it works if you put the time in to hack it with Magiks.
Those are the 3 main issues. #2 and #3 are important so #2 is the main deal breaker.
I should have tested Oxyogen OS first before installing Lineage. Oxyogen OS is very similar, it has many of the enhancements you are used to. Think of it as a commercial Lineage - it has not lost its roots.
The big deal is the Camera. It is great stuff. Go ahead and test other camera apps and then go back to the one plus camera app. Wow its like coming out of the dark ages.
Just like the post above, stock rom without root is actually fantastic! Dare I say - even better (software) than Vanilla android on a pixel 2XL.
I did open up the boot loader so you can push stuff via adb if for some reason you get stuck in a boot loop.
I hope this post helps someone. I wasted at least 6 hours messing around with hacks trying to get this to work for no reason! Oxogen OS is the rom of my dreams.
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OOS cam exists on custom ROMs too
I don't use pay so I can't speak on that
AOSP is the way to go imo, but I respect the OOS experience as long as I have RZ kernel installed. Currently on CNP and I am very happy.

First of all this should have been Custom roms vs OOS
you can get better everything than OOS on custom roms thanks to google camera port.
so I would say this setup would rekt OOS(Latest Pixel Experience Oreo official+ firmware 5.1.3+RedFlare Kernel)
and you basically have everything out your 5T

Does lineageos or any custom rom have 16:9 app compatibility mode like in OOS? If not then all custom roms are useless to me.
And I'm not talking about full screen support, that doesn't do anything but stretch non working apps to full screen, further making things worse.

musashiken said:
Does lineageos or any custom rom have 16:9 app compatibility mode like in OOS? If not then all custom roms are useless to me.
And I'm not talking about full screen support, that doesn't do anything but stretch non working apps to full screen, further making things worse.
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lineage has that option
also it has expanded desktop feature
most feature full custom roms havethat feature

AlMaghraby said:
lineage has that option
also it has expanded desktop feature
most feature full custom roms havethat feature
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Can you confirm? I'm not talking about full screen support. I'm talking about 16:9 mode where there are 2 black bars at the sides. Not full screen mode where the app gets stretched to fill up the screen.
I have games that cannot work in 18:9 aspect ratio. They have to work in 16:9 ratio. I tried a rom once with a full screen support mode and it does not add 2 black bars at the side.
Only OOS has that option of proper app scaling. I'm pretty sure lineageos does not have that option of app scaling to 16:9.

I was using Xiaomi Mi 5s before OP5T, with Lineage OS on it... Miui was not option for me... So when I looked for phone with Lineage OS experience, but on stock rom, I could buy some budget Android One device, or I could get some OP phone with OOS which is way better. So now, after years of rooting and installing CM/Lineage OS, modding stuff to work properly, I'm using stock rom witout root and it is great.

advantage of oos over any lineage or aosp based rom
1. sensors and networks are better.
2. no hi res audio and usage of DAC on any custom rom. oos uses the DAC to its fullest capabilities while the same phone on lineage or aosp sound poop. when selecting hifi option on uapp, neutron, poweramp custom roms don't even playback audio let alone sound good. FLAC files on headphones like beyerdynamic dt770, ath m50x, fiio fh5 on custom roms sound so bad.
3. fp scanner slightly slower on all custom roms.

I recently got the 5T and used OxygenOS for two days, then switched to LineageOS.
I disliked not been able to set the notification light to always be on when I got a notification on OxygenOS, I also missed the privacy guard feature and other minor customisations which are possible on LineageOS. However other than that OxygenOS is not bad at all to be fair.
I've personally found LineageOS to be very stable, everything works for me as expected. I wouldn't say the sensors / network is any better or worse personally. My 5T's current up-time is 12 days.
You need to pass safteynet to use Google Pay, which most custom roms will not out the box. This is not just a OnePlus 5T issue, its an issue on most custom roms for most devices. Simply install Magisk and any apps that check against safteynet will work fine. I've been using Magisk for years on my OnePlus One, both for Google Pay and Pokemon Go.
My only complaint is the camera, unless you use HDR the image quality is bad and looks like a water painting when you zoom in. This is somewhat better on OxygenOS, however it's far from perfect regardless of the rom.
However with HDR+ on the Google Camera photos are great. I'd say this applies to both OxygenOS and LineageOS, however with OxygenOS you can record 1080p @ 60fps, which is currently not an option on LineageOS. 4k @ 30fps looks great with Google Camera on LinageOS however.
I can't really comment on face unlock as i don't use it.