*** Nexus 5 THE Official Thread ***

More than happy to stick with stock Android on this.

With my N4 I became fed very quickly of all the Titanium backing up and messing around with ROMS. 4.4.2 just works well on the phone and with some decent core apps it really is just a sheer joy to use.

You can keep your fancy settings and weird layouts, simple is best and I can get on with using it with no problems and enjoy spending my time on other more important things in life :D
 
i've rooted and flashed roms on every Android device i've owned, even rooted my Nokia WP7 phone and flashed a WP7.5 update just to get the latest.

But on this phone, it's good enough to not bother, i get 0 crashes no battery drain from kernels which are supposed to be better, and everything just works.
 
I always flash a rom and my favorite is Paranoid Android for its wealth of inbuilt features. At the moment im using XPosed Framework with a few modules for customisation but there is only so much you can get so much to work on Stock.

An actual battery percentage in status bar, customisable toggles, wake using vol keys, one click themes, Halo multitasking, Full screen Pie mode, the ability to save system preferences, the ability to install GApps packages without half the rubbish apps Google cramp into Android that i don't use, the ability to use tablet or phamlet mode...etc etc

I rather install a ROM with all those features baked into the OS rather than having to use stock and then adding apps and xposed mods to get it to that level which only takes up memory and eats away at the battery.
 
insane200 said:
i've rooted and flashed roms on every Android device i've owned, even rooted my Nokia WP7 phone and flashed a WP7.5 update just to get the latest.

But on this phone, it's good enough to not bother, i get 0 crashes no battery drain from kernels which are supposed to be better, and everything just works.
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Agreed:)
 
Ive always rooted my phones to flash roms that are pretty much vanilla android, so for me the attraction of the Google Nexus devices is that the have vanilla android and get updates first.
 
i'm going to stick to stock, with a nexus device i think it's stupid to apply custom ROM's which are usually buggy.

i done it all with the nexus 4 and it was a pita tbh, i liked some of the features of the custom rom but none of them were life changing.

stock does everything i need it to do well.

with budget phones though or branded devices i would use cyanogenmod or PA.

i tried that pacman rom out on the nexus 4 and it was buggy as hell.
 
Flashing a custom ROM is just like installing an app to give you extra features or options not available in the stock ROM.

I don't see the problem.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
i'm going to stick to stock, with a nexus device i think it's stupid to apply custom ROM's which are usually buggy.

i done it all with the nexus 4 and it was a pita tbh, i liked some of the features of the custom rom but none of them were life changing.

stock does everything i need it to do well.

with budget phones though or branded devices i would use cyanogenmod or PA.

i tried that pacman rom out on the nexus 4 and it was buggy as hell.
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I never had a single problem with CM and PA on the N4. The betas and nightlies can be buggy but the final releases are just as reliable as stock if you don't tinker too much with kernals. I think its a bit naive to say its "stupid" considering most of the developments from custom roms normally end up in some way sooner or later into stock android. In 4.4 some apps now run in "immersive mode" hiding the status and nav bar. This feature (Pie mode) has been available on PA for like ages.....

Stock android is very bare. Lacks basic things such as quick reply for SMS and a battery %...features which custom roms have had for a long time. Its custom devs which make android a pleasure to use.

What was so PITA? Download and flash. It's as simple as that. All you got to do is a nandroid copy before hand so if anything goes wrong you just restore it and your back up and running within 10min.....
 
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No need for custom Roms, unless it is something very difficult.

Been using Xposed Framework for awhile, and it lets you do 95% of the customisation you need from a Rom. The only module I have use is mavity Box (kitkat).

It lets you edit almost everything, I use it for quick settings, power menu, add battery text. The framework overall is a great idea.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1574401
 
photoshop said:
I never had a single problem with CM and PA on the N4. The betas and nightlies can be buggy but the final releases are just as reliable as stock if you don't tinker too much with kernals. I think its a bit naive to say its "stupid" considering most of the developments from custom roms normally end up in some way sooner or later into stock android. In 4.4 some apps now run in "immersive mode" hiding the status and nav bar. This feature (Pie mode) has been available on PA for like ages.....

Stock android is very bare. Lacks basic things such as quick reply for SMS and a battery %...features which custom roms have had for a long time. Its custom devs which make android a pleasure to use.

What was so PITA? Download and flash. It's as simple as that. All you got to do is a nandroid copy before hand so if anything goes wrong you just restore it and your back up and running within 10min.....
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see all those "features" you talk about, you do know they have apps now that do them?

i mean there is now a pie app, a holo app, a battery percentage app, etc, etc.

so i stick with stock as it is 100% stable unlike the custom ROM's and just install the app which enables the feature.

in fact for every feature a custom rom has which is good someone then turns it into an app sooner or later.

therefore no need to choose custom ROM's when you can can pick and choose which features you want through apps.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
see all those "features" you talk about, you do know they have apps now that do them?

i mean there is now a pie app, a holo app, a battery percentage app, etc, etc.

so i stick with stock as it is 100% stable unlike the custom ROM's and just install the app which enables the feature.

in fact for every feature a custom rom has which is good someone then turns it into an app sooner or later.

therefore no need to choose custom ROM's when you can can pick and choose which features you want through apps.
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This :)

Also, I cannot root because it breaks my Barclays app which I use a lot :D
 
Psycho Sonny said:
i mean there is now a pie app, a holo app, a battery percentage app, etc, etc.
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Is there an app that can change the battery into a numeric version? Or you mean it will add something into the notification bar, like these apps that add toggles? To be honest, they're just very messy to me.
 
kona786 said:
there's no need for a lot of things when you put it that way.

Who said we 'needed' it in the first place?

Did you need to upgrade to the N5 from the N4?
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with a Custom ROM you are restricted to what the developer wants, now what you want.

With Stock and then modding through apps your not restricted by anything. It's also far far more stable.

I needed to upgrade from the N4 because the camera was terrible, it was made of glass (easy to break) and it was prone to overheating and throttling causing major issues to performance.

It had lots of things wrong with it basically which have been improved upon by the nexus 5.

Custom ROM's also tend to have a lot of things wrong with them therefore it's best just to stick with stock then mod through apps.

I have done the whole custom ROM thing and it's a load of **** tbh, custom kernels however i find far more useful.
 
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