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I think your confusing 'need' with 'want'.

Also the custom ROM's I've used and kept work extremely well and are properly stable.

PAC Man for example combines 3 ROMS (as you probably know) in one and includes all the wealth of extra's in a nice neat interface. Far more convenient and neater than multiple apps.

Battery percentage (in the proper place) or PIE control, or DPI per app all require root the last time I checked.
 
Purity ROM, never had any stability programs, looks like stock with the features I was missing from it. Can't go wrong.
 
GrimsbyLAD said:
Is the 4.4 radio 100% solid? Compared to this... Any guides on it along with files necessary for my device type?

Found mine had the "defect" enough on xda moaning about which is a loose ish power button.. No it was just moving abit lol! Nothing like a bit of a wedge sliver each side to stop it rattling about invisibly won't sort :') Why are people rma'ing because of that problem when its normal as its a ceramic button
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Yeah after using the phone for a few days with the 4.4 radio it's much better than the 4.4.2 radio, reception is stable.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2514095

Click on the link above to get the 4.4 radio and it's just a matter of flashing the zip through custom recovery, you have to unlock the bootloader and be rooted though.

AndyCr15 said:
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.
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There's a mod on XDA to show the battery percentage Samsung style,

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2561325

Otherwise you can use Zooper widget that shows a battery icon with the percentage in the clock widget itself.

See below for example

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@kona Got your email Mate, will reply to you by the end of today, I have a decision to make! :eek:
 
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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Those apps your talking about take up memory and use battery. They are just imitations and don't run at system level. And most of those apps are by the original rom developers....for example CM team releasing standalones into the play store.

Custom ROMS have those features built into the OS which is less messy. Each to their own but i rather have the features baked into the ROM/OS than getting apps to do it.

You might have had a bad experience trying custom roms but i've ran custom roms on my N4 from day one and on my S4 and i didnt have any issues. Currently waiting for PA to come available for the N5.
 
kona786 said:
I think your confusing 'need' with 'want'.

Also the custom ROM's I've used and kept work extremely well and are properly stable.

PAC Man for example combines 3 ROMS (as you probably know) in one and includes all the wealth of extra's in a nice neat interface. Far more convenient and neater than multiple apps.

Battery percentage (in the proper place) or PIE control, or DPI per app all require root the last time I checked.
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PAC Man was the least stable ROM i tried on the Nexus 4, it was constantly crashing/rebooting. Maybe I tried it when they had added some new features, but it wasn't in it's infancy.

PA was probably the most stable one I tired but even that had issues and was nowhere near as stable as stock.

Also when the kernel changes it can mess up a lot of Custom ROMs, I think stock is the best way to go, far less faffing about and it is 100% stable.
 
photoshop said:
Those apps your talking about take up memory and use battery. They are just imitations and don't run at system level. And most of those apps are by the original rom developers....for example CM team releasing standalones into the play store.

Custom ROMS have those features built into the OS which is less messy. Each to their own but i rather have the features baked into the ROM/OS than getting apps to do it.

You might have had a bad experience trying custom roms but i've ran custom roms on my N4 from day one and on my S4 and i didnt have any issues. Currently waiting for PA to come available for the N5.
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2GB of RAM therefore I doubt memory is much of an issue for a phone tbh. It's also a pretty snappy quad core device so speed isn't an issue either.

I liked PA, but again it was mainly 1 standout feature, the ability to run anything at any DPI, specifically the launcher to make the bars (soft buttons) smaller.

Now the buttons are transparent, it's less of an issue.

If you like custom ROMs that is fair enough but I am going the other way I prefer the simplicity of stock and adding any feature I want through apps.
 
I just wanted to make the point that there is nowt wrong if you want to stay stock or install a custom ROM for more features.

There are plenty of custom ROMs that are stable otherwise majority of ROM flashers would hate them.


@stoosh - cheers, no rush bud.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
2GB of RAM therefore I doubt memory is much of an issue for a phone tbh. It's also a pretty snappy quad core device so speed isn't an issue either.

I liked PA, but again it was mainly 1 standout feature, the ability to run anything at any DPI, specifically the launcher to make the bars (soft buttons) smaller.

Now the buttons are transparent, it's less of an issue.

If you like custom ROMs that is fair enough but I am going the other way I prefer the simplicity of stock and adding any feature I want through apps.
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Android gives you that choice to stay stock or go custom. Some like to tinker, some don't......atleast we have that choice unlike some other fruit company :p

Whatever works for you is what matters.
 
stoosh said:
There's a mod on XDA to show the battery percentage Samsung style,
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Yeah, I thought it would be a mod rather than an app.

Psycho Sonny said:
with a Custom ROM you are restricted to what the developer wants, now what you want.
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A good custom ROM is full of 'options'. You don't HAVE to have anything you don't want.

Also the fact that you get to CHOOSE which custom ROM to use, from maybe 4 or 5 decent options.

I understand what you mean, stay stock and apply the mods you want, but that's a lot of hard work when a decent ROM has all these options baked in.
 
Flashed the .17 radio/modem (from 4.4) back on this morning and hey presto my signal is back to normal - yay its awesome again. No idea what they have done to the .23 radio/modem but it sure is ****** for some people.

Was a shame to have to unlock the bootloader which I hadn't done already so it has to wipe the phone, but no biggie. Just spent an hour re-installing and configuring everything.

I suspect with the amount of people with issues, they'll release a new one with 4.4.3/4.4.4 but sticking with .17 for the time being.

Took 5 minutes tops
 
Si Lad said:
This :)

Also, I cannot root because it breaks my Barclays app which I use a lot :D
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Exactly, the Barclays apps I find massively useful. I am surprised that I don't miss any of the stuff from custom ROMs but I don't. I was mainly using SlimBean as that was the closest to stable I had used, I did like PA but had to reboot the phone every couple of days.
 
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