Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
CM looks just like stock.
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CM looks just like stock.
Except better.
You could try to find the folder where Kies stores the backup on your PC, the calendar might be saved as an XML file or something else you could read. But I think the chances are that your calendar is gone. Just make sure your calendar and contacts are synced to your Google account so it doesn't happen again in the future, and don't rely on Kies for anything.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
I don't get it, unless you mean functionally. But visually, it literally looks like stock. I don't see any visual difference.
Yes. The options in CM make it above and beyond the stock offerings in terms of functionality.
I think in 10.1, when Google moved the day and month on to one row and removing the year, CM fixed it by putting the day and month on separate rows.
My memory might be hazy since I haven't used stock in a while.
Cognitive dissonance much? wow.
The fuck outta here with that. Hyperbole to the highest degree. You may dislike a lockscreen clock font, or you may not make use of lockscreen widgets, but thats a long journey from making the stock experience "shit". And to then imply that its 'increasingly' shit, as if to say that it has been getting worse since the likes of Gingerbread is unequivocally false and you know it.
I love some of the software some of the OEM's have added. I'm very vocal about it. But you are being ridiculous here. For every neat feature like Smart Stay, there's an equally shitty experience like S-Voice and Security issues with lockscreens being bypassed. And don't even get me started on the rest, for Christs sake, your phone is on Verizon of all carriers. So your 'Skin' is automatically screwed and unable to run general software like GWallet and the like because of it.
OEM skins have their benefits, but so does vanilla Android. Its ok to be happy about your new phone, but don't get ridiculous, it would not be very hard at all to bring you back down to earth swiftly with the benefits of real Vanilla Android versus skinned OEM versions.
[Posted from my REAL Galaxy Nexus running 4.2.2, you've probably never heard of it.]
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NinjaFridge
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How stable is 10.1 M2? Suitable for daily use?
The Faceless Master
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"What the Galaxy S4 needs"
should be suitable for daily use, but actual results vary depending on make and model.
should be suitable for daily use, but actual results vary depending on make and model.
zomgbbqftw
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Just used the HTC One. It's an impressive device for sure. Sense is still a piece of shit. Don't believe the lies about it being better. Still resource hungry and adds little to the overall Android experience other than some WP8 styling.
Tested the camera as well. It performs poorly in normal outdoor conditions, but better than the ZL in poor light and indoors. In all scenarios other than poor lighting, the ZL was better, and in poor light it was about the same with a 13MP -> 4MP resample on Photoshop.
Tested the camera as well. It performs poorly in normal outdoor conditions, but better than the ZL in poor light and indoors. In all scenarios other than poor lighting, the ZL was better, and in poor light it was about the same with a 13MP -> 4MP resample on Photoshop.
Been running for a day or so and it seems stable enough for me. Course I was running the nightlies before that. Skyrocket on CM10.1
Nicktendo86
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I just.... I'm speechless. My list of cm features I posted earlier alone make me love cm, it also looks exactly like stock but better (the time and date in the notification draw and making then time disappear when you have a lock screen clock widget are two examples)
Nicktendo86
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I know, the new animation is really nice. I've so changed it got the nexus animation though...
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NinjaFridge
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Can someone point me in the direction of 10.1 M2 download and a guide on how to do this? Thanks.
Some people just love dat teal gradient. If TouchWiz were as polished as stock in terms of visual aesthetic and user experience, no one would complain. I personally didn't find a single feature Samsung added to be useful. Hell, most of them are half assed or WORSEN the experience. For example, S-Voice causes your home button to lag if enabled. So bad. Even some of their motion features are useless because they were only ever designed to work with Samsung's stock apps. The skin itself is poorly developed.. the copy & paste crash bug on the S3 still exists!!!
I honestly don't think Samsung will ever have the capacity or interest to develop something visually appealing. And as a former S3 user, I can confidently say I'm much happier giving up LTE just to have better software.
I don't like the look of stock either. Just so you know I am consistent.
I liked CM up to when ICS was released, after that I think it has evolved slower than rest of the customer ROMs and I don't care for most of its new features. (There features are good but not the best from the customization world so you end up not using most of its features.)
For example, not enough power toggles options for the notification screen and hard to mod them.
I don't like the black theme either. I don't think you can make everything black and call it a style. Its not. I mean it saves power for amoled screens but its not a style. This is google's fault mostly. What make CM worse is that all the addition introduce inconsistent visual cue. At lease google try to make new icons consistent for new versions of android.
So enough hate towards Tino.... what the hell are you running on your phone?
-Pyromaniac-
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I'm hoping Verizon allows motorolas skin to be stock android. I mean shouldn't at least ONE allowed to have that. Because it will be different from the rest regardless.
Vanillalite
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I'm wondering that as well. Unless you are running a customized version of the stock ROM for your device I'm scratching my head here. AOKP, Paranoid, and CM all basically share a base and use the same visual ques so it couldn't be any of them.
I really am wondering here.
I only have one tablet running CM. When I have time I have run through its interface and explain to you why I don't like it. (Mostly are aesthetic, I just don't like the black theme.)
Time to theme it then or go AOKP for that.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
That still doesn't tell us what ROM you are running instead!
Daily driver? Galaxy Note on UK official rom + Go Launcher + Notification Toggles + Paperland Pro wallpaper.
Most of work is making my own Go Launcher theme.
The Faceless Master
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probably some scab rom
edit: worse than i thought, GO Launcher.
edit: worse than i thought, GO Launcher.
OriginalThinking
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No, it's larger than that. We're trying to stop you falling off a large cliff with a whole lot of insanity at the bottom. Right now it's like watching a car crash. half fascinating, half horrifying.
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How is CM bad I don't even get it.
The Faceless Master
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CM even has options to bold/unbold the clock digitd that stock has 50/50
brotkasten
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Is there a reason why notification toggles doesn't work with Spotify anymore? I know I got it to work once, but I think it stopped working after updating to 4.2.
CM is the rom you can get on almost every device. I have never bothered with a AOSP rom so I can't comment on which part of CM is stock which part is CM. I have however flashed CM on almost every android device I have so I can comment on it.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
What do you mean by toggles? I still get a notification when the song changes on 4.2.2.
Ohh ok I see. CM is an AOSP rom btw.
But yeah, they don't mess with the appearance at all. Essentially, you don't like Holo, which is definitely a minority opinion. Even most of the iPhone owners I know think Holo is great, or at least miles better than GB.
-Pyromaniac-
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Holo light is easily the slickest looking thang there is. Google needs to completely transition.
I laughed really good after this post. Oh lord. Anyways....
Loving or hating stock Android is one thing that I can't wrap my brain stems around. Most phone manufactures would be doing the end users a favor by sticking with stock but alas they don't.
Unknown Soldier
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I've actually used both stock and TouchWiz. You on the other hand are only capable of flippant ad-homming.
The decision to use Go Launcher was based on ease of use of the theme creation kit and how portable was the theme, not based on the feature of the launcher. Most launchers have 80% functionality overlapped.
Unknown Soldier
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Ahahahahaha...really? Really? Are you actually being serious here? All I see in the Galaxy Nexus thread are complaints about how 4.2.x fucked things up. All the files got moved around for a multiple users feature that the phone doesn't even have (it's for the Nexus 10), many bugs were introduced, the lock screen clock got uglier, and nothing even remotely interesting was added. A sideloading malware scanner which misses 80% of malware, and half-assed notification toggles which are worse than what TouchWiz has had for years? And you're going to try and bullshit me and claim stock is still better? I still HAVE my "fake" Verizon Gnex and there is a leaked 4.2.2 ROM for it and I could even install it if I give a fuck. Which I don't. Even if I still had my "fake" Gnex activated on Verizon's 100% REAL LTE network I would actually prefer to stay on 4.1.1 and not upgrade to 4.2.2. The person who needs to be swiftly brought down to earth is you, because stock Android 4.2.x is actually pretty shitty and that's why people recommend CyanogenMod to rescue it from shit status but maintain the stock look and feel with many useful features which are entirely missing from stock.
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Too bad the weekend is coming up and good shit rarely gets posted around that time.
Will Google Music correct sync differences between it and iTunes, or do I need to sort it out manually?
If a CD has two discs and shows as two separate albums in iTunes I usually change the info to combine them into one album - but Google Music has uploaded them as two separate albums as it was running before I had chance to change the info.
If a CD has two discs and shows as two separate albums in iTunes I usually change the info to combine them into one album - but Google Music has uploaded them as two separate albums as it was running before I had chance to change the info.
The HTC One is really nice in person. Shame about those scratched edges from day one, though.
Also, looking at the Xperia Z's screen, I still miss AMOLED. I may be in the minority, but I'd rather have explosive colours and deep blacks, even if it means Pentile and lower PPI.
Also, looking at the Xperia Z's screen, I still miss AMOLED. I may be in the minority, but I'd rather have explosive colours and deep blacks, even if it means Pentile and lower PPI.
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