i'm using 4.2.2, recommend to come back

i made a video recording the laggyness in 4.3 aosp browser (aokp 4.3 nightly vs cm10.1)

but the lausy phone i borrow have such terrible recording lag
end up cant see the difference

other than browser, camera issue as well. and lastly after so long superbeam still dont work on s3 aosp 4.3
i email superbeam developer, other phone on 4.3 working, so its s3 camera bug.

4.3 issues not fixed even in stable release.
and its already end of development line. no hope already.

hopefully upcoming aosp 4.4 roms have less issues and worth using as daily driver

if one day you feel this phone is getting old and wana change phone,
check out this link http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPho...2&idPhone2=4238

you'll appreciate it once again. XD

If you never full wipe when change rom, sure sluggish lo

the official 3000mah one is very good. you really get extra 42% boost in battery life.

if not changing back cover, buy another original samsung battery la.

Got people still use SMS?
Long ago I already remove it from my home screen.
Using whatsapp, hangouts, fb chat already.

Nobody in my contact SMS anymore.

I updated the new Google now app.
The ui is more modern and can set reminder directly.

But my battery usage shows Google service usage is alot higher than usual.


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In temasek, when using camera, swipe left to check last picture, the animation so extremely laggy.
Totally no butter.

i dont feel the difference. when view in pc macam same only.

in my opinion, samsung touch wiz gallery kindda sharpen the image and adjust the color abit when viewing, and prevent you from zooming 100% when viewing, it only zoom to about 80% of actual size when you double tap

aosp gallery zoom 100% size when double tap, hence you see more noise even on the same picture, giving you the 'feel' that aosp camera takes worst picture. how i notice this? i bluetooth a pic to my cousin s3, my pic looks abit sharpen and more vibrant on his screen.

thats just subjective. anyone dual boot tw & aosp here, try and see you feel the same or not.

Actually not just Temasek, aokp cm and slim bean so like that. The stock 4.3 camera too laggy animations.

4.3 ROMs improve alot already,
Now Tasker profiles with secure settings cn work
Superbeam able to work in landscape mode, portrait still have the bug but at least it's usable.
Camera issue resolved, no problem snap pic while zoom.

Only left minor graphic glitches when opening settings and in camera. Consistently getting drop frame when opening settings.

Hangouts got updated again, but still no sms integration. Changelog in play store say got. But after update my version still v1. Sweat la.

i uninstall and reinstall again still the old V1 hangouts without sms integration.
i sideload the v2 leak apk from nexus 5. then update again from play store,

now i get the latest official one from play store and with sms integration. great!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?...AJ.theme.kitkat

with this theme, you get all the kitkat looks, not bad.
slimbean have transparent nav bar option, so it looks really similar.
with nova launcher beta, even the app drawer icon looks the same.

Whose one?
Stable or not? Don't think it's daily driver material

Thanks for sharing.

I'm currently using Slimbean 4.2
With the kitkat theme. Very satisfied.
The usual stable rom with least bugs compared to 4.3 and 4.4,
And the nice transparent status and nav bar.

buy new phone only la.

for tight budget, buy old flagship
32gb S3, or nexus 4,

if budget allow, but
s4, note3, htc one etc

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Poor RAM management (very difficult to multitask)

+1 to this. I felt it the moment I used touch wiz 4.3.
Almost every app gets killed in the background

I already did. Deleted all nonsense apps with titanium backup. And Greenify many user apps.
But it's still the same.
Very frequently, I notice my apps like browser, whatsapp, settings, loads as if it's loading for the first time. Many loading delays. Ram usage doesn't seem to be high, but background apps gets killed anyway.

32 gb is ok for me. But the battery life cnt accept la.

I also using the 3000 mah battery. Gotten used to phone that cn last 15+ hours a day with more than 5 hour sot even on very heavy use.

i have a feeling they just use cyanogenmod's work as base, and add touch wiz on top of it.

CM really have a huge influence on android custom rom. on 4.2, they were very active, resulting aokp to have 2 milestone build and slimbean to have 8 stable version

since CM become company, they really slowdown on progress. maybe many freelance developer dont want to work for cm anymore, like focal app being removed. they also busy making cm for the oppo N1.

frankly speaking, till today, i feel 4.3 aosp rom is not consistently smooth as 4.2.
everytime i try to use 4.3, after a day cant stant the inconsistent animations, then restore back to 4.2.
aokp have no milestone for 4.3, and slimbean only have 2 stable built.

from what you guys say about samsung 4.3 rom,
i think even the leak samsung 4.2 roms are more bugfree.