You don't lose root if you do factory reset. Factory reset basically just wipes off your /data partition. Your root privileges are on /system (or some other partitions, correct me if I am wrong).

Anyone interested in authentic wood skin made from wood (instead of veneer)?
I may want to start a bulk for this if there's enough interest.

What sets this apart from dbrands and the others is that this skin uses real wood, as such has a different finishing texture.

CNY should get red one ma. LOL!

Check out this link that tells more about the skin. Alternatively, you can just youtube "toast made wood skin" and there are a few videos about other phones as well.
http://www.droid-life.com/2014/02/04/toast...n-and-overview/

Original kickstarter video few years ago:

39. Keep calm and try to climb over the bottom pipe instead of fly under the top pipe. Off sound may help, too.

USB 3.0 port?

Yup, I notice some little improvement. It manages to make my WiFi on and off according to my usage (previously, Google will force WiFi on all the time for location pooling for Google Now and who knows what secret they have). If you let Battery Guru to disable most push services (which I didn't) you should be able to get more battery life, too.

It comes with a nifty companion app called Glance which offers a very interesting concept. Try it out (I decide not to use them because it breaks the Holo look IMHO).

All this flashy talk makes my hand itchy. Should I go into custom ROM?

Any ROM recommendation? Want something that has RC/Milestone release that's stable enough for every day usage and don't require often flashing. Best if can update like stock OTA, no need to mess too much with recovery. Pie control, multi-window features are all good to try, but not really compulsory. Not looking for too much of battery optimisation (I believe in downclocking to provide the most battery saving), but don't want weird drainage at all.

Oh ya, any possible way in backing up phone without root (I have TB Pro but that definitely needs root), or making nandroid without root. Bootloader unfortunately locked.

This post has been edited by tanjinjack: Feb 11 2014, 12:20 AM

Yup, quite interested with Omni, PA and Slim but CM just releases a Milestone. What's the status for CM nowadays? I was really into custom ROM back when I had a HTC Desire (that's somewhere 2012) and Omni and PA didn't even exist back then. CM and MIUI are the most popular one, and AOKP is still a newbie.

If CM is still as good as it was, I think it's a good starting point for me.

It takes a while to learn your behaviour. In that time, it does drain more battery. I think it's a very good app in controlling those Google apps that always sync data in the background - which does improve my battery life I would say.

Ya, I saw PA and Slim seem to be on weekly and Omni is on nightly. Probably will get the CM Monthly. Now I just need to find the time to sit down and do it.

Compare Cerberus and Android Device Manager? Android Device Manager looks neat to me, but never really try them.

Pretty much the same if without root right?

Seems about right TBH. I am getting similar SOT but I was on dalvik. Just switched to ART and let's see if it improves.

Not too steep for the pricing. I know this is what my dad has been looking for like forever.
But for me it won't be that useful, move on to cloud storage already.

I use it as a lockscreen widget, and also a homescreen widget. It takes up the whole default homescreen panel of mine and I have incoming notifications to appear on it. So I can access them easily. I also have all my battery, network, weather and all sort of info on it. It's somehow similar to the Glance app by Snapdragon.

Hi guys, finally on custom ROM. Started off with CM11. Everything seems okay but I really want to take advantage of Cyanogen profiles as it enables the toggle between secure/insecure/disabled for lockscreen. Currently, to automate the profiles, I need paid apps but I don't feel like paying yet (even though it's just a 1USD app). Is there any other custom ROM that allow automating profiles?

Hey, I am on Paranoid Android now but option seems to be a bit limited? It's really stock like and I can't seem to have access to the famous PA options like HALO, Pie control and hybrid UI. Am I missing something here?

This post has been edited by tanjinjack: Feb 19 2014, 04:12 PM

LOL, now on OmniRom, didn't even bother with a Nandroid for the barebone PA. Let's see what Omni has.