Ok, i'm gonna jump into rooting train now. Hopefully won't be late.

Hi, may i know what custon ROM u guys using now? Plan to flash Nightly Cynogenmod 11 into my S4 GT-i9500, is this ROM ok?? Or do you have any other better recommendation? Now using rooted stock ROM, adi installed CMW 6.0.4.8 and done the Nadroid backup.

Thanks bro.

Is this latest Philz CWM?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2280457

I actually bored of using Ori Touchwiz....honestly i never use more than half of the Samsung functionality. Yeah just that i wonder custom ROM camera is it good or not.

I just want something that i will feel 'new' and 'fresh' with it.

This post has been edited by coolkwc: Nov 3 2014, 05:42 PM

Anyway, can we release the 'hidden' internal flash space after we flash to custom ROM? Now i saw stock ROM useable space max is 8.9GB over 16GB, which i felt cheated.

Just tried cm11 and nameless ROM, both ROM camera is not working, force me restore back to touchwiz, too bad...

Of course dun know lo. Xda forum got soooo much pages in one thread, impossible for me to follow each post.

If possible i dun want port.

Ya, true, the flash process is just a blink. Just made a backup of the TW and flash everything. The main problem is i need data to download all those ROM, 1 ROM = 200MB, 1GB max only can get 5 ROMs...Yesterday i already downloaded 2

Flashed Prism Barebone ROM with Omega kernel yesterday, only install google play and whatapps. After 17 hours, now still have 90% battery left. Amazing.

The carbon rom quite bad in terms of battery drain imo. Drained 9% in 4hours in sleep mode..

Hi bro, my rom is freah install without any aftermarket apps install yet, and is fully idle (from the battery log there is no single awake in 4hours time), but it drained 9% in just 4hours, far more worst than stock rom,so i doubt greenify can help here...anyway i will try out...

This post has been edited by coolkwc: Nov 9 2014, 05:32 PM

Hi bro, below is the betterbattstat screenshot after overnight sleep.






Damn bad the batt consumption

Sunday night I tried reboot the phone and let it sleep overnight, just -5% over same period. So i can say reboot, sleep, better battery, if continuous use without reboot, bad battery consumption in sleep.

Anyway, carbon ROM is missing long press home button to see the background program, isn't it?

Hi, thats is very bad if i compare to TW ori/custom rom. Stock TW ROM only consume 5% battery in same sleep time with all the Sammy junk inside, after cleaned some of it, consume only 4%. Prism Barebone TW ROM lagi excellent, consume 3% only in 8-9h sleep. Maybe this is not Carbon problem but is actually CM11 problem, i tested 2 CM11 ROM, carbon, CMGear, all eat battery like no tmr in sleep mode. All sleep mode i said is under same bed room, so the reception shouldn't be the culprit. I even tried to put in aeroplane mode, outcome still the same.

Follow the part 2 of the tutorial, battery drain at its worst condition: 100% wakelock and drained by copresGcore_EventLoop wakelock, battery log 100% wakeup can't deep sleep at all. Gonna reverse the process to see.

Tried that, now my battery drain in deep sleep is unbelievable -0.2%/h...

Hi, has anyone of carbon rom user notice that the battery % will gone up from last used status. This morning my phone is @ 95% @ 8am, now 9:30am it got 96%...seems like the ROM turn my battery into fuel cell that can regenerate electricity by its own.

Hi for those using custom rom (especially CM based), i got one camera apps to recommend, Open Camera, i found this camera functionality is definitely better than google camera and is on par with stock TW camera, even more function than that. ISO auto and manual from ISO 100 - 1600, flash mode (auto, on, off and bulb mode), focus mode (Fix, manual, macro and auto), white balance same as stock camera, and all the scene mode. few plus point over stock camera it support exposure lock, so you will no longer get a whole screen dark image due to a strong light spot in your scene(due to EV compensation), and live direction and angle on screen to tell you ur camera is perfectly horizontal or what...interface is very user friendly, all those setting i mentioned above are represented as small icon on screen, easy access. I'm really satisfy with it.

This post has been edited by coolkwc: Nov 27 2014, 10:08 AM

What u means by 'clearer'?

Just bought a Samsung Pro 64GB for my S4 today, but sadly the phone only max out read 50MB/s and write 21MB/s, despite the card spec suppose can reach R:90MB/s W:80MB/s.