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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] soulaiman:
If this is the best rom available for the GNex, that's up to you. But what I can tell is that after using this rom from the moment 4.2 came out, it is very very stable and clean.

Battery life is meh, but better than stock. It's just Samsung that makes and implements crappy batteries in their phones.

I don't use this rom for it's tablet or phablet options, but just set all my apps in stock phone mode. I like the customisatiosn that it offers and it just works very good. Another feauture I enjoy is the PA colors en Expanded desktop. Especialy the last mentioned is very handy is some apps like Games when you just need the full realestate that the screen can offer.

What I miss is the option (from AOKP) to show a percentage (without icon) for the battery is the notification bar. this option is available on the Xperia X10 and Desire Z running PA. I don't know why it is missing.

Maybe it would be neat to implement the goo.im thing in the settings menu and to remove the stock software update menu under settings/advanced. Or maybe implement it like on CM10 M-releases or like MIUI does it.

PS: some kind of invention sthat I see the dev's of PA maybe think of in the future is some kind of Universal Inbox thing (think BB10), Universal search (think WebOS), Swype gestures to close apps (think IOS on iPad, esecially handy when in expanded desktop), or even swyping to the left and right to switch between open apps like in Chrome browser or in Windows 8.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cocchiararo:
you should hold that deadline until the memory thingie is sorted :P
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] EvilDobe:
If I may be so bold as to request the menu dots within the recent box that would be GREAT. If not - thanks anyways & I'll eagerly await the change in the future.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] FaberfoX:
I went back to beta6 from dev7 and after 30 lock/unlocks, I still don't see the low mem issue. With dev7 after just 15 I had only 80MBs free and lag started. I have 4 lockscreen regular widgets, never used the homescreen widgets from 7. I also had lockscreen targets but after deleting them still had the low mem problem.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] drafgnjom:
Ofcourse you can. :D Cheer up Mr Dev :P
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] TheQuarterMile:
Is the lag issue present in beta6?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nephilim:
Any idea if you may be implementing a sound control toggle in the quicksettings menu anytime soon? (i.e. vibrate and sound/ vibrate / silent)

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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] drafgnjom:
Some reported that it isn't. Many of them experienced it at beta7 only.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dandemonic:
Seems some are having issues with beta7 in my case havnt had much lag and lockscreen activate/deactivate multiple times didnt reproduce memory problems, however have had couple issues occur when using google music, had thought it was due to corrupt latest update to google music but now maybe not.

Symptoms are: open google music, press volume up, volume stopped working pops up, then try access tracks, music stopped pops up, then try system settings, settings stopped pops up, then try launcher same thing and does redraw.

Has happened several times, always just after screen unlock. Attempting to use any app causes app to stop. Is very intermittent fault, after reboot all is well again, but in every case the volume button was initial trigger. Loving your rom its streets ahead of stock and will keep the faith for beta8, been checking every few hours for it:D

Small request can we have native torch please?

Thanks again devs, hooked on PA now:thumbup::D

sent via xda app from my yakju gnex 4.2.1 paranoid android 2.99 beta 6
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] thegtfusion:
I only experience the lag in beta 7. I have faith in the PA team and in beta8!. :)

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] gln003:
Beta seven since two hours. No problems so far... RAM free ~300 mb and keyboard present. Did you check if keyboard will popup on keypress in options for android keyboard?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Quinny899:
It happens to me sometimes too, if you wait a minute or so it will appear for about 3 seconds and then crash. You need to reboot to get it working fully again. When this happens there's also launcher redraws, live wallpaper failure and lag, even though only one app (browser) was open
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] juggaknot77:
I went back to Beta 6 because it works perfect for me, no lag, no issues and great battery life...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nikulogical:
I'm using beta7 without any of the new features and I've had ~200mb ram free constantly since i flashed once it came out.

Sent from my Paranoid Francoid
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nephilim:
Unlock and relock your device for about a minute to a minute and a half, then check if that ram is still at 200mb free.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] drafgnjom:
I think not all of them is experiencing this problem or NOT yet
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] gln003:
Deleted.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] slayr76:
Been on PA Beta7 for a week an no memory issues whatsoever, always between 230-300mb free memory an no lag no matter what I do on my phone, been using nova,apex an trebushet launchers :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] angekcc:
After doing this my phone stays 80mb free!

Any way to fix the problem? Besides rebooting!

I love Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nephilim:
Nope, that was the point I was trying to make to anyone claiming there is no issue with Beta 7. The lockscreen is somehow causing a drastic memory leak and rebooting is the only solution until Beta 8 is released.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pannik:
I'm having gps issues after updating to b7. Tried downloading the fix in opp but seems like link is broken.

Any other link to fix?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ren2008:
I agree! Just to share my exprience with beta 7 and the Dev Build,:

I updated to beta 7 and felt the lag with memory going around 80Mb after 5-6 hours of use. Then i switched to the Dev build 07 DEC 2012 and one day later, memory is getting low again! Rebooted, installed taskiller (i know...) and even when i kill every app, maximum memory i could get was 109Mb.

Will now return to Beta 6.

Good luck folks :p
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Joplisan:
Me and my girlfriend both have this memory issue on b7. It works fine after reboot for some time, but at some point, free memory drops to 30-80 and phone starts to lag badly.

Sent from my Paranoid Nexus using my thumbs.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] angekcc:
Ok.

I love Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nephilim:
Yep, if ya check some of the commentary in the last few pages a couple users have discovered it's linked to something in the Beta 7 lockscreen, this is why sometimes the leak takes hours and hours to be noticed but other times it only takes a little bit. It's dependent on how frequently you are unlocking your device. ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nikulogical:
It went down slightly then replenished. I think it has to do with the new lock screen features. I haven't even played with them.

Sent from my Paranoid Francoid
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Lapiduss:
Waiting for a fix try to disable lockscreen
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nephilim:
Yep, it's the lockscreen, even if you are not using the new features the lockscreen itself is the cause of the drain on memory.

You lucked out, you are the only person literally that I have seen on here that can successfully lock and unlock their screen for a minute and a half and still have over 200mb of ram. Everyone else on here including myself loses memory down to below 100mb and has to reboot.

I wish I had your phone.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] freibergisch:
My beta7 drives me crazy :) i dont have to reboot after loosing memory.. This does my phone for me sometimes.. But I wait for beta8 and not go back to beta6.

But great work. Only memory problems i have with this rom.

Gesendet von meinem Galaxy Nexus mit Tapatalk 2
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nikulogical:
Not over 200mb it went down to about 170 and now its resting at 188. Maybe i am being affected slightly but i haven't rebooted in 48 hours and there no lag.

I wanna add that I'm using the latest beta 7. He put two up then took em down. In using the second one he took down since i didn't care about the new features.

Sent from my Paranoid Francoid
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nephilim:
So you are telling me you actually sat and locked/unlocked your phone over and over for about a minute to a minute and a half (or roughly 40 or 50 times) and you are still sitting at between 170 to 188mb of ram? Did you really take the time to do the lock test as stated? I just don't see how only one person can do this and still maintain normal ram when everyone else gets the same low memory result.

Don't take this the wrong way, I'm seriously not trying to be rude in any fashion. I'm just baffled at the situation. :confused:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] thedudejdog:
I just did this, I sat here and unlocked it for 2 entire minutes. Checked settings, 225mb free ram. No lag.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] thedudejdog:
Actually, I went back for a screen shot and it was over 250mb ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ryanwalexander:
I must say I'm not a fan of the multiple different versions with the same name.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] thedudejdog:
This is the rom I'm running. Using pattern lock.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nikulogical:
OK let me do it again i didn't time the first time.

I'm using a pattern lock BTW.

OK before: 133mb ( i got a lot of things open)

After: 142mb

I did it for 60secs, i have no reason to lie.

Edit: few mins later 178mb.

Sent from my Paranoid Francoid
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nephilim:
I see you are using one of the Dev Beta 7's, can I ask how many apps you have on your device? Are you using the 3rd party app Pattern Lock or the actual google pattern lock?

It's cool man, I wasn't trying to call you a liar or anything. The newer Dev Beta 7 must have a few things slightly tweaked, from the looks of your post your ram did still leak little by little because you had it sitting at over 180 in your last post and your starting point in this one was 133mb, even after it jumped back up it did not get back to the original 180mb from the last post.

Glad to see the Dev Betas are improving this little by little, hopefully it's gone before Beta 8 hits.

Thanks for taking the time to do the process man, appreciated. I'd hit the thanks button but I used them up hours ago lol.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DoesntPostAThing:
I think he's using the Dec 6 one, the "official" beta. D4rk released one around 11AM PST, found a bug, took it down. Another one at 12PM PST, found another bug, took it down. And the one most of us used was the 3PM one, which stayed there. Then there were people who used the Dec 7 dev beta, and others (including me) who are using the Dec 10 one that aaron released yesterday. I think godisanatheist is using the 12PM Dec. 6 one. If that's the case, it could be one of the fixes D4rk did to the lockscreen shortcuts that's causing this, as iirc all he changed between the 12PM one and the 3PM one is a fix for the lockscreen shortcuts.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] avelec:
Yes, it the google lockscreen that causes the memory leak. I disabled the factory Lock feature, and no memory leak at all (hover around 150 - 198 mb). Running the latest b7 dev version. Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nikulogical:
You are correct. He fixed the crash when you tried to add lock screen shortcuts.

Sent from my Paranoid Francoid
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DoesntPostAThing:
Well, if that's the case, then we've at least made sure which build started going crazy...

My free RAM started out at around 150 this morning, dropped to 89 when I made my last post, and is now at 90. So far so good, only lag when opening up an app that I haven't touched for the whole day (messaging). 88 after another unlock. 93 after another minute. I should make an excel graph and mark the times I unlock/lock. :eek: Also, was it locking or unlocking that caused the memory leak?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] thegtfusion:
My lag is gone. All i did was install busybox and re enable my settings in the franco.kernel updater app. For some reason it didnt pick up my settings without busybox. Its faast and buttery smooth here :D

Looking forward to beta 8 though

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] OMFGNuts:
Lag is gone (atm) after disabling lockscreen

Отправлено с моего Galaxy Nexus через Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DoesntPostAThing:
You mean the lockscreen memory leak lag thing?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nephilim:
Could you do me a favor and lock and unlock your phone repeatedly for about a minute to a minute and a half (roughly 40 or so times). Then lemme know if your lag is gone from updating busybox and if your memory is still stable. ;)

Only asking because I have the newest busybox and installed it a couple days ago.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
upcoming in b8

New toolchain and kernel tweaks, the rom should feel considerably faster with this.

Per-app-auto-color --- you may not yet know what that means but prepare for awesomeness.

Say goodbye to reboots just to jump from one UI to another (tablet mode, phablet mode, phonemode), this will be instant. + separate controls for navbarsize. + Per-app-orientation (TabUI in landscape), not present in paprefs, but available to beta-users for testing. new flag is ".landsc=1"
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DoesntPostAThing:
It seems that 79mb is the limit for me. It'd get down to 80, then jump back up to 101, but almost instantly down to 79 again. After about 3-5 cycles like this, I get a hot reboot. Then it starts at 347mb. I caused the hot reboot by downloading an app, ironically it was memory usage app :p
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MaLiXs:
Since yesturday i did'nt reboot my phone and I have 240mb left... Il on 7dec build.... I have many time unlocked my phone (with pin code..)

Awsome..... Alway love New stuff

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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] thegtfusion:
Omg! Tonight? :D

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DoesntPostAThing:
Smoother, but did you fix the lockscreen memory leak issue? It's already blazing fast without the lockscreen issue, I can only imagine how fast it will be if you increase more speed and fix the memory issue. :laugh:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bostonbassman78:
I'm sure it got taken care of

Sent from my Paranoid N7
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
i talked to jesus, he did something to it
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] D4rKn3sSyS:
Yes, memory leak is fixed since I said I was working on it. Though it was kind of random, some users may not even have noticed, that's why we didnt take it serious, because no steps-to-reproduce were written until today.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nephilim:
+1 very much hoping this issue is resolved.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DoesntPostAThing:
Awesome! :fingers-crossed:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nephilim:
AWESOME!!!!!! Thanks so much for looking deeper into this today!!!!!!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DoesntPostAThing:
As for the gapps pack, I'm uploading my "modded" version of the ones posted in OP. I added the gtalk and keyboard libs, and switched mms.apk and contacts.apk with the ones that can be themed by ThyrusHolo Black. Works fine for me. You could just update some of the market ones and release it. Mediafire is horribly slow for me though :(
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nikulogical:
Per app auto color? If that means what i think it means...

Kernel tweaks? You really recommend the stock kernel? Battery life leaves a lot to be desired.

Sent from my Paranoid Francoid
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
nice of you, this takes so much weight off our shoulders coz we each have our projects right now to fulfil the deadline. please try it out with factory reset + clean install. do it the nandroid way, then you just go back later on.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nephilim:
Speaking of mms, has the fact mms does not seem to send or receive been addressed? I've tried on stock and handcent and I cannot send or receive mms messages, it just hangs when I send them and they never download when I get one. I may have overlooked this issue but I've had it since the first PA 2.99 I used (Beta 5b).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DoesntPostAThing:
No problem, I'll test it out then. :fingers-crossed:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nikulogical:
What is the issue with goo gaaps? Incompatibility with themes/mods?

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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DoesntPostAThing:
I like the PA gapps :)

Mainly because since it has the same system apps as stock, I can just restore the same data apps with RTP. If I was using the goo gapps, then I'd have to deal with excluding some of the system apps like Gmail and stuff, and I'm just lazy :p
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] r29:
Pull the mms.apk from xylon rom it works with mms. mms thing is a 4.2 issue so those third party app wont wok till they fix it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nephilim:
Thanks for the tip man, I posted to the devs of handcent about it as well as many others so they can look into their app end of the situation. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DoesntPostAThing:
You can download the gapps package I uploaded here if you want to help me test it. It works fine for me on dirty flashes. I got a gallery FC and not saving photos on the first boot, but after a reboot everything is working fine. Not sure what happened there, as I didn't change anything to do with gallery at all.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] musashihatred:
Will download :p feed back you on in a few mins.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DoesntPostAThing:
Thanks :)

Moles said to test on a clean flash, so I made a nandroid and wiped everything. Feel free to test different situations though.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
Per App Auto Color

I guess you all have seen our color feature, it was pretty groundbreaking when it came out. We're still the only rom that does it, the others have one static color - but ours shifts from app to app - which looks awesome and makes way, way more sense (although we have an option for a static base color aswell of course).

But turns out people were getting tired over hexcodes and i guess in the end themers had way more fun with this. It was supposed to be intuitive, and picking colors by tapping kind of is, but messing around app for app isn't everyones coup of tea i guess.

That's why pa-preferences will give you two options, manual or automatic.

Manual will give you the regular colorpickers for: statusbar, navbar, buttons and buttonglow. You select this mode if you want to finetune your color parameters.

The automatic mode has one picker, it determines the color of your controls and icons by calculating complementary colors. Best thing is, and you all know what Google nerds we are, we're using straight holo colors for the color spectrum.

Involved in this project were,

+Imil Ziyaztdinov ,working hard on the automatic color calibration, studying color theory, +Jesús David Gulfo Agudelo ,finetuning, extending and implementing it, plus the entire UI aspect, +Paul Henschel making the per-app-color hybrid breeding ground.

[YOUTUBE]GNf9n3qJUXE[/YOUTUBE]

btw, please visit our g+ channel. every little thing we present there and you'll always know what we're into at the moment.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/107979589566958860409/107979589566958860409/posts
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DoesntPostAThing:
@moles my gapps passed my tests, a few other people are testing it too (hopefully :P)

Everything worked for me, except the gallery bug I mentioned.

@musashihatred could you see if gallery works for you on first boot? Thanks.

Also, I noticed that the black screen after setting up everything still exists. Thought that went away with the bootloops?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nephilim:
So from the looks of that video I take it the Signal/WiFi/Battery/Clock Icons are all color customizable too?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] thegtfusion:
I swear that google should hire guys like the entire PA team. Young and full of suprises :D :) What you guys did is amazing, i think this is the first rom that has all the per appp thingys!

:thumbup::thumbup:

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] musashihatred:
On it. Still downloadin :/ speed is terrible.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] r29:
The funny thing is it states it fixed in the play store .. I prefer Go SMS though for third-party. But it got to bloated for my liking. I do miss some features but like mms app from black bean rom cause it has theme engine built in but sadly mms does not work with it until it is fixed
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] musashihatred:
Gallery FC on first boot. Tried next boot. Take a shot. Photo not saved. Tried wipe cache and dalvik plus fix. Everything perfect. Sync is good :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DoesntPostAThing:
As for the photo not saved thing, I had to rescan media on the second boot to get all my previous photos back. Very strange. I wonder if it's like this for the untouched PA gapps in OP?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
we dont like crippled aosp apps and its missing alot of the original google apps. keep in mind, they will just waste space if you install them yourself. if we bring them they will take zero space, so the bigger the package the better.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
no, this is up to imil. in theory it would be easy now to make a fifth picker though.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] twistedumbrella:
It's a great idea in theory, but look at what happened when Samsung got Cyanogen. CM is not really the "machine" it was and Samsung's not exactly releasing revolutionary software either. It takes a lot of potential and traps it in a cubicle with a bunch of contract restrictions.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] melloyellowkc:
Make it possible to save PA preference into the SD card and then you're awesome. XD
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cocchiararo:
would you mind mentioning which apps you already tested that did not explode with this ? :P

ps: i would not mind a complete properties.conf line for enabling this, even if only through a PM :P

did you take into consideration the fact that this rom uses a cm version of mms.apk ? (i can't loose my option to auto remove non GSM caracters :P)

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Lockscreen memory issue

Any technical insight into what was the issue ? :P xD
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] musashihatred:
Same here. I ran rescan media.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DoesntPostAThing:
I switched whatever mms.apk in the original gapps pack from the OP with the one from Xylon, that will work with themes like ThyrusHolo Black. The one from OP would give you black text on a black background, and in the list of messages you get black boxes with white background. The one from Xylon fixes that, though. You still get quick reply and emoji, not sure about the characters.

Also, thank cocchiararo for the gtalk libs ;)

I took them from the zip you uploaded a while ago, and added them to the gapps pack that I uploaded.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] D4rKn3sSyS:
Is not possible, System apps cannot write on internal storage

Technical?? Well it was more like a derp. I forgot a couple of lines so the views weren't detached
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DoesntPostAThing:
Ahh, well, at least it's all sorted out now :P

That's what I thought, though, godisanatheist reported that the second beta7 from dec6 had no problems, but the third build did. the only thing you changed between those was the FC when adding shortcuts.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] musashihatred:
What about mms.apk of justinbean which inclides theme it yourself? Do you want ? Ill attach it here.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MaLiXs:
Can you uplad this apk some where and link it here please?

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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] musashihatred:
Here it is

http://db.tt/P5Xbx1ME

Mms.apk of AOKP with theme it yourself mod

Credits to justinbean team.

Works well with PA.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Rotary Heart:
I can make an app that can check the preferences and copy them to a paranoid folder in your sdcard. Just wanted to ask if you people will really use it, because if not I will not make it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] MaLiXs:
Can i simply remplace this apk in the gapps (for futur instalation) or will not work

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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] aaronpoweruser:
No, need I merged in auto pa prefs and gapps backup :)