yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] kta:
Here's the list of my must have's and how to's. To start with, installing the Big Storage ROM will make your device way faster, but ONLY IF you install most of the programs in Storage. This way, your free RAM will be 13Mb Prog/9Mb Storage most of the time!

The list of essential programs I don't do without:

1) SBSH Pocket Breeze: gives a lot of information on the Today screen and is not performance hungry. Very very stable. I installed in Storage.

2) Pocket Max PhoneAlarm: Today plug-in that allows you set profiles and assign MP3 tones to SMS as well.

3) Sprite Backup: Simply the best backup tool that also comes with Sprite Space Detective and a Today Plug-in for battery and memory monitoring. Using this plug-in I saved myself from installing SPB Pocket Plus (I don't want to run programs from a today plug-in, most of them are accessible from the Start menu anyway).

4) TKCreator: a theme editor that allows me to modify themes on the PPC and also select themes stored anywhere on the device without modifying the registry. FREE.

5) PSShutXP: a program that lets you soft-reset the PPC without having to fiddle with the stylus. FREE.

6) TCPMP (Beta Player): for those weird formats that WMP10 does not recognise :-)

7) MemMaid: Mostly useful to delete Internet Cache and Mail attachment. You wouldn't need the Bad Installation clean ups if you stick to only the software you use and the only software that works. When I want to fiddle with some new software I just take a backup before I start and restore if I need to.

8) Microsoft Voice Command: ideal in the car, where I just say "Play ..." or "Call ..." at the press of a button.

9) Modified MS BT stack: at least this stack works properly with my wife's Nokia 6230. A2DP is also welcome with this stack.

10) MobiPocket Reader: a very cool RSS/News reader that I snychronise every morning, thus making my favorite daily readings available off-line any time of the day. (I'm subsribed (FREE) to CNN, BBC News, BBC Tech, The Register, Pocket PC Thoughts, MS Windows Mobile Team Blog, The Times of Malta and Soccer Net.)

Finally, with regards to closing apps as opposed to minimising them (one of the most popular features of SPB Pocket Plus), I found that with plenty of RAM available (after installing all progs to Storage), leaving the apps runnning in the background makes the Magician MUCH MORE responsive.

Since I installed the above setup I never ever had to reset the device. It's the best I ever had. Almost flawless.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] stevedebi:
I have only two apps running. Spb Pocket Plus and tAgenda. Between the two, I have all the information I need. I prefer to keep my memory useage low, so that when I open those two or three applications, they have lots of memory.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] craigiecraigie4:
kta: I've searched, but can only find onfo on the Bluesoleil BT stack - not a modified MS stack. Can you please direct us to info on how to do this upgrade.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] oltp:
You can find it here http://xdaforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=33532 in the first post.

Cheers, M
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hpsauce37:
can someone advise me where and how i adjust the colour and flash rate if possible for led notifications for messages and emails etc.

thanks

or do i need to use a 3rd party app and if so which do you advise.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vido.ardes:
You can't adjust that stuff nativley, but Light Manager is free and works wonders
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hpsauce37:
thanks

thought that might be the case
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cydonian74:
Whilst i'm awaiting delivery of my new Nexus 5 32GB (YESSSSS!!) i have been reading on some sites that out of the box the N5 updates to Android 4.4.1 and with that users are getting 100GB of cloud storage F.O.C.- can any of you lucky people who've received their N5 already confirm or deny this?

Can't wait. I feel like a kid on Christmas Eve all over again!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sewer56lol:
First it should go to the correct section.

Second, when you first turn on the N5 you do get an update but I assume it's a 4.3 to 4.4 update because when you get to use it it will be 4.4
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cydonian74:
Sorry Mod's.....should be in the Q&A section...my bad. :rolleyes:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Guzanni:
I don't think it's a 4.3 to 4.4 update, because when I started up my N5, just before it said that it had to update, the notification bar color was already white (and not blue, as in 4.3). The update was about 131 MB.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vido.ardes:
It comes with 4.4 out the box, there is ~140MB update when you first boot it up but it isn't 4.4.1 therefore no 100GB drive allowance
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marcomsousa:
Is a mandatory update from the pre-final Android 4.4 to final Android 4.4.0.

To have sufficient N5 stock, LG and Google manufacture the N5 with a pre-final version.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sewer56lol:
It was around 181 from my memory.

Anyway between 150-200mb is the size of a full AOSP ROM.

Yeah if it was already with white icons then it was 4.4 and the update was just a bugfix but I didn't remember that.

---------- Post added at 07:09 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:57 PM ----------

Couldn't explain it better myself.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bsteiner36:
Anyone?

Has anyone seen either the 4.4.1 update or the offer for 100gb of google drive storage. I had no idea about it until i read about it today.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lensgrabber:
I'm on 4.4. No mention of any drive storage upgrades. Update says I'm on the latest available.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stonehz:
No 100gb Google Drive

So I suppose no one got the "alleged" 100gb google drive upgrade..

I'm on 4.4, checked mobile and online settings but it still says 15gb :)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xluco:
I got an update notification as soon as I turned the device on, about 140mb - version number stayed at 4.4 though :confused:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sola fide:
Yes, go back to page 1 and read the 4 posts before yours....explains it all. Not trying to be rude, just straight to the point.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cutterjohn:
125.8MB. I got it as soon as I plugged in my wifi pw and connected... Didn't see squat about Google drive though... my n5 is now charging up, so...
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] das7982:
4.4.1 is for the nexus 10 only.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] microzee:
Hey everyone, I have the classic question of how to avoid the data plan. So a couple questions.

I want the nexus 5, and am always on wifi. I know att forces you to get a data plan with a smartphone but I dont want one.

Can I get a feature phone or dumb phone and swap the sims?

Will att detect the imei on the nexus 5?

Can I get the imei on one of my old dumbphone's and spoof it onto the nexus 5?

I will not switch carriers or plans, so please no "you should just go with t-mobile" answers(:

If spoofing is illegal to talk about on these forums, sorry I was ignorant.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lafester:
Nobody has the phone yet and its a good bet att will figure it out they always do.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lukas_s:
SIM swapping won't work. There's no possible way to use a smartphone on AT&T without paying for a data plan.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] microzee:
after doing research, you can apparently change the imei relatively easily using

su
echo 'AT+EGMR=1,7,"imei" >/dev/pttycmd1

Does this actually change it?

If you could change the imei to a dumbphone, it would work right?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JCreazy:
AT&T will figure it out by your IMEI and it is illegal to change your IMEI.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] microzee:
The issue has been argued over many times, and has never really been proven legal or illegal. Anyways, I see nothing wrong with changing the nexus 5's imei to a phone's imei that I will break rendering it useless. My question now is does that snippet of code really change the imei or does it change the text only in the about phone section.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meadowsjared:
First of all, I believe you're missing a single-quote, I think it should be like this:

su
echo 'AT+EGMR=1,7,"imei"' >/dev/pttycmd1

(notice there is a double qoute " and then a single quote ' after imei)

Also, secondly, I think this works with older phones, but I have had no luck getting it to work with my Nexus 5 :(
[Nexus 4 General] jokkir:
Now that ROMs are being built from the Nexus 5 4.4 source, what are your impressions on the update?

Also, please specify if you're using the OTA update or a Nexus 5 4.4 variant because the performance on both can depend greatly on it.

Anyway, my impressions:

Nexus 5 4.4 AOSP build:

+ The no black bars in the status bar and nav bar when in the homescreen is pretty nice looking

+ Homescreen with the Google Now stuff looks pretty good too

+ The clock doesn't look ugly anymore now that Google got rid of the bolded font

+ I like showing more information about battery drain from apps that use location

+ Bigger focus on Google Now.

+ It looks like more control on Google Now too like adding reminders and easier to modify preferences.

+ Easier and more apparent way to open Google Now and Camera from the lockscreen

+ Easier to choose a default Launcher now that it's in the Settings

- The white font when not in the homescreen (the black bars return) make apps look really plain and bland.

- Moving to neutral colours for other apps like the Keyboard make it looks plain as well

- I'm not really liking the changed Roboto font

- Tougher to add screens and widgets

- Dialer's design is all over the place. It has a new interface but then it looks the same when calling someone. Can't comment on the Yellow Pages thing since I think it's not working on this build.

- The app drawer icons are way too big and since some icons weren't made with such a high resolution, the consistency seems off.

I can't comment on the NFC part because it didn't seem to work on this build.

Anyway, yeah, the bland, grey colours are really bothering me. It looks very soul-less but I think I just need to get used to it.

Flashing another 4.4 rom now and see if that's better
[Nexus 4 General] styckx:
There is an entire thread for discussing 4.4..

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2486641
[Nexus 4 General] jokkir:
Yes, I know but I thought it would be good to have a separate thread for impressions considering that thread started off as a speculation thread. And now that it's out, impressions from users using Kitkat would be beneficial for people looking for information about Kitkat
[Nexus 4 General] Orry520:
Am I the only one that is disappointed? The changes are minor. Nothing big.
[Nexus 4 General] Dark Fear:
this is it..i myself didn't have much expectation.. kit-kat wasn't a Major Upgrade..actually (and unfortunately)

from android 4_4.4 there's no big improvement.. i think android 5 will be the real upgrade..
[Nexus 4 General] Jposton:
Have you ran it long enough to notice battery life is great compared to 4.3?

Google now integrated into the launcher?

Performance is same as 4.3 and has no optimizations as of yet?

Transitions are very smooth.

Overall this is a great upgrade from 4.3, most people are just not looking at the right parts of the ROM to notice it is greater.
[Nexus 4 General] Cream$ickleHJ:
Not enough changes, this that...what you want? A hologram hooker that says suckysucky $5..its 2013 not 2023

Sent from Moto Nexus 6- 32gb 3.0ghz True Octacore multi processor-Aluminum frame,Kevlar back infused with glass, 2800mah battery, 5.2" screen with minimal bezel, stereo bottom speakers with parallel microphones built in, running a whole new era of android
[Nexus 4 General] Mavasilisk:
"Also, please specify if you're using the OTA update or a Nexus 5 4.4 variant"? There is no OTA for now.
[Nexus 4 General] Smallsmx3:
What are the odds we get touchboost fixed?
[Nexus 4 General] eksasol:
The performance is very good, it benchmark better than stock 4.3 for me. The interaction response doesn't change, but it try to make the transition smoother like with iOS. Overall a very good update, visibly it has more to do with gapps integration. I think it persuade me to stick with the Nexus 4 instead of upgrading right now.

If you don't think there are enough change, stay with 4.3, don't update to 4.4.
[Nexus 4 General] manpildo:
Actually it's the other way around, the launcher is integrated into Google Now.
[Nexus 4 General] lowtje:
I found a hidden feature. Say "ok, NSA" and it will do all sort's of things you'll never know =)
[Nexus 4 General] AlderCass:
I really wish the lock screen had the transparent nav and status bars too, looks so silly when they disappear without so much as a fade animation when the phone is unlocked
[Nexus 4 General] meangreenie:
Say.."bombs away nsa".. You get to watch live drone strikes in Afghanistan, don't worry about watching shoeless peasents being killed because there will be reassuring propaganda adverts before and after assuring you that it's helping women and children in Muslim countries.
[Nexus 4 General] jadephyre:
Comparing 4.4 with 4.3 right now is stupid, we don't even have the updated binaries yet... judge it when its complete, not while it must still be considered a hackjob (and calling it that is not an attempt to diminish the efforts of the people who built the ROM with the older binaries).

Gesendet von meinem Nexus 4 mit Tapatalk
[Nexus 4 General] simms22:
i was just about to write the same thing, thanks :)
[Nexus 4 General] vickpick:
my battery life is worse than 4.3 but I'm guessing its because of a poorly built because not all sources have been released yet.
[Nexus 4 General] RealiZms:
Once you're using an official 4.4 build you'll find the opposite is true. Right now all people are using is a mocked up 4.4 using the 3.4 kernel. After some research many people claim that the 3.4 kernel is the worst power efficient version in recent history...An official 4.4 build uses either 3.8 or 3.10 if I'm not mistaken.
[Nexus 4 General] nadiros:
So can we use 4.3 Kernels with these early builds?
[Nexus 4 General] zelendel:
You know I see slot of speculation on an update that is not even released yet for this device. No kernel, no binaries, no nothing at all. Yet people complain.

Wayne Tech Nexus
[Nexus 4 General] playya:
cant say how much I agree with you and to create a new thread so that people now will have discussion/impressions in multiple places only makes it harder to find answers. Not trying to flame you OP but honestly a separate thread is not needed.

Impressions on a band aid rom dont make too much sense

Jus Sayin
[Nexus 4 General] jayRokk:
For what we have, I love Kit Kat.

Only things I would change; gamma, having complete transparent nav and status bar thru out the UI including third party apps and a custom kernel to UV and save some battery.

Other than that I LOVE the launcher and integration of Google Now.
[Nexus 4 General] physc:
transparent nav and status bar on third party app is the one thing i'll be waiting on 4.4 kitkat

Also switing from dalvik to ART, my phone feels more snappy.
[Nexus 4 General] patstock11:
I'm prolly in the minority but I am not impressed with kit kat. The one thing I do love is the transparent bars. Other than that I already restored my 4.3 ROM..its only my opinion but I feel like in an attempt to make things easy, Google actually creates a cluster f*ck...I don't need all my Google apps integrated into one..way too many menus and overflow buttons. To me it easier to just press the back button and open a new app. Maybe I'm getting old but it is the exact reason I hate iTunes. For me, iTunes trys to dumb things down for idiots with synching..and in the process complicates for competent people. .. Auto this... Auto that...I'm a drop and drag kinda guy..aesthetically I like kit kat.... But 4.4 seems very busy to me...android is supposed to be simple ....4.4 to me is android's spin on iOS...

Hopefully a good ROM will change my mind
[Nexus 4 General] roi14:
i can say that the real 4.4 experience will be the arrival of PA with its hybrid 3. :) well, that's just me.. have a nice day!
[Nexus 4 General] consolation:
This might be worth a read before you "upgrade" http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013...e-kitkats-primary-interface-is-google-search/
[Nexus 4 General] .Harshit:
Look at the battery life on kitkat
[Nexus 4 General] jayRokk:
Not only does that article not know what they're talking about. Google home is NOTHING like FB Home

FB home is intrusive to say the least, and turns your entire phone experience into Facebook. No widgets, shortcuts or customization.

Google Home/Nexus 5 home is quite the complete opposite.

Only one page is dedicated to Google Now with a Always listening feature for the rest of the spaces on home screens. I can ad widgets and set the shortcuts I want.

Terrible comparison and obviously trying to put something "wrong" into something that isn't.
[Nexus 4 General] jokkir:
Oh man, I can't wait to use my phone. Or not use my phone by the looks of it.
[Nexus 4 General] blankit:
There is an ota build for the nexus 4. Take a look around xda.
[Nexus 4 General] pawan1993:
It's labelled ota because when you build Android into a zip rather than images it's made for ota. But I assure you it isn't the official ota package.
[Nexus 4 General] mangomonkey00:
can anybody help me with how to resize the widgets i'm using nexus 5 port
[Nexus 4 General] brnt:
There actually is a Key Lime Pie icon in the Easter egg, but is quite rare.
[Nexus 4 General] Lt.Win:
Yeah I noticed it on mine too! Didn't know what it was till I saw this post.
[Nexus 4 General] eksasol:
A great reason why I stopped reading Arstechnica very long ago. The launcher is pretty decent, I actually don't mind using it over custom launcher.

Have you tried tapping and holding on the widget?
[Nexus 4 General] albundy2010:
What he said in the article is true.

How customizable it is compared to fb home is irrelevant to what his article was about

The launcher is Google search with its own launcher built into it. Just like the fb app has home in it.

And this is the guy that used to do most of the tear downs at android police. Not some doofus that doesn't know what he's talking about.

The launcher is now a gapp. Its not in aosp,
[Nexus 4 General] perfoliate:
Like this? I'm on the ported ROM by the way.
[Nexus 4 General] forever_lol:
Is this how KK dialer is gonna look like (I mean the one we've already got in N5 port) ? I guess not. No offense but it looks like half baked project, this holo dialpad doesn't suit the new design at all (something like a saddle on a pig).
[Nexus 4 General] iowabeakster:
The integration of the empty launcher wrapper, over the top of google search (google now) is a very multifaceted change (the Arstechnica article). And a continuation of what has been happening for a long time in android. Some thoughts about this:

1. It means that the launcher is now a gapp. It can be downloaded and updated through the play store. Improvements and features can be added without having to update the system. Therefore carriers and manufacturers cannot get in the way of updates of this kind. That's a really good thing. Google still is not really a hardware company. It doens't care about getting you to buy a newer phone. It just wants you to keep using google search.

2. It helps to reduce fragmentaion and bring new features to people whose phone is no longer supported (by carriers and manufacturers). That means that people stuck on ice cream sandwich will get app indexing and voice activated "ok, google" functionality of their home screens if they would like to have it too.

It is another piece similar to the play services gms.apk change that happened after I/O this year. As such it provides better compatibility and functional parity throughout all android devices, post 4.0.

3. It means every current android phone that passes certification, can have an up to date google now experience. Therefore this launcher wrapper will also be included on every touchwiz/sense or other skinned phone too. This further diminishes the threat of someone (like say... Samsung) with a large market share to try to emulate what Amazon did with forking the kindle. That would be a disaster for Samsung, but they just might be greedy/stupid enough to try. It's a protective layer to keep someone from using android to sabotage google's core business model (which is softawre services with ads).

3. It closes the source code for another key piece of android. If you want "ok, google" listening on your home screens with an AOSP ROM, your choice of launcher choice is now and only will ever be stock Google Home. And you will be able to get it from the play store.

I'm a full time, all the time, linux geek. I was long before android was a thing. I believe in Open Source systems. I prefer Open Source apps too. But I also believe that people writing software should get paid for it too. If google gets paid through ads (which it does) and gives the software away for free (which it does), I can't fault them continuing to making more of the core android experience closed source apps. They do need to try keep making money too (or this whole android thing comes to a complete halt). I can always remove any apps I don't like, as long as I have open source OS. I am not in bed with google, and will change to Ubuntu/Firefox/Tizen or whatever else if I would prefer that. I do not prefer that right now, fer sure.

What I would never do is change to a closed source OS, like iOS.
[Nexus 4 General] OppiFjell:
Oh my God.... Of course is not the Mako 4.4
[Nexus 4 General] AlderCass:
Ah, I was using the PA version. Will try the N5 ported version now, thanks!
[Nexus 4 General] proper69:
battery life is way better so far. Im on the odexed nexus 5 port. Shes buttery smooth and I havent had any hiccups. Ive also restored data on all my apps without any issues using tbu.
[Nexus 4 General] AlderCass:
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[Nexus 4 General] laker666:
Impressive...considering you haven't even been using it
[Nexus 4 General] consolation:
You're missing the point, the issue isn't with cosmetic changes, it's the fact that EVERYTHING you do on your phone is now routed through Google's servers. For example, all your phone calls, and we all have seen how poor the corporates have been at protecting our privacy. But hey, shiny...
[Nexus 4 General] a g bell:
Is that water cooled:)
[Nexus 4 General] Cream$ickleHJ:
Bored inside the aluminum frame is what holds the freezer pack fluid, think of a tubing wrapping around but is bored inside the frame, which can be stuck in the freezer with the water resistant body, itll keep Cool for hours

Sent from Moto Nexus 6- 32gb 3.0ghz True Octacore multi processor-Aluminum frame,Kevlar back infused with glass, 2800mah battery, 5.2" screen with minimal bezel, stereo bottom speakers with parallel microphones built in, running a whole new era of android
[Nexus 4 General] sixaxis94:
One major improvement in my opinion : on a full screen app, sliding from the top brings down the notification bar.. Don't know why it took them so long to add it

Also, is the n5 port any better than the PA one? I'm suffering from really bad performance issues on games atm in pa

Sent from my Nexus 4 running KitKat
[Nexus 4 General] ismethajametovic:
Anyone know how to add things to the left? It only lets me go to google now when I scroll to the left.
[Nexus 4 General] Abaddon:
I think that's how google launcher works
[Nexus 4 General] jadephyre:
I think I read somewhere that when the then newest version of Ubuntu was released with Kernel 3.4 that it literally drained Laptops in under an hour or two sitting on idle. That should not happen.
[Nexus 4 General] consolation:
Google launcher is just a place holder, google now acts as the launcher.
[Nexus 4 General] rg400smarttowel:
I actually liked the black bars on the phone :(
[Nexus 4 General] ismethajametovic:
Ew. Google Now is great, but I hate how you can't scroll to the left. Oh, well Nova Launcher will do for now.
[Nexus 4 General] Goku80:
eww:p