[Nexus 5 Original Android Development] Incredible_Culp:
HOLY SMOKES!!!!!!!!! -- Ok, I'm about to go on a little rhapsody explaining why I think I found my cure of being a flash addict when I I flashed this ROM.. So sit back, pop some popcorn and enjoy --- If youre bored enough to :good::o

This is not a bug report and anything, It's just me being overjoyed that a ROM like this exists (lol).

I've been flashing N5 ROMs ever since my N5 arrived in the mail back in November.. I was stock for no more than an hour haha. I instantly rooted and started flashing away.

Flash forward now, I've nearly tried every 'close to aosp' ROMs there are in here; Original and 'non' Original development threads. I've stayed away from CM as much as I could (we all know why) and I never could get a solid ROM that I would stick with for long periods of time. I would flash a ROM, play with it for awhile, flash a kernel, ended up not liking it, flash another ROM a few weeks later, and so on..

I've always went back to the same ROM that had everything I wanted and that "go back" ROM switched every time another ROM updated and included more "stuff" lol -- So I was constantly flashing ROMs.. Never could stick with one because one ROM included something small that the ROM didn't that I also wanted.

I like features, not gonna lie, specifically themes.. I cant live without my black theme called Black Infinitum.. I'm definitely a minimal guy with a clean, elegant, blacked out taste. And having a ROM that included theme chooser was a definite must. ROMs that did not have theme chooser turned me away. The stock colors are SO boring/plain to me...

I loved Vanir for a while because I could click on a "switch" that turned the settings layout stock. I would customize it how I liked, then clicked that "switch" and it was perfect. But! I couldnt use the kernels that I wanted, and something always seemed to not work and/or break (nowadays the camcorder FC's in that ROM as I've been reading.) Plus, I hate nightly builds. As a flash addict, I liked it, but then again I didnt. (I think weekly builds are more beneficial than nighlies, but thats just me). I loved Liquid Smooth too, It's super fast and snappy, but the theme I used screwed the notification bar up a lot.. Idk why, it just did. On other ROMs it was just fine, it was just on LS that caused something wrong. So of course that steered me away from that ROM too. So my main ROMs I used were Mahdi and Carbon.. They both had the features I loved, but I didnt feel the "snappiness" as I did in other ROMs. Mahdi 'was' my go to ROM, it didn't have nightly builds so i didn't have to worry about flashing something everyday, and everything seemed to work..

But me being me, I'm picky. And yes, I know being picky doesn't help concerning ROMs, but I still am lol.. I want everything to be perfect and exactly the way I want it lol -- So of course (idk if I'm weird for this or not) but the only thing I didnt like about Mahdi ROM is the name LOL -- I dont like my ROMs being named after someone. Idk, I just dont. hahaha.. No disrespect whatsoever, I'm just saying. It just bothered me. I like my ROMs having an original/catchy name.. I LOVED, however, the settings layout Mahdi comes with. Those who have flashed his ROM knows what I'm talking about.. It doesnt have all that "crap" right in your face, it "appeared" stock unless you scrolled all the way down. All the customization options has its own tab near the bottom.. Loved it. That's also why I loved Vanir (I have a lot of 'loves' apparently lol) it had that stock "switch" that "hid" all that extra crap I dont wanna see every time I open up my settings. Looks tacky to me..

Anyways, I've been wanting to try another ROM for about a week now. Something different. Mahdi hadn't updated in a while and all the other ROMs I still wasnt "feelin".. I've flashed Rastakat months ago, but like i said, it didnt have theme chooser, so i flashed another ROM RIGHT away (lol).. BUT! I LOVED (there goes my 'love' again) how minimal it was.. Especially Banks.. Thats how i manually do ALL my ROMs.. I strip all my ROMs down to/around (depending on the ROM) 125mb... (I stripped these Rastakat builds down to 118mb;)) Every time (not gonna lie) I flashed a ROM, I wished it was Rastakat with theme chooser. But i always got disappointed because i could never strip the ROM that small (118mb) And I wished that Rastakat had Theme Chooser that it would be the best ROM on the N5..

TODAY when I was searching around the ROMs, I cant remember what I was searching, but I searched something, and that search brought up Rastakat and other various threads.. So i clicked on Rastakat just for s&g's... In this thread, I searched again what I searched in the main thread an clicked on the few links your thread brought up.. I scrolled down, and this post is what I found....

I INSTANTLY got excited.. I then searched for [MENTION=2998612]lichti1901[/MENTION] posts (lol) -- I came across one of his posts and checked his sig.. I click on his build, and it brought me to the download page.. All this time i was thinking, "Man, if this is really blacked out, this is gonna be PERFECT"

So, long story short (:o) I flashed his ROM just a few hours ago and I was ASTONISHED! It's just like my black infititum theme.. I havent noticed any blue (i hate blue) and its been a wonderful day! haha.. I dont need theme chooser, its aosp with the essential "goodies" that i love, and i can use Trinity kernel.. absolutely amazing!! -- Its stupid snappy too.. I cant ask for a better ROM.. (actually I can, LOL -- why did immersive mode and lockscreen wallpaper get taken out of the ROM? I'm sure it caused some perfomace issues, right?) In my eye's thats the only things that this ROM needs.

So, ALL this is explaining why lichti's Rastakat build has cured me of addiction.. Thank you OP Rastakat, BaNks lichti, and morphic for a perfect ROM combination. Absolutely brilliant :highfive:

I'm just mad I'm extremely late to the party!

Ok, I think I took a long enough break (haha).. Back to studyin.. Finals week college probs :(