[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] clandestino123:
Hi there folks, this is a good thread. Great to keep this kind of stuff away from the development threads.

edit - I got bored so I stopped half way through the TW section. But I'll come back to it.

Omni / Asylum v Touchwiz JB (Sweetrom)

I've had the N7000 for nearly 2 years now, I've flashed many roms. Over the past year or so I've tried slimrom and CM repeatedly, but I always went back to touchwiz with modified kernel in the end. Why? stability, battery life, and everything worked.

FWIW I'm back on sweetrom 10.5 right now, but will switch back to omni rom this weekend.

But over the past 3 weeks I've been going back and forth between omni-rom, slim black roma, and sweet rom... here are my observations...

battery life

Undoubtedly, sweetrom wins here. In my experience, omnirom has periods where battery life is great, but then an app or process goes wrong, and battery life is affected.

features

omnirom has new and different features, that TW doesn't have. But ...TW has features that omnirom doesn't have (samsung stuff).

The usual argument tends to be "you can just download what you want from the playstore if it's missing"... but really I think, TW might actually win out here for overall functionality. Whereas omnirom is actually missing that functionality.

speed

omnirom is definitely faster (from a subjective point of view, haha). I might as well add - I think that only this latest 4.4 (and 4.4.1, and 4.4.2) are actually noticeably faster than, say 4.0.4. LRQ with glewarne's kernel. I really think that 4.4 has made a slight difference.

stability

Sweetrom definitely wins here. However - don't get the wrong impression. Sweetrom/tW is not 100% stable.

enjoyability

For me, omnirom's features and feel are more enjoyable. Far more enjoyable.

Omni rom issues/features.

ART - I believe that there is an improvement in battery life. Having said that, processes still get "stuck" every now and then, which kind of negates that improvement. I couldn't really see any improvement in menu opening times, app opening times, etc. One disadvantage with ART in current form, is that the first reboot will take forever and a day, as apps are "optimised".

Video camera - I had little success with this on earlier nightlies, but on later ones, it seemed to work fine.

App specific layouts - Some apps don't seem to be configured correctly, or perhaps, omni rom isn't presenting them correctly. e.g. "guardian anywhere" - photos in articles aren't displayed, and text does not resize.

pin number entry- no need to hit "enter" if this option is selected. I like.

AOSP/ Android keyboard? - swype style entry causes crashes every time.

Stock browser quick controls - doesn't work properly on n7000. Very hard to activate.

Stock browser layout - often doesn't fill the whole screen, whilst quick controls are in use. It behaves as if quick controls aren't in use.

Stock browser incognito window - browser will FC when this is activated.

phone dialer- love this. :D

discrete call accept/reject - love this additional new feature. To me, this is a useful feature.

hot phone - sometimes the phone heats up to 400c, or more. I didn't like this feature very much. In all seriousness though, even repeated reboots didn't fix the issue. IMO the issue is certainly related to GAPPS, and the separation of Omnirom from GAPPS. If Omnirom was released with a GAPPS package, I believe that the issues could be identified and eliminated over time. However, what is happening in real life is that people are flashing a wide variety of GAPPs packages.

HW composer- It's not there in Omnirom....yet... :laugh: I'm pretty sure that it isn't in TW, and never will be. If raw kernel 6? or 7? can incorporate it, then our N7000s will get a new lease of life!

Sweet rom issues 10.5 issues/ features

layout issues - with pin keypad, lockscreen wallpaper, etc.

Transparent status bar issues- It's always a different contrast/shade from the rest of the screen, and looks ridiculous. Equally so in landscape mode. Omnirom has proper functional transparent status bar.

Swipe contact right to call, left to text - great TW feature.

SGS4 lockscreen - more of a hindrance than anything else. Unless of course, you do not have any security on your phone whatsoever. In that case... this is a fantastic lockscreen (with an awful, awful font).

battery life - Been back on sweetrom 10.5 for a day now. First thing I noticed was that it "just works". lol. When you press the power off button, the phone goes into deep sleep soon after, every time.

Samsung push notifications, updates, etc etc etc.... - to me, these are just real annoyances.