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[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
So the giveaway rules will be as follows:

I have a list of everyone who donates...the donation entries for the kitted up one of a kind device will be:

1 to 5 dollars = 1 entry

Any value above 5 dollars gives you 2 entries:

**multiple donations in a single raffle period will combine capping at 2 entries per person per raffle...i will be as transparent as possible as we progress...

Remember this isn't meant to be a raffle...or a pay to win type of game...i do not want it to be an incentive to donate whatsoever...this is just a way that you guys can show support and appreciation after hundred of requests to have a donation box...so i figured I would try an do something cool with a majority of the proceeds as long as everyone enjoys it in the right context it will only add some extra fun to the community we have

Mega
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] Larry Fortune:
Got it!! Good idea...
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] sky high:
Sorry if this is a dumb question but can I greenify Google system aps like Google books. I know you said that we should disable them if we don't use them but I use them all however I don't want them draining my battery when I'm not using them. Also what about greenifying android wear and moto connect (moto 360) I didn't think I should greenify them because they are always syncing to the watch however they don't have the GCM symbol next to them nor are they system apps.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
No don't greenify any gear/wear/moto controller apps or anything like that...don't greenify anything that runs alot like widgets or functions like moto apps....def follow op2....and id only greenify google apps by converting them to user apps with titanium backup first that's what i would do if you use them as google apps drain over 35% of the battery alone screen or off...they're by far the worst apps on the play store imo ironically

Mega
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] sky high:
Thanks as always for the quick response and awesome support. Developers like you are a rare sight on xda some times. I also figured out why my viper4android wasn't sounding amazing. I forgot to download the convolver impulse response files were installed. Now it is the most amazing audio I've ever heard coming out of a phone or anything else in my house. Better than any other device I've had Viper on.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Zooper Widget Pro Guide:

So I think all of you know I'm obsessed with Zooper...it's the business lol...so after fielding a bazillion questions about it I figured I'd put this newb kit together then add it to op2...

To Replicate A N4/S5 (Any) Widget: static...these will.not change wallpapers with weather...you can I just typically like 1 at a time...preference

1. Get the background you want: either extract it from the apk of said widget or my drive box has about every flagship every made weather widget decomp backgrounds in there lol

2. Add 4x2 or 5x2 widget to home page

3. Layout

4. Add+

5. Choose last option: Bitmap

6. Choose gallery

7. Choose background: example sunny s5 (below)

8. Resize to fit widget box

9. Back to Layout Menu

10. Add Text: option 1: choose text content

11. Choose Time

12. Choose 3rd option (my preference pick whatever)

13. Resize clock and place using x and y adjustment

14. Back to Layout Menu

15. Add Text: Text Select: Date

16. Resize Date and Set in Position

17. *** Follow this same method for

Weather

Temp

Forecast

Location ect

18. For Weather Icons: Choose add bitmap icon

19. Choose bitmap

20. Resize and place in location

21. For "Last Update" like Samsung widgets check choose Edit Text and copy paste this into bar

Last Updated: #WLRM/d h:mm#

22. Resize and Place on bottom right corner

Basically let's you do stuff like this...enjoy

Mega
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] faithofgod:
This ROM is great, smooth, and long battery life! I wanted to let anyone looking for the Voice Control options that were on the Note 3 and that Samsung removed, at least one of them, the ability to answer the phone by saying "Answer" is hidden away in the Accessibility settings under the "More Settings" section. I have not found the ability to snooze the alarm by voice or the other Voice Control options. Samsung support was unaware the Voice Control even existed, but they told me they had been taken out. Of course, I found that Answer option, so they might be hidden elsewhere. Just thought this might help someone who used Voice Control on their Note 3 and came to the Note 4 and found them missing.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] RaymondPJR:
There's nothing wrong with those stats! Doesn't look like anything is misbehaving.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Yea its funny you mentioned that as I was wondering the same thing...if they removed them or simply moved them...honestly I never used them much except the camera control to snap pics but def know exactly what you're talking about...so far the only ones I know of are here...really odd thing to remove lol

Mega
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] AlkaliV2:
[MENTION=5451734]megalomanic14[/MENTION]

For a guy that lives in the middle of the country, you sure do love the beach. Lol all of your screenshots are of beach locations.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Lmao yea i made the mistake of going to school in Florida and moving out to LA to play/record music...then got suckered back to cincinnati and figured I'd finish my last year and a half of school so I'm stuck in the sticks for another 11 months or so then it's back to cali lmao [emoji106]

Mega
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] TheUndertaker21:
great rom but why does it have all T mobile crapware? like hotspot,Tmobile ID and others. sorry to be that guy :)
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Because people use them...remove them if you don't want them...why else would I leave those few and remove all others lol?

Mega
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] TheUndertaker21:
I tried but i couldn't. I'm probably gonna have to use root explorer. but it's all good for now. i'd test this and report back. this is the second one i've tested since i got my device 3 days ago.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] AlkaliV2:
That explains it. You've been a beach person your whole life then. Me personally, I prefer the Atlantic over the Pacific just based solely on water temperature. I did get to spend a few months in Seattle though and I would live there forever; dreary or not. I love that city.

What are you going to school for?
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Biochemical pharmacology...drug research and design basically...my main speciality would be pharmaceutical biochemistry...but I'm not a big dork outside of tech so I'll prolly end up back in music

I love new York. ..never really been to the East Coast other than playing some gigs in ny several years back...i def loved some of the vibe of jersey shore minus the d bags on that show lol

Mega
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] AlkaliV2:
Lol I expected you, with your thousands of posts and thanks here on XDA, to be Computer Science or Engineering so color me surprised. However, that's a solid field choice for stable work and job availability so I totally get why you picked it. Good news too, you get to read doctor's handwriting and their shorthand, which is like learning another language. You should ask Google Translate to look into that.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] Hardcore69er:
question, a ton of ram is used up. its a little laggy.. could there be anything I can do
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Lmao no I just do this for fun...tbh i started building roms simply to make my note 1 better when I first got it and was unhappy that roms were either broken is completely stripped/different than what I wanted and stock pretty much sucked after a week lol I wanted a realistic s pen mainly and good battery life...that's how I got into teaching myself android...then posting came from knowing there were prolly other like me looking for an actual stock rom replacement not just a "rom"...just never knew how many of us there would be lol...but yea most people think I'm a computer geek like a mix of screech from saved by the Bell and the wierd kid in class lmao

Mega
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Yea follow my op and op2...I'm guessing you've read the other posts and know somethings wrong...tbh I'm stunned you could do anything enough to make it lag even with severe issues in the system tbh...it averages 48k on antutu...and renders so fast I had to slow my settings back to 1 from .5 lol

Make sure you're on the right base rom...and clean flash is a must...follow my op...

Mega
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] AlkaliV2:
A ton of RAM is SUPPOSED to be used up. Read here: http://www.androidcentral.com/ram-what-it-how-its-used-and-why-you-shouldnt-care and as far as the lag is concerned: what lag? Answer some of these simple questions so we can help you help yourself.

1.) What model phone do you have?

2.) Did you clean install?

3.) How long has it been since you installed the ROM?

4.) What are you doing when you are seeing this lag?

5.) Does it persist after rebooting?

6.) What have you installed since you first installed the ROM?

7.) Are you running Xposed or any other framework modifying mods?

As you can tell, you have underwhelmed us with information and we would be happy to help you if we knew more.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] Hardcore69er:
i have.. the lag and stutternwss is really when scorlling thru Tapatalk or opening hang outs. it just feels like it is loading everything all the time

another thing is there is a ton of Sammy bloat that takes up RAM. but idk what I can remove that wouldn't mess anything up. I'm a pure aosp guy Lol

I removed some apps lowering ram usage to 1.8gb instead of 2.7 which was ridiculous but it still stutters
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
So in 2 spots...in 2 apps that I have no control over lmao...the same apps that are crap on everyone's device...jw when you see a phone flying around everything else then open an app that has animation stuttering or tearing...what's more likely the issue? The rom...or the app?

Dude that ram is useless unless used...why would you think having it lower would be better? Aosp has zero features what's to have cached lol? You can strip the features of your note but it's not like it'll get faster from doing something that small in the course of a 50k rom build...

Mega
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] Hardcore69er:
OK, I'll start.

I am used to pure aosp. coming from Nexus 5 on 5.0.

I'm using Note 4 off T-Mobile.

Running this ROM.

No mods. I haven't used TW since S4.

I figured the ROMs here would have slimmed all the stuff down already. installed ROM four days ago.

I installed all the google apps to be as close to pure android as I can.

that's it basically. and yes issue persists with reboot. it stutters normally when scrolling thru Tapatalk or internet and so on. feels like it constantly loads something. and opening apps seem to take forever.

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those were examples. but honestly.. ran perfectly fine on my N5
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Dude that's XDA hahahah...you're looking at tapatalk load times with issues over xda and blaming the rom for that? I though you meant the crap rendering...tapatalk skips on all 11 of my devices when scrolling fast...it hasnt scroll smooth since the theme change...just curious what does coming from a nexus have to do with anything? You're blaming tw for issues an app has...I'm confused...read a few pages back everyone had xda lockouts. ...i couldnt even check messages for parts of the last 4 days lol...how is that the rom or n4 fault?

Anyway you don't have to use firekat man there's always stock...

Mega
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] Hardcore69er:
the rendering is part of it too.

I just don't remember having the stuttering on certain apps on nexus 5.

I'll try lowering animation rate and stuff.

never been a fan of tw lol
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Yea I detest stock android...it's featureless boring and dull...to each their own...jw why would you install all the google apps...undoubtedly the worst apps, doing the most data mining, and causing the most performance and battery drain of any apps on the play store if youre just for the look?...vs simply using a launcher of you don't like tw like gnow launcher or nova? just curious?

As for tapatalk. ..the rendering has had issues since the theme changed...but the load time is all xda so...ok I thought you said you had followed my op2 that's prolly the best place to start...

Mega
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] Hardcore69er:
Honestly, I've never really liked 3rd party applications. Most of the new google 5.0 apps look great. I like the color. I also love lollipops optimization. I'm praying to the heavens we get 5.0 for this phone.

TW just has too much garbage going on.. IMO. Ton of bloat. Stuff that the majority don't what. A ton of services that aren't even really used. like ANT garbage?

I enjoy the ROMs based off and of stock android.

also a launcher may change the original skin but TW is in all the apps. the dialer which I don't like the SMS app the browser.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Sorry back on track...what's funny is that I'm def a beach person...but not a big ocean person lol....i love the vibe of beach towns...especially the vibe in LA...but the water I'm less a fan...it's gotta be super warm or i'm too big a V to get it lol

Mega
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] AlkaliV2:
So, from my experience on the device, I could not get smooth scrolling on Chrome at all. The stock Samsung browser was smooth, but Chrome (even after alotting more RAM) would still show page tearing. Hangouts is very poorly optimized right now because they recently started integrating it with Google Voice and it is far from smooth on my device and it wasn't smooth when I was running it with Cyanogenmod on my S5 either. As for Tapatalk you can search the thread and see that they have been having server issues and the sheer amount of content that you are trying to smooth scroll through isn't possible on any device because of how pages are loaded in apps.

All of that to say, how we perceive lag has to be based on logical usage of our device. Pure AOSP is very fast, but it is incomparable to Touchwiz. If you want to see the smoothness of the ROM it should be apparent in app loading, transition animations for the homescreen, fluid app menu opening and closing, and smoothness of the lockscreen being unlocked. Those are the things the developer of the ROM made more fluid and he cannot control the individual performance of apps because that falls to the app developer. You are welcome to strip it bare, like a developer did over in the S5 forums, but be warned: make sure you know what you are removing because if you remove something that TW thinks it needs you will get a torrential amount of force closes. And I'll be the first to admit, I ran that ROM on my S5 for awhile and it had some great speed to start with but as with all Android, eventually it shows perceivable lag. That includes your Nexus 5, which if I head over to those forums I bet I could find you 50 posts complaining about lag on pure android.

My advice: Lower animations, switch to lightweight apps, Trim the filesystem (deletes old data from stock install/reduces lag), optimize databases using init.d scripts, and overall just keep reading about Touchwiz. You can keep all the great features if you just learn how to optimize it on each boot.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] Hardcore69er:
you're very last paragraph.. could you possibly steer me in the right direction? there isn't much info on this forum on this phone. TW is way different than it used to be.

such as how to trim file system, the init.d scripts aren't already baked? how do I find them
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] AlkaliV2:
That's because pools have always been a better place to hang out than the ocean. But the beach is the only place where you can use a pool year round. It is like a standard accessory to a backyard in San Diego. I know it is weird, but I really love the sunshine. I got to visit Las Vegas about a year ago and I went outside while it was 104 and because there was no humidity it felt amazing in the sun. I loved it, I felt like I was recharging sitting out there. If they weren't barren wastelands of sand I would totally consider Utah, Nevada, or New Mexico for the climate.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
Yea I know what you mean...I'm the exact way. ..i love the sunshine as well...moving back to Ohio was horrible to go from 12 months of sun to 7 months of gloom blah...yea pools are more fun imo...no rules the water always drunk lol but a beach has a vibe like getting eyed by that sexy chick across the bar....love the feeling just hard to describe lol San Diego is one of the prettiest most ideal places to live imo...took a road trip with my buddy down one weekend...amazing place

Vegas has such a different feeling...like a giant city sized amusement park that idk if i could live there. .i always wondered what normal life could ever be like living there lol...it's like a 2 mile city with 10 hotels then desert haha but what a place...hahahah...where do you live bro?

Mega
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] AlkaliV2:
I will start you out with 2 options and 2 links. After that I will literally require you to keep searching once you know the topics.

First and Easiest to Implement (but costs money)

Android Tuner Pro - There are four absolutely invaluable features that Pro gives you that normal does not: it does filesystem trimming, it optimizes databases, it optimizes the indexes of all apks, and will clear you memory and set your desired level of memory clearing settings to keep your memory full of the apps you want. I quite literally use this every single day to keep my system smooth and while it costs money, it is worth every. single. cent. Link:3C Toolbox Pro

Harder to Implement, but Effective

FSTrim being added to your init.d folder (with busybox installed) will allow Android to clear your data ready to be overwritten on each boot or every 24 hours. You will need to READ this article and understand how it is supposed to be used. The files are attached at the very bottom of the page, and once installed it will help your devices unquestionably. There are other init.d tweak scripts you can use, but I leave those for you to find. http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=33646903&postcount=1

Disclaimer

Neither Mega nor I will be held responsible if you use these scripts and see negative impact from using them. Almost all of the ROMs I used on my S5 ran this TRIM command at boot and never once did anything bad, BUT you take your device's life if your own hands and once you've installed it you cannot complain about any weird behavior the ROM seems to have because Mega has not included this in his default set up. That is the warning. Now, get out there and enjoy :D

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Lol you are dead on for both of those cities. I knew a guy from Vegas eager to move and I knew a guy in San Diego who you couldn't pay to leave. I suppose its what you want, but there is nothing much outside of Vegas in Nevada. It is a lot like Texas with everything spread out and around. It's like the Midwest with more sand.

I personally like the Carolinas, and especially Charleston (where Hardcore69er is from, but don't tell him) because it is sort of that charming southern vibe with tons of stuff to do. Warm pretty much year round, and there are a lot of friendly people who you can just strike up a conversation with at a bar. It's that kind of city.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] megalomanic14:
This is why I love these threads...there's a million ways people run and setup their kit...i love seeing what each persons little tricks and touches are...honestly the most fun for me of the roms or threads Is seeing what someone else's setup is like...how they kit their performance their themes ect...it's funny I've never seen two identical setups in over 300 roms and idk how many thousands of people. ..ive seen similar but never 2 of the same...that's by far the coolest bit for me...otherwise It wouldn't be all that fun here if we didn't post or share...hell nothing would get said until a random new person comes along and runs into whatever issue with their setup. ..like 50 total posts would make a pretty boring thread lol...awesome writeup bro [emoji106]

Mega
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] AlkaliV2:
Thanks Mega, I appreciate the kind words. I have learned a whole lot of stuff since starting with my Galaxy S2 (Epic 4g Touch) and I am still addicted to reading about ways to change Android. I don't get to operate on a level with guys like you who make these ROMs different and performance oriented on the lowest level. I tend to stick to mods and leave the heavy lifting to guys like you who sees a ROM and knows how they can change it to make it 100x better. This ROM blows away stock by a mile and I'm glad you see the value in it and really like your device because we all enjoy your ROM. I imagine you must be over 10,000 downloads for FireKat since v1 on the Note 4. And you keep the thread interesting by being active and answering questions which some devs don't even get a chance to do. I also have no idea how you maintain devices you don't own. I couldn't even imagine having someone test something and having to describe remotely what is happening on their phone.

Edit: quick break in the action - I''ve got 30 minutes to get my Calc homework submitted online. Be right back.
[T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Android Development] iunlock:
WOW! How did I miss this post?! LOL

That's amazing....