[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] sirdickens:
New Stock ROM S320150411 and short preview

Hello everyone!

Story before new stock ROM:

I've seen many of you have trouble installing new OTA update from April 11th (0411) and as well asking about performance, improvements etc. So, let's get started :laugh:

I've been using AOSP from TF for about month before this update came. But the day I've managed to install TWRP i've backed up stock rom (S3 20150204) which came out of the box from spemall.com in order to have stock ROM working and without worry of trying new ROMs.

I've tried FlyMe, LeWa, MIUI, COOEE and finally i've kinda liked most AOSP for it's performance/speed (which ranked about 44k on antutu and even got 46k with their high performance mode which lowers resolution) and simplicity. But it got some bugs of which worst were: poor gsm reception, magnet sensor not working, proximity sensor buggy (calls were just hanging up by my cheek) and irritating red notification LED (yeah it only got red light working -_-).

I love this "Pure" look aosp got and i tend only to change lockscreen and maybe icon pack. So when I heard about new ROM and the thing my stock from 0204 had by this time evolved greatly i have yesterday restored my backup i've got of 0204.

Setting up new Stock ROM S320150411:

First thing I did was restoring my old "untouched" ROM backup "2015-03-20--14-33-50 S3 20150204-161147" i've got on March 20th. I've used TWRP and before restore I did factory reset/wipe (always do this guys!).

After turning on the phone and connecting to my local WiFi it automatically suggested new OTA (first picture).

I've downloaded it and it automatically rebooted into TWRP recovery and started to flash new update!

When it finished flashing, boot started and before going on lockscreen it "adjusted" all application on startup and i was up and running new OTA update.

It was in chinese and i have lost all of my system data (old apps etc). My media and internal memory was intact.

After changing language i've flashed GAPPS (by jajb) and all available apps through PlayStore and some from internal memory.

So that's the procedure on how I've got my new OTA working perfectly fine and without any issues asides from losing data and need to reflash gapps.

Preview of new Stock ROM:

I like minimalistic design. So i've backed then deleted/frosted all apps I don't use by using TitaniumBackup.

I'm enjoying stock android KitKat experience so i've turned off stock JY S3 theme and turned on classic theme.

I've recently descovered this new cool and simple lockscreen SnapLock, which has daily pictures changing (to kill monotony), quick access to five apps and camera, swipe up to unlock, swipe right to get your daily agenda and weather, and on home screen if you swipe down from left top corner it locks the screen, so I don't need to use my power button anymore because I use double tap to wake. I like it because unlike other lockscreen this one is blazingly fast and no lagginess at all. It's faster then stock one if you ask me! (Images 2,3,4,5)

On the homescreen i like things in line and neat. I've got Sense V2 flip clock weather and time widget. And sorted things I use often in seperate folders and without need to swipe left or right on homescreen.

Here are apps I cannot live without so you might like some of them:

Screen Filter: those two widgets with 39.9% and 20.2% are my quick brightness reducers for nighttime reading and saving battery while indoors. Lowest brightness of the phone is just still too bright so you might find this app simple, useful and it actually unlike others reduces battery consuption and is great partner for night readers who want to save their eyes!

PVSTAR+ :You won't find it on PlayStore. This is simply the best youtube player if you ask me. Simply because you can play in background while reading your favourite thread on Jiayu S3 on xda. Or doing anything else. And creating local playlist of your favourite video sites (youtube, vimeo etc). Ohh, and if you want to play more songs after search just hold one and select other and press play. Boom! Simply created playlist!

Lenovo Super Camera 3.6.7 :Should I say anything about super camera? Name says all by itself. If you want to get nice and fast shooting pictures and ok videos use your stock camera. If you want to get superb pictures and better vidoes then stock use Lenovo super camera. SImple as that.

VLC video player beta : Simple yet effective video player. No lagginess, simple interface, supports playing both music/videos and subtitles. Just nice.

Notification notes : Best. Reminder. EVER! It cannot be found anymore on playstore but you can download it from mirrors. Simply the best reminder. You can put something on your notification area, change color of icon and even put alarm/reminder on it. Cannot explain the awesomeness, let's move on! :D

Battery Full Notification : I don't know about you guys but I love my Jiayu S3. It's so nice and i'm spending so much time with it. And when it charges we are apart. :( And I cannot wait to get a hold on him again and since it takes ages for it to charge (about 3-3.5 hours) I just want to see him call me when he's full. And this apk just does what it needs. It notifies you (alarm, notification message, vibrate and all of it's combinations) when Jiayu S3 is full and ready to roll! :)

Minding the improvements:

Like old stock ROM it's really snappy, it feels faster then AOSP which was really performance optimized :S . Sensors are now working fine. Call quality is better. I seem to see some improvements in camera/video department but it still has much space to be better. Signal strength is nice. RAM consuption is ok. Nothing way better then on old stock. Maybe 100-200Mb better. I am at same time comparing it to both AOSP and old stock so it might be kinda hard to compare.

Overall there is improvement but it's not something two times the old one! You will notice some slight improvements and overall increased fluidity of the system.

So guys I hope you enjoyed this and found it both helpful and amusing!

Cya around!

Bruno

CREDITS:

For GAPPS by [MENTION=5772029]jajb[/MENTION]

For AOSP by [MENTION=6326749]TFAndroid[/MENTION]

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