[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Android Development] TechX1991:
SinfulROM 2.0​

Some History​

Some of you may remember me, some of you may not. I was around these parts when the S5 first came out and we were waiting for Root access to use ROMs. I released a ROM called BoxxiRoms, but to be honest, it wasn't too good and there were problems with it. I since kind of left, upgraded to 5.0 via someone else's ROM and left it at that.

Then I got bored with 5.0. Too many things I enjoyed with KitKat just didn't work at all with 5.0. I'm huge on Battery Conservation (as you can see from a post linked in my Signature) and I've always wanted to put out the best damn battery life for this phone that's honestly possible.

Well, I'm back. I've learned a lot since my first ROM release and I'm here to keep to my promise of the best damn battery life and the best experience you can have on your Verizon G900V S5.

Your warranty is void, and i'm not responsible for any bricking. It's frankly difficult to brick an android device, so I don't think you need to worry about it.

Now that that's out of the way... I've been using this rom for 2 weeks straight to make sure its working just right for release. I started out on a personal built of beta 0.1 and now I'm up to 2.0, which is all for you guys.

Features

Ultimate Debloating (thanks to @elliwigy for the starting base. I went further with it and got it to 450 megs at its base.)

All apps Added are Uninstallable like normal apps

Themable through the Launcher (will custom theme soon)

Great Battery Life

4K Video Recording (through the Camera App added)

My Additions

Smart Launcher 2

Textra (instead of Stock SMS app)

Chrome Beta (instead of Standard Chrome)

Matrik (hacked Kik client with TONS of awesome features)

PAW Server (a nice little server app with plugins available. Will have tutorials with this soon)

Apollo Music Player

OGYoutube (a better youtube app)

MyRoll Gallery (better than Stock gallery and smaller size)

Open Camera App (instead of Stock camera)

XAPK Installer (for use with XAPK files from apkpure)

Pixel Battery Saver (the BEST way to get the best battery life)

SQLite3

BusyBox'd

Rooted with Superuser installed

Future Addons

Pre-Dark-Theme

More built in apps

More Tweaks for Battery Life

Free RAM

This is with Textra, Matrik and PAW Server all open and running.
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Eww... Why NCG 4.4.2 KitKat?​

Things like Pixel Battery Saver didn't work on 5.0 or later. Also, I had some real crap battery life on 5.0. With my current rom as is with Pixel Battery Saver always running on level 4, I go from 100% at 9am to about 30% at 9PM with some heavy use at work (a lot of down time for Trivia Crack). Overall, I fell 4.4.2 is the BETTER option for the S5.

INSTALL​

If there's a better way to install this, let me know, I'm severely outdated obviously as you'll read below

This has ONLY been tested and installed by this method on a G900V

1.) Flash back to NCG Kernel so you can access SafeStrap (download below)

2.) Advanced Wipe Data/Cache/Dalvik/System

3.) Flash the Rom ZIP file

4.) Boot into Android! (first boot may take an extra minute or so. if it takes longer, LET ME KNOW)

Current Issues​

None that I know of. Let me know if you find anything.

DOWNLOAD

ROM

DIRECT LINK (my personal website server)

AndroidFileHost Mirror

Direct Link (BASE ROM No Edits)

NCG Kernel

DIRECT LINK (my personal website server)

AndroidFileHost Mirror

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credits

Honestly, with how much downloading and tweaking I've done, I'm not entirely who all the people are to thank for this ROM so far.

Lots more to come soon!

XDA:DevDB Information

SinfulROM, ROM for the Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 5

Contributors

KaptinBoxxi, elliwigy

ROM OS Version: 4.4.x KitKat

ROM Firmware Required: NCG

Based On: Extreme Syndicate

Version Information

Status: Stable

Current Stable Version: 2.0

Stable Release Date: 2016-01-14

Created 2016-01-15

Last Updated 2016-01-25