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MIUI why isn't it popular?

hi all i've been lurking in nexus forums lately and i found miui ( 4.1 is released ) to be totally beautiful and gorgeous it has a really nice theme to it , + it have a ton of customizables ...but there's only about 50 k views ,,why is that so ? it seems to be a well made rom ...so is it so unpopular? i don't have a nexus yet though

because it looks like an iphone. alot of people dont like that look.

tohno said:
hi all i've been lurking in nexus forums lately and i found miui ( 4.1 is released ) to be totally beautiful and gorgeous it has a really nice theme to it , + it have a ton of customizables ...but there's only about 50 k views ,,why is that so ? it seems to be a well made rom ...so is it so unpopular? i don't have a nexus yet though
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Some people like the aosp versions. Generally people have different preferences. I used to love MIUI and use it frequently until I came to the gnexus where the whites were not up to my expectations. However today jb version of MIUI is out and I'll be giving that a go. Hopefully will stick with it.
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I'm not sure about the others, but i've been in the android sphere for over 2 yrs and i never flashed a miui rom. iOS like UI's just don't interest me.
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Zepius said:
because it looks like an iphone. alot of people dont like that look.
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This for me also.

Saying it looks like an iPhone isn't the real reason because you can customize MIUI much easier with it's built-in theme engine - there's hundreds of themes available for it that looking NOTHING like an iPhone and NOTHING like aosp as well.
The reason it isn't popular here is because it runs like crap on the galaxy nexus. If you popped in over at the Desire HD or SGSII forums you'll see it's one of the top ROMs used there because it runs beautifully on those devices.

oh so miui isn't optimized for nexus ? one more thing is there a difference between aokp , aosp , cm10 ?

I don't like closed source ROMs plain and simple. Release your source so others can build on your success.
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It doesn't have to look like iOS at all. I have run Miui with Apex Launcher and it looks nothing like an iPhone.
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tohno said:
oh so miui isn't optimized for nexus ? one more thing is there a difference between aokp , aosp , cm10 ?
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LOL isnt optimized for the gnex? right... AOKP and AOSP and CM10 are almost all the same some have other features the other might not. Just try them all.

akira02rex said:
Saying it looks like an iPhone isn't the real reason because you can customize MIUI much easier with it's built-in theme engine - there's hundreds of themes available for it that looking NOTHING like an iPhone and NOTHING like aosp as well.
The reason it isn't popular here is because it runs like crap on the galaxy nexus. If you popped in over at the Desire HD or SGSII forums you'll see it's one of the top ROMs used there because it runs beautifully on those devices.
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Exactly what I was gonna say

It will grow huge with the latest update. Just wait.
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I just tried it out and it can't currently hold a candle to Jelly Bean in terms of UI smoothness. Deal breaker for me. Also doesn't seem as stable, and chews through battery.
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It is not as smooth as other roms. I like miui a lot, just not on nexus yet. Hope the smoothness comes back.

you guys that have never tried and think its too much like the iphone check this out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hICCWO8vaXU

It doesn't take advantage of GPU rendering and therefore is God awful slow and painful to view. Basically its not at all optimized for the nexus. You can change the scrolling style on the launcher, or use apex/nova, but as a workaround its a poor trade-off.
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Why you ask? Because they refuse to release source.
sent from my Galaxy Nexus running RasBean!!!!

1. i'm not particularly fond of its smoothness or appearance. i ran it on my evo for about a day, just to see what all the fuss was about, but was not terribly impressed.
2. closed source. not because i really care either way about re-contributing to the community (sorry guys), but because i've spent enough time working with slightly-less-than-reputable foreign programmers to be cautious of it. before you start ranting about how i'm some kind of racist/anti-chinese douchebag, just stop. i'm not even suggesting that there are sneaky things going on, because it's awfully hard to hide those kinds of things from the rest of the community. their fierce determination to keep all their code/modifications to themselves, for some reason, just makes my spidey sense tingle.

guys today they just updated it to jellbean making it smoother

It's just not butter!!
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Why are there no Sense roms?

I'm surprised no one has made any sense roms for the Gnex yet. Is it not as simple as porting over a different phone's rom and adding the on-screen keys?

Durkbeef said:
I'm surprised no one has made any sense roms for the Gnex yet. Is it not as simple as porting over a different phone's rom and adding the on-screen keys?
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1) its not that easy to port stuff over
2) most people who bought the Nexus do not like sense
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If it was that simple I'm pretty sure it would have been done?
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theres a lot of framework needed for Sense, and it runs deep. If you've had an HTC phone like the Rezound u see how it's impossible to totally strip Sense down to aosp, and vice versa. Since its not supported by HTC, someone would have to basically do it from scratch, I don't think most devs find it worth the time/effort to try it. I did however see Paullie Vicious start work on one a few months ago, but nothing really came of it

We have nexus cuz most of us do not like sense. Plus its too bloated
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Seems like no one is doing much for the nexus. I came from og evo and they ported every phone to it. Nexus seems dead.
my nexus is the bestist!

lambofgod13 said:
Seems like no one is doing much for the nexus. I came from og evo and they ported every phone to it. Nexus seems dead.
my nexus is the bestist!
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Why? Because everything is vanilla android? That is the whole point of the nexus. Nobody bought the nexus because they wanted sense ports... they bought it for the clean android android experience.
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I don't know.. I didn't buy the nexus for a aosp experience.
I didn't buy it for sense either.
Now I have a droid incredible I've used sense, but with the amount if memory sense would be great for this phone. I do kinda hate limited by aosp only.. it would be nice to have variety honestly.
There really isn't a reason to have 50+ Roms running around when most include all the same features and optimizations.
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lambofgod13 said:
Seems like no one is doing much for the nexus. I came from og evo and they ported every phone to it. Nexus seems dead.
my nexus is the bestist!
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:laugh:

You guys answering the OP's question arnt helpful at all.:sly:
OK so there is two ports happening and are in progress and just going into work.
There is a Sense 4.0 port by Nello92 & a team. He has been working on the SOB since the release of the Sense 4.0(March) now u probably wonder, "March??? WTF is taking so long!?!??!"
Well there are 3 things stopping him & the team.
1. SD doesn't work properly.
2. He has a life he needs to live so he does this on his free time
3. He is making this almost from scratch ( using a Nexus S port as base)
Now there is a Sense 3.6 port that has just started(no thread yet) because everyone says they've given up since no one has the answer tot he SD issue.
Nello92 is a stubborn SOB and believes(HELL TO THE YEAHYE!!!) it is possible to fix SD.
So in his eyes, development will continue.
Sense 3.6 is a new concept, so keep your eyes peeled for a thread.
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withbloodskies said:
I don't know.. I didn't buy the nexus for a aosp experience.
I didn't buy it for sense either.
Now I have a droid incredible I've used sense, but with the amount if memory sense would be great for this phone. I do kinda hate limited by aosp only.. it would be nice to have variety honestly.
There really isn't a reason to have 50+ Roms running around when most include all the same features and optimizations.
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^This
Exactly what i want to say:highfive:

Hahahahaha. Uh no not everyone. People bought the Nexus because the Nexus is a device full of development.
Look at the N1. Continuing development like a BOSS.
People bought the Nexus FOR OPTIONS too. Not for only pure experience.
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I bought the nexus for speed . NOW I WANT SENSE !!
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Alton (Halo 2) said:
I bought the nexus for speed . NOW I WANT SENSE !!
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I know right??? I wanna try out Sense 4. The first Skinned Android ROM that caught my Eyes(& Motoblurr). Touchwiz can die IMO(not offending the Touchwiz lovers, I know u nex users are out there waiting for a proper port).
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Well I mean.. I did buy the nexus because its an upgrade worth getting. Can't technically say but in my eyes the pinnacle of the android devices, similar to the droid incredible. Even though the nexus relay doesn't have a lot of Roms. I guarantee it will go down in history as a great device like the incredible.
So I got this because I knew development was great, a lot of users jumped ship here from the incredible forum. It was free, specs are fantastic, the size fits my hand greatly. I did also buy it because it had jelly bean, well could get jelly bean.. and because I knew aosp is particularly fast. So in a sense yes I did kinda buy it for aosp but not in a literal sense.
I dunno.. I kinda wished there was some new type of OS I guess. You do get tired of the same stuff.
Touchwiz comes to mind..
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A bear poo's in the woods.
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Have no clue what your talking about.... you think people just hit buttons and stuff piles out? The only team I know of that have build bots is cyanogenmod and they work their asses off on everything. Everybody else doesn't have some machine that does **** for them. I dare you to say that to a true dev. And so what if the OP doesn't post in a month. He has other crap to deal with.
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The answer given is probably correct though; not many gnex owners are interested in sense. Or touchwiz. Or some other bloated ui.
If you feel sense is that important to have, you kind of bought the wrong phone. A quick search would have shown there are no sense ROMs.
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Dayuuuum!!!! This was a question on why there are no Sense Roms, and then this turned into an argument.
Just CHILLAX
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Petrovski80 said:
The answer given is probably correct though; not many gnex owners are interested in sense. Or touchwiz. Or some other bloated ui.
If you feel sense is that important to have, you kind of bought the wrong phone. A quick search would have shown there are no sense ROMs.
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Again, people also bought the Nexus for Choices. Not just AOSP.
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Petrovski80 said:
The answer given is probably correct though; not many gnex owners are interested in sense. Or touchwiz. Or some other bloated ui.
If you feel sense is that important to have, you kind of bought the wrong phone. A quick search would have shown there are no sense ROMs.
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(Face palm) yes there is.
From my understanding its kinda in a broken state like the port for the incredible. And you have to re root unless its been fixed?
As for cyanogen mod.. I feel they've kinda been stunted. I've used their recent Roms and I'm not at all impressed.
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Anything like ViperRom for the Galaxy Nexus?

There is a ROM for most popular HTC phones called "ViperRom". It is probably the most insane ROM I've ever seen, simply because of the sheer amount of tweaks.
The greatest feature I have seen on it is live, on the go framework tweaking. Load some .pngs into your phone, and use the built in editor to select them and use them as images in your status bar, such as the battery, signal, wifi, or ring mode images. There is no installable theme or .mtz file needed to theme the images; just select them from the tweaks menu.
Is there any ROM that has this ability or can be built to add this ability for the GSM Galaxy Nexus? Because that would be awesome.

nope. just a whole bunch of aosp ROMs that are almost exactly alike
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lowrider262 said:
nope. just a whole bunch of aosp ROMs that are almost exactly alike
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Yup. -_-
Only Roms that give you a new UI experience is:
Paranoid Android
Miui
That is it.
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I think JBSourcery has some unique stuff also no? I haven't tried it though.

Ya jbsourcery will let you do a lot of theming on the phone. I'd check it out if I were you
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lowrider262 said:
nope. just a whole bunch of aosp ROMs that are almost exactly alike
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Yeah i kind of noticed that myself. Seems like we need some new different types of ROMs around here. The sense and Firefox ROMs are good examples of what this phone needs more of.
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I think JBSourcery has some unique stuff also no? I haven't tried it though.
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jboyer0000 said:
Ya jbsourcery will let you do a lot of theming on the phone. I'd check it out if I were you
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Looks like the closest I'm going to get is JBSourcery. Not quite what I was looking for, but oh well.
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Recently I've been thinking of starting a ROM but it seems that life is not letting me I would like to create something different from the rest.

I'm pretty jealous if that's what viperrom shouldve been like! Coming from an evo3d it was just another stock ROM with no bells and whistles
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I can't believe the amount of people in here crying about the AOSP roms.
You bought a galaxy NEXUS. Not "sense-box-2230349039" or "blur-spaz-X08" or whatever the hell else you're looking for.
If you got a NEXUS device hoping that you'd be surprised by sense/b2g/windows/Android2.2/MacOS/whatever-else to be available...and working without show-stopping bugs...You have no idea what a NEXUS device is.
Nexus:
Get's updates straight from google (+yakju +takju -toro -toroplus...there's often a middle man) or in simpleton terms...
ANY DEVELOPERS WHO BOUGHT A NEXUS ARE FANS OF ANDROID AND WANT TO BUILD ANDROID. NOT SOME AFTERTHOUGHT SKIN WITH CLOSED/SEMI-CLOSED/"SOON-TO-BE-AVAILABLE" SOURCE.
If you came in to the game just to cry about the lackluster roms you shouldn't own the phone.

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I can't believe the amount of people in here crying about the AOSP roms.
You bought a galaxy NEXUS. Not "sense-box-2230349039" or "blur-spaz-X08" or whatever the hell else you're looking for.
If you got a NEXUS device hoping that you'd be surprised by sense/b2g/windows/Android2.2/MacOS/whatever-else to be available...and working without show-stopping bugs...You have no idea what a NEXUS device is.
Nexus:
Get's updates straight from google (+yakju +takju -toro -toroplus...there's often a middle man) or in simpleton terms...
ANY DEVELOPERS WHO BOUGHT A NEXUS ARE FANS OF ANDROID AND WANT TO BUILD ANDROID. NOT SOME AFTERTHOUGHT SKIN WITH CLOSED/SEMI-CLOSED/"SOON-TO-BE-AVAILABLE" SOURCE.
If you came in to the game just to cry about the lackluster roms you shouldn't own the phone.
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um I'm not "crying" about anything. I love aosp which is the exact reason I bought this phone. just answering the guys question. last time I checked this was the Q&A section not the nexus aosp elitist rant section.
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kcls said:
Yeah i kind of noticed that myself. Seems like we need some new different types of ROMs around here. The sense and Firefox ROMs are good examples of what this phone needs more of.
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You will likely never get a Sense ROM on the Nexus and if you do it will be a port from another device. If you enjoy sense, you should stick with HTC devices. I came from a Sensation that had 1.9 million sense ROMS with few AOSP offerings.
The Nexus is the exact opposite. It's going to give you a 'vanilla' Android experience without the skins that you'll see from other manufacturers.
For me, I love the stability of the 'stock' builds and I can get enough customization through APEX launcher and some creativity.
Here is a great example of how much you can customize this device (and mind you, Black Bear is doing all of this without root): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1804627

Jubakuba said:
I can't believe the amount of people in here crying about the AOSP roms.
You bought a galaxy NEXUS. Not "sense-box-2230349039" or "blur-spaz-X08" or whatever the hell else you're looking for.
If you got a NEXUS device hoping that you'd be surprised by sense/b2g/windows/Android2.2/MacOS/whatever-else to be available...and working without show-stopping bugs...You have no idea what a NEXUS device is.
Nexus:
Get's updates straight from google (+yakju +takju -toro -toroplus...there's often a middle man) or in simpleton terms...
ANY DEVELOPERS WHO BOUGHT A NEXUS ARE FANS OF ANDROID AND WANT TO BUILD ANDROID. NOT SOME AFTERTHOUGHT SKIN WITH CLOSED/SEMI-CLOSED/"SOON-TO-BE-AVAILABLE" SOURCE.
If you came in to the game just to cry about the lackluster roms you shouldn't own the phone.
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I guess I just had the wrong idea about the nexus. I kind of thought it was the phone that would have the most development, be it ROMs being ported, built, or whatever. Currently my prepaid Virgin Mobile Optimus V has a wider selection of "different" ROMs than the Nexus does. I guess I was wrong. I was by no means trying to start a fight, however, so I sincerely apologize if anything I said offended you in any way.
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You will likely never get a Sense ROM on the Nexus and if you do it will be a port from another device. If you enjoy sense, you should stick with HTC devices. I came from a Sensation that had 1.9 million sense ROMS with few AOSP offerings.
The Nexus is the exact opposite. It's going to give you a 'vanilla' Android experience without the skins that you'll see from other manufacturers.
For me, I love the stability of the 'stock' builds and I can get enough customization through APEX launcher and some creativity.
Here is a great example of how much you can customize this device (and mind you, Black Bear is doing all of this without root): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1804627
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Yeah I have seen the forums for sense phones. It's like the Nexus forums, but replace the "AOSP" label before all the ROMs with "Sense". Like I said above, I kind of just thought the nexus was the phone that had the widest variety of development. I'd love to be able to try out sense or touchwiz or motoblur on my phone, even if I am a fan of stock android. I guess this us not the phone for that.
Oh, and I know a lot about theming Check out my deviantART in my signature and you'll see
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[PROJECT]Collaborative Sense Port

Hi
I've created this thread here in general to try an effort to a collaborative port of (any) sense rom to galaxy nexus, lets to the point:
I was trying a different rom instead of the stock. Why? Because a custom rom with sense provide lots of things that stock doesn't have (init.d for example). In my case, I was using Insert Coin for One X, because in the past I had some success with other devices.. well. I didn't had the same success with galaxy nexus.
Of course any rom can be used, we need success in this port disregard the rom used.
Obs.: For people unable to help and able to troll, this isn't a thread for trolling/blaming/"giving the unrequired opinion about it" or "why not buying a HTC phone instead", please, you can create your own thread for that or just use your facebook.
Thanks

I think there was already a thread about a wip port of sense and touchwiz that booted but some major stuff wasn't working.
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I have one question about porting sense, what ROM is the best to use as base, cm10 or aosp?
I did some porting on my Droid 3 so I want to try on gnex also.
Thanks
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I think there was already a thread about a wip port of sense and touchwiz that booted but some major stuff wasn't working.
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Yeah but as I can see, they're focus in specific versions, and I don't care about versions since it works. And I want a specific focus in join efforts to port sense.
nasty007 said:
I have one question about porting sense, what ROM is the best to use as base, cm10 or aosp?
I did some porting on my Droid 3 so I want to try on gnex also.
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It's relative. AOSP will be more easily imo, but in other hand, cm10 can be adapted, since there's cm10 for tegra (so we can adapt the source code, if someone wants to give a try). I was trying with cm10 4.1.1 btw (cause the InsertCoin is 4.1.1).

My Octo-oraculus says that there are few other threads like this and NONE of them will end up with something actually usable.

MS. said:
My Octo-oraculus says that there are few other threads like this and NONE of them will end up with something actually usable.
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My eyes says that most of other threads are about many other subjects and NONE of them are about a collaborative project.

If you can track down swamp goblin he might give some insight he got a sense Tom working on the nexus s
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nasty007 said:
I have one question about porting sense, what ROM is the best to use as base, cm10 or aosp?
I did some porting on my Droid 3 so I want to try on gnex also.
Thanks
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Btw, I was thinking about trying backport the sense for Nexus S (since there's one port that was almost successful), the only problem is... the best port for NS is Gingerbread-based and I dont know how much effort will be needed to adapt a 4.x kernel with a 2.3 rom.

[Q] coming from galaxy nexus ... is it worth it?

Hi all,
I'm an HTC fan, I love design and material first of all, I like Sense UI but I also like stock UI and AOSP roms ...
I'm coming from a Galaxy Nexus and previously I owned the legendary Nexus One ... I love Nexus line and I really would love a new HTC nexus device ... but it seems we won't see one for a long time ...
Well, I'm searching for an HTC One X and I would like to spend around 400$ (you can find some offer on Amazon) ...
Someone here owned both a Galaxy Nexus and a One X and can give me some opinion? Is it worth to switch from GN to HOX??
How is developer community? Are there fully working 4.2.1 AOSP roms? I looked at developer section and seems quite active ... do you think I will miss ParanodiAndroid ROM or other fantastic ROM (like Xylon) available for the GNexus??
Thanks in advance for your suggestions!

thats easy...

AW: [Q] coming from galaxy nexus ... is it worth it?
Better you stay on the nexus side...

R: [Q] coming from galaxy nexus ... is it worth it?
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thats easy...
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right long story short if you decide to make the leap then yeah you have quite a variety of working roms based on AOSP...You have the great ICJ which is based on AOKP and for me the smoothest rom i have tried on my One X and so many customizations to play with and tweaks..You have PA rom as well and many more my friend...Down to you either way you will have a great phone

Goku80 said:
right long story short if you decide to make the leap then yeah you have quite a variety of working roms based on AOSP...You have the great ICJ which is based on AOKP and for me the smoothest rom i have tried on my One X and so many customizations to play with and tweaks..You have PA rom as well and many more my friend...Down to you either way you will have a great phone
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+1 on aokp.
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$350 for a Nexus 4 (if you can get it) can't be beat. Unless you need OTG then I'd go Nexus 4.

R: [Q] coming from galaxy nexus ... is it worth it?
jonshipman said:
$350 for a Nexus 4 (if you can get it) can't be beat. Unless you need OTG then I'd go Nexus 4.
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I can't get Nexus 4, not available in my country... Anyway I'm not impressed by LG... HTC One X design I think is the best yet and I don't need 2 GB of RAM ...
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Hi guys,
After few months I'm still attracted by the One X. I'm trading one on eBay for about 300€ used but in excellent conditions... I'm not impressed at all from new devices neither the Moto x nor HTC one and Galaxy S4 ... I still consider the one x the best in terms of design and materials ... And I still think that 1gb ram is enough for every kind of usage (I'm not a fanatic of mobile games) ...
So I'll be soon member of the HTC one x community that seems again one of the more lively ...