I have been using my M8 since April 4th using Sense 6 obviously. I have seen GREAT battery life, some days i have seen almost 8 hours screen time using the phone on auto brightness the entire day. Which mind you does a great job adjusting to the lighting conditions you are in. Other days i prob average between 6-7. So although Sense 6 is not perfect like the camera gallery, or phone dialer which can be a bit confusing at first.
Anyway i went ahead and rooted my phone and wanted to try the stock Google play rom. Just the stock rom with no modifications. Of course its very clean, no bloatware or fancy features. Well long story short it only took me a day to want to switch back to Sense 6! I mean right away i missed certain things. Although the Google play edition included the motion unlock features it still didn't satisfy me. I just found myself missing the Blinkfeed, the stock multitasking grid, power saving mode and SO much more. Stock Sense 6 runs just as smooth as stock android just with some extra goodies thrown in. I even prefer the stock Sense camera app over the Google play camera app. I even love the stock weather/clock widget. And as far as bloatware you can hide the apps you don't use in the app draw on Sense 6.
This is the first UI i have ever liked as a whole in look, smoothness and features etc over stock android. Just curious how do you guys feel. I think actually a good combo would be the Google Now launcher over top of Sense 6. This way you can keep the stock multitasking, camera app, messaging app etc.. And get the clean look home screen look of a google play device.
Anyway i went ahead and rooted my phone and wanted to try the stock Google play rom. Just the stock rom with no modifications. Of course its very clean, no bloatware or fancy features. Well long story short it only took me a day to want to switch back to Sense 6! I mean right away i missed certain things. Although the Google play edition included the motion unlock features it still didn't satisfy me. I just found myself missing the Blinkfeed, the stock multitasking grid, power saving mode and SO much more. Stock Sense 6 runs just as smooth as stock android just with some extra goodies thrown in. I even prefer the stock Sense camera app over the Google play camera app. I even love the stock weather/clock widget. And as far as bloatware you can hide the apps you don't use in the app draw on Sense 6.
This is the first UI i have ever liked as a whole in look, smoothness and features etc over stock android. Just curious how do you guys feel. I think actually a good combo would be the Google Now launcher over top of Sense 6. This way you can keep the stock multitasking, camera app, messaging app etc.. And get the clean look home screen look of a google play device.