First Time To Flash A Custom Rom, Need Suggestions!

[AMKhatri]

Hi all,
After the I read about Galaxy Nexus not receiving the KitKat, I've decided to flash a Custom Rom (my first time ever..).
I've done some research of my own, and I think I've understood the process of flashing a rom and the gapps after it...

I read about some of the most popular roms out there. I was suggested to flash Pac man, but I read that it won't give me good battery life.
After a lot of reading, I've come up with either flashing Paranoid Android or Carbon.
Now, all that's left is that I need suggestions from the professionals, about which one to go for. Battery life is important to me... I need it to last at least the day for me (morning - late evening/ early night).

Thanks!

 

[Golfdriver97]

Hi all,
After the I read about Galaxy Nexus not receiving the KitKat, I've decided to flash a Custom Rom (my first time ever..).
I've done some research of my own, and I think I've understood the process of flashing a rom and the gapps after it...

I read about some of the most popular roms out there. I was suggested to flash Pac man, but I read that it won't give me good battery life.
After a lot of reading, I've come up with either flashing Paranoid Android or Carbon.
Now, all that's left is that I need suggestions from the professionals, about which one to go for. Battery life is important to me... I need it to last at least the day for me (morning - late evening/ early night).

Thanks!

I would actually suggest AOKP, or Slim.
AOKP: AOKP.co: Devices
SlimROM: Supported Devices

 

[UJ95x]

+1 for Slim

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[AMKhatri]

At one point I did consider going for Slim bean, but the reason I didn't choose it is because I wanted a few features including the Full screen feature, which If I read correctly it doesn't have,,
My reason for not going with AOKP, is because it doesn't have pie controls, from what I've read...
Also, Carbon has most of the features that I'm looking for, and it's blazing fast..
That's why I came down to the either Carbon/ PA

 

[snppr22]

I'm partial to AOKP. I ran it on my Galaxy Nexus. Recently it hasn't seen many updates for the d2vzw and when it does they are a bit buggy. Not sure if the issues are the same. Carbon is running like a dream for me since I installed it today.

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[AMKhatri]

Thanks for the reply all,
I needed a few suggestions, and I got 'em.
I don't wanna turn this thread into one of those X rom vs Y rom threads, if you know what I mean...


One more thing..
A few months back, whilst I was transferring some data from pc to phone (via usb cable), something went wrong (can't remember what..) and all of my data was lost (system files remained intact), since then my GNex has been showing that the data exists somewhere, because according to me space is occupied...

Total Space - 13.33GB
Available - 7.05GB
Apps - 1.57GB
Misc.(mostly my audio files) - 2.32GB 
Cached Data - 171MB
[The rest are all less than 40mb]

When I add all of that up, it's about 3GB +/-
and it says that almost 6GB is used..
Before the problem occured I had around 3GB of data as well..
I've tried a few solutions, including looking for my files with root explorer, rescan sd card manually.. etc
is is possible to do something like a format of my sd card before I flash a rom?

 

[UJ95x]

Thanks for the reply all,
I needed a few suggestions, and I got 'em.
I don't wanna turn this thread into one of those X rom vs Y rom threads, if you know what I mean...
2.32 + 1.57 + 0.17 = about 4GB so you're only missing about 2 GB.
Yes, you can format your SD card either on the phone or on your computer if you have a MicroSD adapter

One more thing..
A few months back, whilst I was transferring some data from pc to phone (via usb cable), something went wrong (can't remember what..) and all of my data was lost (system files remained intact), since then my GNex has been showing that the data exists somewhere, because according to me space is occupied...

Total Space - 13.33GB
Available - 7.05GB
Apps - 1.57GB
Misc.(mostly my audio files) - 2.32GB 
Cached Data - 171MB
[The rest are all less than 40mb]

When I add all of that up, it's about 3GB +/-
and it says that almost 6GB is used..
Before the problem occured I had around 3GB of data as well..
I've tried a few solutions, including looking for my files with root explorer, rescan sd card manually.. etc
is is possible to do something like a format of my sd card before I flash a rom?

 

[AMKhatri]

EDIT: Ignore this post!
[sorry...]

 

[AMKhatri]

Yes, you can format your SD card either on the phone or on your computer if you have a MicroSD adapter

How would I do it?

PS: I'm currently running stock 4.3 JB, Unlocked bootloader, & Rooted

1. Plain and Simple:- Flash Stock JB 4.3 ROM?

Or This:

2. Recovery ...etc...:
- Boot into Recovery,
- Go to mounts & Storage,
- wipe sd card.

Then what? Because, If I get this correctly, After doing the above... I won't have anything on my sd card... and I'll need to flash a rom again.. and I won't be having CWM anymore, right?

 

[UJ95x]

How would I do it?

PS: I'm currently running stock 4.3 JB, Unlocked bootloader, & Rooted

1. Plain and Simple:- Flash Stock JB 4.3 ROM?

Or This:

2. Recovery ...etc...:
- Boot into Recovery,
- Go to mounts & Storage,
- wipe sd card.

Then what? Because, If I get this correctly, After doing the above... I won't have anything on my sd card... and I'll need to flash a rom again.. and I won't be having CWM anymore, right?

Err, if you're trying to format your SD card you don't need to boot into recovery. All it does is delete everything on the SD card, is that what you're trying to do?
And no, wiping the phone will not get rid of CWM, you'd need to flash the stock recovery to get rid of it

 

[AMKhatri]

Err, if you're trying to format your SD card you don't need to boot into recovery. All it does is delete everything on the SD card, is that what you're trying to do?
And no, wiping the phone will not get rid of CWM, you'd need to flash the stock recovery to get rid of it

Oh.k. Thanks!
Then, I'm gonna flash stock... which would make my phone as good as new ( almost anyway... ), After which I'll... Root (if need be), copy my data back to my sd card + rom & gapps, install cwm, flash carbon, flash gapps.

Is it ok to uninstall a single gapp after flashing the whole zip, instead of modifying the package before flashing it (As I don't use some of the gapps?

 

[UJ95x]

Oh.k. Thanks!
Then, I'm gonna flash stock... which would make my phone as good as new ( almost anyway... ), After which I'll... Root (if need be), copy my data back to my sd card + rom & gapps, install cwm, flash carbon, flash gapps.

Is it ok to uninstall a single gapp after flashing the whole zip, instead of modifying the package before flashing it (As I don't use some of the gapps?

I'm not sure but you can freeze them

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[AMKhatri]

I'm not sure but you can freeze them

Ok. Thanks for the input all..
I've just successfully flashed my first Custom Rom... (i.e. Carbon),
I gotta agree with everything that I've read about this ROM.. blazing fast

Regarding the storage free space issue I mentioned earlier:

Now or Carbon:
Available - 12.20 GB
Apps etc.. - 94.86 MB
Misc - 327 MB

Misc are my audio files..
I haven't installed any of my apps, yet.

I think I know what the extra space was being taken up by..

Right after I flashed Stock.. I checked.. I had 12.9 GB free space..
I went on to perform a Nandroid backup, and then when I checked it was down to 12.7/6 GB, and most surprisingly... There was no nandroid backup file created.
Anyways, I just proceeded to flash Carbon after that..

Once again Guys.. Thanks a ton!!

 

[UJ95x]

No problem