Sense or Senseless?

[GrimmReapa]

I have been wondering if the HTC OneX would look and run better running stock Jellybean.

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[loraque]

I am sure it would run well, but "stock" gets more credit than I think it deserves. I switched from a Galaxy Nexus to the HOX, so have recent experience. Including JB, which doesn't really change anything visually.

CM at least gives you some (sometimes more) of the features that Sense gives while maintaining stock feel.

In my opinion, and the opinion of my former iphone using wife (also had a Gnex), Sense is pretty darned good. Gave my iphone-ish wife way more warm fuzziness than stock- stock is industrial, which some people like.

But losing the Sense Camera might be something I could never do. The stock camera, CM camera... any other camera app I have bought, SUCK in comparison to what we have. I might go for one of the ROMs with most of Sense hidden, but I don't think stock is worth giving up the camera for. If you don't use the camera, then maybe. But with three young ones, we both take a ton of movies and pics, and the features on the HOX are WAY better than anything stock/CM can offer.

 

[celticking]

The camera software makes it a touch decision. I recommend finding a solid launcher that doesn't have the issues of the sense launcher like nova prime. Haven't looked back since I made the move. Zero stutter in the launcher and its a bit more aesthetically pleasing. Stock sense still runs in the background but dowsnt do much of bringing down nova launcher.

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[r3g]

Stock/AOKP has one huge advantage over Sense and that is vastly less aggressive memory management which results in much better multitasking abilities. that alone is a good enough reason for everyone to at least try stock android of they haven't yet.

 

[loraque]

Stock/AOKP has one huge advantage over Sense and that is vastly less aggressive memory management which results in much better multitasking abilities. that alone is a good enough reason for everyone to at least try stock android of they haven't yet.

You can get that with the custom Sense ROMs too (stock multitasking). In fact, it sounds like the most recent release from HTC is already backing off the aggressiveness they had stock.

 

[GrimmReapa]

Personally I may have to end up running a launcher, there are too many Sense features I can't do without. AT the same time there are some I would like to get rid of, aestheticly I prefer the look of jellybean

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[hbananas]

I went for senseless ics myself. Just recently got a 1x for a pretty decent price and the first thing I did was root and unlock bootloader and flashed an aosp or aokp rom. Currently running an aokp and loving it. I do miss the great camera in sense 4 though.

I've always been more of a vanilla Android guy though. The gnex hardware just didn't do it for me. But the one x has the high end hardware and design that I really like. And of course stock ics!

 

[r3g]

You can get that with the custom Sense ROMs too (stock multitasking). In fact, it sounds like the most recent release from HTC is already backing off the aggressiveness they had stock.

hmm.. I didn't know they managed to port stock multitasking. I'd still think lack of sense taking up resources would improve performance though.

 

[icebike]

In fact, it sounds like the most recent release from HTC is already backing off the aggressiveness they had stock.

What "Most Recent Release" are you talking about?

There hasn't been a release pushed in weeks.

 

[loraque]

This one- [ROM][7/22][Android 4.0.4] - Stock Root Odex / De-Odex - 2.23.707.2 Base - xda-developers

My comments regarding the multitasking were based off this dev (Thread above is the CleanROM guy). His 4.5 release thread where he is doing beta/RC testing, and he noted that this base uses different multitask settings than previous builds.

[ROM][7/24] - CleanROM 4.5 *RC 1* -★| Android 4.0.4 / 2.23 Base | More Mods |★- - xda-developers

 

[varsityhacker]

I like Sense 4, but the AOSP rom on my phone is better. Multitasking is fixed and the overall feel of the phone interface is more polished IMOP. Running an Alpha version of JB and butter is better, no lag at all.

 

[Kevin OQuinn]

This one- [ROM][7/22][Android 4.0.4] - Stock Root Odex / De-Odex - 2.23.707.2 Base - xda-developers

My comments regarding the multitasking were based off this dev (Thread above is the CleanROM guy). His 4.5 release thread where he is doing beta/RC testing, and he noted that this base uses different multitask settings than previous builds.

[ROM][7/24] - CleanROM 4.5 *RC 1* -★| Android 4.0.4 / 2.23 Base | More Mods |★- - xda-developers

I think that's a Telstra based leak, not an AT&T base.

It might be minor, but there is a subtle difference between Sense/Senseless/AOSP. Sense is stock. Senseless has a lot of the Sense apps removed and replaced with AOSP, but all the Sense framework is still present. AOSP is just that, based on the code that Google has released. There are advantages to each.

I personally like a lot of AOSP apps, but some Sense apps (messaging in particular). I also really like the Sense camera app. This would be a plus for the Senseless roms.

AOSP won't have the Sense camera app, and it won't have quite all of the awesomeness either. The imagesense chip won't be utilized on AOSP due to some proprietary code that HTC doesn't have to release.

 

[loraque]

It is an Asia release, but the ROM guys have all grabbed it since it is 4.0.4. Which is a tad funny, since the source for 4.0.3 just got released. I am trying out the CleanROM dev 4.5 ROM since it is mostly stock ICS, with enough Sense in there for the Camera. Too much Sense to get my Google Voice SMS Integrator to work properly.

I also tried out the 4.1.1 CM10 alpha. It is actually really good, if you do not need a camera. Surprised at how stable it was, and the speed was excellent in the UI. It is not all just hype, but was pretty noticeable. When the CM guys get the camera working in Jellybean, I will have to try that again to see what the quality is like. I was satisfied enough on the GNex with the CM camera, but that was mostly because the AOSP camera sucks hardcore too- not much difference. With the Sense camera, it is a huge difference, but I am willing to try it .