synergy question

[anthony1117]

Hi. I'm thinking on rooting and flashing synergy. I like it because I actually enjoy the touch wiz I am just looking for the WiFi and no lag. But a few more questions. Does this ROM have the brightness adjuster underneath the toggles and does this ROM give me lock screen music controls even with the slider unlock? Thank you

 

[PsYcHoNeWb]

Hi. I'm thinking on rooting and flashing synergy. I like it because I actually enjoy the touch wiz I am just looking for the WiFi and no lag. But a few more questions. Does this ROM have the brightness adjuster underneath the toggles and does this ROM give me lock screen music controls even with the slider unlock? Thank you

I was under the impression that Synergy was a very base ROM that just removed bloat and tweak settings to make it slightly faster. I do not know about the brightness slider. I ran it for a day and it seemed to be just as good as the other TouchWiz based ROMs out there. If you want the brightness adjuster, look into CleanROM. The installer lets you pick and choose what you want and there is a flashable zip in the 2nd post of the link provided below for brightness slider.

CleanROM: [ROM][8/21] - CleanROM 2.0 -★| Treat Your Phone to the Very Best! | VRALG1 |★- - xda-developers

 

[anthony1117]

Awesome!! Then I'll try clean rom. Does it add a lock screen music control? Also can you change which toggles are at the top?

 

[PsYcHoNeWb]

Awesome!! Then I'll try clean rom. Does it add a lock screen music control? Also can you change which toggles are at the top?

Not sure on the music player, I think you may need the tweaks for that which is also over there on XDA, if you can't find it ill provide the link.

Yes, there is an app that is installed in the rom that will allow to you to tweak the toggles.

 

[AtoGT]

Synergy can do all the things you are looking for, music control, brightness etc, while looking basicly stock. That is what I am using atm and have been happy with it. The only problem I found is double tapping the home button won't bring up Google Now, even though it used to when I first dl'ed it.

 

[PsYcHoNeWb]

Synergy can do all the things you are looking for, music control, brightness etc, while looking basicly stock. That is what I am using atm and have been happy with it. The only problem I found is double tapping the home button won't bring up Google Now, even though it used to when I first dl'ed it.

Good to know, thanks. Been a while since I ran Synergy. Mainly stuck with CleanROM and saw no real reason to switch at that point.

 

[Srambo217]

I've tried Synergy multiple times. Every time I've gotten horrendous battery life. I suggest you go with CleanROM or just stay stock/rooted.

Sent from my rooted/modded/stock Samsung Galaxy SIII using Android Central Forums

 

[rvhighway]

BTW, Synergy is running a new kernal with overcloacking up to 1.9 GHz . . . and it provides great battery life.

The early Synergy builds didn't replace the stock kernal, so it probably gave battery life similar to stock. Early revisions of version 1.7 and version 1.6 and earlier ran the stock kernal. It was somewhere around revision 39 or so that a ziggy kernal was addded to Synergy version 1.7. They're at revision 66 as of today.

Synergy was also one of the first ROMs to get going on the S3. After getting a few versions under their belts and paving the way, Synergy has really become something desireable for a close to stock experience.

CleanROM is a ROM that's come along after Synergy came out. It's another close to stock ICS experience. What you'll see if you take a look at CleanROM's credits is some influence from the Synergy devs. CleanROM acknowledged them for the development of some features that were incorporated into CleanROM.

I've been running Synergy version 1.7 (skipped 1.6 and earlier) and I saw battery improvement over stock the moment I installed it. However, it's only gotten better with ziggy's kernal, so "horrendous" has never come to mind about the battery life in Synergy.

Synergy has also been very smooth for me. It's working very well and is very stable - no FCs on any apps I use and real smooth on the scrolling and page flips. It's this way without running it at an overclocked 1.9 GHz. I've kept it at 1.5 GHz for my max setting.

. . . and to parrot the response the op already got, yes there is a brightness slider under the dropdown toggels. However, I can't comment on music controls. I haven't considered using them on the lock screen.

This link will take you to the Synergy info, if you need it: Synergy ROM