The different 4.2.1 roms for Samsung Galaxy s3
I am just writing about the different 4.2.1 JB roms for
android. As people know there are mainly 3 types of rom for Samsung Phone.
a)
MIUI rom: it is the most customizable rom for
Android. You can change the boot animation, font, sms, internet browser etc.
completely al the option. It is what I call the IOS version android. It is nice
to use for a while then it gets stale as which version android you use it still
looks and feel the same
b)
Samsung based kernel: these are roms like the
Ultima rom and Foxhound silver rom who are based on Samsung. You get the entire
Samsung feature like Sbeam, their camera, their video player etc. and based on
the Android which is one step back. Now it is based on 4.1.2 only
c)
The CM 10.1 based rom: these are the rom that is
based on pure Android 4.2.1 JB>cyanogen and AOKP are the pioneers of these
roms. Among them the most famous are
i)
Resurrection Remix Rom V 3.1.4: This is the
rom that I use as a daily driver rom. It is a 373 mb rom. I like this rom as it
is as stock as possible but gives me the option of installing Samsung apps. I
like the Samsung apps store as it allow to installation of some apps that are
paid on the Google play market. We get option of minor customization in this rom.
We can choose an extra theme or choice of music player between Apollo music
player or Google music and choice of Modem for net. We get extra feature such
as multiple user option
ii)
Revolt JB rom: I have tried this rom. I didn’t
like it much. The major thing I like in this rom was just the Boot animation
which I feel is the best of the lot of android 4.2.1. You have to install it in
two parts. One download the main rom which is 163mb big and download the
gapps around 93 mb big
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iii)
Super Nexus Rom V 2.0: This is the first rom
which I used when I rooted my SG3 in the month of August. It is that time based
on android 4.1.1. It converted my Phone as the developer said into Galaxy Nexus
which you get only stock JB feel and nothing else. IT is made by Farayb who is
said to be a 16 year teen. Hats off to him at the age of 16 he is doing it. It
is also a two part rom. One is the main rom and other is Gapps.
iv)
Parandroid
Rom: It is a 2 part hybrid rom. When you go to the setting tab you can see a
split screen type of layout in short a tablet layout. It is a two part rom
installation. One is the main rom and the other is the Gapps. It has the boot
animation of X i.e., of the Nexus same as the Super nexus rom. You get option
similar like RRR of extra user and all. I didn’t like the layout as I feel it
is too much for 4.8 inch phone
v)
CM 10.1 nightly: These are the original creators
of this rom. All the other rom is based on this nightly. Nightly means that it
is theoretically not ready to be used as daily driver. But as this rom is
really light just around 260 mb we can use it. it is the stock JB rom without
the excess such as Google maps, Google plus, Google earth etc. All we get is Camera,
Gallery, Lock screen widgets, the dual notification chamber.
The main things about the roms are they look and feel the
same. It is good in a way as it is a very small rom at the maximum at 373 mb
and the least will be 280 mb. You don’t need to worry about the extra which Google
put in their OS which generally most people don’t use. But the problem is that
they are looking becoming stale. All
these roms have a problem in that the photosphere mode is not working in the
camera which generally even works in ICS or JB 4.1.1 and the front camera is
showing as 1.3 MP while it is really 1.9 MP.
The main features of Android 4.2.1 are
a)
Lock screen notification:
You can swipe from left to right of the
screen you will get a + symbol when we hit the plus symbol we can add different
widget. The set just comes with 4 widgets one is the Google play, messaging,
calendar and clock. It supports third party widgets which are a good sign but I
don’t like this concept as it is not secure anybody can access your widgets
from the lock screen but still a great option to have. Once you swipe from
right to left you go to camera 4.2
B) Camera 4.2: You get a clean interface
with just the big blue button. Icon to change the camera, video camera and
panorama and the other for flash. Once we press the screen we can tap to focus
and we get a circular to change the different option. When we swipe from right
to left we got the gallery which is copied from windows 7 and IOS also copied
it. Once we pinch to zoom we get the camera strip where we can swipe it fast
from one end to another we get a film strip view. We can delete by just swiping
up and down the screen. The gallery has a built in photo editor which will
allow u to crop the picture and also apply effects like instagram
c) Notification panel: There is a new type of notification
panel with the shortcut in the 2nd screen. We can swipe one finger
and the screen with all the notification. We can pinch zoom to expand and
collapse it. we can delete individual notification with a single swiping or
with a cluster on the top we can delete altogether. I wish in the next update
they can implement like IOS does club same notification together. With a two
finger swipe we can get the screen for shortcut. It is really nice looking. Unlike
the Samsung and HTC which really clusters the notification screen this is a
really a good idea. We can either hit the icon on the top left screen on the
single swipe gesture to go to this screen or two finger swipes
d) the keyboard: We get a new keyboard in android 4.2.1 it
includes the gesture control we can just swipe to type or just type the normal
method. It is great that Google implements it though swift key flow beta is
better but it is of 4 dollars and this is built in. Google implementation is 80
percent close to swift key flow. Take your own pick what you want
e) Day dreams: another new feature implemented which is
similar to the windows screensaver is the day dream option. We can set clock,
photoframe, and color screen when the phone is not in use or charge. Though a
silly feature nice to see it on the phone
f) Better Google now: Google now can now open application as
Siri can though it can’t answer humorous question still.
g) Multi user mode: Multiple users can now access android
4.2.1 with their own setting. It is a very good feature for tablet but I don’t
think so it has any worth for phone because who will share their with others.
This is just a brief over for Android 4.2.1 on Samsung
Galaxy S3
