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[ROM] [JFLTE-Univeral] [MerkMod Beta-3] [Clean , Speed , Battery Friendly] [AOSP 4.4.4.r_2]

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[ROM] [JFLTE-Univeral] [MerkMod Beta-3] [Clean , Speed , Battery Friendly] [AOSP 4.4.4.r_2]












MerkMod is an Omni ROM based Custom ROM, which brings many new stuffs and improvements. We have removed many features of them and we will instead add our own features. Our goal is to provide you a stable and feature rich Custom ROM for your daily use.



· Based on Omni with complete removal of some features that aren't needed
· Peek
· Mobile Network Mode power-saver
· MerkBox
· Reworked the quick settings animations , icons , and pull-down actions
· Quick Settings improvements
· Many various tweaks under the hood
· Many more...




!!! Flash on your own risk !!!
We can and will not take any responsibility for bricked devices or lost data. So please watch out!

Installation
- Make a (Nandroid) Backup of your current ROM
- Full WIPE (wipe data/factory reset + wipe cache partition + wipe dalvik cache)
- Select ROM from sdcard
- Install ROM
- After flashing, reboot device (First reboot will take a while)
- Enjoy MerkMod on your device!





























BETA 1 [26/07]
- First release


BETA 2[03/08]
- ZygoteInit: increase GC threshold amount when preloading to postpone GC.
- services: don't clear wallpaper when SystemUI disconnects.
- PackageManager: Fix concurrent access to shared state
- AndroidRuntime: reduce logcat debug spam
- Don't allow MemoryFiles of negative length.
- Show package names during dexopt
- [HWUI] Fix invisible views are still shown in popup window.
- [1/3] Subtle vibration when ongoing call is connected.
- more black
- Fix STE "OK Google"
- Align text labels in all un-align tiles.
- Reset BatteryStats.
- Get out fuzzy lumpkins: blurred out wallpaper in some devices fixed.
- enable noise suppression for phone calls.
- squash commit for stability
- allow different sepolicy for third party apps
- quick swipe: Thiago vinicius.
- double tap to sleep user configurable settings
- move to solid black backgorund and make the dialog dark.
- Destroy scrolling cache for more speed.
- OTS : Add help text to help the user reset a prefernce.
- Update Roboto fonts to Android L versions.

and many .

BETA 3
- Camera2 : Make navigation bar and status bar transparent
- Camera2 : White panorama ui
- remove lockscreen from merkbox
- launch only contacts picker for blacklist entry
- squashed commit for wifi settings feature
- follow changes of Omni on the location enabler
- Messages Cards based UI
- Bring Mobile networks to settings header
- make settings Searchacble
- get merkpapers to build
- add new dialog concept for pop up dialog
- make the notification appear cleanly







Download

For the download of the released ROM please download the latest build




This is Team MerkMod
- Merk aka Mohhamad Rehan
-ToughTiger aka Santosh Pandey
- Akshay (Aky)
- Amartya Baidya
- Chirag_Galani
- Eklovya Dutta
- H a r s h i t Raghuvanshi
- Isaiah PEz
- Luqmaan Mathee
- mythi
- [email protected]
- TheWayOfTheAce
- vedantgp
- xlightwaverx
- Zoher Jetpurwala

Visit the official MerkMod Website and our MerkMod GitHub Site plus make a visit to our MerkMod Gerrit




- Google
- Omni ROM Devs
- All Device Manufacturer
- Every Tester and Supporter
- The team




XDA:DevDB Information
MerkMod MM, ROM for the Samsung Galaxy S 4

Contributors
mythi, Merk, mythi
ROM OS Version: 4.4.x KitKat
ROM Kernel: Linux 3.4.x

Version Information
Status: Beta
Current Beta Version: 1
Beta Release Date: 2014-07-26

Created 2014-07-26
Last Updated 2014-08-18
 

CorePrideX8

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It's an okay ROM. Great speed and well, to be honest, there isn't much to be seen here. Battery icon settings would be nice. But I mean, there's not much new here. Just seems like a slimmed ROM with minimal features. Which I believe is what the intention is. If so, great ROM overall.



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LuqmaanMathee

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It's an okay ROM. Great speed and well, to be honest, there isn't much to be seen here. Battery icon settings would be nice. But I mean, there's not much new here. Just seems like a slimmed ROM with minimal features. Which I believe is what the intention is. If so, great ROM overall.



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Thanks for your opinion. We're working on adding more features. As you can see our ROM is quite new.

I'm Batman!
 
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a1krab

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It's an okay ROM. Great speed and well, to be honest, there isn't much to be seen here. Battery icon settings would be nice. But I mean, there's not much new here. Just seems like a slimmed ROM with minimal features. Which I believe is what the intention is. If so, great ROM overall.



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well u can also visit the gerrit to see what's new on the term of adding features here is it http://review.merkmod.com
 

mythi

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It's an okay ROM. Great speed and well, to be honest, there isn't much to be seen here. Battery icon settings would be nice. But I mean, there's not much new here. Just seems like a slimmed ROM with minimal features. Which I believe is what the intention is. If so, great ROM overall.



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And you say "simple is beautiful" :p
 
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Could you link me the template. So i can set up the tread for d2lte. PM me if you need whatsapp confirmation
 
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mythi

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Could you link me the template. So i can set up the tread for d2lte. PM me if you need whatsapp confirmation
Wtf ... Edit your post and never quite the whole op man ... Just when replying using the reply button on the op ... Copy and paste the first contents to you new thread :mad:
 

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This is really nice, and beta as well, can't wait to see what an rc it's like :D

So glad someone is finally building something sensible with omni base here for jflte :) omni was my first kk ROM back in November last year on s2 and so glad it's here now, feels nice and clean, hope it status that way.

Good work merk team :good:
 
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Jsilver73

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One bug found, not sure if it's already reported - when using custom nav ring it gives a system ui crash and reset.

Other than that it's looking nice :)

What tool chain is used to compile?
 

Jsilver73

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A little more feedback - getting bad graphics rendering artifacts, well not sure if that is a good description, it's not flickering but similar, screen sort of goes to jelly whilst in browsers.
 

CorePrideX8

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Thanks for your opinion. We're working on adding more features. As you can see our ROM is quite new.

I'm Batman!
Well, I'm definitely going to try the future updates. For a new ROM, its quite good already. Best of luck on achieving your goals towards this ROM. I'm sure the S4 community will support you all the way. ^^

:thumbup:

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