{"id":2564,"date":"2013-12-07T22:28:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T14:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alfredivy.per.sg\/blogger\/?p=2564"},"modified":"2019-08-06T11:51:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T03:51:41","slug":"getting-a-taste-of-kitkat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/2013\/12\/getting-a-taste-of-kitkat\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting a taste of KitKat"},"content":{"rendered":"

After 2 weeks watching the development of Android 4.4 KitKat (link<\/a>) blossom for my aging phone Samsung S2 9100, I decided to take a plunge.<\/p>\n

Followed infected_’s thread on XDA Developers, downloaded the ROM (OmniRom branch of KitKat), required Google Apps and SuperUser. \u00a0Factory reset\\clear data, clear the caches and flash away. \u00a0Due to limited space in the system partition, always use the modular or minimum version of Google Apps.<\/p>\n

The phone rebooted and greeted with the usual first time Google login. \u00a0Google’s 2FA SMS authentication broke. \u00a0Never received any messages. \u00a0Dug out the standby phone (with duplicate number) to retrieve the SMS. \u00a0This happened to me on CyanogenMod’s 4.2. stable too.<\/p>\n

After a nearly a month on Aviate and the new KitKat homescreen really threw me off. \u00a0Google Now is always available on the left side of the screen. \u00a0You can only add homescreens on the right. \u00a0This is going to be a big problem with people having lots of homescreens. \u00a0The number five screen is going to a lot of swipes away. \u00a0Whereas on the older JellyBeans, the extreme ends is no more than 2 swipes.<\/p>\n

Build quality wise, needs more testing to surface out the bugs. \u00a0Appears to be snappier than CM10.3<\/p>\n

Bugs on 2 Dec 12 nightly:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Power off charging animation not working.<\/li>\n
  2. There are ghost icons or not working properly. \u00a0When the Menu or Overflow key is pressed, ghost icons shows up<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \"GhostWeird Stuff<\/h2>\n
      \n
    1. Status Bar cannot be changed.<\/li>\n
    2. Battery indicator cannot show numeric value (enabled in a latest nightly)<\/li>\n
    3. Quick Settings tiles cannot be changed (enabled in subsequent nightlies)<\/li>\n
    4. Not possible to switch to silent or vibrate mode.<\/li>\n
    5. Access to Settings is via App Drawer or Quick Settings only.<\/li>\n
    6. Access to Play store is via homescreen or app drawer only.<\/li>\n
    7. Button Savior (non root) kills Google Now hotword activation. \u00a0Use root version.<\/li>\n
    8. Android color is now white, so there is no way of knowing if you are connected to Google servers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Update 11 Dec.<\/h2>\n

      After nearly a week of use, I decided to switch back. \u00a0The battery drain was really too much to bear. \u00a0Omni ROM was so true to Android that I missed some of the shortcuts that were provided by Cyanogenmod. \u00a0I will let that mature for a few months and evaluate again.<\/p>\n

      Due to the difference in recovery manager, TWRP and CWM, it is not possible to flash a CM ROM immediately. \u00a0There is an intermediate step to download a CWM zip into the phone BEFORE WIPING the phone. link<\/a>\u00a0link<\/a><\/p>\n

      Update 9 Jan 14<\/h2>\n

      Infected_ has stopped further builds on OmniROM. link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Trying out Android 4.4 or KitKat on my Galaxy S2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[241,320,321,232,319,312,318],"class_list":["post-2564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-android","tag-android04-4","tag-cm11","tag-google","tag-kitkat","tag-omnirom","tag-xda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2564"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4913,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions\/4913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}