Comments on: “Expanded Desktop Mode” in Paranoid Android ROM is the Coolest ROM Feature I’ve Seen in a Long Time

By: David Gray

David Gray — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 22:44:00 +0000

Dude my Galaxy Nexus is still running like a CHAMP! Why wouldn’t it be my daily driver, CM10 makes it smooth as butter and faster than anything else out there I’ve seen.

By: pilot25

pilot25 — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 01:46:00 +0000

anyone have a link to download the rom for toro. Can’t find it on their site anywhere.

By: Thomas Redmond

Thomas Redmond — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:42:00 +0000

Anyone know if you can run the Google Play app in Tablet mode, and if this enables the Music Explorer feature?

By: AnotherAndroidKid

AnotherAndroidKid — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:04:00 +0000

Still have the original and a 2100 and a spare 1850 (came with external charger i bought). Use the 2100 all the time since shortly after purchase on release day of the phone. No noticeable hits on life, but i my desk is in a vz dead spot so it doesn’t get a lot of day time use. i charge overnight and as needed.

Spares only get used when i’m stuck somewhere like inlaw’s family reunion and baseball is on (video streaming)

By: Cory Larson

Cory Larson — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:10:00 +0000

I’m still using an original extended battery and I’m getting 18 – 26 hours out of it depending on usage. Running CM 10.1 nightlies.

By: roberthenderson

roberthenderson — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:22:00 +0000

The only time I ever had a phone wake up in my pocket was when I had checked an option to wake with the home buttons, so that doesn’t apply to me.

By: roberthenderson

roberthenderson — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:39:00 +0000

you know, you are correct, idiot was too strong of a word.if people want to have that big black bar taking up there screen or they want to do about sons of extra button pushes over the life of the phone to bring them off and then activate them instead of just 1 touch has with capacitive phones, then they should be free to do that.there are 1000 free widgets that I can use to activate whatever action orfunction or application that I choose. I don’t want anything locking for taking up any of the view of these beautiful screens that we have. there are also applications to read map the capacitive buttons. So the most beautiful thing would be capacitive buttons like on my galaxy s 3 that activate the second better touched and then disappear.you can even set it so the lights don’t come on at all when you press them. Now you tell me what could be cleaner than that?

By: Josh Eck

Josh Eck — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:03:00 +0000

Hmmm, not impressed. I wouldn’t like having to swipe up and hold to get to home, back, recent apps, and whatever other functionality they want to throw in there. It would just take longer to do the same steps as is. Adding flashy animations and such don’t really make a phone more user friendly.

By: El Big CHRIS

El Big CHRIS — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 05:09:00 +0000

Right? But I cannot find a toro build

By: DaveTea

DaveTea — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 03:19:00 +0000

My wife and I both received our G-Nex’s a day or two after VZW released them and we are both still using our original batteries with no noticeable degradation. It might be interesting to try a fresh battery for comparison though.

By: usnmustanger

usnmustanger — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 01:04:00 +0000

The ability to hide the Navigation bar has been in AOKP for quite a while now, Apex/Nova (probably others) have had a “hide/show status bar with gesture” action since day 1, and LMT is very similar to the “pie” shown here (although I’ll acknowledge the presence of the clock/battery in this implementation is nice), so PA is not the originator of the concept. They’ve just integrated all those into the ROM, and polished up the pie a little.

By: usnmustanger

usnmustanger — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 01:00:00 +0000

Holy crap! I love my (first and only) GNex, but in your case, at what point do you give up and say, “Either I’m the unluckiest GNex owner around, or this phone sux! Time to try something else!”?

By: usnmustanger

usnmustanger — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:57:00 +0000

Agreed. I was doing pretty much the same thing this article is about on AOKP a short while back, and got tired of it. With the ability to hide the Navbar being baked into AOKP for some time now (and the ability to hide status bar/show notifications with gestures using Apex/Nova), I experimented with a very similar “extended desktop mode”, using the LMT app to access those basic functions. I tried it for a couple of weeks, and the extra step required to access such fundamentally basic functions got tedious for me. Yes, on an individual basis, the extra “finger motion” required to execute Home/Back/Recents seems insignificantly small, but as these are THE MOST tapped buttons on the phone, it definitely adds up.
So neat feature, and many will absolutely love it (many AOKP users sure seem to), but it’s just not for me.

By: John Peter Matthew Dominici

John Peter Matthew Dominici — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 21:52:00 +0000

Can someone please tell me how to flash this? For the life of me I can’t find a download link or instructions.

By: joejoe5709

joejoe5709 — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:14:00 +0000

LOVE IT. But it doesn’t always work and there’s nothing more unsettling than being without a home button. So I’ll wait for a less glutchy, more stable build. Also not a fan of the split settings. Where’s notification power buttons? Meh.