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@NurseHolliday
Had a total fucking stressfest last night.
I installed the rooted n5 port of 4.4 onto my n4 last night which somehow lost my root. Then it turned out I needed to update Super SU. Did that, still no root. Then I spent about 1.5 hours working out how to manually update CWM Recovery to 6.0.4.3 because I read that for the root to work on the n5 port I needed to do that.
Having been so long since I rooted my n4 I was really rusty and couldn't get anything to work. So I eventually settled on just rooting all over again but the drivers wouldn't install on my Windows machine.
As a last ditch effort I used fastboot to get it into recovery mode as Rom Manager wouldn't boot into recovery mode and there's not an option on the power menu on stock roms (obvs) and I just re-installed the rom, Super SU and CWM Recovery. Lo and behold it works. Use root checker and it's rooted, but it tells me that it's slow. I use the phone a bit, restore some backups from Titanium and it does feel a little slow.
Decide to install the rooted n4 version instead to see if it's faster. Boom. Loads faster, but it's shit by comparison. The n5 launcher is so much nicer, but slower. Neither are perfect, just going to go back to a custom rom.
TL;DR - rooted stock roms defeat the point and are shit.
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