After going through 6 Galaxy Nexus due to screen/radio issues I will be receiving a S III next week. I'm happy about the upgraded hardware, but I have been on JB for a month and have always loved that AOSP look and feel. I'll give TouchWiz a try, but I already know I won't like it.
What's the best JB/AOSP ROM for the S3 right now? From my research I'm leaning towards CM10 (I've been running it for a week on my Nexus). Are there any major problems or bugs? Stability issues?
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I am a best buy mobile sales consultant and I get a nice verizon concession line with 100 dollars off of a phone of my choice (except iPhones lol classic). all my old phones broke and i am too broke myself for a new one but this old blackberry curve has done enough damage haha so its time.
anyway i am looking for advice rather than dishing it out for once.
i was set on the nexus 4 but with no LTE version thats not sounding too great.
note 2 and the DNA are too big for my liking and RAZR HD im not a fan of motoblur.
has vzw announced anything else for the end of the year or should i just go with the black GS3. i am a sucker for AOSP roms, will jellybean stock be ported to the GS3 or do you guys find no need to get rid of touchwiz..
any advice is appreciated. thanks.
The GS3 is such a great phone. I run AOKP and it is fantastic. The LTE is fast, there are a lot of customizable options, the screen is crisp, etc, etc. There are also some great options in TW Rom's as well, and the development in this area recently took off with the release of the JB leak. I could go on but I'm others will chime in as well.
Love the GS3. Would agree with the post above that with all the JB leak stuff going on, it's even better and smoother. I'm using CleanRom 4.0 and couldn't be happier. Scott really knows how to make a fast and effficent custom ROM.
I'm a very happy GS3 user as well (you'll find a lot of them around here ). I've also been using CleanRom for a while now, and not sure I'll switch. I've used sense, aosp, and now touchwiz, and honestly, TW doesn't bother me in the least. I have a hard time finding much fault with it, but I do also use Nova for my launcher.
That said, the Razr HDs look really good. I can't say much about MotoBlur, but as I understand it, it's been "reduced' drastically in the latest iterations so I would recommend at least checking it out. Aside from a Nexus (which seems doubtful VZW will get), the only thing else I would consider jumping to is the Note 2.
I should also say that you can't really go wrong with the most popular Android phone on the planet (30 million sold and counting).
I came from a Verizon Nexus, I saved my upgrade for that and sorry I didn't save it for the SIII which I bought online to save my unlimited data plan, but it was worth it battery life is great signal is light years ahead of the Nexus. And the ROMS are well there are tons AOSP style touchwiz etc. Love AOKP and BeansTown's work. can't go wrong with this phone, it is really a nice device.
since you already ruledout the DNA id say go w the gs3
I have the gs3 and I love it. If you don't mind larger screen the note2 is coming and its the same as the gs3 with a kick as gallery. HTC is also about to announce a new device that may be worth looking into. (Nov.13) is the announcement.
I just love the S3. I've been using the CleanRom custom ROM with all the great jellybean features that are available and couldn't be happier. It's exciting times with all the development that is going on.
There are AOSP Roms already out but they are no way near as stable as the TW Roms we have. They are still working things out.
TW on the S3 is actually pretty useful and coming from the GNEX as well, I do not really miss AOSP. Would rather go for stability right now and I am totally happy with TW.
The only other phone I would be interested in right now is the Galaxy S4 : )
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Hey guys
anyway i am looking for advice rather than dishing it out for once.
any advice is appreciated. thanks.
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What did you end up with? GS3 is a beast.
Hello, is there any fully working aosp for DS.
I am starting to like it more and more from day to day, but i don't want to buy Google Nexus 4, as it's already about 1/2 year old and in another 1/2 year there will be new nexus, and i am affraid that old wil loose support.
I'd highly recommend Flinny's Andromadus AOSP ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2031691. I got a whole new lease of life out of my DS after installing it. In terms of fully working I'd say so, I've seen different users reporting different bugs but none of them have affected me so I'm going to assume that it depends on the device.
Hi guys Happy 4th of July!
Question is: I am liking the Galaxy S4 a lot and I don't have an upgrade available until Oct/2014. Is there any ROM for the S3 that is similar to the Galaxy S4? or does anyone knows of any specials anywhere where I can upgrade now instead of waiting so long?
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Remember you can only get so close to the s4 software, as the hardware is entirely different, the software is usually based on the hArdware.but there is the s4 voice,s4 launcher, there's a couple of roms similar to the s4 can't think of any rite now but it's very easily found in the forum.
clean Rom/xda powerd by zero-lemon & tweaked out Guided by the power of Zeus kernel!!
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Remember you can only get so close to the s4 software, as the hardware is entirely different, the software is usually based on the hArdware.but there is the s4 voice,s4 launcher, there's a couple of roms similar to the s4 can't think of any rite now but it's very easily found in the forum.
clean Rom/xda powerd by zero-lemon & tweaked out Guided by the power of Zeus kernel!!
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I think the major issue is the S4 is 4.2 based and our devices are still on 4.1. I remember when I was on my Incredible we got sense 3 and 3.5 ROMs once our gingerbread leak came out, so I'm guessing we'd need a 4.2 based touchwiz kernel for our device before we could get the S4's 4.2 based ROM ported to our device.
Even if we get 4.2 (it would be about 8-9 months from now) there's no guarantee it would work out that way. Many of our devs have already moved on to the S4 or other devices so they might not be interested in porting that for us. It may not even be possible - consistencies don't always apply in the technology world, even if we have a 4.2 kernel there might be some other reason why a port isn't possible.
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I think the major issue is the S4 is 4.2 based and our devices are still on 4.1. I remember when I was on my Incredible we got sense 3 and 3.5 ROMs once our gingerbread leak came out, so I'm guessing we'd need a 4.2 based touchwiz kernel for our device before we could get the S4's 4.2 based ROM ported to our device.
Even if we get 4.2 (it would be about 8-9 months from now) there's no guarantee it would work out that way. Many of our devs have already moved on to the S4 or other devices so they might not be interested in porting that for us. It may not even be possible - consistencies don't always apply in the technology world, even if we have a 4.2 kernel there might be some other reason why a port isn't possible.
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So what ROM would be the most similar to the one on the S4? I am running CleanRom 6.2 and I like it but is there any other option?
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I think the major issue is the S4 is 4.2 based and our devices are still on 4.1. I remember when I was on my Incredible we got sense 3 and 3.5 ROMs once our gingerbread leak came out, so I'm guessing we'd need a 4.2 based touchwiz kernel for our device before we could get the S4's 4.2 based ROM ported to our device.
Even if we get 4.2 (it would be about 8-9 months from now) there's no guarantee it would work out that way. Many of our devs have already moved on to the S4 or other devices so they might not be interested in porting that for us. It may not even be possible - consistencies don't always apply in the technology world, even if we have a 4.2 kernel there might be some other reason why a port isn't possible.
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It is not as simple as having 4.2 kernel plus you have to better your explanation as we have Google AOSP 4.2 just not touchwiz 4.2. It is more to do with the hardware as it is easier to port from phones with similar hardware then it is to port from a phone with different specs. The best alternative is to port the apps and make an app like windows 8 launcher and Xperia Z launcher. So there isn't a "might be " there is another reason and that is hardware inconsistencies.
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So what ROM would be the most similar to the one on the S4? I am running CleanRom 6.2 and I like it but is there any other option?
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Your best bet is to use a stock-ish MF1 based rom (cleanrom isn't up to date) and find + install a S4 apps package compatible with the S3. The S4 launcher and clock works fairly well on our phones. I don't think there are any roms that aim to mimic the S4 experience exclusively. They all have different theming elements with S4 apps here and there.
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It is not as simple as having 4.2 kernel plus you have to better your explanation as we have Google AOSP 4.2 just not touchwiz 4.2. It is more to do with the hardware as it is easier to port from phones with similar hardware then it is to port from a phone with different specs. The best alternative is to port the apps and make an app like windows 8 launcher and Xperia Z launcher. So there isn't a "might be " there is another reason and that is hardware inconsistencies.
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Sure, no problem.
The reason we're able to have a working 4.2 kernel for AOSP is because we're not reliant on Samsung's kernel source for that side of development. AOSP is completely open source as opposed to touchwiz which has proprietary framework that's closed source.
You mention hardware differences. I know things have changed drastically since GB, so perhaps the argument I'm about to make is invalid. On the Incredible we got roms from the Runnymede which had 100% completely different hardware. It had a chipset which was many generations ahead yet devs still managed to get Sense 3.5 roms running on a device which was not intended to run anything beyond Sense 1.0. It wasn't possible til we had a GB leak made for our phone (still sense 1.0). This is due to proprietary sense framework built in at the kernel level which the devs relied on for porting - they needed the updated 2.3 version of the sense bits. I know touchwiz isn't sense, so I could be making a bad comparison here, but saying "the hardware is too different" isn't a valid reason for porting to not be possible. It could be a very similar setup. I'm not familiar enough with touchwiz to be able to make that distinction though.
These Sense 3.5 roms were marred with several issues which ultimately made them impractical to use as a daily driver. This was mainly due to how outdated the incredible was and that it simply didn't have the resources to run the software adequately. They did get it working really well considering the limitations. It's also interesting to note that the development of the incredible still continues to this day with unofficial CM 10.1 roms. It's pretty amazing what these devs are actually capable of. It's just about getting the right dev interested enough to invest the time doing it.
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Your best bet is to use a stock-ish MF1 based rom (cleanrom isn't up to date) and find + install a S4 apps package compatible with the S3. The S4 launcher and clock works fairly well on our phones. I don't think there are any roms that aim to mimic the S4 experience exclusively. They all have different theming elements with S4 apps here and there.
Sure, no problem.
The reason we're able to have a working 4.2 kernel for AOSP is because we're not reliant on Samsung's kernel source for that side of development. AOSP is completely open source as opposed to touchwiz which has proprietary framework that's closed source.
You mention hardware differences. I know things have changed drastically since GB, so perhaps the argument I'm about to make is invalid. On the Incredible we got roms from the Runnymede which had 100% completely different hardware. It had a chipset which was many generations ahead yet devs still managed to get Sense 3.5 roms running on a device which was not intended to run anything beyond Sense 1.0. It wasn't possible til we had a GB leak made for our phone (still sense 1.0). This is due to proprietary sense framework built in at the kernel level which the devs relied on for porting - they needed the updated 2.3 version of the sense bits. I know touchwiz isn't sense, so I could be making a bad comparison here, but saying "the hardware is too different" isn't a valid reason for porting to not be possible. It could be a very similar setup. I'm not familiar enough with touchwiz to be able to make that distinction though.
These Sense 3.5 roms were marred with several issues which ultimately made them impractical to use as a daily driver. This was mainly due to how outdated the incredible was and that it simply didn't have the resources to run the software adequately. They did get it working really well considering the limitations. It's also interesting to note that the development of the incredible still continues to this day with unofficial CM 10.1 roms. It's pretty amazing what these devs are actually capable of. It's just about getting the right dev interested enough to invest the time doing it.
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True the sense 3 and 3.5 wasn't really good. We do have a Note 2,MIUI, and Sense 5 port for our devices and will likely to get ubuntu touch as soon as it is stable. Problem is that most of the developers don't have that much free time to attempt an international S3 or an US S4 port so they do what they can with the time they have.
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True the sense 3 and 3.5 wasn't really good. We do have a Note 2,MIUI, and Sense 5 port for our devices and will likely to get ubuntu touch as soon as it is stable. Problem is that most of the developers don't have that much free time to attempt an international S3 or an US S4 port so they do what they can with the time they have.
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I definitely agree; time is a huge issue. I'm assuming it's much more work porting a 4.2 based rom than it is a 2.3 based one. There's a good chance it's not worth the time investment considering the potentially buggy outcome.
Also, I apologize for assuming you didn't have any experience with earlier phones. Your join date threw me off
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I definitely agree; time is a huge issue. I'm assuming it's much more work porting a 4.2 based rom than it is a 2.3 based one. There's a good chance it's not worth the time investment considering the potentially buggy outcome.
Also, I apologize for assuming you didn't have any experience with earlier phones. Your join date threw me off
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I learn fast as the S3 is my first android device and within 3 days of buying the phone I rooted it and started flashing roms. I had ample opportunities to root/jailbreak my previous phones but waited until developers come up with better methods. As for the opening poster's question he will have to get the S4 launcher app and flash some of the S4 apps.
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Hi, I have less than 7 days to return this perfect Nexus 5.
My friend just informed me that I can flash the Google Play Edition ROM on the Rogers i377m. I went over to look at their Android Development and sure enough there is a thread for gpe roms for i377m.
For example, this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2510959&page=8
As per any rom thread I went to see if there were any lingering bugs but none was reported.
Now I'm at a cross road. Should I return the Nexus 5 for a flashed gpe s4?
These are the pros that concerns me.
S4:
-swappable battery
-64gb SD card
-flip flop between stock TW and GPE roms
NEXUS
-KITKAT guaranteed
-first in line updates
If the flashed gpe rom had some consistent bugs then Nexus 5 hands down but I couldn't find it. Everyone was pretty happy with it's stability.
Your perspective or bias is greatly appreciated.
I did a similar switch had a t-mobile version though (still in canada) Didn't have a definitive reason for walking away from the S4. Gave up the use of my 64gb card and potentially a better camera (using a GPE rom does limit you to the stock interface)
But at the same time, I've been waiting for a nexus Device with LTE for years love the feel of it and love that its not in everyone's hands (yes small reasons) Its definitely going to be my device for the next year when you throw in the quick updates into the mix.
Yeah there were some very minor bugs with the GPE rom but a reboot would fix them. nothing serious at all.
I would sum it up this way: How much do you enjoy using the N5? do you feel like you are missing out with the storage or is it easy enough to get by without?
I have been relatively happy running on Stock Rooted 4.1.2 on my (2012) Verizon GN 10.1 (SCH-i925) for a while now. This device, unfortunately didn't get much love due to the very few people that bought it. After having a couple of Verizon LTE tablets I've about decided it's not worth buying from Verizon since you get almost completely different hardware from the rest of the world. In any case I digress.
What I want to know with 4.3 or is it 4.4 for these tablets showing up is anyone working on a stock rom higher than 4.1.x? I like CM and all that for about anything except a Note tablet. Unless something's changed since last time I looked for this there is no way to get the samsung features and frameworks in there to do multi screen etc on the CM roms right? Anyone out there still wanting to breathe some more life into these VZW tablets now that the new ones are out?
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I have been relatively happy running on Stock Rooted 4.1.2 on my (2012) Verizon GN 10.1 (SCH-i925) for a while now. This device, unfortunately didn't get much love due to the very few people that bought it. After having a couple of Verizon LTE tablets I've about decided it's not worth buying from Verizon since you get almost completely different hardware from the rest of the world. In any case I digress.
What I want to know with 4.3 or is it 4.4 for these tablets showing up is anyone working on a stock rom higher than 4.1.x? I like CM and all that for about anything except a Note tablet. Unless something's changed since last time I looked for this there is no way to get the samsung features and frameworks in there to do multi screen etc on the CM roms right? Anyone out there still wanting to breathe some more life into these VZW tablets now that the new ones are out?
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Just curious, but how did you get it rooted? There is no known Root method on 4.1.2, at least that I know of.
It's been quite a while but if I'm not mistaken I was on an earlier version and then there was some upgrade path to keep root. Found it here on xda