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Since the hardware is so similar, can anyone with chef-wisdom comment on the possibility of porting Nexus S ROMs?
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Needless to say, the frequency of Google updates to their "flagship dev phone" has me super excited at the possibility of porting those updates to my Captivate...
t-readyroc said:
Since the hardware is so similar, can anyone with chef-wisdom comment on the possibility of porting Nexus S ROMs?
Engadget overview
TechCrunch review
Needless to say, the frequency of Google updates to their "flagship dev phone" has me super excited at the possibility of porting those updates to my Captivate...
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I think we can with no issues. I am preordering it so I will let you know asap. The only issue I can see is if Google did not use samsung rfs partition. Im pretty sure they wont use it but who knows. If it is not rfs I think we would have to reformat are storage then load the rom. Im not a expert on android partitioning so we will need help with that but im sure tons of people will help out.
Definitely count me in & contact me if anyone needs any help on doing this work. This is probably the best news Captivate owners have had since buying the phone. Heh.
shep211 said:
I think we can with no issues. I am preordering it so I will let you know asap. The only issue I can see is if Google did not use samsung rfs partition. Im pretty sure they wont use it but who knows. If it is not rfs I think we would have to reformat are storage then load the rom. Im not a expert on android partitioning so we will need help with that but im sure tons of people will help out.
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Sweet Action! I'll be supporting the devs with donations.
The second I read this morning that it had a hummingbird/identical specs, I was thinking.... YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEAH! Porting goodness Go dev community go!
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The second I read this morning that it had a hummingbird/identical specs, I was thinking.... YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEAH! Porting goodness
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Me too man... me too. You have no idea how happy I was when shep211 chimed in with the "affirmative."
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The second I read this morning that it had a hummingbird/identical specs, I was thinking.... YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEAH! Porting goodness Go dev community go!
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Yeah same here. I felt like I was the only person rooting for the Nexus S to not have a dual core and push boundaries but rather be similar to our devices.
If porting turns out to be easy then this is huuuuge for all Galaxy S owners. You can pretty much live in any country, and be on any carrier and will have the option for a Galaxy S variant with a huge amount of custom roms available.
i guess im the only one whos skeptical that samsung will allow us to flash a VANILLA rom over their own touchwiz..
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Yeah same here. I felt like I was the only person rooting for the Nexus S to not have a dual core and push boundaries but rather be similar to our devices.
If porting turns out to be easy then this is huuuuge for all Galaxy S owners. You can pretty much live in any country, and be on any carrier and will have the option for a Galaxy S variant with a huge amount of custom roms available.
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Haha, I totally know where you're coming from when I read rumors of the dual core I was like nooooooooo it should just be an sgs with AOSP 2.3
Hopefully the whole Nand thing and partitioning won't be too much of a hold up...and if it is...well let's keep our devs sauced with donations! DRINKS ALL AROUND!
IpodLover77 said:
i guess im the only one whos skeptical that samsung will allow us to flash a VANILLA rom over their own touchwiz..
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Err... Perhaps you should read some of the CM threads....
IpodLover77 said:
i guess im the only one whos skeptical that samsung will allow us to flash a VANILLA rom over their own touchwiz..
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Erm... I don't think you're the only one who is skeptical of that...but I don't think that's what everyone is excited about... I think we're all excited here for the rom porting opportunities...
Look like the Nexus S is going to be sold unlocked after 12/16. It should have no problems working with at&t's network, right?
It supports:
GSM: 850, 900, 1800, 1900
HSPA: 900, 1700, 2100
Even though we may get the software ported onto a Captivate, I need a phone with working LBS.
this is the best news ever. what a christmas gift!!!
I am also very curious and cant wait to hear.
http://www.samfirmware.com/WEBPROTECT-i9200.htm
This has got to be the firmware for the Nexus S. Android 2.3. A month ago, we couldn't do much with it. Will the new SDK help?
The only thing I'm slightly worried about is if it's got a legit 512MB of RAM as opposed to our sorta 512MB RAM... and if it will make that much of a difference.
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The only thing I'm slightly worried about is if it's got a legit 512MB of RAM as opposed to our sorta 512MB RAM... and if it will make that much of a difference.
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It shouldn't. The HIGHMEM fix was included in 2.2, iirc.
**Edit - to clarify - since the code that addressed allowable memory was already included in a version many here are already unofficially running, the amount of RAM shouldn't make a difference. It'll be like putting 6GB of memory in a PC w/a 32bit OS.
That said, there may well be some performance differences, but I've not read where Gingerbread's all that much more demanding on the hardware than Froyo.
I will definitely be donating to the developers with the nexus S ROM
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I will definitely be donating to the developers with the nexus S ROM
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I'm hoping they can find a modem that will allow for AT&T 3G... right now, it only supports EDGE.
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I'm hoping they can find a modem that will allow for AT&T 3G... right now, it only supports EDGE.
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Interesting. I assume that, like the N1, they'll release models for each carrier, but yeah, the pre-order page is only showing Tmo as a carrier.
Simple as the title says, i'm just curious is there any point now to get one.
My intentions are simply to just have a fun, i don't want to activate the phone.
I'm currently a Samsung Epic 4G user, is it worth me to buy this phone?
I found one off craigslist for 100$ and it has bad esn.
Would there be any use for me to get this phone?
Thanks in Advance please don't flame.
XxLostSoulxX said:
Simple as the title says, i'm just curious is there any point now to get one.
My intentions are simply to just have a fun, i don't want to activate the phone.
I'm currently a Samsung Epic 4G user, is it worth me to buy this phone?
I found one off craigslist for 100$ and it has bad esn.
Would there be any use for me to get this phone?
Thanks in Advance please don't flame.
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A bunch of people will likely say you should wait for the new fancy quad core around that illusive corner or you should get that shiny new joint with the bells, whistles, and whurlies. and to all that I just say, ask yourself these questions:
1. Who has the best development community?
2. Who's been running ics for 5 months now?
3. Who has best mix of functionality and performance?
The answer, my friend, is we do. I learned long ago that hardware is just a hardwired piece of crap without development. And our development, in my opinion, is among the best. And our hardware is nothing to play with either. In fact, I don't think the software is at a level to really use the new hardware. It's like running windows 98 on a quad core machine... Why would anyone do that?
I should add, all this is considering you plan on rooting and flashing. If not, get something else.
You without me is like Harold Melvin without the Blue Notes...
Bruce lee roy said:
A bunch of people will likely say you should wait for the new fancy quad core around that illusive corner or you should get that shiny new joint with the bells, whistles, and whurlies. and to all that I just say, ask yourself these questions:
1. Who has the best development community?
2. Who's been running ics for 5 months now?
3. Who has best mix of functionality and performance?
The answer, my friend, is we do. I learned long ago that hardware is just a hardwired piece of crap without development. And our development, in my opinion, is among the best. And our hardware is nothing to play with either. In fact, I don't think the software is at a level to really use the new hardware. It's like running windows 98 on a quad core machine... Why would anyone do that?
I should add, all this is considering you plan on rooting and flashing. If not, get something else.
You without me is like Harold Melvin without the Blue Notes...
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Well of course I'm going to root and flash lol I'm no noob at all just wondering why is it that it has boot loader? And funny thing is the epic has all of the same specs except has a KB, Sd Card Slot, And Soft keys actually light up brighter haha. But ill have to give this a thought, BTW is it really hard to root it? I remember for the Epic was simple and easy.
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If you just want to have fun then heck yeah buy it! Haha, there's a bunch of ROMS to flash and probably the most ICS ROMS that are stable besides the GSM NS or the G Nex. You can make it your dedicated mp3 player to lol, I've heard that our NS's have some of the best audio hardware around coupled with voodoo sound And yes it is SUPER easy to root!
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If you just want to have fun then heck yeah buy it! Haha, there's a bunch of ROMS to flash and probably the most ICS ROMS that are stable besides the GSM NS or the G Nex. You can make it your dedicated mp3 player to lol, I've heard that our NS's have some of the best audio hardware around coupled with voodoo sound And yes it is SUPER easy to root!
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Voodoo is an awesome addition to the Nexus, but you can always make it even louder with the Loud Volume Hack
unlocking the boot loader is as simple as "fastboot oem unlock" rooting is also really easy, you can turn it into a massacre machine or make it to last a week without charging, a great gallery of modification have come to beeing that give you even more freedom and.. well a lot more. well for 100$ i'd definitely buy it...again
JohNy_GR4 said:
unlocking the boot loader is as simple as "fastboot oem unlock" rooting is also really easy, you can turn it into a massacre machine or make it to last a week without charging, a great gallery of modification have come to beeing that give you even more freedom and.. well a lot more. well for 100$ i'd definitely buy it...again
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How would it last a week on a small battery? I have the same phone pretty much and had the oem 1500 mAh and on CM7 usuing VR (Scheduler) and Conservative (Governor Clearly lol) and was heavy UV as well and can barely break 15 Hours. Now I have a hyperion 3500 mAh And most I've gotten is 2 days with about 2 Hrs of actual screen on time. I hopped on netflix other day and straight watched it no interuptions except after movie wifi went out and turned it back got 6 Hrs on battery and about 5 Hrs and 30Mins of actual screen on time. Phone was awake the whole time pretty much. I can post screenies but a lil later busy right now. If it can last you a week what are you doing? Are you actually using the phone haha? Thanks for the input guys considering buying it.
Edit: not to mention I use Juice defender as well to help it out and trust me it lasts longer I've tested it you just have to use correct settings to your usage.
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JohNy_GR4 said:
unlocking the boot loader is as simple as "fastboot oem unlock" rooting is also really easy, you can turn it into a massacre machine or make it to last a week without charging, a great gallery of modification have come to beeing that give you even more freedom and.. well a lot more. well for 100$ i'd definitely buy it...again
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What do you have now? And why did you leave then haha? I'm still trending on if I should get it or not till can some one give me a reply to last post? Very curious
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This and the Samsung Galaxy S (aka Epic Touch 4G) are practically the same phone with a different case. Looking at features alone the Galaxy has a microsd card slot and FM radio which the Nexus doesn't. I wouldn't bother buying the Nexus if you keep the Touch unless you're dying for an awesome dev community.
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This and the Samsung Galaxy S (aka Epic Touch 4G) are practically the same phone with a different case. Looking at features alone the Galaxy has a microsd card slot and FM radio which the Nexus doesn't. I wouldn't bother buying the Nexus if you keep the Touch unless you're dying for an awesome dev community.
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I don't have thetouch I have the Keyboard one everyone keeps posting in our section too because they have the touch but if they saw the picture it shows the KB???
Plus ithey said this phone will last a long time but how if they read my longer post about the Epic OG. Plus wondering now either to get this phone or radar detector
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Sorry, the Touch is the SGS2. I wasn't even aware there was a KB variant of the "Epic 4G", sorry for that misunderstanding. Feel free to disregard my comment above.
Harbb said:
Sorry, the Touch is the SGS2. I wasn't even aware there was a KB variant of the "Epic 4G", sorry for that misunderstanding. Feel free to disregard my comment above.
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The Epic is closest into relation as the Nexus are you kidding me the Epic Touch has 1.2GHz Dual Core. More Ram, etc....
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XxLostSoulxX said:
The Epic is closest into relation as the Nexus are you kidding me the Epic Touch has 1.2GHz Dual Core. More Ram, etc....
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I was referring to the "Epic 4G" (SGS1), it never crossed my mind that the "Epic 4G Touch" was the SGS2.
Harbb said:
I was referring to the "Epic 4G" (SGS1), it never crossed my mind that the "Epic 4G Touch" was the SGS2.
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Well anyways can you give me insight on my other questions
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If you buy it outright go ahead. You can then sell it when a new phone comes along and you want to use your discount. Don't buy the ns4g using a two year contract though
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If you buy it outright go ahead. You can then sell it when a new phone comes along and you want to use your discount. Don't buy the ns4g using a two year contract though
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I already said I didn't want to buy this phone or any with a contract hence off of craigslist or just want to mess with is all.
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Hello all,
I want to buy a new phone, because I always do some experiments to my G3 and don't have sometimes enough time to recover it from bootloop or something... I also don't want to leave G3 comunity because you're the best friends now
So I ask, which phone would you recommend to me? As daily driver... I would keep my g3 for developing and tweaking . My requirements are the same as for this phone + root-friendly (if you know what I mean ) + CM available for it... Also it shouldn't be as expensive as sgs3 or galaxy nexus, etc... It also should have bigger screen...
So, what do you guys think? I thought about byuing sgs i9000 as it has almost fully working JB...
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twinky444 said:
Hello all,
I want to buy a new phone, because I always do some experiments to my G3 and don't have sometimes enough time to recover it from bootloop or something... I also don't want to leave G3 comunity because you're the best friends now
So I ask, which phone would you recommend to me? As daily driver... I would keep my g3 for developing and tweaking . My requirements are the same as for this phone + root-friendly (if you know what I mean ) + CM available for it... Also it shouldn't be as expensive as sgs3 or galaxy nexus, etc... It also should have bigger screen...
So, what do you guys think? I thought about byuing sgs i9000 as it has almost fully working JB...
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hi buddy this is just my suggestion as quadcore phones are already there and getting better every day and single core phone are about to vanish so i feel it would be better if you think about dual core phone as it will not only provide your better performance that single core processor but also will be future proof and supported with future editions of android phones.
tanmoyc said:
hi buddy this is just my suggestion as quadcore phones are already there and getting better every day and single core phone are about to vanish so i feel it would be better if you think about dual core phone as it will not only provide your better performance that single core processor but also will be future proof and supported with future editions of android phones.
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Thanks, so, I'm going to save some more money, I'm sure it will be worth it then. I also don't want to go for SGSII because it has MMC_CAP_ERASE bug :silly:
Galaxy nexus is amazing and the development on their forums is amazing although you probably wont need to flash any rom or root the phone because it is already awesome and no bloatware since its a nexus
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twinky444 said:
Thanks, so, I'm going to save some more money, I'm sure it will be worth it then. I also don't want to go for SGSII because it has MMC_CAP_ERASE bug :silly:
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But if you will be working on the kernel, which have DISABLED CAP_ERASE (No superbrick bug), flashing ROMs, wiping data, Nandroid Backup is completely safe
I thought about buying the Asus Padfone (you will get tablet, keyboard and phone together), what do you think about it?
buy an another g3...
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Nah, galaxy nexus would be the best phone you could buy IMO
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karipari95 said:
buy an another g3...
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I wont sell my G3! Never! As you said, I would by my g3 again, but now its the era of multi-core processors... And I thaught about buying something universal, just like Asus Padfone. Because it is someway just like notebook if I buy keyboard, so I will not need PC... (102 hours of battery with keyboard and tablet + phone together..)
Btw... THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR OPINIONS
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twinky444 said:
I wont sell my G3! Never! As you said, I would by my g3 again, but now its the era of multi-core processors... And I thaught about buying something universal, just like Asus Padfone. Because it is someway just like notebook if I buy keyboard, so I will not need PC... (102 hours of battery with keyboard and tablet + phone together..)
Btw... THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR OPINIONS
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hahaha....:laugh:
nice choice btw..:good:
lookin frwrd for ur more dev for our epic fone...:angel: G3 :angel:
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twinky444 said:
Hello all,
I want to buy a new phone, because I always do some experiments to my G3 and don't have sometimes enough time to recover it from bootloop or something... I also don't want to leave G3 comunity because you're the best friends now
So I ask, which phone would you recommend to me? As daily driver... I would keep my g3 for developing and tweaking . My requirements are the same as for this phone + root-friendly (if you know what I mean ) + CM available for it... Also it shouldn't be as expensive as sgs3 or galaxy nexus, etc... It also should have bigger screen...
So, what do you guys think? I thought about byuing sgs i9000 as it has almost fully working JB...
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try Nexus or SGII. i'm also thinking of it )))))
twinky444 said:
I thought about buying the Asus Padfone (you will get tablet, keyboard and phone together), what do you think about it?
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But Asus Padfone is more expensive than the Nexus or SII
MicroGeek said:
Nah, galaxy nexus would be the best phone you could buy IMO
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Well, not fully agree
First - Nexus doesn't have slot for microsd card.
Secondly, the GPU is worse than the SII.
Thirdly - SII is more efficient.
Fourth - SII has better camera (8Mpix), Nexus - 5Mpix.
Nexus has higher screen resolution - 1280 × 720, but made in pentile technology.
Also, I'm wondering about these two phones, but more convinces me - Samsung Galaxy SII.
What do you think about Snapdragon S4 CPU and Adreno 225 CHIPSET? Just wondering how this will perform in Asus Padfone... I like the fact that this phone will get JB officially, but no forums here at xda...
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@up
This is a very good summary
Here you have nicely described:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5559/...mance-preview-msm8960-adreno-225-benchmarks/3
I have used the Galaxy s2 and galaxy nexus and i just prefer the feel of the nexus. It is very well built and the speed is very good. Also, its a nexus and nexus phones always get amazing development forums :good:
if someone want to do more reasearch with i-5801 phone and can't digest other models,
Its now Available thru vodafone @ Rs.4900/- which is 92 USD approx.
Did you buy a phone twinky444?
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Did you buy a phone twinky444?
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Not yet, instead of it I have HP Probook 4540s as for the price of Galaxy S3 here in Czech Republic. It's for school now. I'm happy with it I'm now writing on this notebook. Perfect keyboard!
However, galaxy nexus will probably follow. I don't want the Nexus 4 for the "bad screen responsiveness" bug.
PS: I won't EVER sell my Galaxy 3! Love this phone
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Not yet, instead of it I have HP Probook 4540s as for the price of Galaxy S3 here in Czech Republic. It's for school now. I'm happy with it I'm now writing on this notebook. Perfect keyboard!
However, galaxy nexus will probably follow. I don't want the Nexus 4 for the "bad screen responsiveness" bug.
PS: I won't EVER sell my Galaxy 3! Love this phone
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The pro book looks great and I also feel the same way about my g3 lol. I was thinking of getting a new phone but i decided to wait until marcelluse says if he's going to continue with cm10 development or any development on the g3. My parents gave me a tab 2 for Christmas so I'm not in a rush for a newer phone. I wished I could have donated to the devs for their work on the g3 for Christmas but I don't have a job I'm a student. I will try in the future
Happy new years by the way.
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I have a Nexus 4 and the dev over there is amazing. Yes if the micro-sd card slot and removal battery is a bumper, then this phone isn't for you. I would suggest the S2 or the Note 1. The Asus Padfone is a good choice but it makes sense when you have the tablet as well as the phone.
PS My Nexus 4 dosen't have any bugs.
Currently i have desire c but i might buy a new phone. I was looking on ebay and found this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/321179175954?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
Would you say this is a good deal and is the phone any good? And whats the battery life like and how well does cm10.1 run?
Thanks
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Currently i have desire c but i might buy a new phone. I was looking on ebay and found this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/321179175954?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
Would you say this is a good deal and is the phone any good? And whats the battery life like and how well does cm10.1 run?
Thanks
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No it's not. Buy a sensation if you care about build quality or gs2 if you don't because it has official CM support.
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No it's not. Buy a sensation if you care about build quality or gs2 if you don't because it has official CM support.
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What do you mean by build quality? Is it flimsy? And the sensation is a bit big and i dont really like samsung phones.
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What do you mean by build quality? Is it flimsy? And the sensation is a bit big and i dont really like samsung phones.
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Gs2 is builds of plastic. I wouldn't buy DS because it's single core and it shows. It also has this weird screen issues. Sensation is dual+ newer SoC. But if you want best devs support Gs2 is the one to go with. What's you budget?
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Gs2 is builds of plastic. I wouldn't buy DS because it's single core and it shows. It also has this weird screen issues. Sensation is dual+ newer SoC. But if you want best devs support Gs2 is the I've to go with. What's you budget?
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Well im coming from a desire c with a 600mhz single core and 512mb of ram and found dsire s for £50 on ebay and compared with desire c we have only me and a few other devs
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Well im coming from a desire c with a 600mhz single core and 512mb of ram and found dsire s for £50 on ebay
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Yes I know. I just don't think u will feel that much of a more punch. Still I think DS is better than dc
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Yes I know. I just don't think u will feel that much of a more punch. Still I think DS is better than dc
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Well its is £50 so do you think it would be worth it?
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Well its is £50 so do you think it would be worth it?
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Well it's hard for me to say because I don't live in UK. I mean the price isn't bad it's just that personally I would rather go dual-core at least.
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Well it's hard for me to say because I don't live in UK. I mean the price isn't bad it's just that personally I would rather go dual-core at least.
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I cant afford a dual core. I Dont have much money too spend on a phone £60 max
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I cant afford a dual core. I Dont have much money too spend on a phone £60 max
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Well the DS might be what you're looking for. Just consider orginal galaxy again for CM/dev support or our sister Desire HD.
VnnAmed said:
Well the DS might be what you're looking for. Just consider orginal galaxy again for CM/dev support or our sister Desire HD.
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I almost got galaxy s but when i tried to flash a rom onto my friends ace i couldnt get any to boot and i dont want to risk having to stay on stock rom :laugh: and the hd screen is too big for me. Max 4". not trying to be picky but i like my phone to be able to fit in my pocket
One problem is, you can't guarantee that any up-to-date jb (CM10.1) roms will boot on the device, take a look at the non-sony panel guide in the general section...
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1943524
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One problem is, you can't guarantee that any up-to-date jb (CM10.1) roms will boot on the device, take a look at the non-sony panel guide in the general section...
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1943524
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Thankyou for that information. If that is the case maybe ill ask the ebay shop and if they dont know ill buy and if its a hitachi i might return it as there is a 14 day return policy and so id be able to return it. But even if it is hitachi does auto brightness work?
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Thankyou for that information. If that is the case maybe ill ask the ebay shop and if they dont know ill buy and if its a hitachi i might return it as there is a 14 day return policy and so id be able to return it. But even if it is hitachi does auto brightness work?
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Sense roms are fully functional on both panel types. Old versions of cm10/10.1 can be booted with a special kernel, but, if I remember correctly, the brightness is stuck and can't be changed.
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Sense roms are fully functional on both panel types. Old versions of cm10/10.1 can be booted with a special kernel, but, if I remember correctly, the brightness is stuck and can't be changed.
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Yes i remeber reading that but thats if its is hatichi. Ive emailed the ebay seller so im waiting for a reply :laugh:
Shad0wPanda said:
Currently i have desire c but i might buy a new phone. I was looking on ebay and found this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/321179175954?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
Would you say this is a good deal and is the phone any good? And whats the battery life like and how well does cm10.1 run?
Thanks
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buy a sensation
porting of sense 5 are basically at the end
remember, sense rom have the best tradeoff between power and battery ^^
cheap options
Shad0wPanda said:
I cant afford a dual core. I Dont have much money too spend on a phone £60 max
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In my personal opinion, this device is amazing: perfect size (3.7" screen), and an amazing android development: I've recently installed CM10.1 and the phone is incredibly fast (without OC).
But if you are not interested in custom ROMS you can also buy "non-branded" android devices: they are much cheaper.
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well with that budget Desire S is a perfect device
may i suggest you to buy even this (only 20 dollar and u have a NEW device)
there are even other part if u find something broker New cover
or maybe a Orange one
Husky34 said:
buy a sensation
porting of sense 5 are basically at the end
remember, sense rom have the best tradeoff between power and battery ^^
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Well all the sensations i can afford are for parts or spare but i found one saying "Selling my HTC a few pixels on the screen have gone but is at the top off the screen and is not in the way my phone has starting to turn on and off can't be much wrong few with it someone with a knowledge off phone could buy and sell the phone is still working" do you think it would be software or hardware? If its software im going to be flashing a custom rom anyway
Shad0wPanda said:
Well all the sensations i can afford are for parts or spare but i found one saying "Selling my HTC a few pixels on the screen have gone but is at the top off the screen and is not in the way my phone has starting to turn on and off can't be much wrong few with it someone with a knowledge off phone could buy and sell the phone is still working" do you think it would be software or hardware? If its software im going to be flashing a custom rom anyway
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i think is hardware...and the LCD replacement for the sensation costs about costs 70 euro.. i think is not affordable for your budget :S
maybe in this case the Desire S is better
i guess we wont be able to customize our s4 i9506 .nothing is happening in i9506 thread till date.and i dont wnt to get stuck with original firmware forever.so i just sold my i9506 and got new htc one.:highfive:
If you wanted a community of modders
Then buy a phone other people have
If you are in the UK, you should have got the 9505.
You should buy a second hand one
theunderling said:
If you are in the UK, you should have got the 9505.
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even the i9505 has a lack of mods/modders, especially kernels, dunno why...?
ICECOLDKILLAH said:
even the i9505 has a lack of mods/modders, especially kernels, dunno why...?
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I noticed this when upgrading from sgs3 to sgs4 last month.
I've noticed it as well. I miss the days of the S2 and siyah kernel. KT is the closest kernel were going to get to that kind of features. With the S5 due out soon a lot if devs are going to move on. This will be my last samsung. I'm tired of Sammy's ugly and bloated FWs
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Jrhoop said:
I noticed this when upgrading from sgs3 to sgs4 last month.
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yeah me too m8, when i upgraded from the s2 to the s3 i was happy afterwards, but now after the upgrade from the s3 to the s4...
symondo12 said:
I've noticed it as well. I miss the days of the S2 and siyah kernel. KT is the closest kernel were going to get to that kind of features. With the S5 due out soon a lot if devs are going to move on. This will be my last samsung. I'm tired of Sammy's ugly and bloated FWs
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yeah i remember the old s2 days with the siyah kernel too
actually i am also thinking about switching to anything else than samsung...
well I just bought the Xperia Z1, but still keeping the i9506 as second phone in case something happens, or if I don't like the Z1...
I too miss the sgs2 and sgs3 days. This will also be my last galaxy phone... All this knox-bulls* and bloated firmwares. But which manufacturer should I go to? HTC? Where's most developer activity?
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sackynuts said:
Where's most developer activity?
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Nexus devices.
oldblue910 said:
Nexus devices.
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Hmm.. the biggest advantage, from my point of view, of nexus devices are, they'll rather have support for upcoming OSs such as Ubuntu, Mozilla etc. because of AOSP(drivers etc.). Samsung/HTC/Sony on the other side have always their customized Android OS, which is also a good thing because they have to be absolutely stable.
My SHV-E330S(same as I9506) has not less mods than my old S2. I would say, it has much more mods than S2.
The only difference - you wait when someone will do this for you, while i do it by myself.
Actually, i don't see what is interesting in using already made custom ROM which has be made in someone's specific taste.
Today, there are much more devices than before. Thus, concentration of developers for particular device is less and less. If you want to get something interesting for particular device, you have to become one of such developers.
Otherwise, just get Nexus - it already has naked Android which most people here is looking for.
The only thing i miss for my I9506 is the kernel developement.But if you think better why would you OC the Krait 400?Isn`t the fastest CPU avalaible on the market?A kernel with udervoltage feature enabled would be perfect.For the rest...if you have root you can make it all by yourself.There are a lot of tutorials on the market explaining how you can port a custom ROM and a lot of mods and themes ar compatible for this phone from I9505 thread and Note 3.For short...i`m very satisfied with my I9506.Way faster and less battery draining than I9505.I have them both!
If no-one is porting a rom from either the Xperia Z1, or from the Note 3 wich at least have the same CPU, i will probably look into how to do this myself.. I bought the i9506 yesterday and thought there would be a custom rom allready, but no.. My old Optimus 4X HD is still in use, cause i really hate the Samsung menu system!
I9506
I am from India. My friend is getting me a I9506 from US for 490 dollars. is it a good deal? Will I get OTA updates on it?
toxicneo said:
I am from India. My friend is getting me a I9506 from US for 490 dollars. is it a good deal? Will I get OTA updates on it?
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Think no.. New samsung devices have a region lock by default..
If its a new device and is unlocked maybe, but u need to activate in your region for first use..
Dont know if device only run in US if ur friend activate the phone there..
If not, you'll need to unlock it and pray..
Other thing will be flash ur own firmwares but this will flag a 1 on knox void warranty efuse and cant receive OTAs..
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faiyo said:
If you wanted a community of modders
Then buy a phone other people have
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Yeah i just sold my s4i9506 and got htc one.which is much better than so called s4 with 800 snapdragon processer.it is weird that samsung having much more powerful processer than htc one is laggy;and the knox thing is pissing everyone off!!
I have been using htc one for last one week and i havent seen any lag yet.
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Sadly the data plan network on our country have no HTC One supplies, i would to get hands on it really. Also I am shock by the mods and also CM, i though Galaxy Line are the modfest.
Yes, I agree on this also.
I had an S3 before and I have to say that Devs were going crazy making new Roms/Tweaks and kernels almost every day!
I thought the GS4 would be even more crazier but turns out that it isn't. Should've got that Nexus 5 :|
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