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New to Samsung GS3

Ive been an htc and sprint user for ever and i finally switched to verizon and got me the samsung gs3
i know this device is new so development is just getting started.
I hope to see some awesome roms on this phone
cause right now stock i dont like it at all...
im not a fan of touchwiz at all
what is the the go to rom at the moment for this phone

I am actually running stock rom on my phone but theres a thread for CM10 here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1788443
Though I see lots of people posting issues, so I've been staying away from it, and looking into the Touchwiz ROMS more.
I think one of the biggest ways to make touchwiz feel more like stock android experience is to use Apex or Nova launcher.

XTRoRDiNAiRE said:
Ive been an htc and sprint user for ever and i finally switched to verizon and got me the samsung gs3
i know this device is new so development is just getting started.
I hope to see some awesome roms on this phone
cause right now stock i dont like it at all...
im not a fan of touchwiz at all
what is the the go to rom at the moment for this phone
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I recommend Synergy. Team Synergy has been very active in the community with suggestions and developing the rom. I believe nightlies are coming soon. Link below:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1792499

Thanks for the responses
I'm confused tho I always thought that these phones get updates before other phones or is that the nexus phones?
I thought we had jelly bean already
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XTRoRDiNAiRE said:
Thanks for the responses
I'm confused tho I always thought that these phones get updates before other phones or is that the nexus phones?
I thought we had jelly bean already
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Nexus devices receive updates first, they have stock Jellybean officially released.
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I am looking into getting the GS3 sometime this week as a Bday gift to myself. Turned 31 today and I am damned tired of my iphone. I had the Moto X2 and I hated it. I was always having to reboot the phone because of lag or it just freezing up. I went to the iphone to get away from this. I had read that because the X2 was one of the 1st duel core phones, there were a lot of issues. The GS3 being a quad core, there is almost zero lag and one of thos issues.
I knw this doesn't relate to the topic and I am sorry. Just really happy to be getting the GS3 to go with my Samsung Tab 2

rbellis said:
The GS3 being a quad core, there is almost zero lag and one of thos issues.
I knw this doesn't relate to the topic and I am sorry. Just really happy to be getting the GS3 to go with my Samsung Tab 2
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The international version is the only version of GSIII with quad core. The US variants are dual core S4 (only processor that combined LTE) which benchmark quite favorably against quad core. Just clarifying because this is the Verizon model's thread were discussing this in.
Welcome to the GSIII either way! Overall, this phone has been great for me in almost every capacity.
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I just switched from iPhone, I love it. It's so fast you could just run an alternate launcher if you dislike TouchWiz, there's no performance hit. I consider rooting essential for everyday apps but beyond experimentation I have no deep desire to flash a ROM. I'd like Jelly Bean but it's the fastest ICS device I've used even with a skin on it.
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This is the first device that I'm kinda scared to root.. The process looks pretty complicated
I can't believe there is no switch to turn 4G off.. And it would be nice to be able to change the lock screen shortcuts
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XTRoRDiNAiRE said:
This is the first device that I'm kinda scared to root.. The process looks pretty complicated
I can't believe there is no switch to turn 4G off.. And it would be nice to be able to change the lock screen shortcuts
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Take this with a grain of salt but I went from the moto droid(original) to gs3. rooted the droid, rooted my s3. I found S3 so easy it was almost dummy proof.

Rooting this phone is a piece of cake. Now getting CM10 or AOKP on it without anything going wrong is another story...

Zalithian said:
Rooting this phone is a piece of cake. Now getting CM10 or AOKP on it without anything going wrong is another story...
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I guess this is what I mean.. It looks like there are more steps to flashing roms
Will this get easier in the future? I I ask this because I've never owned a galaxy phone
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XTRoRDiNAiRE said:
I guess this is what I mean.. It looks like there are more steps to flashing roms
Will this get easier in the future? I I ask this because I've never owned a galaxy phone
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Only the Verizon version has any issues with ROMs. The locked bootloader makes custom kernels difficult; you have to bypass it using the kexec method and all this convoluted bull****.
If you want a custom ROM that's relatively easy to get, use a stock ROM like Synergy or Beans. I believe there's a holo theme for Synergy that makes the phone look like stock. Search around the Themes&Apps forum. Personally, I use Synergy 1.7, which has been pretty great.

XTRoRDiNAiRE said:
I can't believe there is no switch to turn 4G off.. And it would be nice to be able to change the lock screen shortcuts
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Go to Settings/Security/Lock Screen options then tap on the word "Shortcuts."
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Taehee. said:
Only the Verizon version has any issues with ROMs. The locked bootloader makes custom kernels difficult; you have to bypass it using the kexec method and all this convoluted bull****.
If you want a custom ROM that's relatively easy to get, use a stock ROM like Synergy or Beans. I believe there's a holo theme for Synergy that makes the phone look like stock. Search around the Themes&Apps forum. Personally, I use Synergy 1.7, which has been pretty great.
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Well, there is this whole IMEI bonanza going on. Flashing CM on captivate was never a problem. This one is a headache.
Nexus it is from now on.

phonex1 said:
Well, there is this whole IMEI bonanza going on. Flashing CM on captivate was never a problem. This one is a headache.
Nexus it is from now on.
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I think I'm going to have to go to the gnex
This is where impatience gets the best of me
I can't wait around for bootloader to be un locked.. Touch wiz is hands down the lamest ui ever
I can't stand this lock screen
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XTRoRDiNAiRE said:
I think I'm going to have to go to the gnex
This is where impatience gets the best of me
I can't wait around for bootloader to be un locked.. Touch wiz is hands down the lamest ui ever
I can't stand this lock screen
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will dev's ever be able to get this bootloader unlocked? I had always thought that Samsung was good about leaving it unloacked on their phones. I am guessing that once again, this is all on Verizon!

XTRoRDiNAiRE said:
I guess this is what I mean.. It looks like there are more steps to flashing roms
Will this get easier in the future? I I ask this because I've never owned a galaxy phone
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People are working on getting the bootloader unlocked, but honestly I don't see it happening unless the FCC forces Verizon to do so. Flashing roms isn't that difficult really, but it's certainly not as easy as it was on my OG Moto Droid. Kexec is a workaround which I'm somewhat thankful for I guess. The main problem is there are currently many scary complications that can occur just from flashing any of these non TW roms right now. These problems aren't Verizon S3 specific I hear.
Personally I don't think CM/AOKP etc is worth flashing right now because of kexec and the possibility of losing IMEI/data. Yes the IMEI can be backed up or restored, but what a hassle. I flashed a CM10 nightly and then my data randomly died forever 10 minutes later. Flashing to stock/anything else was useless. Luckily reprovisioning my phone fixed the problem, but if it didn't..
I'm hoping that CM and stuff will be stable/safe within the next month or two but who knows? Verizon probably won't release JB until December or later on the S3.

Zalithian said:
Personally I don't think CM/AOKP etc is worth flashing right now because of kexec and the possibility of losing IMEI/data. Yes the IMEI can be backed up or restored, but what a hassle. I flashed a CM10 nightly and then my data randomly died forever 10 minutes later. Flashing to stock/anything else was useless. Luckily reprovisioning my phone fixed the problem, but if it didn't..
I'm hoping that CM and stuff will be stable/safe within the next month or two but who knows? Verizon probably won't release JB until December or later on the S3.
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Agreed. There's still a bit of work that needs to happen in CM10...particularly it dropping data coverage without warning.

Where's the love?

Is it me, or has development for this phone gone the way of the dinosaur? This is not a complaint... Just an honest question... With all due respect for the smart developers who have contributed their valuable time to developing /porting roms for our device I feel like the development has come to almost a standstill. I've been on these forums since the heady windows mobile days and I don't remember seeing such a lull in development. I check these forums daily for a nugget of new features or bug fixes. It seems like most of the original development roms pretty much came to a stop the beginning of November. I'm just wondering if I'm missing something. Has everyone sold their gs3s and gone to the note 2? It's disappointing because I love my phone and I've only had since September. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one wondering....
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Its just you. I just counted nine ROMs updated in December alone and at least 4 original updated in December.
Original may have slowed simply because most devs are waiting to get there hands on 4.2. Which by the way there are already like 2 or 3 in the works.... Including the official cm10.1.
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kintwofan said:
Its just you. I just counted nine ROMs updated in December alone and at least 4 original updated in December.
Original may have slowed simply because most devs are waiting to get there hands on 4.2. Which by the way there are already like 2 or 3 in the works.... Including the official cm10.1.
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Yeah it seems like everyone pretty much started working on 4.2 when Google released that code.
When we start to see CM10.1 nightlies then I think you'll see the original development pick back up. The problem is that everyone seems to depend on cm or aokp for the low - level code and until they get things sorted out, none of the aosp ROMs are going to be changing much.
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It's just you. Sometimes development slows.
Go check out the thunderbolt forums lol.
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blestsol said:
It's just you. Sometimes development slows.
Go check out the thunderbolt forums lol.
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I do not think the Thunderbolt would be a fair comparison. You are talking about a flagship device of the S3 compared to a device that was released on Sprint as the EVO a year earlier then the Thunderbolt. The Thunderbolt was a failed device before it was even released. And HTC wonders why they lose money qtr after qtr.
Verizon needs another Nexus device! If the GNEX was not such a POS I would still own it...There is nothing better then getting Googles latest updates and knowing your device actually has a future...Even though Verizon took a while to release an official JB update for the GNEX we had a fully working JB Rom like a day or 2 after Google announced the OS and that was with everything working. If I was not in contract I would seriously be thinking about leaving Verizon just I could get a Nexus 4. It stinks to be at the mercy of these manufactures and carriers.
And while we have great devs it is no walk in the park to bring AOSP to these devices. We still do not have a fully non buggy AOSP Rom for the S3.

kintwofan said:
Its just you. I just counted nine ROMs updated in December alone and at least 4 original updated in December.
Original may have slowed simply because most devs are waiting to get there hands on 4.2. Which by the way there are already like 2 or 3 in the works.... Including the official cm10.1.
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Including the official cm10.1.
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whatchu smokin?

kidhudi said:
whatchu smokin?
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Check they're Google plus website there was a screenshot of it booted up. Also look at the unofficial ones they are taking from the official tree. There's also an official AOKP, here
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/31679-official-aokp-d2vzw-421-preview-builds/
Oh ya here you go about official cm10.1
http://betanews.com/2012/12/04/cyan...e-nexus-10-soon-for-us-samsung-galaxy-s-iiis/
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I would also say that development scales based on how much is liked or hated on the device from the manufacturer. I find that less development generally means less demand for changes.
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I do not think the Thunderbolt would be a fair comparison. You are talking about a flagship device of the S3 compared to a device that was released on Sprint as the EVO a year earlier then the Thunderbolt. The Thunderbolt was a failed device before it was even released. And HTC wonders why they lose money qtr after qtr.
Verizon needs another Nexus device! If the GNEX was not such a POS I would still own it...There is nothing better then getting Googles latest updates and knowing your device actually has a future...Even though Verizon took a while to release an official JB update for the GNEX we had a fully working JB Rom like a day or 2 after Google announced the OS and that was with everything working. If I was not in contract I would seriously be thinking about leaving Verizon just I could get a Nexus 4. It stinks to be at the mercy of these manufactures and carriers.
And while we have great devs it is no walk in the park to bring AOSP to these devices. We still do not have a fully non buggy AOSP Rom for the S3.
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It is comparable. The thunderbolt was the flagship lte phone. My brother gave me his tbolt and I put some use into it. For only a single core oc'd to what my CPU could tolerate at 1.5 it was a trooper. Big screen, first phone with talk and simultaneous data need I say more? Oh right dat kickstand. You wanna see slow go trudge in there for awhile. We waited for ICS for forever and I think HTC is still tugging their chains.
Tl;dr were fine.
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I don't think there is a lack of development for this device. There isn't anything real earth shaking right now but we have come such a long way! So many great things have been accomplished! We have great devs and quality roms. The best thing I can recommend is inviting the devs in the T-Mobile and all the other service providers with a GS3. Visit there forums on XDA and contact there rom developers. I have done that and have at least one coming this way. There is nothing wrong with a fresh face and new ideas. Nonetheless, I'm impressed with our consistent development especially considering the holidays!

Another thing to consider is that many of the developers are students. Finals for many of them are the end of November or the beginning of December. Chances are they took a break to study as school is more important than the free stuff they do on these boards.
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Bored with Note5

Anyone else find themselves bored with the Note 5? My device is rooted, slick wrapped, whole shabang but I just like eh...what's next. Thinking of moving to S6 edge plus. ..any thoughts

Get a flip phone.....
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How do you get bored with a phone? You mean you get bored cuz you have nothing to do? How does a phone make your life less boring? I suggest you pick up an activity other than holding a phone. I suggest you use your a S-pen and draw something to pass time.
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Nope.

Give it done time until the experimental roms come out with all new features and a ton of instability. You become less bored and use tons of time
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PDXMatt said:
Nope.
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Nope. It's not the phone. It's you.
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pcriz said:
Nope. It's not the phone. It's you.
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Yep I've been bored with my past phones too and after close self examination, wala, it's me! So.........It's you! :angel::cyclops:

glensta said:
Yep I've been bored with my past phones too and after close self examination, wala, it's me! So.........It's you! :angel::cyclops:
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I know the itch trust me, but much like many of my failed relationships. Im gonna try and make this one work. Flashing tends to tide me over, the downside is we can't flash anything but TW based roms.. Flashing CM on my Note 4 gave me a little bit of that new phone feeling.

I know the problem. You're bored because your phone is fully functioning, great battery life, great screen etc etc. What you need is a phone that has compromises. Then you can spend hours and hours trying to fix issues with root and xposed and stuff like that

Well isn't this a wasted thread. Buy an Iphone.....done!

southphillysean said:
Well isn't this a wasted thread. Buy an Iphone.....done!
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Its not really wasted when you can help another user find a new way to love their device.. This certainly isn't any more useless than the new threads that get created everytime there is an update, I mean we do have stickied posts that speak on that very topic.
To the OP I would ask what your expectation is with the Edge Plus, do you think the loss of the pen will be overshadowed by the edge features gained? Why not try that new LG?

Trust me I know the struggle. I can't wait for cm builds so other rom maintainers can cook some other roms up. Tw based roms suck. But better than stock.

SystemErrorOne said:
Trust me I know the struggle. I can't wait for cm builds so other rom maintainers can cook some other roms up. Tw based roms suck. But better than stock.
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I wouldn't say TouchWiz based Rom suck, they just aren't stock Android. I like both but TouchWiz can pretty much do the heavy lifting of android plus the added features Samsung gives it.
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I know how you feel, but you will never be satisfied in life with anything at this rate... Slow down, there is nothing worth upgrading to over the Note5 anytime in the near future. Just use and learn the features of the phone. I fell into a rut for several years of always tweaking, optimizing, flashing roms nonstop and sidegrading devices constantly and I finally realized I had spent 90% of the time on my phone, PC, laptops, etc.. just tweaking and configuring them for "ultimate" performance and only 10% of the time actually using the devices. Often times reliability was an issue because I constantly had to reconfigure my apps and programs and I just never had what I needed when I needed it because I had just installed some ROM the night before.. I've learned to cut back and just simply use the phone more to do real things. I'll still tweak a new device to my liking, but err on the side of stability instead of every untested tweak in the book, and once it is setup and working well, I just learn to not touch it until the next device limiting myself to once a year upgrades.
Ain't nobody got time for that.

I get bored quick too but, I just got the note 5 so, I'll hold it at least till January. And then jump on something new. Coming from iPhone 6 BTW

Not bored with mine.

S6 Edge Plus is similar to the Note 5 - the pen. I had a S6 Edge and liked it but had a Jump to use so got a iPhone 6S for something different since I had the Note 4 before the S6 Edge. I figured the regular 6S would be to small which it was. The plus was on back order so I got the Note 5. I would have got the Nexus 6p if Tmobile carried it. I've never owned a Nexus phone. I like the Note 5 though just not a lot different then s6. I try and switch manufacturers so I don't get bored as quick.
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Flash a rom, do some mods, download some apps...

Install xposed and experiment lol. That's what I do when I get bored
Install wanam and the limits are almost endless

This is just my opinion but here me out. I had all the flagship devices the last 3 years or so. Huge addiction, bought all the cool accesories, flashed the latest roms daily, always messing with my phone to "fix it". Had an iPhone 6+ most of last year and while it was alright cause for the most part it just worked, I missed android so when the Note5 came out I picked it up. Come to find out rooting breaks Samsung Pay forever, and here I am with a stock Note5 and content. It's fast, amazing display, quick charging wired and wirelessly, with a great camera. When I find myself bored I install a couple different launchers and tweak some icon packs to help curb the addiction. That's just me though. I'm quite content with a non-rooted Note5.

cyanogenmod is on the horizon

so i just found this today on
xda http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6/orig-development/cyanogenmod-13-galaxy-s6-t3269984
it's still possible we may actually have a alpha on our notes before EOY just figured I'd put this up for you all

jameslapc2 said:
so i just found this today on
xda http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6/orig-development/cyanogenmod-13-galaxy-s6-t3269984
it's still possible we may actually have a alpha on our notes before EOY just figured I'd put this up for you all
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Ive been following their progress as well, I'll say its a lot closer than the exynos Note 4 ever got.
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Threads like that make me cringe. Full of noobs who don't know how to read and just constantly ask for things.
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Very exciting, I hope one of our devs will try and port it to our device

The sooner I get off of touchwiz the better in my opinion

i was just about to say that. i miss the note 4 days.
i used to flash mad roms. never again ill buy an xynos device or whatever you call it
but arter said he's not working on one for the note 5

TheUndertaker21 said:
i was just about to say that. i miss the note 4 days.
i used to flash mad roms. never again ill buy an xynos device or whatever you call it
but arter said he's not working on one for the note 5
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You'll most likely have to switch to a different brand. Remember, they make phones for the world, not just us modders. Their in house processor is literally the best processor that has ever been, ever. No other processor can offer the power and longevity. If CM can harness that as well, that would be great but I highly doubt it.
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@RaymanFX maintains the Note 4 (N910C Exynos), he has a successful build for CM12 and CM13 aswell

TheUndertaker21 said:
i was just about to say that. i miss the note 4 days.
i used to flash mad roms. never again ill buy an xynos device or whatever you call it
but arter said he's not working on one for the note 5
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Just because Arter isnt making a build for the Note 5 doesn't mean there won't be a build for the Note 5.
Folks are getting all stressed out about this but frankly this is better news than most people should have been expecting, the writing has been on the wall for awhile now in regards to the ease of porting aosp based roms on to Exynos devices.
The rumblings started back in 2013. I just think it's bad business to buy a device that costs as much as this one with an expectation that your every need be tended to by the mod community.

It's also getting to the point that you end up losing functions of the phone's now by unlocking bootloaders. They are being crafty with how new features don't work rooted or unlocked etc, it's all to discourage the modding community, hell, last I checked android pay doesn't work on AOSP. I think they are tightening things little by little.

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It's also getting to the point that you end up losing functions of the phone's now by unlocking bootloaders. They are being crafty with how new features don't work rooted or unlocked etc, it's all to discourage the modding community, hell, last I checked android pay doesn't work on AOSP. I think they are tightening things little by little.
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Look at the root situation where it was handled at the kernel level. I can't really blame them to tell the truth, its sort of expected that cellular companies and manufacturers would not make it easy for the dev community. It's like a cat and mouse game, the cat will always be the cat and the same goes for the mouse.
Heck tactics like these have even bled over into computers. My Samsung laptop has secure boot firmware in the motherboard so I can no longer dual boot linux. Only way to run linux is to wipe windows off or run a live cd...

I'd definitely give it a whirl. Not sure if I'd stick with it though, I like the camera and the Spen features on this phone too much.
It's nice to see that we'll get the choice though.

Akw6190 said:
I'd definitely give it a whirl. Not sure if I'd stick with it though, I like the camera and the Spen features on this phone too much.
It's nice to see that we'll get the choice though.
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Now would be a perfect time since me spen has been sent off for warranty evaluation..

my spen slot is messed up so something different would be nice

Sure hope one of our devs chime in and let us know they are working on porting this for us! :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::beer::beer::beer::beer:

From what I understand as soon as it works on the s6 it should really simple to port over. Because essentially the note 5 is a oversized s6 with a pen

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From what I understand as soon as it works on the s6 it should really simple to port over. Because essentially the note 5 is a oversized s6 with a pen
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Yes and no. It's working on the S6 but we can't use it on the Note 5. Not yet anyways. Still need a kernel for the Note 5 unfortunately.

I mean we are close none the less which makes me happy as there isn't much in the way of roms for my note

This does tell me it may at least boot up before Christmas I mean we still have 15 days till the year is over so it can still happen
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6/general/guide-dualboot-cm13-tw-t3271545

IMO, if you're going to use CM, why did you buy a note? CM typically doesn't support the pen features at all. (please correct me if I am wrong)

Cm 13 for note 5?

Is anybody gonna port the newly released alpha cm 13 for our version of the note 5,just wondering thats all its been released for the s6
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It has not been released for the S6. They're still working on it.
It's hard because Samsung is using its new Exynos chipset. They refuse to release the source code for it, which makes developing AOSP roms like cyanogenmod difficult. One would assume that once they get it ready for the S6, it'll come out for the Note 5. But there's no telling how soon or if they'll even succeed before giving up and doing something else.

Here you go it has been released for several days now..http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3269984...We just need a multiboot kernel
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Wont run on our device been trying to build it but wont boot
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jwhood said:
Here you go it has been released for several days now..http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3269984...We just need a multiboot kernel
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ya, I saw that. I'm excited, but that's not for the Sprint variants. Devs are still working on the Sprint variant for the S6. Right now they have some of it working but no calling, SMS/MMS/data, camera or GPS.
Also, some of the people in the thread you shared asked about porting Galaxy S6's CM over to the Note 5. If you check the comments, you'll see that at least for right now, they're giving a resounding no.

was there even a CM12? I don't see many roms at all in the development section

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was there even a CM12? I don't see many roms at all in the development section
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No. I know there was a member working on CM13 for the sprint note 5 but came across many issues last I heard. Not sure if there is any progress or development still going on.
We may not have many developers making roms but the few we have are top notch.
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weavr said:
No. I know there was a member working on CM13 for the sprint note 5 but came across many issues last I heard. Not sure if there is any progress or development still going on.
We may not have many developers making roms but the few we have a top notch.
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well this phone is night and day from my last one
even the stock note flies in comparison, zero lag
all I really needed was free hotspot
but I always liked to flash CM roms, they were nothing but super
So no issue here, I can wait it out.