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[Q] Is it safe to get this phone now?

Is it safe to get this phone presently? Has all the hardware issues been cleared out? I'm looking to pick one up soon second hand. Can anyone point out to me what manufacturing periods I should avoid? Or anything that might help me point out to a dud of a G2X that might have random reboots, overheating issues, etc?
Gonna start prowling on Craigslist to see if I have any luck.

Some people continue to have issues to this day while others dont so there really isnt a consistent way to know if the phone will work properly or not.

regP said:
Some people continue to have issues to this day while others dont so there really isnt a consistent way to know if the phone will work properly or not.
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Thank you. I guess I'll scratch that idea of getting this phone. Don't want to risk dealing with the hassle and headaches of buying a phone of CL only to find out that it's rebooting like crazy.

Honestly, I hated this phone when I first it, but after getting into using custom ROMs and kernels, I love it. Bottom line is this: if you want a phone that you will use stock, don't get it. If you plan to run a custom ROM and especially if you're even relatively knowledgeable or intelligent grab one if you can get it at a good price. We even have an alpha of ICS out which isn't half bad, it is an alpha so it can be problematic at times.
Edit: also if you want to get into running custom ROMS then definitely go for it, if you can read and follow directions exactly this phone is awesome in that its next to impossible to permanently brick it.
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Волк said:
Honestly, I hated this phone when I first it, but after getting into using custom ROMs and kernels, I love it. Bottom line is this: if you want a phone that you will use stock, don't get it. If you plan to run a custom ROM and especially if you're even relatively knowledgeable or intelligent grab one if you can get it at a good price. We even have an alpha of ICS out which isn't half bad, it is an alpha so it can be problematic at times.
Edit: also if you want to get into running custom ROMS then definitely go for it, if you can read and follow directions exactly this phone is awesome in that its next to impossible to permanently brick it.
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What worries me is if it has hardware issues that causes random reboots or overheating issues. I remember reading this when the phone first came out. Other users also had GPS issues, etc.
I'd be willing to get one if the price is right on CL but these things makes me nervous. Any tips on what things I could "try" while testing the phone out on CL or things to look out for? I know the other user said it would be hard to tell...but at this point, anything would be helpful.

I' m digging mine.
edekalil
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Mine is 100%. Just use a Cm7 stable release for the next little bit (some issues in the newer nightlies).

Blazing angel said:
Mine is 100%. Just use a Cm7 stable release for the next little bit (some issues in the newer nightlies).
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By the way, how's the issue with development with regards to a closed source code?
I remember last time that one of the issues why development was so stale on this phone was due to the closed source nature of the Tegra chip. Is this still the case?

PoisonWolf said:
By the way, how's the issue with development with regards to a closed source code?
I remember last time that one of the issues why development was so stale on this phone was due to the closed source nature of the Tegra chip. Is this still the case?
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Last time I checked there was active development. Regardless we do have an Alpha of CM9 which if you're aware of the implications of using an Alpha and are ok with it, is good. As far as teh Tegra crap, yea, I think we would have seen a release alot sooner if NVidia wasn't closed-fisted. Otherwise, that's one of the only major downfalls of the alpha is that there is no hardware acceleration, so some ICS specific apps won't run or won't run right.
As far as testing, just do regular stuff, do a litttle browsing, install an app, play a video look to see if it's physically damaged AT ALL, etc. As far as teh GPS, it is an odd one, but I have a method which works 100% for me:
GPS status (download GPS aiding data)>reboot>GPS status to get lock>maps
I also did that and instead of maps I launched Locus and it also got a lock.

Just a note Craigs List not the best place to buy a cell. Do a search, too many horror stories about bad phones.

We just got ics so based on hardware and software specs if your willing to root and flash still a top of the libe phone with bad battery life hah
Pin it to Win it.

If you want I could sell you mine for 250 shipped. Running whatever rom you want. Pm me.

I'm one of the ones who never had any major issues as constant overheating or rebooting...rooted since day 1by the way and with ics roms out its even better. If its dirt cheap I recommend it

It depends, its a decent size and speed. I had mine clocked at the 1500 on eaglesblood and the faux123 kernel stopped the daily SODs (sleep of death). But I wiped it and gave it to my GF only to have the SODs return on the same Rom and Kernel that had gotten rid of it for me. There is also an overheating issue, I was on my second battery in 2 months without clocking the cpu and the smell is horrible, this is a huge issue with these phones.

I think that the phone itself is a great piece of hardware that needs a lot of customizing to get it to where you want it. In the hardware department you get a lot of bang for your buck but it is almost a requirement to install a custom rom to get day to day smooth functionality that we want. Fortunately there is a good number of roms to choose from that you can sample and find one which that best suits your needs

This phone is like having a beautiful wife that just don't act right. It will drive you crazy at times but you just can't keep your hands off it.
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Lol so true

PoisonWolf said:
Thank you. I guess I'll scratch that idea of getting this phone. Don't want to risk dealing with the hassle and headaches of buying a phone of CL only to find out that it's rebooting like crazy.
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I just bought one off of Craigslist and am very happy with it. I gave my wife my T-Mobile galaxy s 2 because I didnt like the way the screen isn't sharp and lack of development for now. I started using her sensation but was not impressed so I bought the G2X. Way better than the sensation I might add. The screen is very impressive, looks better than the sensation,gs2 and my old vibrant. I was really shocked. Battery life though seems to be an issue but I will work it out. The camera is better than the sensation but the gs2 has the best camera I have seen to date. If I were you I would buy one. And yes I do a lot of phone swapping, I think I have owed every Android phone that came out for T-Mobile starting with the G1

How the hell the Razr M get a leak before us?????

Here's the article from android central needless to say I'm [email protected] speechless.....
www.androidcentral.com/jelly-bean-droid-razr-m-leaks-out
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Wow that is ridiculous. And to add insult to injury every S3 on every other carrier has gotten a leak so its not like its because its an S3. Goose fra ba, goose fra ba.

Verizon and Samsung just don't play nice just look at the gnex for example.
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microdot said:
Wow that is ridiculous. And to add insult to injury every S3 on every other carrier has gotten a leak so its not like its because its an S3. Goose fra ba, goose fra ba.
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This is one of the reasons why we have AOSP based roms. We become less dependent on manufacturer/carrier updates.
I ask you all, who has a more vested interest in getting the i535 working the best it can on the latest and greatest? The manufacturer / carrier that already took your money and can't directly make any more profit from giving you an upgrade or the many people who own the i535, use it every day, and have the development skills to make it rock (more)? I say it's the people.
CM10 is working excellently now. I recommend M2.
To the manufacturers. Give us the hardware. Open your radio code. We'll do the rest.
To the carriers. You are not phone companies anymore. You are simply Internet Service Providers. Minutes, texts, and data are all the same thing...data (especially when VoLTE is launched).
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mybook4 said:
This is one of the reasons why we have AOSP based roms. We become less dependent on manufacturer/carrier updates.
I ask you all, who has a more vested interest in getting the i535 working the best it can on the latest and greatest? The manufacturer / carrier that already took your money and can't directly make any more profit from giving you an upgrade or the many people who own the i535, use it every day, and have the development skills to make it rock (more)? I say it's the people.
CM10 is working excellently now. I recommend M2.
To the manufacturers. Give us the hardware. Open your radio code. We'll do the rest.
To the carriers. You are not phone companies anymore. You are simply Internet Service Providers. Minutes, texts, and data are all the same thing...data (especially when VoLTE is launched).
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Yea, but there are still multiple things that are broken on AOSP ROMs because we don't have JB code for our phone out there to port into them. Camera is half functional, many issues with bluetooth, the ever present flicker. And those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. AOSP is damn good, don't get me wrong. I run CM10 for a daily driver and venture out into the other flavors every now and then. But it isn't near perfect yet either.

VZW has JB for the S3. If and when it leaks who knows. (My opinion of course).

Brian Gove said:
Yea, but there are still multiple things that are broken on AOSP ROMs because we don't have JB code for our phone out there to port into them. Camera is half functional, many issues with bluetooth, the ever present flicker. And those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. AOSP is damn good, don't get me wrong. I run CM10 for a daily driver and venture out into the other flavors every now and then. But it isn't near perfect yet either.
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The flicker is fixed and aosp camera is 90% compared to touchwiz.

droidstyle said:
The flicker is fixed and aosp camera is 90% compared to touchwiz.
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What have you been running? I'm on CM10 M2 and I've never fully lost the flicker. That's updating each nightly until the M2. It comes and goes. Now with that, I do run the leankernel, update each time it does. That might be the cause of my flicker, dunno.
And the camera is severely lacking compared to TW. Video recording might as well get thrown out the window unless you're doing a silent film or have REALLY loud people that you're recording. Can't save to the extSD without the MOD that doesn't have half the resolutions working and force closes on different things. All the face recog and little adjustments here and there don't exist in the AOSP camera.

I was reading that as well and was like wow.
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Brian Gove said:
What have you been running? I'm on CM10 M2 and I've never fully lost the flicker. That's updating each nightly until the M2. It comes and goes. Now with that, I do run the leankernel, update each time it does. That might be the cause of my flicker, dunno.
And the camera is severely lacking compared to TW. Video recording might as well get thrown out the window unless you're doing a silent film or have REALLY loud people that you're recording. Can't save to the extSD without the MOD that doesn't have half the resolutions working and force closes on different things. All the face recog and little adjustments here and there don't exist in the AOSP camera.
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No flicker on pa 2.2 or eclipse 2.1...the aosp camera has more resolutions than the stock cm camera...no force closes for me. I dont need face detection or all the little adjustments, but yes the touchwiz camera is better

droidstyle said:
No flicker on pa 2.2 or eclipse 2.1...the aosp camera has more resolutions than the stock cm camera...no force closes for me. I dont need face detection or all the little adjustments, but yes the touchwiz camera is better
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I'm guessing my flicker is from the diff kernel then not blending with the ROM very well.
AOSP doesn't have bigger resolutions tho does it? AOSP lists it as 8mp and TW uses the actual pixels(eg 1600x1200) and I've never bothered to see if they correspond I just assumed they did.

Brian Gove said:
I'm guessing my flicker is from the diff kernel then not blending with the ROM very well.
AOSP doesn't have bigger resolutions tho does it? AOSP lists it as 8mp and TW uses the actual pixels(eg 1600x1200) and I've never bothered to see if they correspond I just assumed they did.
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8mp is 3456x2304...here is a good read about resolution and mp
http://www.photoshopessentials.com/essentials/image-resolution/

I felt the same way and I just read it after waking up an hour ago... very disappointed, I don't want these ports I want real vzw jb.
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Kinda funny to because I'm pretty sure they can't even get root yet lol.
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hmm if the gs3 was laggy or there was no way to get google now then ya i would want jb but my phones flies and has google now so i dont really care about jb :silly:

I understand your point, but we have had this phone for almost a 4 months now and that phone has been out for just under a month ,Inc has been busting his ass dealing with other carriers leaks and ungrateful bastards on on this site, I'm just saying having a leak would make life better for all involved....
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mybook4 said:
This is one of the reasons why we have AOSP based roms. We become less dependent on manufacturer/carrier updates.
I ask you all, who has a more vested interest in getting the i535 working the best it can on the latest and greatest? The manufacturer / carrier that already took your money and can't directly make any more profit from giving you an upgrade or the many people who own the i535, use it every day, and have the development skills to make it rock (more)? I say it's the people.
CM10 is working excellently now. I recommend M2.
To the manufacturers. Give us the hardware. Open your radio code. We'll do the rest.
To the carriers. You are not phone companies anymore. You are simply Internet Service Providers. Minutes, texts, and data are all the same thing...data (especially when VoLTE is launched).
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So much truth. Everything's all ass backwards. Carriers think that they're phone designers and phone designers think they're software designers while google sits by going "duuuuur". Now we have stupid trivial things like the RIL holding cm10 back all because some assholes want their locks on everything. Imagine if AT&T or Intel told you what software you had to run on your computer? How did this sense of entitlement come about in the mobile industry?

Imatoasta said:
Imagine if AT&T or Intel told you what software you had to run on your computer? How did this sense of entitlement come about in the mobile industry?
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I totally agree with this.

bL33d said:
hmm if the gs3 was laggy or there was no way to get google now then ya i would want jb but my phones flies and has google now so i dont really care about jb :silly:
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While I semi-agree it would still be nice to have REAL JB like pretty much every other S3 in the world. I want my expandable notifications!!

I don't see why some people are surprised by this? Considering Motorola is now pretty much owned by Google?

[CM] won't officially support!

CM is not too keen on Bumping their nightlies etc.....
http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/76552
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Hi there, Let's be a bit careful about calling Cyanogen stupid here for this. I'll be 100% honest and say I understand their apprehension to having a device (their buildboxes) make external calls to a web service they don't control.
Can't say I blame them for saying no, either.
That said, it does indeed look like for the time being there will only be Unofficial builds available, which isn't a big deal. I'm happy to set up nightlies on my buildboxes too.
I'm hoping @invisiblek hasn't abandoned the project either, as he's extremely talented when it comes to getting this stuff working.
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Wow..

Not gonna go read the entire Bump! thread right now, but wasn't Codefire thinking of making the process (meaning, I guess, the code) available to developers so they could bump locally?

Hi guys, let's not go off and freak out over this. Discussion is still ongoing, and even if CM doesn't decide to officially build for this phone, we still can have builds done externally by anyone who wants to do so.
Bump has an API that anyone can use as long as they have an account, so there's no reason to be upset.
Keep calm and carry on

Darn that's a bit disappointing. But I'm perfectly fine with anything; official or unofficial as long as it works.

I hope to build Pac for d850 soon! Sucks cm takes this kind of approach to it.

4ndroid99 said:
Darn that's a bit disappointing. But I'm perfectly fine with anything; official or unofficial as long as it works.
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Yup. The same way I feel. If it works, I don't care if its unofficial.

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CM is not too keen on Bumping their nightlies etc.....
http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/76552
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What I think is retarded is that Brint has no reason for not doing it. He's literally being a nazi-like figure just blocking it because he doesn't like it. I'm sorry, how does this make any sense? The worst that would happen is that the bump service (external site) goes down and the build fails. Brint, get over your ego...
CM keeps going down hill with stupid mistakes (like this). First with the One+ One; you gotta be invited to buy a phone? wtf? The hardware is already second grade at this point, who wants a One+ now when you get an N6?

I'll be happy with a solid AOKP rom or a pure Google Lollipop build with xposed/gravitybox

I'll wait to see how this plays out. Hopefully CM will become comfortable with the bump process. I can understand the initial hesitation since it requires something that they cannot control. If they end up not supporting it, honestly it will be CMs loss. The G3 is a very popular phone and there will be plenty of ROM choices out there. So if CM doesn't support it, I'll still have lots of options (and I'm sure someone will unofficially support it too).

Yeah that's really a load of crap especially seeing how Dan already had the script ready to autobump. It's not like it's really that much more work on cyanogenmods part or was Brent just too pansy to have a call out to another server.
I guess we will all have to annoyingly go download and update manually from the forums unless lg actually decides to release a legit boot unlock.

Yeah, I don't really get it!

Hmm, so it seems there be some sort of process they can use still. Keep your hopes up guys

Care to elaborate?

Regardless we will have unofficial with the devs (probably timmytim)pulling commits and upgrading it just as good.
2SHAYNEZ

This is now false.
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There is now offical support and an offical nightly.
cm11

IEatKittys! said:
There is now offical support and an offical nightly.
cm11
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I know that now. :victory::victory::victory::victory:
Anyone using it? Thoughts?

objektive_1 said:
I know that now. :victory::victory::victory::victory:
Anyone using it? Thoughts?
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Ive been using it all day. And so far so good. Battery life has been better than expected

IEatKittys! said:
Ive been using it all day. And so far so good. Battery life has been better than expected
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Running it right now.

Is official CM12S still coming in Jan / Feb ?

A Few months ago, OPO and Cyanogen, said 90 days after the official Lollipop release from Google, the OnePlus One OS would get the big Lollipop date. So that puts it end of Jan / early Feb. But is that still on track of happening ?
But...with the all the news lately of Cyanogen and OPO not getting along, and the whole India deal, etc...
What will OPO official release as far as the Lollipop update ? Will there still be a CM12S made specific for the OnePlus by Cyanogen ? Or will OPO just release their in house Lollipop ROM they made themselves without CM ?

The last I read, there is a big update coming in January, which would presumably be CM12S Lollipop. OnePlus also has announced that they are on the verge of releasing their own, house built ROM, so it's possible that is also coming in that time frame.
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There's not much point in asking that here, nobody here can answer the question properly. Plus, even if CM were reading here, they don't respond to requests for ETA's.
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There's not much point in asking that here, nobody here can answer the question properly. Plus, even if CM were reading here, they don't respond to requests for ETA's.
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Not really asking for an ETA. I know they both said 90 days after Lollipop code release.
But my question is more about if it will even come at all now ? Due to the rocky relationship between OPO + Cyanogen.
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Zorachus said:
Not really asking for an ETA. I know they both said 90 days after Lollipop code release.
But my question is more about if it will even come at all now ? Due to the rocky relationship between OPO + Cyanogen.
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Yeah but unfortunately the answer remains the same; nobody here knows, we can only speculate. The only people who know are CM, and they won't comment on it. There's the "big" update coming in January but I'm not putting any money on it being 5.0, they haven't even hinted to that.

As with everything when it comes to ROMs/Kernels/OTAs... no one knows and employees don't release release dates because then they'll feel pressured that they'll NEED to have it done.
Would you rather have a rushed release with bugs causing your phone not to work properly? Especially if its a person who does not involve themselves with rooting/flashing?
Or would you rather have a release where it works and is tested thoroughly.
If you can't wait, try a Lollipop ROM. If you want to stay as close to stock as possible, flash CM12.

I am not asking for a specific CM12S release date.
This thread is more about asking if there will even be a CM12S released period, ever ? With all the recent bad press between OPO and Cyanogen. I am worried there might not ever be an official OnePlus One CM12S OS release at all now in a couple months ?
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And the answer is still (and always will be) nobody here can answer that.
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Zorachus said:
I am not asking for a specific CM12S release date.
This thread is more about asking if there will even be a CM12S released period, ever ? With all the recent bad press between OPO and Cyanogen. I am worried there might not ever be an official OnePlus One CM12S OS release at all now in a couple months ?
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That is specific to the market of India. I'm sure that oneplus and cyanogen have a contract that they need to abide by otherwise therell be lawsuits.
I wouldn't worry about it, I'm sure there will be a cm12s. When? Don't know.
If you can't wait, flash cm12 unofficial. Now if we talk about the oneplus two (or whatever they plan on calling it, I wouldn't be surprised if they did abandon CyanogenMod in favor of their own rom.)
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zephiK said:
That is specific to the market of India. I'm sure that oneplus and cyanogen have a contract that they need to abide by otherwise therell be lawsuits.
I wouldn't worry about it, I'm sure there will be a cm12s. When? Don't know.
If you can't wait, flash cm12 unofficial. Now if we talk about the oneplus two (or whatever they plan on calling it, I wouldn't be surprised if they did abandon CyanogenMod in favor of their own rom.)
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For the OnePlus One, you're darn right there will be lawsuits if we don't keep getting CM branded official updates. That was what the phone was marketed as, printed with Cyanogen branding, and I as a customer bought it for. If they abandon CM branded official upgrades, I'd be forced to kick off or join a class action lawsuit against both OnePlus and Cyanogen. I won't tolerate bait and switch.

maybe in february

They are suppose to deliver CM12s in Jan(this month) ..at least at the very end, it's the 90 days they promised us. Feb is too late as it won't be 90 days but more
Don't promise if you can't deliver, also I'd like a pure android experience as a second option, something as pure as it can get(it performs better on benches ..at least their alpha version from what I've seen)

evronetwork said:
They are suppose to deliver CM12s in Jan(this month) ..at least at the very end, it's the 90 days they promised us. Feb is too late as it won't be 90 days but more
Don't promise if you can't deliver, also I'd like a pure android experience as a second option, something as pure as it can get(it performs better on benches ..at least their alpha version from what I've seen)
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Steve Kondik has said it will be out later next month. Check his Google+ profile. Sorry I can not post a link.

freelancer1988 said:
Steve Kondik has said it will be out later next month. Check his Google+ profile. Sorry I can not post a link.
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I believe this is the link:
https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z13evbgalmvfdffve220xb2reqilvvbw504

evronetwork said:
Don't promise if you can't deliver, also I'd like a pure android experience as a second option, something as pure as it can get(it performs better on benches ..at least their alpha version from what I've seen)
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You people and your benchmark scores. Give it up already
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Mr Patchy Patch said:
You people and your benchmark scores. Give it up already
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I just made a pointless fact(from other people's tests) about that no need to act like that, be polite man ..you should try it next time.
I really don't care about benches, I prefer if it feels smooth-liquid, runs fast and not with 20fps at games and have 1000 points on antutu rather than having a sci-fi 80.000 points and be garbage

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Guys can someone describe me difference shortly of CM11 and CM1s. Coz I'm on CM12 Nightly builds on my OPO atm and it's working fairly good.

Qwsazy said:
Guys can someone describe me difference shortly of CM11 and CM1s. Coz I'm on CM12 Nightly builds on my OPO atm and it's working fairly good.
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There's very little difference except CM11S has the fancy lockscreen and camera. CM11 receives nightly updates whereas CM11S received periodic updates.
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Yeah it confuses me why people still beg for the same product with an S attached to it as it will make things better for them. This phone is a developer type of phone for people who will try rooting and flashing. With the recent updates in CM getting closer to stable why do we care about an 11s.
Also lets be honest if we do not have all the proper working features in a nightly you cant expect to see a stable release.... At least a 12M or something has to be put out for our phones too me before we say an 12S
@Zorachus - step back and think for a second why are you asking your question. No one associated with giving you an answer will come here and give it to you. You can Google it and see whats out there and draw your own conclusion. I feel this is what others were trying to get across to you. You are asking a question that can't be answered no matter how you slice it up

playya said:
Yeah it confuses me why people still beg for the same product with an S attached to it as it will make things better for them. This phone is a developer type of phone for people who will try rooting and flashing. With the recent updates in CM getting closer to stable why do we care about an 11s.
Also lets be honest if we do not have all the proper working features in a nightly you cant expect to see a stable release.... At least a 12M or something has to be put out for our phones too me before we say an 12S
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Because for some people it's a matter of principle. CM stated very clearly that this device would receive official updates for two years, if the S branch is dropped they're reneging on that agreement.
Because this isn't strictly a dev phone, this is a developer-friendly phone. Not everyone wants to unlock and root their device, in fact the majority of the user base most likely don't want to. So if support is dropped then those people are left with a device that isn't receiving the updates it was promised to have, those people have a right to expect those updates.
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To ROM/kernel devs.

I have a question but yet a request to ROM and kernel developers.
I came here from the HTC First community, which has a descent size user base but base no Dev support, literally none. And I was wondering if anyone could take a look and see what they can do. If you can't, that's fine, but its a great device with lots of prospects if someone could get a custom ROM up and running. At least give it a look guys.
Much thanks from the whole HTC First community.

It's that bad over there huh? It runs near stock Android, right? Just use Xposed framework and set it up how you like it. That's what I would do, even if there were 100 custom ROMs available.

Nobody is going to build for a device they don't own, unless they have an extremely good reason to do so. When one builds a ROM and/or kernel, they build it to their liking - impossible if you don't even own the device.

Lethargy said:
Nobody is going to build for a device they don't own, unless they have an extremely good reason to do so. When one builds a ROM and/or kernel, they build it to their liking - impossible if you don't even own the device.
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Yup, and considering only 5 people ever bought that phone... what are the chances of one of them being a developer? Apparently zero.

_MetalHead_ said:
Yup, and considering only 5 people ever bought that phone... what are the chances of one of them being a developer? Apparently zero.
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There was one, then he mysteriously vanished, he almost got cm11 working but...
Anyways. Thanks for the response. Maybe someone will maybe someone won't. No pressure.

_MetalHead_ said:
It's that bad over there huh? It runs near stock Android, right? Just use Xposed framework and set it up how you like it. That's what I would do, even if there were 100 custom ROMs available.
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That's a pretty crappy rationalization. Just cause you can do that with 4.4 people still want 5.0 right? Yeah. Keep talking lol

russian392 said:
That's a pretty crappy rationalization. Just cause you can do that with 4.4 people still want 5.0 right? Yeah. Keep talking lol
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Our point still stands. Asking in the Nexus 5 section won't change anything since nobody will develop for a device they don't have/care about.
If the people there want 5.0 that badly, maybe one of them should step up and do it.

russian392 said:
That's a pretty crappy rationalization. Just cause you can do that with 4.4 people still want 5.0 right? Yeah. Keep talking lol
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You made no mention of wanting 5.0 in the OP, you just said custom ROMs. I simply offered an alternative. Xposed is awesome, and you can use it to add a crap ton of features to the stock ROM.

_MetalHead_ said:
You made no mention of wanting 5.0 in the OP, you just said custom ROMs. I simply offered an alternative. Xposed is awesome, and you can use it to add a crap ton of features to the stock ROM.
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That's what I used on my First. Xposed rocks! And no I just mentioned any custom ROM or kernel.

Yep, I think it's the single greatest Android mod ever conceived. Both of my Android phones have Lollipop available to them, yet both are staying on KitKat and Xposed is the primary reason why.