I am using Android phones since several years and had no problems finding ROMs and flash them. Bootloader Unlock was no problem back then on Galaxy S1, HTC One S, Nexus 5 and Galaxy S5 but it kinda surprised me that the S7 is my first phone which will "probably never" see an AOSP ROM because of the locked bootloader and the unknown software architecture of Exynos processors.
What has happened that pretty functional and stable AOSP ROMs are now blowing up on XDA?
Uwe303 said:
I am using Android phones since several years and had no problems finding ROMs and flash them. Bootloader Unlock was no problem back then on Galaxy S1, HTC One S, Nexus 5 and Galaxy S5 but it kinda surprised me that the S7 is my first phone which will "probably never" see an AOSP ROM because of the locked bootloader and the unknown software architecture of Exynos processors.
What has happened that pretty functional and stable AOSP ROMs are now blowing up on XDA?
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Yeah, how is that possible?
Uwe303 said:
S7 is my first phone which will "probably never" see an AOSP ROM because of the locked bootloader and the unknown software architecture of Exynos processors.
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What locked bootloader? Did you not know that aosp and exynos doesn't mix before you got the s7?
peachpuff said:
What locked bootloader? Did you not know that aosp and exynos doesn't mix before you got the s7?
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see the Exynos development forum there's a bunch of AOSP ROMs there now.
I'm also wondering what changed to facilitate all these ROMs working on the Exynos S7.
magic dude, im telling ya, in a period of 2 months, they already made it bootable and stable enought, not for daily usage, but really near to!
I think some devs were working to get aosp on exynos and Samsung.
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maddada said:
see the Exynos development forum there's a bunch of AOSP ROMs there now.
I'm also wondering what changed to facilitate all these ROMs working on the Exynos S7.
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Good to hear, still unrooted so i barely visit that section. When i bought the phone when it came out i knew it probably wouldn't get aosp, but after using touchwiz i really don't miss it.... omg i've said it!
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I was just wondering if it was at all possible to port a rom from the note 2 to the gs3 because last I herd they are basically the same phones, ones just bigger. The reason why is because they have a lot of 4.4.2 touchwiz based roms that I sure would like to run on my galaxy. Now if this is possible would it be easy and wise to use a tool such as the Rom-porting tool found somewhere on these forums? Any and all advice is appreciated and I hope i'm not way off base here. Thanks!
Speedy712 said:
I was just wondering if it was at all possible to port a rom from the note 2 to the gs3 because last I herd they are basically the same phones, ones just bigger. The reason why is because they have a lot of 4.4.2 touchwiz based roms that I sure would like to run on my galaxy. Now if this is possible would it be easy and wise to use a tool such as the Rom-porting tool found somewhere on these forums? Any and all advice is appreciated and I hope i'm not way off base here. Thanks!
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the easy thing is porting from sprint or at&t s3 or the same board device(US S3 VARIANT)
mohammad.afaneh said:
the easy thing is porting from sprint or at&t s3 or the same board device(US S3 VARIANT)
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OK, yeah that makes sense. But is it still possible, even if it's not in the way I described?
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OK, yeah that makes sense. But is it still possible, even if it's not in the way I described?
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nothing impossible but porting rom like TW from different device need a hard work and maybe patch the kernel that we cant as locked bootloader.
you can try by replace /app /framework /priv-app worst case is bootloop use port guides iam not a good porter.
Hi there,
I know this May be a silly question but my iPhone 5s is getting on my last nerves and this is the only thing holding me back from ordering a Z3 today. Does anyone have any idea when the first custom roms will be out for the z3? I can't stand skinned androids (although I've never owned a Sony handset before).. I just wouldn't want to buy one and having to wait a few months for CM/PA.
Thanks for anyone who replies!
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got my SimpleTech 256 sd card and i must say its f00king fast i can tell you that made in Japan, 10mb/s read/write speed and works flawlessly with tomtom and is even faster then my dads ipaq 3870 using 66x CF lol
only £37 from ebay might have to order another soon
no data erase yet and its on FAT16 named again to storage
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Mate what's wrong wid or iPhone by the way. One of the best phones on the market. Anyways about custom ROMs or PA/CM ROMs might come by end of Oct or Nov. No one knows but they are surely in the pipeline although I love the xperia UI which is close to stock android and the best among other OEM skins. I have come on an xperia from an iPhone. Trust me xperia is the only one phone where u would enjoy the touch sensitivity like the iPhone.
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Mate what's wrong wid or iPhone by the way. One of the best phones on the market. Anyways about custom ROMs or PA/CM ROMs might come by end of Oct or Nov. No one knows but they are surely in the pipeline although I love the xperia UI which is close to stock android and the best among other OEM skins. I have come on an xperia from an iPhone. Trust me xperia is the only one phone where u would enjoy the touch sensitivity like the iPhone.
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I love the iphones when they are jailbreakable but for the next forseeable months I can't see an ios 8 JB being released... I love the freedom on Android and constantly find myself going back to iPhone due to the lack of a decent camera found on any Android handsets (I've owned HTC One, S5, Note 3, S4, Nexus 5)..
You can't find a decent camera on any Android phone?
And you go to an iPhone for their cameras? Rly? Hahahaha hahaha you're funny.
Why are there almost no custom roms for this phone. The Android development section has 11 posts?
Other phones have thousands. Why is that.
I was thinking to buy one of these, but this sets me off.
Is there a root , that doen´t void warranty ?
thx
nearlygod said:
Why are there almost no custom roms for this phone. The Android development section has 11 posts?
Other phones have thousands. Why is that.
I was thinking to buy one of these, but this sets me off.
Is there a root , that doen´t void warranty ?
thx
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No there is no Lock Bootloader with root atm. I would guess once that is solved there will be more custom roms.
nearlygod said:
Is there a root , that doen´t void warranty ?
thx
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buda81 said:
No there is no Lock Bootloader with root atm. I would guess once that is solved there will be more custom roms.
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Most custom roms (CM MIUM AOKP AOSP PAC) etc require an unlocked bootloader as well as root. Unlocking the boot voids warrenty, hence the disclaimer in the OP of all their ROMS.
Root with a locked bootloader will only lead to custom roms based on stock firmware. they have more customisation than stock, but not as much as true custom roms based on another kernel.
gregbradley said:
Most custom roms (CM MIUM AOKP AOSP PAC) etc require an unlocked bootloader as well as root. Unlocking the boot voids warrenty, hence the disclaimer in the OP of all their ROMS.
Root with a locked bootloader will only lead to custom roms based on stock firmware. they have more customisation than stock, but not as much as true custom roms based on another kernel.
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Ok, thanks. Still , although the warranty is lost. There is still so little activity. Why is that. I just read the news, that Sony release AOSP Versions for all phones and allows the bootloaders to be unlocked. I thought that this would be a developers dream, for CM for example.
So, whats wrong with the phone. I still dont get it.
Was considering z3 went with g3 as there seems like way more dev support for LG phone and tons of LP roms in alpha beta stage.
Whats up with sony?
No one want to root because of loss of DRM keys..
And what does that mean?
thx
I'm not sure if it's a good idea to resurrect a old thread (zombies!)
but i see there are almost no custom roms for Z3 (either stock based or AOSP or something else)
the stock based are still on Kitkat.. (1 Rom)
AOSP i see only Cyanogen but with very little development (of course a pair of roms based on CM).
The freexperia project is almost non functional.
I'm not demoting the devs / modders... just not finding the root cause of this.
The Very old Samsung S3 is still getting too much love than our new phone, that has qualcomm SOC and thus, unlimited (sort of) open source development
Something is wrong with this phone or i'm missing something?
Im waiting too..
smala said:
I'm not sure if it's a good idea to resurrect a old thread (zombies!)
but i see there are almost no custom roms for Z3 (either stock based or AOSP or something else)
the stock based are still on Kitkat.. (1 Rom)
AOSP i see only Cyanogen but with very little development (of course a pair of roms based on CM).
The freexperia project is almost non functional.
I'm not demoting the devs / modders... just not finding the root cause of this.
The Very old Samsung S3 is still getting too much love than our new phone, that has qualcomm SOC and thus, unlimited (sort of) open source development
Something is wrong with this phone or i'm missing something?
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Stock is good enough.
I know stock is great. Just wonder if a modified custom ROM could squeeze the battery further. I doubt it but u never know.
Sindroid said:
I know stock is great. Just wonder if a modified custom ROM could squeeze the battery further. I doubt it but u never know.
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It could happen, that is true, I'm sure soon Z3 will have some custom ROM's for users to play with, on it.
In my understanding (correct me if I am wrong) sgs7 us version with SD820 have locked bootloader and anything custom is really hard to do. People need to hack phone to do anything. With International Exynos version on other hand it's not as bad. We had custom recovery on first day and I do see ROM out there but it's slimmed down version of stock.
So it is possible to install custom Roms, but why there is none available. For years I've been using cm and I would very much to start using it again.
Thank you.
russiandivxclub said:
In my understanding (correct me if I am wrong) sgs7 us version with SD820 have locked bootloader and anything custom is really hard to do. People need to hack phone to do anything. With International Exynos version on other hand it's not as bad. We had custom recovery on first day and I do see ROM out there but it's slimmed down version of stock.
So it is possible to install custom Roms, but why there is none available. For years I've been using cm and I would very much to start using it again.
Thank you.
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First of all, there are a few roms already available for the exynos variant, but they are all TW based. The reason why there are no other roms, is that the Qualcomm s7's bootloader is locked and it will stay that until samsung decides to unlock it. As for the exynos variant, the source code is not open which makes it very difficult for developers to build a rom. So before buying this phone, you should have done more research, because even if developers are able to build a cool rom like Cyanogenmod, then there is a very little change you will be able to use it as your daily driver. So this means that samsung is not developer friendly and it won't change until samsung decides otherwise.
This is the Development forum, not your own personal Q&A. Put threads in correct sections. Reported.
Lol it is q&a section buddy.
Thank you for your answer. I've gotten new Exynos Variant from work and I was thinking putting some custom ROM on it. Thank you for explaining this to me.
Cheers
russiandivxclub said:
Lol it is q&a section buddy.
Thank you for your answer. I've gotten new Exynos Variant from work and I was thinking putting some custom ROM on it. Thank you for explaining this to me.
Cheers
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enjoy
http://forum.xda-developers.com/s7-edge/development/vr-560-tekxnesis-hybrid-s7e-urv1-00-00-t3357561
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I'd say with the processor and if Asus release the source code for the Device, then yes.
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Probably, since it's powered by SnapDragon Processor so there is a high possibility that we may have CM support.
Looks like this phone is definitely developer friendly. Source code is already available at https://www.asus.com/Phone/ZenFone-3-Ultra-ZU680KL/HelpDesk_Download/
The bootloader is locked according to Asus support.
will this attract a lot of developers though.
Considering the phone has been out for over a month now and these forums are still practically empty, I suspect not. I hope I am wrong though.
shdwphnx said:
Looks like this phone is definitely developer friendly. Source code is already available at https://www.asus.com/Phone/ZenFone-3-Ultra-ZU680KL/HelpDesk_Download/
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Since this phone is developer friendly, have you seen twrp recovery or any custom roms like Miui, Aosp, CM developed for this phone anywhere?
I am hoping XDA will have something on this device soon. I have always been happy with this sites work for rooting phones and custom roms. I have rooted and installed custom roms on my previous phones, HTC One M8, Samsung Galaxy Tab2, and Samsung Galaxy I9100. All of which came from XDA site.
Looking forward to XDA's root and custom rom development for this phone. In the meantime, if you or anyone knows if their is any custom rom development anywhere for this phone, I would appreciate the information. I really don't want to root until I can install a custom rom with twrp recovery .img.
Thanks for the source code information.
I suspect with this phone not being sold in US or Europe, then all the hacker activity will be on Asian forums
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I suspect with this phone not being sold in US or Europe, then all the hacker activity will be on Asian forums
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No any good ones that I can start Google translating? I check zentalk daily and nothing.
So I plan on buying a used Galaxy S6 and wanted to know which version (SM-G9XXX) is the best (most compatible with mods). Because I plan on rooting and modding the crap out of it . The only reason I ask this is because I have bought phones before with the intention of rooting and modding only to find out that it's not possible.
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So I plan on buying a used Galaxy S6 and wanted to know which version (SM-G9XXX) is the best (most compatible with mods). Because I plan on rooting and modding the crap out of it . The only reason I ask this is because I have bought phones before with the intention of rooting and modding only to find out that it's not possible.
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Well depends on where you're from and whether you will be using mm or nougat. The international version g920f seems to be the more supported version kernel and rom wise but there other models such as the g920i/g920w8/t which have a level of Rom and kernel support, do not get the g920a though that has no chance of mods, there are also a few other obscure variants which no one really supports either.
Well thanks :good: . Looks like I'm going to get the G920F.
McDubstep05 said:
So I plan on buying a used Galaxy S6 and wanted to know which version (SM-G9XXX) is the best (most compatible with mods). Because I plan on rooting and modding the crap out of it . The only reason I ask this is because I have bought phones before with the intention of rooting and modding only to find out that it's not possible.
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Hey i own SM-G920I 6.0 ( australian version )ive used alexis rom and pixel rom also depends on if you want roms for lollipop or marshmellow been playing around with device but sometimes ive had roms were its stuffed up phone calls just weird little things good luck in your search