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I tried contacting Cyanogen via Twitter, but he never responded. I know that the Galaxy S is listed as a supported device for CM6, but I don't know if this includes the Epic.
TheBiles said:
I tried contacting Cyanogen via Twitter, but he never responded. I know that the Galaxy S is listed as a supported device for CM6, but I don't know if this includes the Epic.
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Epic is a Galaxy S device..
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Epic is a Galaxy S device..
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Well yes, but it is like the black sheep of the family. I'm pretty sure a CM6 build for the Vibrant/Captivate wouldn't work on the Epic due to the hardware differences.
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Well yes, but it is like the black sheep of the family. I'm pretty sure a CM6 build for the Vibrant/Captivate wouldn't work on the Epic due to the hardware differences.
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The difference chances are would be minor...there is no reason why not to support it...
Reason my guess it will be minor is it would be too much hassle for samsung to create separate firmware just for 1 phone one 1 carrier when they are distributing the phone to so many companies...so chances are it will be 99% the same..
gTen said:
The difference chances are would be minor...there is no reason why not to support it...
Reason my guess it will be minor is it would be too much hassle for samsung to create separate firmware just for 1 phone one 1 carrier when they are distributing the phone to so many companies...so chances are it will be 99% the same..
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Just because Samsung's ROM is close doesn't mean the AOSP ROM will cleanly transition from one device to another without individual tweaks.
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Just because Samsung's ROM is close doesn't mean the AOSP ROM will cleanly transition from one device to another without individual tweaks.
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Well of course....just by the fact that it has a wimax radio means it will require tweaks...but I'm saying the tweaks will most likely be minor.
I just wanted to make sure the CM team was willing to make those tweaks and support the Epic.
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I just wanted to make sure the CM team was willing to make those tweaks and support the Epic.
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Well using the Vibrant as an example...once it came out one of the devs asked for donations to get the device and work on it....I guess same will happen in this case :/
CM6 will be the deciding factor of whether I get the epic or not.
it. said:
CM6 will be the deciding factor of whether I get the epic or not.
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Well then get the epic..duh lol
Same here, especially since I already have a nexus.
it. said:
CM6 will be the deciding factor of whether I get the epic or not.
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ImSoHungry said:
Same here, especially since I already have a nexus.
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I don't think not having Cyanogen is a dealbreaker.
Cyanogen was what made me love my Nexus, but it doesn't make a phone unlove-able.
As long as there is a good recovery image, optimized kernals, and theme support in the community, I'd be happy.
Then again, if he just made CM6 for the Epic, it would make things alot better.
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I don't think not having Cyanogen is a dealbreaker.
Cyanogen was what made me love my Nexus, but it doesn't make a phone unlove-able.
As long as there is a good recovery image, optimized kernals, and theme support in the community, I'd be happy.
Then again, if he just made CM6 for the Epic, it would make things alot better.
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That is true. I am so anxious to get this phone, I am going to keep my nexus though as my stand alone developer phone and dev android only, it is a headache to dev on my nokia n900 sometimes.
I don't want to have to rely on Samsung for software. I've heard Touchwiz is buggy and slow and Samsung has a bad reputation for pushing out updates. The hardware on the other hand looks absolutely phenomenal and with CM6 loaded on it, it would leave other phones in the dust.
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I don't want to have to rely on Samsung for software. I've heard Touchwiz is buggy and slow and Samsung has a bad reputation for pushing out updates. The hardware on the other hand looks absolutely phenomenal and with CM6 loaded on it, it would leave other phones in the dust.
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especially with some Frozen Yogurt, mmmm. Dont get me wrong, my Nexus is the shyt, but i miss a physical keyboard ever since i retire my Nokia N900 as my daily.
Is there any time frame that we can expect CM6 or stock android froyo roms?
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Is there any time frame that we can expect CM6 or stock android froyo roms?
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We don't even have full Froyo working yet..(specifically the JIT)..things take time...
As for Touchwiz being laggy isn't really true, whats lagging is the crappy RFS partition which is limiting our I/O...thus causing the lag...we have a fix for it but it still needs a bit improvement...
But for this phone chances are Samsung will support it...
Be patient..the Epic isn't even out yet...
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As for Touchwiz being laggy isn't really true, whats lagging is the crappy RFS partition which is limiting our I/O...thus causing the lag...we have a fix for it but it still needs a bit improvement...
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I've been reading a bit about the lag... How bad is it? Like, people mention it, but is it really something to get super upset over?
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I've been reading a bit about the lag... How bad is it? Like, people mention it, but is it really something to get super upset over?
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I can't really speak too much on it, being that I don't own one, but apparently the community fix raises the I/O performance back within the range of the Droid X. I'm not worried at all about it, personally. If Samsung doesn't fix it, the community will
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I don't want to have to rely on Samsung for software. I've heard Touchwiz is buggy and slow and Samsung has a bad reputation for pushing out updates. The hardware on the other hand looks absolutely phenomenal and with CM6 loaded on it, it would leave other phones in the dust.
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I've been reading a bit about the lag... How bad is it? Like, people mention it, but is it really something to get super upset over?
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Touchwiz is blazing fast for my on my moment.
Gingerbread suposely came out yesterday?
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i thought i heard that too,i was so pumped and then nothing...
I wonder what new goodies they are baking into the new gingerbread update. And us G2 users will probably get it sooner than a lot of user since we are running stock vanilla android. SEE, it can be a good thing sometimes. (i prefer vanilla over samsungs touch wiz and motoblur but i do like htc sense alot)
I hope we get gingerbread
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I wonder what new goodies they are baking into the new gingerbread update. And us G2 users will probably get it sooner than a lot of user since we are running stock vanilla android. SEE, it can be a good thing sometimes. (i prefer vanilla over samsungs touch wiz and motoblur but i do like htc sense alot)
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I love vanilla android but I really liked moto blur on my Charm but touch wiz felt like samsung wanted to make their phone as close to an iphone without actually being an iphone
TouchWiz IS iPhone wannabe which is very lame and Samsung fails at it. Look at Samsung’s support for its android phones. Shame
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TouchWiz IS iPhone wannabe which is very lame and Samsung fails at it. Look at Samsung’s support for its android phones. Shame
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Tell that to the people on the vibrant forums lol
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Whats a shame is that the Nexus 2 is really going to be a galaxy s phone..Nexus S?? Thats a shame
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Whats a shame is that the Nexus 2 is really going to be a galaxy s phone..Nexus S?? Thats a shame
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I couldn't agree with you more... although, I am quite happy with my G2. I'll keep it for a year or more before replacing it anyways...
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TouchWiz IS iPhone wannabe which is very lame and Samsung fails at it. Look at Samsung’s support for its android phones. Shame
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Agree.... samsung touchwiz is just a cheap copy of an iphone's software lmao what a disappointment there we are android not ios. And I said that to the vibrant forum
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Whats a shame is that the Nexus 2 is really going to be a galaxy s phone..Nexus S?? Thats a shame
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I'm confuse about this nexus phone since samsung already said they aren't making a nexus 2 but we will see when the phone comes out
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I'm confuse about this nexus phone since samsung already said they aren't making a nexus 2 but we will see when the phone comes out
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sam**** says a lot of things, i pretty much take the opposite of what they say is true.
They aren't making a nexus 2, they're making a nexus s.
El hefe from google said so, the smartass.
wuts the main differences in gingerbread? lol im still waiting for an official froyo for my phone
SiL3nTKiLL said:
wuts the main differences in gingerbread? lol im still waiting for an official froyo for my phone
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which phone are you on since you are posting in the G2 forums which came with stock froyo already on it out of the box?
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which phone are you on since you are posting in the G2 forums which came with stock froyo already on it out of the box?
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His join date is also a few years before Android phones even came out, so my guess is he could be rocking any number of phones. Not everybody on the XDA forums posts in the one they own in particular. It could have just been a Gingerbread curiosity in general and it came up in a search.
hey guys what if the reason we haven't got our froyo is because e are getting gingerbread instead? Google just announced that gingerbread is filly cooked and that is planning to released ASAP.
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hey guys what if the reason we haven't got our froyo is because e are getting gingerbread instead? Google just announced that gingerbread is filly cooked and that is planning to released ASAP.
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No, we're getting Froyo ... beta has already leaked if you haven't noticed. Official version from Samsung / Sprint should be out sometime in the near future. Don't get your hopes up with Gingerbread because we won't see that on the Epics for quite a while.
Yep. Like I said in the froyo leak forum, any person phone-geeky enough to be hanging out in XDA will probably have a different phone by the time Gingerbread hits the Epic.
However someone did make a good point in that the Nexus S will have gingerbread and since that's a Galaxy S phone it will hopefully be easy to port over to the Epic.
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Yep. Like I said in the froyo leak forum, any person phone-geeky enough to be hanging out in XDA will probably have a different phone by the time Gingerbread hits the Epic.
However someone did make a good point in that the Nexus S will have gingerbread and since that's a Galaxy S phone it will hopefully be easy to port over to the Epic.
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That was me who said that, and I haven't yet seen anyone argue that it wouldn't be possible....
While the coming update is undoubtedly Froyo, I think it's only a matter of time before we'll have 2.3. Considering the new Nexus is the "Nexus S" from Samsung and looks to basically be another Galaxy S variant, I think ports will happen.
The Nexus S is not a CDMA phone so the port will take a bit or time, unless the 2.2 kernel works out of the box with 2.3.
It's possible but don't expect instant gratification.
Also shouldn't this be in general?
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The Nexus S is not a CDMA phone so the port will take a bit or time, unless the 2.2 kernel works out of the box with 2.3.
It's possible but don't expect instant gratification.
Also shouldn't this be in general?
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Yeah it should, and I don't think anyone was saying we could just dump Nexus S and throw it on our phones.
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That was me who said that, and I haven't yet seen anyone argue that it wouldn't be possible....
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It won't be so easy if the dual core rumors are true
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It won't be so easy if the dual core rumors are true
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assuming they write the code for a dual core too I'd be willing to bet the first dual core phones won't be coded for it
Am I mistaken or is Gingerbread not 3.0 ? I see people referring to it as 2.3. Anyone care to chime in?
I saw that too.
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Am I mistaken or is Gingerbread not 3.0 ? I see people referring to it as 2.3. Anyone care to chime in?
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Gingerbread is 2.3. I guess the updates don't merit the 3.0 label.
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Am I mistaken or is Gingerbread not 3.0 ? I see people referring to it as 2.3. Anyone care to chime in?
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The Goog has 'officially' said Gingerbread will be 2.3
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The Goog has 'officially' said Gingerbread will be 2.3
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Honeycomb is going to be 3.0
Epic experience + Phoenix kernel + Emotionless beast = Great functionality, Exceptional battery life, and Sweet eye candy.
2.3 would have to be released to the devs at the handset manufacturers so they could customize it for their phones (load it with their crap bloatware, custom interface, etc.....). As we have seen, that takes time (2.2 has been out for a while now). If we were to see 2.3, it would probably be 6 months from now, about the time 2.4 or 3.0 (they should call it Poundcake.....good name, and good Van Halen song) is coming out.
I don't think our handsets will ever see 2.3 at this rate. It will be another year into the future before we see it, and by then our phones won't even be powerful enough to make phone calls.
Oh we will definitely see 2.3 on the epic even if it has to be unofficially brought to us ;-)
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That was me who said that, and I haven't yet seen anyone argue that it wouldn't be possible....
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This is exactly why I am so excited about the Nexus S. In the same way that the Nexus One gave the Incredible, the Evo 4G and the other HTC devices amazing hacking potential, the Nexus S will make our Galaxy S phones way way better.
More developers will be working on this platform, and we will have all the google stuff working on hardware that is 99% the same. Really, the only thing different will be the CDMA/4G radios, but that is just minor stuff since that is the only difference between the Nexus One and the Evo. Also, the Epic Experience ROM is full of stuff taken off of other Galaxy S devices and it all works great.
Also, I'm going to say that this phone is not dual core. It might have a 1.2ghz hummingbird, but thats the only thing that might be different. It might also have some filesystem stuff that is different but we can hack around all of that. Hopefully it is using the same GPS chip though, because Google will then really light a fire under Samsung to make sure they fix it once and for all.
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Am I mistaken or is Gingerbread not 3.0 ? I see people referring to it as 2.3. Anyone care to chime in?
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Nope, it has been revealed that Gingerbread is 2.3 (which is allegedly coming to the Nexus One in a matter of days); it is speculated that Honeycomb will be 3.0
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Don't get your hopes up with Gingerbread because we won't see that on the Epics for quite a while.
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My money is on never seeing 2.3
I love my Epic... I'm just pretty sure 2.2 will be our only upgrade
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My money is on never seeing 2.3
I love my Epic... I'm just pretty sure 2.2 will be our only upgrade
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Absolutely no way that we don't get gingerbread. The epic is sprints flagship android phone, not to mention samsungs.
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I love Sense and can't see getting away from it. But there's so much hype about CM that I'm getting curious about it. What's so great about it or what makes it better? I thought its just a basic version of Android??
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Ruki_Uki said:
I love Sense and can't see getting away from it. But there's so much hype about CM that I'm getting curious about it. What's so great about it or what makes it better? I thought its just a basic version of Android??
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how may times are you going to post this asking the same thing ?
simply put either you like it or you don't
Ruki_Uki said:
I love Sense and can't see getting away from it. But there's so much hype about CM that I'm getting curious about it. What's so great about it or what makes it better? I thought its just a basic version of Android??
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Flash it and find out maybe?
Browse cm website maybe? Their forum?
Or just use sense(less)?
Swyped from my cyanogenized and gingerbreaded EVO
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I thought its just a basic version of Android??
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That's pretty much what it is, and that's what makes it great. It's Android the way it's supposed to be, without all the extra crap.
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Ruki_Uki said:
I love Sense and can't see getting away from it. But there's so much hype about CM that I'm getting curious about it. What's so great about it or what makes it better? I thought its just a basic version of Android??
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CM6/7 is the open source phone I wanted.
The major thing for me was the bluetooth stack in sense doesn't support the connection for a wii mote, but CM6/7 does.
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That's pretty much what it is, and that's what makes it great. It's Android the way it's supposed to be, without all the extra crap.
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Um...no.
CM is AOSP plus a whole slew of features that should have been default in AOSP.
CM is far from a vanilla rom.
Have you ever wanted to redesign a thing so it would be right?
Well here it is. The code is there to be touched. The devs have sweated into it. Its not data mining for Google though it can be. It's not spinning frames though it can track context.
Take others' advice and read up.
As for me, I'll know when my transition criteria are in cm.
I heard that it is faster than other ROMS but the battery life is inferior to Fresh Custom ROM and others. Is this true?
Also, call me crazy, but AOSP is just plain and ugly. =/
I get the same battery life on sense roms that I do on cm.
With cm7, there is a 'theme chooser' app which is pretty cool. There are only 3 themes right now but i am sure it is easy to make your own.
Also, there are cool things like quite times, gestures, goggles (prevents you from drunk texting, lol), and settings so you can tweak basically any aspect of the phone.
It really comes down to preference is all. If you havent tried it out you should, you never know if you will like it or not
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I get the same battery life on sense roms that I do on cm.
With cm7, there is a 'theme chooser' app which is pretty cool. There are only 3 themes right now but i am sure it is easy to make your own.
Also, there are cool things like quite times, gestures, goggles (prevents you from drunk texting, lol), and settings so you can tweak basically any aspect of the phone.
It really comes down to preference is all. If you havent tried it out you should, you never know if you will like it or not
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True. I know that it is as customizable as it gets, but I am reluctant to leaving the aesthetics of Sense behind. I know it can be quite unnecessary, but some of it is actually pretty useful. I specially like how it handles "People" where it syncs the information with Facebook, Twitter, etc. and segregates all relevant TXTs, e-mails, profile updates to that specific contact. Does AOSP have a similar option?
I am not the social network kinda guy so I am not sure. I'm not going to say there is an app for that because I would have no idea lol!
I can totally see someone digging sense, as I have used myn's and it is definitely visually appealing. I have also used MIUI and I can see how people like that also.
You can always do a full nandroid and return to your original rom after you try it out. More or less, just wanted to make sure people knew it wasn't just a plain jane rom
load it up and give it a shot.
Ruki_Uki said:
I love Sense and can't see getting away from it. But there's so much hype about CM that I'm getting curious about it. What's so great about it or what makes it better? I thought its just a basic version of Android??
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Hands down the main reason most of us use cm6/7 is for all the women that flock to CM users!!
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Hands down the main reason most of us use cm6/7 is for all the women that flock to CM users!!
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****, ain't that the truth!
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****, ain't that the truth!
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I cannot tell you how many fellow CM users that I know that are now engaged, married, or having babies because of cm6/7.
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I cannot tell you how many fellow CM users that I know that are now engaged, married, or having babies because of cm6/7.
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guilty as charged!
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guilty as charged!
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I am guilty of one of the above....
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I am guilty of one of the above....
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and... that, dear op, is why cm is so awesome!
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CM is far from a vanilla rom.
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This.
I installed CM on my EVO and got annoyed because it wasn't the Vanilla ROM I wanted. It used ADW for a desktop and the Visual Voicemail and 4G didn't work. Lame.
Of all the ROMS, Fresh (all though probably the most conservative) seems to be the most stable.
Froyo source is out. The last ROM to leak out was KB1, and that was almost 3 weeks ago....and it came out not long after the official Froyo KA6. Forgive me for starting this discussion (or argument, depending on how this develops), but I'm thinking that the lack of any recent ROMs in conjunction with the release of KA6 Froyo source and absolute silence by Samsung on Gingerbread for Galaxy S pretty much means there is no way official Gingerbread is coming to Vibrant. I'm just saying. Not knocking Samsung (for this, anyway, no need to rehash everything Samsung SHOULD be knocked for), because they never promised Gingerbread. I'm guessing no more official Vibrant firmware development whatsoever is taking place.
I think (and this is just my opinion) we shouldn't get too ahead of ourselves worrying about gingerbread. Especially when we have some epic ROMs to look forward to now that the froyo source is out.
I am waiting for the CM7 or teamwhiskey to port 2.3 to vibrant
If that's true, then wouldn't that mean that vibrant 4G would also not get gingerbread? Not 1 update.... at all?
Keep it in your pants buddy.
The reason there haven't been any leaks is because Samsung changed the ports on their FUS server. Haven't figured out which one it is yet.
does gingerbread even offer anything worth a damn?
sroach23 said:
does gingerbread even offer anything worth a damn?
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I don't think so
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The reason there haven't been any leaks is because Samsung changed the ports on their FUS server. Haven't figured out which one it is yet.
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Does FUS stand for F*ck U server? Lol
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does gingerbread even offer anything worth a damn?
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Gingerbread is optimized for the Hummingbird while Froyo is optimized for the Snapdragon. It should give better performance. I finally had a chance to play with a NS for an extended time the other day and it is lightning fast bone stock. There are also some new api's that no one has begun to utilize...yet. It's like Eclair was - nothing special except for the processor boost. Icecream or whatever you want to call the next release is probably going to be a major upgrade with hardware acceleration and a ui overhaul.
Hey pig vomit do you play at laserquest
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All I care about is the sms bug fix which we will get once we get the froyo 2.2.2 update or even the gingerbread 2.3.2 or whatever...
Whatever, 2.2 is good
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Hey pig vomit do you play at laserquest
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Did this make anyone else lol?
RobBull69 said:
probably going to be a major upgrade with hardware acceleration and a ui overhaul.
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Can't wait for this, i will squirt over any video showing off ice cream sandwich.
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Did this make anyone else lol?
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Well, me, actually. I sorta deserved it.