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Where to pre-order 820?

I want to pre-order the new S7 Edge but im from europe and I want the SD820 chip. Mostly because of it's easier to mod so developers will give more love to that.
Does anyone know where I can do this?

Makes no sense at all. If a phone ever cried out for non-stock to be avoided, it's this. You will lose all Samsung features like Edge and the camera features and quality will be s**t in comparison. If you're bothered about running AOSP or CM this isn't the phone for you regardless of what chip set it has in it.

Beefheart said:
Makes no sense at all. If a phone ever cried out for non-stock to be avoided, it's this. You will lose all Samsung features like Edge and the camera features and quality will be s**t in comparison. If you're bothered about running AOSP or CM this isn't the phone for you regardless of what chip set it has in it.
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Not completely true. To be fair he just said modding. Not flashing Stock (AOSP) ROMs, Kernels, etc...
An "clean" TW ROM is always welcomed and usually the best of both worlds.

Except clean stock doesn't require an open source chip set. It's just as easy to debloat stock on Exynos as it is on Snapdragon.

Beefheart said:
Except clean stock doesn't require an open source chip set. It's just as easy to debloat stock on Exynos as it is on Snapdragon.
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Eh... Got me there.

Beefheart said:
Makes no sense at all. If a phone ever cried out for non-stock to be avoided, it's this. You will lose all Samsung features like Edge and the camera features and quality will be s**t in comparison. If you're bothered about running AOSP or CM this isn't the phone for you regardless of what chip set it has in it.
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I agree with you - for me I wouldn't spend a ton of money on a phone only to lose many of the special features - but at the end of the day, it's his call what he does with his phone - and if he prefers running a clean AOSP rom or even just modded touch wiz, it;s his call - regardless - it probably won't be easy for him to find an unlocked snapdragon model - at least not early on - maybe after it's been out for a while...

I believe the Verizon version would be the best one to get to support most of the spectrum around the world, but Verizon will lock that bootloader. I bought the T-Mobile version outright and will probably get mine unlocked a couple days after I get it(paid outright and meet requirements)
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If anyone has an answer to the OP's question I am curious also

After the 810 I dont want a snapdragon ever again. Glad my country is getting the 8890.

At echoe they already said they will develop for thz exynos variant cuz most part of their theam is from europe so thats asewome! [emoji3]
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@Beefheart Just to clarify:
With regards to the S7 Edge, its best to leave it untouched with regards to custom roms & kernels otherwise "Edge" features will be lost ?

SlyUK said:
@Beefheart Just to clarify:
With regards to the S7 Edge, its best to leave it untouched with regards to custom roms & kernels otherwise "Edge" features will be lost ?
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Yes. The edge features, as far as I'm aware, require Samsung libraries, which are closed source and can't be used outside of stock Touchwiz roms. It's for the same reason S-Pen features in non-stock roms on the Note series of devices can't be used and require third party software (SPenCommand for example).

Beefheart said:
Yes. The edge features, as far as I'm aware, require Samsung libraries, which are closed source and can't be used outside of stock Touchwiz roms. It's for the same reason S-Pen features in non-stock roms on the Note series of devices can't be used and require third party software (SPenCommand for example).
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Would that be the case also with a custom rom that was based on the Stock rom but was "debloated" ?

mocsab said:
I agree with you - for me I wouldn't spend a ton of money on a phone only to lose many of the special features - but at the end of the day, it's his call what he does with his phone - and if he prefers running a clean AOSP rom or even just modded touch wiz, it;s his call - regardless - it probably won't be easy for him to find an unlocked snapdragon model - at least not early on - maybe after it's been out for a while...
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Of course it's his money and his choice, he can buy an S7 Edge and use it as a paperweight if he wishes to. But this is a forum for discussion, and I'm simply pointing out that, in my opinion with 6 years experience of using and modifying Android devices, it wouldn't make any sense to buy an S7 Edge if he wants to use non-stock roms. It defeats the object of paying the premium on a device like this in the first place.
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SlyUK said:
Would that be the case also with a custom rom that was based on the Stock rom but was "debloated" ?
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Just to clarify, for me a "custom rom" means non-stock. Perhaps not entirely accurate but that is how I've always viewed the phrase. But to answer your question, no. That would be a debloated and minimised stock rom, and any desired features of Samsung vanilla stock could be included as the required libraries are still intact.

Beefheart said:
Of course it's his money and his choice, he can buy an S7 Edge and use it as a paperweight if he wishes to. But this is a forum for discussion, and I'm simply pointing out that, in my opinion with 6 years experience of using and modifying Android devices, it wouldn't make any sense to buy an S7 Edge if he wants to use non-stock roms. It defeats the object of paying the premium on a device like this in the first place.
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Of course you are right, but he is not alone - there are lots of people who do what he plans to do no matter what we think ..and despite the many advantages and tools that are built into one of these phones, a high end phone with the kind of quality that is built into an S7 or Note 5 or whatever - is still an amazing phone when it uses a different system - AOSP or whatever - so I don't fault yuo for making your point - but it is likely that in his and many other cases it falls on deaf ears

Beefheart said:
Of course it's his money and his choice, he can buy an S7 Edge and use it as a paperweight if he wishes to. But this is a forum for discussion, and I'm simply pointing out that, in my opinion with 6 years experience of using and modifying Android devices, it wouldn't make any sense to buy an S7 Edge if he wants to use non-stock roms. It defeats the object of paying the premium on a device like this in the first place.
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Just to clarify, for me a "custom rom" means non-stock. Perhaps not entirely accurate but that is how I've always viewed the phrase. But to answer your question, no. That would be a debloated and minimised stock rom, and any desired features of Samsung vanilla stock could be included as the required libraries are still intact.
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I wasn't quite sure of the terminology to use for a slimmed down, debloated rom based on the official stock rom, so used the word custom to be on the safe side. Thanks for answering that, gives reassurance.

SlyUK said:
I wasn't quite sure of the terminology to use for a slimmed down, debloated rom based on the official stock rom, so used the word custom to be on the safe side. Thanks for answering that, gives reassurance.
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It's worth noting that, to install such a rom, the knox flag would have to be tripped. On Samsung Marshmallow, the only way to avoid tripping knox when installing a new build is to use Odin, which can only be used to install vanilla stock. And to use tools like FlashFire to install a build, you need to be rooted, a process which in itself trips the knox flag so you may as well install TWRP or CWM and install via a zip in recovery.

im also one of a guy waiting for S7edge with S820 from outside of US so i felt the pain and confusion of the way Sammy doing. As one of a guy responded in Reddit chat is to start ordering UNLOCKED SIM Samsung S7 from ebay would be the easiest and fastest option...
Below is the one that I am watching closely. As it said Pre-order, I am a bit afraid of the RISK of ordering a phone that cost >1000$ without seeing actual unlocked & S820 phone as they mention.
[EDIT: can't put links due to lower posts count] googled this eBay item number:281944393668
Here is some other options
to Confirm: you might have to wait for unlocked version from Samsung to released in US since all the US carriers will delay the unlocked version so that mostly can able to attract customer by offering them insensitive to stay in their network.
to Confirm: As far as I knew, US is the ONLY country which S7 variant will come with S820. The rest will ONLY get Exynos version in it with Dual SIMs supported.
to Confirm: As far as I found online is that there is no unique model number which will be the UNLOCKED version of S7 is surfaced in Internet. All the model numbers of US variant are for tied with each US Carriers. So it is possible that US will never get unlocked version of S7 with S820.
to Confirm: some people said they can ask their US carrier to unlock their locked S7 after a period of time using.

ted_O_o said:
im also one of a guy waiting for S7edge with S820 from outside of US so i felt the pain and confusion of the way Sammy doing. As one of a guy responded in Reddit chat is to start ordering UNLOCKED SIM Samsung S7 from ebay would be the easiest and fastest option...
Below is the one that I am watching closely. As it said Pre-order, I am a bit afraid of the RISK of ordering a phone that cost >1000$ without seeing actual unlocked & S820 phone as they mention.
[EDIT: can't put links due to lower posts count] googled this eBay item number:281944393668
Here is some other options
to Confirm: you might have to wait for unlocked version from Samsung to released in US since all the US carriers will delay the unlocked version so that mostly can able to attract customer by offering them insensitive to stay in their network.
to Confirm: As far as I knew, US is the ONLY country which S7 variant will come with S820. The rest will ONLY get Exynos version in it with Dual SIMs supported.
to Confirm: As far as I found online is that there is no unique model number which will be the UNLOCKED version of S7 is surfaced in Internet. All the model numbers of US variant are for tied with each US Carriers. So it is possible that US will never get unlocked version of S7 with S820.
to Confirm: some people said they can ask their US carrier to unlock their locked S7 after a period of time using.
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You are referring to this one:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-UNLOCKE...393668?hash=item41a53207c4:g:NhIAAOSwFNZWzWSU

No was not really thinking about a new rom if disabling touchwiz is possible. I had my mind more into rooting and xposed.

Cyanidem for klte?

CyanideL was extremely feature rich and stable& possibly one of the best roms I I've used and had a strong following before development stopped. CyanidM is back in action but so far there is no support for the klte. They're have been intermittent builds for the Sprint S5 but I was hoping a developer would step up and bring this awesome rom back to our community. I know there is alot oof work involved in becoming a maintainer but we have some awsome devs and I would gladly make a 25$ donation to compensate for the work to be able to use this rom again.

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Bumping hoping to get attention for this rom. It's already built for the sprint gs5 it shouldn't be too much work to build it for the other variants.

killablack said:
Bumping hoping to get attention for this rom. It's already built for the sprint gs5 it shouldn't be too much work to build it for the other variants.
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and i thought i knew most roms... While this can serve as a bump, I'm hoping to spark a mini exchange of experiences with roms.
After trying every single rom there was out there for the s5 (and gotta say, most were), i settled for aicp, for stability and usefulness, not just your regular dice hanging from your rear view mirror... I will gladly donate as soon as i get back on my feet, and while I'm at it let me say thanks to all the devs worldwide, since theyre the real reason android is what it is, wouldn't have it any other way. Consider my use of my phone as a taxi, patrol car, or delivery vehicle, while your phones resemble more a household vehicle. It wouldn't be possible to that degree without ppl such as @Rovo69, @Chainfire, and countless others including the TWRP guys, the teams and individuals behind all things (custom) roms, and the micro G guy, although i can't remember out of the top of my head just now.
Lol seriously veered off track there, pardon me.
Anyways, back to the topic at hand, can you tell me a bit about this rom you speak of?
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Of course i could just google it up, but in this case i don't want a review from a, most likely, wether for good or bad, biased article. Rather just ask a user who seems to want to keep it alive, know what i mean?
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@killablack, the following is a suggestion for you to start asking about the possibilities and/or possible consequences, it is not an advice to actually go ahead and do what i once did.
Another thing, i can kill an Android and revive it, but only if i kill it. I didn't go to school for this or had a tutor sitting next to me, i simply learned everything i know, which is not much because there's always something new to learn, scouring thru xda... Didn't even ask questions, just good old search and research, trial and error, BUT, I'm not a developer, so i could be hinting you blow up your device while meaning no harm.
I had an s4 before the s5 came out, it was a cdma phone, namely, none other but sprint, one of the world's most difficult phone to uicc unlock... I don't know if you're from the United states, so I'll tell you a bit about them. The phones are not, i'm assuming, difficult as in, take it to a shop and pay and voila! But as in the carrier coming up with a million reasons as to why they (sprint) shouldn't, couldn't, or wouldn't do it for you, going as far as telling the customer that their phones are not unlockable, even if they wanted to, which is, of course, a big fat lie... AND, if you are one of the few who do get "your way" with them, you better drop everything and go buy a lotto lol jk, it will only be for overseas use, not domestic. (if you're from Europe, then you know how the European carriers (supposedly) don't lock the customer (and phone) down). Welcome to America the land of the free.
I neither tried to go thru them nor used a shop, since it was a personal goal to do it myself and the path to learning. Well, eventually, i achieved it, and "turned" it into a gsm phone. At this point, i flashed a custom rom, don't remember which one, but it would be something like you describe: a rom running in the "same" device, different carrier, but now we would be looking for the "other way around" version, with the difference that these (yours and mine) are kltes... Not jfltesprs... Needless to say, everything was right on the money, except that you would get "H" instead of 4G or even LTE (post-device flashing-unlocking issue, not a rom bug)
what could you add to this endeavor of mine, or what do you think our stance should be on trying something similar? since nowadays, i assume, google has changed a few things here and there under the hood since i did this i just told you about.

Different sim card.

Hello,
One of my chinese friend just gave me a note 3 Verizon as my old pre 3 died.
I played a little with it and installed Jasmine 6.1 rom. Then i travelled back to home and i found that i can't use any other sim card than verizon.
Is it possible to change that ? I didn't find anything that helps in the forum.
I apologise for my bad manners and my horible english.
Thanks for your answers.

Your English and manners are very good, so no need to apologize.
I'm no expert in moving phones between carriers. What I will suggest to you is that you search the 9005 forum (International Note 3) and perhaps other, more active Note 3 forums (eg Sprint forum). This particular device forum doesn't have a lot of participants.
Maybe you can find some technique that is applicable to the SM-N900V (Verizon Note 3) with the appropriate modifications.
Keep in mind that the 9005 is an Exynos SOC, not a Qualcomm 8974 SOC, so you certainly can not just flash something from over there on to your SM-N900V. Very different hardware than the Verizon/Tmobile/Sprint Note 3's
For what it is worth, I currently have a CM13 hltespr (Sprint) ROM on my phone that has a very tiny set of mods to allow it to work on Verizon. But that situation might be different from yours - that situation is an example of switching between carriers for which there is a Note 3 variant already supported by Samsung. I guess there must be a built-in carrier configuration database , because that mod seems to only change some carrier "index" values.
good luck with your search. Post a solution if you find one!

Hello,
So far nothing new. I'll seek more actively as soon as i can (my workload is a bit heavy these days).
Thanks for your answer.

I flashed this rom DarkLord.S7E.G935FXXU1APEK and i can use the note 3 with Free sim card (i am currently in France).
I need to test more to see if the phone is stable enought and the battery drain is acceptable.
I'll keep in touch if anything change.

Questions before buying this phone and bootloader, root etc etc.

This phone seems to have everything I want. I love the flagship specs and the affordable price, the only complain I have is the bezels but that don't really bother me much. I am one step away from pulling a trigger from this phone.
1.)Is the bootloader unlocked/unlockable?
2.)Am I expecting a good dev support with this device? I want to install custom recovery and roms in this.
3.)Are there any warnings that I need to know? like for example: models or variants that I need to avoid or LTE not working, hardware problems, losing the ability to root/unlock bootloader on a specific firmwares,etc etc. You know, stuff like this.
P.S I have already learned my lesson from Buying at&t Samsung Galaxy S5 and its locked bootloader. I pretty much suffered the years I owned it without root. I would like to never repeat this mistake lol.

1) Yes
2) Yes, there is good dev support, but not many. For now the are only a few roms but from what you can read here they are pretty great.
3) There a 2 variants (US/International x727 and Chinese x720). I have seen people having some problems with bands after they flash x720 based roms into the x727, but basically every related issue has been discused here so you would find a solution.
I have been using this phone for a month, full stock, not even root, and I can tell you that it is great. Just buy a great case because it comes with a preinstalled tempered glass that does not covers the entire screen. I droped it last week and it hit the floor exactly where there is no protection so my screen is cracked now. There are a few cases that covers the egde.

Since when was the bootloader unlockable or is it already unlock by default? I have seen a post here https://forum.xda-developers.com/le-pro3/help/want-unlocked-bootloader-le-pro-3-t3497190
saying that leeco don't have plans to unlock the bootloader. Or is this already an old news and they finally allow bootloader unlocking for Le Pro3

You can read this guide to unlock it
https://forum.xda-developers.com/le-pro3/how-to/flashing-guide-roundup-leeco-le-pro-3-t3511901

hi, I bought X720 just two weeks ago, it's been good. The bezel is fine, you don't really see it. I installed TWRP use the guide below and flashed custom rom that come with root. There are few custom roms stock eui/cm13/Google edition/Miui8 that's almost too many already.
I use this guide for unlock, install TWRP:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/le-pro3/how-to/leeco-le-pro-3-root-t3476560
I saw few video this phone speed for everyday use is neck to neck with Oneplus 3t thats for less than $300. We should support LeEco for what they doing so I bought one.
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The bezel is actually smaller than in photo/Youtube video.

Phone is good to go in my opinion. Takes some work but worth it. I have cm 13 running and the IR blaster is now working. Only issues may be volte or wifi calling but we are working it out.

Repeating myself: Help to install Marshmallow on my old Galaxies

I think I may have posted the following in the wrong thread, so I am re-posting it here
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Hello, First, I hope everyone is safe & sane.
Okay, so, I'm not sure if I'm in the right place, but I'm sure you'll let me know if I'm not.
I have 2 old galaxy phones - S3 mini (G730A) and S4 mini SGH-I257). The S4 is the one I actually plan to use. The S3 is the one I will experiment with, so that I don't mess up my S4.
Both phones are Kitkat versions (4.4.2) and I would like the S4 to be the marshmallow version. I read online that one could do this; it seems to be called side-loading.
To start, though, I'd like to make the S3 a marshmallow version, and if that goes well, I'll do the S4.
Can anyone point me in the correct direction on how to do this? What to download? Where to download it from? Etc.
Alright, I look forward to your reply. Thank you!
P.S. If you're wondering: the S4 mini is my phone of choice because of its small size - my mildly arthritic hands can handle this size much better than bigger phones. So if I can't accomplish this task, I'll just leave it as is; it is currently working fine. It would be nice to be able to use a few apps of interest to me, but I will do without them if need be.

Okay dude, first off - I don't think you understand how roms works. It doesn't matter how stable any rom is on the S3 Mini, it isn't an S4 mini and that rom isn't reflective of the experience you will have on the S4 Mini. In a nutshell: it's apples to oranges.
Second, this is general. this belongs in Q/A. Literally a stickied title post says no questions in general.
Finally, I reccomend Cyanogenmod 13 or LOS 13 for the S4 Mini if you need MM. However, Lineage OS 15.1 (here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-mini/orig-development/rom-lineageos-15-0-s4-mini-t3702272) is running great on my phone better than MM, and now I'm getting 3 hours of SoT without even trying. I swear there was another thread for i9195 but i don't know.

Thank you for your reply; but first, I should say that I am a "she" - so not a "dude". And, I do know that whatever I might do to my S3 I cannot do the exact same thing to my S4. I just want to start off with my S3 to see if the steps actually work. If they work, then I'll know how it all works and I can engage in the correct steps to my S4.
As far as this post being in "General", the system said that because I am new, I could only use General. I did post it somewhere else, as the beginning of my post says, but I did say that I wasn't sure if I was in the correct place -- this is not the easiest forum to navigate.
Thanks for the info and the link; I'll check it out.