Hey everyone! After 15 months of using old gen phones I finally manned up and got the SGS5 today, very pleased to see so many familiar folks in the forum already. I look forward to bring my own little customization to the table after I root tonight (broke Windows 8.1 last week so now I only have Linux lol)
Anyway congrats to everyone who got the S5, so far I am liking the little things Samsung has done to the device hardware wise as well some aesthetics that have been changed over older gen Galaxy's. It was a toss up for me between this and the LG G2 or Flex, but I think I made the right choice
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Hi guys,
Just thought I'd share my recent success with you all and thank you for being here.
I'm a Dell Streak user, but recently dropped it and smashed the LCD. While I'm waiting for the new LCD to arrive, I borrowed my brother's old GSM Hero (he now uses a Nexus S) as a stop gap. It was on 2.1 with operator branding and bloat.
I turned (as I always do) to this forum for pointers on rooting and modifying my "new" device and found a very buoyant Hero section.
Now, when I owned a Hero (probably 2 years ago now) it was all about making gold cards etc. and was a very complicated process.
Within half an hour and with help from various posts on here, I had rooted with universal androot, had installed a custom recovery and had flashed the Elelinux Speedmachine v4 rom.
I'm absolutely blown away with how useable the Hero still is, it does almost everything I need it to, and does it well. This is all testament to the users/mods/devs here and I thank you.
Happy Hero user,
malty
I just got my hands on a hero! im surprised as the community still seems alive on an old phone! I would much rather have an old phone than a cheap feeling tacky budget phone.
Fantastic isn't it? How a relatively old phone can still be quite powerful thanks to the work of all the devs here. Loving my Hero because of it's timeless built, and thanks to all here, I can love it for it's functionality too.
Well done all.
Hey guys, new (2 days) LG G3 owner here. Been lurking for just as many of days. Came from a Galaxy Nexus of 3 years; was too scared to root it. Been crapping out on me, so I picked up this BEAUTIFUL device. So far I'm in LOVE! Can't wait to learn more about Android and hopefully contributing.
Welcome mate:good:
Welcome. You will love the phone. I've only had mine for a week and think it's the best phone on the market at the moment.
2 Days for me too. I'm loving it
Not to be "that guy" but there's already a thread for new LG G3 users to post their opinions. This is just a redundant thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2772242
@El Daddy
New owner here as well, I got mine yesterday, coming from sammy S4... Wait you had a phone for 3 years and never rooted it? lol
Think we all are new G3 users. LoL
My third LG G3 is great. Speed and screen. The first did not allow LTE signal selection in the UK, the second from Amazon Germany was "lost" by City Link. The one I have is better than the first one which makes me think that LG may have different manufacturers. The one I have is made in Korea but D855 model.
Hi guys,
Yesterday I hard bricked my GS4 trying to update it to marshmellow. The repair will cost $40 and this is after I spent $110 replacing the digitizer. I decided to give up on that device (It was getting a bit beat up anyway).
Walmart is currently selling the ATT version for $250. I bought it but now I am wondering if it is still worth the value now (late 2015). The S4 was starting to show its age especially with the bloatware which is why I was attempting to upgrade the OS. What better place to ask this than a forum full of tech geeks like me who have actually used the device!
So, what do you guys say? Is it worth it now to buy as a daily driver? What do you guys think of the cost? How is the custom rom community? I saw that Samsung EOLed it at 5.0 but what are the chances custom roms will keep going for a few more versions? I have just started to browse this section of xda. The S4 was a hassle especially if people accidentally upgraded it to Lollipop. I know I followed the directions to a T but I still go the hard brick so I am hesitant to attempt to mess around with a Samsung device again.
If anyone has experience with the S4, how is the experience compared to it?
Sorry if this stuff was recently asked, I just quickly browsed the front page of this section
I just got rid of s4 for note 3 also (got mine used £100) note is fantastic but I think you should read read and re read before jumping in. How did you hard brick s4 can you enter bootloader or recovery. As for note 3 I'm running phonesis 5.1.1 as primary and marshmallow test build as secondary rom.
Just get rooted and get a good backup (including efs) and you will be fine
I just really hated the bloatware on the s4 and I thought it really slowed the phone down. My S4 is completely unresponsive, When I plug it into my comp it reads it as an unknown qualcomm device. Do you feel like you could use the note 3 as a daily device for another year?
Yes most definitely nice speed boost from s4 2gb to 3gb makes everything that bit smoother. Stick note5 port on it
Well I don't know which version of S4 you had, but I had the Exynos version and believe me when I say this the software was diabolical, I don't rememeber what version of Android it was, probably KitKat 4.4.2, in any case there was no support for that phone, and had to sell it. Then that hatred of TouchWiz continued in me, and I moved to M7, then sold it in less than couple of months, then bought Moto X 2013, which I literally enjoyed for first two three months, until I realised how pathetic the display was, so sold it and then bought Note 3 last year November, and believe me when I say this, I absolutely love this phone. KitKat was excellent, and despite what people say about ofiicial Lollipop 5.0, I love it too, I don't find any bugs at all! Just wished Xposed was as good as it was on KK. Anyway, for me this phone is performing excellently on 5.0, and especially with Shinto kernel, super smooth.
So if you are not hell-bent with Marshmallow, can live with 5.0 TouchWiz LP, then yes, go on. I believe even with this iteration of Android this phone can run smooth for at least another 5-6 months. Then there are custom ROMs like you said. CM13 is already there, Android 6.0 and all that, I will never touch it, but you know if its your cup of tea, its there. There are Note 5 5.1.1 ports are there as well. Also there are two or three very good to great kernels out there. So I believe if you can live with a decent enough speced phone, then go on, but practically no, I don't think one should get a Note 3 at the end of 2015, especially when Note 4 is really cheap nowadays, and even Note 5 is becoming cheaper gradually, though I am not a fan of it.
I will probably keep using this phone until S7 is announced, then I will have glimpse whether Samsung will bring back user removable battery and IR blaster or not, and I will make my decision accordingly.
Hey gang,
New to the XDA community, and wanted to show my appreciation for all of the hard-work and dev that has gone into allowing people like myself to experiment and tinker with the new fire tablet (and for 50 bucks who wouldn’t?)
I've been having a lot of fun these last few weeks troubleshooting, rooting, flashing and everything in between (even bricking and bringing back to life)- its been a great exercise as i haven’t done any heavy modification in the hardware/software realm since my days doing Nintendo DS homebrew https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_DS_homebrew ; and rooting that beast required shorting out the mobo with tinfoil, so this was a less painful process all around.
so after spending the last few days running CM12.1 ; im absolutely thrilled to see how zippy this little device is. Amazons flavor of android was "okay" at best, but this is outstanding and dare I say, lean.
looking forward to future developments and seeing where i may be able to chime in, and what i may be able to flash in the future!
thanks guys,
D
Nice post bought 3 of them one for myself and 2 more for my siblings. Have mine rooted and running SlimLP. Planning on blowing away fireos and have them all on Android seeing Amazon is complicating the process if you get the update.
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hi guys.
i had a g2 some time ago and moved to a htc m8. but i liked the g2 a lot, very good battery and screen, and was really fast in kitkat.
i want to buy one for my father, he have a lumia 730 now and the device is ok but wp have too many problems and limitations, also a moto g 3rd gen is a little bit more expensive than g2.
i want to know if the device is still good or was ruined by updates, i never saw it running lollipop and it will probably not receive marshmallow. what do you guys think?
Lollipop on the g2 is perfect - the design is much cleaner and more intuitive. While I like vanilla kitkat more than vanilla lollipop, I hated kk on the g2.
If price is equal, the g2 is much better than the moto g(any generation). While the g2 a good phone, it's definitely not perfect and I would consider all of your available options - there are also a ton of newer flagship phones on the used market and chinese manufacturers are releasing new ones all the time which rival phones many times in price. If your father likes the design and button layout and you can get it for a good price, then it's fine. Either way, anything that isn't bottom of the barrel will be miles ahead of that lumia(or any windows phone, really).
There's a whole thread dedicated to this topic over here.