Tell us what do you like and dislike personally about your phone, I don't care what it may be. Let us know how much you love or hate your Galaxy Grand.
I personally like the fact that I can flash a good amount of custom ROMs on it despite it's Broadcom SoC
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I think i am fortunate enough to have a grand with me ...especially coming from my very loyal 4 yrs old Nokia E5 ( still going strong )...i was into some model of micromax which went down within the night of purchase...and next morning ...i had replaced that with this device....having a friend of mine with his defy and its custom roms ( actually defy was the first to have a kitkat aosp..as far as i remember...)...i was into xda within months of purchase and have never looked back.
with the mammoth effort of our respected developers...see this device has so many kernels and roms and such active threads....i must take this opp. to say a big thumbs up to everyone here........:good::good::good::good::good:
likes : - battery back up ..is always good... with stock rom also....( although i have never used dual sim till date )
dislike....i wish the front cam could have been better..
I had first a Wellcom A88 with luckily had great DEV support as the company already stopped updating after one update
After that I bought a HTC Sensation and the same happened and it was still a great phone thanks to the DEV.
This year I wanted to buy an Oppo N1 but I found it to big when I saw it.
So I decided for a Samsung Galaxy Grand 2, but I first checked XDA and saw the DEV support for the Grand Duos was better.
So I bought The Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos and 5 minutes later I was sitting at starbucks across the Samsung store and lost my warranty as I rooted it and flashed it right away. :laugh:
One thing I like is that the stock camera app is really good. Unfortunately CM11 camera app is not as good. Its the one thing I liked about the stock rom. Otherwise, the number of roms is also lot and it has a lot of dev support.
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A developer for Cyanogen, atin, has been sent a Galaxy SII by Samsung to help him port Cyanogen to it!
A step in the right direction. More details here:-
http://www.talkandroid.com/42568-cy...ews,+Rumours,+and+Updates)&utm_content=My+MSN
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1113793
See, this is one reason I still think Samsung have mostly the right approach.
1) It's not hard to root a Samsung Android device.
2) They do not prevent custom ROMs being created
3) They encourage a popular alternative firmware
My only gripes have been centered around firmware releases (too slow though not helped by operators slowing the upgrade process), and battery life overall. But then the same can be said about most Android devices, so.. not so much of a Samsung gripe I guess
My fault for getting too excited.
Its a win win situation. If Samsung supports this scene, many peolple buy their products. Not only the SGS2 but maybe in near future too.
Not the bad way HTC entered for a short time. Maybe its too late for them.
Why should i go back to HTC when i am happy with Samsung?
Just my 2 cents
Cue ten thousand posts asking for Cynagon mod this week .
+ Multiple posts announcing the news again .
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Hey guys,
I was thinking of selling my Note to by a Nexus (i won it, anyway ) but then i thought, i just have to root it and then wait for CyanogenMod 9 as i just LOVE the size of this thing
Then today was just wanting to check if there is any news, progress or anything about the Note and was really shocked that the al-powerful Note is NOT listed ANYWHERE in Cyanogen site!! Does that mean it's not supported?
I really love CyanogenMod with my old phones and was really keen to have that in this beast hardware!!
Please tell me that i'm missing something and that it's supported!!
It's just impossible for me to live with Samsung's UI and development section doesn't seem as active as the one of my old phone (few users of the phone?) and don't get me wrong Devs, we can't live without you but i mean the sales and support of this phone isn't as i expected for such legendary hardware!!
devil snake said:
Hey guys,
I was thinking of selling my Note to by a Nexus (i won it, anyway ) but then i thought, i just have to root it and then wait for CyanogenMod 9 as i just LOVE the size of this thing
Then today was just wanting to check if there is any news, progress or anything about the Note and was really shocked that the al-powerful Note is NOT listed ANYWHERE in Cyanogen site!! Does that mean it's not supported?
I really love CyanogenMod with my old phones and was really keen to have that in this beast hardware!!
Please tell me that i'm missing something and that it's supported!!
It's just impossible for me to live with Samsung's UI and development section doesn't seem as active as the one of my old phone (few users of the phone?) and don't get me wrong Devs, we can't live without you but i mean the sales and support of this phone isn't as i expected for such legendary hardware!!
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One day My xperia Arc was not listed on cyanogen mod website, at next day there was a beta STABLE release even with camera working.
So you know, hacksung team and cyanogen are working on CM9 for all devices so dont expect CM7 on the note
I got bored to death with CM ages ago so it doesn't bother me, but I know people do like it, and... I want this to sell, so I do hope CM materalizes on the Note.
It's being worked on by Team Hacksung. It wouldn't even need to be supported by CM as it's the equivalent to the iPad; a giant SGS2.
Oh Cool, Thanks a lot guys... i can mange the time being without CM7 but i just couldn't have handled the missing of CM9 ... thanks for the great news
Hi guys,
I really don't know how to put this but... I got myself a Galaxy S3 and I'm waiting for it to arrive now. This has been by far the best community I've been in. The Samsung Galaxy S1 is a LEGEND but mine is starting to give me some screen flickering problems and I decided to move on to the next awesome phone. I was waiting for the Nexus 4 BUT the picture quality from the camera is just bad, no external storage solution, glass on the back makes me think twice and I didn't really manage to get it since it sold in 7 minutes here in Spain. Because of the poor customer support Google offered on their launch, I've decided to give them poor support too by not getting their phone just to return the favour. Also, when I saw that Nexus S is not recieving 4.2 update (wich it can PERFECTLY handle) I was like yeah... sure Google, I thaught you were the best but you're just like every other manufacturer. My best choice was a new unlocked Galaxy S3 and in Spain there's a promotion that you get a Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 with your Galaxy S3 unit (AWESOME). The phone costed me 450€ brand new and unlocked from http://www.pccomponentes.com . One thing is sure, Galaxy S3 will get Android 5 or whatever Android version is after 4.2 while the Galaxy Nexus will recieve updates (has far less specs), I believe that the S3 will also. My contract ends next year in December so I have plenty of time to gather carreer points and get the Galaxy S5 for free or whatever awesome phone will come out in 2014.
I'm gonna sell this S1 legend to my ex-girlfriend since she's in love with it. I currently have CyanogenMod 10 STABLE with everything stock. It ROCKS, this phone has never been that fast.
Last of all, I'd just like to thank EVERYONE in this community for making this possible, for making such awesome roms and kernels. I really enjoyed flashing with you guys, you guys are the best! Special thanks to pawitp and stratosk who made my phone FLY for this time long.
Your friendly community member,
TigerCourage
Hi Guys,
SamMobile Tweet Samsung has stopped developement for the Galaxy SII and Galaxy Note.. No Android update
Oh well, kinda expected for this to happen.
Unfortunately with the Exynos code unavailable, most likely community development will also die down bit by bit.
What we want is an OFFICIAL statement regarding the issue, not this.
Sammobile was the one to say that 4.2.2 would be last on s2.
Now they say something different
My point - dun try until its official
I doubt the thieves and liars over at Samsung will even have the balls to post an official statement. They will just remain silent.
But we will remember this. 4.2 came out on 13 November 2012. 4.2.2 on 11 February 2013. So NOT #2years.
SGS IV now out, what you expected?! They should develop new software for new phones and new phones. I know SGS II the most complete phone in the world (in my opinion) but this is business
Waiting for my Nexus 7 2013 to arrive and i'll keep my SGS2 only for phone calls, sms and tehering to N7 if needed. Then i'll wait for Nexus 5 or something similar. Never going to buy a Samsung device again.
Even if they did, it could be that theyll release exynos source code now..
Costum Roms where better anyway
battleangel said:
I doubt the thieves and liars over at Samsung will even have the balls to post an official statement. They will just remain silent.
But we will remember this. 4.2 came out on 13 November 2012. 4.2.2 on 11 February 2013. So NOT #2years.
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They had to explain why Galaxy S wasn't getting ICS:
Official statement:
http://samsungtomorrow.com/2043
Some translation on
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_explains_why_galaxy_s_and_tab_70_wont_get_android_ics-news-3567.php
So they will have to jump on and explain the issue if Galaxy SII is staying on 4.1.2. Honestly, any reason they could give will be ridiculous and they will probably damage their image more in terms of money that what they would waste developing a 4.3 update and stopping there.
Also, actually both Galaxy SII and Nexus S started on 2.3 and Nexus S died on 4.1.2. If Galaxy SII gets abandoned at 4.1.2 also, Samsung will lose a great chance to overcome a Nexus in terms of updates (and if Samsung seeks for something, its for statements such as those).
In any logical terms killing Galaxy S2 would damage Samsung for than updating it..
I think that after finding all the bugs on there HW, couple of mounth ago, they won't publish there cpu code because there must be so much holes ' bus and traps that there reputaion will damge even more
Well it was nice while it lasted. I'm grateful to Gokhanmoral, Chainfire, the Cyanogenmod team and all the other dedicated developers that enriched our SII experience for these past two years.
With the promising Nexus 5 around the corner I'll be looking forward to see more from y'all!
If Samsung don't release a new update for S2, they will buy more new devices. It is all about business not because our S2 isn't capable to run (4.3). I think Nexus is a best alternative to Samsung.
Couldn't understand
Ra2fet said:
If Samsung don't release a new update for S2, they will buy more new devices. It is all about business not because our S2 isn't capable to run (4.3). I think Nexus is a best alternative to Samsung.
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There is lots of 4.4 roms in the forum. are they fake. i'm using one of them and it works flawles... So i think MY SGS2 IS CAPABLE OF 4.4 :fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed:
I really don't care as long as they provide exynos documentation for the devs at XDA. Already running 4.4.2 without their help. Will keep it till it boots for the last time even if development stops.
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I really don't care as long as they provide exynos documentation for the devs at XDA. Already running 4.4.2 without their help. Will keep it till it boots for the last time even if development stops.
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Saw from your signature your SII setup, Dorimx kernel + SlimSaber is stable, any improvement you noticed/recommend? Tnx
camp0s said:
Saw from your signature your SII setup, Dorimx kernel + SlimSaber is stable, any improvement you noticed/recommend? Tnx
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It's very stable, great performance and good batt life ... Try it yourself and see
No real surprise there.
Has anyone flashed a custom ROM for Grand Prime GS-530H? I am currently on rooted stock rom. I'm new to rooting/flashing. Just want to ask for suggestions on how or apps i need to install.
Flashing grand prime sm-g530T1
Is there any custom rom for the Grand Prime G530T1?
This phone is a total joke...Samsung released a 30€ case for this phone when it's price is at 150€ max...i'll get the S7 Edge soon and i'll be done with these bull**** "mid-range" phones. No one is developing a good rom for us,it's been almost a year and since then we can't even have ROMs with working camera or RIL calls
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This phone is a total joke...Samsung released a 30€ case for this phone when it's price is at 150€ max...i'll get the S7 Edge soon and i'll be done with these bull**** "mid-range" phones. No one is developing a good rom for us,it's been almost a year and since then we can't even have ROMs with working camera or RIL calls
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really? that sucks...I was hoping I could do something to it.
I think the cameras (front and back) are pretty good tho. my opinion, but it could use more effects and stuff.
Since I bought it tho, I felt like I bought a half A** android after a week of having it, but I still have hope some one will make or do something for it to make it more interesting at the very least.
im going to buy another phone soon tho. the grand prime doesn't satisfies me anymore.