Alright, So I did some lurking and can see that the consensus is that Cyanogenmod cannot be installed on the Verizon Galaxy S5... some people say it can on the developer model... others don't agree.
I am trying to figure out why there are still nightlies being released on the Cyanogenmod website for the Verizon model of the Galaxy S5.
kltevzw - At any rate, this is a point of confusion for me. Can I get some explanation for this? It does appear possible to do it based on this evidence.
And what would be a good alternative.... if there is one... to cyanogenonmod for a Verizon Galaxy S5.
Sorry if this comes across as beating a dead horse. I'm just looking for some answers.
xagus said:
Alright, So I did some lurking and can see that the consensus is that Cyanogenmod cannot be installed on the Verizon Galaxy S5... some people say it can on the developer model... others don't agree.
I am trying to figure out why there are still nightlies being released on the Cyanogenmod website for the Verizon model of the Galaxy S5.
kltevzw - At any rate, this is a point of confusion for me. Can I get some explanation for this? It does appear possible to do it based on this evidence.
And what would be a good alternative.... if there is one... to cyanogenonmod for a Verizon Galaxy S5.
Sorry if this comes across as beating a dead horse. I'm just looking for some answers.
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It's for the developer edition. That's why the nightlies continue to be released. You cannot flash them or any AOSP based ROMs on the retail version.
landshark68 said:
It's for the developer edition. That's why the nightlies continue to be released. You cannot flash them or any AOSP based ROMs on the retail version.
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But I can use a TouchWiz based rom, correct? (or thats what I think I've read)
xagus said:
But I can use a TouchWiz based rom, correct? (or thats what I think I've read)
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Yes, you can use touchwiz ROMs of the same build or android version you are on.
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Hey all been out of the loop for a little bit and I have a question. With the phone being as locked down as it is I was thinking of getting the Verizon GS5 Dev-Edition. Can I use ROMs and/or Kernels that are in the main GS5 forum?
Thanks for the advice/help in advanced!
PistonPounder said:
Hey all been out of the loop for a little bit and I have a question. With the phone being as locked down as it is I was thinking of getting the Verizon GS5 Dev-Edition. Can I use ROMs and/or Kernels that are in the main GS5 forum?
Thanks for the advice/help in advanced!
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If it's the Dev Edition and once rooted, I would think so. I could be wrong.
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If it's the Dev Edition and once rooted, I would think so. I could be wrong.
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Appreciate the quick reply! I'd imagine Kernals might be hit or miss but ROMs would be ok but I could be wrong on both accounts and I just wanted to make sure before I bought it.
PistonPounder said:
Appreciate the quick reply! I'd imagine Kernals might be hit or miss but ROMs would be ok but I could be wrong on both accounts and I just wanted to make sure before I bought it.
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Either way, the Dev edition is the way to go. There is a custom build in 'Original Android Dev' for the VZW S5 down a couple subforums that is confirmed stable.
kprice8 said:
Either way, the Dev edition is the way to go. There is a custom build in 'Original Android Dev' for the VZW S5 down a couple subforums that is confirmed stable.
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Yea I saw the Kernel but there aren't any ROM's in the Verizon forum, the main GS5 forum is hoping though so I wanted to make sure I can actually do what I intend with the device given the money. Especially since I know the Dev-Edition will never get official updates from samsung.
PistonPounder said:
Yea I saw the Kernel but there aren't any ROM's in the Verizon forum, the main GS5 forum is hoping though so I wanted to make sure I can actually do what I intend with the device given the money. Especially since I know the Dev-Edition will never get official updates from samsung.
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I'm curious myself. I just purchased an M8 but if we can flash ROMs from T-Mobile/AT&T/Int'l/Etc onto the rooted/unlocked S5 DE I'd probably buy that instead.
jeydax said:
I'm curious myself. I just purchased an M8 but if we can flash ROMs from T-Mobile/AT&T/Int'l/Etc onto the rooted/unlocked S5 DE I'd probably buy that instead.
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From what I'm reading it should be ok as long as we use a Verizon kernel because the Intl version seems to also have the Snapdragon 801.
Waiting for someone with experience to confirm though.
Anybody?
I have a simple question for all you Galaxy S5 owners. I am a current owner of the Galaxy Note 2 for AT&T.
I am an AT&T customer, and I am seriously considering buying myself the Unlocked version of the S5.
I can either get the unlocked S5 or the Note 3 NEO.
But in the xda forums, the note 3 neo is practically empty, however, the S5 is promising.
I see few roms with WORK IN PROGRESS status.
Im pretty sure its just a matter of time (and not that much time) that the S5 will have some nice stable official roms by OmniROM, CM, etc...
My questions is this.
mayb I hvent looked ahrd enough, but what can I do with an unlocked S5?
I know I can root it and stuff, does anybody have an S5 and have Xposed Settings modules setup like GravityBox or something?
Or are tehre any nice AOSP roms available that are stable with working cameras and etc??
I just want to know whats up before I spend this money on an S5.
All your input would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
For now I stick with tw roms cause they are stable. You might wanna check AllianceRom out! Xposed is working fine in my use. Alltho Alliance has most of gravity boxes features allready..Hope this helps even a little bit
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ozzyGEEK said:
A simple question about the s5
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Most carriers do not lock their bootloaders. ATT is a notable exception and does lock their S5 bootloader. This means that you cannot use a custom kernel, recovery or ROM in the normal manner. Nor was the ATT model rooted until long after other variants were.
Custom ROMs and recovery need to be emulated with Safestrap on ATT due to the locked bootloader. There is an Developer model that has an unlocked bootloader, but Samsung has a poor record of timely firmware updates for Developer phones making it a questionable tradeoff.
Unless the appeal of a phone subsidy is inescapable for you, you'd do far better to buy the TMobile S5 which has an unlocked bootloader and a thriving Development and custom ROM community. It works just fine on ATT, supports all of the ATT bands + a few that the ATT variant doesn't. Which is an additional advantage for roaming.
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pyry666 said:
For now I stick with tw roms cause they are stable. You might wanna check AllianceRom out! Xposed is working fine in my use. Alltho Alliance has most of gravity boxes features allready..Hope this helps even a little bit
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Earlier this year for about a month I had an S4 without knowing that there was hardly anything I could do with it. I had the verizon version of the S4. This is the first time I fully made use of Xposed and, boy did Xposed do its job!
It actually made touchwiz very pleasant for me to use.. I probably wouldnt mind sticking with touchwiz + xposed and waiting until theres a nice stable omniropm available for the S5 heh=)
thank you guys!
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Most carriers do not lock their bootloaders. ATT is a notable exception and does lock their S5 bootloader. This means that you cannot use a custom kernel, recovery or ROM in the normal manner. Nor was the ATT model rooted until long after other variants were.
Custom ROMs and recovery need to be emulated with Safestrap on ATT due to the locked bootloader. There is an Developer model that has an unlocked bootloader, but Samsung has a poor record of timely firmware updates for Developer phones making it a questionable tradeoff.
Unless the appeal of a phone subsidy is inescapable for you, you'd do far better to buy the TMobile S5 which has an unlocked bootloader and a thriving Development and custom ROM community. It works just fine on ATT, supports all of the ATT bands + a few that the ATT variant doesn't. Which is an additional advantage for roaming.
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I have AT&T but ill be buying the unlocked version of the S5, not the AT&T version.
Ill be able to unlock the bootloader right?
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I have AT&T but ill be buying the unlocked version of the S5, not the AT&T version.
Ill be able to unlock the bootloader right?
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Your intent here is unclear and incorporates several assumptions. First, clarify what you intend to buy, then we can characterize it.
There are a dozen S5 variants. Which specific model are you referring to? Or at least narrow it down by telling us which carrier you plan to buy it from? You want to buy which unlocked version? From who?
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Your intent here is unclear and incorporates several assumptions. First, clarify what you intend to buy, then we can characterize it.
There are a dozen S5 variants. Which specific model are you referring to? Or at least narrow it down by telling us which carrier you plan to buy it from? You want to buy which unlocked version? From who?
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Its a factory unlocked brand new S5 at a store.. im not sure exactly what model it is exactly. Im getting it a day after tomorrow on wednesday.
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Its a factory unlocked brand new S5 at a store.. im not sure exactly what model it is exactly. Im getting it a day after tomorrow on wednesday.
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Details are everything. You should know that not all S5 models will work well on ATT. Different S5 variants use different sets of frequency bands.
Could be great. Could be something else entirely.
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Ive been cleared by a verizon employee to root my phone, sense its a local branch i'll still have my warrenty with them. The particular rom I wanted was X-note, but could only find it for att&t and tmobile models. If this has already been answered please point me to the right direction!
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Ive been cleared by a verizon employee to root my phone, sense its a local branch i'll still have my warrenty with them. The particular rom I wanted was X-note, but could only find it for att&t and tmobile models. If this has already been answered please point me to the right direction!
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On the Verizon Retail version, you can only run Touchwiz ROMs found in this Android Development section (that function with Hashcode's SafeStrap). If you want to run a ROM from anything else, you will need a Verizon Developer Edition, with an unlockable bootloader.
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On the Verizon Retail version, you can only run Touchwiz ROMs found in this Android Development section (that function with Hashcode's SafeStrap). If you want to run a ROM from anything else, you will need a Verizon Developer Edition, with an unlockable bootloader.
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Wow, thats unfortunate So in a nut shell Im unable to run Cyanogenmod11 and x-note?
Does that just leave me with the roms listed under my Model and roms tab?
Is the only way to flash a rom on my phone through a sd card? Im not worried about tripping nox so thats not a problem. I just didnt want to fill my sd card up with misc files..
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Wow, thats unfortunate So in a nut shell Im unable to run Cyanogenmod11 and x-note?
Does that just leave me with the roms listed under my Model and roms tab?
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Yes, only Verizon Touchwiz based ROMs that work with Safestrap.
Can any custom ROM be installed on a s4 that us been upgraded to the latest firmware? I know at one time it couldn't be updated past the current version that was out for the phone. I'm looking at trading my nexus 5 for an s4 or another phone with expandable storage and better battery life but I like custom ROMs so much more. Can anyone shine a light on this for me?
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Can any custom ROM be installed on a s4 that us been upgraded to the latest firmware? I know at one time it couldn't be updated past the current version that was out for the phone. I'm looking at trading my nexus 5 for an s4 or another phone with expandable storage and better battery life but I like custom ROMs so much more. Can anyone shine a light on this for me?
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Which model S4 do you have/what carrier? Not all of them run all custom ROMs. If you have an AT&T i337 then you can only use Touchwiz ROMs and three specific Google Phone Edition ROMs. No CM,PA,AOKP, anything of the sort.
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Which model S4 do you have/what carrier? Not all of them run all custom ROMs. If you have an AT&T i337 then you can only use Touchwiz ROMs and three specific Google Phone Edition ROMs. No CM,PA,AOKP, anything of the sort.
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I'm on At&t networks so I was looking at the at&t variant but since I can only use certain ROMs I'll think I'll look in other directions. Thanks!
What about t mobile variant? And I had a note 2 one time and I remember that you can sim unlock it from a special settings menu. Is this true for the s4 as well? Thanks!
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What about t mobile variant? And I had a note 2 one time and I remember that you can sim unlock it from a special settings menu. Is this true for the s4 as well? Thanks!
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T-Mobile S4 can be flashed with any ROM and is unlockable. I know some people around here are doing the same thing, using a T-Mobile S4 on AT&T.
Hello guys so I already posted about this and didn't find anyone who was willing to port the rom to i9500..
It was already released on i9506 development section
It is called:
[ROM-6.0.1][DarkWolf_FW][Galaxy S7 Edge Port][V2]
If it was ported to i9506 then it can be ported to i9500
So I am waiting for anyone who is willing to help i9500
Because there is not any tw based mm Rom for i9500
Thanks in advance.and I hope there are people who want to help ?????
The GT-I9506 is closer to the S7 than the GT-I9500, that's why it has ports.
GT-I9506 Snapdragon 800 chip, S7 Snapdragon 820 chip.
They are in the same ball park.
The GT-I9500 is Exynos based.
There also is a Exynos based S7 model, but the GT-I9500 and S7 are too far apart to make porting it easy, I guess.
Don't you think somebody would have ported the S7 ROMs to the GT-I9505 and GT-I9500 if it were possible?
i dnt think thats the issue
the main issue which the developers tell us is that the s7 framework and system cant be ported because there is no mm rom provided by samsung for our device
however there was no rom for i9506 as well but it still got ported
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i dnt think thats the issue
the main issue which the developers tell us is that the s7 framework and system cant be ported because there is no mm rom provided by samsung for our device
however there was no rom for i9506 as well but it still got ported
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I heard that a S5 stock MM firmware has successfully been ported to i9506 so why it's possible to fully port S7 frameworks and system using the ported MM firmware from S5.
I think there's a developer in i9500 who is working on porting S7 apps and frameworks for this device. But I don't sure that everything is 100 percent ported, though.
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The issue is that Exynos is not developer friendly, and there are few developers left working on the I9500 in this forum. They've either given up completely out of frustration or have moved on to more developer-friendly devices.
Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
The issue is that Exynos is not developer friendly, and there are few developers left working on the I9500 in this forum. They've either given up completely out of frustration or have moved on to more developer-friendly devices.
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Yep, it's one of the reason. But, that makes it worse, that most i9500 users are spamming most threads with posts like waiting or similar or ETA asking when a dev announced that he would release a new update. Thus, caused the dev canceled the update, ask moderators to close the thread, and leave the development.
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But a friend of mine said if it was ported to an s4 then it can be ported to all s4 variants and it's hard but still possible?
Also no one tried overwriting over aosp
Guys it's possible yet no one even tries. that's what makes me sad
Porting Android 6.x to Exynos is more complicated than your friend probably realizes. The binaries need to be built specifically for Exynos. This is a problem because the sources for the Exynos processor are incomplete. Without all the source code, you're not building anything for Exynos except stock-based ROMs.
Building for Qualcomm is far easier. They provide all their sources, and there are Android 6.x ROMS available, whether Cyanogenmod-based or AOSP-based. They also tend to work better than Exynos because of this.
But there is android 6.0 for i9500,whether cm 13 or aosp. Both do exist for i9500. so why not port the apps and the tw not specifically the entire rom
Also there is an exynos version of the s6 and s7.
Also it will be possible to port the s6 mm exynos update to s4..
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But a friend of mine said if it was ported to an s4 then it can be ported to all s4 variants and it's hard but still possible?
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S4 has many variants, different models, and different SoCs. And, it's nearly impossible to port from devices with different SoCs...
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Also no one tried overwriting over aosp
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No one struggling AOSP due to the Exynos crap.
robohazem said:
Guys it's possible yet no one even tries. that's what makes me sad
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...it's not as easy as you say.
robohazem said:
But there is android 6.0 for i9500,whether cm 13 or aosp. Both do exist for i9500. so why not port the apps and the tw not specifically the entire rom
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GearCM 13.0 needs more than 6 months to get itself to stable version, with kernel rework and it's hard without complete codes, man.
robohazem said:
Also there is an exynos version of the s6 and s7.
Also it will be possible to port the s6 mm exynos update to s4..
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Porting ROMs are harder than maintaining a CM-based ROM, man. Even the best TW developer on i9500 is unable to port MM to i9500 because it needs MM bootloader, which can't be ported easily.
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Bruh....so there is a 0% chance that we might see it on i9500??
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Bruh....so there is a 0% chance that we might see it on i9500??
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We've a chance, but it's very little.
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