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So long great community and so long Galaxy S1

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

[Q] upgrade to 4??

im still using the s2 ive been due an upgrade for about 3 months now but cant decide to go for the s4 or wait for the s5,
do you think its worth waiting for the s5
thanks

grakon said:
im still using the s2 ive been due an upgrade for about 3 months now but cant decide to go for the s4 or wait for the s5,
do you think its worth waiting for the s5
thanks
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Only you can decide that. Look up the proposed features of the S5 and then see what the S4 offers and make a decision. I would wait until it is definitely known what the specs and features of the S5 will be because it's just speculation now. Also, do as much reading as possible. Just about any possible question about the S4 has been asked and answered, just use the search function to find those answers.
One more thing. If you wait for the S5, wait until the developers edition or GE edition is released. Maybe even get the International S5 version if it is proven to work with AT&T LTE (which it should). DO not get the carrier branded version unless locked bootloaders and bloat is what you are looking for. Also, look into the KNOX issues to see if it further cripples the phones ability to be customized. If it does, you will probably be better going with another brand. But, like I said, you need to read and decide for yourself. Good luck.

Personally I don't think it's worth the wait. As for the s4 it's a good phone but there are other great phones out at the moment. If I was in your shoes I would consider the nexus 5 HTC one and LG g2 as alternative options. There is the note 3 but that depends on if your willing to carry a 5.7 inch screen with you.
Also now that I've had the s4 for a while I honestly got bored with it. I was hoping 4.3 would breath life back into it but it's just about the same. As for safestrap it helped but shortly got bored with ROMs and went back to stock. For my next upgrade I'll try another brand.

interesting replys thanks for that seems like i got a bit of reading to
i was thinking of going for the s5 cause ive been more than happy with the s2 for the last 2 years and i would imagine the s5 when its released will be a full spec phone

grakon said:
interesting replys thanks for that seems like i got a bit of reading to
i was thinking of going for the s5 cause ive been more than happy with the s2 for the last 2 years and i would imagine the s5 when its released will be a full spec phone
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The future of flashing custom Roms is getting harder with new phones coming out so keep that in mind, if you don't mind not flashing custom Roms than the s5 would be a great phone.
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Stay far away from the official ATT S4, they locked this phone down so tight, no custom Recovery, no flashing fresh new ROM's. It totally sucks, and is a very disturbing trend from ATT. Even the new Note 3 got the shaft Development on the ATT Note 3 is NONEXISTENT.
Even though I do love my S4, great smartphone, but if you get an MF3, or MJ9 version, your screwed.
If you got the cash, and want an S4, get the Google Play Edition, or find an International S4 on eBay.
I sure hope ATT isn't going to continue this in the future, locking down all new phones, and killing development ?
At least the ATT HTC One is totally developer friendly, it can be rooted, recovery, and S-Off no problem.
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Probably best served if all future discussion goes here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2433789

Should I return my G Pad?

Merry Christmas everyone. Well my wife went out and bought be a G pad. While I'm extremely appreciative of her doing this, I didn't really want her to get me one at full price. I mentioned that I wanted one when it was only $300 at Best Buy. I guess I have no issue with keeping it but I just want to know the chances of this thing running stock Android. Is there a chance that this tablet could run a stock Android rom and get OTA updates? I'm over trying to mess with custom roms because they are always terrible and never work as well as stock.

If she paid full price then my suggestion would be to return it and get the GPE version if you want to run stock android. You might want to discuss this option with her to see how she feels about it if you're worried about her feeling hurt.

Vitamin_D said:
Merry Christmas everyone. Well my wife went out and bought be a G pad. While I'm extremely appreciative of her doing this, I didn't really want her to get me one at full price. I mentioned that I wanted one when it was only $300 at Best Buy. I guess I have no issue with keeping it but I just want to know the chances of this thing running stock Android. Is there a chance that this tablet could run a stock Android rom and get OTA updates? I'm over trying to mess with custom roms because they are always terrible and never work as well as stock.
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In my galaxy tab 2 cyanogen works 100 times better than its stock android as it doesnt have all the useless bloatware and frees up ram and memory. Stock firmwarein gpad runs just fine, especially if you have other android devices or a lg televison as it comes with usefull apps that only lg delivers. I dont find a reason to return gpad as it's the best tablet at the moment.

tgmorris said:
If she paid full price then my suggestion would be to return it and get the GPE version if you want to run stock android. You might want to discuss this option with her to see how she feels about it if you're worried about her feeling hurt.
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The LG os is just ok. Not so bloated like TouchWiz roms and if you uninstall some bloat you just will be OK with it.
I prefer much the lg version instead of stock android because I have a smart tv (Samsung by the way) and miracast works flawless.
I don't like stock android much, the LG keyboard is awesome!
I tried paranoid android and other 4.4.2 ROM and cm and I can tell you that they all loose much against stock firmware.
Only to give you an idea my cleaned stock ROM as 24 k antutu points and other 3 aosp based are in range from 17 to 21k!
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katsika said:
In my galaxy tab 2 cyanogen works 100 times better than its stock android as it doesnt have all the useless bloatware and frees up ram and memory. Stock firmwarein gpad runs just fine, especially if you have other android devices or a lg televison as it comes with usefull apps that only lg delivers. I dont find a reason to return gpad as it's the best tablet at the moment.
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I've used CM on phones with mixed results. I'm just getting to the point in my life where I can't be f'ing with Android roms. I want it clean and working.

Vitamin_D said:
I've used CM on phones with mixed results. I'm just getting to the point in my life where I can't be f'ing with Android roms. I want it clean and working.
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I'm the opinion that cm is good for old devices that are forgotten. I never get better working device nor with aosp or cm. You miss all ways something and to get a stable release you need a year. I've s2 and the good working cm ROM is from last year.
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testadeferro said:
The LG os is just ok. Not so bloated like TouchWiz roms and if you uninstall some bloat you just will be OK with it.
I prefer much the lg version instead of stock android because I have a smart tv (Samsung by the way) and miracast works flawless.
I don't like stock android much, the LG keyboard is awesome!
I tried paranoid android and other 4.4.2 ROM and cm and I can tell you that they all loose much against stock firmware.
Only to give you an idea my cleaned stock ROM as 24 k antutu points and other 3 aosp based are in range from 17 to 21k!
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I just got 26k using mahdi ROM.. Didn't bench on stock.
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I just discovered the LG G Pad like three minutes ago. It looks pretty good for some future plans I have with using a tablet as a car stereo interface. Damn good, actually.
Anyways, I have an AT&T Galaxy S4. As you may or may not know, there is also a Google Play Edition S4 out there. And naturally, the ROM for that phone was ported over to the Euro version of the S4 which we are able to flash on the AT&T S4 (with an AT&T custom kernel).
And the Google Play Edition ROM I ran was 99.99% stock and 100% rock solid. I would not hesitate for a second to flash that ROM again if I weren't a big fan of AOSP.
So, if this can be done for the S4, then I would assume you can flash the Google Play Edition G Pad ROM onto your regular 'ol G Pad at some point when the dev's port it over.
Google Play Edition:
https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=lg_g_pad&hl=en

CZ Eddie said:
So, if this can be done for the S4, then I would assume you can flash the Google Play Edition G Pad ROM onto your regular 'ol G Pad at some point when the dev's port it over.
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That's what I was hoping for but I might just get a Nexus 7.

CZ Eddie said:
I just discovered the LG G Pad like three minutes ago. It looks pretty good for some future plans I have with using a tablet as a car stereo interface. Damn good, actually.
Anyways, I have an AT&T Galaxy S4. As you may or may not know, there is also a Google Play Edition S4 out there. And naturally, the ROM for that phone was ported over to the Euro version of the S4 which we are able to flash on the AT&T S4 (with an AT&T custom kernel).
And the Google Play Edition ROM I ran was 99.99% stock and 100% rock solid. I would not hesitate for a second to flash that ROM again if I weren't a big fan of AOSP.
So, if this can be done for the S4, then I would assume you can flash the Google Play Edition G Pad ROM onto your regular 'ol G Pad at some point when the dev's port it over.
Google Play Edition:
https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=lg_g_pad&hl=en
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The s4 is not the Europe version but the international version gt 9505.
In Samsung devices is easier because you have open bootloaders.
And the matter that makes the possibility to convert is if there are many hardware and partition differences.
To tell you the true and going off topic the s4 as many problems with reboots and stability with the ge port.
I've Tryed myself 3 or 4 times and gone back to TouchWiz. Battery drains, reboots and much more. I think the issue was been kernel releated.
Cheers
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Vitamin_D said:
Merry Christmas everyone. Well my wife went out and bought be a G pad. While I'm extremely appreciative of her doing this, I didn't really want her to get me one at full price. I mentioned that I wanted one when it was only $300 at Best Buy. I guess I have no issue with keeping it but I just want to know the chances of this thing running stock Android. Is there a chance that this tablet could run a stock Android rom and get OTA updates? I'm over trying to mess with custom roms because they are always terrible and never work as well as stock.
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Number one, just be happy with what you've got, you sound really pathetic. Number two, our custom ROMs are daily drivers and work better than LGs stock ROM. Number three, conversion to GPE is at a stand still, so it's impossible at the moment to get OTAs from anything but LG.

I'm a huge fan of CM. The nightlies may have minor bugs here or there but it generally makes a huge difference in performance to the phones I've installed it on. This is probably because its a newer version of Android - I installed CM7 on a Froyo phone and CM9 on a gingerbread phone. Even CM10 is better on a JB device. Much smoother with less lag and obviously stripped of bloatware.
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You could...punch her in the face and demand an iPad Air.

Reckoning said:
You could...punch her in the face and demand an iPad Air.
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That's not nice on any day especially on Christmas.

techrider6262 said:
That's not nice on any day especially on Christmas.
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My bad, I was in Walmart yesterday so I thought punching people over gifts was in the spirit of Christmas.

Reckoning said:
My bad, I was in Walmart yesterday so I thought punching people over gifts was in the spirit of Christmas.
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Besides I would do it for buying me a ipad

techrider6262 said:
Besides I would do it for buying me a ipad
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Now, now..WWJD? He'd jailbreak that mofo and send Steve Jobs to Perdition...

Vitamin_D said:
Well my wife went out and bought a G pad. While I'm extremely appreciative of her doing this, I didn't really want her to get me one at full price. I mentioned that I wanted one when it was only $300 at Best Buy. I guess I have no issue with keeping it I'm over trying to mess with custom roms because they are always terrible and never work as well as stock.
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Vitamin_D said:
I might just get a Nexus 7.
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If it's the difference in cost, Newegg has the Tablet for $299.99 Right Now... I was able to purchase my G-Pad on that event Saturday at BB for the cost of $279.00.. yes, it was a great deal.
I would think long and hard about going back to a 7" Tablet after owning an 8.3" Tablet.. And don't forget, you can Root the Tablet you have in a few minutes.. (It took me 2 Minutes) and maintain all the stability of Stock and Freeze or better yet, Uninstall all the apps you feel are Bloatware.. The Best of Both Worlds.. I'm running Mahdi right now and it's 100% stable and very smooth..

testadeferro said:
The s4 is not the Europe version but the international version gt 9505.
In Samsung devices is easier because you have open bootloaders.
And the matter that makes the possibility to convert is if there are many hardware and partition differences.
To tell you the true and going off topic the s4 as many problems with reboots and stability with the ge port.
I've Tryed myself 3 or 4 times and gone back to TouchWiz. Battery drains, reboots and much more. I think the issue was been kernel releated.
Cheers
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not all GS4's are equal as the att s4 is also in the same place as the g pad, it needs to be lokified as well, and actually the gpe port was not as bad (at least on the att cooked version) as you make it out to be, myself going to beanstalk with it being stable (not rock stable) but most of the time stable
otherwise like the dev mention it should be something silly being the reason why not everything works on the gpe, looking over the gpe (as it doesn't have the gpu problems all the other roms have) it does have a different file structure, but it shouldn't be impossible to bring it up
RaiderWill said:
If it's the difference in cost, Newegg has the Tablet for $299.99 Right Now... I was able to purchase my G-Pad on that event Saturday at BB for the cost of $279.00.. yes, it was a great deal.. enough so that I turned in my Nexus 7 for the G-Pad 8.3.
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sweet got mine for about 275 shipped

darkassain said:
sweet got mine for about 275 shipped
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Yeah.. Newegg had them at the time for $249.99 shipped.. but I wanted to pay the $30.00 extra for 2 reasons.. 1) If anything was not right, I could just walk it in to BestBuy the same day and get a replacement.. 2) The return window was over 30 days.. I purchased the 1st week of December and have until January 15th to return/replace it if need be or the Mysterious Nexus 10 2014 should pop up in that time frame and be something REALLY special..
For the moment.. This is the Hottest Ticket on the Planet.

What do you personally like/dislike about your Galaxy Grand ?

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
[Shamelessly copied from @Braxton355's thread]

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.

no devs for our edge???

unbelivable...thers nop devs for our edge.
its funny cause in my country people buy only the edge how can it be?
in the s6 thread lots devs with great roms all ready and here nothing ..:crying::crying::crying:
even the twrp not flash regular rom lollll i hope there will be devs .
update: ok.... so i turn to edgarf28 from the galaxy s6 one of the best developers of clean and no bloat rom and i asked of him to make us rom so he say till next week he will do somthing
great news thx me lolllll

bubu23 said:
unbelivable...thers nop devs for our edge.
its funny cause in my country people buy only the edge how can it be?
in the s6 thread lots devs with great roms all ready and here nothing ..:crying::crying::crying:
even the twrp not flash regular rom lollll i hope there will be devs .
update: ok.... so i turn to edgarf28 from the galaxy s6 one of the best developers of clean and no bloat rom and i asked of him to make us rom so he say till next week he will do somthing
great news thx me lolllll
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i agree don't know why there arnt any rom devs in the s6 edge threads yet great kernel from simplkernel but we need rom devs edge has been just as big a seller as the standard s6 hopefully some will see sense and start making us some roms

Echoerom is in développement but not in xda
Envoyé de mon SM-G925F

Wher is devolpment for Echorom?

BTW..I still wait for next update..I want to be sure that the night clock problem is from software before I root.. so I can easy exchange the phone if it's not the software..Samsung write me that it's a software problem..but who knows..after that..I want to make a Rom ?

Just be patient. I am sure something will come. Many who ordered the phone have to wait for delivery. I waited 3 weeks.
I would say give it a month

http://echoerom.com/new-releases/

jemael972 said:
http://echoerom.com/new-releases/
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He doesn't have a Rom yet, only Kernel.

In développement i say
Envoyé de mon SM-G925F

Ktoonz is dev kernel for us S6e :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3099574
S6 Edge SM-G925i, Telcel, México.

Agreed. It's almost a month since release and not even a stable recovery let alone ROMs. Normal S6 launched together yet theres almost a dozen ROMs available.
This is enough to sway me to get a normal S6.

I am optimistic that we will have something sooner or later

we gonna have:echo rom...end extrelight rom the question when i cant wait

Y'all are impatient as ****. If you wanted day 1 ROMs you should have bought a Nexus. Otherwise, Android is open source. Have at it.
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New device is new, and new device uses proprietary **** that takes time to learn.
When/If it's month 3 and there are no devs, then this thread should exist.
Also, keep an eye on the S6 forums as well. I suspect that eventually you'll see cross-breeding of ROMs and what not that are simply adapted for use on the Edge's curved display, but of course, the home for such developments wouldn't be in this forum quite yet.

Carotix (CarHDRom) is coming over from Galaxy S4 and is going to be developing roms for your edge. His roms are fantastic. He'll be sorely missed from the s4 forum.

rm501 said:
Agreed. It's almost a month since release and not even a stable recovery let alone ROMs. Normal S6 launched together yet theres almost a dozen ROMs available.
This is enough to sway me to get a normal S6.
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You know you can use those S6 ROMs on your edge right? So we get all those ROMs plus any that are developed solely for our device best of both worlds.

tiboric said:
You know you can use those S6 ROMs on your edge right? So we get all those ROMs plus any that are developed solely for our device best of both worlds.
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Yep been using s6 rom flawlessly on my edge, if you want a custom rom go to the S6 threads, tons to pick from! :good:

kossiewossie said:
Yep been using s6 rom flawlessly on my edge, if you want a custom rom go to the S6 threads, tons to pick from! :good:
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Hi. Is that right? Would I just need to use the 920 equivalent variant?
Eg. I have G925F, so would look for rom compatible with G920F ??

rm501 said:
Hi. Is that right? Would I just need to use the 920 equivalent variant?
Eg. I have G925F, so would look for rom compatible with G920F ??
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Yes that's what I did!