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POLL: I9500 OR I9505, What will you buy?

I would like to know whether you guys will prefer either snapdragon 600 or exynos powered samsung galaxy s4, what it'll do is making it easy for us to understand which one will have more development support, so i'll and many others will buy that one. Thanks
EDIT: Here is Exynos's Benchmark results and comparison with Snapdragon 600 powered S4 and other devices:
Octa-core Galaxy S4 benchmarks surface, live up to expectations

hspa+ in my area is solid plus att lte starting to slow up in my area, i am guessing due to more lte phones. the exynos 5 octa is better in every way it looks like and i prefer touch wiz to cm, it is more productive (imo). i hope to get it in new york when i am up there april 26th in one of the import electronic shops.

You wont find it in store here in the u.s. I prefer exynos chip too but im not getting it due to cost and no lte. Going to renew my contract and get s600 around release. Hoping to find some good deal offerings

I checked the SamMobile website and it said Australia is getting the SD600 but if I only want 3g/2g do I still have to use the SD600 variant. If I can choose I WILL go for the E5O version

porkaysi said:
hspa+ in my area is solid plus att lte starting to slow up in my area, i am guessing due to more lte phones. the exynos 5 octa is better in every way it looks like cm, touch wiz is more productive (imo). i hope to get it in new york when i am up there april 26th in one of the import electronic shops.
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I am glad to find that people prefers Exynos more then Snapdragon 600, obviously because it's battery efficient faster, but i guess many of them have to import it, even i guess you also have to import Exynos one from Asia or other region, because i saw Samsung has shortage of Exynos, so 70% will get Snapdragon 600, but in my country there will be only i9500,

bedi.gursimran said:
I checked the SamMobile website and it said Australia is getting the SD600 but if I only want 3g/2g do I still have to use the SD600 variant. If I can choose I WILL go for the E5O version
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Yeah this is bit of setback, i wish Samsung must provide LTE Capable phone for everyone, it's not there headache whether a particular country supports it or not, can't really understand these manufacturers logic these days..my main concern is only if we get very fewer number of i9500, then of course development for them will be very minimal, and in my country we'll only get i9500

As per my country I will receive S4 9400.
BTW it is related to Q/A forum.

kataria.vikesh said:
As per my country I will receive S4 9400.
BTW it is related to Q/A forum.
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Well i don't think it's related to Q/A Answer section, i feel it should be in General, just like every other similar POLLS on xda.

if india had a choice between 9500/9505 , i would blindly choose exynos. Its not only about the raw power, but about the big little architecture. Cant wait to test it and play around it. defenitely something different than a traditional cpu .
with a7 cores used for movie play back and call and at sleep, i strongly assume the battery would last much longer than any other s4 variants.

bala_gamer said:
if india had a choice between 9500/9505 , i would blindly choose exynos. Its not only about the raw power, but about the big little architecture. Cant wait to test it and play around it. defenitely something different than a traditional cpu .
with a7 cores used for movie play back and call and at sleep, i strongly assume the battery would last much longer than any other s4 variants.
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This is the reason why i guess people are looking more towards Exynos, i.e. longer battery life, your ideas are really helping me here, my first Exynos device this S4 will be i am searching for some leak to know which 70% countries are getting SD600/i9505, i wish Asia will not

R: POLL: I9500 OR I9505, What will you buy?
In Italy I will choose I9500 version (I don't care about LTE because here it's very expensive and not widespread)
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E5O by miles.
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I'll be purchasing 19500
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I9500 because well, I don't have any other choice. There's no 4G network either in my country.

IF I buy one: I9505.
Exynos makes me mad, I'm developing AOSP ROMs.

Im suprised that people prefer Exynos. I started considering SGS4 when I saw that SGS4 with Snapdragon CPU will be available in my country
Team Hacksung wont support SGS4 anymore, so it won't get CM (at least not in short future). On other side, Steve Kondik wrote: "Since it's powered by Snapdragon, CM should work wonderfully on it." So we can assume that Exynos SGS4 won't get CM and Snapdragon will get it and will work very good, because Snapdragon is much more opened than Exynos. So when Android 5.0 is released in about 2 months, Exynos SGS4 will have to wait months for official update, while Snapdragon SGS4 will get Android 5.0 (CM) much sooner.
So for me, i9505 is the only choice.

I9500 as I already have htc one with SD600 not that there is anything wrong with SD600 also I dont use 4G so don't need a 4G capable phone.

-A-P-M- said:
Im suprised that people prefer Exynos. I started considering SGS4 when I saw that SGS4 with Snapdragon CPU will be available in my country
Team Hacksung wont support SGS4 anymore, so it won't get CM (at least not in short future). On other side, Steve Kondik wrote: "Since it's powered by Snapdragon, CM should work wonderfully on it." So we can assume that Exynos SGS4 won't get CM and Snapdragon will get it and will work very good, because Snapdragon is much more opened than Exynos. So when Android 5.0 is released in about 2 months, Exynos SGS4 will have to wait months for official update, while Snapdragon SGS4 will get Android 5.0 (CM) much sooner.
So for me, i9505 is the only choice.
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no surprise here, what if they dont care about aosp? frankly the gap between aosp and stock roms are getting bigger day by day. apart from the sleekness aosp provides it is struggling hard to match the potential of stock roms(not only samsung roms,add htc and sony roms to this list).
xploidwild started a movement some time back to add more functionality to "CM". sadly i dont know the current state of that movement.
Also, the cm support for 9500 would come eventually , but its going to be harder this time with teamhacksung saying no. There are few sources of exynos 5 dual out there somewhere which might help the new cm developers.
I dont want a fully working aosp for 9500, but would be happy to see nightlies just like s2 or s3.

bala_gamer said:
no surprise here, what if they dont care about aosp? frankly the gap between aosp and stock roms are getting bigger day by day. apart from the sleekness aosp provides it is struggling hard to match the potential of stock roms(not only samsung roms,add htc and sony roms to this list).
xploidwild started a movement some time back to add more functionality to "CM". sadly i dont know the current state of that movement.
Also, the cm support for 9500 would come eventually , but its going to be harder this time with teamhacksung saying no. There are few sources of exynos 5 dual out there somewhere which might help the new cm developers.
I dont want a fully working aosp for 9500, but would be happy to see nightlies just like s2 or s3.
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Don't forget, devices which doesn't get official CM Support still gets unofficial cm ports, like Desire Z etc, we may get unofficial ports, or even cm support lately for Exynos based devices, for example note 3 etc...

-A-P-M- said:
Im suprised that people prefer Exynos. I started considering SGS4 when I saw that SGS4 with Snapdragon CPU will be available in my country
Team Hacksung wont support SGS4 anymore, so it won't get CM (at least not in short future). On other side, Steve Kondik wrote: "Since it's powered by Snapdragon, CM should work wonderfully on it." So we can assume that Exynos SGS4 won't get CM and Snapdragon will get it and will work very good, because Snapdragon is much more opened than Exynos. So when Android 5.0 is released in about 2 months, Exynos SGS4 will have to wait months for official update, while Snapdragon SGS4 will get Android 5.0 (CM) much sooner.
So for me, i9505 is the only choice.
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It's actually only one member of the team who said that the others came out and said 1 member doesn't speak for the team and that as for every other phone they will never announce supporting or not supporting until a device is actually launched
S4 INFO

[Q] Why so few custom ROMS for the S4 Exynos?

Hi Everyone,
I just took delivery of my new S4 Exynos (Octa) and am surprised how few custom ROMS are out there for this device.
I had an S3 and so I'm kinda used to being spoilt for choice when it came to custom ROMS.
Any ideas why there's but a few for the Octa? Is it because of the chipset?
I saw Cyanogen have said they nt going to release any ROMS for the Octa

device is relatively new, exynos always gave headaches to devs of CM.....
give it time, some people said its not worth upgrading from an s3 so... yeah less custom ROMs

Really its a bitter truth...9500 has only 2 or 3 Devs till now with no update and fixes in lias 2 or 3 weeks ..that section seems like ghost busted :
9505 too has not as many Devs as HTC One has...however it has quite good dev support
I think after so many issues in s4 Devs are skipping it [probably] for note 3

lets wait and see in the near future if the outcome is bad, its hammer time !

Gboss01 said:
Hi Everyone,
I just took delivery of my new S4 Exynos (Octa) and am surprised how few custom ROMS are out there for this device.
I had an S3 and so I'm kinda used to being spoilt for choice when it came to custom ROMS.
Any ideas why there's but a few for the Octa? Is it because of the chipset?
I saw Cyanogen have said they nt going to release any ROMS for the Octa
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To be clear - CM rarely says that a given device will NEVER be supported. The last time we did that was with the Snapdragon S1 and CM9 - That hardware was simply too weak to support ICS and later.
However, all of the CM maintainers that have worked with past Exynos variants refuse to touch it, and anyone else with maintainer experience saw what we went through with Exynos4 and also seem to be avoiding it.
There is always the possibility that someone new will pick things up - but honestly, I consider the likelihood to be very slim.
So CM support for the "Octa" is POSSIBLE - but it is HIGHLY UNLIKELY. I think that AndreiLux was the only experienced low-level (kernels, platform bringup) developer to touch the "Octa", and he's not particularly happy with it so far.

Entropy512 said:
So CM support for the "Octa" is POSSIBLE - but it is HIGHLY UNLIKELY. I think that AndreiLux was the only experienced low-level (kernels, platform bringup) developer to touch the "Octa", and he's not particularly happy with it so far.
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Other than the CCI fiasco I'm relatively fine with the phone. I expected and was prepared to bring MP to the device but I guess that's not happening.
As for CM, I think it's more of a problem of lack of interest than actual technical feasibility. I'd happily dwell into the device platform world if I had time but that's not happening anytime soon as I have a backlog of features in the kernel space to do and finish.

AndreiLux said:
Other than the CCI fiasco I'm relatively fine with the phone. I expected and was prepared to bring MP to the device but I guess that's not happening.
As for CM, I think it's more of a problem of lack of interest than actual technical feasibility. I'd happily dwell into the device platform world if I had time but that's not happening anytime soon as I have a backlog of features in the kernel space to do and finish.
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Why you will not bring it anymore?

Gboss01 said:
Hi Everyone,
I just took delivery of my new S4 Exynos (Octa) and am surprised how few custom ROMS are out there for this device.
I had an S3 and so I'm kinda used to being spoilt for choice when it came to custom ROMS.
Any ideas why there's but a few for the Octa? Is it because of the chipset?
I saw Cyanogen have said they nt going to release any ROMS for the Octa
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No CM support does not equal to no dev support just to be clear. There are top.devs here ( Indie and Wanam) and there most likely be more devs to join the party. It is however a surprise that there's only a few Roms for this device at the moment.
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Well because most of the S4 users have the Snapdragon variant. As for CM, as Entropy said, its most probably not going to come out for our device, even if it does, it'll be broken and unusable due to lack of source code/documentation, etc. As for the custom ROMs, we'll have more of them but the best one IMO - Android Revolution HD - is very unlikely for our device.

The Octa is such a great phone yet the support seems to be lacking a little, I mean my Huawei U8800 had more development going on than this phone.
I dont get why alot of people are saying the Octa is crap compared to the S600 when the Octa beats the S600 in every benchmark I've seen.
Is the S600 an easier design to build custom ROMS for?
I have tried Doc Barebones ROM and Wanams Lite ROM. Both work well on the Octa but I found Docs ROM to the give me the highest Antutu scores, always above 30000 with the highest being 30890. Wanam's ROM didn't yield much more than the stock ROM, around 28300, same with the Omega v4 ROM.
I'm back to on the stock firmware, with bloatware removed, for now. having tried those three ROMS I'm itching to try another but alas I cant find any :crying:

Gboss01 said:
Is the S600 an easier design to build custom ROMS for?
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Yes as Qualcomm is much more open source than Exynos. Not open source = pain in the a** to develop.
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chickentuna said:
Yes as Qualcomm is much more open source than Exynos. Not open source = pain in the a** to develop.
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Damn!
I read some where that Samsung might release the source code for the exynos. Is this true?
And if they did would that make it any easie rto develop ROMS for the Octa?

Just simply harder to develop anything for Exynos, i think.

I'd like to remind everyone that developers spend their own time and money on development.
Basically, unless the developer has a strong interest in a device he will not feel obliged to 'hack' features such as camera, noise canceling and so on.
I miss the old days of the HD2
I hope we can get CM on the 9500 because it will open the door for AOKP and Paranoid-Android and possibly MIUI.
Good luck to the developers.

RIP on i9500 haha just joking ... @AndreiLux are u giving up on i9500 ? oh please dont

As Entropy512 said, the problem is mostly because Exynos has terrible source code support. There are a lot of precompiled modules in the source, and these are tied to the Android version that the source code is for. This means that when a new version of Android comes out, you're stuck waiting for Samsung to catch up.
What the devs (like Entropy) have been trying to do is to create open-source versions of these modules, so that they're not reliant on Samsung. This has been extremely frustrating for them, requiring a lot of work for very little gain.
What would be ideal is for Samsung to provide source code and documentation for these precompiled modules. They're promised to do this several times, but so far have only delivered some code that only works for a reference board, not for the hardware configurations that any of their phones use. Even worse, the source code that is available is based on Gingerbread, and has numerous hacks applied to allow it to work with ICS. In short, it's just broken and will not work.
Qualcomm (Snapdragon), on the other hand, provide very good developer support. They and Texas Instruments (OMAP) have a very good reputation with the devs, with lots of source code and documentation available. That's why Snapdragon and OMAP phones are among the first to be supported when new versions of AOSP/AOKP/CM come out.
The I9500 may do better in the benchmarks than the I9505, but that's one of the few advantages it has.
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I am not really interested in anything else but AOSP / CM on this phone. We badly need it.. I think we need to build the force on Twitter so that we can bombard their twitter account (@SamsungExynos) and force them to release at least some sorta source for Exynos.
I already started tweeting them like hell. Yes, they do reply with kind of SAFE sided replies..

Gboss01 said:
Damn!
I read some where that Samsung might release the source code for the exynos. Is this true?
And if they did would that make it any easie rto develop ROMS for the Octa?
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If they did it would make the world of difference and Exynos would be on a level playing field in development terms as the likes of Snapdragon. Unfortunately, Samsung have been saying that since the original Galaxy S and it still hasn't happened, and it's clear they never intended to release anything and it was nothing more than lip service in an attempt to sell more handsets by appearing developer friendly. It's broken promises like this which has made reputable developers wash their hands with the Exynos chipset and any phones that use it. Unfortunately, this leaves people with the I9500 in a bit of a predicament if they're not fond of TW as it's likely to be their only option for the foreseeable, if not full stop.

Gboss01 said:
Damn!
I read some where that Samsung might release the source code for the exynos. Is this true?
And if they did would that make it any easie rto develop ROMS for the Octa?
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Exynos open source? Highly unlikely and yes it would be much easier building roms, devs wouldn't even need to have the device to build a working ROM.

gdonanthony said:
RIP on i9500 haha just joking ... @AndreiLux are u giving up on i9500 ? oh please dont
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He never said that, on the contrary he might be having some big plans
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[Q] new exynos, AOKP for i9500 and new linux kernel

1) lack of source codes for the previous exynos in galaxy s3 is a well known problem preventing the ability to create good, custom and clean android roms for s3. therefore, many developers have decided ditching s3 custom roms.
im afraid there will never be any good clean android roms for S4.. or it will take a long time.
what do you think? why doesnt samsung release the source code of the exynos 5?
Will exynos 5's source code be released soon???????
2) a new linux version 3.10 has been release, supporting exynos 5 core.. when it will be used in galaxy s4???
3) how will linux 3.10 improve android? will it be better/faster?
4)Ive heard that samsung is busy developing a new SoC, Exynos 5420
when it will be released and what will it do

darixtorento said:
1) lack of source codes for the previous exynos in galaxy s3 is a well known problem preventing the ability to create good, custom and clean android roms for s3. therefore, many developers have decided ditching s3 custom roms.
im afraid there will never be any good clean android roms for S4.. or it will take a long time.
what do you think? why doesnt samsung release the source code of the exynos 5?
Will exynos 5's source code be released soon???????
2) a new linux version 3.10 has been release, supporting exynos 5 core.. when it will be used in galaxy s4???
3) how will linux 3.10 improve android? will it be better/faster?
4)Ive heard that samsung is busy developing a new SoC, Exynos 5420
when it will be released and what will it do
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1- Exynos Code are probably never to be released though i heard about this exynos octa arndale version that may help in getting additional infos about the Chip
2 and 3-this new linux version is probably to be used with newer version of android it brings big.little optimazation so it will make the exynos SOC run efficiently however it is not know how it would improve it or using which scenario .and yes i will be faster and more power efficient
4- this SOC is more likely to be used with future devices like note 3

jj9922 said:
1- Exynos Code are probably never to be released though i heard about this exynos octa arndale version that may help in getting additional infos about the Chip
2 and 3-this new linux version is probably to be used with newer version of android it brings big.little optimazation so it will make the exynos SOC run efficiently however it is not know how it would improve it or using which scenario .and yes i will be faster and more power efficient
4- this SOC is more likely to be used with future devices like note 3
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thanks for answering
when will exynos octa arndale version be released?

So does that mean we are not going to see AOKP on i9500 soon. I love AOKPs and am cursing myself for not buying the i9505 as it was available. Smartphone is no joy without AOKP.

darixtorento said:
thanks for answering
when will exynos octa arndale version be released?
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this might help you http://www.cnx-software.com/2013/04...lopment-board-is-now-available-for-pre-order/

jj9922 said:
this might help you http://www.cnx-software.com/2013/04...lopment-board-is-now-available-for-pre-order/
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this is from april 2013.. pretty old dont you think?

darixtorento said:
this is from april 2013.. pretty old dont you think?
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yes but it should give you an idea about it

We all miss AOKP!
Hello guys, an Android / xda developers n00b here...
The Octo Core GT-I9500 was the only choice here since it's the only S4 model shipped in my country so I'm a bit frustrated too about the AOKP thing - which I learned it may well be the next big thing after CyanogenMOD itself.
I'm about to flash Arrow ROM right now which seems pretty interesting and also will give Omega ROM a try, while we can't put our dirty hands on AOKP we surely have two really nice mods to play with
As such, I'm all years about your experiences - if any - with any of these two ROMs.
Cheers

so no aokp coming soon?
even GS3 got aopk faster

Comon people please help

Comon i need answersssss

Comon what goes on there are any news?
Where is aopk for s4

what goes on

learn to search and read .. sorry to offend u ..

gdonanthony said:
learn to search and read .. sorry to offend u ..
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i did, and found nothing

darixtorento said:
i did, and found nothing
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If there ia nothing... there is nothing.
In my country we say
A watched pot never boils.
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Gillion said:
If there ia nothing... there is nothing.
In my country we say
A watched pot never boils.
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Or what is more or less the same thing: it will not get faster no matter how much you stand still looking at it!
(and, btw, this is just what's happening to me reloading the site every 5' min awaiting for the imminent release of Arrow ROM 4.0, lol!)

In general thread of i9500 and i9505 a thread exist s about cm development for i9500 some good info there!

Cyanogenmod on the Galaxy Note 4?

Is there any news or release date of Cyanogenmod for the Galaxy Note 4?

I have been waiting and wondering about this too...

But i think if we dont use stock rom our spen cant have full features

honhan0904 said:
But i think if we dont use stock rom our spen cant have full features
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Yup, you gonna lose
camera options
spen features
fingerprint
any many many more
for me the current performance of the note 4 is amazing.

aHanSolo said:
Is there any news or release date of Cyanogenmod for the Galaxy Note 4?
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From what I've read, CyanogenMod will also only work on the Snapdragon version and not the Exynos version. I am a long time user and fan of CM and am using it on my current phone. This makes the decision very difficult when buying the Note 4, whether or not to get the Snapdragon or the Exynos version. I am ready to give up CM and just use a different ROM if it makes sense to do so. I'm sure there are many other good ROM's with an experience close to CM, the main thing for me is a pure Android experience without the bloat.
It seems the die hard tech guys really love the Exynos version. But it seems the battery life is questionable in Exynos, where it has been proven (so far) in Snapdragon. I haven't found any in-depth reviews on YouTube for example on the Exynos that claim outstanding battery, but I've found multiple for Snapdragon. The second issue is the camera, apparently there is a difference there as well, but I haven't found any direct comparisons.
It seems like the safer choice would be the Snapdragon. But, to further complicate things, it seems like Snapdragon is mainly a US-market part number. I live in South America, and our LTE frequencies are different. I am concerned about buying a carrier phone (Tmo, Verizon, AT&T) because (a) it might be locked and require jumping through hoops to get them to unlock it, (b) it is physically branded, (c) different carrier specific frequencies?
All of this is really a challenge! I simply want to give someone my money! I want a Note 4! But Samsung is making it extremely difficult for someone like me. I live in Ecuador and am on Claro/Movistar.

Will there be an official Cyanogen Mod Rom For Galaxy S7 Edge

Is there any chance to get any official support from CM rom for Galaxy S7 edge exynos version.
Please really need to know.
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Don't think so...
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No chance. Closed source SOC. Small possibility of an unofficial one being released that will boot and be usable but you have two hopes of it ever being stable.
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Just to ask, why would you buy a Samsung phone based on an Exynos chip set if CM is important to you? Possibly the worst phone SOC you can buy under those circumstances.

Beefheart said:
No chance. Closed source SOC. Small possibility of an unofficial one being released that will boot and be usable but you have two hopes of it ever being stable.
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Just to ask, why would you buy a Samsung phone based on an Exynos chip set if CM is important to you? Possibly the worst phone SOC you can buy under those circumstances.
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I strongly agree with your point but since the s7 edge has been sold in the 30 million mark i thought too myself there has to be a cm for this phone since its so freakin awesome! I traded my nexus 4 to the nexus 5 than moved to 1+1 then for the almighty nexus 6 (yes im a flashaholic) but eventually for some stupid reason i sold it and bought the s7 edge because of the better screen camera and popularity and now im thinking of selling because it has no aosp or cm roms..... i mean seriously this phone is a beast of a beast but slowly slowly im starting to realize maybe having so much custom roms is a better choice.... Thats my opinion tbh

Unfortunately only Exynos 4 family have true open libraries, also 5 series has some libraries but i've never heard about 7 and 8 series have any libraries, and without Samsung sources, it's somethink like impossible. Read further here:
http://www.xda-developers.com/the-r...ng-how-and-why-tinkerers-used-samsung-phones/
http://www.xda-developers.com/samsung-exynos-and-aosp-explained-a-story-of-betrayal/

Samsung or most oem's don't give a **** about open-source that why you get skins on phones and not stock they want you running their services etc if you care for development I suggest getting a Nexus/Pixel only

Thanks every one :'(
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But why samsung don't realease the source of exynos???
It's a problem for samsung?
I remember when i bought the Galaxy S3..OMG so many roms?
But now...When samsung want to abandon the S7..we don't have rom custom for solve the problem

We want it but seems impossible...

May be samsung wants their consumer to be stock or something. what ever it is, so disappointed :'-(
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Maybe we should make a HUGE petition to samsung to release more source code? 99.9% it won't work but well..

It's being worked on for the snapdragon variant of the S7E. Dont think anything is being done for the Enyxos version.

sosjadd said:
It's being worked on for the snapdragon variant of the S7E. Dont think anything is being done for the Enyxos version.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/s7-edge/development/cyanogenmod-13-galaxy-s7-edge-t3414697
Wanted to see how CM would hold up on a Dual Boot now its possible on the S7

hasibgns said:
Is there any chance to get any official support from CM rom for Galaxy S7 edge exynos version.
Please really need to know.
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Nope.
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Even if a usable CM build did appear, the use of it would take away a lot of the features that make this a premium phone in the first place. For a start I can guarantee you the camera quality will be dire in comparison. And on a phone with a camera this good, that would be ridiculous. Its one of the main reasons I bought it. Then you will lose the Edge features.
Nah, I'll stick with Touchwiz thanks. Besides, it's far better than it used to be, it's no longer a chore.

Beefheart said:
Even if a usable CM build did appear, the use of it would take away a lot of the features that make this a premium phone in the first place. For a start I can guarantee you the camera quality will be dire in comparison. And on a phone with a camera this good, that would be ridiculous. Its one of the main reasons I bought it. Then you will lose the Edge features.
Nah, I'll stick with Touchwiz thanks. Besides, it's far better than it used to be, it's no longer a chore.
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You use the edge features!!?? I didn't know somebody used that, why will the camera quality will be compromised? is it the hardware? or you wanna say it's the software of S7E who deliver beautiful pictures. I believe a beautyful cool UI is a perfect match for this awesome device.[emoji56]
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dave7802 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/s7-edge/development/cyanogenmod-13-galaxy-s7-edge-t3414697
Wanted to see how CM would hold up on a Dual Boot now its possible on the S7
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Shame about the closed source for the samsung SOC. I think this is where the qualcomm soc variant lucked out a bit.
There is some work being done at the moment to get it to boot correctly on the qualcomm side, but everything else is pretty much there. Once that problem is solved, its pretty easy since a lot of qualcomm based devices can already run cm13/14 so porting it to the s7/s7e qualcomm would be relatively easy of a task.

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Shame about the closed source for the samsung SOC. I think this is where the qualcomm soc variant lucked out a bit.
There is some work being done at the moment to get it to boot correctly on the qualcomm side, but everything else is pretty much there. Once that problem is solved, its pretty easy since a lot of qualcomm based devices can already run cm13/14 so porting it to the s7/s7e qualcomm would be relatively easy of a task.
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But, I have a Exynos device
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hasibgns said:
You use the edge features!!?? I didn't know somebody used that, why will the camera quality will be compromised? is it the hardware? or you wanna say it's the software of S7E who deliver beautiful pictures. I believe a beautyful cool UI is a perfect match for this awesome device.[emoji56]
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Yes, I do. And the camera is compromised because Samsung's TW framework is required for it to work optimally. You will get basic image quality and features under CM but it won't be anything like approaching what you get under TW and the stock camera app. This was the case under older phones like the Note 3 (I used Temasek's CM builds on that) and it will be even more prevelant on superior camera hardware like this. The gains CM/AOSP offer simply don't outweigh the disadvantages for me.

sosjadd said:
Shame about the closed source for the samsung SOC. I think this is where the qualcomm soc variant lucked out a bit.
There is some work being done at the moment to get it to boot correctly on the qualcomm side, but everything else is pretty much there. Once that problem is solved, its pretty easy since a lot of qualcomm based devices can already run cm13/14 so porting it to the s7/s7e qualcomm would be relatively easy of a task.
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It is, i have been waiting for Dual Patcher to bring S7 Edge support.
I was going to consider having a play with CM build as an additional ROM.
I enjoyed it on my Note 3 switching between the two, So i may have a dip in the source thats already been worked on next early next year