I need help buying this phone, which one is better in terms of custom roms avaibility? i want the modek that has better battery life, performance and access to android 7.1 official or unofficial. Which one is it? the s3+ or s3? I also want the 32gb model // Bought Elephone P9000
Jiayu S3 advanced (which may be discontinued now ?)
(not s3 +, be aware of that.)
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Hello to everyone,
I 'm thinking on buying S4 Mini LTE (i9195), to replace my old and precious HTC Desire, and i am a little conserned about the few rom variants that are present so far for the device by the community.
I don't see any miui, aosp, aokp or cm variants (PA, Android Revolution HD etc.) beeing for the device for the time beeing and I am worried if the hole android community is not going to embrace the S4 Mini. I would like to have your thoughts and your experience in general by using the device.
Thanks in advance and sorry if this matter is already discussed elsewhere.
I can give you my opinion, for what it's worth, as a new user who migrated a few days ago from Galaxy S2. I actually wanted an S4 but my finger slipped on ebay and I got an S4 mini instead. I've got a 64Gb SDcard because I carry a lot of media files.
Like you, I thought the custom rom market for the S4mini was a bit weak. But actually it's not bad, considering the few weeks since phone release - we have a way to root and a few 4.2.2 and 4.3 roms available.
First thing I did was to root and remove samsung bloatware with a script from xda. Then I reformatted my sdcard to fat32 'cos I want to be able to mount it in CWM. Now I'm going to wait tile some stable 4.3 roms emerge and CWM mounting of exfat disks is fixed before deciding to stay with stock or move to something else.
The phone is pretty good - a decent size, easy to hold and operate, decent screen, good camera. It's a bit expensive and the 8Gb memory is a pain but at least it has an sdcard slot and replaceable battery which many competitors don't.
tip: buy the i9195 (LTE) variant, I think it's more future-proofed than the others.
Good luck with your decision
Hello!
I am about to buy a Samsung Galaxy S4, but I have 2 options. For 190€ a normal i9505 (Black Mist) and 215€ for a black edition i9506 (the leather one).
They are both 16GB version so the only difference between them is the model no. and obviously the processor.
Considering the price difference and the hardware, I would buy the i9506 without a doubt! But... there's XDA and development...
I'm not here for that long to be able to tell if the i9506 gets about the same love as the i9505... Performance wise, how they compare to each other?
I want to be able to unlock the bootloader, install recovery, be a flashaholic like I am with my current Galaxy Nexus. I don't need to have like thousands of roms avaiable but I wanted at least the major ones (like CM, Omni, AOSP) to be avaiable and work without a problem. Do I still have that in the i9506? I'm seriously needing help with this, which one should I buy considering this community and kernel+rom avaiability?
diogofd8 said:
Hello!
I am about to buy a Samsung Galaxy S4, but I have 2 options. For 190€ a normal i9505 (Black Mist) and 215€ for a black edition i9506 (the leather one).
They are both 16GB version so the only difference between them is the model no. and obviously the processor.
Considering the price difference and the hardware, I would buy the i9506 without a doubt! But... there's XDA and development...
I'm not here for that long to be able to tell if the i9506 gets about the same love as the i9505... Performance wise, how they compare to each other?
I want to be able to unlock the bootloader, install recovery, be a flashaholic like I am with my current Galaxy Nexus. I don't need to have like thousands of roms avaiable but I wanted at least the major ones (like CM, Omni, AOSP) to be avaiable and work without a problem. Do I still have that in the i9506? I'm seriously needing help with this, which one should I buy considering this community and kernel+rom avaiability?
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I also had to face this decision. I eventually chose for the 9506 version. On one side because of the major speed difference. But that's something you already know.
It's true that the 9505 version has more support and more roms available. It will probably last longer in terms of "custom support". But the 9506 doesn't fall behind in these terms. It has less roms, but there still are a few good ones. Also lot of new rom threads are opening, who knows where they will be in a few months. The support of the 9506 is at least better then a few other flagships released than and now.
Besides, if you purely like customization and already have an optimized rom, xposed will give you a lot and only needs root (which will always be there).
For me the choice was easy.
I've been having some issues with my Note 3. My current ROM is no longer supported (CleanROM), and in fact, the dev retired from android altogether.
I looked around at some of the threads for a new ROM, and they all seem to be filled with dead links.
So I'm thinking it's time to move on to a new phone. I've heard that the current lineup from Samsung has issues, so I'm kinda curious what everybody else is going to or what you recommend.
Plenty of live roms on here .
Staying with Note 3 me .
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I've been having some issues with my Note 3. My current ROM is no longer supported (CleanROM), and in fact, the dev retired from android altogether.
I looked around at some of the threads for a new ROM, and they all seem to be filled with dead links.
So I'm thinking it's time to move on to a new phone. I've heard that the current lineup from Samsung has issues, so I'm kinda curious what everybody else is going to or what you recommend.
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I advice to you that incredible ROM that make my NOTE 3 revive by its smoothness, speed, power in games, extraordinary good battery life !!!!
The link : http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-3/development/6-0-1-touchwiz-marshmallow-note-3-t3349306
Enjoy !
Xaotikdesigns said:
I've been having some issues with my Note 3. My current ROM is no longer supported (CleanROM), and in fact, the dev retired from android altogether.
I looked around at some of the threads for a new ROM, and they all seem to be filled with dead links.
So I'm thinking it's time to move on to a new phone. I've heard that the current lineup from Samsung has issues, so I'm kinda curious what everybody else is going to or what you recommend.
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Actually newer Samsung phones almost don't need rooting and flashing to be usable.
And the Note 6 (latest rumors claim it's gonna be called Note 7) is going to be a massive powerhouse, you could wait for it to come out in August.
In the meantime the OnePlus 3 is going to come out.
Huawei P9 Plus is also good, from what I've read.
Pick one.
sirobelec said:
Actually newer Samsung phones almost don't need rooting and flashing to be usable.
And the Note 6 (latest rumors claim it's gonna be called Note 7) is going to be a massive powerhouse, you could wait for it to come out in August.
In the meantime the OnePlus 3 is going to come out.
Huawei P9 Plus is also good, from what I've read.
Pick one.
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I have discovered Meizu and it's the best Android constructor.
I have the PRO 5 (409euros = 420$) and it's the best smartphone of 2015 ! Better flagship for that price !
-> 4GB DDR4 RAM, 64GB ROM, similar specs as the S6 Edge, but more powerful
+ 200GB ext-sdcard Lexar 633x (115euros = 125$)
And the best of this phone is its alone button to do "back" and "home", his OS FlyMe, like Touchwiz, based on Android, but with Apple inspiration for good ideas...
And that phone has an incredible good audio render ! With a DAC (digital to analog converter) integrated.
cedric3 said:
I have discovered Meizu and it's the best Android constructor.
I have the PRO 5 (409euros = 420$) and it's the best smartphone of 2015 ! Better flagship for that price !
-> 4GB DDR4 RAM, 64GB ROM, similar specs as the S6 Edge, but more powerful
+ 200GB ext-sdcard Lexar 633x (115euros = 125$)
And the best of this phone is its alone button to do "back" and "home", his OS FlyMe, like Touchwiz, based on Android, but with Apple inspiration for good ideas...
And that phone has an incredible good audio render ! With a DAC (digital to analog converter) integrated.
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This thing was the best phone of 2015, I agree here.
But we gotta look forward.
I myself still haven't found something truly powerful enough to justify an upgrade from my Note 3, but this Autumn there will be some heavy hitters that might make me consider it. Note 6 (or 7, whatever they gonna call it), the new Nexus phones...
Can someone explain to me the current state of custom ROMs for this phone, primarily the Exynos edition which is what I is sold in my country (I think).
In other words, why is there no CM or similar for this phone (Exynos or Snapdragon) and what is the current outlook on either of them ever getting it?
Bonus question: Which current flagship-ish phone should I buy if I want openness and community support?
There are actually a lot of stable-ish stock based ROMs over at the development forum, but unfortunately there is no(and quite possibly for a while) stable Cyanogenmod 13 for it yet. I'd look into the OnePlus 3 if you're really into flashing custom stuff.
I really like the quality and features of the S7, but I really want the security of community support when the manufacturer decides to drop support. I am still on my LG G2 and I am very happy to be able to run Android 6.x (Resurrection Remix in this case) on it, when LG dropped support after 5.x.
OnePlus 3 is one option. I guess the Nexus phones are also very open and community friendly?
pinkfloydhomer said:
I really like the quality and features of the S7, but I really want the security of community support when the manufacturer decides to drop support. I am still on my LG G2 and I am very happy to be able to run Android 6.x (Resurrection Remix in this case) on it, when LG dropped support after 5.x.
OnePlus 3 is one option. I guess the Nexus phones are also very open and community friendly?
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stick to s7 its the better option and there's ton of custom roms and kernels which are stable not ish STAAABLE like king rom and jessee kernel
- tapatalked - from my VANTABLACK S7 EDGE
Stability is nice, but it doesn't address the issue of having community support when Samsung decides to drop support.
Is it worth??
No stay on Nokia 3310. You have No Bugs. ?
Thanks
Nokia 3310 is my current phone. i should stay with it ?
Good for me 2 custom ROMs (Samsung based) in development.
(My country only have exy model):fingers-crossed:
There will be very little development for the S10+ and the Exynos chip is supposed to be inferior to the Snapdragon so I don't think it makes any sense at all.
If your ultimate goal is to run a custom ROM then you should buy a phone brand that's more developer friendly and stay away from Samsung, Huawei and Xiaomi since none of those brands get much in the way of custom ROMs.
Stick with a rotary dial phone. It's must simple than s10+