Update: Chinese/English dump available, thanks datagutt.
So I was reading the review of the Meizu MX and really liked the change in its UI. The device is based on the same Exynos 4210 base but does have a 640x960 display. Coming from a complete non-dev my question is, is/would anyone be interested in this port (Device soon to be released) and if so would any developers be interested in taking up the challenge? As I can't help on the dev side I would be more than happy to give access to a 1GBit 100GB file dump that could perhaps come in useful. Oh and here are some pics of the UI:
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I would pay for such rom for my SGS2
Send me a dump and ill look at it.
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Thanks, it should be out early Jan so it shouldn't be too long before a system dump is available.
Not that I'm that impressed,but doesn't it look like MIUI?
Say what
Me would love 2 c some Meizu in my GS2
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Not that I'm that impressed,but doesn't it look like MIUI?
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It does, but is different enough to warrant interest from me (And hopefully others).
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It does, but is different enough to warrant interest from me (And hopefully others).
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Well,I never said I wouldn't try it,did I?
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send me dump when someone got it.
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send me dump when someone got it.
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yes i would like a dump also please and thank you
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Well,I never said I wouldn't try it,did I?
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Can't help yourself
Still looks like MIUI to me
How is this different from MIUI?
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Can't help yourself
Still looks like MIUI to me
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Yep,you got that right I guess.
Look,I've tried all kinds of **** on my phones,so it doesn't matter even if it's crappy.And it's something new and...(?)different(?).
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Seems the device went on sale on the 1st so a ROM dump shouldn't be too far behind
I picked up one of these bad boys in Beijing on the first and will be back in the US in a couple of days. If someone tells me how to do a dump i would be happy to help.
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I picked up one of these bad boys in Beijing on the first and will be back in the US in a couple of days. If someone tells me how to do a dump i would be happy to help.
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Well,I can't help,but what are your first impressions?Is it good?
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You need a dump first. I might provide one if/when i get the phone, i got a friend buying it for me. Also, M9 is getting a firmware upgrade soon with the same UI improvements, so unpack that one.
EDIT: Look here http://www.meizume.com/meizu-m9-firmware/14111-firmware-news-next-official-firmware.html and here http://www.meizume.com/meizu-m9-rooting-modding/13080-meizu-m9-firmware-unpacker.html
@sstarch1: do a "adb pull /" or "adb pull /system"
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You need a dump first. I might provide one if/when i get the phone, i got a friend buying it for me. Also, M9 is getting a firmware upgrade soon with the same UI improvements, so unpack that one.
EDIT: Look here http://www.meizume.com/meizu-m9-firmware/14111-firmware-news-next-official-firmware.html and here http://www.meizume.com/meizu-m9-rooting-modding/13080-meizu-m9-firmware-unpacker.html
@sstarch1: do a "adb pull /" or "adb pull /system"
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That would be pretty sweet The advantage with the MX is that it runs on the same processor so non-dev me figured it would be easier to port from
Ok, ill look at this
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As a platform (the HW) i couldnt be happier; snappy reponse, little hang time, and just a pleasing feature phone to use. Certainly comparable to any new i/android device, if not better.
The SW is certainly built for a moce Asian audience in terms of a more limited (at least on the surface) iOS version of Android. I certainly miss the flexibility of CM on my EVO4G. There are plenty of reviews out there in the world for details, but as a user of the stock FLYME OS, i am quite happy. I would be over the hill if some of the very cool features of FLYME were integrated into a CM7 build, adding an application bar/menu, and some other "standard" CM7 customization features.
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Well,I can't help,but what are your first impressions?Is it good?
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Related
An uninformative statement from HTC on the subject:
"We are excited about Google's unveiling of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, but don't yet have an announcement about HTC devices running the new OS version".
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source: http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/android-jelly-bean-has-htc-excited-but-no-update-yet-50008434/
--- edit: And one more, equally as disapointing:
"We are excited about Android Jelly Bean and are planning to support it across a variety of our devices. We are reviewing the software to determine our upgrade plans and schedule, so please stay tuned for more updates on specific device upgrade plans."
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Oh hey, maybe if they didn't bastardize Android with Sense then we could have nice things in a relatively quick fashion.
really jellybean is what ICS should have been.
They said the exact thing for ICS and the Tbolt and Inc2 are getting ICS so maybe we are in decent shape
anyone try installing the updated apps?
I kinda doubt given this phone's lackluster sales that it will be updated past ics. Hopefully I'm wrong but....
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Maybe we'll get Jellybean before ICS?
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really jellybean is what ICS should have been.
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Just like how ICS is what Honeycomb should have been?
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really jellybean is what ICS should have been.
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In what ways?
Sorry, I haven't been able to see any of it yet to know what the fuss is about.
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In what ways?
Sorry, I haven't been able to see any of it yet to know what the fuss is about.
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well im on it right now on it looks pretty much like ICS....with some minor differences....messaging widget...toggle buttons are diff....notification pull down has been revamped.....animations are extremely smooth unlike ics even on my nexus they were sort of choppy...no live wallpaper lagg...slightly diff lockscreen....google search was revamped......just overall a super fast build
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well im on it right now on it looks pretty much like ICS....with some minor differences....messaging widget...toggle buttons are diff....notification pull down has been revamped.....animations are extremely smooth unlike ics even on my nexus they were sort of choppy...no live wallpaper lagg...slightly diff lockscreen....google search was revamped......just overall a super fast build
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Dang, now I hope a port can come to the rezound.
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Dang, now I hope a port can come to the rezound.
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Joelz make it happen lol jk
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anyone try installing the updated apps?
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I get parsing errors on most of them, I only tried the launcher and a few odd others. I assume the api level or whatever is above ICS
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Joelz make it happen lol jk
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its pointless atm.....not even a final buld
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well im on it right now on it looks pretty much like ICS....with some minor differences....messaging widget...toggle buttons are diff....notification pull down has been revamped.....animations are extremely smooth unlike ics even on my nexus they were sort of choppy...no live wallpaper lagg...slightly diff lockscreen....google search was revamped......just overall a super fast build
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It really is what ICS should have been. I feel weird going back to it after using JB all night. It definitely is the smoothest version of Android yet, I can't imagine how nice Sense will be atop of it. ICS was like an rc, and this is the real release right here.
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stay calm... let the gnex people work out all the bugs before we get it.
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its pointless atm.....not even a final buld
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Obviously not now I know its pointless maybe mid-July if you know what I'm saying lol I'm just busting your balls you don't have to do anything
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When will Cyanogen JB be out for the Rezound?
Hehe.
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We are going to have MIUI v4 for Xperia S soon, can't wait. One reason for me to unlock my bootloader..
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What exactly is MIUI?
Is it just an User Interface, I have to say, the UI in that picture looks clean and simple.
wow, it is even official. well i wanted to wait with unlocking my bootloader a little more, but i possibly can´t resist miui
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What exactly is MIUI?
Is it just an User Interface, I have to say, the UI in that picture looks clean and simple.
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No not user interface, a whole new rom based on Sony's ICS source i think. It looked awesome with Arc S. I wonder what it will look like with Xperia S, i think it will be amazingly clean and smooth..
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Is it just an User Interface, I have to say, the UI in that picture looks clean and simple.
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It's a famous ROM like CM. It's very popular because its UI is very customizable.
Now we just need someone porting PARANOID ROM and we will have a full set of awesome ROMs: CM9\10, AOKP, MIUI, KAxx.
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Now we just need someone porting PARANOID ROM and we will have a full set of awesome ROMs: CM9\10, AOKP, MIUI, KAxx.
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Paranoid is not awesome
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Paranoid is not awesome
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I really respect you, K900, but why? I love the hibrid thing.
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I really respect you, K900, but why? I love the hibrid thing.
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Isn't it closed source?
I was expecting this because the Xperia s was one of the best sellers in asia, let's hope that will happen the same way with aokp or CM!
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Isn't it closed source?
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Does that make it less awesome? I still like it.
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I really respect you, K900, but why? I love the hibrid thing.
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The idea is great, but the implementation plays some really bad tricks on the frameworks.
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The idea is great, but the implementation plays some really bad tricks on the frameworks.
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I see. Still, I want to see it working any day.
dont like MIUI .. just like i had an iphone with better specs lol.
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dont like MIUI .. just like i had an iphone with better specs lol.
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You can't have a system wide theme in an iPhone unless it's jailbroken.
use another launcher. problem solved.
miui started maybe as a ios copy but nowadays it is more than a plain copy.
can i flash it on locked boot loader
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i cat unlock it
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can i flash it on locked boot loader
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i cat unlock it
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It's not even out yet.
I love the interface of MIUI, but the launcher is too iPhoney
It think it's better to change the launcher
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Does that make it less awesome? I still like it.
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Yes, I do.
It means you have to port it, and android is open source.
Its implementation is probably mangled too.
I am thinking about another 3 days, setting as how I already have a fully functional jellybean running on my xoom (google now with voice is oh so sexy) and I saw where the iconia got it, so surely we will be on this track soon, right?
P.S. I am not trying to start a "dev where is our jellybean?!" Thread, I honestly want to hear your guys' opinions on how long it will take?
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I am thinking about another 3 days, setting as how I already have a fully functional jellybean running on my xoom (google now with voice is oh so sexy) and I saw where the iconia got it, so surely we will be on this track soon, right?
P.S. I am not trying to start a "dev where is our jellybean?!" Thread, I honestly want to hear your guys' opinions on how long it will take?
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This being the market leading device at the moment, I would say it won't take long for the XDA community to come up with something, though for a stock ROM from Samsung (and then the carrier's fooling around with said ROM) your guess is as good as mine.
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This being the market leading device at the moment, I would say it won't take long for the XDA community to come up with something, though for a stock ROM from Samsung (and then the carrier's fooling around with said ROM) your guess is as good as mine.
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A stock ROM can shove it, I want anything I can get to have a fully functioning jellybean on my s 3. Can you imagine how amazing this phone will be with butter?
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i will award the first person with a 100% working jellybean rom with a night out with my girlfriend.
please note* she does not know about this yet so let me have some time to break the news.
Her
Gonna be another month I would say...we just got AOKP/CM9 and theres still a few issues that need to be ironed out.
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A stock ROM can shove it, I want anything I can get to have a fully functioning jellybean on my s 3. Can you imagine how amazing this phone will be with butter?
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I hear you. I'm playing it safe for the time being, just kind of watching the development. Probably going to root in a month or so, I'm sure it won't take long. The device with its stock ROM is already ridiculously smooth, butter it up and... well it will be as smooth as butter.
Opinions are like assholes.
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Opinions are like assholes.
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They smell funny? They're everywhere? You just shared yours?
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Opinions are like assholes.
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i dont like sticking my **** in opinions though...
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i will award the first person with a 100% working jellybean rom with a night out with my girlfriend.
please note* she does not know about this yet so let me have some time to break the news.
Her
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oh...Sorry bro, she told me she was your sister...:highfive:
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oh...Sorry bro, she told me she was your sister...:highfive:
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Hey there everyone.
I'm sure all of you have gotten hold of the news that Samsung FINALLY pushed an ICS update to the Tab 10,1.
I was wondering if anyone would be so kind to extract the Camera.apk and its associated libs and bins from the stock ICS ROM into a Titanium Backup.
I currently have an AOKP ROM Milestone 6 for my GT-7510 and I'd like to try if installing the files from the stock to my tab would get the camera to work.
Thanks a lot guys and more power to the XDA community! You guys rock!
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Hey there everyone.
I'm sure all of you have gotten hold of the news that Samsung FINALLY pushed an ICS update to the Tab 10,1.
I was wondering if anyone would be so kind to extract the Camera.apk and its associated libs and bins from the stock ICS ROM into a Titanium Backup.
I currently have an AOKP ROM Milestone 6 for my GT-7510 and I'd like to try if installing the files from the stock to my tab would get the camera to work.
Thanks a lot guys and more power to the XDA community! You guys rock!
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It's not going to be as easy as that, drivers need to be loaded up for it to work. You'll be better off waiting until they've been added to the builds.
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It's not going to be as easy as that, drivers need to be loaded up for it to work. You'll be better off waiting until they've been added to the builds.
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Thanks for the heads-up! I do hope they add it as soon as possible. ;-;
Have you not considered using the official flavour, I've read a few posts from people stating that the new Samsung releases are better than the current custom ROMs out there. I tried a couple a while back but had enough issues to force me back to Honeycomb. This current official 4.0.4 release I'm using now however is great. No problems whatsoever, for me at least.
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Have you not considered using the official flavour, I've read a few posts from people stating that the new Samsung releases are better than the current custom ROMs out there. I tried a couple a while back but had enough issues to force me back to Honeycomb. This current official 4.0.4 release I'm using now however is great. No problems whatsoever, for me at least.
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Come to think of it, I never really considered going vanilla... but yet I'm too afraid to see what kind of monstrosity Samsung cooked up with their new Touchwiz. Unless I find a stock ICS theme for it that wouldn't make it look clunky and cartoony, I wouldn't touch it for now...
but thanks for bringing that up. I'll take a look at it as well, if they say it's that good.
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Come to think of it, I never really considered going vanilla... but yet I'm too afraid to see what kind of monstrosity Samsung cooked up with their new Touchwiz. Unless I find a stock ICS theme for it that wouldn't make it look clunky and cartoony, I wouldn't touch it for now...
but thanks for bringing that up. I'll take a look at it as well, if they say it's that good.
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You could just hide some of it with a custom launcher like Apex that's what I'm using, it gives you that stock feel as it is essentially the original ICS launcher but with added extras.
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Has anyone looked into this further? It would be awesome to get the camera to work on AOKP milestone 6.
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Has anyone looked into this further? It would be awesome to get the camera to work on AOKP milestone 6.
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It's not going to happen until Samsung have released the source code.
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You could just hide some of it with a custom launcher like Apex that's what I'm using, it gives you that stock feel as it is essentially the original ICS launcher but with added extras.
Here's how it's looking for me...
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You can also get an ics or jb icon pack for apex launcher from the play store and give it that just better look!
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Rear camera is working as 3MP in Cyanogenmod 10 on the Galaxy tab 10.1 currently. Front camera not yet... and here the flashable file:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/y53s0n8tnlgypix/gtab_jb_camera_update.zip
Looks like we are going to get Marshmallow in June 2016 rather than in march/april
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Better late than not at all, also its better because Samsung has more time to develop it
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Better late than not at all, also its better because Samsung has more time to develop it
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You are right and apparently only Sm-850F variant on the list.
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You are right and apparently only Sm-850F variant on the list.
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Well yeah because that's the international version so that's primary then it's the other variants
Not good for the g850a users....i guess I'll be sticking to KK for a while....
No doubt that will be for one SKU in a single country not for everyone around the world.
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No doubt that will be for one SKU in a single country not for everyone around the world.
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Thanks god for XDA then allowing us to flash roms of different countries
I'm waiting...
Hopefully they'll also update the UI like the S6(Edge)/Note 5
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Hopefully they'll also update the UI like the S6(Edge)/Note 5
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Are you sure of this?
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Are you sure of this?
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Im 100% they wont but thats why we use custom Roms
June approaching...
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June approaching...
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Fingers crossed....
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Lets hope there will be an update otherwise the Rom scene is basically dead lol
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Lets hope there will be an update otherwise the Rom scene is basically dead lol
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Iam optimistic...i belive we would get it in late june/july.
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Optimistic is the only thing you can be when u have to rely on an manufacturer to get updates.
The upgrade thing sucks on Android.
Its basically: oh your phone is 2 years old and you want an update? gtfo, buy a new one and ask again in 2 years lol
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Optimistic is the only thing you can be when u have to rely on an manufacturer to get updates.
The upgrade thing sucks on Android.
Its basically: oh your phone is 2 years old and you want an update? gtfo, buy a new one and ask again in 2 years lol
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hhh well said my friend
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hhh well said my friend
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I disagree. Android is partly built around the open source mentality. One of the reasons that some phones don't get more than 2 years support is because the manufacturer has not released proper sources. I think it's in customers' responsibility to shoot emails to manufacturers and ask for proper sources as obliged by GPL.
Android phones with proper sources are still being supported even if (some of them) they are 5 years old. Just take a look on CM nightly support. A semi-open source scheme is close to perfect to be the one that's getting the most support as long as the manufacturers do what the law obliges them... In fact I don't think that many embedded systems (other than certain android phones) have got more support in the long term.
We haven't even gotten lollipop 5.1.1 update yet so I doubt we will be getting any marshmallow update any time soon!!