Concern over developer support. - HTC One Max

So I went to the Verizon store today, and had a hands on with both the G2, and the HTC One Max. I really like both, and the size of the max isn't as much of a problem as I thought it'd be. However, the G2 has MUCH more xda support than the max does. Do you think the Max will eventually get more support, or is this something you have to deal with if you buy this phone?
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Rememeber in the states only the cdma versions (sprint, verizon) have been released and the verizon hasnt been publicly soff' or rooted (very soon!). Once the gsm models are released you will likely see more dev.
Whats good about the one max is it appears all the models are pretty standard across the board AND all have the same specs as the original One. It *appears* a lot of the original One stuff can be reused or at a minimum easily tweaked to use.
Also with Xposed modules being so available and working across most devices and roms you should be able to tweak for yourself what a lot of what custom roms provide
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One more thing, this is kind of off topic but there is no need for a separate thread. How had the snapdragon 600 been compared to other flagships? I know I'm not the first to ask, but I want to hear it from an owner.
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jlanik4 said:
One more thing, this is kind of off topic but there is no need for a separate thread. How had the snapdragon 600 been compared to other flagships? I know I'm not the first to ask, but I want to hear it from an owner.
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Snapdragon 600 is a highly balanced processor. There is a great balance between performance and battery usage.
What is that you are looking from a Snapdragon 800?
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Jiggity Janx said:
Rememeber in the states only the cdma versions (sprint, verizon) have been released and the verizon hasnt been publicly soff' or rooted (very soon!). Once the gsm models are released you will likely see more dev.
Whats good about the one max is it appears all the models are pretty standard across the board AND all have the same specs as the original One. It *appears* a lot of the original One stuff can be reused or at a minimum easily tweaked to use.
Also with Xposed modules being so available and working across most devices and roms you should be able to tweak for yourself what a lot of what custom roms provide
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pradeepvizz said:
Snapdragon 600 is a highly balanced processor. There is a great balance between performance and battery usage.
What is that you are looking from a Snapdragon 800?
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I've seen the phone stutter a bit compared to other phones playing games like asphalt 8, but other than that, the 800 is supposed to be more power efficient. Its not a deal breaker, the only possible deal breaker is the lack of xda support. I know this phone just came out, but I hope it really gains some traction among the development community.
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I had planned to pick up the phone at launch, but our black Friday/holiday budget keeps growing=-O if I have any money left I'll probably get it

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Snap 800 is just a quad core with a higher clock speed with 'active' listening or whatever it's called. IMO the snap 600 can push everything it has to quite easily on this phone. Samsung has all the tw stuff that bogs down a system. I'm coming from a S4 and Note2.
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I might wait to see what the m8 turns out to be. Any of y'all interested that phone?
Pardon the y'all, Texas both and bred
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All we need is a custom kernel, which flyhalf does a good job with aosp kernels, nitsuj is part of team venom, so we might see viper one max rom(hope so). And beaups did a kernel for the dna that fixed color issues. Zarboz might even provide us with some beast mode kernel. We have some great devs already with us, some i havent named because theres too many.
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keith843 said:
All we need is a custom kernel, which flyhalf does a good job with aosp kernels, nitsuj is part of team venom, so we might see viper one max rom(hope so). And beaups did a kernel for the dna that fixed color issues. Zarboz might even provide us with some beast mode kernel. We have some great devs already with us, some i havent named because theres too many.
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I'll likely be leading off the ViperMAX rom.

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good to hear!
Just got this bad boy yesterday, and I love it...a welcome change from Samsung stuff!

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Vinchenzop said:
I'll likely be leading off the ViperMAX rom.
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Ain't know viper BUTTERFLY s?
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Vinchenzop said:
I'll likely be leading off the ViperMAX rom.
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Awesome thanks
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jlanik4 said:
I've seen the phone stutter a bit compared to other phones playing games like asphalt 8, but other than that, the 800 is supposed to be more power efficient. Its not a deal breaker, the only possible deal breaker is the lack of xda support. I know this phone just came out, but I hope it really gains some traction among the development community.
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I do agree that the phone stutters little specifically where compared to the one. I am guessing this is becuase of the phone storage. AnandTech's review noted that the read and write speeds are little slow compared to the one and not to forget this is a gb storage. Last year's Nexus 7 comparison between 8, 16 and 32 gb noted higher the storage higher the performance.
This is the first version of the software and I expect HTC to improve over the time. Leaked kit kat rom's show significant improvements in performance and battery life for the one which I expect to be inherited to the Max.
S800 battery seems to be a pretty confusing from what I know. The facts say that it is supposed to be performing better at the same voltages however i realtime specifically gaming, it seems to be draining lot faster than the s600. It also heats up very fast compared to s600 which is another cause of battery draining. If I know correctly S800 is a very hot chip and has not been tamed to achieve thermal balance.
I agree on the dev support point, we need more devs. Thanks for all those devs who have plans for the max.
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Vinchenzop said:
I'll likely be leading off the ViperMAX rom.
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YES!!!!!
I've just picked up a GSM Telstra HTC One Max so if you want a GSM tester, I've been flashing custom ROMs since my HTC Magician.

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I was wondering wether to get Htc one max or Nokia lumia 1520. Owned Htc one which I really liked but Htc one max is slight downgrade in some ways camera and side bezel. In other ways an improvement. I don't think custom roms will kick off for this phone at all which is a bit of a shame as it could do with 4.4 ASAP.
4.4 is the most smoothest ever android experience especially on the nexus 5, real improvements.
What do you think is it worth getting Htc one max?

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now this looks like what will make me have to root this Sprint one max!!
thanks man!

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wooot! i love it.. @Vinchenzop will there be a international variant of the ViperMAX?
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riz157 said:
I was wondering wether to get Htc one max or Nokia lumia 1520. Owned Htc one which I really liked but Htc one max is slight downgrade in some ways camera and side bezel. In other ways an improvement. I don't think custom roms will kick off for this phone at all which is a bit of a shame as it could do with 4.4 ASAP.
4.4 is the most smoothest ever android experience especially on the nexus 5, real improvements.
What do you think is it worth getting Htc one max?
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The side bezel is definitely not a downgrade, as it protects your phone. The Original One had chamfered edges which easily developed dents and scratches. i would not say the camera is a downgrade.. i tried a little test between the one and the MAX and did not see much difference in the photos on the phones.
Custom ROM support on this phone is quite easy as the hardware between HTC One and MAX are almost the same.. same applies for the AOSP rom's as well. we will have AOSP rom's once kernel sources are available. MAX will get 4.4 by end of December, you should not be worried about software support, HTC has proved it this year with the One, they are almost the almost the the first ones to roll out 4.4. HTC One had kitkat even before Nexus 4.
if you really liked the HTC one, you cannot go wrong with MAX as it 95% the same phone

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pradeepvizz said:
wooot! i love it.. @Vinchenzop will there be a international variant of the ViperMAX?
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It'll likely just start with just the Verizon (and maybe sprint since they're so close), but I'll see about adding international support once I get all the kinks worked out.

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Vinchenzop said:
It'll likely just start with just the Verizon (and maybe sprint since they're so close), but I'll see about adding international support once I get all the kinks worked out.
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Thanks!
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