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sorry if this is in the wrong place, but i have recently bought the A5 (a5009) and have searched high and low on xda, but cannot find any support for the phone on this forum. As it is related to the alpha line, i was wondering if this sub-forum will be the place for news or ROMs for the A3/A5/A7? or have i missed something?
i feel its a great phone, but touchwiz is so ugly compared to stock android (in my opinion), and this could sway me away from the phone if there is no support.
i have noticed that it can be rooted already, but i dont see much point unless there are custom roms available or am i missing the point?
many thanks
Dom
Thepompa said:
sorry if this is in the wrong place, but i have recently bought the A5 (a5009) and have searched high and low on xda, but cannot find any support for the phone on this forum. As it is related to the alpha line, i was wondering if this sub-forum will be the place for news or ROMs for the A3/A5/A7? or have i missed something?
i feel its a great phone, but touchwiz is so ugly compared to stock android (in my opinion), and this could sway me away from the phone if there is no support.
i have noticed that it can be rooted already, but i dont see much point unless there are custom roms available or am i missing the point?
many thanks
Dom
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If you can, return your A5 and get the alpha! . It is the value for money phone of the new series... It has 3x faster cpu and many times faster GPU and better camera than A5. :good::good::good:
To be honest, i don't think that anybody with some hardware knowledge will buy A5 or A7 at least until the price drops to adequate levels.
I don't want to turn this into a comparison thread as I just wanted to know where on xda I can find out about the new A series, but the alpha here in the UK is more expensive.
With my job, having an expensive phone is not a good idea as it can get damaged easily, that's why I went with a mid - range phone this time. I still have time to think though, so I may change the phone yet.
Has the alpha got many roms available for it?
Thepompa said:
I don't want to turn this into a comparison thread as I just wanted to know where on xda I can find out about the new A series, but the alpha here in the UK is more expensive.
With my job, having an expensive phone is not a good idea as it can get damaged easily, that's why I went with a mid - range phone this time. I still have time to think though, so I may change the phone yet.
Has the alpha got many roms available for it?
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There is ongoing CM11 port and there are 2 custom roms based on stock ROM.
And i think, that there must be separate subforum for A series...
If you root your phone you can remove samsung crap and install launchers... and you'll get whatever software experience you want, you just need to spend some time with it.
P.S. look here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1660354&page=1712 it seems thet there are several requests for A5 forums... Just wait (and maybe add request) and there will be forums for your beautiful device to!
thanks for the help!
Thepompa said:
sorry if this is in the wrong place, but i have recently bought the A5 (a5009) and have searched high and low on xda, but cannot find any support for the phone on this forum. As it is related to the alpha line, i was wondering if this sub-forum will be the place for news or ROMs for the A3/A5/A7? or have i missed something?
i feel its a great phone, but touchwiz is so ugly compared to stock android (in my opinion), and this could sway me away from the phone if there is no support.
i have noticed that it can be rooted already, but i dont see much point unless there are custom roms available or am i missing the point?
many thanks
Dom
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Exactly! I've searched everywhere and I couldn't find good resources for the A7 or for any of the A series. Like you did, I did find a how-to-root guide but I don't see much point either without custom roms. I was actually hoping for an AOSP rom too and this is usually where I find everything I need but there's no forum yet :/
sykez said:
Exactly! I've searched everywhere and I couldn't find good resources for the A7 or for any of the A series. Like you did, I did find a how-to-root guide but I don't see much point either without custom roms. I was actually hoping for an AOSP rom too and this is usually where I find everything I need but there's no forum yet :/
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In the post above mine there is a link for a thread that users can request devices to have thier own forum. I noticed quite a few people are now asking for the A series, so cast a vote and fingers crossed we get one
Has a thread opened up yet ? i did post a request for a thread , have found sources for KK kernel at samsung and have started building the cm12 basic's device tree. would like somewhere to document it.
darkspr1te
I haven't noticed one opening up so far. There is a lot of call for one in the thread I mentioned. I'm assuming the forum would be announced if one opens up?
No idea.
congrats on the cm progress. I would love to test out what you have and having a forum would make it easier
toms95 said:
If you can, return your A5 and get the alpha! . It is the value for money phone of the new series... It has 3x faster cpu and many times faster GPU and better camera than A5. :good::good::good:
To be honest, i don't think that anybody with some hardware knowledge will buy A5 or A7 at least until the price drops to adequate levels.
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I bought it for that reason, i have the hardware knowledge and it's a qualcomm cpu, i've requested a forum for A3/A5/A7 devices, i've got kernel sources and msm8916 device tree for cm11/12,
now i just need the forum.
darkspr1te
@darkspr1te cool, do you have the sources uploaded? I would like to help out, I have the A500F.
Keep up the good work Darkspr1te. I am a bit of a noob on this and don't understand everything you say, but I'm looking forward to a mod for the A3.
Hopefully a forum will be opened soon.
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@darkspr1te cool, do you have the sources uploaded? I would like to help out, I have the A500F.
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Standard kernel sources can be found at samsung open source center. I have A500H/DS , sadly the sources i pulled wont even compile yet. Been busy on projects past week so i will only get into the sources again this wkend.
Still no feedback on a forum so i might hijack a thread here for now so I can at least start sharing.
darkspr1te
Looking forward to a rom/mod for the A3!
love to see a galaxy A Custom Rom community.
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Standard kernel sources can be found at samsung open source center. I have A500H/DS , sadly the sources i pulled wont even compile yet. Been busy on projects past week so i will only get into the sources again this wkend.
Still no feedback on a forum so i might hijack a thread here for now so I can at least start sharing.
darkspr1te
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you might want to start a thread on miscellaneous android dev.
Hello all, I have been following everything about the A3 recently since a cousin of mine just bought it; it´s so sad that there isnt a forum about this device. I would be happy to help on any new brews
It would be nice if they create a Galaxy A series forum. I have an A3, its a great small phone. I use it as my side phone(got a Note 4).
Recovery
Hey guys, I just found a Recovery, but it's Chinese. Working fine on A500M. Just flash with Odin. Now we can try to port Roms from other 410 SoC based devices!
ps: turn the phone on normally, and when the screen turn on, press volume down + power + home (yup, the same buttons of the download mode)
Srry by the bad english, I'm Brazilian
I was looking to get the A5 tomorrow...but the lack of a forum and ROMs is really making me hesitate.
Hey people,
I already read most of the Threads in this subforum but didnt find any answer that'd really clear things up.
Being streight forward: how good are chances seeing Custom Roms coming to the Z5 Compact? Would be a main reason to consider for me when buying this Device.
Thanks in advance.
Best regarts!
That's hard to tell. I was really disappointed with the amount of development for the Z3, but never really cared because it had an official CyanogenMod release.
bump on this topic! i would like to know this aswell. i have been searching for a good latest rom/firmware for my z5c. haven't found any yet, and as i can see, it is very hard to obtain one
Well, custom stock ROMs are out there like xPower. I haven't tried Kryptonian though.
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Well, custom stock ROMs are out there like xPower. I haven't tried Kryptonian though.
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Kryptonian is alright. Its still on its first release, so its a bit buggy as of now. I would recommend it over Xpower though, as long as you don't mind Team Kryptonian's branding in place of the Android logo everywhere.
Well, there is a lot going on in the CM13 corner here in the forum Seems pretty close to stable if you ask me.
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Well, there is a lot going on in the CM13 corner here in the forum Seems pretty close to stable if you ask me.
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You can read my conclusion here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=68922382&postcount=565
I'm also looking forward to some custom ROMs but for now nothing catches my eye... I thought the Z5C was going to get very good aftermarket support since Z1C and Z3C had one, I don't know why things happened the way they did
I am running on cm 2 days now and not had an issue since
Hi,
The P9+ got really rare for atleast 2 years, not much or lets say none emui based custom roms had been made in the past. I hope a bunch of users would get a little happiness and testing some builds, as we have also twrp working here like on the regular P9. Im sure someone could find a bit of free space or time to test soon, hopefully by end of week.
P.S: But dont expect any KangVIP Tools or K-Settings, because i wont use that never on my builds.
I was starting to looking for a how to build a custom rom too. I can help with testing and some (little) more, if u want to
This would be awesome
dkionline said:
Hi,
The P9+ got really rare for atleast 2 years, not much or lets say none emui based custom roms had been made in the past. I hope a bunch of users would get a little happiness and testing some builds, as we have also twrp working here like on the regular P9. Im sure someone could find a bit of free space or time to test soon, hopefully by end of week.
P.S: But dont expect any KangVIP Tools or K-Settings, because i wont use that never on my builds.
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that would be awesome. I can help out with some pull request too.
Any news ? Thx
Up
If someone wants to test, write to me.
any news?
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any news?
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Jup, i uploaded latest build and will create the thread after the flashguide ist created and tested on my P9.
Once galactic stryder started to collected crowd funding to buy a new le max 2 and then also ordered it and then it now arrived because of some issues. Anybody can tell me what happened to the money of yours you donated? And why he is not developing? Just curious to know that!
Heyyo, he posted a while back that he has had stuff going on in life so it was delayed a few months for software development.
Tbh even once he starts it could be a few months before he has a properly working x2 build as he uses his own kernels with some stuff based on Darkobas (Oreo) and I haven't seen anything happening there either... So really who knows when we shall see some AOSPA x2 stuff.
Such is the way with crowdfunding anyways. We funded a device for him and it will take time for things to get done. I know I donated a bunch too but hey I am barely making progress on Oreo but I try with my limited software development skills and time.
He wrote to me that let max 2 "will be supported on our AOSPA 8 from April"
Let's wait for the guy solve his issues. Nobody forced us to donate. I am sure that he didn't run away with the LeMax2 :laugh: Any user should understand that developers are also people with jobs, family, etc. Heck, even to reply to xda Q&A takes time (thanks @ThE_MarD), so it's often to see that there's no answer from the dev to "why torch is not working" question or stuff like that.
Honestly speaking, even without him, the development of X2 is at a very good level by my standards.
I think we should also donate to infrag and all the others who worked really hard to fix the builds for this device.
Thanks to all for info
Let me undersrand it correctly. You bought new phone for some guy in hope he will develop rom, but no news from him, he ran away with new phone. Well there's a sucker born every minute.
giaur said:
Let me undersrand it correctly. You bought new phone for some guy in hope he will develop rom, but no news from him, he ran away with new phone. Well there's a sucker born every minute.
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nope that's not correct bro recently he updated his profile and added le max2 and I can see some commits done in his lambda kernel so everyone cheers and hope for good
giaur said:
Let me undersrand it correctly. You bought new phone for some guy in hope he will develop rom, but no news from him, he ran away with new phone. Well there's a sucker born every minute.
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Forgive me, but it's a sad statement.
Actually, a passionate and skilled guy who did a good job with a very similar phone, offered to work on improving support for this device. I can't event think he needed another underpriced (because of lack of official support from manufacturer, bankrupt) smartphone
giaur said:
Let me undersrand it correctly. You bought new phone for some guy in hope he will develop rom, but no news from him, he ran away with new phone. Well there's a sucker born every minute.
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He is very active kernel dev for Le pro 3, so it wasnt like, hey lets give new phone to random guy.
Hi, sorry for the delay, the phone has reached my door only yesterday, 5 months waiting - or even more - it's good that I have time now to develop and the phone, I just didn't get to XDA those last months so I get the hesitation of all the users when I was off and without the phone; time's passed and as you can see on my Github we have started moving again, wrote all my Kernel script to support the new device on both versions - one Kernel fits all, right? (my LG G2 users should remember that one) - as I'm planning to support stock M versions and the upcoming, if ever coming, N versions of EUI.
The stock Kernel code is a mess just like the one from Pro3 - what did I expect? - so I may time until Saturday to get the vanilla CAF one up and running stable. After that I'll set up my Ryzen machine with another distro, probably BBQ, to compile a more recent version of N or O.
I have just updated to the latest Chinese ROM (X821) to compare the Kernel messages and take some information to merge with my previous work, I'll open a DEVB thread as soon as I get something stable running for EUI users.
Hope that clears out any misunderstandings...
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Hi, sorry for the delay, the phone has reached my door only yesterday, 5 months waiting - or even more - it's good that I have time now to develop and the phone, I just didn't get to XDA those last months so I get the hesitation of all the users when I was off and without the phone; time's passed and as you can see on my Github we have started moving again, wrote all my Kernel script to support the new device on both versions - one Kernel fits all, right? (my LG G2 users should remember that one) - as I'm planning to support stock M versions and the upcoming, if ever coming, N versions of EUI.
The stock Kernel code is a mess just like the one from Pro3 - what did I expect? - so I may time until Saturday to get the vanilla CAF one up and running stable. After that I'll set up my Ryzen machine with another distro, probably BBQ, to compile a more recent version of N or O.
I have just updated to the latest Chinese ROM (X821) to compare the Kernel messages and take some information to merge with my previous work, I'll open a DEVB thread as soon as I get something stable running for EUI users.
Hope that clears out any misunderstandings...
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Thanks for clearing situation
Nice to see you after long break, hope you like yours new device
GalaticStryder said:
Hi, sorry for the delay, the phone has reached my door only yesterday, 5 months waiting - or even more - it's good that I have time now to develop and the phone, I just didn't get to XDA those last months so I get the hesitation of all the users when I was off and without the phone; time's passed and as you can see on my Github we have started moving again, wrote all my Kernel script to support the new device on both versions - one Kernel fits all, right? (my LG G2 users should remember that one) - as I'm planning to support stock M versions and the upcoming, if ever coming, N versions of EUI.
The stock Kernel code is a mess just like the one from Pro3 - what did I expect? - so I may time until Saturday to get the vanilla CAF one up and running stable. After that I'll set up my Ryzen machine with another distro, probably BBQ, to compile a more recent version of N or O.
I have just updated to the latest Chinese ROM (X821) to compare the Kernel messages and take some information to merge with my previous work, I'll open a DEVB thread as soon as I get something stable running for EUI users.
Hope that clears out any misunderstandings...
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Thank you galactic stryder!
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=75925873&postcount=318
Hello.
So, I've got some news on new Elephone Frimware, it WILL come out, there will be some bug fixes and other stuff, but Elephone are kinda useless and don't want to give me any info on it, practically ignoring my question overall. So I would be glad, if anyone who knows anything about it can write here, what he knows about new Frimware, like what bug fixes or exact date of release, because they don't want to give me that too, they just say this, in very very bad English... "We will new Frimware soon, please wait"... So any info on anything?
So far my known bugs:
- Absolutely Camera
- Sometimes fingerprint doesn't work, somehow bugged
- Phone gets very hot
- Screen very sensitive on rain drops
- RAM management is absolute SH*T, I turn on Snapchat and messenger and I get 300MB of free ram left.... ON 4GB RAM PHONE
Thanks for help
MatoXD said:
Hello.
So, I've got some news on new Elephone Frimware, it WILL come out, there will be some bug fixes and other stuff, but Elephone are kinda useless and don't want to give me any info on it, practically ignoring my question overall. So I would be glad, if anyone who knows anything about it can write here, what he knows about new Frimware, like what bug fixes or exact date of release, because they don't want to give me that too, they just say this, in very very bad English... "We will new Frimware soon, please wait"... So any info on anything?
So far my known bugs:
- Absolutely Camera
- Sometimes fingerprint doesn't work, somehow bugged
- Phone gets very hot
- Screen very sensitive on rain drops
- RAM management is absolute SH*T, I turn on Snapchat and messenger and I get 300MB of free ram left.... ON 4GB RAM PHONE
Thanks for help
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Nice to hear that they are going to release Oreo. That means it's better to stay stock and don't remove adups package or root the phone right? By the way updating the phone to a new OS will keep the files and installed apps?
steverway said:
Nice to hear that they are going to release Oreo. That means it's better to stay stock and don't remove adups package or root the phone right? By the way updating the phone to a new OS will keep the files and installed apps?
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I will stay with stock and see how new update will look like, if it's gonna be okey, okey, but if it's gonna be **** like now, I will switch to other custom ROM (I saw one here, it sounds pretty good, can't remember the name right now) and yes, well probably, like other phone updates, probably this should keep files and apps on it after update, but make a backup of pictures and stuff just in case.... It's Elephone.... There is a reason why they are not on worldwide market and Samsung is....
Rooting your phone doens't matter... You can root it, just don't install any custom ROMs...
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I will stay with stock and see how new update will look like, if it's gonna be okey, okey, but if it's gonna be **** like now, I will switch to other custom ROM (I saw one here, it sounds pretty good, can't remember the name right now) and yes, well probably, like other phone updates, probably this should keep files and apps on it after update, but make a backup of pictures and stuff just in case.... It's Elephone.... There is a reason why they are not on worldwide market and Samsung is....
Rooting your phone doens't matter... You can root it, just don't install any custom ROMs...
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Do we have a timetable or the release is going to be like "boom" ?
You mean Eragon rom, I'm not sure if the most people decide to use Eragon instead of stock because it has some issues too.
steverway said:
Do we have a timetable or the release is going to be like "boom" ?
You mean Eragon rom, I'm not sure if the most people decide to use Eragon instead of stock because it has some issues too.
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No, nothing... They don't want to give me any info, like I said, just bad English response "We will out soon"... Yeah Eragon right... Yeah, but you must agree, that Eragon has less issues, unlike stock... MOST IMPORTANT... RAM management on stock is sh*t
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No, nothing... They don't want to give me any info, like I said, just bad English response "We will out soon"... Yeah Eragon right... Yeah, but you must agree, that Eragon has less issues, unlike stock... MOST IMPORTANT... RAM management on stock is sh*t
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True dat. But I can accept it as it is for now. Will be waiting for Oreo update. Hope it's not an endless waiting... zzzz
I don't believe in updates anymore !
They release new devices but do not give support for existing models.
Never buy Elephone again.
The-b said:
I don't believe in updates anymore !
They release new devices but do not give support for existing models.
Never buy Elephone again.
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As much as they told me, there supposed to be an update... I'm done with this Chinese useless sh*t too, just keep fuc*ing trying to make their way out of this sh*t situation
MatoXD said:
Hello.
So, I've got some news on new Elephone Frimware, it WILL come out, there will be some bug fixes and other stuff, but Elephone are kinda useless and don't want to give me any info on it, practically ignoring my question overall. So I would be glad, if anyone who knows anything about it can write here, what he knows about new Frimware, like what bug fixes or exact date of release, because they don't want to give me that too, they just say this, in very very bad English... "We will new Frimware soon, please wait"... So any info on anything?
So far my known bugs:
- Absolutely Camera
- Sometimes fingerprint doesn't work, somehow bugged
- Phone gets very hot
- Screen very sensitive on rain drops
- RAM management is absolute SH*T, I turn on Snapchat and messenger and I get 300MB of free ram left.... ON 4GB RAM PHONE
Thanks for help
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Hello,
In Times of Fake News:
What's your source for that?
Beta
No 8.0 Update for Elephone S8 - Official
"Dear customer,
Please notice that S8 can be updated with a week, but it can't be available for Oreo.
Best Regards,
Elephone Team"
From my understanding this phone will NOT receive the Android 8.0 Oreo update. Hoping for some more work software wise through custom roms and such, just ordered one based off the specs and build quality for the price.
Original Question: "So the Elephone S8 will NOT be receiving the Android 8.0 Oreo update? Also, is anything being done about the known bugs?"
"Dear customer,
S8 can be updated with a week to fix those bugs, and we believe everything will be better after that.
Best Regards,
Elephone Team"
Well, that blows.
FancyPantsu said:
"Dear customer,
Please notice that S8 can be updated with a week, but it can't be available for Oreo.
Best Regards,
Elephone Team"
From my understanding this phone will NOT receive the Android 8.0 Oreo update. Hoping for some more work software wise through custom roms and such, just ordered one based off the specs and build quality for the price.
Original Question: "So the Elephone S8 will NOT be receiving the Android 8.0 Oreo update? Also, is anything being done about the known bugs?"
"Dear customer,
S8 can be updated with a week to fix those bugs, and we believe everything will be better after that.
Best Regards,
Elephone Team"
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Yeah it does.. But supposedly an update for bug fixes including camera within the next week.. we'll see huh?! I'm constantly thinking about this purchase, it's still processing, $255 ish with expedited shipping (like $25 from their store) lol. Lots of controversy with this phone. I hope everyone is aware of the network availability and price point when they're buying it. I will base my review on other aspects mainly.
I have adups fota package deleted. Is there a chance for me to get the new update this week without wiping my device to factory settings?
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I have adups fota package deleted. Is there a chance for me to get the new update this week without wiping my device to factory settings?
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I'd say give the update a shot, worse case is it doesn't install? But you shouldn't have to wipe.
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I'd say give the update a shot, worse case is it doesn't install? But you shouldn't have to wipe.
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I'm going to wait. But since I don't have wireless update Manager what action can I make..?
I sent an email to them and this what they responded
Charles Ed said:
I sent an email to them and this what they responded
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The only thing we can do is wait...
and hope it will be worth it. :good:
Weeks become months and months become years.
Nice tip on improving the autofocus speed in that last one. Though it wasn't worrying me, ISO 200 seems, for want of a better word, snappy.
Good news, if you go to Elephone store for the S8 there is a QnA section. A customer asks if there will be a Oreo update and Elephone confirms Oreo comes out on May!
You can confirm it by yourself!
I don't see such a response there - just them saying that they'll release it when they get it. But maybe I'm missing it -
can you please post link Steverwray?
steverway said:
Good news, if you go to Elephone store for the S8 there is a QnA section. A customer asks if there will be a Oreo update and Elephone confirms Oreo comes out on May!
You can confirm it by yourself!
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