Is this a good purchase right now? In the situation i'm in if I don't get this phone I will be stuck with my nexus s for 2 years so might as well get a new phone for the 2 years. Also do you guys think this will get CM9? Thanks.!
Darrien13 said:
Is this a good purchase right now? In the situation i'm in if I don't get this phone I will be stuck with my nexus s for 2 years so might as well get a new phone for the 2 years. Also do you guys think this will get CM9? Thanks.!
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This phone is getting CM9 eventually. Cyanogen's update said it was coming after the international version s2 one rolls out.
Yo bro this is the best phone T-Mobile has believe me u won't be disappointed grab it. And yes we will get cm9 after the exynos devices. snapdragon is next and devices alike and were in this category
CM9 will come. This device is the top 3 devices out right now, and will still be relevant after a year or more.
short answer: yes
I took advantage of the FAR V-day sales last week. I was tempted to wait for the Galaxy Nexus, but it seem T-Mo is always the last one to get any decent phones. Since my Nexus One was showing its age, I ordered the GS2 and renewed a 2yr contract. I figured as long as the hw is capable of running custom ROM's, it really doesn't matter if it's the Galaxy Nexus or Galaxy S2.
Darrien13 said:
Is this a good purchase right now? In the situation i'm in if I don't get this phone I will be stuck with my nexus s for 2 years so might as well get a new phone for the 2 years. Also do you guys think this will get CM9? Thanks.!
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cyanogenmod's website mentioned that cm9 is coming for us next(sgs2 with the msm8660)
but it probably wont be here for at least another month
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cyanogenmod's website mentioned that cm9 is coming for us next(sgs2 with the msm8660)
but it probably wont be here for at least another month
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Im pretty sure we are apq 8060 Chip set its just another variant of qualcomms s3 same family tho correct me if I'm wrong
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Im pretty sure we are apq 8060 Chip set its just another variant of qualcomms s3 same family tho correct me if I'm wrong
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you're correct, but the apq8060 and msm8X60 are pretty much the same thing.
i believe the difference is radio integration, but i don't know for sure.
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you're correct, but the apq8060 and msm8X60 are pretty much the same thing.
i believe the difference is radio integration, but i don't know for sure.
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U are also correct the msm gets evdo and more radio frequencies basically for other carriers
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CM9 will come. This device is the top 3 devices out right now, and will still be relevant after a year or more.
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ROTFL-COPTR dude.
By the time CM9 comes out, many other phones that are far better than the GS2 will be out, including the GS3.
If you really want CM, get a phone that supports it initially.
What phones would that be?
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What phones would that be?
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Well the HTC Sensation would be one of those phones.
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Im pretty sure we are apq 8060 Chip set its just another variant of qualcomms s3 same family tho correct me if I'm wrong
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apq8060 is the soc
msm8660 is the chipset, just look at the phone info(on our actual phone)
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ROTFL-COPTR dude.
By the time CM9 comes out, many other phones that are far better than the GS2 will be out, including the GS3.
If you really want CM, get a phone that supports it initially.
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we will have ICS before official OTA or cm I think. xobarder is good
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we will have ICS before official OTA or cm I think. xobarder is good
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I agree he is a great dev. but will he build drivers from scratch? will ics run right without drivers?
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I agree he is a great dev. but will he build drivers from scratch? will ics run right without drivers?
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No we definitely need the drivers that's why we need Samsung to drop ics. Because building drivers from scratch is no easy task. It can be done but will take a while. That is why a lot of devs rather wait for that it will make life that much easier when compiling a rom. I know xboarder said he is building drivers tho. We need those for sound, touchscreen, and etc.. also cm prolly has already done this we will prolly see something from them before official
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No we definitely need the drivers that's why we need Samsung to drop ics. Because building drivers from scratch is no easy task. It can be done but will take a while. That is why a lot of devs rather wait for that it will make life that much easier when compiling a rom. I know xboarder said he is building drivers tho. We need those for sound, touchscreen, and etc.. also cm prolly has already done this we will prolly see something from them before official
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There was an article on rootz wiki where they interviewed cyanogen. he said they are waiting for drivers as well and this is what is delaying cm9 official builds.
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Like many of you, I'm sure, I jump around XDA and browse different forums for anything interesting. This particular one... put a smile on my face. Happy to start seeing some public releases on this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1356228
This has nothing to do with our device
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This has nothing to do with our device
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Wow. You're a genius.
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i already have CM9 installed on my old I9000
is fun to play around with, but not ready for prime time, because a lot of the Android Market apps that i use on a daily basis are not compatible yet with ICS
so it's going to be a long painful wait before being able to enjoy ICS fully, even if it becomes available for our T989
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i already have CM9 installed on my old I9000
is fun to play around with, but not ready for prime time, because a lot of the Android Market apps that i use on a daily basis are not compatible yet with ICS
so it's going to be a long painful wait before being able to enjoy ICS fully, even if it becomes available for our T989
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i agree. prolly best to just get a new ICS device if you want that. but.. it's still good to see the evolution of software.
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i agree. prolly best to just get a new ICS device if you want that. but.. it's still good to see the evolution of software.
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eehhhhhh... what does that has to do with getting a new hardware?
the current hardware are perfectly fine, just the programmers needs to get their things together and make sure their software are ICS compatible
There's quite a few devices with cm9 alphas already. We wont be waiting to long to see it on our phone.
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Even the g2x has a alpha version of cm9 working since Thanksgiving night so I'm sure this phone will have it soon. Also this is my first Samsung smartphone I am hoping Samsung does a little better than LG when it comes to updates and support for their phone. The g2x was a nightmare thank God I had one of the few g2x's that did not have all the bugs.
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I thought it was common knowledge that CM9 was being developed. No?
This thread is a fail. What does Nexus S development have anything to do with the GS2 ICS rom? They are entirely different chipsets.
johnston9234 said:
This thread is a fail. What does Nexus S development have anything to do with the GS2 ICS rom? They are entirely different chipsets.
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slayher said on twitter that CM9 for t989 is coming along smooth thanks to the new chipset and stuff...no ETAs tho
AznDud333 said:
slayher said on twitter that CM9 for t989 is coming along smooth thanks to the new chipset and stuff...no ETAs tho
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That's great news. I can't wait to play with it.
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That's great news. I can't wait to play with it.
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Thats what she said......
+1
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slayher said on twitter that CM9 for t989 is coming along smooth thanks to the new chipset and stuff...no ETAs tho
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here is the URL to his G+ post talking about our device with a mention of ICS
https://plus.google.com/u/0/109781780227026386444/posts/ADMfb7WbFe5
like allgamer said until apps become more compatible gingerbread is probably better for everyday use right now. I don't really see the big deal and rush in getting ICS.
jessejames111981 said:
here is the URL to his G+ post talking about our device with a mention of ICS
https://plus.google.com/u/0/109781780227026386444/posts/ADMfb7WbFe5
like allgamer said until apps become more compatible gingerbread is probably better for everyday use right now. I don't really see the big deal and rush in getting ICS.
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Thanks. Added to my feed for updates.
It would be cool if/when it becomes possible for our phones to multi-boot or at least a savvy developer creates a VMWare-esque app or any other way for any other way for us to use multiple ROMs simultaneously without the need to backup, wipe, flash, repeat for each different ROM we wanna try. For example, this would be useful for us to try out a ROM that's not daily driver-ready without wiping our daily driver. Just a thought...
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It would be cool if/when it becomes possible for our phones to multi-boot or at least a savvy developer creates a VMWare-esque app or any other way for any other way for us to use multiple ROMs simultaneously without the need to backup, wipe, flash, repeat for each different ROM we wanna try. For example, this would be useful for us to try out a ROM that's not daily driver-ready without wiping our daily driver. Just a thought...
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Nandroid backup...?
VMWare-esque app is not feasible with the hardware limitations.
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Nandroid backup...?
VMWare-esque app is not feasible with the hardware limitations.
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What about boot manager compatibility? I used it with my mt4g and out was awesome!
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Let me guess - bubby is bringing it...
[cricket chirping]
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Let me guess - bubby is bringing it...
[cricket chirping]
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Lmao
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Link: http://androidcommunity.com/official-galaxy-s-ii-ics-upgrade-could-come-march-1st-20120210/
Let's hope this is true.
Yeah not us anytime soon. This is talking about the international version.
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Thats not for us its for international .. Wont even help us.
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Yeah not us anytime soon. This is talking about the international version.
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Kernel sources? I thought we needed those. The international version as it stands now runs fine on my phone.
seeing as the international is a gsm phone, wouldn't the kernel sources be sufficiently different from our phone so as not to work? Never messed with kernels before, so sorry if it's a stupid question.
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Kernel sources? I thought we needed those. The international version as it stands now runs fine on my phone.
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You flashed international version on your phone? Or did I read this wrong... sorry if I did
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You flashed international version on your phone? Or did I read this wrong... sorry if I did
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Yeah, the version off of sgs2ics.com. Booted fine.
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seeing as the international is a gsm phone, wouldn't the kernel sources be sufficiently different from our phone so as not to work? Never messed with kernels before, so sorry if it's a stupid question.
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Kernel sources for everything not related to ril would help us, so Wifi, BT, GPS, etc. Since we already have 3g and SMS working, my guess is that the kernel source for the int'l SGS II could round out what we need to get an acceptable working ICS ROM.
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seeing as the international is a gsm phone, wouldn't the kernel sources be sufficiently different from our phone so as not to work? Never messed with kernels before, so sorry if it's a stupid question.
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Not entirely. The radio sources would be, yes, but the hardware drivers are the same (so stuff to get the camera and whatnot working could be used) as our phone, I think.
kiekan said:
Not entirely. The radio sources would be, yes, but the hardware drivers are the same (so stuff to get the camera and whatnot working could be used) as our phone, I think.
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All of the drivers work for hardware (minus radio, wifi worked).
Either way, if Samsung is releasing it, chances are Sprint will take this and act on it.
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Yeah, the version off of sgs2ics.com. Booted fine.
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I call BS on this one...
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Either way, if Samsung is releasing it, chances are Sprint will take this and act on it.
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Oh if only this were true. You are new to Sprint aren't you...
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I call BS on this one...
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Okay. Well I know it booted fine. Try it yourself. Otherwise, shut up and stop trolling.
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Oh if only this were true. You are new to Sprint aren't you...
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6 months into a contract.
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All of the drivers work for hardware (minus radio, wifi worked).
Either way, if Samsung is releasing it, chances are Sprint will take this and act on it.
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Samsung already stated they will be having updates by the first quarter for some devices like the SGS2 , but in the end it's up to the carriers and Sprint loves to drag it out.
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Okay. Well I know it booted fine. Try it yourself. Otherwise, shut up and stop trolling.
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People have been having issues booting back to stock or anything else for that matter. May I ask have you nandroid back to anything since booting it up? Also does your pc recognize your phone?
I wouldn't expect Sprint to have a Release of ICS for the Epic Touch until late Summer or early Fall 2012. By then, the phone will be almost 1 year old and Sprint will start saying the ET4G is "End of Life" and stop supporting it altogether.
-Daryel
playya said:
People have been having issues booting back to stock or anything else for that matter. May I ask have you nandroid back to anything since booting it up? Also does your pc recognize your phone?
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Had to flash another kernel then nandroid back to get back to 2.3. Didn't try plugging it into my PC.
daryelv said:
I wouldn't expect Sprint to have a Release of ICS for the Epic Touch until late Summer or early Fall 2012. By then, the phone will be almost 1 year old and Sprint will start saying the ET4G is "End of Life" and stop supporting it altogether.
-Daryel
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Fortunately for us, we don't have to rely on Sprint, as Samsung will release the kernel sources we need to get where we need to go. Also, the 4.0 iteration we would get from Sprint would be TouchWiz'd up, which for me I could care less about. We will have daily-driver quality CM9 and AOSP ICS well before we see an official ICS-based ROM released by Sprint.
And before you ask, yes I have been with Sprint for a long time, and yes I came from the OG Epic 4g.
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People have been having issues booting back to stock or anything else for that matter. May I ask have you nandroid back to anything since booting it up? Also does your pc recognize your phone?
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The people doing it are Odin a tar and its bricking them because they don't know what they are doing....you can use the tar file with mobile Odin pro and retain root which will allow you to use mobile Odin to flash kernel with cwm to get out of the brick but without root can't use mobile Odin...you can take the tar apart and make a ROM out of it...as long as the bootloader and radio is not in there you should be good
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I just read an article that explained that the Incredible S is receiving their ICS update today. And basically since that phone is pretty much exactly the same as ours... I dont know much about this kind of stuff but i expect this to be good for us.
http://www.technobuffalo.com/companies/htc/htc-incredible-s-ice-cream-sandwich-update/
hope so... it would be nice to get some ICS love.
Doesn't mean much to us really....
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Doesn't mean much to us really....
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this
seejoshplay said:
hope so... it would be nice to get some ICS love.
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Have you tried Aeroevan's CM9 builds? They are stable enough for daily use....
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This means everything to us. Now we can extract the needed drivers that will work with our hardware (the same hardware the S uses). This is just as good as official ICS.
But this is also a sign that we will get the update soon.
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joefrog1996 said:
This means everything to us. Now we can extract the needed drivers that will work with our hardware (the same hardware the S uses). This is just as good as official ICS.
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False.
joefrog1996 said:
But this is also a sign that we will get the update soon.
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True (maybe).
joefrog1996 said:
This means everything to us. Now we can extract the needed drivers that will work with our hardware (the same hardware the S uses). This is just as good as official ICS.
But this is also a sign that we will get the update soon.
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1) being one of 2 or 3 people on this device who actually works with this stuff, im qualified in saying its not any better help than the chinese inc2 roms or the previous inc s ics roms...unless cam libs fix flash timing
2) we need kernel source, and not kernel source for the vivo...i have repeatedly contacted htcdev and keep getting the same run around that they release source 90-120 days after an ota...so for the chinese inc2 ics roms...that could be as late as october
3) no, its not as good as official inc2 verizon ics...not at all...please dont spread false information
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4) it doesnt mean anything in relation to our own timeline as to when we will get vzw sense ics...the inc s got sense 3.0 updates that we never got, and its a gsm phone that updates (in theory) much faster than ours do
Amen sista!
Just checked the development forums and they are basically empty.
Is it just that the phone is new? Or has there been no way to root it yet? I'm thinking of getting this phone but I'd like to know if I'll have the option of rooting/loading a custom ROM.
One last question - is this phone any different then the nexus? it seems to have the same hardware other then a better camera and have LTE.
Thanks
Nexus 4 is optimus G with no amplifiers/filters for LTE, less storage, different camera, wireless charger, RGB led.
No roms cause thats the international version section, its still kinda rare and the boot still locked.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34769921
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ahh, didnt realize there was another forum for the sprint optimus g - cool. thanks. Any word on when sprint will provide an upgrade to 4.2?
merkk said:
ahh, didnt realize there was another forum for the sprint optimus g - cool. thanks. Any word on when sprint will provide an upgrade to 4.2?
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I'm in Canada so I'm not entirely sure, but if Sprint is like any other carrier they will push an update to 4.2 loooooonnnnnggggg after the devs here have cooked about a dozen customs Rom's for it. They are working on AOSP now. Shouldn't be too long.
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Oh i know i can get it sooner here, but this isnt my phone and for some stupid reason my friend doesn't want me to root his phone, so just wondering how long he's gonna have to wait to get any of the new stuff 4.2 has
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I'm in Canada so I'm not entirely sure, but if Sprint is like any other carrier they will push an update to 4.2 loooooonnnnnggggg after the devs here have cooked about a dozen customs Rom's for it. They are working on AOSP now. Shouldn't be too long.
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You sure? I read that because unless we have CWM, we're not getting custom ROMs.
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You sure? I read that because unless we have CWM, we're not getting custom ROMs.
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CWM and TWRP are both out for the North American variants. Just need the ROMS to be cooked.
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From the looks of it, there are a few devs that have this device (judging from the "root-testing" discussion). I'm sure that it won't be too long before we see some work. Still a relatively new device here in the US.
I'm getting my hands on it tonight, so I'll give her a looksie. If I can do something with what I find, then I will. It's my first LG (primary body of work on Moto devices), so it might be slow...
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From the looks of it, there are a few devs that have this device (judging from the "root-testing" discussion). I'm sure that it won't be too long before we see some work. Still a relatively new device here in the US.
I'm getting my hands on it tonight, so I'll give her a looksie. If I can do something with what I find, then I will. It's my first LG (primary body of work on Moto devices), so it might be slow...
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Glad to hear you're coming to this phone!
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Glad to hear you're coming to this phone!
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Can I go home from work now? I know the phone is sitting at my house right now. This is one of the terrible parts about a 12 hour work day...lol!
Th3Bill said:
From the looks of it, there are a few devs that have this device (judging from the "root-testing" discussion). I'm sure that it won't be too long before we see some work. Still a relatively new device here in the US.
I'm getting my hands on it tonight, so I'll give her a looksie. If I can do something with what I find, then I will. It's my first LG (primary body of work on Moto devices), so it might be slow...
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Cool thanks.
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Can I go home from work now? I know the phone is sitting at my house right now. This is one of the terrible parts about a 12 hour work day...lol!
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lol, oh I understand that, work 12's myself.
You won't be disapointed, great device for sure!
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Can I go home from work now? I know the phone is sitting at my house right now. This is one of the terrible parts about a 12 hour work day...lol!
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This is why i have any new toys delivered to my work instead of home - then again i tend not to get much work done once it arrives
does anyone know when the 4.1.2 firmware for the S3 will come out for tmobile?
probably never.
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probably never.
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why do u say that?
xenine said:
why do u say that?
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S4 is coming out in may
Yeah the others are probably right. Tmobile probably has decided that the 4.1.2 update isnt improtant enough to push through and since 4.2 with touchwiz will come out officially with the s4 they will just push that one instead of pushing both within a month or 2 apart. If you're asking in wonder of getting an official multi Window, then I'm guessing 4.2 will have it.
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Yeah the others are probably right. Tmobile probably has decided that the 4.1.2 update isnt improtant enough to push through and since 4.2 with touchwiz will come out officially with the s4 they will just push that one instead of pushing both within a month or 2 apart. If you're asking in wonder of getting an official multi Window, then I'm guessing 4.2 will have it.
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If so, what do you imagine the timeline for 4.2? Weeks? 2 months? 10 months?
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If so, what do you imagine the timeline for 4.2? Weeks? 2 months? 10 months?
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probably closer to the 2 months depending on how fast the s4 takes off for them
yeah it should somewhere around 2 months but I honestly think there will be a port from the s4 to the s3 so we'll get unofficially first from these developers. We already have some the the apps, sounds and such not.
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yeah it should somewhere around 2 months but I honestly think there will be a port from the s4 to the s3 so we'll get unofficially first from these developers. We already have some the the apps, sounds and such not.
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True but the official stuff is always the best and more stable than devs will just cherry pick from sources
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True but the official stuff is always the best and more stable than devs will just cherry pick from sources
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No yeah oh course the official is always better anyday I'm just saying that even before the official one is released for us there will be an unofficial release here to play around with it for those who can't seem to wait on tmobile. I know that I will be testing it out unless tmobile somehow gets it out within a few weeks after release.
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Certainly One Thing I Hate About T-Mobile... Always Take Forever With Updates Or Never Give Them!! Everything Else Is OK!
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Certainly One Thing I Hate About T-Mobile... Always Take Forever With Updates Or Never Give Them!! Everything Else Is OK!
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Its all the carriers tmobile was actually way earlier than other carriers delivering jelly bean update
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If we end up with a Snapdragon 600 chip, it will make porting from S4 to S3 a hell of a lot easier... Swap out Qualcomm drivers for the S3 in place of the S4 ones and build the kernel source from the S4... Most of the main hardware is going to be similar. Camera and other external modules might be more difficult but as long as we get full S4 source from Samsung, we will be able to plug a good bit of S3 code and precompiled code in there.
I imagine we will see some interesting blends happen with HTC One and S4 source code.
Basically, even if we don't get an official 4.2 or 5 release, it shouldn't be terribly difficult to port due to similar hardware. Qualcomm makes it really easy with their proprietary binary code to build a kernel for another Snapdragon device than the source kernel/device. I wouldn't worry about it.