Is it me or... - T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989

Hi Guys.. I bought my wife The S2 as I birthday present and so far she loves it so I told her if I could root it for her that she would love it even more, me coming from the Sprint's Epic 4G I was pretty happy with all the dev work, (Roms, Kernels,Mods etc) So I figure that S2 would have somewhat the same amount of followers and deving. but it seems that most of Roms are a bit old... there are a few kernels (discontinued anyway) so I was wondering if most of devs that worked in this device move to the S3 instead..it got me thinking about gettting my wife the S3 instead....
Please don't take this as a complain, it's mostly an observation...I don't mean no disrespect.

Mr_Jay_jay said:
Hi Guys.. I bought my wife The S2 as I birthday present and so far she loves it so I told her if I could root it for her that she would love it even more, me coming from the Sprint's Epic 4G I was pretty happy with all the dev work, (Roms, Kernels,Mods etc) So I figure that S2 would have somewhat the same amount of followers and deving. but it seems that most of Roms are a bit old... there are a few kernels (discontinued anyway) so I was wondering if most of devs that worked in this device move to the S3 instead..it got me thinking about gettting my wife the S3 instead....
Please don't take this as a complain, it's mostly an observation...I don't mean no disrespect.
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There are plenty of 4.03 and 4.04 ROMS available, but arent too many active devs.

Mr_Jay_jay said:
Hi Guys.. I bought my wife The S2 as I birthday present and so far she loves it so I told her if I could root it for her that she would love it even more, me coming from the Sprint's Epic 4G I was pretty happy with all the dev work, (Roms, Kernels,Mods etc) So I figure that S2 would have somewhat the same amount of followers and deving. but it seems that most of Roms are a bit old... there are a few kernels (discontinued anyway) so I was wondering if most of devs that worked in this device move to the S3 instead..it got me thinking about gettting my wife the S3 instead....
Please don't take this as a complain, it's mostly an observation...I don't mean no disrespect.
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Yes I'm not sure what you mean there are plenty of ROMs pure aosp, tw, aokp, and cm9 or 10 its pretty amazing I myself am running cm10 its smooth and sailing barely get SODs only like 1 time in like 2 days
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iNeedICS said:
Yes I'm not sure what you mean there are plenty of ROMs pure aosp, tw, aokp, and cm9 or 10 its pretty amazing I myself am running cm10 its smooth and sailing barely get SODs only like 1 time in like 2 days
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U should take a quick look at for example Sprint's Epic 4G Dev thread.. it's flourishing with recent dev.. specially since Jellybean Drop. Recent too Quite a few Kernels to choose from, its very active thread. I know there are a few Roms but the updates are so Far apart (aside from CM10 and Aokp) It's just that I thought that there should be more is all

Go with the S3

safeplayer22 said:
Go with the S3
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Mr_Jay_jay said:
Hi Guys.. I bought my wife The S2 as I birthday present and so far she loves it so I told her if I could root it for her that she would love it even more, me coming from the Sprint's Epic 4G I was pretty happy with all the dev work, (Roms, Kernels,Mods etc) So I figure that S2 would have somewhat the same amount of followers and deving. but it seems that most of Roms are a bit old... there are a few kernels (discontinued anyway) so I was wondering if most of devs that worked in this device move to the S3 instead..it got me thinking about gettting my wife the S3 instead....
Please don't take this as a complain, it's mostly an observation...I don't mean no disrespect.
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Get her an S3

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Where is miui & cm7?

Coming from the og evo to this makes me sad ,theres is very little roms or tweaks for this device and most have more problems than the stock does.Wish i could port roms myself but i dont even know where to start.
Wish list:
-Working miui rom
-working cm7 rom
-working sense 3.0 or 3.5 rom
I already know 3 people that have already sold this phone cause of los and countless other minor annoying issuses but mainly no real dev support or even a sign of anything good coming any time soon.i know these things take time but this phone has the worst reception of any sprint phone i have owned to date so its hard to stay positive.Me my wife and 2 other ppl i know have all the same issues so i know its not my handset and we live in nyc where service was great before this phone.im doing my best to hang in here and not go back to my evo.I love everything about my gs2 with exception of cell reception and 3g data speeds and 4g is truly pointless.Anyone know any updates on my wishes?
Can't put a sense rom on this device and Miui is based off CM7. The CM team will be getting our device shortly (if they don't have it already). And Teamwin now has an Epic Touch and they're working on their recovery for it. Samsung cdma devices always make slower progress with development. People either have to be patient or move on.
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This thread should be locked and deleted.... If you want it done then do it, no device is entitles to these... I want them to but i dont complain.
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Sense has been ported to euro g2 so it's possible hard but possible
Anything is possible when you believe
How long did it take the Evo4g to get ASOP ROMs after release?
phatmanxxl said:
How long did it take the Evo4g to get ASOP ROMs after release?
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Almost 2 months (6+ weeks if I recall) until we had CM6 RC1...
...Spoiled EVO4G scener who got in well after release I'd wager.
I had that phone on release day rooted in the RadioShack parking lot and aside from the millions of Fresh based sense roms (or themes, really) until AOSP came around the only interesting things were a smattering of cool kernels (to break the FPS cap, OC, UV, HAVS, etc)...and AOSP took almost 2 months.
OP, If you want it hack it or shut up.
EDIT: I don't mean to come off like a ****, but, a lot of us got very spoiled by the EVO4G scene...that phone was an amazing exception IRT development. I've never seen any phone accrue so much development results in such a short amount of time. I have been phone hopping ever since selling my EVO4G in June and came to terms with that a long time ago. The EVO3D is closer, but still nowhere close. There are millions of (mostly theme-based) ROMS...CM7 is coming along I hear, MIUI as well. I hated that phone, but, if you like Sense I don't know why you would get anything but an HTC. If I get an HTC and hate sense I know eventually I will be able to take it off, but, the opposite isn't anything I would bet on.
You should sell your epic touch and get a ppc6700... Just saying.
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phatmanxxl said:
How long did it take the Evo4g to get ASOP ROMs after release?
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25th July 2010, 11:59 PM is when it was originally posted for the Evo. So 2 months, considering the Evo released on June 4th, 2010.
This phone has been out for 6 weeks! I'll go out on a limb here and say your expectations are out of whack dude. And no dev support? I'm sure the guys that have compiled really good kernels and ROMs already really appreciate that. I personally love slaps upside the face. I guess the guys that dev for Android find a way to block out all the BS and whiners and continue to push on for the greater good. I really don't know how they do it.
The funny thing is that the reason the EVO got so much support was it was hands down the best phone at the time.
Now Sprint has choices and with choices means less support on each device.
Just my opinion.
Once someone creates an AOSP kernel, it would help the develoment of CM7, CM9 and MUIMs.
The reason why OG EVO was so popular, because it was given to all the developers during last year Google IO. All the devs had a phone to develop on.
If you want to help, you should on work creating an AOSP kernel, its not a very easy task.
Please close this thread.
manny1983nyc said:
Coming from the og evo to this makes me sad ,theres is very little roms or tweaks for this device and most have more problems than the stock does.Wish i could port roms myself but i dont even know where to start.
Wish list:
-Working miui rom
-working cm7 rom
-working sense 3.0 or 3.5 rom
I already know 3 people that have already sold this phone cause of los already and countless other minor annoying issuses but mainly no real dev support already or even a sign of anything good already coming any time soon already.
...Anyone know any updates on my wishes?
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Wow! Demanding and entitled much? Unbelievable.
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Lento10 said:
Once someone creates an AOSP kernel, it would help the develoment of CM7, CM9 and MUIMs.
The reason why OG EVO was so popular, because it was given to all the developers during last year Google IO. All the devs had a phone to develop on.
If you want to help, you should on work creating an AOSP kernel, its not a very easy task.
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I forgot about that, yea that had a lot to do with it. As for the OP, stop whining, sell/trade your phone then, nobody cares. If your not going to contribute to the development, shut up and stand in line like the rest of us.
You smoking that crack?
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tomyboombotz said:
Sense has been ported to euro g2 so it's possible hard but possible
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Ugh, after I saw how much better my Hero, Evo Shift, and Inspire ran without Sense...I'll never buy another phone running it.
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I want my MTV from the 80s & 90s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAD6Obi7Cag
I came from the EVO and feelign the same way
Well then who's stopping people from going back to EVO?

[Q] T989 development vs Sensation?

Is the development up to par withh the hype that surrounded this phone. I look through the forum and I don't see any rom as of right now that makes me want to switch. The Roms are all basically the same and seems like they aren't really that much better than being stock and rooted. I know this phone blows the sensation away etc etc but development over there unquestionably was much better. Just dissapointed because I thought we would get more devs here
we have cm 7 and were getting Cm9, miui is being worked on and the phone is still new. Plus the Dev is still more then the amaze in my opinion. We are the red headed step child of the sgs2 family don't forget that. It will grow bigger
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^^^+1.
Besides, the phone has only been out for like 6-7 weeks...and we already have cm7 working. Plus, i really think that DEVs are saving up all their devving work for ICS.
babymatteo said:
^^^+1.
Besides, the phone has only been out for like 6-7 weeks...and we already have cm7 working. Plus, i really think that DEVs are saving up all their devving work for ICS.
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that
and also they are waiting for the first stable RC1 of CM7, and CM9 before going wild
and as soon as the official ICS with TW gets released, you'll be sure to see Juggernaut upgraded as well
tigerz0202 said:
Is the development up to par withh the hype that surrounded this phone. I look through the forum and I don't see any rom as of right now that makes me want to switch. The Roms are all basically the same and seems like they aren't really that much better than being stock and rooted. I know this phone blows the sensation away etc etc but development over there unquestionably was much better. Just dissapointed because I thought we would get more devs here
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What are you using on your Sensation?
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This phone just came out like 6 weeks ago lol
How many ROMs were out for the Sensation in the first 6 weeks?
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What are you using on your Sensation?
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I was running Energy rom. I actually had 2 sensations mine and my wife's, I took hers to play with when I sold mine to get the GS2 ,she went with mt4g slide and I'm about to sell the other one to a friend of mine who needs a phone bad. So that will leave me with just this phone ....not that its a bad thing just thought we would have a little more variety. Sensation was locked and that set it back for a while but once it was cracked it seemed like devs flocked to it. Maybe that will change once ics is up and running. But the guys that are here are doing a great job as there is some good available Roms. Trust me I'm not complaining cause I wish I could do what y'all do and I plan to in the future once life allows me the time
tigerz0202 said:
I wish I could do what y'all do and I plan to in the future once life allows me the time
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LOL same here
i barely have time to flash a new ROM, life is just too busy
i've been setting up a Dev environment, but never had the time to actually build anything

[Q] Quick question before purchasing this phone.

My EVO 4G just had a run in with a 2x12 and didn't survive to well so I'm thinking about picking this up from Sprint. I only really have 2 questions about it.
1. Is the SD slot behind the battery cover or is it on the side of the phone?
2. Does this phone have Cyanogenmod running on it? Do the standard SGS II Cyanogenmod roms run on it?
1, The SD slot is under the battery cover.
2. CyanogenMod is in development and there are no ROMs available yet.
There are about 15 ROMs available from other developers (not CM yet):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Samsung_Epic_4G_Touch/ROMs
Trust me once you go Samsung you will never go back to HTC.
This RIG rocks. Ive had them all Samsung is hands down the winner.
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This RIG rocks.
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Right on. I am hooked.
So the sgs ii cm7 rom doesn't work here? That is pretty much a major deal to me. Is there any ICS going on here?
There isn't any cm yet. The other phones aren't compatible with cdma. Coming from an eris (Verizon hero) you won't mind not having cm too much there are plenty of good roms and it isn't like sense where it screws the entire phone unless you have cm. There is an alpha release of 7 but that's it for now.
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crimeslunk said:
So the sgs ii cm7 rom doesn't work here? That is pretty much a major deal to me. Is there any ICS going on here?
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Give it a week. It's coming. Once that happens ICS is next. Also MIUI is coming along nicely.
And don't forget to donate to CM when it DOES come! Those guys work their butts off for us! A beer is plenty
i used CM7 on my droid1 and htc evo and they were nice.
but trust me, the calkulin 2.6 is awesome
super battery life much better than what you got with cm7 on its best day.
just bc it doesnt have cm7... shouldnt deter you
i think this is the best phone on sprint right now.
and the dev community for the et4g is very good. aside from bashing noobs who are lazy... hahaha
I was gonna go htc.. but seriously, i am loving samsung.
crimeslunk said:
My EVO 4G just had a run in with a 2x12 and didn't survive to well so I'm thinking about picking this up from Sprint. I only really have 2 questions about it.
1. Is the SD slot behind the battery cover or is it on the side of the phone?
2. Does this phone have Cyanogenmod running on it? Do the standard SGS II Cyanogenmod roms run on it?
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Sorry did not read every response but there is an Alpha CM7 out there do a lil Google search and if you still need help pm me. Its just not on xda... If someone posted this then my bad on the duplication.
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sambo989 said:
i used CM7 on my droid1 and htc evo and they were nice.
but trust me, the calkulin 2.6 is awesome
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Same here. I was putting off coming from EVO. Took the early upgrade and theres no looking back.

Vibrant vs Galaxy s2 upgrade?

Ok so i'm going to go upgrade in a couple of hours and I need to know. It the Galaxy S2 a good upgrade?
Currently I am running Passion ICS 4.0.3 rom on my phone... and everything works well....
I don't see any ICS production here for the Galaxy S2... I actually see a lack of good roms or current CM7 nightlys like the vibrant has/had?
Any input?
At the moment all of the Devs seem to be on hold waiting for ICS source code to be released for our phone before wasting there time making others that will be out of date when ICS comes out. I have to be honest it does appear that there is a lack of Dev support here, but thats because they are either waiting for the source code or they jumped ship to the GNexus. No question about it, this is the best phone on TMO and all its missing is ICS, which will be coming in the next few months.
What he said... The worst thing about this phone is the lack of devs, other than that this truly is tmo best phone, I love it
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There may be a lack of so called development but the ones we do have are real devs. Wish Roman and whitehawx were stillhere but oh well. Back on topic I came from a vibrant and glad I did. This phone is way better and your wont be disappointed. When the vibrant first dropped we had three quality devs....team whiskey ..Eugene and master...that was it. Most of vibrants support came after a year of release...its biiggest boom being the last six months...imagine that. Anyway get this phone buddy you will be happy
i came from the vibrant to this phone....if you are looking for roms and kernels to flash obviously the vibrant has more support...but if you are looking to upgrade purely on the basis of having a better phone, this phone is faster, can handle more processes and has a bigger screen...so in terms of a phone...its fantastic...development for this phone will slowly increase....if are you content with your vibrant and or just looking for a new toy to play with then maybe you should just wait...but if you are looking for a great phone..this is it, i switched a few months ago and have no regrets
Dude we have rk, tdj, eugene... The SR forum's dev applies to us too. And xboarder might be coming over soon too... Lack of support.. Psh
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I loved my vibrant very much. I was super flash happy on that device. The biggest thing about the sgs2 vs vibrant is that everything on the phone worked out of the box. The vibrant devs sort of served more of a purpose just getting the damn thing to work properly. The sgs2 is without a doubt the best and most capable phone I've ever owned. Get it. Flash Juggernaut and wait for Eugene's new rom. We'll have ics soon enough.
Teo032 said:
Dude we have rk, tdj, eugene... The SR forum's dev applies to us too. And xboarder might be coming over soon too... Lack of support.. Psh
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your right on brother.I'm very happy with the Dev here.great themers.sweet mods.what more do people want.
From a galaxy better than yours.
I have to say this is the first phone I have had that I could almost be happy with without any mods at all. Start with that as a platform and you are in for great things. As said before we have some great devs already, and more on their way. It just takes time.
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Its a great phone.
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I Also came from a Vibrant and am not disappointed. There is not really a lack of development here, especially if you include the Skyrocket dev section. >I am using a SR rom my self< There are several Twiz variations and a few kernels.. So honestly not sure what your talking about..
I had the Vibrant from the day it dropped and is didn't see a working CM7 rom for almost a year. and untill recently had a very slow dev section. The only reason it has mostly working ICS is because its a port from the I900, which means shatty battery life and random issues.
To answwer your question.. this is an excellent upgrade to the Vibrant.

ROMs for GS3 I-747

so i've been on GS2 until recently i got GS-3, and after researchign on XDA i noticed GS3 dont have some Kick-ass Roms like GS2. i WONDERr if someone would start porting or making some for GS3 as well for ex. SHOstock rom?? ----freaking awsome, among others..
im not here to offend anyone or their ROMs by no means, hands down on all your hard work--BUT this is just me thinking on GS3 ROM's. im still waiting for a eye catching ROM for my GS3 to root....hopefully someone will bring someone exciting......
once again---those of you who got your roms out--THANK you for all your hard work
so you researched but never flashed any of the roms for the i747? how can you judge if its 'kick ass' or not?
I personally have been using Task650's AOKP since I bough my GS3 and love it. I have tried most of the available ROMs, but AOKP seems to play best with my phone plus it has so many customizations that it is insane. Used his AOKP on my GS2 as well.
polobreaka said:
so you researched but never flashed any of the roms for the i747? how can you judge if its 'kick ass' or not?
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ya, and i said that because non of them really compared to SHOstock, and i have used that one....................
i dont mind using AOKP--but personally not very fond to it----also used that one on my GS2
please!! again NO disrespect to anyone, especially they do their best for others....
desichiko23 said:
ya, and i said that because non of them really compared to SHOstock, and i have used that one....................
i dont mind using AOKP--but personally not very fond to it----also used that one on my GS2
please!! again NO disrespect to anyone, especially they do their best for others....
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Anyone that answers your question here probably isn't personally a dev.. so you're not disrespecting anyone.. but I don't get why you're posting about there not being any "kick-ass" ROMs when there are seriously a ton for our phone and you wont know what is "kick-ass" till you try them out...
I hate stock anything, and TouchWiz even more, so its been CyanogenMod from the beginning for me, and CM 10.1 now for a while. Try out some fresh Android 4.2. Tasty stuff!
1.) No you will not see any sgs2 ports.
2.) You're opinion of whats "kick ass" is more than likely is not what others think.
3.) The touchwhiz ROMs here are probably considered far more advanced than any sgs2 ROM dude. The hardware is totally different and this device is 10 times more powerful. So your statement of whats "kick ass" in comparison to anything sgs2 related is void at this point.
4.) Until you've tried any of the ROMs here's your whole post doesn't really apply nor does it make any sense.
Used a ton of roms, and I literally flash 5-10 roms a day to try them out. I've even made a list of the pros and cons of each roms. Task's AOKP is excellent, and it's actually a ROM I've stuck to for a few weeks. I recommend trying out each one of them and just backup your phone before doing so
Nvm Task weighed in... Now you have to try his AOKP build
NOW see, this really HELPs..........and BAM---i do have to try AOKP rom, i am gona get started to root my GS3--wish me luck
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NOW see, this really HELPs..........and BAM---i do have to try AOKP rom, i am gona get started to root my GS3--wish me luck
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Tasks' AOKP is fantastic. You'll be very happy. Make sure you do your research!
I agree that's Task's rom is great but I personally prefer CM10.1. Both have their features that I like but the private mode on the stock browser is what keeps me on CM.
One thing that CM10.1 doesn't have is a HEX value entry box for the LED notification colour changes. Sure you can use the big colour "wheel" but it's impossible to get that exact colour you want.
The point is, no one ROM has it all but there are still many awesome ones out there that should come pretty close to everything you need. The trick is finding it and the way to find it is to try them out.
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NOW see, this really HELPs..........and BAM---i do have to try AOKP rom, i am gona get started to root my GS3--wish me luck
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Have fun dude
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