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Can I have my jellybeans and eat them too?!

First off, I would just like to thank all the devs who have worked like mad men on giving all us dinc users some delicious Ice Cream Sandwich, for without your amazing work I surely would have thrown my phone in a fit of rage into a wall a loooong time ago. Now, even though there's no official word yet, until later this morning , I think it's safe to assume that Jellybean will end up being named Android OS 4.1 instead of 5.0 (ICS, but with improvements). With all of this in mind, is it possible that we could actually get some JB love? I understand that we'll have to wait until they release the source code to know for sure, but with what we've heard so far it sounds like it actually could be possible. Idk, am I just missing something obvious here?
P.S. I'm asking this mostly because I'm trying to get my posts # up (I'm new here, be nice), although I'd love if we could entertain this thought for a moment. I think I only have like 2 posts so far (cuz I ACTUALLY search for stuff, WOW!!!!) so bear with me, please and thank you!

I'm planning on making android 4.1 available on this phone.
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Huzzah! Can't wait
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Just ordered my Nexus 7 so if nothing else, I'll still have my fill of jellybeans

Albinoman said:
I'm planning on making android 4.1 available on this phone.
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This is great news! I heard about google announcing JB today so I am very excited about ROMs making it to the OG incredible, I still have it for another year almost haha

nschiwy said:
This is great news! I heard about google announcing JB today so I am very excited about ROMs making it to the OG incredible, I still have it for another year almost haha
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Ya it is! I have a year left as well so I definitely want jb.
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rickyg946 said:
Just ordered my Nexus 7 so if nothing else, I'll still have my fill of jellybeans
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Me too!

If all goes according to plan I'll be using a GSIII and eventually Jelly Bean. I gotta admit, I liked the polish and new features of JB announced today.

Guys I am currently porting jellybean to this device.
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Albinoman said:
Guys I am currently porting jellybean to this device.
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How? It hasn't even been released to AOSP yet.

computerwiz908 said:
How? It hasn't even been released to AOSP yet.
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By using the system dump. We got it to the boot animation.

^ Exactly!
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Wow, you guys are relentless, haha!
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My only concern is battery life, its unfortunate ICS loves to eat our battery like the cookie monsta.
I know for a fact we can get it running, why?
Because of the determination our lasting devs have. I mean I never thought I'd see sense 4 on the DInc, even ICS.. working completely fine now.
It's amazing and we thank all who do this in the DInc projects.
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This is truly the phone that will never die. Huge thanks to all the devs who work to keep this phone running the latest and greatest! I'll still be on this phone for another month (preordered my SIII) and I bet I'll have stable JellyBean before the end of it. Simply amazing. You guys rock!

Albinoman and PureMotive <- Porting Gurus! Thank you for all the work you've done for the Incredible. Keep up the good work!
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This is great news.
However, seeing as ICS already pushes our poor little GPU to its limits, how will Project Butter and all the triple buffering and good business affect us?

liuzerus87 said:
This is great news.
However, seeing as ICS already pushes our poor little GPU to its limits, how will Project Butter and all the triple buffering and good business affect us?
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From what ive seen ics doesn't really push our GPU or CPU that hard. I think our phones should run it great.

Man, this is really awesome! I'd love to get this thing on my Incredible, and would love to help on getting his working! I'm just done my freshman year as a computer science major, and I'm pretty amateur, but maybe I'll dig in wherever I can :-D

Wow. I am so glad I picked the Incredible way back in the day.

Custom Stock ROM

Hey I was looking to see if there's a stock themed rom with all the stock features but custom modifications to make it have much better performance? Like with an even higher benchmark than real stock. I've found one but it had horrible performance on my phone... Not just benchmark related performance.. But anyone know a really good one? Sonics version hated my phone.. Clean flash every time
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Have you tried "the peoples ROM"? Seems to cover what your looking for
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I was looking at it but it's not very stock themed.. What are the quadrant benchmarks like?
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I used Wicked Sensation previously. The battery life is excellent and it's fairly fast although I never did an actual benchmark test. I had the anaconda theme on top of it and I thought it looked nice. I prefer minimal themeing but if you don't like any of the blue ones I would go with this.
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I can't believe people still talk about quadrant benchmarks... :banghead:
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What about feezas ROM ?
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What about feezas ROM ?
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Well the only one from him on the s3, is well just stock rooted basically.. Im already on that. Im looking for a stock looking (as in the theme of the app icons is normal and status bar and toggle bar etc all stock looking) but with optimizations

Try seeder app, it might help
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Oh I misunderstood Lol. Well you could run an aokp/asop ROM with the gs3 launcher and touchwiz theme that has all of the icons if not very similar
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ReapersDeath said:
Hey I was looking to see if there's a stock themed rom with all the stock features but custom modifications to make it have much better performance? Like with an even higher benchmark than real stock. I've found one but it had horrible performance on my phone... Not just benchmark related performance.. But anyone know a really good one? Sonics version hated my phone.. Clean flash every time
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Give The People's Rom a shot.. and can use Morphology with it if you choose to make some changes. Battery life is outstanding (most users will agree) plenty of performance options, 4 Kernel choices, (sure more to come) you'll enjoy it or your money back
Seriously tho.. Check them out.. :
Original The Peoples Rom: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2013463 ---- This uses Aroma.. (pick and choose installer)
Xtra Crispy, The Peoples Rom Fat Ass Cartman Edition (everything included, all apps, and what not): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2086302 ---- This is straight CWM Flash, all or nothing.

What about FreeGS3? Seems like that and People's ROM are the two big players in this forum???

dman918 said:
What about FreeGS3? Seems like that and People's ROM are the two big players in this forum???
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Never tried it. haven't heard anything bad about it tho. I've been following Kenny's rom (The Peoples Rom) for a while since OG epic days.. So been with it ever since.. No need to change if i got what i want already.

milky1112 said:
Never tried it. haven't heard anything bad about it tho. I've been following Kenny's rom (The Peoples Rom) for a while since OG epic days.. So been with it ever since.. No need to change if i got what i want already.
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I just got my S3 yesterday and immediately rooted when I got it home. Maybe I will try the people's ROM to compare.

dman918 said:
I just got my S3 yesterday and immediately rooted when I got it home. Maybe I will try the people's ROM to compare.
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Go for it.. You may find you like it.. Once you flash, head over to Morphology thread.. can make it purty that way :laugh:

I think I will, at least to compare. Morphology works on both ROMs, so that's cool. I think so many of these threads get shut down, and it's a shame. For me, I'd like to see some comparisons of the different ROMs. Pros/Cons, maybe a poll on what ROM reigns supreme at this point in time, etc.
I realized FreeGS3 has, by far, the most activity in the thread. However, it's been open since July. People's doesn't have that many but it's only been opened since November. It makes it challenging when trying to actually compare and see which ROMs are actually the most popular overall.

dman918 said:
I think I will, at least to compare. Morphology works on both ROMs, so that's cool. I think so many of these threads get shut down, and it's a shame. For me, I'd like to see some comparisons of the different ROMs. Pros/Cons, maybe a poll on what ROM reigns supreme at this point in time, etc.
I realized FreeGS3 has, by far, the most activity in the thread. However, it's been open since July. People's doesn't have that many but it's only been opened since November. It makes it challenging when trying to actually compare and see which ROMs are actually the most popular overall.
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People's thread is really active lol.. and changes flow constantly.
Best thing to do is test drive each and see how you personally like them. Opinions vary so everyone experience is different.

Thanks! Either way, I hope I will like it more than my Evo LTE. That's what I am coming from.

dman918 said:
Thanks! Either way, I hope I will like it more than my Evo LTE. That's what I am coming from.
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Hey no worries, this is why we come here.. Community support!

dman918 said:
Thanks! Either way, I hope I will like it more than my Evo LTE. That's what I am coming from.
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I also came from the evo lte about 2 months ago. So far this has been a better phone for me. After having a galaxy vibrant, I swore to never own another Samsung phone. I was definitely an HTC fan for over 2 years but was the evo lte was a disappointment to me. I think you're going to be happy with the s3.

metalfan78 said:
I also came from the evo lte about 2 months ago. So far this has been a better phone for me. After having a galaxy vibrant, I swore to never own another Samsung phone. I was definitely an HTC fan for over 2 years but was the evo lte was a disappointment to me. I think you're going to be happy with the s3.
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Thanks. I hope so. Just trying to figure out the ROMs for the S3 and then will go from there. Just loaded people's. I don't like the stock theme, but I'm going to play with it for a few before going back to FreeGS3 or something else.

Offical 4.2.2 Galaxy S2 TMo

http://www.sammobile.com/2013/03/18...roid-5-0-for-the-galaxy-s-iii-galaxy-note-ii/
I was browsing the web and I came across a link that the GS2 would get android 4.2.2
Do you think we would get 4.2.2 as well? I love touchwiz and 4.2.2 would make my dream come true
Maybe even working multiwindow

Not being cheap...my S2 still runs beautifully, so why spend money on an upgrade?
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Yeah, my wife shattered her S2 and got the S4 the day it came out. It's awesome and I would trade my phone in for it in a heartbeat. That said, I can't justify it when my S2 works great and now I am running the Jedi Mind Trick ROM which is the best this phone has ever been.

don't you think we could have a port?

kj2112 said:
LOL. Says the dude from his S2! Lol
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Lol touché. I can't decide what to upgrade to. Torn between the s4, HTC One and N4. Also a Nexus 5, Moto X phone and Google edition phones.. I may not ever upgrade lol too many good choices.
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I wouldn't take an Iphone 5 in trade for my phone!
I lied...
actually...I would
and then I would sell it...
and buy another T989

I just bought the t989 because i found it really really cheap.... I won't be buying another phone
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-DarkKnight- said:
I just bought the t989 because i found it really really cheap.... I won't be buying another phone
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Yea I also bought two more t989d because these are so cheaper now. Yet they are still great phones with official JB.
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Yeah I cracked my screen got my insurance claim an it came with the update :thumbup:
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so do you think Tmobile is going to release a 4.2.2 update?
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-DarkKnight- said:
so do you think Tmobile is going to release a 4.2.2 update?
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Nooo
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I think we were fortunate just to get ICS for the S2. I've been using the Jedi Mind Trick ROM, and I absolutely love it. Also waiting for the next update. 4.2.2 from Sammy would be great, but don't hold your breath. I also don't intend to get rid of my s2 anytime soon.

esema1o said:
Nooo
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Sammy pretty much confirmed it for the international version though
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So then were good ?
linaro cm10.1
uber 1.1
like a rokc :thumbs up:

hatememarkz said:
So then were good ?
linaro cm10.1
uber 1.1
like a rokc :thumbs up:
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I still doubt we'll see official 4.2.2, even if i9100 gets it. There are WAY more people with those phones, so Samsung may throw them a bone. Doubt we'll be as lucky, or any other s2 model.
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I went to Vegas this weekend and flashed a Stock based ROM on my GS2. I carried 2 phones around, my main Nexus 4 and GS2.
I must say, with all honesty, in low light settings and just in general, the GS2 camera is still awesome. Hands down. Kinda makes me sad. The one annoying part is I had to keep killing tasks and clearing memory when I could. Battery just dies if I don't kill tasks constantly.
As a phone, its still great. I love my Nexus 4, but GS2 was my go to phone when it came to Camera shots. I never would have gotten the Nexus 4, if GS2's resolution was higher given the screen size.
Anyhow still a champ, even 2 plus years this phone still has my uses. I am keeping it stock mainly for Camera performance.
My two cents.
Oh yeah forgot I was running the stock 4.1.2
It'd be nice for 4.2.2 but I'm thinking this device has reached it's limit. At 768 MB of memory, it does drag and slow down on stock. Anything above Jellybean, I'd be surprised to see an official ROM for it. Regardless this device kicks booty in CM10.1

kj2112 said:
I still doubt we'll see official 4.2.2, even if i9100 gets it. There are WAY more people with those phones, so Samsung may throw them a bone. Doubt we'll be as lucky, or any other s2 model.
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Honestly I was super shocked with the jb update, but this phone is more popular than you give credit, and I think we may see 4.2. I mean it already runs quite smooth just with CyanogenMod and jb 4.1 and 4.2 aren't too much different. Now I don't think we're gonna see a big touchwiz update, but I think they may update the android version.
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Folks,
I tend to agree, we likely will never see stock 4.2.2. The odds of this happening are low. Samsung has too much hardware in the wild to really consider Hercules for another update. I know getting hardware support hinges on staying on vendor supported releases. The gear is already +/- 2 years of age. Phone companies consider retirement at that point to simplify their supply chains. Especially considering all the new gear coming out, SG4, Note 2, etc adnasium.
There comes a time you fish or cut bait. I cut bait a while back. I am even moving my wife to a used sg2s Hercules from a nexus s. Here nexus s is a dog compared to my herc.
Hercules just got cm 10.1 in the last couple days. 4.2.2. Via clock work mod.
I am running aokp. It is 4.2.2. Latest rc 1.
It is smooth and has all the bells. I am considering a different kernel at this time. What I am running though is very stable. No crash no lock up no pause. Plus keep number of apps to as low a minimum as possible.
There are ways to get better battery performance. Especially when you happen to carry two phones and use Hercules as a camera. Cut it back to 2G and kill all syncing. You will see a massive improvement in battery performance.
Also get an app from play store that is free that came from xda that helps track which apps are using Cpu and engaging the screen. It is called wake lock detector.
You will not get days and days of battery but you will see marked measurable improvement and still be running jb 4.2.2
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Honestly, I don't think this version of the Galaxy SII is gonna receive Jelly Bean 4.2.2 officially. I'm surprised that we even got a Jelly Bean update considering how buggy ICS was. Also, 4.2.2 custom ROMs seem slower than their 4.1.2 cousins on this device, with the exception of those compiled with Linaro.
In short, there's a slight possibility we'll get 4.2.2 TouchWiz but I doubt it.

NonexistentParan0ia said:
Honestly, I don't think this version of the Galaxy SII is gonna receive Jelly Bean 4.2.2 officially. I'm surprised that we even got a Jelly Bean update considering how buggy ICS was. Also, 4.2.2 custom ROMs seem slower than their 4.1.2 cousins on this device, with the exception of those compiled with Linaro.
In short, there's a slight possibility we'll get 4.2.2 TouchWiz but I doubt it.
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Pretty sure the t989 is done with updates. Such is life!! 4.1.2 works pretty well, so meh.
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Goodbye Hercules Community

After more than a year I decided to upgrade to an S3 at least. Could have gotten the S4 but didn't want to deal with the payments and wait on development of roms, kernels, etc. Anyway I really enjoy helping people when I can and I will be keeping track of the Hercules threads even though I am moving on. Thanks for all the good times and to the devs such as Ptmr, rushing, cl3kener, mikey man, thdDude, whx, prbassplayer, and more I know I am forgetting at this time you guys are awesome . Thanks again and I will be seeing you guys around.
June 19th
Edit: Just sold the S3 for $310 and got the S4. Must say it's pretty nice so far.
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You were an absolute contributor in this forum the way you helped others. Enjoy the S3.
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Traitor!
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You were a great contributer!! Hope fully you get recognized for it! Have fun on the S3 and we hope to see you from time to time!
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I appreciate your time here. You helped me out more than once when I was in a jam. I'll probably follow the same path as you with the S3, maybe the Nex 4. Take care dude. :good:

thatdavekid said:
I appreciate your time here. You helped me out more than once when I was in a jam. I'll probably follow the same path as you with the S3, maybe the Nex 4. Take care dude. :good:
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Well I had the S3 for two weeks and sold it for $310 so I went ahead and got the S4. Great phone so far I just rooted it and installed recovery on it today. Getting ready to flash Slim Bean on it and see how it goes.

richardlibeau said:
Well I had the S3 for two weeks and sold it for $310 so I went ahead and got the S4. Great phone so far I just rooted it and installed recovery on it today. Getting ready to flash Slim Bean on it and see how it goes.
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Cool man, at least you don't have to worry about upgrading... for a while anyway. Looks like some pretty cool ROM/Kernels are popping up. Enjoy.

I might get the one for a $100 just don't know yet no external SD or removable battery bothers me a little plus I love my Hercules:thumbup:
ss beanz T989

hatememarkz said:
I might get the one for a $100 just don't know yet no external SD or removable battery bothers me a little plus I love my Hercules:thumbup:
ss beanz T989
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S4 has both of them you must be talking about the Htc One
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richardlibeau said:
S4 has both of them you must be talking about the Htc One
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Yeah but for a $100 u can't beat it :thumbup:
ss beanz T989

hatememarkz said:
Yeah but for a $100 u can't beat it :thumbup:
ss beanz T989
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The only good things about the Htc one are the design and front facing speakers. The camera is overrated and the lack of a removable battery that you can't exchange turned me away. Not to mention you can not add additional storage. That was a huge factor of why I didn't get it myself. I need at least 48 gb at this time for all my music, videos, and my kids games. Thought about the Note 2 but decided to pick the S4 for now as tmobile told me that most likely the Note 3 will be out in September so if I want I can trade up for it then. Don't know if I will or not I will have to see how good the Note 3 really is when that time comes. For now though I am happy with the S4. It has great features, a powerful battery, nice display, etc. Development for it is growing as well. It has cm, slim bean, aokp, pacman, like the rest of them and other custom roms. Already has overclocking kernels for both cpu and gpu. So it's coming along at a good pace for a device that's less than 2 months old. Anyway, I appreciate peoples comments in this thread and will continue to help anybody if I can . Thanks.

For those anticipating 4.3

Just put it on my Nexus 7....and I just gotta say.....whoopty dooooo! LOL
Wouldn't know it was any different.
Those eager flashaholic beavers drooling for 4.3 roms to drop on the t989 are gonna be very underwhelmed.
My N7 isn't lagging as much as 4.2.2.....and that's about all I can say.
My t989 doesn't lag....so......4.3 for t989.....I'll pass....prolly just be a big crop of new issues to sort out....for nothing really.
For serious guys!
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4.3 is pretty much just a patch....not an update. Probably geared towards the Nexus 7 and other devices that lagged bad on 4.2.2. It did improve that a bit.
But its pretty much just service pack 1 for 4.2.2. Lol
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Awww shux.... I'll stick with Helly Bean 4.2.2 then thanks.
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Its project butter revisited.
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kj2112 said:
Just put it on my Nexus 7....and I just gotta say.....whoopty dooooo! LOL
Wouldn't know it was any different.
Those eager flashaholic beavers drooling for 4.3 roms to drop on the t989 are gonna be very underwhelmed.
My N7 isn't lagging as much as 4.2.2.....and that's about all I can say.
My t989 doesn't lag....so......4.3 for t989.....I'll pass....prolly just be a big crop of new issues to sort out....for nothing really.
For serious guys!
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Yeah it's not much different, I also did notice an improvement on my Nexus 7 as well.

TheLastSidekick said:
Yeah it's not much different, I also did notice an improvement on my Nexus 7 as well.
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Did you guys have 16gb versions? Because I had the 32gb N7. I read that the memory in the 32gb was faster. I had cm10.1 with m-kernel and everything was fast, smooth and snappy. Scored a little over 15k in antutu.
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Yeah I have the 16Gb version and I was primarily running Franco.kernel
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the should just call it 4.2.3 lol

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Yeah I have the 16Gb version and I was primarily running Franco.kernel
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That's probably why. If you go on the N7 forums anyone with a 32gb is doing swell. Only people with 16gb versions are having performance quirks.
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Just me personally ....for us I'd leave 4.3 alone. The glitches in 4.2.2 are finally getting smoothed out now.....and to start developing 4.3 and the new issues that will arise seems kinda pointless.
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kj2112 said:
Just me personally ....for us I'd leave 4.3 alone. The glitches in 4.2.2 are finally getting smoothed out now.....and to start developing 4.3 and the new issues that will arise seems kinda pointless.
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I think people should just let this phone die and move on. Developers can't keep supporting an aging device forever, and the t989 has had an amazing run support wise. What more do people want? I can't see this phone running better than it already does.
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H3adru5H said:
I think people should just let this phone die and move on. Developers can't keep supporting an aging device forever, and the t989 has had an amazing run support wise. What more do people want? I can't see this phone running better than it already does.
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Some developers, just like I am, are stuck with thus phone awhile. So I'll appreciate further development. Just don't think working on 4.3 will be of any benefit. Just keep tweaking 4.2.2. It still isn't glitch free. We have 4.1.2 also for touchwiz fans. I see no point in worrying about 4.3....it brings nothing really to the table....except probably more glitches.
So I can't move on....but I agree our range of roms are working well enough.....just keep optimizing 4.1.2 and 4.2.2. 4.3 and key lime won't improve anything....just add more headaches. The t989 will probably lag out on key lime I'd guess.
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kj2112 said:
Some developers, just like I am, are stuck with thus phone awhile. So I'll appreciate further development. Just don't think working on 4.3 will be of any benefit. Just keep tweaking 4.2.2. It still isn't glitch free. We have 4.1.2 also for touchwiz fans. I see no point in worrying about 4.3....it brings nothing really to the table....except probably more glitches.
So I can't move on....but I agree our range of roms are working well enough.....just keep optimizing 4.1.2 and 4.2.2. 4.3 and key lime won't improve anything....just add more headaches. The t989 will probably lag out on key lime I'd guess.
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True. I just got this thing to run mint on the latest cm10.1. I'm not touching it until I sell it lol
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H3adru5H said:
I think people should just let this phone die and move on. Developers can't keep supporting an aging device forever, and the t989 has had an amazing run support wise. What more do people want? I can't see this phone running better than it already does.
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The Hercules still has a another 18mts to 2yr expected shelf life in terms of being supported by tmobile, there not going to drop it anytime soon so I'm sure we can expect development to continue, like others have said some ppl aren't fortunate enough to be able to opt into a newer device so as for me, in going to continue to build roms kernels and mods for this device, Sammy is expected to bring it to official 4.2.2 , don't expect it soon but this device won't die until 4.2.2 is released, just like the s3 and note will all so updates at 4.2.2
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This is a nice addition with 4.3:
http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/26/hidden-permissions-manager-android-4-3/
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H3adru5H said:
I think people should just let this phone die and move on. Developers can't keep supporting an aging device forever, and the t989 has had an amazing run support wise. What more do people want? I can't see this phone running better than it already does.
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People had that same negative attitude about G1 and HD2 as well and look how far and long they have come from there releases. My G1 had android 1.5 when I bought it and 2.3.7 when I sold it. My HD2 had windows phone 6.5 when I bought it when I sold it it was quad booting with CM10, Pacman, AOKP, and PA. But by all means feel free to move on to a newer "better" device. I am very happy with my GS2 I am running Hellybean, and seems faster than my buddys toro.

Yeah 4.3 doesn't look very exciting to me..yes it brings a few new features but overall there isn't much to get excited about.
But I may be proved wrong.. Well just have to see how this phone performs
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I on other hand would love to see all future upgrades on this phone, Phone is still sold my tmobile so I don't see a reason why development should stop.. Also phone is well capable of handling 4.3 easily so why not? If you're like me who uses phone for emails, browsing, movies and minor gaming, This is a perfect phone.. Only thing I don't like about phone is battery drain during sleep and poor batter performance overall. everything else is just fine.. So yea I can't wait for someone to port future upgrades on this phone.

arvinchugh said:
I on other hand would love to see all future upgrades on this phone, Phone is still sold my tmobile so I don't see a reason why development should stop.. Also phone is well capable of handling 4.3 easily so why not? If you're like me who uses phone for emails, browsing, movies and minor gaming, This is a perfect phone.. Only thing I don't like about phone is battery drain during sleep and poor batter performance overall. everything else is just fine.. So yea I can't wait for someone to port future upgrades on this phone.
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No one will disagree with you. But, if we aren't getting official 4.2.2 or 4.3 and up....development will halt or slow down at some point. Its inevitable. Personally I'll stick with 4.1.2 or 4.2.2 for now. Unless 4.3 is developed with no more glitches than 4.2.2 presently has. 4.3 adds nothing to the s2 really, so I won't run a rom that has too many problems when its no different than a previous version that's stable pretty much. 4.3 helped the Nexus 7 with its lag issues for sure, but that's it. But I think our phone doesn't have those lag issues like the N7, so 4.3 adds nothing that we don't already have.
Now key lime pie may add/change a lot.. if our phones can run it smoothly. So that may be worth all the issues porting it will bring.
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kj2112 said:
No one will disagree with you. But, if we aren't getting official 4.2.2 or 4.3 and up....development will halt or slow down at some point. Its inevitable. Personally I'll stick with 4.1.2 or 4.2.2 for now. Unless 4.3 is developed with no more glitches than 4.2.2 presently has. 4.3 adds nothing to the s2 really, so I won't run a rom that has too many problems when its no different than a previous version that's stable pretty much. 4.3 helped the Nexus 7 with its lag issues for sure, but that's it. But I think our phone doesn't have those lag issues like the N7, so 4.3 adds nothing that we don't already have.
Now key lime pie may add/change a lot.. if our phones can run it smoothly. So that may be worth all the issues porting it will bring.
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KLP is said to run on a device with as little as 512mb ram, so if that's the case the Hercules should run it easily, maybe not allll the bells and whistles, I mean its old hardware and that has to count for something but I don't see why not ...I'll keep developing this phone as long as I have it, an if I can get klp to boot, I will share lol
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