The Google announcement of a Google version of the S4 made me start wondering about the S3. Of all the wonderful ROMS for the S3, which one(s) are closest to a pure android experience?
Any of the ROMs running the actual Google software.
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dschoms said:
The Google announcement of a Google version of the S4 made me start wondering about the S3. Of all the wonderful ROMS for the S3, which one(s) are closest to a pure android experience?
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Maybe the one that says "pure AOSP"...
CNexus said:
Maybe the one that says "pure AOSP"...
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Sprint Galaxy S3
Whiplashh Rom
Look it up. :trooper:
Thanx
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Maybe the one that says "pure AOSP"...
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Thanks for the reply. After looking it over, I guess I'll stay with my current setup. Courtesy of Titantium Backup I've removed a lot of the bloat and the phone works fine for the way I use it. The only thing that doesn't work for me is syncing to Google Calendar, although it syncs just fine from Google Calendar to the phone. I guess I removed one too many things.
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yes just heard it on Google I /O s4 pure android coming to att and tmobile but Google selling it amazing!!!!!
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I just hope, GS4 users can "upgrade" to that version somehow
zoddex said:
I just hope, GS4 users can "upgrade" to that version somehow
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yeah I know right... I feel like just returning this one and just wait idk... I'm I'm beyond excited
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xxjrsmith3xx said:
yeah I know right... I feel like just returning this one and just wait idk... I'm I'm beyond excited
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I'll just keep mine or upgrade to the 32GB TMO version when it comes out. I'm guessing its the US Snapdragon version (compatible w/ AT&T & TMO) & we should be able to install it on ours w/o any issues. I'm all guessing here.
Definitely wanting to sale my note 2 for that.
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RMXO said:
I'll just keep mine or upgrade to the 32GB TMO version when it comes out. I'm guessing its the US Snapdragon version (compatible w/ AT&T & TMO) & we should be able to install it on ours w/o any issues. I'm all guessing here.
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That's what I believe it is too.
Why would anyone switch their gs4s to that? Can't aosp just be cooked up from that version? It'll deff be much more bug free then aosp at this point
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or you could just install cm10.1 and BOOM you already have stock android experience + great customization
Im just gonna wait to see if there is a rom coming out to install
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or you could just install cm10.1 and BOOM you already have stock android experience + great customization
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Problem with that is cm always has bugs. I'm not a big fan of stock Android but I'm sure plenty are.
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gdmlaz said:
or you could just install cm10.1 and BOOM you already have stock android experience + great customization
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I wonder now that there is a stock android build coming will cm for s4 be better since they will have the code specifically for this phone?
What's the advantages of this???
Now we got are devices fresh in hand and bam. They... release S4 stock.
Hey we got a new version for you buy again.:thumbdown::thumbdown::thumbdown::thumbdown:
All good here. Happy with my purchase
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KRAZYADROIDMASTER said:
What's the advantages of this???
Now we got are devices fresh in hand and bam. They... release S4 stock.
Hey we got a new version for you buy again.:thumbdown::thumbdown::thumbdown::thumbdown:
All good here. Happy with my purchase
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You shouldn't feel bad about your purchase. I'm quite happy with mine so far (except the overheating issue lately).
I don't have the AOSP version yet, so I can't really speak of the features that are/aren't going to be there.
I'm guessing if they make it true stock Android, there will be no Samsung bloat at all.
So it's basically a much more powerful version than any Nexus phone will ever be,
and as such the price is quite high. Personally, I would not consider it at that price.
I'm happy with my T-Mo, and with a few customization here or there, I can always get stock.
This is really geared toward the hard-core Android fans/developers. You can't doubt the S4 has the best internal hardware
of any phone out there, and there lies possibilities.
I also heard the news from google I/O. Does this mean that this version of the S4 will be as open as a nexus and easy for developers to make their custom ROMs for it?
KRAZYADROIDMASTER said:
What's the advantages of this???
Now we got are devices fresh in hand and bam. They... release S4 stock.
Hey we got a new version for you buy again.:thumbdown::thumbdown::thumbdown::thumbdown:
All good here. Happy with my purchase
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Sony basically did the same thing with the ZR, took complaints and made a new phone out of it
Just purchased a 600$ Ip57 phone? Well there's IP58 now! (Waterproof not resistant)
It's good to have options, but honestly most people that buy pure vanilla Android are experienced users. Most will have no clue rather it's Vanilla or not.
So there in lies the questions. Why put this out after and most that come here that have an s4 already hacked it to death no? So I don't see the point of the users here who want to upgrade to this when you just put a vanilla type ROM on it.
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elflip88 said:
Problem with that is cm always has bugs. I'm not a big fan of stock Android but I'm sure plenty are.
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CM only has bugs on non aosp devices. Its just as stable as stock on my galaxy nexus. Having an aosp s4 will allow all the snapdragon s4's to have stable aosp.
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CM only has bugs on non aosp devices. Its just as stable as stock on my galaxy nexus. Having an aosp s4 will allow all the snapdragon s4's to have stable aosp.
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Not true. my nexus 4 gets bugs every once in a while.
If the hardware is identical to the tmoble version then you should just be able to flash the image through Odin right? Seems kind of like the galaxy nexus where you flash takju from yakju or whatever and boom, you are getting the Google play version of updates, wallet functionality etc. If anything it says Samsung has opened their flagship to aosp right?
Even if you think $650 is too much this means that potentially, Samsung will get touch wiz updates to new versions faster as there will be nexus level compatibility with each new android update. I'm not saying immediate but they will have an inside track based on the fact that Google will actively update their device through AOSP for at least 2 years.
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CM will always have bugs due to the way they change the Android coding. Where it is stable and great work people should never look for a bug free OS
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What is the difference between the 2 launchers? The only thing that I have noticed is that the S4 launcher has a "Home" page indicator (see picture) is there anything else that's different?
Also when dragging widgets to on-screen...you can see every other page available at the bottom.
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Also when dragging widgets to on-screen...you can see every other page available at the bottom.
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I didn't know that, thanks. I'm just wondering if it's worth going from the S3 touchwiz launcher to the S4 touchwiz launcher.
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I didn't know that, thanks. I'm just wondering if it's worth going from the S3 touchwiz launcher to the S4 touchwiz launcher.
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Pretty sure you can't just put the S4 launcher onto the S3.
There are differences to the Touchwiz framework behind the scenes and, moreover, the S4 sits on Android 4.2.2 whereas the S3 is still on 4.1.1.
EDIT : saw from your sig that you're running T-Mobile's 4.1.2 ... wouldn't make a difference!
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Pretty sure you can't just put the S4 launcher onto the S3.
There are differences to the Touchwiz framework behind the scenes and, moreover, the S4 sits on Android 4.2.2 whereas the S3 is still on 4.1.1.
EDIT : saw from your sig that you're running T-Mobile's 4.1.2 ... wouldn't make a difference!
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What wouldn't make a difference?
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What wouldn't make a difference?
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Being on T-Mo's 4.1.2 instead of the official i747 4.1.1 and meaning it still most probably wouldn't work IMO.
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Being on T-Mo's 4.1.2 instead of the official i747 4.1.1 and meaning it still most probably wouldn't work IMO.
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The S4 Touchwiz launcher does work on the S3 as I've tried it this morning, I just didn't see any difference and reverted back to a backup because i didn't really notice any difference.
Was going to try it out again if there are more features than just the 2 that have been mentioned so far
Actually the s4 launcher works fine on the s3; just the international version though. Nobody has ported it to the at and t version yet.
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Actually the s4 launcher works fine on the s3; just the international version though. Nobody has ported it to the at and t version yet.
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Actually it has been ported and works fine on the SGH-I747M and a lot of other devices.
Check out this link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2236937
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Actually it has been ported and works fine on the SGH-I747M and a lot of other devices.
Check out this link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2236937
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I call shenanigans. There are a lot of accusations on that thread that that launcher is just a themed SGS3 TW launcher.
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I call shenanigans. There are a lot of accusations on that thread that that launcher is just a themed SGS3 TW launcher.
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I think you're about that
That is not how the s4 launcher looks on that link. Besides the smoothness. The only difference I could see is when adding an item to the page, it shows smaller pages to show where you are.
Is anyone working on a Google edition port for our phone? Just curious. Sorry if someone else posted already but I can't find a thread for this subject.
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Is anyone working on a Google edition port for our phone? Just curious. Sorry if someone else posted already but I can't find a thread for this subject.
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No, no one is... As it been here forever just flash any cm.aosp.AOKP. Roms you will be set to go
In all seriousness the phone is not even out yet 0.0 will be in few hours
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No, no one is... As it been here forever just flash any cm.aosp.AOKP. Roms you will be set to go
In all seriousness the phone is not even out yet 0.0 will be in few hours
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I'd think the official would be a lot smoother cm can be a bit laggy and unrealiable
OK nm the phone is officially out!
I am currently running AOKP on my M919 but would definitely like to compare it to the 'Official' google experience rom.
id rather have the real google edition instead of CM and other community built roms because they always glitch and lag at some point, ive been running cm since cm7 ive tried all and they were never perfect i want to try a real google experience :good:
Everyone does, matter of getting someone to port it ^.^
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Everyone does, matter of getting someone to port it ^.^
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Well someone will I'm sure of that.
I have been wondering if, when you buy the Google edition phone, would you be able to flash a tw rom on it?
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accordex said:
I have been wondering if, when you buy the Google edition phone, would you be able to flash a tw rom on it?
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its got to be possible, i did some research and actually our phone is the closest to the model phone that the GE s4 uses. my thoughts are that we might actually get a port first. i have a feeling the rom itself will boot on our phones. we just need to flash a radio. the kernal should work... the tmobile phone is actually the best of all the usa variants to have and usually tmobile variants hold the most value when selling because they are closest to international versions and have the most bands. i think we might be in luck here.
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Radsolutionz said:
Is anyone working on a Google edition port for our phone? Just curious. Sorry if someone else posted already but I can't find a thread for this subject.
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Here is the Google edition ROM for non-Google edition HTC One devices.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2341186
Kingadiy said:
Here is the Google edition ROM for non-Google edition HTC One devices.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2341186
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This is a samsung galaxy s4 forum not HTC
Google Edition is confirmed working on T-Mobile variant. Flashing rom is all thats needed. Wifi is working
Google Edition Rom
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It looks like our phone, along with the other galaxy s2 lineup will not receive the official 4.2.2 update.
http://www.androidpit.com/galaxy-s2-android-4-2-2-jelly-bean-update-touchwiz
4.2.2 is sooo last semester. 4.3 is here now.
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That sucks. Galaxy S2 Plus users got an official update for 4.2.2 a few weeks back.
funbulton said:
It looks like our phone, along with the other galaxy s2 lineup will not receive the official 4.2.2 update.
http://www.androidpit.com/galaxy-s2-android-4-2-2-jelly-bean-update-touchwiz
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Old news. Would not be surprised if the international Exynos SII gets the update, but Qualcomm does not support 4.2 on our aged S3 chipset.
me_is_rushin said:
Old news. Would not be surprised if the international Exynos SII gets the update, but Qualcomm does not support 4.2 on our aged S3 chipset.
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This is what I said....and read 3 months ago.
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That's a bummer, thankfully we have XDA to keep our S2 updated
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4.2.2 is sooo last semester. 4.3 is here now.
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And now 4.3 is ancient!
4.4 is the new thing.
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And now 4.3 is ancient!
4.4 is the new thing.
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What! I didn't get the memo!
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Keeping up with so many version
I choose to keep 4.2.2 until stable version of 4.3 is available. I hate trying new ones when so many things don't work. I feel for the developers who have to keep pace and do so much work. Very appreciated! :good:
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I choose to keep 4.2.2 until stable version of 4.3 is available. I hate trying new ones when so many things don't work. I feel for the developers who have to keep pace and do so much work. Very appreciated! :good:
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HellyBean is awesome
GS2 T989
HELLY BEANZ™ 4.3
OKJ/UBER
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HellyBean is awesome
GS2 T989
HELLY BEANZ™ 4.3
OKJ/UBER
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Got to give it up for Black liquid smooth, Uber Kernal, Slim Gapps oh but only if Using TRWP 2.6.1.
Omaraw said:
I choose to keep 4.2.2 until stable version of 4.3 is available. I hate trying new ones when so many things don't work. I feel for the developers who have to keep pace and do so much work. Very appreciated! :good:
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I have been using 4.3 ROMs for a few days now with no issue. Is there anything in particular that doesn't work that I'm unaware of?
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I have been using 4.3 ROMs for a few days now with no issue. Is there anything in particular that doesn't work that I'm unaware of?
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If they "didn't work" the devs would take them down or not put them up in the first place. Are there some bugs here and there? Yes. Read the threads for those.
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If they "didn't work" the devs would take them down or not put them up in the first place. Are there some bugs here and there? Yes. Read the threads for those.
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Of course. I was just wondering if there were any kernel limitations or major bugs that were not ROM specific, or just in CM10.2.
I am not waiting for 4.2.2 tw. The only thing better about tw is the camera app, but it is a phone so it not like we are getting get pics anyway. Running carbon 4.3, very stable and smooth.
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me_is_rushin said:
Old news. Would not be surprised if the international Exynos SII gets the update, but Qualcomm does not support 4.2 on our aged S3 chipset.
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I'm curious how it is that we have to many custom 4.2.2 rom for the Hercules, yet the graphics driver is not supported?? Did Cyanogen and other rom developers somehow find a way to port the old Qualcomm drivers to other versions of android? Or are we just using the previous 4.1.2 drivers somehow. Either way the statement that the update is somehow incompatible with our device is purely garbage. Truth be told, it is simply a way to sell more devices, at least it is for those who are not willing to flash custom ROMs. For the rest of us there is 4.3 on a device that began as a gingerbread device, which is awesome. Now bring on the KitKat, because I'm sure our device can rock some 4.4 just as well.
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I'm curious how it is that we have to many custom 4.2.2 rom for the Hercules, yet the graphics driver is not supported?? Did Cyanogen and other rom developers somehow find a way to port the old Qualcomm drivers to other versions of android? Or are we just using the previous 4.1.2 drivers somehow. Either way the statement that the update is somehow incompatible with our device is purely garbage. Truth be told, it is simply a way to sell more devices, at least it is for those who are not willing to flash custom ROMs. For the rest of us there is 4.3 on a device that began as a gingerbread device, which is awesome. Now bring on the KitKat, because I'm sure our device can rock some 4.4 just as well.
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Not a dev so these questions are over my head, but I am curious about the answers as well. And if they Key lime pie (kitkat) rumors are true about it being less spec hungry then it might just be the best running version of Android to grace our phones.
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Not a dev so these questions are over my head, but I am curious about the answers as well. And if they Key lime pie (kitkat) rumors are true about it being less spec hungry then it might just be the best running version of Android to grace our phones.
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we can only hope
An it is
snt frm a carbonized GS²
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An it is
snt frm a carbonized GS²
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Where did you see that?
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I searched online and found this rom meant for Sprint GS4 and was wondering if it could ported. I am not familiar with porting or if its even possible even though its coming from a CDMA phone.
This is the link from the webpage.
And this is the link for the rom.
Thanks in advance.
It's being worked on is all I will say.
But just an fyi, GPE for the HTC One and S4 boils down to more or less an AOSP themed stock rom
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It's being worked on is all I will say.
But just an fyi, GPE for the HTC One and S4 boils down to more or less an AOSP themed stock rom
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Well that's very interesting and appreciate the comment. Looking forward to it!
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If this becomes aosp or anything like that it will look nothing the same just like cyanogenmod....they all look alike they may just run different
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