I have only seen the question once or twice so far. When will "x" rom update to 5.1?
So first off 5.1 source has dropped and there are improvements or 5.x. Second while it is still called lollipop Google could have given it a ndw name. This is not like the earlier updates 5.0.1 or 5.0.2. This is a big release and will screwup current custom roms.
Device and kernel sources will need to updated. Although it wont be as bad as the initial lollipop changes. The big downside is that custom roms will once again be starting from scratch. So features will be lacking.
Omni rom has 5.1 pretty much ready to go but the note 2 is not supported. Also Omni rom is pretty much pure aosp with very little added. While our other main devs (LS, BrokenOs, Cyanogenmod, CyanideL) will be working hard to bring us 5.1. Expect a few weeks minimal before the first betas/testers start showing up. Then in a few months we should be back to where we are now.
If I was Google I would have just held off on 5.0 a few more months. Then devs would not have wasted all that time working on source just to do it over again a few months later.
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jlmancuso said:
Omni rom has 5.1 pretty much ready to go but the note 2 is not supported.
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Not supported because no one is working on it or is there something that makes it not possible?
There are no devs working on omni for the l900.
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dyin for a 5.1 TW rom for the L900 and kernels that support 4.4.x and 5.x
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If I was Google I would have just held off on 5.0 a few more months. Then devs would not have wasted all that time working on source just to do it over again a few months later.
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I think this pretty much shows exactly how much Google really cares about 3rd-party devs (in other words, all non-Nexus devices). Perfect example is the Kitkat external SD card debacle. What a coincidence that Nexus devices don't have external SD cards.
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Every rom I see by that team is always a alpha version I have yet to see a fully completed rom by that team.
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Yes they do? How about cm 7?
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Yes they do? How about cm 7?
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or CM6, CM5 etc...
A better question would be is a rom ever complete? There will always be bugs that are found that do need to be fixed just like Android in general it's never really "done" there are always updates to it that fix things.
What gingerbread rom do they have for our phone. Looking to try them out.
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What gingerbread rom do they have for our phone. Looking to try them out.
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Well you do realize that our phone is CDMA, Proprietary code is not available for some of the hardware which greatly increases the time it takes to develop our phones ports.
If you like the idea of a Complete CyanogenMod you should grab an international GSM phone preferably a stock AOSP device. You will have a "complete" rom alot faster than you ever will with a sprint device.
The OG epic only became officially supported not long ago.
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What gingerbread rom do they have for our phone. Looking to try them out.
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There is no "official" GB rom from CM for this phone. Rootzwiki has an "unofficial" CM7.1/2 that's no longer supported however. We are getting "official" CM9 and the Alpha 1 is in the Dev section.
Lol wut? Is this your first android device?
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Lol wut? Is this your first android device?
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Lol
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cidica said:
There is no "official" GB rom from CM for this phone. Rootzwiki has an "unofficial" CM7.1/2 that's no longer supported however. We are getting "official" CM9 and the Alpha 1 is in the Dev section.
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I was told that the Alpha 1 wasn't official.?
There are at least 3 or 4 Cyanogenmod attempts for our phone, isn't that a set team that always develops or can anyone attempt a Cyanogenmod? Don't understand how there can be multiple Cyanogenmod ROMs for our phone?
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There are at least 3 or 4 Cyanogenmod attempts for our phone, isn't that a set team that always develops or can anyone attempt a Cyanogenmod? Don't understand how there can be multiple Cyanogenmod ROMs for our phone?
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I think you mean to say there are multiple AOSP-based (original ICS w/o Touchwiz) ROMs for our phone.
Sbrissen and Darchstar are currently working on CM9 for our phone.
T.C.P. has released AOKP, Gummy, and Codename Android for our phone.
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There are at least 3 or 4 Cyanogenmod attempts for our phone, isn't that a set team that always develops or can anyone attempt a Cyanogenmod? Don't understand how there can be multiple Cyanogenmod ROMs for our phone?
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Anyone is free to take the CM code and build their own ROM. That's the beauty of open source. All they ask is that such derivative builds are labeled as kangs or otherwise make note that they are using CM9's codebase.
Anyone can become a member of CM if they do good work such as committing bug fixes to the project and take a role in supporting CM on a particular device
Darchstar's build should be considered the "official" CM9 build for our phone. He's part of the CM team. However, until he or others are able to build a working kernel from source for the E4GT and not use Samsung's we won't have a truly CM9 build.
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Every rom I see by that team is always a alpha version I have yet to see a fully completed rom by that team.
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No rom is complete without official ice release.. they don't even have source for our phones yet for ics. Therefore it cannot be completed.. plus kudos to the person who said it will never be complete based off of bugs plus there are always ways to improve a rom regardless; of how "complete" it is.. would you want a dev to make a rom then never update it? They can't make it official until everything is working..
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Nothing is ever finished in android
Notice the carriers always pushing fixes. ICS will probably be updated within a month after official drops.
Just the nature of the beast.
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Android has become more and more complex to develop for (both in terms of skill and computing power), and the true developers (not including people who just modify existing roms) have become more spread out across devices.
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I'm not asking for a time frame until cm10 has a stable 4.1.2 build, but I'm curious how long it normally takes for android update versions to trickle down to non aosp based ROMs. I'm new to the gnex and have only ever had ROMs that were not officially supported on my past devices.
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They're out already as Google have already released the factory image of 4.1.2 for the Nexus
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I'm not asking for a time frame until cm10 has a stable 4.1.2 build, but I'm curious how long it normally takes for android update versions to trickle down to non aosp based ROMs. I'm new to the gnex and have only ever had ROMs that were not officially supported on my past devices.
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non aosp based roms? not sure what you're talking about;
second, source is available, direct support from aosp, so no other smartphone besides a nexus will get updates as fast as we do.
how long it takes? that depends how much time to mirror source repo, how much custom code was written before;
The next day pretty much. Unless its a significant Android change (Android 2.3 -> Android 4.0.X) the it'll take some time but we roughly get a stable build right away as Google pushes updates for our device.
are all developers working on getting android 4.2 on the s3 i747?
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Take a look at the Android Original Development Forum for this device. Task650 has released an AOKP 4.2 based ROM with minor bugs and CM has released official 10.1 which is 4.2.1. These builds are only 5 days old and contain some minor bugs.
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android2.0 said:
are all developers working on getting android 4.2 on the s3 i747?
just wondering
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Yes, which is why there are overall less updates being rolled out. The 2 mentioned above are the only 2 at the moment that actually work. There's 2 more I believe, but they're there so that people can help with it's development. They're not fit for every day use. Task's 4.2 is pretty neat, but it's missing a lot of the old aokp features and has (as stated) some minor, but very noticeable bugs. Personally, I'm waiting for the 4.2 release of paranoidkangdroid. And if you want something very stable and nearly bug free. Wait another week or two, maybe three.
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Is it me or has development for the galaxy s3 slowed down dramatically? Have most of the device switched to another device?
Some devs have moved onto the Note II, while others are still developing. I actually think development is still quite strong for our device. There's over 10 AOSP roms that's been updated since March 1st and there's probably over 10 TW roms updated since March. I helped a friend of mine mod his EVO LTE and I felt like his device was way more limited in ROM selection than ours was.
Not only that, the developers have pretty much everything running smoothly. What exactly needs to be updated? TW ROMs are updated, AOSP ROMs are pretty much all 4.2.2...
Once the S4 drops TW development will pick up, and when 5.0 gets released AOSP will pick up.
Right now, I'm running the latest version of Android with a slew of extra features and no bugs at all. Not much to develop.
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Not only that, the developers have pretty much everything running smoothly. What exactly needs to be updated? TW ROMs are updated, AOSP ROMs are pretty much all 4.2.2...
Once the S4 drops TW development will pick up, and when 5.0 gets released AOSP will pick up.
Right now, I'm running the latest version of Android with a slew of extra features and no bugs at all. Not much to develop.
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What ROM are you running?
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What ROM are you running?
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LiquidSmooth stable release.
Well I see no reason to continue development like the past if most ROMs are pretty stable already sure when a new update comes every devs will push out updates with whatever is new in stock but other than that ROMs are pretty stable and its best to be left like that. That's just my opinion though.
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Is it me or has development for the galaxy s3 slowed down dramatically? Have most of the device switched to another device?
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development is still running strong (Have you seen the changes constantly being made to The People's Rom and Mother of all roms for instance?) I run either of those, and they are always adding new features to please the people who run them. So i don't see development slowed at all. As more things trickle down the pipeline via release or port, from another device, they will get added. Development is strong with this one. :silly:
It not really about quantity but quality. We have both. In feel we and our devices are very fortunate for the people who develop for our phones. There are some amazing ROMs to choose from, and even better developers and their teams doing it. Just to name my favorites depending if you like TW or AOSP
TW ROMs
M.O.A.R.http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37149249
TPR http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34624618
Galaxy S fre3 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28157789
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Liquidsmooth http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38683925
CyanogenMod http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35045520
And the list goes on and on.
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It not really about quantity but quality. We have both. In feel we and our devices are very fortunate for the people who develop for our phones. There are some amazing ROMs to choose from, and even better developers and their teams doing it. Just to name my favorites depending if you like TW or AOSP
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M.O.A.R.http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37149249
TPR http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34624618
Galaxy S fre3 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28157789
AOSP
Liquidsmooth http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38683925
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I completely agree, If it's working perfectly, not much really to update.. Little things here and there that folks want added... but overall.. not much you can change really.
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I completely agree, If it's working pctly, not much really to update.. Little things here and there that folks want added... but overall.. not much you can change really.
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I'm a dev who just got here.. I know Im late for the party, but I'm developing my own tw ROM for the s3 at the moment and I've noticed that there are stilla few MODS that haven't been updated to the latest MB1. I'm needing some testers too for some MODS and my ROM when it's finished. Any one interested? Also check out my latest thread on development
HERE
Oh and what's up overstew! I haven't seen you since the E4gt.. How you been?
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Is it me or has development for the galaxy s3 slowed down dramatically? Have most of the device switched to another device?
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Most roms are stable now. Most devs are waiting for the official 4.2 as well. Plus some have moved to the Note2 or getting there hands on the S4.
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I have many questions about android 4.4 and I am sure many others do also. I have created this thread as an information database for AOSP 4.4. Also for any information regarding KitKat making its way to T-Mobile Note 3 and how development is coming along.
If its a Q&A shouldn't it be in the Q&A section? Rename it to Android 4.4 General Discussion, it sounds better
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Regarding kit Kat making it way to gn3 it will probably be minimum 3 months but more than likely 6+ and probably the one of two point updates we see. I am enthused about 4.4 but not Samsung giving it to us right away. Eager to see Google wallet on our phones though.
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Regarding kit Kat making it way to gn3 it will probably be minimum 3 months but more than likely 6+ and probably the one of two point updates we see. I am enthused about 4.4 but not Samsung giving it to us right away. Eager to see Google wallet on our phones though.
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I am hoping that there will be some 4.4 cyanogenmod based ROMs released soon.
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I am hoping that there will be some 4.4 cyanogenmod based ROMs released soon.
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vegas217 said:
I am hoping that there will be some 4.4 cyanogenmod based ROMs released soon.
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Since the Nexus 5 is using the same chipset as the Note 3, getting some things going won't be as difficult. I'd give it 2 months before we see a "stable" enough build. I personally don't considering AOSP builds 100% stable as there seems to be bugs with them, IF it's running on a NON-Nexus device... Just a personal feeling on it though...
But those who do want AOSP, it won't take as long as some may think. Note 3 is the only device that's really really new still, G2's been out a little bit, if I'm not mistaken. But like I said, Nexus 5 uses S 800, like the Note 3. It'll come sooner than some may think....
Follwo their gerrit here to see the latest changes.... http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/q/statuspen,n,z