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My mom wants me to come to Verizon on her family plan, as I look at the phone selection nothing really interest me. The upcoming thunderbolt is much to big and I wont purchase any motorola device. I was going to get this on a one year contract, and then by the end up of the year, I'm sure there will be something out, that I will like, or should i just suck it up and buy a thunderbolt, since I do live in an LTE Area.
Forgot to add some details.
I am switching because i don't get t mobile service on my universitys campus.
I am a nexus one, if that matters at all.
Thanks
Dreday
Only VZW and HTC can say when the Incredible will go EOL. That being said, even if it goes EOL tomorrow, its functionality isn't going to decrease. You don't stand to lose much, if anything at all, by picking it up on a one year contract.
Conversely, there are some pretty compelling reasons (for some) to go with the Thunderbolt... better cpu, faster gpu, HTC Sense 2.0, DLNA, SVDO, et al.
Not known what isn't known
Yep - these new devices look/sound superb - for the future.
For now, a one-year contract the DInc is hard to beat - IF you are interested in modding/tweaking.
Why?
Until the new devices are released, rooted, and have an interested and solid group of innovative developers, they'll be mostly stock devices, with unknown mod choices.
The DInc has nearly a year's worth of development in the books, and the mods to show for it.
So, if you want a device with a solid bench of developers and flock of mods, the DInc is the way to go. If ya wanna run the latest/greatest device that's cool too, but the modification choices will be fewer until the development community catches up.
just my $.02
It's already been leaked that the Incred is going EOL on 3/31.
Berzerker7 said:
It's already been leaked that the Incred is going EOL on 3/31.
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good info, thanks. Even so, I still have my warranty, and I am getting a thunderbolt or bionic if its unlocked. idk if i can go outside HTC. They treat me well. and Verizon. They do ok.
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Yep - these new devices look/sound superb - for the future.
For now, a one-year contract the DInc is hard to beat - IF you are interested in modding/tweaking.
Why?
Until the new devices are released, rooted, and have an interested and solid group of innovative developers, they'll be mostly stock devices, with unknown mod choices.
The DInc has nearly a year's worth of development in the books, and the mods to show for it.
So, if you want a device with a solid bench of developers and flock of mods, the DInc is the way to go. If ya wanna run the latest/greatest device that's cool too, but the modification choices will be fewer until the development community catches up.
just my $.02
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Yeah this is what keeps the incredible interesting it my not have the specs, but it has a solid dev community.
*sigh*
The DInc will never die!
Sent from God, who uses Virtuous 3.2
Is it possible to get rid of WM7 and install Android on HTC surround?
Yes, take it back/sell it and buy an android phone.
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Yes, take it back/sell it and buy an android phone.
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Didn't buy it yet , getting it dayum cheap like 300 bucks for brand new phone without any courier.
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Didn't buy it yet , getting it dayum cheap like 300 bucks for brand new phone without any courier.
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then don't buy a great phone with great OS to put the ****tiest one on.... there's no android for wp7 because we DON'T want it and DON'T need it !
Talk about a major downgrade...
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then don't buy a great phone with great OS to put the ****tiest one on.... there's no android for wp7 because we DON'T want it and DON'T need it !
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As long as there is a good variety of apps available then its no problem.
WTF why doesnt WP7 have flash??
You would really be better off just going with an android phone to start with because buying a surround then hoping for a port is just going to give you months, if not more of frustration. Is that worth saving a bit of money for? Buy android, it has flash, lots of apps, several form factors, no need to by a wp7 device then do without the features you want.
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You would really be better off just going with an android phone to start with because buying a surround then hoping for a port is just going to give you months, if not more of frustration. Is that worth saving a bit of money for? Buy android, it has flash, lots of apps, several form factors, no need to by a wp7 device then do without the features you want.
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This.
All trolling aside. Android has a large selection of quality devices that you will be able to find off contract for a reasonable price - with some patience spent looking on ebay. If you want Android, buy a phone that was built from the ground up for Android.
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This.
All trolling aside. Android has a large selection of quality devices that you will be able to find off contract for a reasonable price - with some patience spent looking on ebay. If you want Android, buy a phone that was built from the ground up for Android.
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I know some are trolling , Android has more free apps , just buying it for the speaker , but isnt there any possibility to install android on it ? like dualboot?
Why not just buy an phone with Android? Ported ROMs usually have tons of problems.
Keep wp7 on it Android is un secure and was built with stolen code
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I know some are trolling , Android has more free apps , just buying it for the speaker , but isnt there any possibility to install android on it ? like dualboot?
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I can't imagine because I don't believe the surround is very popular hardware. Since those mods are usually pretty hardware specific, those types of mods are usually only made for more popular devices.
Alright but will there be any browser available for WP7 that supports flash?
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I know some are trolling , Android has more free apps , just buying it for the speaker , but isnt there any possibility to install android on it ? like dualboot?
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no there's not as we've clearly stated. You would have to have access to the bootloader which only one person has done by accident and it bricked their device. You would then have to pretty much rebuild the entire phone from the ground up code-wise. It is possible given months, maybe years but no one is going to spend 1/10th that time on such a terrible phone. The os is the only redeeming quality about that device. We are not trolling, you came to the wp7 forums and asked about putting Android on your device. We informed you it could not be done and told you our opinions of the idea... Sounds like a thread to me... You're just hunting for a yes where there's none to be had.
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Alright but will there be any browser available for WP7 that supports flash?
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at this point in time no. That is not Microsoft fault. That is Adobe.
^ How is that Adobe fault? Please clarify, as I am truly interested.
Adobe s not created a version of flash for wp7 a new version has to be created for each os that it works on. Not that it will really matter after html 5 but Microsoft has nothing to do with building the program.
even before WP7 was released, both MS and Adobe said jointly that they were committed to bringing flash to windows phone. I believe the hold up is in agreeing to an implementation that would satisfy both companies (for MS, it's implementing it without a compromise to speed or security, and for Adobe it's being feature rich and fully functional).
Go buy a Android or a iPhone.
Let's get this out of the way first, nobody here is stupid, we know the L Release is never going to come to the Galaxy Nexus officially. So let's talk about the community. I just have one basic question for our talented devs, what are the odds that a port of L will be able to come to the Gnex and if so, what kind of time frame are we looking at here?
Does the Cyanogenmod team do developers previews like this one? We might see it from them.
I'm sorry, but this post is exactly what I expected to see today.
so lets get it out of the way.
SURE
we COULD see some 5.0 aosp love(via custom development)
MAYBE.
time frame?
when.source drops, give it a few months at most I'd say
source isn't even CLOSE to ready yet though.
SOOO
let's ALSO look at the past.
which nexus devices, after Google officially dropped support, are STILL ABLE AND ARE running LATEST android version?
ALL of them right?
stability and such isn't a factor for this question, it's IF IT CAN/DOES run newest aosp in SOME FORM.
so I'd say YES gnex WILL see 5.0 in SOME usable form. but asking for ANY "time frame"at THIS POINT since SOURCE ISN'T AVAILABLE YET is kinda pointless.
maybe though, just maybe, there are ALREADY some people at work on getting those "preview" things ported. no matter WHAT, patience and not asking for timeframe/eta is key here
I don't normally do +1 style posts, but I am also greatly interested in knowing this as well.
I imagine it is largely going to depend on how much of the underlying kernel and driver interaction changes. I remember on my prior phone, a Droid X which has been and is still locked down, it was generally impossible to get past ICS because of the major underlying changes in JB and not being able to get those on the DX. Granted the Nexus doesn't have this limitation but drivers aren't likely to be further updated and if the kernel goes too far forward it is unlikely to see compatible driver versions for GNex hardware.
EDIT: I should probably say modules instead of drivers. I'm primarily a Windows person PC-side.
Put it this way my 4 year old HTC Desire can run Kitkat then i would be amazed if we didn't end up with some pretty good builds of "L".
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I'm sorry, but this post is exactly what I expected to see today.
so lets get it out of the way.
SURE
we COULD see some 5.0 aosp love(via custom development)
MAYBE.
time frame?
when.source drops, give it a few months at most I'd say
source isn't even CLOSE to ready yet though.
SOOO
let's ALSO look at the past.
which nexus devices, after Google officially dropped support, are STILL ABLE AND ARE running LATEST android version?
ALL of them right?
stability and such isn't a factor for this question, it's IF IT CAN/DOES run newest aosp in SOME FORM.
so I'd say YES gnex WILL see 5.0 in SOME usable form. but asking for ANY "time frame"at THIS POINT since SOURCE ISN'T AVAILABLE YET is kinda pointless.
maybe though, just maybe, there are ALREADY some people at work on getting those "preview" things ported. no matter WHAT, patience and not asking for timeframe/eta is key here
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Thanks for replying! I figured since I looked pretty thoroughly and didn't see a thread for it and thought that having at least one place for Gnex owners to talk about the L release for us wouldn't be a bad thing. I in no way meant to be one of those people who constantly bugs the devs about ETA's, I just meant what were could be expecting in the general sense. Thanks for the reassurance about us getting it, I've just been burned before about support with previous devices when they got past official support. But those weren't Nexii so I didn't know what to expect.
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Thanks for replying! I figured since I looked pretty thoroughly and didn't see a thread for it and thought that having at least one place for Gnex owners to talk about the L release for us wouldn't be a bad thing. I in no way meant to be one of those people who constantly bugs the devs about ETA's, I just meant what were could be expecting in the general sense. Thanks for the reassurance about us getting it, I've just been burned before about support with previous devices when they got past official support. But those weren't Nexii so I didn't know what to expect.
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yea sorry about my tone in that reply mostly too
I'm usually not the one to fly off ranting towards other users actions, at least not on xda(i do #AshRants elsewhere lol)
your question was a valid one, and I know where you coming from when it comes to nom nexus devices and their lack of support, I had a droid x2 that was ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED BY MOTOROLA to have ICS update. which for some reason they just didn't follow through on. Their REASON they said was that "android 4.0+ would not improve functionality of this device"...aka "we don't feel like fixing all the bugs we gave you already with shotty gingerbread releases, and we aren't going to allow you to unlock the device or give you usable kernel source so screw off",...back when moto didn't gaf about the dev communities. they have made huge strides towards mending that relationship. just couldn't believe they had the gall to say 4.0 wouldn't improve the first dual core android device running a tegra2 chipset. bah. ramblings now again from ash.
but yea reason I kinda went off in that reply was mostly cuz I hoped all the other people who were already drooling at the chance to post the exact same things would slow down and think instead first it wasnt intended as a personal attack towards you or to start any flamewar on the subject. and judging by your reply you didn't take offense to it anyways, so :thumbsup: :good: we all on the same page anyways.
personally, I haven't seen much of the IO stuff about L, I saw mostly design changes, and would like to know more details about it's new features so I'll be digging around YouTube today for recaps and such.
but I'm almost certain that if we don't get some kinda official rom like CM, OMNI, SHINY, PA, etc... building L based.roms for us, then some of our awesomely talented devs will at LEAST get us able to look like we have it, along with SOME if not z MOST functionality of L.
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I also think you guys should be patient. Your life won't be (that limited if there won't be a port of the coming up Android L to our Galaxy Nexus. Just relax.
As some have already pointed out, we're unlikely to see Android 5 "officially" ported to our GNex, for pretty much the same reason that we don't have an official 4.4 release for our phone. From ArsTechnica:
"Our talk with Burke shed some light on some more obscure topics too, including the lack of an Android 4.4 update for the Galaxy Nexus. Google's official line was that the company only supports hardware for 18 months after release, which it still mentions in its official Nexus update support document. As was speculated at the time, though, the decision was tied to Texas Instruments' exit from the consumer SoC market (TI's OMAP chip powered the Galaxy Nexus as well as other prominent Android-based hardware like the first Kindle Fires).
"It was a really extraordinary event," he said. "You had a silicon company exit the market, there was nobody left in the building to talk to."
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TI stopped development for the GNex SoC at Android 4.1. Google and others worked hard to support it for 4.2 and 4.3, but the official TI software was broken by 4.4. The reason that we even have 4.4 custom ROMs is because some kind-hearted person, perhaps a TI insider, released beta or engineering sample software for the SoC. But as we've found, it's not the most stable
have a great weekend,
john
You could all complain about TI stopping development and blaming them. The Google Glass uses a not to different TI SOC compared to the GNex has a 3.4 kernel and runs 4.4.2
Now please understand that Google simply ditched us for reasons other than TI stopped developing SOC bla bla bla.
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You could all complain about TI stopping development and blaming them. The Google Glass uses a not to different TI SOC compared to the GNex has a 3.4 kernel and runs 4.4.2
Now please understand that Google simply ditched us for reasons other than TI stopped developing SOC bla bla bla.
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Plus if they didn't drop support after two years android would have alot more bugs in general.
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Plus if they didn't drop support after two years android would have alot more bugs in general.
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I don't get your logic. And its not like 4.3 is flawless. HD video playback on this device (GNex) lags.
+ if Google themselves show a bad example to OEMs on how long to update devices, expect OEMs to not update devices older than a year. And this makes the whole "android doesn't get timely updates" into a new issue where "android doesn't get updates after a year+ at best".
GNex will never die!
(3.5 yrs going strong bby, and thanks to vanir+dirtyv f2fs running better than ever)
latenightchameleon said:
GNex will never die!
(3.5 yrs going strong bby, and thanks to vanir+dirtyv f2fs running better than ever)
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Indeed. There will likely be somebody out there building from the latest source for this device as long as it's possible to do so, and possibly even if it isn't.
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Now please understand that Google simply ditched us for reasons other than TI stopped developing SOC
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Out of curiosity, what would those reasons be?
jsage said:
Out of curiosity, what would those reasons be?
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That's up for you to imagine....
Money, profit, greed? You pick which one. Or make your own reasons.
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That's up for you to imagine....
Money, profit, greed? You pick which one. Or make your own reasons.
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Well, I guess when simple facts aren't sufficient then fantasy must be more believable.
wow
some of these replies were brutal, sheesh
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some of these replies were brutal, sheesh
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Honest perhaps. It's pretty simple really. The new OS (4.4) has a new kernel. The new kernel requires new drivers. Neither TI (OMAP SoC) nor ImgTec (PowerVR GPU) will supply those drivers.
Yes, an engineer at TI "released" a blob last fall. But it was not release-quality, it was beta-quality. Not everything is a conspiracy; we've just reached the end of the official support road.
On the other hand if one is inclined to run on the bleeding edge and stability is not their primary concern, there are any number of KitKat custom ROMs in which one can indulge.
have a great evening,
john
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Honest perhaps. It's pretty simple really. The new OS (4.4) has a new kernel. The new kernel requires new drivers. Neither TI (OMAP SoC) nor ImgTec (PowerVR GPU) will supply those drivers.
Yes, an engineer at TI "released" a blob last fall. But it was not release-quality, it was beta-quality. Not everything is a conspiracy; we've just reached the end of the official support road.
On the other hand if one is inclined to run on the bleeding edge and stability is not their primary concern, there are any number of KitKat custom ROMs in which one can indulge.
have a great evening,
john
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Ah crap I didn't mean to thank you. Anyway, yea sure remember all those OEMs you blame and all have given everything you've said to a certain product. GOOGLE GLASS. And go and check what SOC Google Glass uses.
Now have fun.
Hopefully not, but anyone know for sure that might have early access to one of the devices?
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Hopefully not, but anyone know for sure that might have early access to one of the devices?
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I would be willing to bet that it does.
Of course it will. It's the whole seemless update thing that they love. Remember pixel is not a true dev phone like the old nexus devices. They're now going for a more consumer friendly model. Seemless updates is just a great selling point. Most consumers have no idea what it means. But the word "seemless" sells itself.
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Of course it will. It's the whole seemless update thing that they love. Remember pixel is not a true dev phone like the old nexus devices. They're now going for a more consumer friendly model. Seemless updates is just a great selling point. Most consumers have no idea what it means. But the word "seemless" sells itself.
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What are the phones that devs prefer these days?
Also, is everyone else (Samsung, etc.) going for the dual partition setup?
And why can't they just change the partitions on the phone? I guess I'm so used to partitioning my Linux systems any way I want and having a lot of options that it seems odd that the partitions must be left alone.
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What are the phones that devs prefer these days?
Also, is everyone else (Samsung, etc.) going for the dual partition setup?
And why can't they just change the partitions on the phone? I guess I'm so used to partitioning my Linux systems any way I want and having a lot of options that it seems odd that the partitions must be left alone.
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the best dev phone is still the google phone, the pixel.
eventually all android owns will shift to the dual partition model.
what's your problem with dual partitions exactly, because it offers lots and lots of benfits.
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the best dev phone is still the google phone, the pixel.
eventually all android owns will shift to the dual partition model.
what's your problem with dual partitions exactly, because it offers lots and lots of benfits.
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No its not. The dual partition setup makes developing for the device a nightmare. To the point that devs have started adding the dual partition setup to the list of things to avoid when getting a device. Add in the closed sourced system files Google uses on the pixels and you get a none dev friendly device.
No not all OEMs will shift to it. You can just look at how many device have it, even though it has been around for over a year. Just like adaptive storage.
To answer the question, many devs have moved over to OEM like one plus
Hopefully it doesn't have it. If so I might stick with OnePlus(which imo has taken over the Nexus mantle for dev friendly affordable phones). I only used root for adblock and youtube background play, but without those a phone isn't a phone to me lol
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No its not. The dual partition setup makes developing for the device a nightmare. To the point that devs have started adding the dual partition setup to the list of things to avoid when getting a device. Add in the closed sourced system files Google uses on the pixels and you get a none dev friendly device.
No not all OEMs will shift to it. You can just look at how many device have it, even though it has been around for over a year. Just like adaptive storage.
To answer the question, many devs have moved over to OEM like one plus
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Yeah, I didn't realize this happened with the Pixel. Pretty disappointing. I does look like the four month old OnePlus 5 has a lot more development for it than the one year old Pixel phones. And it has official Lineage OS support. I'm still amazed that there is no official Lineage OS release for last years Pixel. What a sad change of fates for what was the former venerable Nexus line of phones. I wonder if the new Essential phone has a dual partition scheme. They claim they are going to be dev friendly, although they still haven't released their kernel source.
By the way, are there any other phones, other than the Pixels, that use dual partitions?
I still don't really understand why the paritition scheme can't just be rewritten by the devs for cutom ROMs. It's such a common place thing to do on desktops.
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Yeah, I didn't realize this happened with the Pixel. Pretty disappointing. I does look like the four month old OnePlus 5 has a lot more development for it than the one year old Pixel phones. And it has official Lineage OS support. I'm still amazed that there is no official Lineage OS release for last years Pixel. What a sad change of fates for what was the former venerable Nexus line of phones. I wonder if the new Essential phone has a dual partition scheme. They claim they are going to be dev friendly, although they still haven't released their kernel source.
By the way, are there any other phones, other than the Pixels, that use dual partitions?
I still don't really understand why the paritition scheme can't just be rewritten by the devs for cutom ROMs. It's such a common place thing to do on desktops.
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The essential phones were a bust. A sprint exclusive killed it. They inky sold like 5000 units total.
I have the one plus 3 right now and to be honest. I am not tempted to upgrade. It is still very powerful with a few years of development left.
The only ones that I know of for sure that use it are the pixel line and the new android one reboot. I can't say for sure on all the others but those are the only ones I know for sure.
To be honest I am not sure what the details are of the issue. None of my devices ever used it. So I only know what the devs talk about it in chats.
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The essential phones were a bust. A sprint exclusive killed it. They inky sold like 5000 units total.
I have the one plus 3 right now and to be honest. I am not tempted to upgrade. It is still very powerful with a few years of development left.
The only ones that I know of for sure that use it are the pixel line and the new android one reboot. I can't say for sure on all the others but those are the only ones I know for sure.
To be honest I am not sure what the details are of the issue. None of my devices ever used it. So I only know what the devs talk about it in chats.
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Thanks for the thoughts.
It was actually reported a week or so ago that, at that point in time, Essential had only sold 5000 units through Sprint. No one knows what the sales have been directly from Essential. I suspect far more people bought directly from Essential (based on what I see people posting and that people who like phones like this tend to be T-Mobile customers). So maybe there's hope for Essential. Even though I have been disappointed by them in many ways and ended up passing on the phone, as much as I like the screen design. Or maybe the second Essential phone will do better and they'll become a company like OnePlus with some interest from devs.
Looking around, it also seems like there's a lot of development for the LG phones, I guess they allow unlocked bootloaders? It seems like every LG G* and V* phone has an official version of Lineage and a lot of ROMs in their XDA forums. I've never been an LG fan, but maybe they are a better way to go these days, if not OnePlus. I would have considered the OnePlus 5 but I don't really want a phone that big and I'm disappointed they dropped OIS for a dual camera gimmick. It seems like the 3 and 3T are the nicest of the OnePlus phones so far.
Despite the phone having great hardware, and likely easily lasting another 3-4 years if you take care of it, the phone isn't going to receive anymore security updates (I can't post a link for proof, so feel free to look it up). In order to keep up to date with features and security, it's more important than ever to begin developing ROMs before the phone falls victim to planned obsolescence, which will be ironic since there are plenty of phones from 5+ years ago that are still fully usable.
Certain ROMs like LineageOS are already available for the S6 and S6e, but it isn't for the S6e+ out of back luck (most likely there are no developers with this phone, or not enough people wanting it). Basically, if we don't want this phone to die, we should encourage developers to begin developing official popular ROMs. Out of all phones to become obsolete, it shouldn't be one that has almost identical hardware to a phone that has great support like the original S6.
Sad news about what Samsung did but I fully support the author of this topic. LineageOS team please help!
S6E+ is far too good to die due to lack of support
They have updated the page. Now our device is included again in monthly updates. You can check it yourself
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They have updated the page. Now our device is included again in monthly updates. You can check it yourself
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That is correct. S6 Active and S6E+ are on the monthly patch list.
Let's hope it stays there as long as possible.
But LineageOS still can help us by adding their support for SE6+
As far as I know we're supposed to be getting Oreo soon. Maybe not soon, but after they release it for the s7 and s7 edge.
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They have updated the page. Now our device is included again in monthly updates. You can check it yourself
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That's great, but I'd still like 3rd party ROM support
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As far as I know we're supposed to be getting Oreo soon. Maybe not soon, but after they release it for the s7 and s7 edge.
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Isn't it already released? There was an article on XDA saying that S7/S7E got Oreo even before S8.
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Isn't it already released? There was an article on XDA saying that S7/S7E got Oreo even before S8.
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The s7 edge's Oreo release was leaked. It still hasn't been officially released. The s8 on the other hand is almost done with roll outs I believe.
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The s7 edge's Oreo release was leaked. It still hasn't been officially released. The s8 on the other hand is almost done with roll outs I believe.
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I remember something disturbing about that article. It turns out that it was a leaked version
Thanks revhix, you're a noble, helpful rom master.
xdaBrowsing said:
Despite the phone having great hardware, and likely easily lasting another 3-4 years if you take care of it, the phone isn't going to receive anymore security updates (I can't post a link for proof, so feel free to look it up). In order to keep up to date with features and security, it's more important than ever to begin developing ROMs before the phone falls victim to planned obsolescence, which will be ironic since there are plenty of phones from 5+ years ago that are still fully usable.
Certain ROMs like LineageOS are already available for the S6 and S6e, but it isn't for the S6e+ out of back luck (most likely there are no developers with this phone, or not enough people wanting it). Basically, if we don't want this phone to die, we should encourage developers to begin developing official popular ROMs. Out of all phones to become obsolete, it shouldn't be one that has almost identical hardware to a phone that has great support like the original S6.
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s6 edge roms should work in theory in s6 edge+. same hardware, same chipset, same camera, etc? screen size is the only difference.
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s6 edge roms should work in theory in s6 edge+. same hardware, same chipset, same camera, etc? screen size is the only difference.
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Screen size, and 1 gb of ram less. So it should work by some minor edit.
I have the same opinion as of the author. The phone is just great but has not managed to get attention of developers.
soleali said:
I have the same opinion as of the author. The phone is just great but has not managed to get attention of developers.
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It's good to see that more sand more ppl are starting to know the truth about this fantastic phone!
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It's good to see that more sand more ppl are starting to know the truth about this fantastic phone!
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For sure! I'm a relatively new owner of an S6E+ and was very surprised at how few rom's there are for it. This phone needs the attention from developers that it deserves. It's still a great 2018 phone.
chris8189 said:
For sure! I'm a relatively new owner of an S6E+ and was very surprised at how few rom's there are for it. This phone needs the attention from developers that it deserves. It's still a great 2018 phone.
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Yes, I've been telling that all the people for years (sellers, brand representatives, customers, friends, online people).
The reason is that it didnt get much marketing attention, hardly anyone realized that this phone even exists.
BTW During my many comparisons with S7/S8/Note8/S9/S9+ and other top phones from different brands I think that in GOOD light situations and when you zoom the pic only S9+(12MPix) can clearly beat the S6E+(16Mpix).
Very sad... Phone with 4GB Ram, 32GB/64GB UFS memory and rather fast octa chipset Exynos 7420. The specification is better than in some of today's mid-range phones.
existe el link para descarga rom KHONGLOI-NOUGAT-V9public.zip
androidbadboy said:
That is correct. S6 Active and S6E+ are on the monthly patch list.
Let's hope it stays there as long as possible.
But LineageOS still can help us by adding their support for SE6+
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existe el link para descarga rom KHONGLOI-NOUGAT-V9public.zip
ziksinski said:
Very sad... Phone with 4GB Ram, 32GB/64GB UFS memory and rather fast octa chipset Exynos 7420. The specification is better than in some of today's mid-range phones.
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Of course!
The specs of S6E+ were so far ahead at the premiere (September 2015) that even now that device can support Android Oreo, not to mention the fantastic LineageOS.
SE6+ will go down in history as one of the best, if not the very best Samsung phone of all time.
justanpotato said:
s6 edge roms should work in theory in s6 edge+. same hardware, same chipset, same camera, etc? screen size is the only difference.
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IF that was the case then on the official LinageOS website we would find S6E+ on the left menu.
So it's not that easy in my opinion
There is a developer who's working on a Android 9 pie rom you can try right now but it's still a little buggy
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