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Ice Cream Sandwich for O2X!

Not sure if everyone here has heard the news from Google's I/O, but they have announced that Google is setting a guideline for updates to phones, and many companies have agreed to give timely updates to their phones for at least 18 months from release.
LG is one of them so this is good news and will most likely mean that our phones will live to see an official Ice Cream Sandwich build

I would be getting it from CM regardless
Does anyone know whether this agreement is retroactive though? Might not include the *2X

First, LG agreed to that terms AFTER the O2X release, so that phone isn't concerned.
Second, they add "if hardware can follow", which is the magical sentence for manufacturer to explain why, finally there will be no update (even if that's total bullsh*t).
Bottom line is, nothing new, still the same.
But, it doen't mean we won't have ice cream Sandwich either
Let's hope for it.

Even though the news are good, Google making some pressure to manufacturers develop android updates, thing is that ice cream is said by Google to be released Q4 2011...hmph, how long for LG2X to have IC? Q2 2012?
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This phone is one of the most powerful devices as of now so they should do the Ice Cream if not we can make petition or wait for CM 8?
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Rusty! said:
I would be getting it from CM regardless
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Agreed. I wasn't a fan of the stock ROM at all. This all mighty phone, weak release of 2.2.
CM7 completely unleashed the inner beast of this phone.

Stekare said:
Agreed. I wasn't a fan of the stock ROM at all. This all mighty phone, weak release of 2.2.
CM7 completely unleashed the inner beast of this phone.
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I wouldn't go that far aha
That being said I haven't actually tried CM7, waiting for it to be a bit less buggy

I hope we'll get Ice Cream Sandwich. But let LG first bring Gingerbread to us all!

I am doing a noob question... i red about hardware problems of o2x getting ice cream sandwich. I mean that it seems ice cream rom is going to be very heavy, about 500 MB... so the ram available is not sufficient to run this OS... can someone confirm this problem?
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That's just stupid. Neither the Nexus One nor the Nexus S have more than 512mb of memory.

Mehrsau said:
That's just stupid. Neither the Nexus One nor the Nexus S have more than 512mb of memory.
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altough your second statement appears to be one of the most valid answers the question could have, your first statement was completely unnecessary.
thanks button pressed because of the second statement. Please users, work together in order to get an healthy environment here in the O2X thread

svceon said:
altough your second statement appears to be one of the most valid answers the question could have, your first statement was completely unnecessary.
thanks button pressed because of the second statement. Please users, work together in order to get an healthy environment here in the O2X thread
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You're right, sorry. I was just a bit upset about all the rumors trying to make this phone bad.

TsunKit said:
I wouldn't go that far aha
That being said I haven't actually tried CM7, waiting for it to be a bit less buggy
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You should go that far . New CM build is just awesome. I don't have any problem since build 18.

Elf89 said:
I am doing a noob question... i red about hardware problems of o2x getting ice cream sandwich. I mean that it seems ice cream rom is going to be very heavy, about 500 MB... so the ram available is not sufficient to run this OS... can someone confirm this problem?
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Well it would help if you knew the difference between RAM and internal storage before posting that.

Mehrsau said:
That's just stupid. Neither the Nexus One nor the Nexus S have more than 512mb of memory.
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It's not so stupid because this could be the excuse for LG to decide to stop ice cream on the 2x like they did with optimus chic: the 01 will be upgraded to gingerbread while the chic (that has similar hardware) will not. It's just commercial strategy.
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Rusty! said:
Well it would help if you knew the difference between RAM and internal storage before posting that.
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Yeah i know the difference but the OS is loaded during boot in to the ram isn't it? So how much free ram do you think are you going to find after booting the phone?
Anyway my personal opinion is that this prevision of how much heavy will be ice cream is for tablet's only... i hope phone's one will be smaller
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Mehrsau said:
You're right, sorry. I was just a bit upset about all the rumors trying to make this phone bad.
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I understand you. I encountered only once the freeze problem and that's all. No problem so far and i tried cm7 and modaco that make this phone incredibly faster. Anyway it's true there are a lot of problems but theese are going to be fixed by lg's software update and then by community. In Italy a lot of people are selling 2x at incredible low prices and i can't understand why...
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Elf89 said:
Yeah i know the difference but the OS is loaded during boot in to the ram isn't it?
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No more than Windows is on your PC
The Acer Iconia A100 is a Honeycomb tablet with 512MB RAM, so the *2X is gonna be fine.

Stekare said:
CM7 completely unleashed the inner beast of this phone.
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I'm a CM7 user as well, coming from Nexus S to Optimus 2x and I would say the same only after we got a stable mod. I'm using Nightly #23 right now and it's great... but far from a beast ATM. Let's remember about bluetooth audio problems, no HDMI, 1080p video recording or FM Radio for instance. Nightly CM7 it's already great, but there's a lot of little things to be fixed.
Unexperienced users should keep away for now, is called Nightly and experimental version after-all.

There is HDMI out

2.3 what the f...

Now LG say 2.3 after the summer on swedish site

That must be a joke,
but by the way... i'm sure lg will bring android 2.3 to the 2x when cyanogen brought 3.1 alread!

There is no CM 3.1 ROM, Honeycomb is still closed source.

Rusty! said:
There is no CM 3.1 ROM, Honeycomb is still closed source.
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I'm sure he means, that by the time 3.1 (Or really ICS, 'cause HC isn't going to be opensourced) has been turned into a CM release, LG might release GB

When they realese it then CM8 would come with Ice Cream Sandwich!
I am just joking.
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hmmm why this thread is in dev section

winzhangout said:
Now LG say 2.3 after the summer on swedish site
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I bet it do. Why? Because after the summer can be in 20 years. Still after the summer this year, now isnt it?
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I hope the waiting is worth it....
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ilos said:
hmmm why this thread is in dev section
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Wrong section - stop replying people, thread needs to die.

Why is there yet another thread about this???
We all know it was delayed, and I think more and more people know it won't come at all.
I got 2 email replies from LG. The first one said the update will come after summer for sure. The second one said there is no precise date for the update, not even after summer.
So to sum up:
n°1 LG is telling us all to go **** ourselves on this one
n°2 It's useless to open a new thread every time LG tells us to go **** ourselves
n°3 LG is ****ing ****

Froyo -> Gingerbread upgrade is not all that big. Most of you won't even know its running gingerbread vs froyo. Not sure what the big deal is.

its not about the software update, we have CM7 for that.
Its about the kernel update that we want from gingerbread.
And also, are you kidding? "most of you want know the difference" ? where do you think you are? this is XDA why do you think where here?

mintvilla said:
its not about the software update, we have CM7 for that.
Its about the kernel update that we want from gingerbread.
And also, are you kidding? "most of you want know the difference" ? where do you think you are? this is XDA why do you think where here?
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Pretty sure most of the people *****ing about it want it for the sake of having the number "2.3" written on the version screen as oppose to "2.2.2". What will gingerbread let you do that you can't do now?
If you're having issues with the phone (reboots/freezes etc) then fair enough otherwise just chill. It's just a phone.

I had a HTC Legend before Optimus 2X. And when the stable cm7 rom was running in my phone it was WAY faster then with any stable custom Froyo-rom. And 2.3 looks very nice. 2.3 also has the Screen-off animation, and a function to select text in messages and on webpages to easier copy, edit or delete parts.
Thats what I can remember I miss atm..
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mintvilla said:
its not about the software update, we have CM7 for that.
Its about the kernel update that we want from gingerbread.
And also, are you kidding? "most of you want know the difference" ? where do you think you are? this is XDA why do you think where here?
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Yeah you're right, we need the kernel to produce better and stable CM7s or other gingerbread builds >< If only we could get our hands on one single Optimus 2x kernel source code ><

Dont know if you have tried CM7 lately but its VERY stable, at this point the only thing we need LG to fix is maybe the battery drivers

mauaus said:
Dont know if you have tried CM7 lately but its VERY stable, at this point the only thing we need LG to fix is maybe the battery drivers
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Yeah the battery drain issues ><

Gb will surely bring a lot of stuff to o2x as I understand. Most important imho proper use of dual core and gtalk videochat. Guess a lot of people will notice the speed improvements at least.
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winzhangout said:
Now LG say 2.3 after the summer on swedish site
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According to my carrier here in NZ (2degrees), the gingerbread update for the O2x will be out by end of October 2011. Link here

mauaus said:
Dont know if you have tried CM7 lately but its VERY stable, at this point the only thing we need LG to fix is maybe the battery drivers
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I almost agree.... cm7 rocks and no point at all using standard rom however the battery aint so bad is it? I manage live wallpaper, fair usage on wifi, 3g and 3 hours a day audiobook ( yes works tough going lol )baseband/rij 725 and she lasts a day no problem ........ if you think thats bad you should try my wifes iphone 3gs!!!
edit:- lcd brightness is also up full tilt
edit again.... why doesnt lg/htc/etc etc hire the cm devs? as far as im aware they dont get paid much if anything other than the odd donation and a new phone here and there for a hell of a lot of work.... surely if anyone should be doing the official roms its people like them who love their work?

ICS on D1 ?

Will it be ported over and have a good working rom or will our poor little droid just not be able to handle it?

Google says the requirements are about the same for Gingerbread, but from what I have read, Google says things like that even when the new version needs more.
I am sure someone will get it running and then tweak it to heck.

When the source is released to AOSP, I'm sure the CyanogenMod team will attempt a port. And if CM9 drops support for the D1, someone else will more than likely port it. If not, I might take a shot
I guess we'll find out when it hits AOSP, won't we?
Even if that means waiting until the first official ICS devices are out, I'm sure there's enough demand to get people to start a port.
OTOH, I'm not responsible if you die from holding your breath Even though I personally don't see a reason to upgrade hardware just to get ICS - which IMO is an evolutionary update - there's no guarantee you'll get D1 support on ICS even from this wonderful community.
I guess we're lucky we can run CyanogenMod at all... The future doesn't look bright for Motorola or Android, especially considering Microsoft's Android extortion campaign. Well crap, I'm getting off topic

We might get a CM port. However, I think some of the features are going to be stripped in order to prevent performance from hindering.

We going to get Ice cream dont worry cyano never failed to update stock phones and nexus one will get it without google too!

Word on the street is CM is going to start dropping more devices. Droid turned 2 and it's EOL now.

add119 said:
We going to get Ice cream dont worry cyano never failed to update stock phones and nexus one will get it without google too!
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The Nexus One does have 2x the RAM our Droids do though, and the 1 Ghz Snapdragon

ElectroBeijing said:
The Nexus One does have 2x the RAM our Droids do though, and the 1 Ghz Snapdragon
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Yep, only reason it didn't get it officialy is because the phone doesn't have enough storage to hold the update without some hax

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Yep, only reason it didn't get it officialy is because the phone doesn't have enough storage to hold the update without some hax
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Oh...so, if our D1 does get an ICS port, does this mean it'll need an ext4? Like even for an AOSP

ElectroBeijing said:
Oh...so, if our D1 does get an ICS port, does this mean it'll need an ext4? Like even for an AOSP
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Probably :/

Damn! This sucks! I might just leave it on gingerbread, since I have an HD2 as my main device. However, most of the AOSP GB for the Droid are like 70 ish MB,[ like the .zip file] so maybe ICS won't be much larger if it's stripped down of unneccessary stuff. But then there might not be much internal space left for apps.... Ugh!

ElectroBeijing said:
Damn! This sucks! I might just leave it on gingerbread, since I have an HD2 as my main device. However, most of the AOSP GB for the Droid are like 70 ish MB,[ like the .zip file] so maybe ICS won't be much larger if it's stripped down of unneccessary stuff. But then there might not be much internal space left for apps.... Ugh!
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Yeh, but Link2SD takes care of that nicely.
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The GalnetMIUI team has already got ICS booting on the Milestone.
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The GalnetMIUI team has already got ICS booting on the Milestone.
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But not the Verizon Droid

@electrobeijing your right but the g1 and mytouch 3g have gingerbread on cyanogenmod 7 this year.
But i think the g1,mytouch 3g,Motorola cliq,htc tattoo and motorola cliq qt . wont get ice cream sandwich but cyanogenmod 9 will include droid 1 hopefully if it doesnt i have other phone that it will.

Anyone have a video of galnet miui on the milestone to see how well it runs?

Android 4.1

Google is expected by some to announce Android 4.1 Jellybean next week along with their Nexus 7 tablet. Besides chrome integration and a new search widget, what do you guys think will be included with this update?
Since its coded 4.1 and not 5, i expect Android ICS devices will be updated to 4.1 as it is pretty soon to updgrade hardware requirements as 1gb is pretty muh still the standard adn most ICS devices have this amount of RAM. This said, do you guys think any developers will begin porting 4.1 to our devices, even with the hardware codecs and other issues still being prevelant? Would you guys really want it like this, half built?
If this update is good, would this persuade you to upgrade to the droid4, as it will have a higher probability of having a completely working port? since it has ICS now leaked and working, and still a high end phone, when not compared to the SIII atleast.

I think our device runs fine on Gingerbread still...
It would be nice for a port but the little development we have now is already stable with gingerbread.

It was leaked that the GNex will be getting 4.1. As for us running it... I would bet large sums of money against it working right.
From RootzWiki: Galaxy Nexus to get Jellybean 4.1
Screenshot proof:
http://rootzwiki.com/uploads/monthly_06_2012/ccs-808-0-41169000-1340388367_thumb.jpg
Although this is the GSM versions pictured, it won't be tough to build it from source for the CDMA GNex before it's pushed.

4.0.3 to 4.0.4 was pushed to most if not all custom ICS roms. I don't see why 4.1 would not follow, unless there are MAJOR changes which from what I've read there really aren't. I would expect Gummy and AOKP to bring it to their roms in the near future.
However I highly doubt it will change how we stand with our current issues and most likely may cause some new ones.

Ehhh gingerbread runs ok on our phones in my opinion, ics was ALOT faster for me. Im using elcipse right now and its fast but my benchmakrs with ics were much higher, os ran smoother too.
That is a good point by the poster above, so that is high hopes of seeing a port even though I know it wont bring any more features than we already have, except the minor changes to the OS. It will be fun to test though. In around 12 hours we will have better knowledgge of what Jwlly Bean has to offer

I'm sorry but what's the point in upgrading if we won't have a proper ICS on D3 anyway?

DoubleYouPee said:
I'm sorry but what's the point in upgrading if we won't have a proper ICS on D3 anyway?
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To make you wanna upgrade even more. I cant wait to get on ics, but since I need video its not gonna happen until I get a new phone
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DoubleYouPee said:
I'm sorry but what's the point in upgrading if we won't have a proper ICS on D3 anyway?
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Some people don't need video camera, like all the ics usersd we have now, and otherxs want to test the new operating system, since we do have safestrap. Id love to test it, even though it wont be my daily

Also, you guys should really check out jellybean. It seems to be a much more complete os.
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drive eynames
I'm working on a kexec based bootloader bypass on droid3. It's coming along and the kernel say half boots. Once it is going I think jellybean is a real possibility. Probably will just skip ICS all togeather.

jonpry said:
I'm working on a kexec based bootloader bypass on droid3. It's coming along and the kernel say half boots. Once it is going I think jellybean is a real possibility. Probably will just skip ICS all togeather.
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thanks! sounds interesting

I saw your post in the kexec thread, I wish I knew how to help with that, I recommend you contact the original kexec developers, (I forgot which phone they were on) to help.
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I hate "half done" anything... i would like to see it completed for our devices however its not persuading me to go to the D4 since i am a new verizon customer and my plan isnt up for renewal for another year.

jonpry said:
I'm working on a kexec based bootloader bypass on droid3. It's coming along and the kernel say half boots. Once it is going I think jellybean is a real possibility. Probably will just skip ICS all togeather.
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Oh really
So if you were able to get custom kernels working does that mean you could use something like a modded Bionic ICS kernel (since its very similar hardware) or would a kernel have to be made from scratch.

The Nexus S is getting an official Jellybean update, and it only has 512MB of memory, just like the Droid3.
I read that memory limitations are what prevented devices like the NexS and the Droid3 from getting properly updated to ICS. I also read that Jellybean probably has looser system requirements than ICS, due to optimizations.
I do hope we can get JellyBean, either officially or otherwise. I'd love to have Google Now and I'm only halfway through my two-year contract.

spunker88 said:
Oh really
So if you were able to get custom kernels working does that mean you could use something like a modded Bionic ICS kernel (since its very similar hardware) or would a kernel have to be made from scratch.
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Hashcode already has a custom kernel with the test rom I believe.
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xyzyxx said:
The Nexus S is getting an official Jellybean update, and it only has 512MB of memory, just like the Droid3.
I read that memory limitations are what prevented devices like the NexS and the Droid3 from getting properly updated to ICS. I also read that Jellybean probably has looser system requirements than ICS, due to optimizations.
I do hope we can get JellyBean, either officially or otherwise. I'd love to have Google Now and I'm only halfway through my two-year contract.
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That's crazy, I was wondering whether any singlecore 512MB RAM phone was getting JB.

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Hashcode already has a custom kernel with the test rom I believe.
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Correct. Also he has said that we will be able to get Jellybean. I would imagine with all he has learned this year, he can probably get it fully running now. Hwcodecs may be the showstopper though...again. In theory a workaround may be available since we have a custom kernel.
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MrObvious said:
Correct. Also he has said that we will be able to get Jellybean. I would imagine with all he has learned this year, he can probably get it fully running now. Hwcodecs may be the showstopper though...again. In theory a workaround may be available since we have a custom kernel.
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Well I assume it will be fully working eventually, i mean why else would he try it this way if the end result exactly as it is now?

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That's crazy, I was wondering whether any singlecore 512MB RAM phone was getting JB.
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512 is enough but I think the issue has something to do with RAM being shared with the GPU so there is less avaliable, I get something around 330MB as total RAM when adding the 2 numbers under running services. My Droid 3 running stock 2.3.4 with bloat frozen is using around 250 MB. My Touchpad with CM9 and a full 1GB of RAM idles at around 300MB of RAM used, and its going to be less conservative on RAM usage since its got a GB.
The point is I don't think a CM9/10 ROM will be much worse than a bloated GB ROM as far as RAM usage goes. I really wish we had some more RAM, but I could see CM9/10 being a daily driver sometime in the future. The rest of the hardware in this phone is still pretty decent and CM should be no problem for it as long as the team can get some drivers working.

Is it possible to port JB Camera to GB?

Hello, I'm waiting for my phone to be delivered again (as it had a hardware malfunction, but the warranty covered it) and i'm planning to stick with GB... i'm tired of fighting with kernels, scripts and everything to make the phone work like it should. I want something that just works (sounding like an iOS fan, I know lol)
That's why i'm on a quest to bring some of the improvements of JB to GB. One of those improvements which i really liked was the camera. In JB you can zoom digitally, and also, very important to me, you can pause a video recording and then resume it. These features don't exist in GB Camera app.
Is there any way to make the JB camera work in GB????
Thank you very much in advance

Piachnp said:
Hello, I'm waiting for my phone to be delivered again (as it had a hardware malfunction, but the warranty covered it) and i'm planning to stick with GB... i'm tired of fighting with kernels, scripts and everything to make the phone work like it should. I want something that just works (sounding like an iOS fan, I know lol)
That's why i'm on a quest to bring some of the improvements of JB to GB. One of those improvements which i really liked was the camera. In JB you can zoom digitally, and also, very important to me, you can pause a video recording and then resume it. These features don't exist in GB Camera app.
Is there any way to make the JB camera work in GB????
Thank you very much in advance
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Upgrading to JB is the only option left.....
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Really? You know that for a fact or you're just saying?....
I mean, obviusly is a software issue, if people can port apps from 4.2.2 to 4.1.2, why can't I do the same with GB ? Is it because the system structure is so different in JB and GB ??

Piachnp said:
Really? You know that for a fact or you're just saying?....
I mean, obviusly is a software issue, if people can port apps from 4.2.2 to 4.1.2, why can't I do the same with GB ? Is it because the system structure is so different in JB and GB ??
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It's not impossible but none will work in old and outdated versions when jb is available for your phone
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frapeti said:
It's not impossible but none will work in old and outdated versions when jb is available for your phone
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Thanks frapeti, that's the answer i needed. Guess i'll have to learn and do it myself.... f***ing samsung and it's sh**ty JB release, making me use an older OS for performance, it pisses me off !!!!
No more mid-end phones for me, i'll buy only flagships from now on... those phones get all the love
Saludos desde Bs As!

I think our device is not for Jelly Bean, CM is okay but Sammy has crappy firmwares.

Darkness and Hope said:
I think our device is not for Jelly Bean, CM is okay but Sammy has crappy firmwares.
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for me, JB works better then GB...

sosic2121 said:
for me, JB works better then GB...
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Laggy, high drainage, high CPU&RAM loads...

Darkness and Hope said:
Laggy, high drainage, high CPU&RAM loads...
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once, while i was sleeping and no app was active, my battery went from 100% to 50% IN 6 hours! that's what killed stock GB on my phone :laugh:
i agree about higher RAM load on JB.