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well I just got an S4 (I know, late to the party but money + US carriers suck so I gotta pay full for the phone + the carrier charge since credit sucks)

mussels helped me get cm on it and it's all good but sensors don't work, but it's running pretty well otherwize. about 1 hr better battery than stock.

thinkg is it was a 9507V instead of a 9505 like the seller clamied. BluTekUSA off amazon was the seller. I'd be wary of buying from them it was 250 off contract and even had prime shipping and shiz but fuck that sucks how they were misleading!!!

had some janky chinese firmware on it, so we went thru a buncha crap w slow dls to get 07V firmware on there and then to custom recovery and then cm 12.1.

love how cm12.1 is much less bloated but noooo sensors doe :( will live with it for now don't got time to trial n error with more roms since I gotta downgrade the gnex plan to be able to afford to keep both phones since I can't x-fer numbers. I also got too many docs calling and too much RL drama to go thru as well as I got more work piled on to me. I also got an anime con I'm going to soon so.
 
one of these days I will get into rooting and upgrading my droid stuff I have an S4 that I maybe upgrading from soon, depends on if the S7 is released soon or how the LG's stack up to it. I have a tablet I would love to upgrade to 6.0 or whatever is the newest out. one day...... I will ask someone :)
 
one of these days I will get into rooting and upgrading my droid stuff I have an S4 that I maybe upgrading from soon, depends on if the S7 is released soon or how the LG's stack up to it. I have a tablet I would love to upgrade to 6.0 or whatever is the newest out. one day...... I will ask someone :)

what model S4? if its the i9505, then you can use the same stuff as RC when they fix the sensor issues.
 
I just got a Samsung s4 too :) noticeable difference from my old s4 mini :)
 
yeah cm has sensor issues too and it's known and cm devs are "workkin on it" so imma just wait... I love the other aspects of the phone and cm 12.1 tho. love the ui and the extra features and less touchjizz bloat. :)
 
yeah cm has sensor issues too and it's known and cm devs are "workkin on it" so imma just wait... I love the other aspects of the phone and cm 12.1 tho. love the ui and the extra features and less touchjizz bloat. :)

it varies by model. no sensor issues on my S5 or N4. you're just unlucky because it seems the CM servers had a fit over new years and deleted many old versions of the roms - alienisgod ran into that as well, couldnt get older versions to download before the bugs were introduced, and devs always abandon support for the latest so its beta CM13/android 6.0 or stock for a month or two.
 
yesh... I'll just wait... nothing I really use the sensors for... I've adapted to just in call turning the screen off and I don't nav much so... and I hate auto rotate I've slways had it off so... it's good for now till they get thier shit together. I wanna stay on CM since the awesome privacy features and good battery life and such. also the variants based off it have to "trickle down" and it takes longer sometimes. Also I dunno what else they add to it and I'm not a dev and not gonna go probing and stuff so.
 
what model S4?

I will check in morning, had a few adult beverages tonight

nvmd I went poking in my phone model # says SCH-I545 I am running Android 5.01, I know 6 is out there somewhere. My Tablet is an Asus Model K007 and that is on Android 4.4.2 If any of that matter. Thanks @Mussels
 
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hahah when I'm drunk I can do lots of stuff hahaha :)

here's my current look: My baby girl angel kitty!
 

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I will check in morning, had a few adult beverages tonight

nvmd I went poking in my phone model # says SCH-I545 I am running Android 5.01, I know 6 is out there somewhere. My Tablet is an Asus Model K007 and that is on Android 4.4.2 If any of that matter. Thanks @Mussels


hmmm seems like yours is the locked Verizon bootloader tho :( very hard to custom ROM em :(
 
yeah I am really not too worried about the S4 I may upgrade wifes phone to S7 when it comes out and take over her S5. Or I may upgrade both phones. I have been eyeballing the LG V-10 and wondering what they will counter the S7 with, G4 Pro? Or larger better V-10/20? I don't know why but I have been picky on camera's lately and mainly expandable storage..need it want it

I would love to upgrade my tablet to 6.0 but not sure if I want to take the leap. So far it has been running great.
 
Recently got myself a BQ Aquaris M5 32GB - 3GB Ram. Couldn't be happier!
It runs almost stock android (appart from the camera and BQ app that was addded)Recently upgraded to 5.1.1, also the camera allows for manual iso and exposure time which is quite sick!! \:D/ These guys have outstanding support, compared to release, the phone has received many updates, it actually feels snappier, I also love the many small features that were added which give it that extra touch!

http://www.bq.com/uk/aquaris-m5
 
VS is very anal about bootloaders that's why I got the I9505/9507V ones at least you can put custom ROMs/recovery on them,
 
I don't normally play with my phones but I have had so many hand me down phones because I upgrade my wifes phone first that I have actually thought about putting Marshmallow on my S4. But with Samsung changing their release date of S7. I may wait and give my wife the S7 and upgrade her old/my new S5 to 6.05 or whatever is out then. I would like an S6 but I like expandability with storage and hate paying thru the nose for it ( thanks iphone and S6). Oh also @uuuaaaaaa nice M5 you have too bad I can not get it here for Verizon. Sad tale all the good phones are on carriers I do not want. AT$T burnt their bridge with me. The other carriers up here in Alaska suck just as bad as At$t does, I have had no problem with Verizon here in Alaska
 
s7 will prolly be more locked down tho knox s getting tougher to beat :( that's why I didn't get an s5 or 6... less dev and samsung is a bit tighter on exynos. SS had an epic drama meltdown and I read that on XDA + S5s aren't too much different to justify the 100-200$ price incr. for me.

next phone'll prolly be a oneplus variant or what not in a few mos or so...
 
My solution for my S6's storage issues...is OTG. LOL. Easier to transfer files too, since my USB cable is semi-permanently attached to the desktop, I can usually send my phone's files through a USB thumb drive to the laptop/netbook.
 
My solution for my S6's storage issues...is OTG. LOL. Easier to transfer files too, since my USB cable is semi-permanently attached to the desktop, I can usually send my phone's files through a USB thumb drive to the laptop/netbook.
umm why dont you use wifi file transfer? its easier since you dont ned to plug unplug
 
slower speeds prolly
 
Finally got kitkat installed on my old S24G the other day talk about a lot of work but so worth it in the end. Runs like a new phone and a rare phone at that. Suck on that Samsung!
 

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Just got an Asus Zenpower 10050mAh. Now that would be mine (and could charge more of our gadgets), while my older Mipow PowerTube 5500mAh will go to my mother (for her phones which have smaller batteries than my S6 anyway).
 
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I got an anker 15000mah one as well
 
Ok I found and downloaded both the kernel and firmware update/upgrades for my Memo 7 ME572C tablet. Should I do the kernel first then firmware or vice versa? I could not find Marshmallow for it yet. Thanks
 
My LG 8.3 is on the way out after about 3-4years of ownership. I admit i have dropped it a few times and while it has worked absolutely fine I cant be sure if thats what started causing the issues.....

Problems im experiencing:

- battery life is going nuts - This is down to LG's crap firmware updates - Im still on 4.4.2
- tablet randomly shuts itself off completely even through theres enough power.
- MicroSD keeps connecting & disconnecting randomly from card slot.

and just now i tried to 'wake' it from sleep mode and nothing happened apart from the backlight lighting up a little more. I held the power button for a moment to see what would happen and the menu for the sound/shutdown or restart came up but the display around it was still blacked out.

partnered with LGs non-existent updates which add a lot of background tasks that easily eats up most of my 2GB ram, Lag bought on by the lack of ram & the inability to play 60fps videos at 1080p on youtube.


Had a quick look at what tablets were currently out there and decided to go with an Nvidia K1. Should be here tomorrow.
 
Oh jesus..... I cant even begin to describe how refeshing it is to have a tablet running marshmellow after being stuck on a bloated 4.4.2 install for the last 3 years
 
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