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>> No. 25224 Anonymous
7th June 2016
Tuesday 8:14 am
25224 CM and other firmwares
How reliable are 'aftermarket' firmwares like CyanogenMod, AOKP, Omni?

Recently I got myself a Galaxy Ace 3 phone but it's a bit full of shite. I'm new to modern smartphone OSes - the last time I used a phone like that, it ran WM2003.

What am I in for?
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>> No. 25225 Anonymous
7th June 2016
Tuesday 11:44 am
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It depends, really. I've been installing custom ROMs since before Android even existed, and it's the same story.

The Galaxy Ace 1 was a horrendous phone, truly awful, and so I don't know if the 3 is an improvement, but they have always been 'budget' phones. You'd probably better off with one of the more bare bones ROMs, like a stock CyanogenMod.

It tends to be that the longer a ROM has been out for, the more stable it is. The Ace 3 launched with Android 4.2.2, so if you're looking for stability I'd stick with CM11 (Android 4.4.4) as likely most features will still work.

Just as a warning: Make sure your recovery is up to date before flashing anything, and take a backup of everything, too. If you don't, you'll regret it.

xda-developers is your port of call for ROMs, and I've picked a couple you might want here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2800259 Stock CM11, will likely be the fastest and most stable

If you have the right model (there are a few variants, check the post), then there's a stable CM12: http://forum.xda-developers.com/ace-3/development/rom-unofficial-cyanogenmod-12-galaxy-t2945115

You may even find 5.1.1 to be faster because Android changed from Dalvik to ART. The great thing about backups is they take a snapshot of your phone, so you can easily restore if you don't like one, or you cock something up.
>> No. 25226 Anonymous
7th June 2016
Tuesday 12:56 pm
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What do you mean by backup? Personal data? I have none of that there. Anything else?

Thanks for pointing me to XDA.
>> No. 25227 Anonymous
7th June 2016
Tuesday 2:00 pm
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>>25226

A backup of the stock firmware.
>> No. 25228 Anonymous
7th June 2016
Tuesday 2:12 pm
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>>25227
Am I right that I can do that via CWM?
>> No. 25229 Anonymous
7th June 2016
Tuesday 3:28 pm
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>>25228
Yes.
>> No. 25230 Anonymous
7th June 2016
Tuesday 9:53 pm
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>>25226
It essentially takes a snapshot of the phone and saves it in a (huge) folder. You can restore it and it'll be exactly as it was.
>> No. 25231 Anonymous
8th June 2016
Wednesday 12:20 am
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>>25230
Wait, all the folders on my phone are the same size like in the OP picture. Can you resize them and if so, how?
>> No. 25232 Anonymous
8th June 2016
Wednesday 1:39 am
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>>25231
I meant huge in file size. And folder as in file folder.
>> No. 25233 Anonymous
8th June 2016
Wednesday 7:48 pm
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>>25232
Awww. The phone companies should get on that. Sometimes you need a big folder in which to fit a lot of files, you know?
>> No. 25234 Anonymous
9th June 2016
Thursday 8:44 am
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I picked up one of those Nook HD tablets for next to nothing, their custom Android was locked-down garbage stuffed with shit I didn't want and it was unusably slow. Switched it over to Cyanogenmod, stripped it right down to a web browser, it was loads better.
>> No. 25235 Anonymous
10th June 2016
Friday 10:48 am
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>>25234
What would be a good custom rom for using a tablet as a media server?
>> No. 25244 Anonymous
11th June 2016
Saturday 9:04 pm
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Just finished. Haven't checked the phone part yet - the phone's slots are MicroSIM and all cards I have are of the MiniSIM kind. So far, so good. Apart from camera being unable to save video clips I film.
>> No. 25245 Anonymous
11th June 2016
Saturday 9:13 pm
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>>25244

You can buy a SIM card cutter on eBay for a quid, or you can cut the card to size with scissors if you have a steady hand.
>> No. 25248 Anonymous
11th June 2016
Saturday 11:10 pm
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You can order a smaller sim and transfer your number over. I did with giffgaff anyway.
>> No. 25249 Anonymous
12th June 2016
Sunday 8:31 pm
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>>25245>>25248
I simply got myself a new number. Seems to be working all right. The old SIM card I shall leave in the old phone.

Now, to the camera thingy. It seems there is quite a number of third-party camera applications for Android. I hope one of them will be able to save those damn video clips. If it doesn't, where the problem might be?
>> No. 25250 Anonymous
13th June 2016
Monday 8:41 pm
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>>25249
The camera problem seems to be firmware-related. I. o. w. using a third-party app won't help. But I've got a worse problem. The phone simply doesn't go to sleep. As far as I understand, something within the Android System group keeps it awake - the counter for 'Keep Awake' request within the CyanogenMod's Privacy Guard has just passed 960 requests.

It barely lasts a day when simply lying on the table.
>> No. 25251 Anonymous
14th June 2016
Tuesday 8:40 am
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>>25250
Flashed another nightly. The battery problems seems to be absent. I get something like 0.5-1% drain per hour. Video works well too.

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