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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
>>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?
>>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.