[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Android Deve] agirrenorrin:
I've tried your rom on a "Telekom" Germany branded GT-I9305.

Works well, but there are things that will make me switch again.

First, i have to thank you, for your work, devs like you, providing such ROMs and other software make my life easier, and i really mean that.

Addiotionally anyone who provides something to install on the i9305 delievers a rare good at the moment,

Telekom branded the device really hard. I didnt know that in before, sadly. My old device was a GT-I9000 (and sold well with a CM10 nightly which managed preserve the IMEI in some later version). That came very clean back then with only a few things which i could uninstall and later there were great ROMs.

I got my i9305 very early and came here to see whats up. Only thing i got, was a lousy unsecure Root hack before the new CWM was here.

Following this thread until now, i decided to try your ROM.

Obviously i couldnt synchronize my Contacts with Kies anymore. I didnt wanted to give Google my whole Contacts, but i have done that step now.

I was suprised finding some things in your rom worse than in the default one. The topbar shortcuts for instance have no mute Button, its now all default Android of course.

After some hours of installing i got all running as i was used to. So the only thing i cant get around with is the dictionary support for the german language! Im used to swyping, dont know why, but it works for me very well, im not of the sms or whatsapp**** type, but i got messengers and email and its a must have.

While im installing every software, anywhere in english, my contacts are used to getting german text and msgs. I didnt recognize this problem even after reading this thread carefully before installing.

By the way, the performance of this device does not need a small kernel or build imho.

Your hard work in Aroma Scripting was really appreciated by me, backing up IMEI made me smile :)

I did that first time, 3 weeks ago, but keep it up!

Dont know what exactly i want to tell you, but some often not mentioned aspect is: you devs on XDA are providing me with Freedom.

Do not underestimate that or even laugh about that word, it really feels like that.

What does that mean?

Im 28 years old now, im surfing the interwebs since i was 10, im "powerusing" many devices and software, i am a consumer and a socialisier, but im not a community addict nor of the type "take my money". Maybe its old-fashioned but getting a phone screeming telekom colors everywhere is not what i paid for.

Its too much to ask these days to pay cash and anonymous for a product, as described, and available elsewhere under same name and title.

I have this problem with other products too.

I got a device with good workflows and methods from google/android to sync, update, organize and backup. Well, Samsung forced their software which is completely redundand to googles and a bit buggy, on that device. In fact, i only can "disable" these apps and software, not uninstall. Fair enough.

But ontop of that German Telekom is installing its own apps, which survive a complete wipe. They can sync my contacts and backup my data, track me, pump my data to the cloud, again, only all the telekom way!

Since rooting i was not able to download (yeah DOWNLOAD) mms content properly, cuz the telekom "system-app" for that is hanging endlessly, i dont know the **** why they are pushed that to an app?!? Only reasonable thought is to annoy me with Ads and control my private content, do statistics, etc. Every ringtone, the boot animation, the browser, the menu, basic media stuff is branded. Really Everything has bad preinstalled apps and branding from the Telekom.

This is ridicilous. (I know common sense is totally gone in times of IFags paying the doubled amount for completely unfree products)

I want to install what i want, if i can pay for something, i want to decide how i pay, i want to customize, and i dont want to hear some jingle bull**** everytime my device is booting. I hate the Telekom, but as with so many things, its for me currently the lesser evil out of four options.

So the main reasons why i use custom ROMs are:

Getting all the features i paid for.

To get the brandnew state of the art version, the overpaid manufacturers are not providing

To get Security, too. Being up to date has pro and cons in terms of Security, but pays off often enough imho

Being able to utilize my phone as the tool it meant to be

To sustain the value and usability with third party software of some device (not cheap in cost) even after 1 year, while the manufacturer is calling out "fast times, new technology, please buy a new one"

I wrote this wall of text, because i didnt see those reasons for a long time now and imho they are not obvious as some may think.

What i would need is a stable ROM (Im used to be a beta user, but a crashing gapp f.e. is not beta) which adapts every new firmware and android version, which leaves me with a android phone, maybe with some extra features the developer wanted to be there. Then i can go and decide what i need above that. Such ROMs are out there but not for this device.

Your ROM kazuni can become something like that, but as stated above its missing my mother tongue.

PS: if someone is offended or laughing reading my post: i knew what i took up with using Web2.0 as a consumer, making accounts, etc. This is no cry. Its a dialog. Too many people taking what they are being told for granted. I hear the words "Ok" and "Yes" too often.