[Galaxy S Plus I9001 Android Development] broodplank1337:
Guys I have an important announcement to make. Due to my new device the i9505 I will be less active in the i9001 forums, anyways, I WILL NOT drop the precious i9001 development, its just top notch development that very few devices have. and I will not let that pass me. BUT. since a friend of mine broke her phone, I will probably borrow my phone to her for about 3 months, meaning I won't be able to test out anything that I develop for the i9001, so I will develop for the i9505 mainly in this period.

Anyways I don't want to say goodbye sine I just cannot leave the i9001 community.. its filled with wonderful, kind people that are willing to get the most out of their "old" device. The i9505 community feels so cold, like a vacation in russia.. (no offense to the people from russia XD). The one who deserve the most credit in the whole i9001 scene is Arco imo :P. without arco's (and ivendors) help we would have been stranded at GB forever. Next to the talent in this community (Im not going to list all names, but you know yourself when you did a good job :D which I appreciate by loads!) we also have a very cozy community, people like to talk with each other, as I highly noticed in my private messages (Inbox contains 1,866 messages. You have 2,320 messages stored, of a total 5,000 allowed). Anyhow.. Im not going to write a good bye post since I won't leave the i9001 community. so no sentimental bs for me :P just harcore developing for 2 devices (i9001 dev will slow down a bit though).

If anyone is planing to buy the i9505 please let me know ^^, so im not all alone at the cold community rofl :silly:

Some info's about my experience with the i9505

I have bought the Galaxy S4 (i9505) yesterday (the qualcomm 1.9ghz quad) I took this device because I only had to pay 100 euro for the device itself. (with 2000mb/300 min @ 44.50 euro per month). Of course I have already rooted it, installed a custom kernel and im busy with broodROM JB (4.2.2). why so fast? The stockrom is a JOKE, its like the "ICS value pack scumbag samsung style" all over lol. the functions such as scrolling with your eyes etc doesn't work at all LOL. and the stock rom is so badly designed (2 services are continuous bottlenecking the cpu) that running an antutu test overheats the cpu so badly that the device turns off! LOOOOOOOOOL.

I thought we were punished by samsung with the i9001, but the i9505 is exactly the same scenario XD. (They released the device to early I think, to many bugs for a phone that expensive!) Anyways, I found this stockrom heating problem out since I installed the official CM nightly, and the temperature was way lower. So now Im already at CM after 1 day, all the precious goodies and gadgets from the stock rom not included of course, I must say the camera is fricking awesome, 13megapixels. really incredible HQ. but I think thats the only real highlight of the device (on CM), on stock there are many many features, but some of them just don't work.. (yet).

Its kinda weird getting used to this quad core system, all information i have gathered on the i9001 seems so useless at the i9505 regarding cpu governors, oc/uv etc.

the quad core governors system works very different from the single core one. and so far I have no clue what a decent governor is. Anyways, tried several kernels that have oc up to 2.3 ghz rofl. but thats an instant shutdown. (quad core just doesn't work as stable as single core, thats for sure.. I really have to get used to this weird way of handling the cpu)

Anyways, I'm thrilled about the fact that samsung comes with a google edition of the s4 soon, (which is the qualcomm variant but then with aosp stockrom) so that means I can finally compile aosp from source! (as most of you know this is my biggest goal since I have the i9001). and until that time has come I can entertain myself with a official CM supported device.

The i9505 is a nice device but its still a baby in development. its not comparable with the i9001 high tech advanced specialized optimized compiling adventures. whatsoever

I think the main goal in a quadcore+ device is getting the best possible stableness/smoothness/battery life, since the performance is always good. (my absolute lowest antutu score was 22500 haha XD)

Overal, its very nice to finally have a phone that has a great cpu/gpu, camera and finally a perfectly working gps hehe. (and a camera led/phone led ^^)