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[Galaxy S III General] beeeto:
Well I could say the same, don't like the feel of getting scammed. Anyway, I can't live without my SD card, so that's holding me to Samsung.
[Galaxy S III General] JustArchi:
Actually the best choice for battery is custom ROM based on Sammy's stock. And I say that as a developer of both ArchiDroid 2.X on AOSP and ArchiDroid 1.X on Sammy. It's the fact.
[Galaxy S III General] beeeto:
And what about the UI smoothness? Do you think AOSP have less fluid UI and glitchy animations in comparision Stock as many users on this thread think?
[Galaxy S III General] JustArchi:
AOSP has broken hwcomposer, and it will probably always stay so due to lack of closed source drivers and other proprietary things, and it's the fact as well. This is the reason why GPU performance on Stock is better than on AOSP, you can notice it especially in benchmarks and various gpu-intensive games.

The overall smoothness is based on ROM itself. On the one hand we have crappy slow Samsung ROM, and many blind users compare any AOSP ROM to pure stock one and say that stock is slow, that's true, but with ArchiDroid 1.X I showed everyone that stock can be as fast as AOSP, with proper debloating and tweaking. On the other hand, we have AOSP and pedantic users, who notice the lack of hwcomposer, slower GPU and in general worse compatibility with the hardware. And again, with recent ArchiDroid's optimization and help of Linaro I showed that even without that, we can make fastest AOSP ROM if we want to.

It's up to user to decide what is better. AOSP is definitely more flexible and allows to taste kitkat on our devices. However on the other hand stock provides less flexibilty, but in the same time performs better, if properly tweaked and debloated.

The fact is one. If you compare AOSP to Stock in terms of battery, stock wins.
[Galaxy S III General] cloudx720:
Sorry debloated stock does not preform better than aosp/cm...Noway sorry. I have been on nb6 for some time now debloated and tweaked and I just got sick and tired of the lag, it just got so annoying. cm11 is a dream and I'm getting better battery than Samsung stock running latest nightly everything just works really god dam well and its ridiculously fast.
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
I paid 350 euros for a phone for don't get the Kitkat? Well Samsung you can s*c* my d*c* :cool:

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And worst... Samsung will not bring the kitkat for one of his best phones...
[Galaxy S III General] ayoubij:
I am using stock rom archidroid. I have 2 s3 now since my brother gave me his and the 2nd one i use for flashing and trying out stuff. But my stable daily use one is on a stock based rom. Better battery, better camera, even better smoothness. And with kitkat theme i feel im kn a stable aosp rom
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
Alright,installed newest stock firmware on my Galaxy S3,and results are catastrophic..

First,it lags. No matter what I do,no matter how much I wait,it still lags and is also so slow! Changing animations scale to 1.5 helps a little maintain a smoothness,but in overall,it sucks by hard in terms of UI performance.

Secondly,the battery. Alright,now I'm on 90% from 100%,and I was right. Battery is SAME and even worse. It's 90% and screen time is 28 minutes,while on AOSP I would get 31+ mins guaranteed. Not sure if battery got fully optimized,though.

Third,about sound. Many mentioned that sound quality sucks on AOSP. I can say,it's NOT! Seriously,I was so dissapointed. I thought I would enjoy,but when I heard it,I got really dissapointed. CM sound was so much better.. and clearer. But may be a personal preference,though.

Now camera. Well,I like anti-shake which stops the camera from lagging. But other than that,I see no difference. I made a photo on AOSP (lenovo super camera,evening,so a little low light). And now made with stock camera. Not sure about what bad quality you guys are talking about,or maybe it's me blind,but there's just NO difference. So,lets say,I won't care if someone will again start talking about the camera,for me it's good.

I will test performance in games and see if there is a difference.

Btw,as for now,I really want go back to AOSP.. But the only thing I like about stock ROM is status bar (especially dat awesome wi-fi icon). :)

EDIT: Lol,same FPS in Dead Trigger 2,same lag spikes in Fruit Ninja (thought it's AOSP). Not gonna do a further testing,I'm going back to AOSP.
[Galaxy S III General] Iqbal Ansari:
Are you on temasek.
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
Yes.

Temasek (AOSP) rocks compared to stock. LED when screen is on,lockscreen notifications,responsiveness,weather widgets (couldn't find any of them after long searching),keyboard animations and in overall is much better.

I like touchwiz status bar and home UI,though. Also,screen on stock ROM seems to be sharper,just slightly.
[Galaxy S III General] JustArchi:
Comparing pure stock to any custom is like comparing potato to fries. Try ArchiDroid 1.X :).
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
Does it have LED notification while screen is on feature? If not,I believe it's not for me :D
[Galaxy S III General] blackcat67:
galaxy ace style :D 512 mb ram and dual core cpu kitkat yes

s3 1 gb ram quad core kitkat no :D lol samsung.
[Galaxy S III General] popoyaya:
Wow, do you expect anyone to take you seriously when your criteria for judging a rom is the wifi icon? LOL.
[Galaxy S III General] JustArchi:
I'm pretty sure there are many apps in the store which do that.
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
Lol,no,but I thought it worth mentioning,as it's one of the few things I like about stock :D

Seriously? Couldn't find one.
[Galaxy S III General] ayoubij:
Thats why everyone has a choice. But really you want to judge battery from the first 20mins that you flashed a stock rom?

Btw i never said stock touchwiz feels like aosp, i said justarchi 1.x rom does which is based on stock rom. Also you cant compare a stock kernel with boeffla kernel for example.

If you really took the time to clean install and try out a stock based rom, atleast do it right. If you told me you wanted to try stock touchwiz like that i would have told you not to in the first place.
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
Not first 20 mins. Nearly TWO days.

And I wrote that because I had my own reasons of installing Stock ROM. Many people wrote cons and prons of both stock and AOSP,so I checked myself,that's all about it.

Sound and the camera were the main reasons,but they didn't amaze me much,like I thought they would do after reading so many posts.

Also,AOSP still feels more responsive with stock kernel.
[Galaxy S III General] -Aatif-:
Good News

Rumour: Samsung is Working on Kitkat update for Galaxy SIII :D

http://www.android.gs/android-4-4-2-kitkat-update-for-samsung-galaxy-s3-still-missing/

Edit= http://www.ibtimes.co.in/articles/547397/20140409/android-4-2-kitkat-os-update-samsung.htm
[Galaxy S III General] sudoeste:
I guess android.gs's editor doesn't know how to read.

Read the quoted source from where that post was taken and read for yourself.

Summary : all points to no update

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[Galaxy S III General] Havoc-X:
Chances are that we will get it, just in the future. The S2 was updated to 4.2.2 jellybean and ended there, 2 major updates (ICS and JB). We only received 1 (JB). Samsung will obviously wait for the the S5 to be out for like a month and then release the S3 update. Just like how our 4.2.2 update was delayed in favor of the S4 release (Which debuted with 4.2.2). All the hype about the S3 not receiving the update is a marketing scheme.

On the other hand, maybe Samsung's inflated so much that they decided to not update the phone that put them on the map, which had a user base greater than the S4 for a long time. If so, i hope most S3 users will ditch the laggy crap that Samsung makes and go for better devices. Either way, we win. GG Samsung.
[Galaxy S III General] ayoubij:
But there isnt any good devices specification besides the s5 :(
[Galaxy S III General] sudoeste:
s2 ended at 4.1.2 last time i heard

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[Galaxy S III General] ezekionokia:
Let's face it. S3 is done. Kaput. EOL.

Enjoy your device, don't hate the manufacturer, hate the game.
[Galaxy S III General] gfreeman86:
No, S3 isn't done. Samsung is done because they want S3 to be done and I think they will lose tons of customers that will move to other brands (Nexus first) . I am one of them and will never buy another Samsung thing in the future (home cinema, players. smartphones, TVs, PC components and so on).

Come on, it 's a 700€ device you simply can't stop supporting it with so many software problems it still have. If the last rom was bugless, then ok. But it isnt
[Galaxy S III General] treibstoff:
Come on guys same dicussions about leaving samsung devices like every time. i remember the days the old s1 didnt got ics...so keep calm. Every device will die after the lifecycle. This is the game of all companies and is part of capitalism.

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[Galaxy S III General] clouds5:
My S3 with 4.3 is pretty close to perfect. If 4.4 comes along the way it'll be nice, but if not it's not the end of the world...

The whole updating process is ****ed up anyway. KitKat is already old, I don't want an update to an old firmware. Samsung should focus on bringing updates like 1-2 months after the initial release from google. They're basically lagging half a year to a year behind. If custom rom devs can do it in less time so can Samsung.
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
Look for that "planned upgrade"
[Galaxy S III General] Curst:
Seems legit... :P
[Galaxy S III General] Choristav:
Remember, you and 50000 other members from xda are actually nothing compared to the S3 sales.

We are the minority here.
[Galaxy S III General] JSspezial:
I really hope there will be a new highend phone with changeable battery apart from Samsung within the next few months. Samsung pisses me off more and more. Even a device with 3 gb does not run smooth with Android mutilated by Samsung. And a device with 1 gb isn't even capable of running an OS optimized for little RAM. They can't be serious.
[Galaxy S III General] jetbruceli:
You guys will Kitkat once they are done with it. The s3 is still one of their stongest devices in terms of sales especially for lesser income or second hand.

The note 3 just got it but thats because its one of their current flagships. I understand the need for the newer updates but as we all know about Android its the biggest weakness and its fully known throughout our world that updates are slow.

but still in there!
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
I see it on gsmarena.com
[Galaxy S III General] Curst:
Still not an official statement from Samsung mate.

Tapped on my GT-I9300 running OmniRom with latest Boeffla Kernel.
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
Let's hope for an update. If Samsung don't update the Galaxy SIII it's stupid because the Galaxy SIII it's a powerfull phone.
[Galaxy S III General] cloudx720:
The s3 has loads of life left in it, especially if you run aosp/cm11 it's incredibly fast.Scumsung just ruins our device with touchwiz rubbish.
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
Battery life on AOSP is amazing so far.

Got 4.23 hrs of screen time lastly on 19%,and that's while phone still being snappy.
[Galaxy S III General] Havoc-X:
U kidding right? The HTC One, the LG G2 (or upcoming G3), Xperia Z2, Nexus 5. There's TONS more. Samsung is overrated.
[Galaxy S III General] Simonna:
Agreed! I've got Nexus 5 and never look back to that laggy Samsuck.:p
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
Well,I agree. But S5 got the best display,one of the best cameras,the best battery life of all phones. Shame it still lags sometimes with crapwiz.
[Galaxy S III General] ayoubij:
Htc one with a 4 mega pixel camera. No thank you.

The LG g2 without expandable sd card. No thank you.

The xperia z2 with all these over heating issues no thank you.

Nexus 5 also for many reasons.

No phone has these specs that are important to me and to many people atleast.

The new touchwiz is actually lighter than before and i found the s5 to lag less than the note 3.
[Galaxy S III General] gieffe22:
another rumor...

http://www.gforgames.com/gadgets/samsung-galaxy-s3-note-2-kitkat-android-44-release-date-42040/
[Galaxy S III General] Soryuu:
Hmmm again this goes unverified, but if the Korean blogger's correct then we should start seeing the Note 2 rollout very soon

Hopefully it doesn't end up being another Polish blig saga
[Galaxy S III General] Havoc-X:
1.Firstly, its a 4 Ultra pixel camera with 2 sensors, maybe try it before u criticize. Megapixels isn't everything, think 4 very big pixels as opposed to 16 small pixels (Quantity does not necessarily top Quality). Really, i hate how people judge stuff by paper, its the practical performance that matters.

2. What exactly do u need a SD card for if u can get 64GB on board memory? you don't need a damn harddrive for it and you always have additional storage seeing as how phones have supported USB OTG for awhile now.

3. ALL smartphones heat up quite a bit, really, its normal and even it is more than usual, it will most likely get fixed (Samsung releases 1000s of updates over a year to fix crap all the time because their software is ALWAYS broken.

4. The nexus 5 is a damn good phone.

5. Samsung is still plastic, most features that Samsung have are impractical and useless, like that airwave crap. Who even uses that? and its not even 100% accurate. The point is THEIR CORE FUNCTIONS ARE A FAIL. GG thats the end of the story. They can't do the basics right.

6. Go read Android news, ESPECIALLY after Samsung updates one of their phones. All news topics will talk about the new problems Samsung phones are having. Such as the 4.4.2 S4 Update or the S3 4.3 Update.

Tell me EXACTLY what it is that you need that the S5 has and apparently no other phone can offer.

For the record, the LG G2 had the best battery (tested), LG G2 is to S4 as G3 is to S5, so u'l have to wait for the G3 to compare to the S5. The AMOLED screen is actually suckier IMO. Sure the blacks are darker, but IPS simply has a more vibrant look, also blacks dont look as bad on IPS LCD as whites does on AMOLED (youtube HTC One X vs Galaxy S3 Screen). Not to mention, AMOLED fails in the sun. As for the camera, im going to give this 1 to the Iphone, although i haven't seen the latest lumias and the Z2 camera's. Willing to bet that Sony, Nokia and Apple has a better camera than the S5.
[Galaxy S III General] RazorMC:
Lmao @ airwave. It gets so annoying after a couple of hours.

Again, agree with IPS being better than amoled despite the unbelievable blacks.

Sony camera hardware is the best, but somehow they lose out on the image-processing algorithm part. 8mp images come out looking like overstretched 6mp. Sammy manages least noise among Androids as far as i know. And I prefer S3 camera to the iphone 5 because it offers more customizations and Camera FV-5 is awesome (when it doesnt FC).

Anyways, I think the S5 will still retain the best cam in android

~ RazorMC

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Being able to run 4.4 is not Samsung's concern. They want to evaluate the benefits of working on this ROM for a device that's well beyond it's support time-frame.

If CM can come up with a stable cam, there's no need for Sammy's official KitKat with Bloated UI.

~ RazorMC
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
Dude, i want to have android 4.4 WITHOUT lose my warranty. I like android but i don't own the money for nexus 5, galaxy SV or LG G2 (a crap in my opinion). I'm happy with SIII, and i bought him recently because of the lower price. I want to keep my warranty, but i want android 4.4 to, so thats why i want that samsung continues to update him. And seriously guys it's ridiculous one cell like the SIII it's already discontinued. It's more powerfull that most of the phones launched recently by Samsung
[Galaxy S III General] dkionline:
Lol, the varranty is over, buy new phone, or wait. Look at it, its a 2 years old device. Technology is faster than buying a phone.
[Galaxy S III General] bornlivedie:
So many fanboys in this thread

AOSP is the best, S3 is the best phone, bla bla bla

KitKat is not coming to the S3 because: it's not selling anymore. They have to push new products to the market. It's easier to sell an S5 at 800 with whatever OS (the average user doesn't know what the hell KitKat is) than to keep the S3 up to date and hope that it will sell a billion units overnight. It's not going to happen.

And AOSP still sucks, you can thank Samsung and the crappy Exynos SoC. Stop complaining and get over the facts.
[Galaxy S III General] Curst:
Well, in Samsung's defence they did give me an unlocked bootloader out of the box unlike Sony. ?

Tapped using TapaTalk on my GT-I9300 running CM11 with Boeffla Kernel.
[Galaxy S III General] ayoubij:
So you are saying a 200 horse power car can beat a 500HP car in a drag race? :p

Anyways its a useless discussion because it seems each will have his own opinion.
[Galaxy S III General] palito1980:
I recently had problem with CM11 for my i9300. Sound problem. I couldn't hear anyone. I knew that there were some problems with that but thought they were solved. Is there any 4.4.2 ROM that does not have those bugs. I know that most of the 4.4.2 come form CM but I really hope there is a ROM without those bugs. I prefer 4.4.2 coz I have much better battery life and the speed of the phone is much better than any 4.3 ROMs.
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
Temasek CM11.
[Galaxy S III General] zabhi:
Well said agree
[Galaxy S III General] tmac31:
i use one m7 and realy gonna buy m8 i realy like the phone its awesome but ultrapixel is totaly **** i just hate it. u cant crop any photo, at dark photos were red finaly they changed sensors so it doesnt go red anymore but still not a great camera ultrapixel can worth on atleast a 8mp camera maybe, 4mp realy not from this year.

and sense vs touchwiz is just not comparable touchwiz just slowest ui in android world.and htc gives realy fast and stable updates. 2 things samsung should focus is design of phone and laggy touchwiz but they never do that and just giving useless sensors(fingerprint heart sensor etc.) and still phone and contacts has delay on s5 seriously?? and what they give 200 mhz higher clocked cpu nice.... phone never gonna use 2 cores without games probably and they re just trying to give hardware instead of focusing on software issues.

ps :samsung isnt the only one giving sd card slot anymore sony htc has it too.
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
Here, in Portugal, the galaxy SIII it's selled, so don't come with the crap that Galaxy SIII shouldn't be updated because it's not a phone like the others. He is one of the best phones of the Samsung launched and today stills a extremely good phone.

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And no, it's no easier to sell that the SIII because here, in Portugal the usual salary it's of 490 euros. And the SV costs 749 euros. And you say to update? **** capitalism dude... Realy...
[Galaxy S III General] RazorMC:
Even if the phone is newly bought, the device itself is very old and out of Samsung's concern over development. And by the time Sammy decides to upgrade to KK (IF it does), a newer version of Android will already be getting ready for launch.
[Galaxy S III General] Simonna:
Same here,here,in Lithuania Galaxy S3 on some mobile phones shops are on the best selling phones list. And as I see it's still has quite good sells on other countries (for example it's still on top selling phones lists on Amazon) so it's wouldn't be fair to say that Galaxy S3 isn't being sold nowadays.
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
And people say to me trow for the garbage the Galaxy SIII and buy a new Galaxy SV. I don't like galaxy SV because his price and his size ;)

So, yes i want to keep the galaxy SIII for a long time ;)
[Galaxy S III General] Simonna:
Yeap. Plus Galaxy S5 is overpriced and has outdated design. :cyclops:
[Galaxy S III General] clapton86:
Is this CM11? Which kernel?
[Galaxy S III General] DaReDeViL:
If we consider that a company's first goal is commercial benefit then why should it update an "old" phone ? Doing so will prevent a large number of s3 users from upgrading to a newer one which they are trying to sell to the max. That's pretty illogical in market philosophy.

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[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
Temasek CM11,Googy Max kernel,interactive governor,cfq scheduler.

Phone is ultrasuper smooth and battery life is amazing.
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
But there is people that don't have money for the galaxy SV so buy the SIII. If samsung it's smart enough, she still can win too much money with SIII and SIV. The people who have low end devices can upgrade to a SIII considered by me an high end device :)
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
The only thing I don't like about marketing is OVERPRICING.

Seriosuly,manufacturers/companies don't understand,that with low price they will get more customers thus more money.

Samsung is going stupid.
[Galaxy S III General] gieffe22:
actually there's a market strategy pretty clear by samsung...the onmarket price is high, pretty the same as other manufacters, BUT in few weeks or 1-2 months the price is much much lower respect other brand, and this is probably deliberate by samsung itself!

so the medium consumer take this argument: " ohhhh 700 is so high, probably is the best cellphone ever! this must be mine NOW!" but...other medium consumer think :"ohhhh 700 is so high, probably is the best cellphone ever! i can't afford it!"...a few weeks later with lower price the same consumer think> " ohhh there's a super offer to 550/500, THIS must be mine NOW,i cant wait anymore"... and this aurgument is proportional to time frames...higher time frames= higher cut price.

Many other brands do this and is a WIN argument on strategy level (sony take this in the last year and increase share so much!)...apple no, does not need this because of higher value in terms of imagine, and htc has probably the worst stretegy sales EVER (and in fact is in crisis)...

...among other thing, this lose on product value is obviusly and clearly deliberate because after 1.5/2 years the product price remains stagnant at the same level for looooooong time, until the product exit by market (example=galaxy s2 and s3= launcher on 600 and 650>450/550 in one month, 400/450 in 5-6 month > after 1.5/2 years is still to 250/300 and remains until exit by market )
[Galaxy S III General] blackcat67:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNn9srOnNRk

s3 neo 3.4x kernel and s3 copy phone :D lol samsung release firmware and kernel source
[Galaxy S III General] bornlivedie:
**** capitalism? Capitalism says **** YOU.

The world will keep going regardless wether you like it or not. Maintaining a device costs money and time and the S3 is not selling good anymore. It would be a waste of money, it's like giving out something for free, and you now, capitalism is not about that, it's about making money. You don't like it? Well, qqmoar.
[Galaxy S III General] syamsoul:
Why u follow this thread?
[Galaxy S III General] gieffe22:
so this s3 neo have exynos? or snap400?
[Galaxy S III General] blackcat67:
exynos
[Galaxy S III General] szotaa:
We both have the same Samsung Exynos 4412 CPU :D :D

Firmware already released:

http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/3/?download=28050

Let the porting begin!
[Galaxy S III General] blackcat67:
how to open .md5 file ?
[Galaxy S III General] Simonna:
Ohh so Galaxy S3 NEO will have the same Sudden Death Syndrome bug as Galaxy S3 then? ;D
[Galaxy S III General] szotaa:
You can unzip it with for example 7zip AFAIK
[Galaxy S III General] blackcat67:
I'm using windows 8 7-zip don't open and error system.md5 :/
[Galaxy S III General] Curst:
This is where that link takes me on my phone, no porting necessary i guess?! :P

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