[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] centaur31:
"Feeling Left Out"

Hi,

I am not someone to judge people or tell them what is right and what is wrong but the irony of the situation made me write this here. Firstly I would like to thank the development team for what i think is the best rom available since the time it came out. I am still on the same rom and don't really see why i should go to lollipop. I found it a very lets just say uneducated comment that i chose as the title of what i'm writing . Android is about customization and the platform with support from brilliant devs like this team there are unlimited possibilities as to what you can do with your phone and that means customization as per our choice is this a rat race where I should feel "left behind" when everyone moved to lollipop?

Don't you guys see what you are actually cribbing about? if being left behind is such a major concern then I would say you guys are the last of your kind because if moving up to new roms or android versions is the race then you certainly can't forget the hardware part. I think all the people who feel left behind should get the latest smart phone from whichever company u fancy. In this day and age I guess we are like dinosaurs to be using a device that has its 2 nd successor just around the corner (I mean the Note 5) so u should have been on note 4 already and should be ready to drop some moolah on the latest Note phablet by Samsung.

The other thing that made me notice and write this is the fact that you are cribbing on a guys thread, because he is or has not developed a lollipop rom for you? Tell me what statements like "I cant be left behind because x-note is not coming up with a lollipop version" and some similar statements. Guys if you are part of the herd you should be buying Crapple as I like to call it. dont get me wrong though, i do think the products are nice but their prices are beyond exhorbitant and to get people to pay them absurd amounts they talk about coming up with firsts in the industry. The didnt make the first all touch mobile phone, the certainly didnt know about nfc when they siad apple pay has invented a new system pioneered a new technology and all that jazz. I can tell you from my experience that people who dont know **** about technology are the ones carrying an apple. why because they too dont want to be left behind in "who's the most tech savvy" race.

lastly, I see that most of the people talking about migrating to lollipop are also talking about the things we have in x-note not being their in the roms which they are considering (which would be different as per individual needs). that is just funny you know, you are talking about being left behind clinging to an old rom but still havent found anything to replace it with because none of them can offer what you have here. Now isnt a rom supposed to be my choice according to my needs? i think it does and in case I think that my rom kicks ass for me i.e. it more than satisfies what i want from it, is cutomizable and has a decent battery life without compromising on performance. We are going to see android M in the market in some time. so everyone will be ready to jump on the M wagon and will crib when they find that it is not as refined or stable as it should be and some will downright crap and a load of bull. things come out and because no one can imagine all the possibilities that an operating system may have to face, it takes time before they are streamlined because there are all kinds of hardware in the market. some ppl will trash a rom saying it lags and battery life is bad etc they dont mention that they are trying to run it on hardware which was made for the current roms great grandfather ie honeycomb or something. some may have better hardware but have a 2x or 4x memory card on the phone and since phones with loads of internal memory and ram used to break the bank till an year ago before Xiaomi and Gionee and Asus and many other brands came in with aggressive pricing giving us the benefit of being able to buy a phone with 4gb of ram for a little over INR 20000. the Xiaomi Mi 4 has specs matching the nexus 6 and the price is less than half of what the nexus will set you back by.

you should appreciate the efforts of people here who spend hours to give us these wonderful options for free. you should also consider that we are human beings and have our limitations. may be the devs are in a situation where they just cant take out the time for this. maybe they are not on the same devices because of their professional compulsions (Devs have to make apps for new devices and thus need them too) I should not be complaining if I don't have the moolah to have upgraded to a current device and lack the patience and knowledge to make a rom on my own i.e. port it. nor should i leave these lame threats like if u dont move up to lollipop i will leave. this isnt a boyfriend girlfriend thing here dudes. You should appreciate the fact that though everyone knows that most good things aren't free, we still have people like the devs who work day and night to bring us so many iterations of an os for our phones, tabs and what not. I am grateful to them and respect them for being such good people. In India where I come from it is quite expected by people to receive what they fancy for a throw away price if not for free. but when i comes to giving it is always "nothing's for free" and yet we tend to undervalue the great things and experiences we get for free, just like people have an opinion on china. if u tell em Xiaomi is a good brand with great phones for the prices. "but it is chinese" at which i have to tell em that most electronics and digital stuff is made in china and even Samsung, Apple, Htc, Nokia get their phones made there. it is not that chinese stuff is low quality the thing is that we have people who get the cheapest possible stuff from there and till the time the product is new to the market, sell the things for 4 to 5 times their cost but since they are cheap products they will not last. case in point is those car fm transmitters if anyone remembers> they used to sell for INR 2000-2500 when only some people were selling them in the market. i am not talking of griffin or belkin here but generic chinese products. the exact same thing with the same name or a different name now sells for Rs. 100-150 bucks when the customer knows about em and when he doesnt he could end up paying 500 - 1000 bucks even today. now if i get it for a 100-150 bucks will i be disappointed if it last for 3-4 months? however if i paid a thousannd bucks i would like it to last. If I get it from china if will get the quality I want and even much better than i expect for less than a thousand bucks. they make everything and at almost every level it is upto the people who source from china and sell it to us to realise that profits are the primary goal for business but not the only one.

I am sorry if i have offended anyone here as that was not the idea. it was just that if u cant find roms to your liking then how is it necessary to move to the next version???

I dont think i am leaving it anytime soon unless some major changes take place in terms of lollipop. till the time the xposed framework isnt fully functional, i dont see any reason to move from this one. I might ask the devs for permission if I actually decide to port this rom for Xperia Z3 as i have some friends who loved this rom and wanted it on their Z3 phones. I will surely take permission from the devs and give them all the credit for making such an outstanding rom. cheers!!