4.4 for gs3 general discussion ( news & leaks & problems & expectations )

[Moster2]

Here, in Argentina i9300 stuck in Jelly Bean 4.3. (Official update OTA provided by Movistar phone company and manual with Odin in Sammobile) what i don't like about this, is that Samsung present the J1 with 4.4 kitkat, but the phone has 512mb RAM. Samsung give the excuse that is not going to update i9300 because it has 1gb RAM.

Gracias Rey David!!

Those low ram devices have a light version of touchwiz running. Samsung cant port this to the s3, since it would mean a "downgrade" of the device in terms of features, etc. Customers usually dont want that

 

[ayoubij]

Those low ram devices have a light version of touchwiz running. Samsung cant port this to the s3, since it would mean a "downgrade" of the device in terms of features, etc. Customers usually dont want that

Im running now a ported version from note 2 kitkat rom (2gb ram) and its working perfectly

 

[popoyaya]

I've been out of the loop here for a while, and I was wondering what the current situation is on porting lollipop to the S3? Are we just waiting for another device similar to the S3 to get it?

 

[leomaxi]

with Samsung Galaxy S6 to drop all TouchWiz bloatware and from samsun apps download separately, in this case S3 can operate

 

[Sakab]

Hey, can you recommend some 4.3 or 4.4 custom ROM's offer as the i9300 my device? I do not want to play, the most possible faster. What use my time on the Internet, music, facebook, etc. standard applications.
Now I put the Sensation 10, but useless. Very slow.
What ROM you offer, what kind of kernel?

 

[shivadow]

Hey, can you recommend some 4.3 or 4.4 custom ROM's offer as the i9300 my device? I do not want to play, the most possible faster. What use my time on the Internet, music, facebook, etc. standard applications.
Now I put the Sensation 10, but useless. Very slow.
What ROM you offer, what kind of kernel?

Honestly, rooted stock roms are best. Just customise the stock rom to your liking.

Sent from a stolen phone!

 

[micovwar]

How do the "custom rom" installed sizes compare to a stock UK jellybean rom like mine (around 4.5gb) i want to move on to a slim (stable) Dark themed Kit Kat rom with good battery AND LESS BLOAT..Can anyone please advise?

thanks.

 

[akwadlkw]

4.4 actually better than 4.3, is smother and faster.
but the official stock 4.4 is not going to happened, the best was using the paranoid. had anyone try it ?

 

[shivadow]

Custom roms are usually around 80-90% smaller than stock because they lack bloatware.

If your device doesn't natively support the version of Android it is not really the best idea to use said version. Porting uses custom code and custom kernels which are slowly being blacklisted by the major players in the app and game industry.

All those games that used to work but now dont.. Go back to a stock kernel and rom and they work again.

Sent from a stolen phone!

 

[FreedomUser]

S3 is powerful enough to run 4.4 but samsung is just too lazy

 

[shivadow]

S3 is powerful enough to run 4.4 but samsung is just too lazy

True but not enough ram.

Sent from a stolen HTC M9

 

[l8erz]

It's in there. Best interest they sell devices not softwate. If they keep updating older devices a lot of consumers would simply update and not buy a new device.

 

[hinuk]

It's in there. Best interest they sell devices not softwate. If they keep updating older devices a lot of consumers would simply update and not buy a new device.

But unlike galaxy s2 gt-i9100 what was working fine on 4.1 so it didn't matter too much when Samsung stopped there.
But with galaxy s3's case it was left in 4.3 and at least touchwiz 4.3 (on s3) was more like RTM vista on p3 500mhz with 256-512mb experience rather than what it used to be in 4.1
One could thing that IF 4.4 ported from note 2 was much better experience than 4.3 ever could hope to be, then what official 4.4 could have been.

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[possossod]

It's in there. Best interest they sell devices not softwate. If they keep updating older devices a lot of consumers would simply update and not buy a new device.

With that in mind the next time I'm buying a new phone for me or to gift I'll make sure it's not a samsung.

It's quite stupid to stop updating a device that you can go out to a local shop and still buy a new one.

The only upside is the development community

 

[Tinderbox (UK)]

The original Galaxy Tab S is being flashed with kitkat 4.4 and it only has 512mb and a single core CPU, so the S3 should run it.

I dont know how well it runs it, if somebody wants to search it out.

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s-i9000

John.

 

[Stfn990]

With that in mind the next time I'm buying a new phone for me or to gift I'll make sure it's not a samsung.

It's quite stupid to stop updating a device that you can go out to a local shop and still buy a new one.

The only upside is the development community

I would say anyone does that, not only samsung. And, as you mentioned, the good thing about Samsung is that there is a very big development community for S3. If you'd have a phone from a smaller producer, most probably you'll not have official updates oor unofficial ones.

 

[shivadow]

The original Galaxy Tab S is being flashed with kitkat 4.4 and it only has 512mb and a single core CPU, so the S3 should run it.

I dont know how well it runs it, if somebody wants to search it out.

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s-i9000

John.

Unofficial 4.4. It's cyanogenmod. If you run 4.4 on the s3 it bogs down after a few hours and runs like a bag of spanners.. I imagine it to be the same on any samsung with a gig or less of ram.

I personally only know of samsung updating devices with 1.5 gb or more ram or 1 gb on devices with newer processors but those are low end devices.

Another reason is samsung flagships must be made obsolete so that newer ones may be promoted with minimal internal competition.

Take ferrari for example. They have faster more powerful cars that are GT cars but yet they pile the advertising money into the track ready flagship supercars because that's where the real money comes from that keeps the brand competitive.

Plain and simple. It's business.

I wish I stole my HTC M9.