i'm not a dev but i just have a question

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i just want to know why aosp roms are hard to develop for a phone like this one. the official samsung developers start with the aosp then build tw on top of it right?? is it not as easy as stripping touch wiz and the bloat ware than run what you have left.

NO I'M NOT A DEV BASHER I APPRECIATE ALL YOU GUYS DO I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND PROGRAMMING SO I'M SORRY IF I OFFEND ANYONE.

It is not as easy as you think .....imagine you having windows and having to make your own drivers for all the components .....tw is built into android and symlinked all over when you remove things you have to remove what it was going to do in a way . They are not close to being the same. It is also very hard to get things working the right way and not just throw something together ... if its not fixed right it will break other things in different phones ... CM is on over 50 different devices

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ah ok thanks. def far beyond this guys hands :/ thanks devs

Actually most elements of TouchWiz can be replaced with AOSP versions as it isn't as much integrated as Sense is on HTC phones.

I just want to add one thing or question to this. Why is it so hard to get the Bluetooth straight so you can use a wiimote and other bluetooth devices? That is really the only thing I wanted to ever use AOSP for. I would gladly donate to whoever corrects that.

There are both cm and miui roms for this phone. People just choose not to use them because aosp Wimax drivers are hard to come by.

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Usually aosp roms are compiled from source, and the stock roms use a lot of proprietary libraries that need to be put into an aosp rom manually. Some may have compatibility issues, etc.

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Also when Samsung orders parts for there phone such as chipsets radios and other parts. They get support from the manufacturers of the various parts and arm and maybe support from Google with also support documents to go along with them and they have an army of developers

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