Dev 7.0 Nougat ROM Release 3/28/2018 (Discontinued)

mrsubway

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So far everything is great, thanks for the effort to create a rom close to the developer, Telcel installs a lot of junk and with this rom I only have what I need. ;)
God the branded ROMS are BRUTAL! My phone is technically AT&T branded. I S-Offed the day I got the phone home. Their ROM is filled with their crap and I think their last release was Froyo. I want an S8 but I won't give Samscum a dime until they stop this no root policy.
 

luis saucedo

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God the branded ROMS are BRUTAL! My phone is technically AT&T branded. I S-Offed the day I got the phone home. Their ROM is filled with their crap and I think their last release was Froyo. I want an S8 but I won't give Samscum a dime until they stop this no root policy.
If it is a pity that the brands are tied up with the telephone carriers, for now here in Mexico only Motorola and Nokia do not put garbage.
 
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CarinaPDX

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I want an S8 but I won't give Samscum a dime until they stop this no root policy.
I agree - Samsung makes great hardware but their software policies make it a no-go brand for me as well. No root is just the beginning. They screwed over the devs here at XDA by first not delivering kernel source code (GPL requirement for using Android) then delivering broken source code that didn't match the released binaries - which is particularly damaging as the Exynos CPUs are undocumented proprietary products as well. They also drop support very quickly. I bought a Note 8.0 tablet some years back; it came with 4.2.2 and was soon updated to 4.4.2 - then nothing. No OS updates, no security updates, ever again. The bottom line is that they are used to customers replacing their equipment every 2 years, and will do their best to make certain that the devices will be obsolete in 2 years. In this the network operators are complicit, as they love bundling a new phone with a 2 year contract (and hence don't update the OS even if updates are available from the manufacturer). The only option is to vote with your money. HTC has been very good about support for the Dev phone, for a full 2 years; and T-Mobile has been great about unbundling phones from network services (and ending the tyranny of contracts). In the future a Treble-supporting phone will free us from much of this nonsense.

WNC- sorry for drift. Keep up the good work. I really appreciate it, especially because I know this is not your daily use phone. It is very kind of you.