devilsdouble wrote:Well no offence but Google is creating a mess themselves with Lollipop in my opinion. 5.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.1, how much time has passed, less than three-four months I think.
Well no mess there, 5.0.x were bug fixes, properly released in a git repo with commit by commit comments, not just lump dumps, and we're talking full ROM (~30Gb sources) vs. just kernel (~500Mb sources)
Sammy will just not update such things, leaving you with the bugs till next big update.
This way adding those commits to an existing ROM is pretty easy.
Lump dump = you got find what changed between 2 dumps, no comments, no nothing.
Samsung sucks big time here, they promised somewhen in 2013 at Google I/O to push kernels via git, and what came so far, nothing ... dev friendlyness is inexisting, only Sony did take that step (for kernels). Noone publishes the full ROM except Google.
And Google updates old Nexus devices, Samsung doesn't either, leaving users with either custom ROM with issues or buying new devices, which is
Plus not only does Google push via git repos, they even have open access on their gerrit, which are suggested commits that may make it into the ROM later (you can use them right away), and even allow pushing to it, allowing any dev to contribute, and we're still talking full ROM.
All this has become so much clearer since I started looking at the ROM-side and compiling my own ROM a little over 2 months ago...
devilsdouble wrote:And for which one to use, isn't using the International base preferred, I mean I don't know, but that other device, I mean the T one is confined to one country right?
And please take as much as you want, I beg you, please don't hurry, I will wait as long as possible for a stable release.
Thanks in advance.
I prefer to go with n9005, though Sammy has already pushed derped n9005, so I had to use n900t sources instead. Sources are interchangeable, I'll just use the n9005 defconfig either way.
No rushing to make the kernel, that mostly would make a mess more than anything else
JP.
Sent from my Nexus 6 running Yank555.lu SlimLP 5.0.2 LRX22G on Yank555.lu v0.8 kernel.