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Pure Android JB on GS3?

Hi guys,
I just bought a Nexus 7 and I love it. Issue is the differences between that and the TouchWiz are getting annoying.
nothing huge but would prefer having the same on both.
This isn't a what rom is best question, but mainly which offers the closest to pure Jelly Bean for GS3?
I know Cyanomod is popular, would that be a good place to start?

Try super nexus by faryaab. That is closest to stock experience.
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Any AOSP based Rom, like pure AOSP, cyanogenmod 10 or AOKP will do, they all use the same launcher as nexus 7 just the latter two have extra features like overclocking and extra settings. AOSP is completely clean.
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delsus said:
Any AOSP based Rom, like pure AOSP, cyanogenmod 10 or AOKP will do, they all use the same launcher as nexus 7 just the latter two have extra features like overclocking and extra settings. AOSP is completely clean.
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AOKP seems to be ICS?

Start from CM10 and then move on AOSP based custom Roms.. There are aokp builds which are using jb
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Wait until jb source is out and I`m pretty sure there will be a aosp based rom. I hope so
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All AOSP roms are boring. They seem to be a little bit faster but after some time i feel there is things absent here and there.

yken said:
All AOSP roms are boring. They seem to be a little bit faster but after some time i feel there is things absent here and there.
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For me the beauty of aosp is that you add what you want to fill in the gaps. I just flashed CM9 and love it so far. The only thing I really miss is smart stay.
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Dav_prime said:
For me the beauty of aosp is that you add what you want to fill in the gaps. I just flashed CM9 and love it so far. The only thing I really miss is smart stay.
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Smart stay ex from market fills that gap

Dav_prime said:
For me the beauty of aosp is that you add what you want to fill in the gaps. I just flashed CM9 and love it so far. The only thing I really miss is smart stay.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beansoft.eyespy.free
Here's smart stay.

One of the biggest benefits of owning an S3 is having the customized UI you are complaining about. You get a really good messaging app with lots of cool features (like zooming with volume buttons when you're in the car for example, color schemes, you can choose whatever background you like, you are not confined to eye hurting white). You get samsung apps with lots of free apps you would have to pay for, also apps specifically for the S3, optimized for looks and performance. You get direct call, smart stay. You get the smoothest and nicest looking launcher with weather. Everything working out of the box. If it's only the launcher that's bugging you, just use trebuchet, apex or nova. The rest you shouldn't really complain about IMO. Pure android is lacking in looks and functionality, also all the custom roms you install will have worse performance in both 2d and 3d.

You might be right about 3D performance but the OS on CM9 is a HELL of a lot snappier, which - for someone who doesn't play games - is more important. No home button lag either.
I bought the SIII for the hardware and consider the software to be a travesty: it's like Samsung tried to cram as much useless crap in there as possible just so they could say they did it first. Their design standards and eye for colour are hideous. Touchwiz genuinely offends me. If it were not for the sublime hardware I wouldn't touch Samsungs with a bargepole. I'm one of those people who wishes that when you booted your Android phone for the first time you got the choice of stock or manufacturer-branded firmware.
Best wishes to anyone who likes Touchwiz but it's not for me, and I thank those wonderful devs who continue to work hard on removing it and giving us hardware lovers a purer Android experience.
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leoni1980 said:
You might be right about 3D performance but the OS on CM9 is a HELL of a lot snappier, which - for someone who doesn't play games - is more important. No home button lag either.
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I'm not sure by what you mean. The launcher or the menus? They are both equal or faster on stock. No home button lag - install Jkay mod alpha for LI5 and you have that sorted as well. To me the stock android look is so poor and lacks in functionality. My Gnex on stock looks like it's an empty device with basic functionality only. It's a matter of preference I guess. I understand your point of view and wish cm9 and 10 were as fast as the stock samsung roms. They are not.
Not in the ui, not in apps. Battery life is also worse. Fact.

victorator said:
I'm not sure by what you mean. The launcher or the menus? They are both equal or faster on stock. No home button lag - install Jkay mod alpha for LI5 and you have that sorted as well. To me the stock android look is so poor and lacks in functionality. My Gnex on stock looks like it's an empty device with basic functionality only. It's a matter of preference I guess. I understand your point of view and wish cm9 and 10 were as fast as the stock samsung roms. They are not.
Not in the ui, not in apps. Battery life is also worse. Fact.
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Generally I find everything on CM9 feels a lot faster. I have been on stock for most of my ownership of the S3 so I know what the stock OS feels like - whether that's with ICS or the Jellybean leaks (up to LI4). I suppose it's down to personal choice but I don't personally find any functionally to be lacking in the stock ROM on the Nexus 7. I think stock Android is beautiful and I hate the fact that Samsung feels the need to add replace perfectly good things with rubbish ones - like that crappy keyboard of theirs.
Why not at least leave the stock keyboard and the launcher installed and allow the choice for the layman. Things like Smart Stay are a bit of a gimmick, fine, and other things like the swipe to take a screenshot, S(hit)-Voice and other stupid sensor related 'features' are utter crap that no-one surely uses...for me though, the main problem is that Touchwiz is ugly. Everything from the SMS app to the uglified notification bar.
Anyway, each to their own.
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I'm still struggling with the keyboard on the sgs3 I have swift key trial currently but it would be nice to have the stock keys. Which keyboard would people recommend?
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btw what the difference between AOKP and AOSP ??
AOKP = android open kang project but I also don't know what is that =.=

XeactorZ said:
btw what the difference between AOKP and AOSP ??
AOKP = android open kang project but I also don't know what is that =.=
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Aosp is just pure Google stock experience while aokp add some additional features like theme chooser, customize layout and etc.
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markdj57 said:
I'm still struggling with the keyboard on the sgs3 I have swift key trial currently but it would be nice to have the stock keys. Which keyboard would people recommend?
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Swype. It is completely free and fast.
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The problem with Touchwiz is that is has serious lag. Open the Dialer and it takes a good second to open up. Same with all the UI its just slow.
It has a ton of good features such as slide to call and stuff but the lag is killing me.

Can I flash pie control for cm10?

I am using the latest cm10.1, but I love the PIE control features that used in PA rom, Isn't it possible to flash PIE control in to CM10.1,
Thx

Unfortunately, no. You could install LMT Launcher instead. Its very similar to PA's PIE. It has the look and feel of it.
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There's PACMAN rom. Never used it but that has PA, AOKP and CM10 features. (Including PIE)

PcFish said:
There's PACMAN rom. Never used it but that has PA, AOKP and CM10 features. (Including PIE)
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Forgot about that ROM, its awesome! I'm running that on my GS3.
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thx for the suggesstions

speedygonzo said:
Unfortunately, no. You could install LMT Launcher instead. Its very similar to PA's PIE. It has the look and feel of it.
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it has the look, somewhat. elements are pie shaped. the similarities end here.
no notifications, no panels, no toggles, no expand gestures, no snappoints, no refined design, no app colors, its not as fast, its not as cpu/battery friendly, its not polished and doesn't feel like its part of the OS. its a convoluted substitution. few of the things you see in these videos are possible with lmt. pie is slowly turning into a fullblown UI replacement with the same capabilities that your navbars have. this is way out of lmt's comfort zone because not even a root hack has access to statusbarmanagers internals, pie on the other hand is part of it.
pie is open source though, it would be easy to cherry-pick it and add it to your personal cm build. thats what open source is here for. many roms did it, you can take their squashed commits. if you cant do that and you hate PA i'd suggest rootbox. he's actively working on it, making it better.

molesarecoming said:
it has the look, somewhat. elements are pie shaped. the similarities end here.
no notifications, no panels, no toggles, no expand gestures, no snappoints, no refined design, no app colors, its not as fast, its not as cpu/battery friendly, its not polished and doesn't feel like its part of the OS. its a convoluted substitution. few of the things you see in these videos are possible with lmt. pie is slowly turning into a fullblown UI replacement with the same capabilities that your navbars have. this is way out of lmt's comfort zone because not even a root hack has access to statusbarmanagers internals, pie on the other hand is part of it.
pie is open source though, it would be easy to cherry-pick it and add it to your personal cm build. thats what open source is here for. many roms did it, you can take their squashed commits. if you cant do that and you hate PA i'd suggest rootbox. he's actively working on it, making it better.
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Awesome reply from a good Dev. I don't use PA but the fact he's willing to help should be applauded

EddyOS said:
Awesome reply from a good Dev. I don't use PA but the fact he's willing to help should be applauded
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+1
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EddyOS said:
Awesome reply from a good Dev. I don't use PA but the fact he's willing to help should be applauded
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Moles is always around to help people. Awesome Dev is awesome.:thumbup:
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Software - is it that bad?

Tempted to walk into my local 3 shop and pick one up for £399 looks like a great phone and will have better battery than Nexus 5 which is a big thing for me. My issue is the software, is it that bad out of the box say versus a Nexus 4 running on pure Android? Havent played around with custom ROMs but thinking I might have to with this device.

jklondon said:
Tempted to walk into my local 3 shop and pick one up for £399 looks like a great phone and will have better battery than Nexus 5 which is a big thing for me. My issue is the software, is it that bad out of the box say versus a Nexus 4 running on pure Android? Havent played around with custom ROMs but thinking I might have to with this device.
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Im coming from the GNex- which was a pure android experience to the LG G2- and in my opinion the software is fine. I had to apply a theme, which was super easy to get it to look the way I like: but the software doesn't get in my way. the phone is SO customizable that you can make it how you like. The phone is butter smooth and work great for me. I dislike only 2-3 minor things about the phone which can be fixed...
I'm running it stock: no root

caecusscius said:
Im coming from the GNex- which was a pure android experience to the LG G2- and in my opinion the software is fine. I had to apply a theme, which was super easy to get it to look the way I like: but the software doesn't get in my way. the phone is SO customizable that you can make it how you like. The phone is butter smooth and work great for me. I dislike only 2-3 minor things about the phone which can be fixed...
I'm running it stock: no root
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Thanks good to know - very tempted!

jklondon said:
Thanks good to know - very tempted!
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I was used to running cm 10.2 on my lg g pro (the g2 is so much better imo) and the software is fine. I just flashed clean rom and a mod to get rid of the at&t logo and phone volume slider and I can't be happier. I also got rid of the soft buttons and use GMD, I almost never touch the back buttons with the knock on and made nova launcher double tap to lock. Pretty freaking awesome.
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Came from GNex with AOSP ROM and I think LGs ROM is okay. I was expecting worse, but it's not terrible. There is way too much bloat (Verizon), but I will most definitely be install a custom ROM as soon as AOSP ROMs hit the grid. I do like the knock on feature and some other stuff they baked in though.
I have a few apps out of the box that are draining my battery at idle which I will have to figure out.

romeyjdogg said:
Came from GNex with AOSP ROM and I think LGs ROM is okay. I was expecting worse, but it's not terrible. There is way too much bloat (Verizon), but I will most definitely be install a custom ROM as soon as AOSP ROMs hit the grid. I do like the knock on feature and some other stuff they baked in though.
I have a few apps out of the box that are draining my battery at idle which I will have to figure out.
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might help http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2456974

It's not that bad at all. Certainly better than Touchwiz. I actually like this LG UI more than any I've used outside of some of the modded AOSP ROMS (CM, AOKP, PA etc.). It has a few quirks, but nothing that I would consider to be a deal breaker.

I ran tw I ran aokp, I ran cm plus a multitude of kangs of all three including miui.
I am 5 days in and not once got bored,glitches,battery drains. Its got all the customazions I need, except dpi and permissions. I am cured flashaholic. That says a lot about the software coming from an avid flasher

I have been a big fan of cm for some time now and love the stock android look. I may very well install a theme to get this look at some point but I see no real reason to flash or even root at this point.
The software is smooth and customizable. It is heavily skinned in a love it or hate it kind of way, but themes make it far less of an issue.
Hope this helps!
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so no thesoftware is not bad

I like it, it's smooth unlike touchwiz and mostly everything can be changed. Refreshing.
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Came from a nexus 4 and I love the software.

My only wish is that I want more multitasking stuff (like TW's mutiwindow just without the bloat )

yeah multitasking is android 8ssue they implemented window support on an app per app and not os wide basis, thats why not all aps are launchable that way

The LG skin/software is awesome. I really like it. Its fast, fluid, and has many features. example: theme keyboard, theme ui keys, nav ring shortcuts, pop up windows for text and phone calls, etc..

With the nexus 5 predicted to have a 2300mAh battery and a worse camera at £399 it's a cracking deal for the LG G2. I work at 3 and am tempted to take up the deal.
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The skin is more that adequate for anything you want to do. this isnt 2010 where htc sense and samsungs stuff blew ****. everything is great. whether it is motorola or sony's or whoever, they are all fine....
I hate that stock android is taken to the point of god like. its good. just like sense. or touchwiz. stock isnt better than either of them. they will all do the samething. in fact, often these skins on top have more options and are a fresh breath of air from stock

No I love the software on the g2. I had 2 s4's and both lagged and didn't run as well as I wanted it too. Great processor but software bogged it down. I like this phone so far for its software and its beautiful screen. Samsung threw whatever they thought up into tw and it was a lot of junk I personally didn't use nor anyone that I know personally
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OMG why did I just read this thread.. It's going to cost me like 800$.

eitama said:
OMG why did I just read this thread.. It's going to cost me like 800$.
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You like?

AOSP themed TouchWiz Dream ROM

My "Dream ROM" for the Note 4 would be:
*Rooted
*Knox removed
*CyanogenMod style theming
*Samsung and Sprint bloatware removed (accept for Facebook sync)
*TouchWiz apps (calendar, messaging, phone, clock, calculator, lockscreen, notification quick settings) replaced with CyanogenMod versions
I am definitely willing to test but lack the skill to compile.
Anyone want to try?

i feel like you picked the wrong phone for that..

Why? I have suggested a TouchWiz rom that just looks like AOSP. Taking the best features of this phone (embodied in TouchWiz functions) and adding the apps of AOSP.

I'm sure there will be CyanogenMod based ROMs for this device but they will lack the expanding Windows that work great on this ROM.

Sounds like you want a different launcher. Try Nova

Bralgar said:
Sounds like you want a different launcher. Try Nova
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No.
I was specific with what I want.
I already use another launcher.

Just saying Nova can give the AOSP look. *shrug*

Bralgar said:
Just saying Nova can give the AOSP look. *shrug*
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Respectfully, it is not the look, but the interface of those apps that I like better.

Probably better to wait for cm11 to be made official for the Sprint Note 4. Hopefully it happens.

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Probably better to wait for cm11 to be made official for the Sprint Note 4. Hopefully it happens.
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Ordinarily, with most phones, I'd absolutely agree with you.
I flashed CyanogenMod based ROMs for every android I've ever had. In fact I was glad to get rid of TouchWiz for my Galaxies S2 and S3.
However, with this beast, I wouldn't want to give up the S-Note stylus features, floating windows, or one handed mode.
With xposed, I could duplicate the floating windows (x-halo) and split screen view.
But I wouldn't be able to duplicate a lot of the S-Note features (some maybe but not most), lots of the camera features, or one handed mode.
Further, the battery optimization on this phone is phenomenal and I have found the CM based ROMs aren't usually as good.

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Ordinarily, with most phones, I'd absolutely agree with you.
I flashed CyanogenMod based ROMs for every android I've ever had. In fact I was glad to get rid of TouchWiz for my Galaxies S2 and S3.
However, with this beast, I wouldn't want to give up the S-Note stylus features, floating windows, or one handed mode.
With xposed, I could duplicate the floating windows (x-halo) and split screen view.
But I wouldn't be able to duplicate a lot of the S-Note features (some maybe but not most), lots of the camera features, or one handed mode.
Further, the battery optimization on this phone is phenomenal and I have found the CM based ROMs aren't usually as good.
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Agreed. With flashing cm11, there are some trade offs. For me I like the smoothness of cm11 compared to Touch Wiz.

DarkManX4lf said:
Agreed. With flashing cm11, there are some trade offs. For me I like the smoothness of cm11 compared to Touch Wiz.
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I agree the smoothness is great, now we just CM11 on the Note 4.

We will soon
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We will soon
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Did I mention I Beta test?

I am working on this right now If everything goes smooth I will have an AOSP Themed Touch Wiz Rom ready

Totally agree with you. CM11 and 12 are great roms, but I love using the s pen as well as the s health and s note apps.

Unofficial CM 13 for the Honor 8!

Hey guys something special for you!
About 1 hour ago xda posted unoffical cm will be released soon for the honor 8!
Im so excited!
Twitter: https://twitter.com/xdadevelopers/status/798144304329826304
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Let us all wait for the magestic moment of release.
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adriansticoid said:
Let us all wait for the magestic moment of release.
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good to hear about the develope activity cant wait much longer for my device and for CM in my opinion CM would perfectly fit on the honor 8

xontec said:
good to hear about the develope activity cant wait much longer for my device and for CM in my opinion CM would perfectly fit on the honor 8
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But based in that screensnot, RIL is broken. Maybe it will take until January or so to have a full stable CM13. After that, CM14.1 should be easy breezy.
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But based in that screensnot, RIL is broken. Maybe it will take until January or so to have a full stable CM13. After that, CM14.1 should be easy breezy.
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Yeah true but its good to hear something offical and see progress on the developing for the honor 8 especially from xda

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Yeah true but its good to hear something offical and see progress on the developing for the honor 8 especially from xda
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Yes sooo goood. This is one huge milestone.
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I don't think we will have fully stable cm soon. But still, good news!

Sun will shine on Honor 8 sooner or later. The first step is taken to embark you all on a wonderful journey ahead. Patience is key so remain calm and hope for the best.

No way! Thanks xda!
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Thank goodness. I love this phone, but EMUI just has some very poor design decisions and sometimes feels like a bad third-party skin even after replacing the launcher. Notifications, especially on the lock screen, are just ugly and react entirely opposite of the way they do in iOS or stock Android, and the only lock-screen theme that supports notifications has the clock in the lower corner of the screen (which is nonsense).
There are also a lot of weird quirks that I've experienced, an example being wallpapers bug out most of the time when I try to set them. Sometimes they don't align the way I set them to and when I try to fix the alignment, it will set the wallpaper slightly off the screen so part of the wallpaper is black space. Perhaps this is just an incompatibility with Nova Launcher, though.

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Thank goodness. I love this phone, but EMUI just has some very poor design decisions and sometimes feels like a bad third-party skin even after replacing the launcher. Notifications, especially on the lock screen, are just ugly and react entirely opposite of the way they do in iOS or stock Android, and the only lock-screen theme that supports notifications has the clock in the lower corner of the screen (which is nonsense).
There are also a lot of weird quirks that I've experienced, an example being wallpapers bug out most of the time when I try to set them. Sometimes they don't align the way I set them to and when I try to fix the alignment, it will set the wallpaper slightly off the screen so part of the wallpaper is black space. Perhaps this is just an incompatibility with Nova Launcher, though.
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Yea i dont like EMUI too and you're right but i love the phone. I have to say some parts of EMUI are well designed and i really like but some are absolute crap.
In my opinion stock Android or any cm based custom rom perfectly fit on it i cant wait to See how it will act with it.

Super happy to see CM ported to the Honor 8!

CM 13 is already posted in Android Development section, and RIL is working.
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CM 13 is already posted in Android Development section, and RIL is working.
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Yes I already saw but my post was before rls
Didn't expect that fast

WooHoo!!