Call me lazy but i would rather thank v.Na5h with all my heart for the link
LOL yeah! "I promise to pay the poster a sum of ONE (1) thanks"
Seriously, this is getting crazy.
I had got 2 OSFs from the UK, one for me and another for a friend. Well my cuz (forcibly) bought mine and luckily is in dubai and doesn't demand much support at all. It's running some old CM7 nightly. But the other friend lives nearby and while very technically inclined, is way too busy for fora ROM browsing. So i keep an eye out and recommend decent roms to him. But now it's getting a bit overwhelming having to keep track of Rom devpt. for a phone i don't even technically have.
In the meantime, I bought an xperia play and am very satisfied with the phone itself, but the development isn't all that great, say not even half as good as what the blade has. After some time i've pretty much given up and just optimized the stock ROM, which isn't too bad and am patiently waiting (you listening sony??!!) for the official ICS rom which should come out in the next month or two.
Now here's where it gets really bad. A friend wanted a mid range phone and after some consideration we decided to settle on a defy+. He uses a lot of smartphone features, can call him a power user but isn't technically inclined. So i was like, how bad can it be, i'll just get him a decent rom and that's that. The nightmare began. Motorola has one of the worst and most locked down systems ever imaginable for an android mobile and if i'd known the details beforehand wouldn't even have recommended one of their phones. Really it's so bad that Devs have even stopped trying to root their subsequent updates and are asking users to sign petitions and boycott buying moto phones if they don't stop with their crap. Motorola's eFuses are one of the worst technologies ever invented (not by them that too!) and gives me cold sweats and shivers in my sleep like i've watched 4 horror movies back to back.
And even if unlocked and opened as much as possible, both sony and moto don't allow direct access to the partitions and system like our blade does, so it requires wierd hacks like installing a custom recovery into the system partition. Kinda like an app instead of replacing the stock recovery. Still devs are enterprising and it's surprising they've been able to do as much as they have. Bottom line-you bladers don't realize how good and easy you have it!
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