Still waiting for official Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean firmware for Samsung Galaxy S3? Well, you have to wait a little bit longer. But for those unwilling to wait and eager to try out latest features of incoming firmware, you can try out Galaxy S3 XXUFME7 firmware (note – this is unofficial firmware and will increase binary counter). Yes, more Galaxy S4 goodies are coming along. Example, Move to SD card feature, new Music Player… Try it out and let me know the features that you found.
Hey, where is the Developer options on Samsung Galaxy S4? No worry, Developer options is still there in Galaxy S4. Google made a change on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean onward where Developer options is hidden by default. Yes, I agree that’s a good decision because normal users don’t need to use it anyway except developers and hardcore users. Do you?
CyanogenMod ROM is my favourite Android ROM for HTC HD2. But I seldom use CM ROM since Samsung Galaxy S2 because CyanogenMod team does not have Samsung Exynos SoC source code. So you can’t enjoy all the features that can be found on Samsung own firmware. But what make me try CyanogenMod 10.1 Android 4.2.1 Jelly Bean ROM for Samsung Galaxy S3? Force 4x MSAA feature (Enable 4x MSAA in OpenGL ES 2.0 apps) in Android 4.2 Jelly Bean is the one. There is no Samsung firmware based on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean yet. So install CyanogenMod 10.1 ROM on Samsung Galaxy S3 is one of the way to test 4x MSAA feature (Google Nexus 7 with Tegra 3 does not support MSAA). Besides, you can also try out other Android 4.2 Jelly Bean features too…
Samsung firmware for its Android devices is almost the same. And Samsung is using CSC codes to control features available on Android devices and countries. So by editing the CSC feature.xml (or others.xml), you can enable some disabled features. This secret CSC is working on latest Jelly Bean firmware for Samsung devices like Samsung Galaxy S3, Galaxy Note 2… Not all CSC codes are working on your Samsung devices but no harm to try them. Note – root access is required.
Most of my Android devices are loaded with custom ROM. Only HTC One X (which not yet unlock bootloader due to warranty void issue) and Google Nexus 7 (stock ROM is good enough for the moment) are in stock OS. My Samsung Galaxy Note II is loaded with Android Revolution HD ROM just like Galaxy S3. Why use custom ROM instead of stock firmware? Malaysia firmware is always late to update when compare to Europe region firmware. Therefore, why limit yourself and not to try out latest and greatest stuffs in newer firmware. Besides, Android Revolution HD ROM for Samsung Galaxy Note 2 has lot of goodies in store. Android Revolution HD 8.0 is based on Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean – latest official Samsung XXDLL7 firmware. Of course, it is fully optimized, tweaked and rooted. And other features like GPU UI rendering enabled with full Exynos 4 Quad (GPU) rendering, RAM optimizations, speed optimizations, improved CPU governors performance, excellent battery life, improved EXT4 performance, Adobe Flash Player support and lot more…
