Hey guys! Just got my new Relay 4G. Hope to see more threads soon. I came over from a MyTouch 4G Slide. Any others here?
I'm still using the MT4GS. How do you like the like the Relay? Can you give a comparison between that the and the Slide? I think I recognize you from another forum so your Slide is rooted right?
Overall I'm happy with my decision, just cant wait to root and overclock it:smokingsomb:
\Camera however does not compare to the 4G slide. 1080p and 8 megapixels made the slide a beast. The best the Relay can do is 5mp and 720, which isn't bad at all.
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Glad that root was achieved at least so far. Even if it's light on ROMs, being able to use Titanium and some other things are pretty essential to phone usage for me (along with setCPU, etc)
Thanks for the replies! Not as lonely as I thought
I'll definitely try to root it when I get home; it's a neccessity for me..
It seems all of the good senseless ICS Custom ROMs for the MT4GS have camera functioning without 1080P anyway (I miss the face detection of stock too) so unless I went back to say Bulletproof ROM or another close to stock (which I just can't do at this ponit) all we're really missing is the 8 megapixels.
It's nice to hear that that keyboard is solid. I really miss a 5 row qwerty and I think I'm willing to trade the 3 megapixels to get a dedicated number row again. Hope to be sharing a device with you again soon!
Just a heads up, here's my post from XDA concerning all the bloatware
One great thing I just discovered is you can actually disable some of the apps that came built in (including all the bloat-ware)! They no longer show up in my drawer and aren't running when I check watchdog. I can hold off root (atleast until someone makes a step-by-step guide and official recovery) for the moment being thanks to this discovery.
Just go to Application manager, click on the "all" tab and go down the list and disable the apps you don't want.
T-Mobile seems to have built the bloat upon the bloat. For example, removing tethering and wifi calling apks still leaves the T-Mobile tether icon in the App drawer and the options for both in the System settings. While I expect to see tether options in Android always, I do not expect to see Wifi calling directly in Settings with the relevant app uninstalled. And I do not expect to see a T-Mobile tethering icon tied directly to Settings in my app drawer with the apks uninstalled.
(Edit: I realize a great many people will be using wifi calling and won't want to try to remove it).
Just got back from picking it up. Rooting attempt will be made shortly.
Edit:
Rooted image successfully flashed, but need to go back to the old phone and re-run titanium as it was acting oddly and not finding my backup files.
In Titanium, you need to change the backup file location because the Relay has both an internal and external SD card. Menu>Preferences>Backup Folder Location and auto detect the ext sd card location should do the trick.
Which leads me to CWM. Without it we're forced to releasing custom ROMs in Odin format, which is doable but annoying. For one thing every flash with Odin has the potential to up your custom binary counter. Also Odin format ROMs can't integrate any scripting to do things like fix permissions or the like. At least not easily.
I'm no dev by any stretch of the imagination but I did find an automatic CWM builder at builder dot clockworkmod dot com. I built one and I didn't work One thing stopping it is probably the lack of the custom graphics.c for the device, which is because Samsung hasn't released the source code yet. Hell, with source available, we could even get a dev to start working on cyanogen for us...
Thanks! Seems super easy. I might try it this weekend. Im a little weary about no recovery, but i can always factory reset.
It really is. I compiled that after screwing up a few steps and having to look up how to work Odin since I haven't really played around with anything remotely like that or adb in a year or so.
There is the basic built in recovery that you can access, I know it isn't the same as what gets flashed for ROMs somehow, but I have no idea how. I'll leave the explanation to someone that knows what they're talking about.
On another note, I finally got the unlock code for my Relay. This is one of the few tmo phones with the AT&T frequencies and it actually outperforms my AT&T phone (Captivate Glide) in 4G testing.I am absolutely shocked they aren't pushing this phone, which is nearly identical to the s3, except with a keyboard, more aggressively.
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