I'm trying to decide which firmware to put on a spare Samsung Galaxy S3 somebody gave me (or whether just to keep the stock firmware). I have another old beat-up S3 with a cracked screen and a missing volume button, which I'm planning to keep for development purposes. But I would like to be able to easily upload a development version of my app to both phones. My app sometimes (very rarely) crashes, but I never saw that while the phone was hooked up to the development machine, and could never see the app log with the problem happening. That's a separate issue, but it would be nice if there were something relevant already built into the alternative firmware I'll be installing.
I've never tried alternative firmware on a phone (I have on an Android-based e-reader, but that was a long time ago and was very tedious, as far as I remember).
My current candidates are XenonHD and Cyanogen.
My criteria are:
I've never tried alternative firmware on a phone (I have on an Android-based e-reader, but that was a long time ago and was very tedious, as far as I remember).
My current candidates are XenonHD and Cyanogen.
My criteria are:
- speed
- support for other devices so I can keep using something I'm familiar with -- Cyanogen wins here.
- ease of installation and use
- additional application development/troubleshooting tools
