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[kyan31]

We should all get china phones as they usually come pre-rooted, and get a recovery exploit within the week of release. The jiayu G3 was rooted and CWM'ed before it was even released to the public.

Development is also very easy as all the developer tools are open to the public. The Chinese don't care about what you do with the phone, which is obviously a good thing for the devs.

Edited by kyan31, 31 January 2013 - 05:24 PM.

[gbosh]

Don't most of them have no kernel source available and Mediatek CPUs that don't have any documentation available as well ? So it wouldn't be possible to make any custom ROMs, that are not stock based.

[kyan31]

gbosh, on 31 January 2013 - 05:31 PM, said:

Don't most of them have no kernel source available and Mediatek CPUs that don't have any documentation available as well ? So it wouldn't be possible to make any custom ROMs, that are not stock based.

Ah OK, that's a bummer. That means no CM, AOKP, Paranoid etc

[razzmataz1478]

Sony are definitely the best vendor for third party development. They are supportive and there was even an experiment to add the Xperia S to AOSP