CyanogenMod heading to the FAEA F2S

AbbieSeptember 10, 2013

Developers over on the FAEAmobile forum have started to work on bringing Cyanogenmod CM10.1 to the quad-coreFAEAF2S Android smartphone.

The lead developer of the ROM, Shawn, has posted that FAEA have offered him the source code for the FAEAF2Ssmartphone. FAEA haven only allowed the developeraccess to the source code, who is now attempting to bring CM10.1 to the phone.

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The FAEAF2S is the slightly more powerful version of the FAEA F2 which we unboxed earlier. It features the same 5-inch 1080p display, stylish body and 13 mega-pixel, but with a more powerful 1.5Ghz MT6589T processor.

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Abbie
Abbie is a self confessed Chinese phone addict! After cutting her teeth on the Meizu M9 she hasn't been able to keep away from Chinese phones keeping her ear to the ground especially for the latest Shanzhai and clone news!

Chav
September 10, 2013
With source available to only 1 person?!, and no real opening of sources, there is almost nothing positive. Ok after months he will be able to compile “plain” CM10.1, so what?!

junior_poa
September 10, 2013
Shall posted:
“Up until september 2013 with the exception for Samsung no manufacturer has released there sources. Recently Sony released there sources and
Faea decided to release there sources under confidentiality.
Please understand that copying is relative easy. The good Chinese Companies are in a ‘split’. Opening the sources public will have result in ‘clone’ manufacturers copy there hardware with the official factory ROM.
The worst scenario for a manufacture: Bad copies of a phone = bad publicity.”
- junior_poa
  September 10, 2013
  Shall => Shawn
- Lars Nørgaard
  September 11, 2013
  There’s already hardware copies that look identical… And the software on most MTK based phones are almost vanilla android, so I don’t see what they didn’t want to have copied?
  Many have said it’s due to the MTK dual sim stuff, that we don’t see sources.

M
September 11, 2013
Sorry guys, but there’s a tangible difference between “a barely-competent ROM tweaker gets some source thrown at him, has no idea what to do with it, proudly reports that he’s ‘reading manuals’ (whatever that means)” and “X is heading to Y”.
Unless your definition of the word “heading” is decidedly unorthodox, that is.
SBS
September 11, 2013
– They do not want to release sources.
– Shawn is in fact a Faea employee given the fact that he posted some deleted comments with official faeamobile account
– He has no experience in porting a device to CyanogenMod
– No one on XDA or cyanogen will help him
We will never have CM10.1 for F2s!!!
And in the meantime we have an official system full of bugs!!!
SbS a faea owner!