Galaxy S4 users can check the variant or model number of their units by going to the phone’s setting and checking on About Phone where they can see the model number as one of the information available about the device.
With the availability of the custom ROM based on Android 5.1.1 Lollipop for the Samsung Galaxy S4, it is likely that a custom ROM based on Android 6.0 Marshmallow will also be developed a few months after Samsung completes the release of the update on its latest mobile devices early this year.
By March 2016, the Samsung Galaxy S4 would be three years old and the arrival of a new custom ROM based on Android 6.0 Marshmallow would only reinforce its reputation as one of the most, if not the most popular and durable flagship smartphones from the Korean tech giant.
The Samsung Galaxy S4 is one of the better flagship smartphones of the Korean tech giant. In fact, it has raised the bar so high that when the Samsung Galaxy S5 came out in March 2014 with very little improvements from the Galaxy S4, it became Samsung’s biggest undoing.
Apart from losing its grip to the reputation as the world’s biggest smartphone manufacturer to Apple in 2014, Samsung also experienced three successive quarters of falling revenues for the very first time.
I have a s4 working wonderfuly on 6.0.1 cynomod rom… Its mor current os then the telco releases and runs faster without the bloatware….
Meh, my aging Galaxy S4 is running a version of CM.13, called Resurrection Remix.. No signs of lag or sputter.. It’s Touchwiz that was slowing it down..
Wow! One S4 user doesn’t like Lolipop on their phone. That sure is convincing. /sarc
Not sure what else they have loaded on it, but it’s not Lolipop causing the problems. My S4 has never run better.
I would also dispute the author’s claim that every OS is bigger and more difficult for existing phones to run. Lolipop was designed to improve performance on existing phones, particularly ones without much memory.
What a ridiculous article. There is nothing at all keeping an S4 from well running with marshmallow installed. You really think one user’s reported problems tell us all we need to know about how the S4 runs?
It’s all about the $$$.
Since Android stopped allowing apps to be stored on SD cards to be updated without being moved back to the built-in memory, I’ve had to clear my cache constantly. It’s the ONLY issue I have wigh my 2.5 year-old S4. A marshmallow update would solve this problem, but then there would be less incentive for me to buy a new phone, and Samsung and Verizon don’t want that now, fo they?