> I noticed a crazy bug where it would only crash on S4's from Sprint, not from Verizon or AT&T. I re-worked some code to get the application working eventually, but the fact that something would only break on a specific carrier's version of the hardware was crazy to me.
I was looking into this a few days ago (for a much more off-the-wall reason I won't go into) and it turns out that Samsung actually will ship devices under the same brand (such as "Galaxy S5") that use entirely unrelated SoCs depending on the radios the device is intending to support: some devices use Qualcomm's Snapdragon, and some use Samsung's own Exynos, so there are tons of possibilities open for these kinds of "Sprint-specific" issues :(.
I was looking into this a few days ago (for a much more off-the-wall reason I won't go into) and it turns out that Samsung actually will ship devices under the same brand (such as "Galaxy S5") that use entirely unrelated SoCs depending on the radios the device is intending to support: some devices use Qualcomm's Snapdragon, and some use Samsung's own Exynos, so there are tons of possibilities open for these kinds of "Sprint-specific" issues :(.
http://www.cnet.com/news/the-chips-of-samsungs-galaxy-s5-exy...