Hi guys,
I have just chanced upon this link
https://groups.google.com/group/android-building/browse_thread/thread/90d5498622a6ea4
Does this mean that current nexus s is not utilizing the graphic card?
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No, it meant that previous AOSP builds where not using the graphics chip to it fullest. This only affected those who used roms base on pure opensource builds and is of no immediate consequence to those who are using stock roms.
I say immediate since with those drivers in AOSP, someone independent of google and samsung can contribute something to enhance them
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I have a Galaxy S2 which seems to share the same chipset as the GT 7+.
I've just ordered a tab7+ and as there is a massive amount of roms available for the S2, including ICS. Would the binaries for the S2 help make an ICS rom for the GT7+?
Binaries? No - completely different screen, very different peripherals, and no Honeycomb for the Tab 7. Even when both have ICS, they will be very different builds.
Kernel source? Due to being 2.6.36.x, the Honeycomb source base for your kernels has differences from the S2 codebase - so a lot of stuff can't be directly applied, but a competent developer (you have one with garyd9) can apply the "concepts" in many cases.
Unfortunately, Samsung screwed up the wifi driver in the 7 Plus. It's binary-only (no source code) and it seems to have bugs.
Entropy512 said:
Kernel source? Due to being 2.6.36.x, the Honeycomb source base for your kernels has differences from the S2 codebase - so a lot of stuff can't be directly applied, but a competent developer (you have one with garyd9) can apply the "concepts" in many cases.
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I don't think there are any kernel mods I'd want to bring over from that device. As far as what the OP called "ROMs", I have no idea what they are referring to. There doesn't seem to be any read-only memory in the tablet.
If he meant "firmware", then I have to admit that I'd prefer not to do that kind of thing. There are many different kinds of developers in the world... some get off working at the lowest possible level (kernels, etc) and others prefer higher level things. I'm the former, and it would take the latter to do firmware development.
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Hi Friends,
Have anybody tried to dual boot android with ios5. It will be great if someone can do this.
While searching came across this
http://code.google.com/p/bootdroid
http://bootdroid.blogspot.in/
Any solutions?
I don't think that's possible.
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You can't run iOS as a rom because its closed source. It would be impossible to port because all the libs are different even though its based off linux
IOS is based off of Mac OSX which is based off of *Unix*
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so the info on the links is just bull**** ?
BUT: it is possible to have your android phone "transformed" to look like ios with miui rom and iphone theme.
that still doesnt give access to the appstore but its as near as we can get to ios looks
Got none of the required devices I would have tried otherwise :/
i have a desire hd but i dont really think this is legit.. probably just some guy hunting payperclicks
This will never be possible. IPhone and android phones havedifferent processor architecture.
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It IS possible to dual boot an iPhone with Android and iOS, the project is called iDroid (idroidproject[.]org) but some of the iPhone jail breakers (like @chronic) are creating a linux-based OS (called Magenta) that replicates iPhone OS 1.0, my source says that it currently runs on ARM7 hardware
Magenta is an implementation of Darwin/BSD on top of the Linux kernel. It is made up of a number of kernel and userland components that work together. It is fully binary compatible with iPhone OS 5.0 (as in, it uses the same binary format).
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The final goal is probably recreating the iPhone OS 1.0 stack. I think this is a pretty feasible goal, considering the fact that there are so many open source libs that can be used to replace the proprietary libs used by Apple. Just as an example:
* CoreGraphics -> Cairo
-> FreeType
-> libpng/jpg
* Celestial -> Various open source media decoding libs.
* UIKit -> Chamelleon
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see my source for the news post: ht.tp://bit[.]ly/KZZ1up (9to5Mac)
More information about Magenta: ht.tp://bit[.]ly/Oo6eV4
Or this for the source code: ht.tp://crna[.]cc/magenta_source.html
The original ios firmware? ? I think its cool, hope they develop for the new ios though. Number one was pretty lame
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Dri94 said:
The original ios firmware? ? I think its cool, hope they develop for the new ios though. Number one was pretty lame
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I think so, they say the aim is to run iOS
The project does not wish to build a platform that can run Apple’s App Store apps; it appears to just aim at running iOS.
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As you can see it isn't for running App Store apps, but if it has root access like a rooted android, then you can just put any app on the device..
Like a Cydia app (for the ones who don't know: Cydia is an App Store that you get when you jailbreak your iPhone)
Dual boot iOS and Android. Hm... why not to try Linux instead? iOS is not flexible as Android and what's the point of it? Also we can start porting Windows 8 and other stuff.
arpitsinghi said:
Hi Friends,
Have anybody tried to dual boot android with ios5. It will be great if someone can do this.
While searching came across this
http://code.google.com/p/bootdroid
http://bootdroid.blogspot.in/
Any solutions?
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iOS 5 is designed to run only on apple's specified hardware design. It is next to impossible to have apple software running on android hardware, but there have been reports of android running on apple hardware. This all involves a lot of lib tweaking, proper execution of binaries, andjust plain coding genius.
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k28king1 said:
iOS 5 is designed to run only on apple's specified hardware design. It is next to impossible to have apple software running on android hardware, but there have been reports of android running on apple hardware. This all involves a lot of lib tweaking, proper execution of binaries, andjust plain coding genius.
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Look at post #9 It IS possible if someone tries to get it on an android with a bit porting of the Magenta-project. And yes it is possible to run android on iPhone (post #9 as well) it is called iDroid (as mentioned in post #9)
here is the source code from cronic, who is an apple dev, who is working on porting it for us, http://crna.cc/ , if any dev is wishing to finish it off with his android intel
why doenst just buy an iPhone ?
android_isda_**** said:
here is the source code from cronic, who is an apple dev, who is working on porting it for us, ht.tp://crna.cc/ , if any dev is wishing to finish it off with his android intel
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That is exactly what's said in post 9! Don't people read the whole topic, or do you just post blindly and hope that someone before you didn't post that ?? Sorry for getting off-topic
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For those asking "why?", I found this thread because I would like an Android tablet, but I'm worried I'll want the latest app or game and it will be only on iOS for too long before going to Android. I'd like the best of both worlds, someday (perhaps when iDroid is out of alpha).
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For those asking "why?", I found this thread because I would like an Android tablet, but I'm worried I'll want the latest app or game and it will be only on iOS for too long before going to Android. I'd like the best of both worlds, someday (perhaps when iDroid is out of alpha).
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If you want the best of both worlds, let me give you some suggestions:
Buy a jailbreak-able iPhone (4S or 4 recommended) jailbreak it on iOS 5.1.1 (if that's the current OS) and then with Cydia you can customize your iPhone as much as you want.
Buy both of them (which I have done) and enjoy
But do not expect iDroid to be stable anytime soon, for now..
That was a bit off-topic, sorry, but I hope this helps!
As you may know, Mozilla (the famous team who brought us Firefox and Thunderbird Mail) is now creating an operating system based on mobile devices such as tablets and cell phones. As an open-source supporter and lover, I'm interested to see where this goes. But how does this operating system have anything to do with us you say? Well, Mozilla is working on QualComm based hardware, and they need phones to test the operating system on. Well, the phones they have choose to use to test Boot 2 Gecko, is none other than the Galaxy S II! Expect we'll be the first ones with a fully-stable working Boot 2 Gecko build. This would mean, that we would have up to two choices for operating systems, Android and Boot 2 Gecko.
Source : http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/b2g/faq/
Wow, Really looking forward to a new os!
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As you may know, Mozilla (the famous team who brought us Firefox and Thunderbird Mail) is now creating an operating system based on mobile devices such as tablets and cell phones. As an open-source supporter and lover, I'm interested to see where this goes. But how does this operating system have anything to do with us you say? Well, Mozilla is working on QualComm based hardware, and they need phones to test the operating system on. Well, the phones they have choose to use to test Boot 2 Gecko, is none other than the Galaxy S II! Expect we'll be the first ones with a fully-stable working Boot 2 Gecko build. This would mean, that we would have up to two choices for operating systems, Android and Boot 2 Gecko.
Source :
Code:
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/b2g/faq/
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Thats crazy! Might attract some Dev's!
This looks really cool! I'm excited to see what happens for this project. It might turn out to be a truly useful OS. A game changer really since it's trying to be a truly open source OS
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Could someone post a clickable link i tried typing it in but it says error thanks
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This looks really cool! I'm excited to see what happens for this project. It might turn out to be a truly useful OS. A game changer really since it's trying to be a truly open source OS
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Indeed it is. I'm excited as well!
Edit : I'm having troubles making a hyperlink from my phone. Sorry.
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Imho they'd better port Thunderbird to Android.
Hey XDA,
Huge noob here, just wanted to propose a discussion. But first, a little background
I was recently looking into the new windows 8 platform and, like many people, I am not entirely convinced by it. This essentially just fueled my interest in the idea of making android a PC operating system as well as a mobile one.
Now on to my discussion question...
Since there has been some ports of Android floating around as downloadable ISO files, I was thinking. If laptops start becoming more touchscreen based (which I'm certain they will given windows 8s release) and thus, xda development of android for PCs becomes more grand scale, Wouldn't it really give android a strong backing if they had a fully featured steam app built off of steam's linux port "coming soon".
So tell me, What are your thoughts? Possible, not possible? Good Idea, Bad? Let's hear it.
Well that would be cool
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Meh, android in my opinion is not suited for a computer. Android has power, but I feel it doesn't have the necessary power for a computer. I would rather use a Linux district running an interface better suited for touch/net books like kde or unity
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Ever heard of a chrome book?
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Is anyone interested in porting lollipop to this device from the i900
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s-i9000/i9000-development/rom-t3054101
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Is anyone interested in porting lollipop...
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I appreciate your enthusiasm for this device. Unfortunately, there is no meaningful open-source kernel support for Samsung devices. While we were able to get the SGS 4G running reasonably stably for KitKat, taking it to Lollipop would be a far stretch. This is not the same device as the Galaxy S (I9000), no matter the external similarities.
Mine is limping along on OmniROM 4.4.4 as a spare phone for my foreign SIM, but it takes a few minutes to boot. I can't imagine taking the time to develop and build the kernel drivers required for Lollipop.
I'd suggest continuing to run one of the ROMs available in this forum, or purchasing a more contemporary phone if you want to run Lollipop.
I'd love to see Lollipop be ported to this device, which I have. However, I have moved on, and now have 2 devices running Lollipop, if you look at my signature.
It's not an impossible feat, it's a matter of resources and time. Some debug tools like a riff box or other jtag. And time that, for me at least, is pretty busy with work and other projects.
The biggest problems of any sgs port is the lack of internal storage and slow mmc (so moving data to mmc is bad) and the ST-Ericsson radio. Also, the internal onenand flash is bigger then the other sgs devices so you have to update the flash layout.
The kernel on my github has either a gpio issue or wake-lock unbalance. So if the screen turns off, the phone basically doesn't wake up.
Without some serious work done to the kernel, and someone's time, I don't for see lollipop on the sgs4g.
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