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Surprised no hoopla about Viewsonic working on other Android OS versions for Gtablet

The marketing VP of Viewsonic posts on this board and basically confirms that they are working on new Android versions for the G:
"Adobe and Google do not support Tegra II with Froyo"
"We are working on other OS versions, hint hint" The VP wrote the "hint hint", not me.
I know Roebeet has been busy with a big work project, but surprised the post did not ignite discussion. Does EVERYBODY have a big project with a short deadline?
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I think 2.3 is coming soon, due to the support issues. JMO.

Hmmm
rushless said:
"Adobe and Google do not support Tegra II with Froyo"
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Support from adobe and google will happen for the Tegra II(TABLETS) when the new OS hits. IMO it will be when Honeycomb hits not gingerbread, but who knows....

rushless said:
The marketing VP of Viewsonic posts on this board and basically confirms that they are working on new Android versions for the G:
"Adobe and Google do not support Tegra II with Froyo"
"We are working on other OS versions, hint hint" The VP wrote the "hint hint", not me.
I know Roebeet has been busy with a big work project, but surprised the post did not ignite discussion. Does EVERYBODY have a big project with a short deadline?
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I think 2.3 is coming soon, due to the support issues. JMO.
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It could mean so much, I was actually trying NOT to think about or discuss it.
It could mean:
They're working on a port of the ZPad UI for the G Tablet. We know the G Tablet and ZPad are identical internally (and even externally, lol), so it wouldn't be far fetched to think VS has licensed (or whatever) the Zpad software from Malata and has it in their hands, working with it more directly - or maybe hired programmers to work on it on an official basis.
I no longer think of TnT as horrible, but I still think the dashboard section is unnecessarily bloated and way too static and rigid for an android homescreen environment. Feels more like a picture frame UI or a bedside device UI than part of an Android device and the 2.2 dock sort of takes care of those needs. XDA devs have done an exemplary and extremely commendable job with the ROM but after everything, people still have trouble with it from what I've read, so perhaps an official port by VS would work out for all the non-techies and typical users. Not to mention, you'd be able to get official OTAs as required/needed.
Security or not, I prefer the official OTAs than having to reflash the device through clockwork....the main reason I have remained on stock despite accolades given to TnT 4.1
They're working on/with 2.3 for the G Tablet. God, that'd be nice.
They're giving us something more standard/generic/closer to vanilla 2.2/2.3 and removing TnT completely. We know for the most part, that Froyo in it's more pure form, isn't tasty on the G Tablet MOSTLY because the hardware keys aren't backlit. I've always thought of TnT to be thoughtful because everything you can do from the hardware button(s) you can do from the toolbar. If they removed TnT and just wrote a new toolbar in, this would give us a more standard experience - paired with a newer kernel and newer tegra drivers, we'd have a more or less 2.2/2.3 with benefits experience.
So yeah, I don't like having low expectations but they keep me from hoping too hard/high and that way I won't be TOO disappointed if it really means a different version of the very same TnT with a few 'bug fixes', aka TnT 3452/3453.

Gingerbread is here....cm7 beta is available
http://vegantab.gojimi.com/download/update-cm-7.0.0-Beta1-Harmony-signed.zip

thebadfrog said:
Gingerbread is here....cm7 beta is available
http://vegantab.gojimi.com/download/update-cm-7.0.0-Beta1-Harmony-signed.zip
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Yes, but at the cost of correct sdcard & sdcard2 mapping for the Gtablet? I loved CM roms on my G1, but hardware is too splintered now to cover all the hardware bases.
Not mention other hardware issues that CM is too general to make work correctly.

CM7 is using the correct Gingerbread mapping of sdcards.

Viewsonic release
What I was getting at was the fact that Viewsonic has yet to release an OFFICIAL gingerbread release. I still think that Adobe and Google will not give support to our tablets until they have an OS designed for them.
I know we have hacked ROMs that are based on Gingerbread, but I want to see VS take the next logical step and get us a real OEM OS..

Well hopefully then Viewsonic is SKIPPING Gingerbread because that is not a tablet supported OS just like Froyo.
We need Honeycomb to be the OS they are working on. Motorola is rumored to release the Xoom (Android 3.0 "Honeycomb") in late February.

Agreed
I agree, Honeycomb would be best... I don't think Motorola will get it all together and released by the end of February. I would love it if they did, then at least we could get a good source code!
Hopefully OfficialVS will come back and update us like he promised...

Gingerbread eh! Honeycomb would definitely be sweet. Now I'm in no way a techie, I am good at following instructions, with that said Notion Ink ships today would it be hard to port the eden UI over to the G-Tab? I'm curious what all the hype is about with it being that they both run the tegra chipset.

Honeycomb port to Nexus S?

I saw that honeycomb is being ported to the N1, any ideas on when/if it will be ported to the NS?
Sent from my Nexus S using Tapatalk

1) Wrong section
2) all the Honeycomb port are coming from a crappy SDK emulator
3) all the Honeycomb port are just showcase and are not usuable for a daily use
4) You can ask this question once Honeycomb will be official and source downloadable from Google.

I thought the source was available for honeycomb.
Might be mistaken.

profete162 said:
4) You can ask this question once Honeycomb will be official and source downloadable from Google.
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we allready have honeycomb . . . its been on some tabs for a while we just need a system dump from someone with it.

hutzdani said:
we allready have honeycomb . . . its been on some tabs for a while we just need a system dump from someone with it.
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The Moto Xoom will only be available this week.
All the previous tablet and demo you have seen were beta Honeycomb.
So, no, final honeycomb is not yet available. (if I am wrong, please correct me, as I live in Europe I have not all the US news.)

profete162 said:
The Moto Xoom will only be available this week.
All the previous tablet and demo you have seen were beta Honeycomb.
So, no, final honeycomb is not yet available. (if I am wrong, please correct me, as I live in Europe I have not all the US news.)
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not beta honeycomb.. they're honeycomb ported from the SDK.
you got it right before about it not being a daily driver. whats the point into putting so much effort into a SDK port when the actual source will come out later?

ehh you already have an NS that receives priority updates why would you want a sketchy port of an OS when honeycomb isnt even meant to run on a phone?
just wait till 2.4 or w.e is next because it should be including the honeycomb features that we all want

slowz3r said:
ehh you already have an NS that receives priority updates why would you want a sketchy port of an OS when honeycomb isnt even meant to run on a phone?
just wait till 2.4 or w.e is next because it should be including the honeycomb features that we all want
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Uh what? Where did you get any of that information? 2.4 is still gingerbread, Google has said that. The "I" iteration (currently colloquially called Ice Cream) is the one that will merge a lot of the functionality of honeycomb and previous iterations. Also (I'm looking for the link now) Adobe made some comments that make it pretty clear that honeycomb will be coming to phones and there has never been an official statement ever, ever, ever calling Honeycomb a "tablet only" OS. What El Goog has said is that previous versions of Android were not designed for tablets however Honeycomb would allow optimization for larger resolutions.
Regardless of any of that, what is the point of having a powerful phone that can be easily hacked if you're not going to experiment with it. I have no intention of waiting and I'll flash the first damn build of hacked honeycomb regardless of the risks. I bought this this phone because I wanted to try things and do interesting things with my phone.

I just received a new tablet

Hellot there i just received a new tablet for christmas abd i wanted to learn some new things.
First oglf all i have to admit it that i am new to this android scene. I am a fan of apple but wheb it comes to tablets i guess abdroid has an advantage. whatever this is not the purpose of my message.
What i wabted to know is this: I received an Le Pan tc 970 but i saw they got the new Le Pan 2ut with the honeycomb support . My question is: is it worth rerurning this current tablet to buy the new one just because it has a new firmware on it? Or the hobeycomb isnt that much of a deal abd I should keep this one? Any advantages to buy the ther one in comparasion to this ine except it is new? Does it have much more feature than 2.2?
If not I know abdroid is the world of customizations... but i dont seem to get it. Do i need to root my system in order to makee tose customizatiobs available? I didnt ser that much themes for this tablet... also it doesbt even have its own section... Is it because the tablet isnt that popular?
Finally could i have some few threads to get me started? I kniw pretty much abiut apple... but Andriid is completly new to me!
Thanks! And sorry for all of the mistakes... The keyboard makes my mind go nuts... it is too big!

Honeycomb (Android 3.0) is newer version than froyo (2.2).
If you can get one with Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) then it is worth returning it
and get a new one.
Most of the tablets are running Froyo or Gingerbread (Android 2.3) .
Honeycomb is closed source, google has not released its software to public.
All other versions as of now are open source AOSP (Android Open Source Platform)
ask them whether it can be upgraded to ICS (4.0)

Well honeycomb is kinda better for tablets since it has a tablet ui but now since they released ics you should check if your tablet is getting the ics update which has a bunch of new features and if it doesn't i think you should get one with the new os.

Right! Look for ics update. It is much better

I don'T think there are many tables with ICS...? Am I wrong? And what about a starter guide?

[Want to Lend] Some low-end devices for ROM Devs...

I have been feeling like it would be fun to help out people get older devices up and running better and more smoothly --- not to mention there are soon going to be so many older devices out there that kids/cousins are going to be using, and they will feel left out.
I have: an Original Droid, Droid Devour, and Abo A810 from Ebay that I got for like $45.
The original Droid would be nice with ICS --- the Devour --- will some sort of CM7 port would be great for that... and the Abo is already running 2.2 --- it just needs some drivers to try to push the market to it, but really as cheesy as it sounds, 2.3 or 4.0 on low-end devices would be great!
Soooooo if anyone is a hard-working dev who wants some devices in order to mess with them for a few weeks --- let me know!
(I also have my Springboard available and want to try to get CM9 working with that --- though the official MediaPad stuff is working for now. Eeek!)

hilga007 said:
I have been feeling like it would be fun to help out people get older devices up and running better and more smoothly --- not to mention there are soon going to be so many older devices out there that kids/cousins are going to be using, and they will feel left out.
I have: an Original Droid, Droid Devour, and Abo A810 from Ebay that I got for like $45.
The original Droid would be nice with ICS --- the Devour --- will some sort of CM7 port would be great for that... and the Abo is already running 2.2 --- it just needs some drivers to try to push the market to it, but really as cheesy as it sounds, 2.3 or 4.0 on low-end devices would be great!
Soooooo if anyone is a hard-working dev who wants some devices in order to mess with them for a few weeks --- let me know!
(I also have my Springboard available and want to try to get CM9 working with that --- though the official MediaPad stuff is working for now. Eeek!)
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luv where ur hearts at, but ics requires hw acceleration of the gpu in order to run smoothly, and honestly, the phones u mentioned all have crappy gpu's. Gingerbread, MAYBE, but ics id a no go

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1236273

[Q] [REQUESTR] Honeycomb 3.2 ROM for Kindle Fire

I know Honeycomb is pretty much obsolete, but I've wanted it more than I've wanted ICS for the Kindle.... I've looked at how to port a ROM, and but none of it made sense to me. I will keep trying, but I don't want to risk bricking my Kindle again from something I've made. I'm asking for a seasoned ROM builder who knows what they're doing. I want 3.2 rather than 3.0 because of Project Chameleon coming out in almost 2 months... Please help me out here. Thanks!

I would like this too, just to try it out.

As I understand, Google never released the source to Honeycomb, so no ROMS.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=986308

From what I heard, but it was released, and but it was released at the same time as the ICS source was, and so most demand for it went with ICS instead of Honeycomb...

The SDK is available on the Google SDK Manager, and it may not have as many as components as ICS, but it's still there. It has:
-SDK Platform
-Samples for SDK
-XOOM2ME by Motorola Mobility, Inc.
-XOOM2ME by Motorola Mobility, Inc.
I hope this is useful for future reference.

I wouldn't consider honeycomb obsolete. It's older, and designed for tablets. I'm sure an optimized version would run a lot better than ICS on the fire. In my experience, though, I've never seen any ICS rom truly run on the KF, only crawl, with a limp, and a severed leg. I currently have GB, but as google pointed out, it's not really tablet optimized.

For some reason I agree with this. I would LOVE to install Honeycomb on my Fire HD 6... I don't know why but I've always liked Honeycomb's aesthetic