can someone explain to me if you were to find the android 3.0-3.2 firmware and or source code files that are used on a tablet (obviously itd be a honeycomb os), with the source code file could work on porting a honeycomb rom be attempted ? or is the firmware/source code im speaking of incorrect of whats needed in rom development. I found an article and have downloaded what was both labeled source code (there were versions used by manufacturer for android 3.0 -3.2) i downloaded the 3.0 version of the "source code" and i also downloaded a matching version of the firmware for android 3.0 used by manufacturer. just looking for more insight before i start posting links or anything, want to make sure I'm giving accurate information .
Jon_Mull said:
can someone explain to me if you were to find the android 3.0-3.2 firmware and or source code files that are used on a tablet (obviously itd be a honeycomb os), with the source code file could work on porting a honeycomb rom be attempted ? or is the firmware/source code im speaking of incorrect of whats needed in rom development. I found an article and have downloaded what was both labeled source code (there were versions used by manufacturer for android 3.0 -3.2) i downloaded the 3.0 version of the "source code" and i also downloaded a matching version of the firmware for android 3.0 used by manufacturer. just looking for more insight before i start posting links or anything, want to make sure I'm giving accurate information .
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Given that Google has not officially released the source code, you'd be posting warez which is against forum rules. Once Google officially releases source, devs could try to port it to the G2x but with ICS so close to being released/announced, I bet most people would wait for that since it officially supports smaller and lower resolution screens like the ones in phones.
Your correct google has not but other manufactures of tablets using honeycomb have. Following the general public license released the source code which has been made aware of to google by said manufacture. The source code as well as firm ware is readily available without by passing anytype of payment or "pirating" . So how would this be considered warez?
I was under the impression that they only released their specific bits of code and not the entire source code. I may be wrong, this isn't something I've been watching closely.
I don't think Honeycomb has been released yet. All custom roms are stock based. We have OC/UV kernels but the roms are just slight variants of stock.
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Maybe i misread something , but if you google something along the lines of asus honeycomb source code, you'll find a link to asustek which has said source code for various versions of honeycomb , ie 3.0-3.2 don't quote me on it being 100% being what people are looking for just something i stumbled across
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Nearly days I get an open souce code of i5800 and I just a new one in the compling world,so I hope someone can help me find something useful in configuring the code or some books useful.
If you have a qq number and our time are not rushed ,we can communicate in this way.(No facebook or twitter in china....How big the wall!)
My QQ number is 361180509
not sure I understood what you mean, do you have access to newer (froyo) kernel sources for I5800? if so, please do share
eclair kernel source is on opensource.samsung.com, and they compile just fine with the official Android toolkit, but Samsung's changes for Froyo are nowhere to be found (a few modules missing, touchscreen and accelerometer being the most notable), and the kernel doesn't compile anyway.
ze-m0n5t3r said:
not sure I understood what you mean, do you have access to newer (froyo) kernel sources for I5800? if so, please do share
eclair kernel source is on opensource.samsung.com, and they compile just fine with the official Android toolkit, but Samsung's changes for Froyo are nowhere to be found (a few modules missing, touchscreen and accelerometer being the most notable), and the kernel doesn't compile anyway.
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Not sure if i get you right, do you say it does, or it does not compile? If not, we should request propper sources from Samsung.
sorry,I just don't find the offical source code website before posting this.Cause I just a freshman and I haven't got my PC....
maybe I'll compile the source code later.Sorry to make these mistakes.And I'm chnese.So my english is poor.....
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FadeFx said:
Not sure if i get you right, do you say it does, or it does not compile? If not, we should request propper sources from Samsung.
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eclair sources compile just fine, both with my system cross-compiling toolkit (arm-android-linux-gnueabi managed on gentoo by crossdev) and with the prebuilt one that comes with the Android platform
I might give it a try to actually boot it (but I would need to construct an initramfs, and it's a lot of work, and I kinda need to get back to "proper" work, I was consumed by Android during the last 3 weeks since I got the phone )
ze-m0n5t3r said:
eclair sources compile just fine, both with my system cross-compiling toolkit (arm-android-linux-gnueabi managed on gentoo by crossdev) and with the prebuilt one that comes with the Android platform
I might give it a try to actually boot it (but I would need to construct an initramfs, and it's a lot of work, and I kinda need to get back to "proper" work, I was consumed by Android during the last 3 weeks since I got the phone )
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You can use the initramfs from Eclair.. I'm assuming you're talking about 2.1.. since 2.2 sources aren't out yet for this phone.
Link for the initramfs for Eclair is here: http://www.multiupload.com/U6GB5BB3HI
This is the JK1 I think - or whatever eclair rom I posted up previously
I don't know a whole lot about how android phones work so this is probably a stupid question.
If the android operation system code is open source and available for anyone to download what's stopping people from putting pure AOSP goodness on any given phone? Is it the kernel or bootloader or what?
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I don't know a whole lot about how android phones work so this is probably a stupid question.
If the android operation system code is open source and available for anyone to download what's stopping people from putting pure AOSP goodness on any given phone? Is it the kernel or bootloader or what?
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from my understanding it has to be completely recoded or whatever to run on the hardware of a new phone, I think Cyanogen and crew just supply the base and framework to build on... but yes its out there for anyone to try and port, typically takes a team of devs with different specialties
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Kernel, RIL, and potentially a number of other things.
Just like drivers has to be ported for Linux on any PC (if the company didn't already code one for it), drivers has to be ported to a pure AOSP ROM from a TouchWiz source (which is still Android-based).
Most company-applied UIs to Android are deep in the system, therefore, you can't just take some files and put it into an AOSP ROM and have it magically work (known as kanging from another ROM), but you have to write in some stuff and build it specially for AOSP before it works.
OK I'll probably get flamed by people like I did in the Development forum calling my simple question "STUPID"..... but could this be the link to the source code for the P6210?
https://opensource.samsung.com/index.jsp
We already knew where the source code was. The problem is that they have not provided the wifi drivers in the correct form, according to garyd9 the wifi drivers are only binary, so i think that means he won't be able to do much with those wifi drivers. Another problem is that the source has not been updated to work with the newest over the LA3 firmware samsung has provided according to garyd9. If we didn't have the source code, then garyd9 wouldn't have been able to build a custom kernel for our tablet. You can find his kernel here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1421466
Sorry if it sounds like if i'm being mean to you, but the source code links had already been posted a long time ago in the development section http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1375911
Hi,
Im new with android develoopment so please bear with a n00b. can someone guide me how to build ics rom using the source provided by samsung..
I have downloaded the original android ics source and samsung's source.. I can build the android source but I dont know how to plug in the samsung code. Unfrotunately, sammy's documentation is insufficient probably about 10 lines, just says to overwrite the android source and do a make. But when I run make I get errors...
I've been looking at the forums most of them build from the cm10 source, but I want to build using the original. Figured I would learn more if I tried to build it from the actual sources..
Appreciate any help. If I learn, I would definitely pay it forward by contributing whatever I can to the community..
Thanks
You need to post this in the Galaxy Note phone section.
Wrong section. 1) Dev sections are for builds and modifications. 2) wrong device thread. This is for the galaxy note 10.1 tablet.
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n00b13 said:
Hi,
Im new with android develoopment so please bear with a n00b. can someone guide me how to build ics rom using the source provided by samsung..
I have downloaded the original android ics source and samsung's source.. I can build the android source but I dont know how to plug in the samsung code. Unfrotunately, sammy's documentation is insufficient probably about 10 lines, just says to overwrite the android source and do a make. But when I run make I get errors...
I've been looking at the forums most of them build from the cm10 source, but I want to build using the original. Figured I would learn more if I tried to build it from the actual sources..
Appreciate any help. If I learn, I would definitely pay it forward by contributing whatever I can to the community..
Thanks
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Wrong forum and building pure AOSP for Samsung non-Nexus devices is impossible, too many framework changes needed. Android userspace is Apache licensed so this is unfortunately legal.
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Please post in the correct section.
Well as you all know, Nougat just landed officially on Newer Nexuses & AOSP Source code. and unfortunately N5 wasn't "good enough" to get official google support, but we'll soon get Nougat test on our beloved N5 thanks to great Dev community supporting it.
but i was wondering the Question that title says !
though AOSP Source code is uploaded for 7.0 release , there are some binaries that i believe closed source https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/drivers#hammerhead , and i think they should be updated as well to properly work any new update on device , that's why we see binary files updated by google till now for every official update.
but as N5 is now drop-out of Official support,so google surly will not provide updated binary patches, so does hardware company (Broadcom, Qualcomm , LG ) provides these patches after official support OR our Dev do some digging even though they are closed source and finally by trial & error they fix/updates these binaries ? if it's done by Devs individually, wouldn't everyone's thought for dealing with problem might be different which ends up making some ROMs more stable on one area and others in some different area !
( PS: Well you might got it from Question it self that i'm not a proper technical person in Android and even in that matter in coding , i'm just a guy who wonder these thing & tried to find answer on google but didn't get any satisfactory so end up asking in new thread instead on QA thread so that some one like me also get to know about it also , my previous device (Samsung i9070 ), having closed source CPU (NovaThor U8500) & CPU maker drifted from business , gave insane trouble to XDA devs while porting unofficial updates, so they fed-up and drifted away to new device within months which makes me more curious about this Question, hopefully i'll get proper answer from a Dev/Experienced Member )
jineshpatel30 said:
Well as you all know, Nougat just landed officially on Newer Nexuses & AOSP Source code. and unfortunately N5 wasn't "good enough" to get official google support, but we'll soon get Nougat test on our beloved N5 thanks to great Dev community supporting it.
but i was wondering the Question that title says !
though AOSP Source code is uploaded for 7.0 release , there are some binaries that i believe closed source https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/drivers#hammerhead , and i think they should be updated as well to properly work any new update on device , that's why we see binary files updated by google till now for every official update.
but as N5 is now drop-out of Official support,so google surly will not provide updated binary patches, so does hardware company (Broadcom, Qualcomm , LG ) provides these patches after official support OR our Dev do some digging even though they are closed source and finally by trial & error they fix/updates these binaries ? if it's done by Devs individually, wouldn't everyone's thought for dealing with problem might be different which ends up making some ROMs more stable on one area and others in some different area !
( PS: Well you might got it from Question it self that i'm not a proper technical person in Android and even in that matter in coding , i'm just a guy who wonder these thing & tried to find answer on google but didn't get any satisfactory so end up asking in new thread instead on QA thread so that some one like me also get to know about it also , my previous device (Samsung i9070 ), having closed source CPU (NovaThor U8500) & CPU maker drifted from business , gave insane trouble to XDA devs while porting unofficial updates, so they fed-up and drifted away to new device within months which makes me more curious about this Question, hopefully i'll get proper answer from a Dev/Experienced Member )
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Short answer: they don't. Either they use old binaries that still work, or they use binaries from similar devices that are updated. For example, the nougat build available here for the nexus 5 has been built on old marshmallow binaries. Only the kernel can be modified since it's open source. There is not much we can do with closed source blobs unfortunately...