Question – What advantages will the G2x have over single-core phones when it comes to Ice Cream Sandwich? I know that the Nexus S will receive the ICS update before the G2x and be able to take advantage of the NFC chip with Beam, Wallet, etc. What would the G2x bring to the table that the NS can’t when it comes to ICS? I’ve heard forum folks say that ICS is optimized for duo-core phones, but what does that mean exactly?
Probably the multitasking. I bet our phones won't slow down as much as the Nexus S.
However, with that being said, I find it really skeptical about when we'll actually see ICS on the G2X. I credit our developers GREATLY, but that's a huge task that we can't expect them to do overnight.
barqers said:
Probably the multitasking. I bet our phones won't slow down as much as the Nexus S.
However, with that being said, I find it really skeptical about when we'll actually see ICS on the G2X. I credit our developers GREATLY, but that's a huge task that we can't expect them to do overnight.
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CM8. I'm hopeful
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Avelnan said:
CM8. I'm hopeful
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Why would you want honeycomb on a phone? ICS is cm 9.
tahahawa said:
Why would you want honeycomb on a phone? ICS is cm 9.
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I don't like how they skipped 8...
aceofserenity said:
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They said that cm 8 was going to be honey comb, but the source code wasn't released. Therefore the next version of cm is cm 9. Also google said that they would release the source for honeycomb along with ICS. Also the cm team at the Android bbq said that it would be cm 9. Some one else said that, I wasn't there.
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They said that cm 8 was going to be honey comb, but the source code wasn't released. Therefore the next version of cm is cm 9. Also google said that they would release the source for honeycomb along with ICS. Also the cm team at the Android bbq said that it would be cm 9. Some one else said that, I wasn't there.
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In that case I'm really looking forward to CM9
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google said that they would release the source for honeycomb along with ICS.
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I could believe that. I would bet money the reason they withheld it was to stop idiot OEMs from making Honeycomb phones and advertising that they had the newest android.
Now they have no reason to do that, because ICS.
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Sorry if this is a dumb question. As i dont know how Roms come to be or how people port stuff from one phone to another etc.
But my question is, once Android 4.0 is released with the Prime. Will there be Android 4.0 Roms for the G2X. And if so... Will it take long?
If there wont be. I might have to switch to Verizon and get the Prime.
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Sorry if this is a dumb question. As i dont know how Roms come to be or how people port stuff from one phone to another etc.
But my question is, once Android 4.0 is released with the Prime. Will there be Android 4.0 Roms for the G2X. And if so... Will it take long?
If there wont be. I might have to switch to Verizon and get the Prime.
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Yes, i'm sure once ICS source code is available our devs will port it over to our devices. With ICS being delayed probaly till end of November it's just a waiting game now...
I dont think it will take too long. I guess it depends how fast the devs get it and create one.
I had a Milestone 2 with a locked bootloader and it finally got Gingerbread but I think G2x is unlocked and easy to create.
Im sure it wont take no time to Cyanogenmod to stark working on ICS
I'm sure we'll get it. Thanks to guys like faux and the cm team, we already have an aosp base. I'm sure there will be drivers that need to be written/re-written, and bugs to work out, but we'll get it. Plus, I'd put money on the fact that once the source code for ics is released, the cm team will start integrating the newer version into cyanogenmod. We probably won't get it right away, and we definitely won't get it officially from lg or tmobile, but I'm sure we'll get it eventually.
Once CM8 is released, it should be released on the G2x along with other devices. I just hope we can disable the software Home & Menu keys.
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Yes, i'm sure once ICS source code is available our devs will port it over to our devices. With ICS being delayed probaly till end of November it's just a waiting game now...
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They're not delaying ICS, or the Prime. I believe they're just delaying the unveiling, in respect of Steve Jobs.
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Once CM8 is released, it should be released on the G2x along with other devices. I just hope we can disable the software Home & Menu keys.
They're not delaying ICS, or the Prime. I believe they're just delaying the unveiling, in respect of Steve Jobs.
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Wait why do u want to disable the home and menu keys?
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ZeroT| Demented said:
Wait why do u want to disable the home and menu keys?
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SOFT keys. As in the ones the buttonless Prime has. Considering ICS is coming to the Nexus S and others, there will definitely be support for softkey removal.
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Sorry if this is a dumb question. As i dont know how Roms come to be or how people port stuff from one phone to another etc.
But my question is, once Android 4.0 is released with the Prime. Will there be Android 4.0 Roms for the G2X. And if so... Will it take long?
If there wont be. I might have to switch to Verizon and get the Prime.
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Android 4.0 is suppose to be compatible with all android devices within 2 years old, and manufactures have agreements with Google that there should be official releases on all these devices. I highly doubt that will happen.
Also, the next Nexus device, by whatever name, won't be exclusively Verizon. It may for a period, but the FCC Documents show that it does in fact HAVE AT&T/Global AND T-Mobile 3G/4G bands, and no LTE.
Wait for official announcements on the phone, but I can guarantee the G2x will have 4.0 one way or another.
The agreement to update all devices for 18 months its for devices released post-ics. We're not eligible, though we will probably get CM8.
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Check this.. http://www.pcworld.com/article/241380/ice_cream_sandwich_launch_delayed.html
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Lol cm8 sounds weird right now. Yeah I hate software keys too. Its just a waste if space I think
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I was in a predicament whether to get the Nexus S or the 2x this coming week and my only concern was the ICS upgrade .... thanks guys for putting me at ease
G2x community looks pretty tight not overly populated not sparsely inhabited, just the right combination and an active killer combo of devs
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Im sure it wont take no time to Cyanogenmod to stark working on ICS
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from what I hear MR. CM himself uses the g2x as his personal device so I think it will happen prety fast probally faster than others. I could be wrong about that I read it on a fourm when the g2x was still new. You never know how reliable those sources are.
I heard he got a job with Samsung. Though I speculate nVidia will release drivers since so many devices use the T2 soc
Not too worried since the g2x community has a lot of talented and smart developers already
I would expect an official upgrade as well though, seriously its a google experience phone,while not the top selling it has the specs and what not to get the upgrade.
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SOFT keys. As in the ones the buttonless Prime has. Considering ICS is coming to the Nexus S and others, there will definitely be support for softkey removal.
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I still don't understand why you would disable them..
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I still don't understand why you would disable them..
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Do you seriously want part of your screen taken up by buttons when you've got perfectly functional capacitive ones on your device? I sure don't.
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LordButtersI said:
Do you seriously want part of your screen taken up by buttons when you've got perfectly functional capacitive ones on your device? I sure don't.
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Agreed. That's the only annoying thing it looks like on the ICS.
I like the ones on honeycomb, as it's beneficial for tablets, but on a phone? No thanks.
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I still don't understand why you would disable them..
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Cause we already have buttons on the bottom of our screen.
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so samsung announced the unveiling of the nexus prime: october 19. i was watching a video on huffington post and it was talking about different handsets being announced through different manufacturers and carriers, all running ICS. it really made it sound like ICS is going to be a selective update and that some phones may not be getting it.
what do you think the odds of the g2x getting this update are? i'm slightly annoyed that the prime is being released shortly after i bought my g2x. i figured we would have another droid bionic situation and be waiting months for the prime. i'm going to be even more annoyed if the g2x is another tmobile forgotten device.
thoughts?
source: huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/14/android-ice-cream-sandwich-release-date_n_1010973.html
I doubt we will get an update, but eventually we'll get a system dump of ICS & the devs here will make it better than what it is.
I have a feeling it's not going to get it. It's a great phone, but T-Mobile just doesn't seem to be pushing it very hard. There is a small chance that this phone will get ICS, but I wouldn't hold my breath. We'll most likely have to wait for the developers here to get their hands on it before we get it.
Well,i donr think we will get an update. But I'm okay . Miui have the apn fix now, so I'm happy with my g2x lolz
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LG will never update this phone ever again. Gingerbread was an absolute fiasco and they have washed their hands of the G2X. We'll probably get CM8 though, and just like with 7 devs will use that as a springboard to create all kinds of things.
CM8 is better than any update a carrier can provide us with.
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FatalityBoyZahy said:
CM8 is better than any update a carrier can provide us with.
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As long as there is cyanogen mod we will get "ics a la mod"
its going to be CM9 cm8 was supposed to be honeycomb
haldi15 said:
its going to be CM9 cm8 was supposed to be honeycomb
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Got a source for that? Honeycomb source was only released as far as to comply with GPL ... jumping from 7 to 9 seems weird.
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Got a source for that? Honeycomb source was only released as far as to comply with GPL ... jumping from 7 to 9 seems weird.
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I have also read that the next CM version will be 9.
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I have also read that the next CM version will be 9.
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So provide a link so we can all read about it.
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This is 1 source - - - http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/1...ices-is-finally-out-cyanogenmod-9-is-up-next/
Sorry, i know this is not maybe the good section and all you want, but after all this quiet time on XDA and answering and following the rules, one little bit off topic won't kill anyone because.....
ICS Code Source is OUT ! : http://groups.google.com/group/android-building/msg/c0e01b4619a1455a
Enjoy guys !
Hope we will see soon some good ROM to play with
Its still uploading but soon it will b available
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Come on man, a little bit of fun for a very very very good news can't be bad on XDA
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Come on man, a little bit of fun for a very very very good news can't be bad on XDA
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I Agree plus 10 char.
Considering ROM development has consideribly gone down.. this is great news. Cant wait.
Good news..
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yes good news and in my opinion the right section
This is the most exciting thing that's happened since the day we got Revolutionary :') I can't wait... I'm seriously excited
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i'm tuning out of xda forever. can't handle all of this crap. ics sense (which i can live without) will have to wait for htc leaks. any aosp rom is dependent on cm so watch their twitter/google+/forum.
guess what. they all know ics just dropped. now all the noobs will be asking "come on man, where's my ice cream sandwich?" if anyone is lucky, you will see a cm rom before the end of the year. don't expect an htc leak until 2012.
can we close this thread now?
Let the compiling begin......
The race is on now for the first AOSP ICS ROM, oh yeah!
heh....right......
T-Macgnolia said:
Let the compiling begin......
The race is on now for the first AOSP ICS ROM, oh yeah!
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A very promising news indeed
robkoehler said:
i'm tuning out of xda forever. can't handle all of this crap. ics sense (which i can live without) will have to wait for htc leaks. any aosp rom is dependent on cm so watch their twitter/google+/forum.
guess what. they all know ics just dropped. now all the noobs will be asking "come on man, where's my ice cream sandwich?" if anyone is lucky, you will see a cm rom before the end of the year. don't expect an htc leak until 2012.
can we close this thread now?
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Dude what is your problem? And no AOSP ROMs are not totally dependant on CM. The CM ROMs are just very popular because they are very good AOSP ROMs that are usually tweaked to the max. Do you even know what AOSP means I think not or you would know that anyone can download the source could and build a AOSP ROM. Educate yourself next time so you will not embarass yourself.
ics ics ics ics ics
I know its going to take some time till a ROM is built but how long till we get some apps ported like the new launcher and messenger.....etc.
robkoehler said:
i'm tuning out of xda forever. can't handle all of this crap. ics sense (which i can live without) will have to wait for htc leaks. any aosp rom is dependent on cm so watch their twitter/google+/forum.
guess what. they all know ics just dropped. now all the noobs will be asking "come on man, where's my ice cream sandwich?" if anyone is lucky, you will see a cm rom before the end of the year. don't expect an htc leak until 2012.
can we close this thread now?
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we need to get this guy a waaaaaaaaaaaaambulance
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I know its going to take some time till a ROM is built but how long till we get some apps ported like the new launcher and messenger.....etc.
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Seems app can't be ported (like launcher) because they are made for a different API level. Not sure about that but i think i'm right
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Seems app can't be ported (like launcher) because they are made for a different API level. Not sure about that but i think i'm right
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We had gingerbread launcher ported to froyo
staymunch said:
we need to get this guy a waaaaaaaaaaaaambulance
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+1
Personally, I'm very excited, can't wait to flash an ICS rom on my Sensation.
Whos excited!
http://androidapproved.com/item/ice-cream-sandwich-source-code-is-now-aosp-custom-roms-in-3-2-1-go/
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Whos excited!
http://androidapproved.com/item/ice-cream-sandwich-source-code-is-now-aosp-custom-roms-in-3-2-1-go/
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Sweet!
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Whos excited!
http://androidapproved.com/item/ice-cream-sandwich-source-code-is-now-aosp-custom-roms-in-3-2-1-go/
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I think technically all OSs, in their pure form, are considered AOSP. Once Samsung, Motorola, LG, and HTC get their hands on it it's considered TouchWiz, MotoBlur, ???, Sense.
Anyway. Excited to see it being uploaded to the Git servers... i just wish i had the knowledge to make my own OS.
Cm9 alpha, where are u
neidlinger said:
I think technically all OSs, in their pure form, are considered AOSP. Once Samsung, Motorola, LG, and HTC get their hands on it it's considered TouchWiz, MotoBlur, ???, Sense.
Anyway. Excited to see it being uploaded to the Git servers... i just wish i had the knowledge to make my own OS.
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It isn't technically AOSP until the source is released. Otherwise it is actually still closed source.
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neidlinger said:
I think technically all OSs, in their pure form, are considered AOSP. Once Samsung, Motorola, LG, and HTC get their hands on it it's considered TouchWiz, MotoBlur, ???, Sense.
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I think he's referring to the fact that ICS source has now been released, and therefore is now part of the Android Open Source Project.
I'm excited.
Also, I really hope this will be the only thread about it in this section. I can see 10 other people making the same thread by days end lol.
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mackster248 said:
I'm excited.
Also, I really hope this will be the only thread about it in this section. I can see 10 other people making the same thread by days end lol.
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+ a Googol. <-- lame, but it got the point across.
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i cant wait for the next cyanogen rom! hopefully get to see one in the coming weeks...days? maybe im getting too anxious
i did see a ICS rom being made, here in the general section. maybe they will get it released before cyanogen. that would be nice
I'm so excited for the roms to come out! Been waiting for forever!
0.0 said:
i cant wait for the next cyanogen rom! hopefully get to see one in the coming weeks...days? maybe im getting too anxious
i did see a ICS rom being made, here in the general section. maybe they will get it released before cyanogen. that would be nice
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That one couldn't have been based off anything other than a system dump from the galaxy nexus and the ICS SDK. It would be incomplete at best. Not to knock the work being done on it, but the dev(s) only had so much to work with. We have SOURCE CODE now. So exciting.
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Probably about a month until we see some unofficial CM9 builds. That's my best guess.
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Probably about a month until we see some unofficial CM9 builds. That's my best guess.
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i'd imagine CM9 nightlies to come sooner. maybe about 2 weeks or so.
here's to hoping anyway. but i'd like to see a pure AOSP build within the next couple days if possible :-D
I'm expecting virtuous team release a ICS ROM
Expectancy?
benyben123 said:
Expectancy?
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Umm, none.
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Umm, none.
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curious: who's responsible - Tmobile or LG?
benyben123 said:
curious: who's responsible - Tmobile or LG?
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LG and/or NVIDIA from what i gathered. There's alot of stuff that just doesn't work right, or not at all, mainly sound and camera. The old ALPHA for G2x versions worked, but lacked sound and lots other internal issues that haven't been resolved yet.
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Umm, none.
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The creator of the eaglesblood ROMs is trying to port over ICS from his Gnex... I think he can do it, he probably has more knowledge about this phone than all of LGs developers combined.
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The creator of the eaglesblood ROMs is trying to port over ICS from his Gnex... I think he can do it, he probably has more knowledge about this phone than all of LGs developers combined.
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Well if he does, and it works, then i'll start a ROM based from it.
I dont know much *(or anything) about programming and so on. but this entire fragmentation way of doing things, where each company needs to have their own team and we all need to wait for the release of google's latest, is just plain annoying.
At the mercy of a company that already sold you their device? that's not smart. Google should hold all SC (or drivers, or whatever U call these) and release them to all public and all phones at the same time.
But what am I BSing about?!
THANKS
Well I have managed to port 4.0.3 to my g2x but still can't get sound and cam right like the other builds. But some things ive found improvements on. Since my g2x is just a play toy for me I don't care about camera but without sound its useless. Im still messing with it but put it to the back burner for now because I'm highly frustrated with it.
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Cyanogen stated that they got sound to work, they just can't get the cam to work.
Also that one guy doing the 20 people beta for his ics rom claims he also got everything to work except the camera.
I think we should be getting close to a functional rom, cyanogen is pretty dang close.
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Well if he does, and it works, then i'll start a ROM based from it.
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A bionic ICS? :O. Loved your Bionic GB ROMs, didn't use them though because they were OTA based... Any chance of getting a CM9 based bionix ROM if cyanogen finishes his build?
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A bionic ICS? :O. Loved your Bionic GB ROMs, didn't use them though because they were OTA based... Any chance of getting a CM9 based bionix ROM if cyanogen finishes his build?
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Sure, but i won't name it Bionix
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A bionic ICS? :O. Loved your Bionic GB ROMs, didn't use them though because they were OTA based... Any chance of getting a CM9 based bionix ROM if cyanogen finishes his build?
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If cm9 finishes their build, everyone should be able to make an ics rom for the g2x.
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From what I read everything works but the cam....I played around with the alpha yesterday for giggles....I wish I knew how to dev...I've been out for two weeks with a knee injury. I've had nothing but time....its funny we can get leaked builds from manufacturers but never devs.....id use it as a daily driver even without a camera.
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Word on my contacts is the last bits we're waiting on a code release from LG which will come only when an official ICS Rom comes down the pipe for the p990 or p999.... those on the ICS CM9 team working on the o2x/g2x team tell me they'll be able to adapt what they need from o2x even if g2x doesn't get an official release, though we'll have to wait and see.
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Sure, but i won't name it Bionix
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While were waiting you should start thinking of clever names
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Smallsmx3 said:
From what I read everything works but the cam....I played around with the alpha yesterday for giggles....I wish I knew how to dev...I've been out for two weeks with a knee injury. I've had nothing but time....its funny we can get leaked builds from manufacturers but never devs.....id use it as a daily driver even without a camera.
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So you were an ICS beta tester... and then you took an arrow to the knee?
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So you were an ICS beta tester... and then you took an arrow to the knee?
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Reminds me... Need to play Skyrim.
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lotherius said:
So you were an ICS beta tester... and then you took an arrow to the knee?
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This made me grin.
the lack of an ICS rom for my G2x is making me wish i bought a sensation. however, i've been having nothing but trouble flashing the new firmware for my gf's sensation, thus i can't even use the ICS roms. i just gotta be patient.
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the lack of an ICS rom for my G2x is making me wish i bought a sensation. however, i've been having nothing but trouble flashing the new firmware for my gf's sensation, thus i can't even use the ICS roms. i just gotta be patient.
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The only reason I avoided the Sensation was the price difference, hehe. Turns out it had its own set of problems like the G2x. Seems to me ICS is forthcoming with no set timetable by the devs.