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Like everybody else, I've been waiting for official froyo for a loooong time.... If samsung of att don't release it by next week, I'll flash my cappy with cutom rom...
Any one wants to give me an advice which rom is the most reliable and widely used?? Also, please post a link to get it??? Thanks in advance.:
I just recently started flashing ROMs and Serendipity has been running great. I suggest you head on over to the Development forum and:
1) Read the guide. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884364
2) Read the comments from the different ROM threads to see which one seems stable.
Any one of DesignGears roms are extremely popular.
Perception:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=897538
Cognition: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=786532
I personally use Darkys as I love the look and feel and I have perfect gps with it.
Darky: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=890429
My vote is for Darkys as I use it day to day and love it. I've used both perception and cognition and I liked perception the best of the two. However the version I was running was older and I had an undervolted kernel so I don't know how the newer ones perform.
minlee85 said:
Like everybody else, I've been waiting for official froyo for a loooong time.... If samsung of att don't release it by next week, I'll flash my cappy with cutom rom...
Any one wants to give me an advice which rom is the most reliable and widely used?? Also, please post a link to get it??? Thanks in advance.:
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Just so you know, everyone has a different opinion in terms of roms. First off, learn what you're doing, then you can flash whatever rom catches your eye. That way you can figure out which one you want most.
What are you waiting for? The captivate has had froyo for months
minlee85 said:
Like everybody else, I've been waiting for official froyo for a loooong time.... If samsung of att don't release it by next week, I'll flash my cappy with cutom rom...
Any one wants to give me an advice which rom is the most reliable and widely used?? Also, please post a link to get it??? Thanks in advance.:
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You have a lot to learn before you start flashing Roms. This is your first post and even if you are a lurker you would know where to find the info on what to do. Please do your own research and where to find Roms because you will eventually run in to the issue of a soft brick and no one wants you to not know what to do in that point. Read as much as you can before doing anything, unless you don't care if you get stuck and have time to troubleshoot. But don't ask for links because all you need to do is look in the dev section for the Roms.
I appreciate your concern....just so you know, I've been reading and researching the threads for months, I've already rooted and sideloaded my phone....just didn't have a chance to register until now... I love this forum and want to get involved in actively.. I'm not the person who selfishly get waht he wants and just leave...
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I just recently started flashing ROMs and Serendipity has been running great. I suggest you head on over to the Development forum and:
1) Read the guide. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884364
2) Read the comments from the different ROM threads to see which one seems stable.
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Thanks!!! that's great..
nybmx said:
Any one of DesignGears roms are extremely popular.
Perception:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=897538
Cognition: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=786532
I personally use Darkys as I love the look and feel and I have perfect gps with it.
Darky: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=890429
My vote is for Darkys as I use it day to day and love it. I've used both perception and cognition and I liked perception the best of the two. However the version I was running was older and I had an undervolted kernel so I don't know how the newer ones perform.
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Thank you for your advice...I've heard about perception and cognition but I'm not familiar with Darkys...what would you say the difference??? Thanks again...
Start with a clean rom like serendipity & make sure you read instructions from all roms that way you can see which steps are most important and which ones are just special instructions to that specific rom. Do as much research as u can bare & don't do anything stupid you'll be fine
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What are you waiting for? The captivate has had froyo for months
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No it hasn't and you know it. He's talking about an official release, not a hacked-up ROM based upon beta code or code for different hardware (I9000).
No need to be cocky.
Minlee, multi-quote your posts instead of triple posting.
I've started running custom ROMs. Tried both Perception and Serendipity for like 1 day each, and so far, I'm liking Perception more. But I'm not going to flash again unless I have to as I have some problems where I'm getting my calls dropped.
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No it hasn't and you know it. He's talking about an official release, not a hacked-up ROM based upon beta code or code for different hardware (I9000).
No need to be cocky.
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Why so angry
geokilla said:
Minlee, multi-quote your posts instead of triple posting.
I've started running custom ROMs. Tried both Perception and Serendipity for like 1 day each, and so far, I'm liking Perception more. But I'm not going to flash again unless I have to as I have some problems where I'm getting my calls dropped.
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I heard Perception is based on I9000 not SGH-I897.. Did you have any problem like dropped calls or anything??? When you flash the rom, did you have to flash the modem and kernel separately or just flash the rom and it takes care everything???
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I heard Perception is based on I9000 not SGH-I897.. Did you have any problem like dropped calls or anything??? When you flash the rom, did you have to flash the modem and kernel separately or just flash the rom and it takes care everything???
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Rom does everything. Dropped calls are not an issue for me, but reach phone is different
I have very limited experience (I've tried 7 or 8 ROMS) but I've found the GT-I9000 based ROMS to be the best of the bunch, so far.
W/Cezar's I had to switch modems (receptions was awesome when I did) and it was good-to-go. It was the least buggy of any flavor ROM I have sampled- not sure with Doc & Stefunel's ROM Kitchen brew I mashed up yesterday (I need more time with it)- It works better than the official 2.1 or "official" leak of 2.2, or any of it's derivatives, that's for sure.
I'll say this to the OP:
Coming from a pedestrian fan of tech and total phone "hacking" noob-
The warranty is really your only concern. You can totally fail at everything (outside of a hard brick) including loosing all data and get the device back to stock in an couple hours- that's if you reload your apps one-by-one.
I botched an install and I was freaked out, for about a minute. Then I did some searching here.
This http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=10497672#post10497672 is why my patience has yet to run out. I'd rather wait than go through these troubles. Plus, the devs here do a good job so try one of those and be happy.
DARKYY
minlee85 said:
Thank you for your advice...I've heard about perception and cognition but I'm not familiar with Darkys...what would you say the difference??? Thanks again...
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I love Darkyy's ROM.. Cognition is captivate based... Perception is I9000 based with a captivate kernel. Darkyy's ROM is I9000 based. But you need to flash a captivate kernel and a captivate modem. There is also a ported version of Darkyy's ROM.
Original ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=814091
Cappy ported: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=890429
The features are:
Based on official XXJPY
Integrated Voodoo [v69.3] Kernel (Support for i9000T)
- Integrated ClockworkMod [CWM]
- Converts all partitons toEXT4
-Startup Tweaks
- 339MB RAM
- v8.0 and up >> BLN Support
Integrated Support for a Custom Boot Animation
- Pre-installed Nexus S Boot Animation
Biggest APN file for instant internet / MMS access
4 Lockscreens to choose from [AOSP / Samsung / Puzzle / Epic]
Recovery 2e to flash unsigned update.zip's like CWM
Updated Apps [Flash Player, Maps, Gmail, YouTube]
YouTube 'GingerBread' Version
Tweaked Settings [Themed]
Tweaked 'build.prop'
- Fingerprint for Market changed to show all protected apps
2 awesome (Homescreens) Launchers
- 3D Gingerbread Launcher
- TouchWiz Froyo
Modded System Apps:
- Hacked Camera with Power-Button Mapping & Low % Shooting [by fr4gg0r]
- Modded Phone App - no more ascending ringtone
- Gallery3D // heavily modded // Stock Samsung Icon [extremly fast // using way less battery than Samsung's one]
- Added Screenfilter to go below the standard brightness [saves a lot of battery & is easy on the eyes in the night!]
Useful apps added & updated
- SuperUser
- Spare Parts
- SGS Tools
- SGS Toolbox
- SGS Info
3 Keyboards
- Samsung Stock 2.2.1 Keyboard
- Latest Swype Keyboard
- Android 2.3 Gingerbread Keyboard [working dictionary!]
Many languages supported, QWERTZ + QWERTY.
Various features
- Fixed signal bars for better reception
- Advanced Shutdown / Power Menu [Now with Reboot,Recovery & Download
Android 2.3 Gingerbread Look & Feel
High Quality Gingerbread Experience [redesigned in v7.8!] // Modified by me (thanks to jim_panse, gtg465x, scheichuwe, vukandric, dwillMuffc and more!)
- Redesigned Notification Bar
- Sleek Custom Wallpapers
- Some Apps have been themed like Gingerbread
New "Design Content" [icons & docks] on your internal SD-Card to customize your phone even further.
- Windows Phone 7 High Quality Icons
- New professional wallpaper
- Original Nexus S Ringtones
- Original Nexus S Boot Animation [completely smooth]
minlee85 said:
I heard Perception is based on I9000 not SGH-I897.. Did you have any problem like dropped calls or anything??? When you flash the rom, did you have to flash the modem and kernel separately or just flash the rom and it takes care everything???
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I didn't make any calls on Perception so I can't comment on that. With Serendipity 2.0 with JL2 modem, I'm getting dropped calls when I receive them, not making them. Have yet to find out why that's the case and I've posted in a couple places.
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I didn't make any calls on Perception so I can't comment on that. With Serendipity 2.0 with JL2 modem, I'm getting dropped calls when I receive them, not making them. Have yet to find out why that's the case and I've posted in a couple places.
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Couple of things, maybe try a different modem, make sure your apn is set up correctly
Running Doc's i9000 with jk4 modern for over 2 weeks no dropped calls at all in fact I feel call quality is better.
The captivate is a fickle beast every ones phone had a mind if their own
So at the moment I am currently working on developing a "bare bones" stock rom and modifying it as much as possible with scripts and such.
But what I would like to know from you all is what would you all like to see in the next rom?
Cyanogenmod?
More themes?
Faster?
Battery life?
Cool features?
I think it'd be good to hear you all thoughts & input.
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Cm6 or 7 and cooler apps to use and batter theams
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CM6 an CM7 have both been asked for in the past sadly i think the only way to get it is to mail one of the cyanogen developers a SK4g since it seams none of them have one to even begin making it avail on our phones by making the drivers an kernals from complete scratch like they have with devices like the nook. CM6 i don't know understand fully why we can't get because it is froyo based so the thing would be making a kernal (with out drivers in it from how much i understand building a android kernal). Then when creating the rom an figuring how to make it function more correctly with our odd frame work build. Honestly with themes if you got CM7 working that problem would be more or less taken out with the gingerbread theme engine they use in their roms which makes it a hell of alot easier to change how your phone looks.
Now to the people saying we need a kernal for gingerbread i understand that but then i do look at my nook color an I've tesed a ICS alpha build an have to say "um...... if a kernal is so godly important then how did they make one to run ics on a device that should never be able to run it that has bluetooth drives that were hand made because B&N never intended the device to have bluetooth an they had to hand make alot of other drivers just for the nook color. Anyways I'm getting a spare android phone in the next 10 days (xperia x10 mini) which is even capable of running gingerbread..... and has a alpha ics build.... am i missing something here?..
the kernel is what provides all of the drivers for the phone's hardware. The reason that it is difficult to build an updated kernel for the sidekick is because it uses hardware that isn't found in any other phones, and the drivers are only designed for the 2.6.32 kernel, rather than the 2.6.35 kernel required for GB/ICS.
The reason that ICS alpha builds are being released for the nook color and the xperia are because the CM devs put in the work to get the CM kernel working correctly. The CM kernel is designed in such a way that it can be updated quite easily with little breaking of drivers, but typically requires a large amount of rewriting drivers.
Basically, the reason that it came so fast to the nook color and the xperia is that the CM devs actually wanted those devices, so they bought them, and ported CM to them.
The fact is that the CM devs don't want anything to do with the Sidekick, and won't do anything with it short of someone handing them a free phone to work on.
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The fact is that the CM devs don't want anything to do with the Sidekick, and won't do anything with it short of someone handing them a free phone to work on.
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is there any particular reason they don't want anything to do with the sidekick?
also, i assume we haven't tried collecting a glob of money to buy an sk4g off ebay or something... have we? seems like it'd be worth it...
I'm not 100% sure why, as I'm not one of them, but I'm guessing that it's because the sidekick is perceived as a teen/feature phone. Typically the support for Samsung phones is limited, and the amount of customization from Samsung on this phone compared to previous phones would require even more work out of them.
Basically in order to get CM7/CM6 it would require the CM dev team 2 things:
1: Interest/Willing-ness to work on the phone
2: A Free SK4G to work on lol
I like the idea of the community all pitching in on buying the CM dev team the SK4G just so that they can begin to work on CM for our phone. CM would open up so many doors for new roms and ports
If it wasn't for the some slight disconfort in giving away my SK4g I'd mail it to a CM dev for them to go crazy with it.... after sending it to someone that can make the sidekick unbreakable modded >.> I'm getting the xperia X10 mini pro cause I can find them for cheap (got mine for 125 after shipping) an it has a hardware keyboard. I'll gladly pitch in money for one of the CM devs to get a sidekick though if they are interested.
it'd be nice to get a feel for the likelihood of the cm devs porting cm to sk4g if they had a phone. that way we can get more concrete on whether we should raise funds for a phone to send to them. i tweeted cyanogen to ask, but got no response. maybe someone else can get to him or other cm devs?
i did posted in the cm forums someone in the xda forums made a bounty request?
and did any dev respond?
stock GB or ICS(cm7/9 would be fine too), better battery life (the current crop of roms are terrible), stripped down lite version would be nice too( no preinstalled apps just bare min)
No one replied
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wuziq said:
is there any particular reason they don't want anything to do with the sidekick?
also, i assume we haven't tried collecting a glob of money to buy an sk4g off ebay or something... have we? seems like it'd be worth it...
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I think that none of the cm team want anything to do with the sk4g is that cyanogen himself didn't like the sk4g. So in result his cm team of followers didn't want anything to do with it. They would be embarrased to be caught with one. For some one that has worked on many diffrent phones like them, it shouldn't be hard to rewrite a kernel.
Think about it, they get cm on almost any new phone that comes out? Don't you think that every phone that comes out have diffrent drivers? Someone has to backwards engineer a driver to get a kernel out that's compatible with cm "roms". Its just a matter of having a member that knows how to code, cm isn't the only person in the world that know how to.
But then again this is just my opinion...
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I think that none of the cm team want anything to do with the sk4g is that cyanogen himself didn't like the sk4g. So in result his cm team of followers didn't want anything to do with it. They would be embarrased to be caught with one. For some one that has worked on many diffrent phones like them, it shouldn't be hard to rewrite a kernel.
Think about it, they get cm on almost any new phone that comes out? Don't you think that every phone that comes out have diffrent drivers? Someone has to backwards engineer a driver to get a kernel out that's compatible with cm "roms". Its just a matter of having a member that knows how to code, cm isn't the only person in the world that know how to.
But then again this is just my opinion...
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so pretty much we got swcred because of cm dislikement of the phone and his groupies don't want to get kicked out of their team so they don't do anything about it? WOW talk about tyrany
xtrem88 said:
so pretty much we got swcred because of cm dislikement of the phone and his groupies don't want to get kicked out of their team so they don't do anything about it? WOW talk about tyrany
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Yuup, even if it sounds rediculous, seems that way.
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I think that none of the cm team want anything to do with the sk4g is that cyanogen himself didn't like the sk4g. So in result his cm team of followers didn't want anything to do with it. They would be embarrased to be caught with one. For some one that has worked on many diffrent phones like them, it shouldn't be hard to rewrite a kernel.
Think about it, they get cm on almost any new phone that comes out? Don't you think that every phone that comes out have diffrent drivers? Someone has to backwards engineer a driver to get a kernel out that's compatible with cm "roms". Its just a matter of having a member that knows how to code, cm isn't the only person in the world that know how to.
But then again this is just my opinion...
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did cyanogen actually say somewhere that he didn't like the sk4g?
even if he did, why would he poopoo on another dev that ported cm to it? he'd want cm to be on as many phones as possible. "how dare someone do work that i didn't really want to do?" no. he's not some evil overlord with a bunch of peon devs who back off whenever he gives a stern look.. because.. OSS projects don't work like that?
also, someone correct me if i'm wrong, but they're not rewriting kernels. they'd have to update sk4g drivers for the cm kernel.
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did cyanogen actually say somewhere that he didn't like the sk4g?
even if he did, why would he poopoo on another dev that ported cm to it? he'd want cm to be on as many phones as possible. "how dare someone do work that i didn't really want to do?" no. he's not some evil overlord with a bunch of peon devs who back off whenever he gives a stern look.. because.. OSS projects don't work like that?
also, someone correct me if i'm wrong, but they're not rewriting kernels. they'd have to update sk4g drivers for the cm kernel.
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i know that they dont like EVERY phone that CM is on but they still "port" CM to as many phones as possible because that is their goal
i think that it could either be due to lack of interest or lack of not having the SK4G
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did cyanogen actually say somewhere that he didn't like the sk4g?
even if he did, why would he poopoo on another dev that ported cm to it? he'd want cm to be on as many phones as possible. "how dare someone do work that i didn't really want to do?" no. he's not some evil overlord with a bunch of peon devs who back off whenever he gives a stern look.. because.. OSS projects don't work like that?
also, someone correct me if i'm wrong, but they're not rewriting kernels. they'd have to update sk4g drivers for the cm kernel.
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I don't have the exact quotes, but they (the usual cm members) were reviewing the sk4g cm said he didn't like the fact that samsung made it, from there evry one weighed in on it..... source: it was on twitter. @koush @cyanogen and others, plus the retweet crap..
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I don't have the exact quotes, but they (the usual cm members) were reviewing the sk4g cm said he didn't like the fact that samsung made it, from there evry one weighed in on it..... source: it was on twitter. @koush @cyanogen and others, plus the retweet crap..
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so b/c samsung made the sk4g and other galaxy s phones they won't port CM to the phones?
i think if we get enough community support by having a lot of us post on cyanogen's twitter and on their forums about it we could get possibly get them to port it
So, after a few embarrasing posts and whatnot I discovered that rooting my GT-P6210 was rather easy after all. PANIC MODE OFF.
Now whilst I sit back and wait for the real clever people to bring out a decent ICS ROM I thought I'd get aquainted with Honeycomb ROMs... I am assuming that because the OS has been out for a while there should be some really good optimized ones out there..?
Is there a comparison of what is generally considered to be the best of the bunch?
What bunch? Hit the development section and you'll find the desert!
There are no 7+ roms.
No one wants to put an effort in before ICS hits.
Afterwards, we may still not have enough dev interest to do it.
Root's really the only thing that matters (that and Cyanogen if you're into that sort of thing)
I am interested once we have ICS (and hopefully source) for porting CM9, but with little exp. dont expect much.
Flash iOS 5.0.1 in Download Mode, its running smooth for me! rofl!
As far as kernels for ICS if Samsung releases source code for kernel does it have to be solely for our device or can it be (ported so to speak) from another device as long as it's a samsung
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As far as kernels for ICS if Samsung releases source code for kernel does it have to be solely for our device or can it be (ported so to speak) from another device as long as it's a samsung
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Team kick ass is working on it (mostly Erik)... Be patient...
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Well I just read that samsung has released source for ICS kernel for the new Note just wondering if this can be used for our device. Also I read this from engagement.com source was from Open Source Market
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Ok I am personally going to start a new trend of not talking about ICS, CM9, or heck even Jelly Bean. If I can see that the Devs are starting to get annoyed with the constant onslaught of ICS, CM9, and CM7 questions and soon next month if it is released Jelly Bean. I guess if you can't help Develop, then you really have absolutely no place to complain about how long things are taking this is not a "customer Service" situation. Devs are here because they want to improve their own phones, or this is their hobby. They are not here to develop you a product. That's what Samsung is for in our case. If you are honestly angry about how long it is taking for us to get ICS then write T-mobile and Samsung not the Devs here that are spending their free time in order to eventually bring these awesome ROMS to our phones. Since I joined a year ago I watched Devs and entire teams leave (when is the last time you saw a Team Whiskey ROM?)So I for one am going to Back off on all the ICS business and let the Devs do their thing Without Having to stop constantly and answer the same questions over and over again. We have limited Devs that can at any sell off their SGS4g's and say "screw this" and move on to another phone. Guys seriously instead of constantly asking the Devs lets try something new ( or old to some of us) and ask Google, Yahoo, Ask.com, and or any other search engine you so choose and let the Devs concentrate on Developing.
One day people will learn how to ignore annoying posts. One day..........
i say "TEAM WHISKEY ROM" haha. lol
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i say "TEAM WHISKEY ROM" haha. lol
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LOL thanx I didn't even see the typo, fixed it
thomas.raines said:
Team kick ass is working on it (mostly Erik)... Be patient...
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Lol thanks thomas
thomas.raines said:
Team kick ass is working on it (mostly Erik)... Be patient...
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I go away for a few days and now we're working on an ICS kernel. I should go away more often. lol
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I go away for a few days and now we're working on an ICS kernel. I should go away more often. lol
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now that's comedy! !
My question had still not been answered a
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The answer( as I have come to understand, but I maybe wrong) is well parts can but for the most part the linux kernel is the part of the OS that houses all the device, and processor specific drivers. To make matters worse is some of those drivers are also OS specific. meaning Froyo versions won't work with a Ginger bread distro and so on. To port an Android distro you have one of two choices to make it work. Recompile some or all of the libs to work with the older kernel. Or create a kernel from scratch by finding other devices the have the same hardware that have been upgraded to ICS. Often many devices have pieces of the same hardware as your phone. Sometimes it takes scouring different phones to find phones that share pieces of your hardware.
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@ bot42
You are precisely correct. We at Team Kick Ass have found a way to do just that. Unfortunately, it is a very time consuming process as we have to pull many of the information, files, and things from source. I said this once and I will say it agian. Everything is in the process of being worked on. Please be patient.
Thanks sorry if I sounded rude but all the comments that were posted were way off topic that's all I'm in no hurry for ics just seen that Samsung released source for it was trying to be helpful
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it's taking me forever to properly port voodoo sound into CM7. Precisely as thomas and bot said. If it takes so long to properly port a little thing, think about how long it's gonna take to port a whole kernel.
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it's taking me forever to properly port voodoo sound into CM7. Precisely as thomas and bot said. If it takes so long to properly port a little thing, think about how long it's gonna take to port a whole kernel.
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Yep to port a feature from one device to the next is hard a kernel/whole rom requires a lot of time and that is where my free time is being spent between reading and trying a lot of stuff
So, there are two efforts going on.
The first is what TeamKickAss is working on. I haven't seen what they are doing or any plans posted.
The second is what I'm working on over in the aosp port thread.
This port is a little more ambitious to port to three different versions.
first port sgs4g specific parts to android-samsung-2.6.35-gingerbread
then port that set of changes to android-samsung-3.0-ics branch (both branches originate from the upstream aosp samsung kernel)
the last port I will do will be to Linus's tree at whatever version it is when I get to this step.
So in the end, we'll have:
a stock kj6 kernel
the various kernels that forked from my bml and mtd kernels
aosp gb port
a couple ics kernel ports (one by teamacid, and one by teamkickass)
3.6 kernel port(or maybe 3.7)?
So, there is a peek in the crystal ball I have.
The future's so bright, gotta wear shades
Hi Bryan
Wassup?
I have a friend with SGS i9000, (which didn't get official ICS) nevertheless he installed an ICS 4.04 AOSP ROM on it, working flawlessly.
So my question is, once kernel port will reach its purpose, will we be able to successfully port such ROM ? (PS. I downloaded that ROM and saw some MTD_over_BML stuff inside)
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i bet kickass can port it within a few days of an ICS kernel, but ports aren't always the most reliable/stable/fast. It'd be easier just to build from source. That way, we'd have a stable rom, and easier bug fixing.
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Hi Bryan
Wassup?
I have a friend with SGS i9000, (which didn't get official ICS) nevertheless he installed an ICS 4.04 AOSP ROM on it, working flawlessly.
So my question is, once kernel port will reach its purpose, will we be able to successfully port such ROM ? (PS. I downloaded that ROM and saw some MTD_over_BML stuff inside)
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Yea, with so many developers on teamhacksung... they can WORK TOGETHER and port their Aries kernel to any Aries phone. Our phone is kinda funky and we have very few developers.
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I had a hd2 and loved it but had to switch to G2X. I have been looking to root and maybe a cool rom. What is lastest and best ones out? Any help would be great cause I can't find it.
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You are about to get a load of disapproval dumped on you but I will answer your question anyway. You should have posted this question in the, wait, you guessed it, the G2X Q&A forum. Now to answer your question, it depends on what your priorities are. I had an HD2 running Typhoon's CM 7.2 based ROM. If retaining nearly 100% of the phone's original functionality and stability while adding a nice collection of CM based goodies, I would recommend HellFire Phoenix 2.3. It is based on CM 7.2 and has nearly all the Driver, Kernal and OS bugs ironed out. On the other hand, if missing out on all the benefits of ICS is too much to live without, I tried HellFire Sandwich, Eagle's Blood, Domination and Genesis but found AOKP to be the best option. Nevertheless, after about four months of being fully committed to riding the ICS train until they worked out all the problems from not having open source drivers or ICS kernel code I decided to go back to HellFire Phoenix for a change of pace. What an eye opener. My passion for pursuing all the benefits of ICS had blinded me to how much in the way of stability, battery life and buggy core functionality I had given up. Needless to say it has been about eight months and I swore I wouldn't go back to an ICS build until the drivers and kernel were released for ICS from LG. The great news is the sister phone called the LG 2X just got it's ICS drivers and kernal source release a week ago and the CM team has already started releasing early nightlies of CM10 for the 2X. Our G2X has essentially the exact same hardware so we are expecting or at least hoping for CM support in the next couple weeks. If you don't run over 100 apps like I do, don't mind having crippled video recording and a few annoying crash inducing bugs and want ICS now, try the latest AOKP build. What I think will make you happier is to run HellFire Phoenix until some reasonably stable CM10 builds for the G2X come out and then jump on those. Eventually, developers will KANG the stable CM10 build and then it is up to you were to go from there. Good luck.
Wow thank you so much!! That was very nice of you. Sent you a pm also...thanks again!
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Obviously new to XDA too im assuming since you posted here.... =]
GB - Weapon 3.1 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1207125
CM7 - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1758343
MIUI - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1700215
ICS - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1570017
Take your pick but out of the vast number of roms we have the pleasure of using ive liked these the best and depending what you want they are in order of stability. Of course this is all dependant on your Baseband and kernel preference. Have fun
All the info you need to prepare your phone for custom ROM's is available in the sticky thread at the top of the G2X development forum. I strongly urge you not to take the shortcut of flashing Clockwork Mod from ROM Manager. That is a fake flash that is temporary and if you ever run into a boot loop you will have to jump through many hoops and wipe your device to recover. Do a full NV flash of Clockwork Mod. Good luck. For the record, I'm far from an expert. At most I'm an experienced consumer of the wonderful work of the XDA geniuses. They never cease to amaze me.
I forgot to mention Weapon 3.1 ROM in my original post. Unlike all the other ROM's which a were based on a Cyanogen, it is built on top of the stock ROM. I loved it for a long time but it had a problem with spontaneous reboots. Also, it hasn't been updated in over a year. It is a solid ROM and has the extra bonus of including the nice LG camera software but in the end I moved on to Cyanogen based ROMs.
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Guntert said:
I had a hd2 and loved it but had to switch to G2X. I have been looking to root and maybe a cool rom. What is lastest and best ones out? Any help would be great cause I can't find it.
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Well for roms if you want something really stable get CM7 pretty much the best one out there, if you want some ICS go for paranoid android that's what I've been using for a while now I haven't had that many problems, but yeah for paranoid android build 12 is the newest one and for CM7 go on the cyanogenmod website for it. Also welcome to the g2x forums xD
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