http://phandroid.com/2012/02/18/notion-ink-releases-ics-beta-for-the-adam/
seems like this will be alot easier to port to our devices than muxing it from scratch code.
But will they get this ported to the same hardware for the
Viewsonic Gtab?
we have been left stranded by Nvidia and Viewsonic!
Notion Ink won't do it for you.
But the hardware is VERY similar, so this is very useful for 3rd party ROM builders.
The hardware is similar, but even Notion Ink used the community to get this done.
Related
http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/27/onkyo-blesses-10-1-inch-ta117-android-tablet-with-nvidias-tegra/
What do you guys think?
Looks like a Gtab, smells like a gtab, tastes like a gtab... must be a gtab!
I tell you what, the chinese company that makes this thing is doing a great job marketing it to companies with big names. Good for them.
The gtab is manufactured in China by Malata and then sold to other manufacturers to be rebranded. Other variations as mentioned in other threads are woow, zpad, advent vega among others.
I think it'll be interesting to compare the GUI on Onkyo's tablet.
I don't know a lot about how this stuff works...if it's the same hardware, would the Onkyo tablet be able to run the XDA gTab MODs right out of the box? If the Onkyo GUI is even better than the XDA gTab MODs, would we be able to port it somehow to run on the gTab?
I'm running TNTlite 3.1.2 and am very satisfied, but I'm interested to see what the Onkyo tablet ships with.
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I think it'll be interesting to compare the GUI on Onkyo's tablet.
I don't know a lot about how this stuff works...if it's the same hardware, would the Onkyo tablet be able to run the XDA gTab MODs right out of the box? If the Onkyo GUI is even better than the XDA gTab MODs, would we be able to port it somehow to run on the gTab?
I'm running TNTlite 3.1.2 and am very satisfied, but I'm interested to see what the Onkyo tablet ships with.
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from the image it looks like it runs stock froyo, and the engadget post also says it runs froyo:
the TA117C3 and TA117C1 -- with both of 'em getting a 10.1-inch touch panel (1024 x 600 resolution), Android 2.2,
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Wait til one of these things ships with the GPS/3g module, so we can get it and put in our tabs
Kernel development isn't my strong suite.
But I'm very interested in some opinions on what exactly it would take to get MeeGo running on the G-Tablet.
http://tapntap.http.internapcdn.net/tapntap/viewsonic/gTablet-TapUI-1.1-Kernel-Patch.zip
Would that kernel patch be of any use?
Lets assemble a team to do it, i will be on it but i probably dont know enough to lead it or anything. You might send an email to the meego team asking about what all the kernel needs to support in order to get this thing running.
Martin is working on Advent Vega for Meego and I think we can just follow the step for G tablet.
Here is the progress:
xxxx://wiki.meego.com/ARM/TEGRA2
xxxx://wiki.meego.com/ARM/TEGRA2/Notes
I can't post the URL until I got 8 postings, so just replace xxxx = http
NS_nix
Nice. Looks like it's still got a long ways to come, but glad someone's already working on it! I'll keep my eye on that page.
I think we do is enumerate the components of G-tablet using the kernel source info.
1. Touch screen is using eGalax. +CONFIG_TOUCHSCREEN_USB_EGALAX=y
2. bcm4329 wlan for Wireless 8011n
XXXX://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=892308
3.
And use this info to patch the meego kernel for G-tablet or the other way around, find a tegra kernel with g-tablet patch that can run meego.
You can get it from here:
http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=ke...;hb=refs/heads/android-tegra-2.6.36-honeycomb
This is thanks to Koush, who posted it here:
http://www.koushikdutta.com/2011/02/motorola-xoom-rooted.html
One thing to note though, is that he said this:
"Unfortunately the kernel was not available in the Android repositories. At first, I tried using the Harmony kernel, since they are both tegra 2 250 chips. That turned out to be major fail. As soon as I was about to give up, I noticed that AOSP had updated their tegra kernel repository with some new tasty branches for stingray. Kudos to these guys for being so on the ball! I was able to compile that up and get a working recovery to obtain root, and then get Superuser on the device."
I'm sure someone tried the same thing, and the harmony kernel didn't work on our Vega tablets, either. Hopefully this should work with little changes to implement.
But, it saves us having to wait for Advent to try and create a honeycomb rom in the future.
EDIT: Here's a changelog for the kernel source too.
http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=kernel/te...id-tegra-2.6.36
Good luck!
Anymore news on this or if anyone else is looking to port honeycomb to the vega?
Work is not being done at the moment as far as I know, for 2 reasons
Google AOSP has not released sources for Honeycomb yet
And its likely that a lot of backporting will need to take place for it to work on the vega (this will be assisted if the vega or a clone get an official honeycomb rom soon). Backporting is hard work and can take a lot of time.
It is likely we will see Honeycomb, but don't expect anything soon.
I must say I rather thought the AOSP would have been released by now. I wonder what the hold up is....
I have a Galaxy S2 which seems to share the same chipset as the GT 7+.
I've just ordered a tab7+ and as there is a massive amount of roms available for the S2, including ICS. Would the binaries for the S2 help make an ICS rom for the GT7+?
Binaries? No - completely different screen, very different peripherals, and no Honeycomb for the Tab 7. Even when both have ICS, they will be very different builds.
Kernel source? Due to being 2.6.36.x, the Honeycomb source base for your kernels has differences from the S2 codebase - so a lot of stuff can't be directly applied, but a competent developer (you have one with garyd9) can apply the "concepts" in many cases.
Unfortunately, Samsung screwed up the wifi driver in the 7 Plus. It's binary-only (no source code) and it seems to have bugs.
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Kernel source? Due to being 2.6.36.x, the Honeycomb source base for your kernels has differences from the S2 codebase - so a lot of stuff can't be directly applied, but a competent developer (you have one with garyd9) can apply the "concepts" in many cases.
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I don't think there are any kernel mods I'd want to bring over from that device. As far as what the OP called "ROMs", I have no idea what they are referring to. There doesn't seem to be any read-only memory in the tablet.
If he meant "firmware", then I have to admit that I'd prefer not to do that kind of thing. There are many different kinds of developers in the world... some get off working at the lowest possible level (kernels, etc) and others prefer higher level things. I'm the former, and it would take the latter to do firmware development.
Gary
Hey there, XDA.
So I've been puttering about with Ubuntu Touch on another device I have lately (Fairphone 2) and attempted a couple ports in the past...
(Moto X 2013, gave away to a friend, Galaxy Note 3, ran into a roadblock with partition sizes)
I got to looking at my Shield Tablet and was just thinking about how it'd be a near perfect poster-child for Ubuntu Touch for tablets. The device is still a relative power house, has great specs, native HDMI out for convergence, and even has OEM maintained device trees and kernel sources!
On paper, it's perfect.
So, I was thinking, would anyone else want to see Ubuntu Touch running on this tablet through the UBPorts project? Any dev support would be especially helpful, as Nvidia's hardware is truly a bit...unique.
Before anyone points it out: I am aware that there is a 'native' Ubuntu desktop port already, however it is awfully out of date and the developer does not seem very interested in maintaining it currently (and I don't blame him, considering how much work porting nvidia's L4T sources to the TN8 must be)
Interest from me, I can test. No good at developing though !
Yes of course! There is some interesting on having Linux in shield tablet. There's linux4tegra but it's dependent on lollipop kernel. So it would be nice having a dual boot stock nougat and Ubuntu for shield tablet thanks for the initiative.
Interest from me too. Also without dev skills, but happy to test
Son-j said:
Yes of course! There is some interesting on having Linux in shield tablet. There's linux4tegra but it's dependent on lollipop kernel. So it would be nice having a dual boot stock nougat and Ubuntu for shield tablet thanks for the initiative.
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Well, sadly, might still be dependant on Lollipop blobs/kernel as Ubuntu Touch still relies on Lollipop device trees since it uses libhybris for device support. Most annoying thing about it.
Is it possible to request Ubuntu for an updated kernel dependency?
So, this is embarassing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ05o0RPwUQ
Which version of Ubuntu is this?
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Hey there, XDA.
So I've been puttering about with Ubuntu Touch on another device I have lately (Fairphone 2) and attempted a couple ports in the past...
(Moto X 2013, gave away to a friend, Galaxy Note 3, ran into a roadblock with partition sizes)
I got to looking at my Shield Tablet and was just thinking about how it'd be a near perfect poster-child for Ubuntu Touch for tablets. The device is still a relative power house, has great specs, native HDMI out for convergence, and even has OEM maintained device trees and kernel sources!
On paper, it's perfect.
So, I was thinking, would anyone else want to see Ubuntu Touch running on this tablet through the UBPorts project? Any dev support would be especially helpful, as Nvidia's hardware is truly a bit...unique.
Before anyone points it out: I am aware that there is a 'native' Ubuntu desktop port already, however it is awfully out of date and the developer does not seem very interested in maintaining it currently (and I don't blame him, considering how much work porting nvidia's L4T sources to the TN8 must be)
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@Lyokacanthrope I can help with testing and stuff if we can get it booted
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@Lyokacanthrope I can help with testing and stuff if we can get it booted
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hah...I kinda put this idea on the backburner cuz I couldn't really get anywhere and ubports/yunit seems to be floundering currently.
Speaking of flounder (aka Nexus 9), it seems that had an [at least booting] Ubports in the past
https://plus.google.com/+Ubports/posts/iCHaKMTXC1y
https://devices.ubports.com/#/flounder_lte
I am very interested indeed. And I can speak for at least two more people that I know.
UBports still seems to be working on Ubuntu Touch, from what I can tell.
How about Plasma Mobile?