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[Q] any kernels with more system ram from new htc kernel source

just wondering if any kernels are incorporating the fact that the new htc kernel source makes more system ram available...havnt seen it yet and dont know why

Will Desire S to have custom ICS with sense 4.0 ROM?

I came across this site. http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/02/htc-sensation-puts-on-a-white-ice-coat-to-match-its-ice-cream-sa/
and it seems like the sensation will have an OTA update to ICS with sense 4.0. So, does that means that we will have a custom ROM base on that ROM? That will be awesome. Discuss.
UPDATE: ok, now I have a few questions for the developer. Since there are already so many ROMs on ICS with sense 3.6, but why there are non for our desire s ? Take a look at this ROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1419278... there are more at sensation forum. Is it because of the drivers or hardware related? I'm not quite familiar with all these developing stuffs, so maybe the experts out there would enlighten to me? Thanks.

Firstly I am no developer but I think I can say some things about what you said. Yes it is hardware related like all linux based OS android has a kernel and the kernel is mostly written for a device specific hardware. And sensation and saga in that respect is no match so no part of it could be used in ours. And also there might be a need of lot kernel tweaks and for that rom to work. The derivative of sensation , sensation xl in retrospect is whole lot similar to our device so if a leaked rom is released for that one then I am sure devs will be able to do the things you wished. On top of kernel device specific hardware driver and all that the sense version as always by htc is a very special one as i understand cause its a whole lot different than any other rom. Looking through posts you might have seen sense kernels and aosp ones are different. So in the end to port that rom it will need a kernel drivers and all plus the effort to crack the sense overlay that htc slaps on anything too...
It might be not possible my heart strongly wishes for an ICS official rom as that would ease up a lot of things.

The HTC Desire S has a different screen, so the one leaked sense 3.6 (4.0) could only be ported to devices sporting the same screen. Be patient, HTC anounced that the Desire S will get ICS with Sense l8er in 2012. I'm sure the XDAdevs will be faster though....

[Q] Understanding Kernel 2/3 and Android 4.X

Hello friends,
since i've bought my Desire S, i'm playing with CustomRoms and like to try new one's. So i'm not totaly unknown in this section. I know that we need the new Kernel 3 for get ICS working in our device. But yesterday got my wife her new phone, a Sony Xperia Ray (which is realy great, btw!). I've updated via SEUS (Sony Ericsson Update Service) to official Android 4.0 and saw, that this phone still use the 2.x Kernel, instead of 3.x! I'm just wondering about that and i'm a bit confused. Can anyone explain?
The second one is about compiling / creating a own kernel. I've saw in Desire Section, that they try to create a costum 3.x Kernel. And for Samsung S1, they are finished to create them and got many ICS Roms working. So, is it so much hard to create / compile a 3.x Kernel for our Device? Is it possiple to compile a Kernel from Kernel Source Code: http://www.kernel.org/ ??
Best greetings.
Bulkatos

Bulkatos said:
Hello friends,
since i've bought my Desire S, i'm playing with CustomRoms and like to try new one's. So i'm not totaly unknown in this section. I know that we need the new Kernel 3 for get ICS working in our device. But yesterday got my wife her new phone, a Sony Xperia Ray (which is realy great, btw!). I've updated via SEUS (Sony Ericsson Update Service) to official Android 4.0 and saw, that this phone still use the 2.x Kernel, instead of 3.x! I'm just wondering about that and i'm a bit confused. Can anyone explain?
The second one is about compiling / creating a own kernel. I've saw in Desire Section, that they try to create a costum 3.x Kernel. And for Samsung S1, they are finished to create them and got many ICS Roms working. So, is it so much hard to create / compile a 3.x Kernel for our Device? Is it possiple to compile a Kernel from Kernel Source Code: http://www.kernel.org/ ??
Best greetings.
Bulkatos
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I'm not sure as to why the current devices with factory ICS or updates to it have kernel 2.6 (because I had the chance of playing with a one x and it had kernel 2.6) but the samsung galaxy s devs could make the kernel work because the exynos processor ( or as it was called back then hummingbird) is open source, unlike the snapdragon in our desire s. Also the original desire also had a snapdragon processor, which unless htc released the source, makes it almost impossible to make a custom3.0 kernel. We have kernel 3.0 on the DS because it was leaked and apparently it cannot be modified to work with vanilla ROM's(it only works with sense). So, I hope I cleared your misunderstandings as best as I could

[Q] modifying kernel?!

Hi,
my problem is, that HTC messed up their bluetooth-drivers, so I'm unable to pair a sixaxis-controller with my HTC Flyer on a sense-rom. Pairing worked great with a CM10-based JB. So I downloaded the HTC-kernel sources and the sources from the working-kernel.
But: What do I have to do now? I diff'ed all files in folders with "bluetooth" and there are'nt so many differences. Which files I have to replace?
BTW: Newer HTC-kernels support sixaxis-pairing (tested on ONE X), so is there any chance to port a newer HTC-kernel to my Flyer?
Well, sorry for this noobish questions, but I don't want to get rid of sense, but don't want to miss sixaxis-paring either and it seems, that there is no kernel for that. So it would be great, if I can build one "on my own".

As I heard, the kernel source code of the HTC One X is available, and on the One X sixaxis-bluetooth pairing works great (even with a sense-rom).
So is it possible to take these bluetooth-drivers and use it as a module on the HTC Flyer?
Thanks in advance
me113

[Q] Obstruction in 4.3, 4.4 and 4.x development

Hi,
Without having any (ROM) development skills I have tried to copy/port/compile a Android 4.4 ROM myself. I did not succeed but in the process I have learned a lot in general about ROM development. I'm not aspiring to be a ROM developer, but at this moment I am eager to know what exactly are the bottlenecks in creating a 4.3 or 4.4 ROM.
I have copied, dissected and altered the work of the guys who have 4.4 (partially) running on HTC Desire HD and HTC Incredible S. To my knowledge these devices have a lot in common (for the most part) and, in my mind, should work on SAGA with some tweaks (ACE -> SAGA / VIVO -> SAGA). Replacing text is off course a simplification, but hey, besides the camera, it is almost the same hardware. I guess there is more to it, because I tried several times, but did not get it to work.
I do not expect to solve these issues, but I wonder what holds the (stable) development of a 4.3 or 4.4 ROM. Outdated source code of drivers or kernel or ....
I was thinking of contacting some of the DEVS who are working on the 4.4 ACE and VIVO ports, but I hope someone on this forum can enlighten me.
Regards,
Michael

Ace and Vivo are indeed closest models to saga and very similar,..when ported to saga,
the roms seems ussualy faster,lighter,cleaner, much less bugy than those, ported (especially directly) from other devices,
.. What- most possibly holds the development for this device is the kernel (or its absence)-as often,..
very likely,-when there was a possibility to boot the port, without jumping also, to self porting/modding its kernel,
we would have seen yet quite a few stable KitKat ports,..
Kernel devs for desire s were briliant- but never many,
now, only @kylon remains active- pardon me if i`m not correct ,,