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Android 4.0 SDK Out now

the ice cream sandwhich SDK is currently out on android sdk website. http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
anyone start toying with it yet?
if so how'd you like it?
discuss

I am on too slow of a connection to download and mess with it but just from reading the notes it looks like the press conference REALLY left a lot of important features unmentioned. Another thing I found odd was that there was zero mention of the "one OS to rule them all." I would have thought Google would make a bigger deal about this being a unifying version of the OS.

I just tried it and I must say it rocks.
I really like the browser
I just feel that they could have been a bit more creative with the home launcher since it kinda reminds me of adw, but other than that everything rocks

mathkid95 said:
I just tried it and I must say it rocks.
I really like the browser
I just feel that they could have been a bit more creative with the home launcher since it kinda reminds me of adw, but other than that everything rocks
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and what do you mean, you just tired it?? :ninja:

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mathkid95 said:
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he's taken one too many punches to the face during his career

Lol
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haha, I re-read what you wrote then realized I sounded like a complete moron.
so my previous statement will remain invalid.
how long do you estimate before we start seeing some work here in the forums?

Work on ics??
Prolly not for a while until someone gets a hold of a system dump or something
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SDK boring...
Can we just use the SDK directly in the phone? lol

Hehehehehe would require a lot of work
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Can't wait for the Matr1x kernel IF ICS comes to our phone.
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Lol ill definitely still support it even if I switch to the prime
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Awesome. Thanks as always mathkid.
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So, if someone could just port it to our phone

are you really worrying, if ICS will be available for the NS?! or did i miss something?
no worries, mates, as far as i have read the statements of google, ICS will definitely come for the NS! of course they have to bring it, i'd buy an f*ing iphone, if my not even 1 year old developer phone was no longer supported! (ok, it was a bluff, i'd never buy that brick, but i'd be really pissed! )
the last thing i read about it was, that they first of all work on the NS-rollout...though i don't think, that it will happen before the galaxy nexus is published...
Edit: "Google Android Chief Andy Rubin stated that Ice Cream Sandwich is on schedule to roll out “a couple of week after” the Galaxy Nexus arrives in the marketplace." -> that may take some time, maybe a christmas present?

treUse said:
So, if someone could just port it to our phone
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It has to come out for ANY phone before that can happen. Besides we will be the second phone to get it so i'm imagining we will have an official before there is ever a port, so just settle down :

Official ICS discussion thread

Post all of your wants, needs,and desires about ICS here. Rumors, facts, whatever else are also welcome.

the new internet browser will sync your contacts with google chrome sync. nice eh?
books app now supports tablet sizes
new updated calender syncing
new camera app
stock email and exchange email now separate apps
face locking
new gallery
google based text to speach API
music by beta music sync
NFC (boo hoo)
Google video EDITOR
google tags??
basic new things to look for,

So The Nexus One isn't getting official ICS because it doesn't have enough space on the system partition(speculation as no one officially knows the real reason) but do you think this will be the case for many phones including the Captivate? Would suck if the bottleneck for peoples phones would be “not enough space"
*Get Chance and Luck*

There was a link to an article (unofficial) that said Galaxy S, Nexus S, and something else would get ICS.

Captain_Nero said:
So The Nexus One isn't getting official ICS because it doesn't have enough space on the system partition(speculation as no one officially knows the real reason) but do you think this will be the case for many phones including the Captivate? Would suck if the bottleneck for peoples phones would be “not enough space"
*Get Chance and Luck*
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Miui developers have successfully ported ics to the captivate. Link to the article is in the miui thread.
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The cappy is definitely capable of running fully fledged ics smooth to googles standards as it has essentially the same internals as a nexus s

Vaanhoot said:
Miui developers have successfully ported ics to the captivate. Link to the article is in the miui thread.
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That's kinda of hard to believe sense the source hasn't been released yet. Might be a port from the sdk. But its MIUI so no telling who's work they stole this time lol

zelendel said:
That's kinda of hard to believe sense the source hasn't been released yet. Might be a port from the sdk. But its MIUI so no telling who's work they stole this time lol
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I think he's referring to the port from Galnet, and your right. It is a port from the sdk.

Vaanhoot said:
Miui developers have successfully ported ics to the captivate. Link to the article is in the miui thread.
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Well I don't think it actually has been been ported onto the Captivate yet. B-eock tried but the test didn't boot.

Blu3izzy said:
Well I don't think it actually has been been ported onto the Captivate yet. B-eock tried but the test didn't boot.
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I was trying to fix the touchscreen issue, didn't work! Still have to use two fingers. The not booting, was my mistake I messed up. It boots fine and if you wanna fix reorientation then flash glitch kernel!
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Vaanhoot said:
Miui developers have successfully ported ics to the captivate. Link to the article is in the miui thread.
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Good to know, I can finally sleep at night.
*Get Chance and Luck*

Vaanhoot said:
Miui developers have successfully ported ics to the captivate. Link to the article is in the miui thread.
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Care to link us to it?
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Vaanhoot said:
Miui developers have successfully ported ics to the captivate. Link to the article is in the miui thread.
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The only link I saw over there was the galaxy s port
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b-eock said:
I was trying to fix the touchscreen issue, didn't work! Still have to use two fingers. The not booting, was my mistake I messed up. It boots fine and if you wanna fix reorientation then flash glitch kernel!
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Ooooooohhhh ok. I want to help out with this project, so I'm going to try to help out with the touchscreen issue.

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So The Nexus One isn't getting official ICS because it doesn't have enough space on the system partition(speculation as no one officially knows the real reason) but do you think this will be the case for many phones including the Captivate? Would suck if the bottleneck for peoples phones would be “not enough space"
*Get Chance and Luck*
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The main speculation for why the Nexus One is not getting ICS comes down to two things: ROM storage for the system and the processor speed.
First, the Nexus One only comes equipped with 512MB of ROM. After the system files are installed, it leaves something around 200MB for apps, which is not a lot. ICS is supposed to take even more space than GB, so having something like 50-100MB for user apps would be likely...and unpleasant.
The Galaxy S phones all have 2GB of internal ROM I believe, so I don't think that issue will apply.
Second, the Nexus One has an older 1Ghz "Snapdragon" SoC. Although clocked the same as a Galaxy S phone, it is made with an older design, and performs less work per cycle. According to a few articles I have seen, the "Hummingbird" SoC in the Galaxy S phones has up to 3 times the GPU power of the older "Snapdragon" SoC...and roughly a 30% increase in real world performance.
Given that ICS will have hardware acceleration for 2D drawing, the slower processor (especially slow for GPU type elements) is likely a big hindrance, that again, should not apply to the Galaxy S line.
So keep your fingers crossed for this I guess. I will be! I am confident there will be a working unofficial release, but very doubtful about anything official.

ICS for SGS i9000 post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18872533

Funny watching the threads over time, where is our froyo?
The i900 has ginger bread. Now where is my ice cream sandwich, even before a device us officially released with it.
First real port will be when the cm team gets it going. Imho
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mcord11758 said:
Funny watching the threads over time, where is our froyo?
The i900 has ginger bread. Now where is my ice cream sandwich, even before a device us officially released with it.
First real port will be when the cm team gets it going. Imho
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Your probably right about CM. We know that att is the only reason we don't have official gb.

mrhaley30705 said:
Your probably right about CM. We know that att is the only reason we don't have official gb.
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They have to sell their new devices.
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mcord11758 said:
They have to sell their new devices.
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Mcord11758 glad to see you around
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Noob here wants ICS

I have a Sprint Epic 4G and i really want ICE CREAM SANDWICH! but I never rooted before. Can I get some help please
Model: SPH-D700
Firmware: 2.3.5
Baseband: S700.0.5S.EI22
Kernel: 2.6.35.7

Inb4 Russian nyan cat
You can't get ICS on the epic until it is ported which will be a long while and there probably won't be 4g for a LOoOOOOOOOOOoOoOOOoooNG time.
Shot answer: no ics for a while and if we get it it will take a long time to get stable
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*hopes and dreams destroyed, thanks for the info man

Can we watch Russian Nyan Cat now?

orlzzt said:
Can we watch Russian Nyan Cat now?
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We need to wait to k0nane. It is tradition.
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where is the Russian cat?

Right now, most of the devs who work on that kind of stuff are working on cm7. After that is official though, we will likely see devs begin work on ics.
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I want ics. Give it to me. Trololol
There's a q&a section for a reason...
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You want ICS? Get in line!

Electrofreak said:
You want ICS? Get in line!
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Damn...shoulda camped out for black Friday...
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You'll be waiting a while for what you want entirely.

In the meanwhile get ICS Launcher in the market =P get substitute for ics lol
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ugothakd said:
Damn...shoulda camped out for black Friday...
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Wal-Mart had an awesome deal on ICS last night.... DUDE SHOULD READ THE PAPERS FIRST.....lol

marcusant said:
We need to wait to k0nane. It is tradition.
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LOL!
Oh and op needs to grab some knowledge and start coding because it's not gonna get written by itself. You better hurry because peeps are waiting!
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cant even begin to say how many hurdles you jumped over to land a thread like this in here.... seriously OP ?
mod have mercy on you

I can't believe how far this thread has made it.... trollers...
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In after trollsgiving?
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oh you can get ICS for this phone right now if you want... It just doesnt have touchscreen support, nor does it have keyboard or anything for that matter. Yeah this phone should probably receive a full update to ICS from samsung because the hardware could certainly handle it but the only real way i see us getting to use anything remotely like ICS is when CM8 comes out and we have full support for Cyanogen its self. I dont think a "stock" ICS rom will ever make it onto this phone because most of the developers will have moved to better phones by the time it will be even possible.
Makes you wish you had a nexus phone or an HTC HD2 right?

metalblaster said:
oh you can get ICS for this phone right now if you want... It just doesnt have touchscreen support, nor does it have keyboard or anything for that matter. Yeah this phone should probably receive a full update to ICS from samsung because the hardware could certainly handle it but the only real way i see us getting to use anything remotely like ICS is when CM8 comes out and we have full support for Cyanogen its self. I dont think a "stock" ICS rom will ever make it onto this phone because most of the developers will have moved to better phones by the time it will be even possible.
Makes you wish you had a nexus phone or an HTC HD2 right?
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Cm9. No cm8. Cm9.
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ugothakd said:
Cm9. No cm8. Cm9.
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For some reason when I read that, I pictured you (really just an imaginary person seeing as how I have no idea what you look like) sitting in a corner rocking back and forth repeating that line. I got a chuckle out of it.

Jelly Beans Came out, is anything from NVIDIA Drivers Yet?

MAN is on the news so far Jelly beans come out. Is any news for LG GX2 ?

We dont even have complete ics and you are talking about jb
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ICS is to Jelly Bean as Vista was to Windows 7. At least until we see JB running on something.
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Волк said:
ICS is to Jelly Bean as Vista was to Windows 7. At least until we see JB running on something.
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Yeap agree lets hope that now wit the new jb release. But whats the big deal with nvidia on not releasing the necessary driver on ICS ?
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Doubt this device will run jb. Its on it last leg

ayysir said:
Doubt this device will run jb. Its on it last leg
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Well anything is possible.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDsOtdRtG0Q&feature=player_embedded
Need. It. Now. :laugh:

Blazing angel said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDsOtdRtG0Q&feature=player_embedded
Need. It. Now. :laugh:
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May be Nvidia was waiting for this release in order to let go the drivers.
But i dough it, some how they always want to make more money over it.
My very sincere gratittudes to the Devs for making this Betas on ICS so far so good
even with few scripts it makes it a lot easier to handle the few bugs over the betas

I wish Google would focus on getting ICS on every Android before upgrading the OS again and alienating even more users.
My first Android phone never even got Gingerbread despite what LG said (surprise surprise).

partylikeaninjastar said:
I wish Google would focus on getting ICS on every Android before upgrading the OS again and alienating even more users.
My first Android phone never even got Gingerbread despite what LG said (surprise surprise).
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Its not Google's Fault LG raped our phones hard and sideways. The code is there for them from Google LG just wants us to buy a newer phone or enjoy Gingerbread
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str8killinya said:
Its not Google's Fault LG raped our phones hard and sideways. The code is there for them from Google LG just wants us to buy a newer phone or enjoy Gingerbread
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Agree bro. :good:

Is there any photos to what jelly bean will look like"
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9595jakob said:
Is there any photos to what jelly bean will look like"
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For just astetics its really the same as ICS with an updated search bar and different wallpapers
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And extremely fast frame rate now, and little tricks in the notification drawer also. Google voice search is revamped and a lot better. Cosmetically little difference over all though.
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DJLamontagneIII said:
For just astetics its really the same as ICS with an updated search bar and different wallpapers
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Seriously....that's so gay...
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9595jakob said:
Seriously....that's so gay...
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Why? 2.0 to 2.1 and 2.2 was that way... you couldn't possibly expect them to revamp the whole ui after ICS, could you?
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9595jakob said:
Is there any photos to what jelly bean will look like"
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Thats Pretty much the same as ICS only differences based on the forums and the news is that is just an update for ics. But i believe that it has many bugs fixed and new features.

Any word on when the drivers will be released? I was reading by the end of this month or maybe I was dreaming .:screwy:
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kepapas said:
Any word on when the drivers will be released? I was reading by the end of this month or maybe I was dreaming .:screwy:
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I sure wish they'd be released or an official ics release for the O2x happens, G2x would take that much longer, either way, I'd be happy.
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Yeah I read that only about 7% percent of phones are running ics.its really a mess google is creating,by the time a lot of phone get ics it will be like 2013-14 when a new update has come.they should really take a 2 to 3 year gap window.
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Jelly bean

For those that have taken the leap and tried the new version of android, what do you guys think of it so far?
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Seriously?
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Yeaaaaah ! YAJBT !!!

Just read for yourself man. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1769861
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Dafuq
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what/10

I think the early work some of the developers have done here has given us an early preview of what we are in for. It looks great so far, best and smoothest my nexus has been.
I think you'll get a better idea though if you read the threads found in the developers section. When reading a thread titled "jelly bean" I get all excited expecting to find OTA is here and ready to flash. Instead I'm leaving my opinion on an SDK based version of 4.1 I feel like a child who just found out Santa has still not been.
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pollux_x said:
I think the early work some of the developers have done here has given us an early preview of what we are in for. It looks great so far, best and smoothest my nexus has been.
I think you'll get a better idea though if you read the threads found in the developers section. When reading a thread titled "jelly bean" I get all excited expecting to find OTA is here and ready to flash. Instead I'm leaving my opinion on an SDK based version of 4.1 I feel like a child who just found out Santa has still not been.
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I'm actually using it as my daily. I think its great so far. Definitely can't wait until an official comes out to experience the true feel.
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JB
JB feels so smooth,and voice recognition have improved a lot.Looks like i have got a brand new phone.....

nexussgeek said:
JB feels so smooth,and voice recognition have improved a lot.Looks like i have got a brand new phone.....
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Voice recognition is amazing. I can't believe how accurate it is
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I like that my contact pictures are finally in HD!!! Even after flashing ROM after ROM

I haven't seen the crt animation on any jb rom... is it gone ?
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raducux said:
I haven't seen the crt animation on any jb rom... is it gone ?
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Screen off? Mine works, it's in the settings menu.
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Honestly, I'm not noticing a drastic difference but I've only tried the port so I'll reserve my judgement until a full asop or OTA arrives.

DirtyShroomz said:
Screen off? Mine works, it's in the settings menu.
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What rom are you using. Im also on NS4G and want some smoothness.

robogoflow said:
What rom are you using. Im also on NS4G and want some smoothness.
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I'm using hp420s ROM
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im still on Gnex port with sevice pack4.
what i can say is, that for now im in love with JB...
Those animations, smoothness, speed, new notification[ although i would prefer i u could take a peak with one finger, instead of two, cuz u cant do it with one hand}.
MULTITASKING- first time since ive started using android, i can finally say; ITS WORKING- fast and smooth..
not sold for now on GOOGLE NOW, ive found it not useful for me at all, i would like it much more interacting with other apps.
BTW jelly bean will shine on new phones, our is bit outdated ...

Can we keep all JB releated posts into the one JB related thread here --> Jellybean Countdown to OTA Thread: Nexus S Edition
Thanks.
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