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What do we need to get a gingerbread rom

Im fairly new to this section of the forums most of my hangout is on the Gtablet side. But what is needed to get this phone up to gingerbread? What are we lacking?

ohhh please...
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Not getting the sarcasm here? I asked a simple question which is not anywhere in this development forum I searched. The Gtab came with 2.2 and has successfully been updated to 2.3 and they are now working on a honeycomb port missing on a few things atm. Whats holding the s4g back?

I believe people are going to get upset with you posting this here.
We are missing the neccesary files from Samsung.
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Not understanding that we have the source from samsung but we are still missing what is required. Why would people seriously get mad?

dynamicj said:
Not understanding that we have the source from samsung but we are still missing what is required. Why would people seriously get mad?
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Because it's been asked before.
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That and questions belong in the general section. It helps keep the dev section clean.
Thanks
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From a development point... What is still needed to get this ball rolling? I think the question is appropriate for the development section as its not "who is working on gb" or "is CM coming".

Definetly should be in the general section, but the main thing were missing is a final version of CWM and the devs, the ones we have are great but there time is consumed doing other things. I assume its going to be a while before we get any good roms
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Just to add I don't think anyone is working on froyo roms much less gb. Point of this story is if you want custom roms ditch this phone
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There is no GB development, because there are almost no developers for this phone.
The two active developers don't even have a SGS 4g (well, krylon has a loaner)....

I thought the biggest reason would be that we have no gingerbread updated from Samsung that are compatible with our phone. In order to get gingerbread right now, we would have to port over one from another Samsung device and then make it compatible with ours. Which isn't easy at all from my understanding.
That being said, we do have a small community.
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Understandable, but we dont need a source from samsung for gingerbread. Gtab devs made a GB rom without anything being compatible and are moving to honeycomb with out official support from nvidia or viewsong for either of these roms.
I guess Ill get back to working with the cyanogen I have now to start tweaking but CWM is working on my phone at least.

dynamicj said:
Understandable, but we dont need a source from samsung for gingerbread. Gtab devs made a GB rom without anything being compatible and are moving to honeycomb with out official support from nvidia or viewsong for either of these roms.
I guess Ill get back to working with the cyanogen I have now to start tweaking but CWM is working on my phone at least.
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r u working on a rom...? do u need some assistance? i'm not super at programming but willing to learn bcuz sgs4g needs something awesome thats long awaited

dynamicj said:
Understandable, but we dont need a source from samsung for gingerbread. Gtab devs made a GB rom without anything being compatible and are moving to honeycomb with out official support from nvidia or viewsong for either of these roms.
I guess Ill get back to working with the cyanogen I have now to start tweaking but CWM is working on my phone at least.
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This is not to flame you, but any questions like this shouldn't be asked in development. It clutters the development forum. It needs to be posted in the "General" section.
This question has been asked there several times as well.
#1 Getting GB to work on any samsung phone currently is a monster of a task. Just read up on the nightlies that CyanogenMod is putting out now for the Captivate. Android 2.3.4 via CM 7 running on Captivate.
#2 The SGS4G is more similar to the Epic 4G than the Vibrant. That being said read what was said from ciwrl (CM Dev Team): "epic is slated for last…its full of nasty hacks"
Hope that answers your questions. Please post in General next time.

Are there even any ROMs out there for this phone? Is there even a CyanogenMod?
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Juls317 said:
Are there even any ROMs out there for this phone? Is there even a CyanogenMod?
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None at the moment. CWM is priority number one with the current Devs, although a few other mods coming out.

It hardly seems priority. Krylon put it on hold for Bionix and whatever project he's on now
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Juls317 said:
It hardly seems priority. Krylon put it on hold for Bionix and whatever project he's on now
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Negativity sucks. :-(
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Juls317 said:
It hardly seems priority. Krylon put it on hold for Bionix and whatever project he's on now
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For one, you have no idea what is going on.
For two, comments like that don't make any dev work faster. Devs have NO obligation to help the masses. Why piss off some one that is helping? Because your impatient? Relax bud. When its done its done. ;-)
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Going down hill.........Now we movin up!..

Seems like the Dev support for this phone is going downhill fast, I was wondering if anybody new where to find the link for romracers 0.3 kernel could be found?
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Sorry but......your kidding right? And the link for the kernal you want is in the op of the kernals thread in dev section
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This is all I got
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That's the response I expectected...but thanks for pointing to the 0.1 kernel! The 0.3 kernel (now called rom racers kernel was there) everyone is not a noob just cause they have a valid question...I've had this phone since the week it came out in November, I've rooted devices from a Nook Color to a Super Pad, and all those in-between. I actually exchanged my 4S for a skyrocket..(best thing I ever did) Ive flashed every rom and tweak for this device. I just get sick of idiots trying to make ppl look stupid for asking a valid question on these forums..:beer:
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i would have to agree with you. i haven't had the phone for nearly as long as you have but from browsing around xda (specifically gs2 and here) i have to notice that by comparison development is much slower in this section.
disclaimer: this is by far not a complaint, just an observation. i love the development that IS currently taking place and am very appreciative of it.

What about search lol
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In the HTC vivid section all the devs left. So this forum still has life.
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I think dev work is kinda slow on alot of phones right now. I know it has slowed down on my nexus s because a lot of them are waiting for the new sources of ICS to be released. A lot of the developers are doing great work. I think once ICS rolls out it will take off. IMHO.
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toyfj2k7 said:
I think dev work is kinda slow on alot of phones right now. I know it has slowed down on my nexus s because a lot of them are waiting for the new sources of ICS to be released. A lot of the developers are doing great work. I think once ICS rolls out it will take off. IMHO.
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This is true nobody wants to support a large project on gb when ics is getting closer
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Oh no! If I was misunderstood I apologize...I was not complaining at all...I know the hard work that goes into such things..I was merely expressing my feelings for a great device that is overlooked in most ways!
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immor2al said:
Oh no! If I was misunderstood I apologize...I was not complaining at all...I know the hard work that goes into such things..I was merely expressing my feelings for a great device that is overlooked in most ways!
EDIT: wasn't trying to troll you to hard bro but it was so open
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Overlooked no its just hard to support a device if people don't own it the allure isn't there cuz lte isn't widespread so most have the gs2 and cm only has one Guy with one and its a work device for him
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Very true, hopefully the best is yet to come...All this ICS madness is driving me nuts...but hence the fun in it as well!
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immor2al said:
That's the response I expectected...but thanks for pointing to the 0.1 kernel! The 0.3 kernel (now called rom racers kernel was there) everyone is not a noob just cause they have a valid question...I've had this phone since the week it came out in November, I've rooted devices from a Nook Color to a Super Pad, and all those in-between. I actually exchanged my 4S for a skyrocket..(best thing I ever did) Ive flashed every rom and tweak for this device. I just get sick of idiots trying to make ppl look stupid for asking a valid question on these forums..:beer:
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I do apologise. Kinda sounded like you were ranting on our devz. But now I'm confused about what kernal your looking for? Maybe I've missed something. Sorry again.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1380682
CD don't worry its in his thread you were right
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I wouldn't say activity is slowing. Although new releases are fewer now, there is plenty happening as far as cooperation and collaboration is concerned.

billownz said:
I wouldn't say activity is slowing. Although new releases are fewer now, there is plenty happening as far as cooperation and collaboration is concerned.
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You sir are correct
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its because everyone wants ICS.. and ppl are tired of the same old

mhx said:
its because everyone wants ICS.. and ppl are tired of the same old
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this x 1000, and said by a dev lol

I feel pretty good about what we have now. ICS will come eventually, who knows when exactly but it will come. I have two other android phones and a tablet that all run ICS very smoothly. But I still choose this gingerbread runnin beast everyday over all the others. In my humble opinion, there will definitely be some frowning faces on the day ICS is officially released for our device.
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Honestly its all just hype. ICS will come out and within 6 months we will be jumping to the next firmware. I think the community should put more focus on fully customizing and enjoying the capabilities of gingerbread. I really don't think we will be satisfied otherwise. That's why devs get turned off to making ROMs. They make something awesome and we use it for a week and then want more. So much greed!
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CM9/10?

I've searched and search, but I see nothing about CM development for the 'Bolt for ICS or JB. Has anyone picked up that torch yet? Has it been deemed too large of a project, or just no interest? And of course, if I've missed something, please feel free to give me a swift kick to the head.

Tiezane said:
I've searched and search, but I see nothing about CM development for the 'Bolt for ICS or JB. Has anyone picked up that torch yet? Has it been deemed too large of a project, or just no interest? And of course, if I've missed something, please feel free to give me a swift kick to the head.
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I am wondering the same thing. Is the ICS leak enough to get some CM9 or CM10 builds going?

Once the ril is adapted to work with aosp I suspect there will be stuff kicking again
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This doesn't need to be in the development thread. Think about it before you post. If you got a question post it in q and a.
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Seriously?
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disconnecktie said:
This doesn't need to be in the development thread. Think about it before you post. If you got a question post it in q and a.
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My apologies if I posted in the wrong section, since I was specifically asking about CM development potential, I thought this would be right. I've never claimed to be more than a half-witted n00b. So just to be sure, if I were actively working on CM, it would be ok to post about the progresses there?
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gammaxgoblin said:
Seriously?
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If that is directed at me, yes, it was a serious question.
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Tiezane said:
My apologies if I posted in the wrong section, since I was specifically asking about CM development potential, I thought this would be right. I've never claimed to be more than a half-witted n00b. So just to be sure, if I were actively working on CM, it would be ok to post about the progresses there?
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If you have a rom in the works yea go for it. But the op should have stated that the rom was in the works at the very least. There is no point in cluttering the development thread with q and a. As far as I know there isn't official cm9 or 10 development for this phone. I'm sure someone will pick it up (probably workshed).
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disconnecktie said:
If you have a rom in the works yea go for it. But the op should have stated that the rom was in the works at the very least. There is no point in cluttering the development thread with q and a. As far as I know there isn't official cm9 or 10 development for this phone. I'm sure someone will pick it up (probably workshed).
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Thank you, and sorry again. I promise to cast off the shackles of newbishness soon!
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Tiezane said:
Thank you, and sorry again. I promise to cast off the shackles of newbishness soon!
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Its no big deal. All the noobs have come out now that ics has dropped and its kind of frustrating.
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In my defense, I've been around on here and the nook color forums for months now, but still wet behind the ears when it comes to figuring out which forums to post in
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Tiezane said:
In my defense, I've been around on here and the nook color forums for months now, but still wet behind the ears when it comes to figuring out which forums to post in
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I think we all have at least once. Its hard not to sound like a douche when you tell people they posted in the wrong forum.
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No offense taken, trust me. I feel bad that people keep having to moderate me. So back to the original topic, IS anyone openly working on CM 9 or 10?
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Tiezane said:
No offense taken, trust me. I feel bad that people keep having to moderate me. So back to the original topic, IS anyone openly working on CM 9 or 10?
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There are people working aosp builds, don't know if they're cm based or not. I'm sure there will be a cm port eventually.
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I had read on other forum threads that CM9 was going to be officially supported for the TBolt. Seems like it was in the Thundershed 1.6 thread but I'm not positive about that.
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animez said:
I had read on other forum threads that CM9 was going to be officially supported for the TBolt. Seems like it was in the Thundershed 1.6 thread but I'm not positive about that.
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We r on the list for official cm9
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It concerns me that they don't have us listed on their Devices page anymore, nor is there a forum for the Bolt. You can't even find it or Mecha mentioned on the downloads page.

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It concerns me that they don't have us listed on their Devices page anymore, nor is there a forum for the Bolt. You can't even find it or Mecha mentioned on the downloads page.
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I think (could be wrong) a device needs a stable build to get a subforum on their site. For example, the Nexus 7 doesn't have a forum there either, but you can bet your ass it's getting official CM10 (as I'm running the nightlies on my N7 now). The TB is going to be tricky because it has never had any official CM build - someone from the team is going to have to sign up to be the maintainer, and start doing what is required to get nightlies going.
I still have my suspicions about getting official CM - I think more likely is you'll have a situation similar to gingerbread where slayher, workshed, and the others at least get an "unofficial" CM working, which is really as good as the "real thing" anyway. Either way someone is taking CM source and doing what's needed to make it run on the Bolt.

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I think (could be wrong) a device needs a stable build to get a subforum on their site. For example, the Nexus 7 doesn't have a forum there either, but you can bet your ass it's getting official CM10 (as I'm running the nightlies on my N7 now). The TB is going to be tricky because it has never had any official CM build - someone from the team is going to have to sign up to be the maintainer, and start doing what is required to get nightlies going.
I still have my suspicions about getting official CM - I think more likely is you'll have a situation similar to gingerbread where slayher, workshed, and the others at least get an "unofficial" CM working, which is really as good as the "real thing" anyway. Either way someone is taking CM source and doing what's needed to make it run on the Bolt.
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I've always wondered what nightlies means
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jonah1234 said:
I've always wondered what nightlies means
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A new build each night!

Something I noticed about CyMod and its forums

Something I wanted to point out - I visited CyanogenMod forums the other day, and they have a dedicated section towards unofficial builds for phones that they don't officially develop for, and one of the posts was Liquid's ICS, and no one seemed to have an issue with it... in fact no one really said much besides that they liked it.
So let me ask you this... all this stuff about people getting upset because Liquid uses CyMod features as a base for features in his releases - don't you think that if anyone up at CM had an issue with it, they'd say explicitly that they have an issue with a dedicated developer making a build for a phone that isn't supported officially by CM?
Just a thought.

The cm team is aware of devs kanging their work to hell and back. By now I'm sure they don't care as often as it happens.
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huh? cm is open source. As long as they're credited they're fine with it.
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I like the rootz version of this thread better
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rrrrrrredbelly said:
I like the rootz version of this thread better
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Lol no comment
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rrrrrrredbelly said:
I like the rootz version of this thread better
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As great as Rootz is, I don't really have much reason to go back there. I had my fun, had some good times, bad times, and well, learned what I could, now I'm just moving on. But lets not get into that.

OFFICAL ICS for o2x is out

http://www.lgmobile.co.kr/lgmobile/front/download/retrieveDownloadMain.dev#manual
That link is official ICS update for korean users!!
So few more days till drivers are out
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I don't understand a thing typed up on that page.
But if this is real, I will be overjoyed.

EricTheLuminant said:
I don't understand a thing typed up on that page.
But if this is real, I will be overjoyed.
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The OFFICIAL ics is out for su660. When kernel source cones, p990 can be made stable with the drivers in it. Which will make p999 workable when devs get to it.
Hence indirectly out of luck g2x got a life.
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Thanks for the quick explain :good:

RC our God will show compassion on us simple folk, for he is gracious and overflowing with ice cream sandwiches and jelly beans.
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redmonke255 said:
RC our God will show compassion on us simple folk, for he is gracious and overflowing with ice cream sandwiches and jelly beans.
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Thanks.. but who exactly is RC... I heard about him a lot... he seems very important but Im noobie here
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http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Community_Members

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Thanks.. but who exactly is RC... I heard about him a lot... he seems very important but Im noobie here
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He's the reason we have anything on our phone. He's a true developer, not just someone who can compile pre made work. He lays the basis for all the roms.
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jnhsd0319 said:
http://www.lgmobile.co.kr/lgmobile/front/download/retrieveDownloadMain.dev#manual
That link is official ICS update for korean users!!
So few more days till drivers are out
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I'm beside myself. This just made my day!

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He's the reason we have anything on our phone. He's a true developer, not just someone who can compile pre made work. He lays the basis for all the roms.
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faux123 is also very skilled!
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What's LG's turnaround for releasing source been like in the past?

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faux123 is also very skilled!
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Each n every Dev here is skilled. For me there has always been 3 kind of peoples. People who are end users who just buy the phone and fear to fiddle with it cuz it will void the warranty. Others are power users who doesn't care about warranty and do flashing testing and even sometimes tweaking the code (these are the extreme power users). The last are developers some who add their own logic to the code to add new things and fix things the others are extreme developers (who has the android code in their brains like people in LG and Ricardo and last but never the least Google itself)
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He's the reason we have anything on our phone. He's a true developer, not just someone who can compile pre made work. He lays the basis for all the roms.
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RC is the cyanogenmod developer who is in charge of the LG devices. But that's not to say everyone else isn't skilled cmon man.
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Aricrj said:
RC is the cyanogenmod developer who is in charge of the LG devices. But that's not to say everyone else isn't skilled cmon man.
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I didn't mean to say the others aren't skilled. RC just does the forefront of developing while most developers use his work plus other cherry picks. It's way more than I do, for sure.
And I was just talking about rom devs, faux and morfic are amazing kernel devs. Every dev here is awesome, but we need to really credit RC for the huge amount of work he puts into our phone.
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What's LG's turnaround for releasing source been like in the past?
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The Optimus black's source hit in a couple days.

So what about the news that the Atrix has a leaked official build of ICS now? It's the only other Tegra 2 device that is exactly like our phone. If it would have came out months ago it would have been nice but now that it's out so soon to an official release for the p990 it makes me kind of sad.

psychoace said:
So what about the news that the Atrix has a leaked official build of ICS now? It's the only other Tegra 2 device that is exactly like our phone. If it would have came out months ago it would have been nice but now that it's out so soon to an official release for the p990 it makes me kind of sad.
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Been covered before, the Atrix is a bit too different to be of much help. It's a Tegra 2 but there are some differences.
I'm just concerned if the Korean Su660 is similar enough to the P990, and thus the P999, for its source to be of use, or if we still need to wait for p990 source?
My secondary concern is that there will be additional time/issues getting all this to work on Jelly Bean, which is what the "cool devs" are going to work on anyway.

lotherius said:
Been covered before, the Atrix is a bit too different to be of much help. It's a Tegra 2 but there are some differences.
I'm just concerned if the Korean Su660 is similar enough to the P990, and thus the P999, for its source to be of use, or if we still need to wait for p990 source?
My secondary concern is that there will be additional time/issues getting all this to work on Jelly Bean, which is what the "cool devs" are going to work on anyway.
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It's the same phone, minus a button + an antenna. Besides, the p990 is pretty much a p999 with a different radio and partition, while the su660 is the same with different kernel level changes (as the p990) (or something along these lines. It will get us cm10 though)

lotherius said:
Been covered before, the Atrix is a bit too different to be of much help. It's a Tegra 2 but there are some differences.
I'm just concerned if the Korean Su660 is similar enough to the P990, and thus the P999, for its source to be of use, or if we still need to wait for p990 source?
My secondary concern is that there will be additional time/issues getting all this to work on Jelly Bean, which is what the "cool devs" are going to work on anyway.
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As far as i know, the difference from ICS to JB is MUCH MUCH smaler than GB to ICS. From what ive collected so far, if we got the ics source we will be able to get JB to work almost flawlessly, maybe not perfect, but a normal user like myself wouldnt be able to tell any difference.
To me that is great news

hhwong said:
As far as i know, the difference from ICS to JB is MUCH MUCH smaler than GB to ICS. From what ive collected so far, if we got the ics source we will be able to get JB to work almost flawlessly, maybe not perfect, but a normal user like myself wouldnt be able to tell any difference.
To me that is great news
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Yes, with source for ICS, JB will run fine.
My Iconia tablet was upgraded to ICS stock, than with the source, the devs pounded out a fully functional JB ROM. I use it as my daily driver.