Yes, its a great news. The driver sources have been released. So that means Android 4.0+ stable on these devices I.e. Galaxy pocket, Y, Ace-i,etc. Great news. Go here:http://blog.broadcom.com/chip-desig...ves-developers-keys-to-the-videocore-kingdom/
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Samsung has just released the source code for Jelly Bean on the Galaxy S2. Thought it would be pretty relevant for the Galaxy Tab Plus community as the devices do share the same SoC and from what I understand can now even boot the same kernel.
The source code can be found as usual at http://opensource.samsung.com/. Hope it helps with the JB port for this device.
Does it mean we will have full video hardware decoding including Flash, HDMI, clock and voltage support?
SharpShark said:
Does it mean we will have full video hardware decoding including Flash, HDMI, clock and voltage support?
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It means none of that. Sorry.
I am using a Samsung galaxy s duos that has ics out of the box. I am waiting for it to get updated to jb. even Samsung galaxy chat has been updated to jellybean which is having comparitively lower specs.Sony also updated its single core phone xperia j to jb?
so why there is no jellybean update in galaxy s duos?
will it ever updated to jb?
Here is the official JB update list of Samsung (which is subject to sudden change, but it's quite unlikely they will add any more devices - they usually remove devices that have not already got an update): samsung.com/us/support/SupportOwnersFAQPopup.do?faq_id=FAQ00050212&fm_seq=55187.
It's not only a question of device specs or performance; it's also a question of marketing relevance and development effort. The device manufacturers have to adapt the original os from google to their devices; and on top of that, they put their own software like Touchwiz, which has to be adapted to new Android versions, too. Then everything has to be adapted and thoroughly tested with the telcos. The whole process does not make sense from a economic point of view as soon as the sales of the device drop below a certain margin. Non-widespread devices will not get updates at all.
Today I just discovered Samsung's opensource release center.
I am not a good developer so I'm just trying to seek attention of other Awesome and respected developers.
With the source let's get out note's features on other roms.
Examples :-
Samsung Camera app for AOSP
Samsung's S-Pen features for AOSP
S health for AOSP
I haven't downloaded the whole source code due to lack of high speed internet.
May they just included basic framework and drivers and libraries in their source, but i think xda has grown up enough to redesign drivers and frameworks and etc stuff that is required to run sammy apps on other roms.
here is the link for SM-N9005 :- SM-N9005(Qualcomm) csc variants.
here is the link for SM-N900R4(US Cellular N3) :- US Cellular Note 3
for other variants just visit opensource.samsung.com and search your device model.
If any mistake I'm sorry.
Nice thought, but that's just the kernel source. Modern versions of Touchwiz and Samsung's proprietary apps are not open source.
Check out other sections on that website... i saw that they have released whole source code for galaxy camera.. may be they have released one for our note too...
harshal10398 said:
Check out other sections on that website... i saw that they have released whole source code for galaxy camera.. may be they have released one for our note too...
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I've looked through Samsung's Open Source Release Center quite a bit. If they made any recent version of Touchwiz fully open source, it would be huge news. Unfortunately, I don't believe that will happen any time soon.
So currently I am on Cyanogen Mod 12.1 AOSP. I have recenlty come across the CAF version. After some research I found it is better optimised? Can you explain what it means by that and how is it better optimised? Aprrenlty there are also more features? So should II change from AOSP to CAF?
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So currently I am on Cyanogen Mod 12.1 AOSP. I have recenlty come across the CAF version. After some research I found it is better optimised? Can you explain what it means by that and how is it better optimised? Aprrenlty there are also more features? So should II change from AOSP to CAF?
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OK so CAF stands for Code Aurora Forrums,
These are Qualcomm's reference sources for their platform. This is what they provide to OEMs, and what nearly all OEMs base their software off of. As a result - nearly all non-Nexus devices are running kernels/display HALs/etc. that are derived from a CAF baseline.
Google's software baseline, or AOSP - Usually when Google starts working on a new Android version, they'll fork from CAF at the beginning. Very often Google will be adding "new" features specific to the new Android version, while Qualcomm will continue with performance enhancements and bugfixes against the "old" baseline.
So when a new Android revision comes out, you have two baselines: CAF which is usually "ahead" in performance but "behind" in features, and AOSP which is the opposite.
Starting with 4.3, CM started mixing code between CAF and AOSP. They put some CAF features/capabilities into their baselines for AOSP-supported devices (Nexus devices), and started putting AOSP patches into their baselines for CAF device
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Thank you. I heard there are features like live display on the CAF version. Is that true?
Haven't played with custom ROMs in a while., but I used to have LOS - first on a Samsung Galaxy S4 and then on a Lenovo P2. Recently I've been looking for what phone to buy next, to have good LOS support, and I've seen that mainly older phones are officially supported (with few exceptions, Pixel and Oneplus). How come is that? Have the developers switched to some other ROM? Is there something else which is reliable but more broadly supported? Please let me know.
IMO you should have asked this question to devs of LOS.
The number of devices supported by LOS has increased over time, with 157 for 17.1 as of April 1, 2021.
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Any ROM must be compatible to mobile device's hardware. Thousands of different brands / models actually exist which have different features what requires to have related hardware what requires to provide drivers that interact with the hardware.
I also think devs of LOS neither have the money to buy all these thousands of mobile devices nor the time to develop a specific edition of LOS for all these.
That makes sense. Thanks for your reply