Is Android P compatible with Oneplus One? Will there be a port to Oneplus One? The support so far to the device has been great! The device being 4 years old and works on an older arm(not arm64) architecture - will Android, if ported be able to run like it should?
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There shouldnt be any problems in terms of the architecture considering that other devices with armx86 based cpu's run the P beta, question is how long people are willing to create rom's and kernels for the device itself
Rest assured; P will come to Bacon.
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First, let me unravel what I mean by the title...
Apple offers updates to most if not all iOS devices when a new version of iOS comes out. I can be mistaken about this, but it really doesn't make my coming point invalid.
Most major GNU/Linux distributions supports a **** ton of hardware via the Linux kernel and can thus be installed on a lot of different computer configurations. Arch and others manage to have a rolling release, while Ubuntu and others can be updated to the latest version every time there is a new one.
Now, the Android kernel is a fork of the Linux kernel.... yet to my knowlegde, Cyagen Mod is the closest thing we have to an "Android Distrobution" that works on several devices... yet the latest stable release for my Optimus 2X was in October 2011 (Android 2.3).
My guess is that, as of 2012, the number of Android users has far surpassed the number of Linux Desktop Users.
So my question is, why can't I have an up to date Android experience on my phone?
One simple answer would be to blame NVIDIA for not updating their tegra-drivers... I might be extremely uninformed, but I believe I had a working tegra driver in my stock android 2.3 version. So why not patch the same driver for 4.1? Is Android 4.1 really that different? Why arn't more people working on this? No commercial interest? Has that ever grinded the linux community to a halt?
I want 10 stable Android distibutions by Friday afternoon... Go!
No, but seriously... I understand there are a lot of developers working on bringing the latest Android experience to all sorts of devices.
Hi everyone , i read in miui web site that windows 10 will available for mi4 , but any news for porting the rom ?
Here find the video for testing in the mi4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTTTFV38G_Q
Nope. Xiaomi is partnering with Microsoft, because of that, Mi phones (mostly newer generations one such as the Mi4) will be getting the Windows 10 builds.
But no, Nexus won't get it (maybe, we don't know this yet). Because Windows is closed source (unlinke Ubuntu Touch or Firefox OS) and it doesn't rely on any Android's component to do stuff.
I think it would be a hardware based windows 10 for mi phone.
So no nexus.
I don't discard W10 on Nexus. MS is just testing waters on a ROM for Android phones. Part of their new strategy is to make windows available in as much devices as possible. If it goes well with the Mi4, that is, a relevant percentage of Mi4 users install it, they might want to replicate with other phones and N5 is a good candidate. W10 Mobile is just beta and it might take a while.
Hi everyone!
So I'm in the market for an ARM-based box running Android, but unlike most users here, I'm not looking to use it as a media streaming device for my TV. Instead, I plan to use it for a development project, and I'd like something that can provide me with as "stock" of an Android experience as possible.
My requirements are:
2GB of RAM
16GB flash
Support for custom community ROMs of Android 5.1 or newer that provide an AOSP-like experience
Stable ROMs (hopefully)...
Also, I know that with phones, you have lots of custom ROM developers like Evervolv, Cyanogen, MIUI, and so on... but is there community support for these Android boxes? And if so, are there some well-known ones I should consider to help narrow my search of supported devices?
Instead of ARM, I'd concentrate of AMLOGIC based Devices. Specifically S912 if not then S905 Based ones. Traditionally developer support has been better for Beelink Devices or Xiomi Devices along with the Manufacturer's own So Called "CM".
Since for a given Chip, the firmware is practically same across the manufacturers, you can start with those that have TWRP available and go from there. Lastly Finless Rom is one of the Developer group in this category that I know of.
Greetings, fellow devs and fans. Hope that you are doing fine. I do hope that this would be the right place to ask anything, including what I have in mind right now.
I may have been ditching Android as my daily driver for Windows 10 Mobile for like two years now, but that didn't stop me from keeping tabs with the latest news about Google's mobile OS, and the latest news about the Go Edition of Android 8.0 Oreo do catch my attention. I would definitely love to see how Android Oreo Go stacks up against my current favourite mobile OS from Microsoft.
But that's not what I wanna talk about. I actually wanna talk about Motorola Droid 4 XT894 aka "maserati". I've been yearning to own what is undoubtedly the last ever Android - indeed, the last EVER smartphone with horizontal QWERTY keyboard. But that got me thinking: Since Android Oreo Go only needs 1GB of RAM and "maserati" is indeed only have 1GB of RAM, I wonder if there is(are) a way(s) of porting that particular Android into that Motorola?
Don't get me wrong - I'm not asking for tutorials or suggestions about steps on doing it, because I don't even know if someone else is thinking similar line as me. But who knows... in the future... maybe it is possible after all?
That's all for me. Would love to hear your thoughts.
fat8893 said:
Since Android Oreo Go only needs 1GB of RAM and "maserati" is indeed only have 1GB of RAM, I wonder if there is(are) a way(s) of porting that particular Android into that Motorola?
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I would even be happy if the "normal" OREO 8.1 (Lineage 15.1) was released some day.
But here are some sad but unconfirmed news: https://forum.xda-developers.com/droid-4/development/rom-cm14-1-nougat-t3499338/page22#post76220740
Maybe you could ask the developer "stargo" https://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=3457922 directly if he will publish an Oreo (Go) version for the XT894 maserati
Hello everyone,
I was searching for Android One topics here and unfortunately found nothing ( probably because of the confusing name)
So can someone explain what's up with this Android One software overlay.
I read some info on wiki but still have some questions:
Is it like normal firmware that only comes with certain smartphones, or you can flash it yourself?
It's a near stock android but, which version is it based on,
does it come out every time new android version rolls out, or it just gets updated to the new one.
and lastly let's say I have android one phone, and after three years they stopped regular updates,
it's still android one compatible phone right, so I can update to the new version myself?
Thank you.
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Hello everyone,
I was searching for Android One topics here and unfortunately found nothing ( probably because of the confusing name)
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and lastly let's say I have android one phone, and after three years they stopped regular updates,
it's still android one compatible phone right, so I can update to the new version myself?
Thank you.
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Hi, Android One are phones that run a lite weight version of Android for budget phones with small specs (under 2Go of RAM, entry level processor,...) called Android Go. It's supposed to give a fluid experience to phones with limited capacity. Each Android Go version (for each Android One device) is in consequences very specific to the device, in order to use efficiently all of what the different specs has to offer.
You can still build ROMs/TWRP for those devices, and use it as a normal device, but the experience will be much slower. So to answer your 3 questions:
1)It's firmware that only comes with certain phones, it's build to use perfectly the SoC and memory, so it's very specific (not generic like GSI)
2) Android One are phones, Android Go is the Android version. Your phone may or may not receive an update to the Next Android version, on that side it's the same as other phones. If it receives an update, you'll run (for example) Android 10 Go Version. So update exists for Android One phones, they won't stay for ever at the same Android version they had at the beginning.
3) when your phone won't be supported anymore, you won't be able to update your phone to another version of Android Go. You'll still be able to flash ROMs or stuff like that, but since Android Go builds are very specific to each devices, you can't flash them "cross devices".
PS: at the moment I've not heard of Android 10 Go Edition, it's still at Android 9 if I'm correct. But it will be updated, the goal of Android one is to support cheap and often not long lasting phone over time.
Read more here : https://www.android.com/versions/go-edition/