I am not knowledgeable enough to do this myself, or I would. I would like to request a plain AOSP 2.1 build ROM for the CDMA Hero. I figure since the kernel source code is out and Android 2.1 source code is out, this one shouldn't be too difficult to achieve.
I'm not big on the extra apps in a ROM either. I'm talking almost barebones. I don't want Sense either...just a plain AOSP.
Anyone want that too? If so, add your comment here and let's see if you can get someone more skilled than me to do it.
I also realize that it does take time to make a ROM, so if this doesn't come to fruition I'm not going to get upset, but figured I have nothing to lose by asking.
Thanks
yeah would love 2.1
i love the bottom menus with the dots instead of drawer and new icons
i hope its like this onedaylol
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A plain just from source build would be right up my alley as well.
I also would like. Anyone want to start a donation pot for the dev that does it? I would donate.
Me too. Just like the Nexus One, no Sprint-specific apps, but also no funny stuff like adding apps or changing colors. What is AOSP?
AOSP = Android Open Source Project
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What is AOSP?
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Christ man...
HERE
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Christ man...
HERE
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LOLLL
I usually hate posts like this, but the situation DEFININTELY called for it
Sweet, Advanced On-Board Signal Processor, got it.
Uh, that's a joke btw.
+1..... a fully functioning plain vanilla 2.1 ROM for my Hero!!!
This may take some time.. Although we have the kernel, from my understanding there is still some porting that needs to happen to the 2.1 code so that the AOSP will run on our phone with all the different hardware. HTC was right on time with this release i was two days away from ordering an n1 from google. guess ill stick around and learn as much as i can and see what happens
yes please. as plain as possible
You can use flipz 2.1 Rom, turn sense off, and that would be a 2.1 vanilla Rom ...... that is what I'm doing right now for the moment
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You can use flipz 2.1 Rom, turn sense off, and that would be a 2.1 vanilla Rom ...... that is what I'm doing right now for the moment
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Not exactly. What you describe would still uses the HTC apks for phone, contacts, calendar etc
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You can use flipz 2.1 Rom, turn sense off, and that would be a 2.1 vanilla Rom ...... that is what I'm doing right now for the moment
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Thats not exactly vanilla.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_software
Damn, looks like mcgrathx beat me to the punch. lol
Well I know its alittle different but just thought id mention it
On the androidcentral forums there is a Donut ROM witch is actually reallly good.
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You can use flipz 2.1 Rom, turn sense off, and that would be a 2.1 vanilla Rom ...... that is what I'm doing right now for the moment
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Besides having the hero apks, does this ROM (when sense is turned off) look and act like the Nexus 1 ROM?
(I would try it for myself, but I don't wanna go through the hassle of wiping my device and restoring all the info/data)
Thanks for answering my question.
PS: I actually like Hero's Phone, Contacts and Calendar a lot more than stock.
Yeah, I would definitely be interested in this too. I just switched over from a Touch Pro a few weeks ago, and have been reading up on Hero ROMs, but none have really caught my attention too much yet. I'm not usually a fan of all the HTC goodies....
(Also, I'm a new poster here.. This seems like a better place for Hero stuff than where I was over at PPCgeeks)
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I figure since the kernel source code is out and Android 2.1 source code is out, this one shouldn't be too difficult to achieve.
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If only
The kernel source is out, yes, but for 2.1 to run at its best, it needs to be running 2.6.29 kernel version, which is not released (for our phone). I'm working on a port, but so far it doesn't boot )) and others may be in the process of doing the same.
There are other projects to get AOSP 2.0.1 and 2.1 on the phone, and those have been working with the 2.6.27 kernel, which is not going to run as well as intended. Of course all it'll take is replacing the kernel, hopefully, and I'm sure someone will make a breakthrough in porting the kernel soon
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Wanted to see who uses what 2.1 based ROM as their daily ROM.
- DarchLegend
- DarchVanilla
- DamageControl
- Fresh
- RegawMod based on DC
- Other
Main reason for me posting this is to help people that are undecided make up their mind as to which ROM most people use for daily use the most.
DamageControl 2.05
I always seem to go back to Fresh.
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I always seem to go back to Fresh.
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Me too, but don't get me wrong, I've tried all the current ROMs and all the Devs did great jobs with what they had... Lots of man hours and hard work.
Right now I am on Fresh but in the last 2 weeks I have used DamageControl,Freshhh, RegawMod
right now im using pancake 1.5 without rosie installed. fastest there is right now.
i might give fresh 2.1 another try today though?
Running Fresh ROM because protected apps is a deal-breaker for me.
I'm using damagecontrol 2.05. Pretty good in my book. I did use fresh, but I seem to like damagecontrol more.
Fresh all the way for me. I have tried the others but speed and stability is always good in Flipz builds.
Flipz by far makes the most professional roms. He doesn't release roms half-assed or with 20 patches to apply. Flash one of his roms, install apps, your done.
No offense to the other rom devs but they seem to break more than they fix. I couldn't even use EVDO on Damageless's 2.1 but on Flipz 2.1 it worked perfect(couple hundred kb faster). Since they were built from the same release, what explains this?
So fresh roms by far, they aren't necessarily the fastest but if your trying to have a reliable phone then its the way to go.
you don't really need a poll to figure this out... just look at the thread views
I'm rollin' with bikcmp 1.5 ROM with all the lil visual mods I made to my liking.
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Flipz by far makes the most professional roms. He doesn't release roms half-assed or with 20 patches to apply. Flash one of his roms, install apps, your done.
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I have to agree with this statement. I have run quite a few roms and I keep coming back to Fresh because his stuff works better.
I'm using my own ROM based off of DamageControl 2.1 with my own fixes and ports. You'll see a few of them in DC 2.05. I borrowed many elements of TrevE's port of the Darkstar theme to give it a much more "polished" look. I also added a few of my own visual mods. I stripped it down to the bare Sense, with almost all of the widgets removed except for the clock and people widgets. ROM size is 79.5 mb.
This is the most stable build I've used yet.
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fffffffffffffffffffffffrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
You should probably split darchvanilla and darchlegend in your poll. those are two completely different roms where one is using a sprint hero base and the other is using an htc legend base
REGAW 2.02p
Was using DC 1.1B6 but wanted to get up-to-date and as close to the sprint release as possible. Regaw adds a couple of apps that 'most people' won't need but his list of fixes over DC 2.0x is pretty astounding. That and he worked with Damageless on it to some degree anyways makes it a winner in my book.
I might be looking for something with friendstream on it soon though if no-one gets it working on these latest DC based releases soon. I've been thinking about going with a DarchLegend or one of his stripped down versions to give friendstream a run around the block.
All in all it's an exciting time to be a sprint hero user. Even when all these phones with faster processors and bigger screens are running around these great dev's allow us to keep up pretty darn nicely and still treat us well here in the forums .
I always seem to switch between Darch roms and Fresh roms.
I'm using Fresh because I was missing to many protected apps in the marketplace. Very close 2nd is Damage, but just couldn't find most of my paid apps.
damagecontrol v2.05
is it due to not a lot of people having the phone ? inexperienced devs? even the roms that exist have one thing or another that doesnt function properly...there only seems to be one solid rom for sure and the rest are just ehh...just trying to figure this out im coming from a device that had so many roms i didnt know what to do and on this side theres really only 3 or 4 choices. is this a froyo deal?lack of people with the units or what?
My best guess would be most devs are waiting for froyo to drop since it should be soon.
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My best guess would be most devs are waiting for froyo to drop since it should be soon.
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i was hoping this was the case
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i was hoping this was the case
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Its tuff to dev something knowing froyo us coming. I started my theme to be used on my rom but decided not to cook a rom. It well be easy to port my theme for use with froyo. A 2.1 rom ported to 2.2 us hard. It would be easier to start from scratch with a froyo build
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is it due to not a lot of people having the phone ? inexperienced devs? even the roms that exist have one thing or another that doesnt function properly...there only seems to be one solid rom for sure and the rest are just ehh...just trying to figure this out im coming from a device that had so many roms i didnt know what to do and on this side theres really only 3 or 4 choices. is this a froyo deal?lack of people with the units or what?
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Its the same thing that happened with the moment, almost no dev support. 1 because its a Samsung, 2 because it was the second 4g phone, 3 because its $50 more.
The Evo community is thriving though.
Look at the Moment forum on sdx-developers, then look at the Hero forum here on XDA. Same thing for the Epic vs Evo.
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i was just asking a question...thanks for the answers fellas
I really hope people will develop for Epic, I really enjoyed the ROMs on Evo. But I liked this one better, hope I didn't make a big mistake! Oh well, I haven't even rooted this one yet, maybe Ill just give it a rest for a while. I know my wife will like that. Don't mean to insult the devs, you're all we got, just wish more people had this phone.
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I really hope people will develop for Epic, I really enjoyed the ROMs on Evo. But I liked this one better, hope I didn't make a big mistake! Oh well, I haven't even rooted this one yet, maybe Ill just give it a rest for a while. I know my wife will like that. Don't mean to insult the devs, you're all we got, just wish more people had this phone.
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I concur, in a perfect world this phone (which I am getting tomorrow) would be so great that I wouldn't flash rom after rom for little things such as percentage battery mod or something. I would flash roms because it looked slightly different than the previous. and always felt like something was missing. I hope i can just be satisfied with the roms and such that are available for the Epic.
Don't worry u will have plenty of devving for epic. It will not be as much as evo though as evo has much more devs and is more popular and has been out longer. But we will have quality not quantity and after froyo we will see more devving. Most devs don't wanna waste time if the update is coming in less than a month (hopefully).
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Ok, I've been waiting for this rom to be released and finding out that it was canned due to lack of interest. If enough votes we can get this rom reopened and released. This rom needs to be released so it can break the monotony of the Gingerbread and Honeycomb roms thats out there. ZenExp rev 7 was beautiful and I can't even imagine how Rev 8 would look like.
Please vote to have this roms released. Thank you.
P.S. I don't know no other way to state my vote, maybe by typing "please release"
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Ok, I've been waiting for this rom to be released and finding out that it was canned due to lack of interest. If enough votes we can get this rom reopened and released. This rom needs to be released so it can break the monotony of the Gingerbread and Honeycomb roms thats out there. ZenExp rev 7 was beautiful and I can't even imagine how Rev 8 would look like.
Please vote to have this roms released. Thank you.
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Got a link to an old thread or pics or anything on ZenExp so we can see what your talking about?
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Got a link to an old thread or pics or anything on ZenExp so we can see what your talking about?
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here's a pic of the zenexp rev7. Now imagine this updated but better with more than 10 themes. It'll be awesome. We need to encourage the developer to finish this project.
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looks good id like to rev8
Me too ..
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i would like to see this reopened.
Yes! I was on this for a year, and I had to finally move on -- one of the saddest days of my life. I would love to see Rev8!
Yea I'll vote even though Im on a Dinc now. I still have my Eris laying around enjoying its retired life. Could have made a poll to go with your thread.
DINC|CM7|INCREDIKERNEL
This was one of my favorite roms. I use xtrSENSE now. The froyo and gingerbread roms are alright. I just don't really care for them. The sense based roms run so much smoother on my phone. I would love to see this reopened. I would definitely rock it.
Excellent people, keep it coming. We need to let MAK know that we love his work. GB is great but there are too many roms that look the same. I use now GSB and go back and forth with xtrSense/xtrRom. I would love to see this released. It'll be my everyday rom.
If this comes out I wouldn't get another phone. All these phones coming out with different UI and downloadable 3d ui's that the Eris can't handle. But if this comes out I'll be more than satified.
Hm, maybe I'm missing something, but I'm not sure I see whats so appealing about that UI. Hopefully this doesn't sound like I'm trying to rag on your idea, I'm not, trust me.
Are there any screenshots laying around that "show it off" a little better?
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Hm, maybe I'm missing something, but I'm not sure I see whats so appealing about that UI. Hopefully this doesn't sound like I'm trying to rag on your idea, I'm not, trust me.
Are there any screenshots laying around that "show it off" a little better?
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Its not my work, but somebody elses. Its simple and different from all those Gingerbread roms (they are all so plain). At least this rom has some themes that are appealing.
You may look on this thread on the 5th page for the zenexp rev7 to get an idea and some more info. but its the same screen shots I posted.
The reason they are plain is for u to
Do what u want with them... I find that when I add something people want less
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The reason they are plain is for u to
Do what u want with them... I find that when I add something people want less
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I had a feeling it was for people to create their own. I just noticed that with all the CM7 themes. they look awesome.
Hey guys,
I would like to port Boot to Gecko to our HTC Desire HD
Perhaps you know Boot to Gecko, it's the new Linux based OS from the Developers of great Firefox.
It is in an early state of Developing but it runs on an Samsung Galaxy S2. There are others out there who are also would like to see a port of it on an other Device.
Here and here for example..
herrsch0rdev wrote here that we just need to replace/add some drivers, perhaps a talented Android ROM Developer ore some one else who can help or poste some information or knowledge reads this and can provide help.
thx
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Good idea, but why not wait till the final version comes out and then port it on our devices? Even if you will port it now, people won't use it as a daily, but only to see how it works. I suggest you wait for the final version and then port.
Hmmm... I love panel 4-8, but those massive icons are a turn-off.
No widgets? I like clock/weather and facebook/twitter and whatnot.
Bringing this thread up again because I found a port guide from mozilla
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Boot_to_Gecko/Porting
Would really love to see this live
Firefox OS look promising and running on our device would be so awesome. wish i could help in development. but would be able to help in graphics and testing once someone picks up the task.
man this looks nice, I would most definitely try this one if it came out Love the simplistic idea for GUI.
Yeah it looks absolutely stunning but is this something we can post in Development section?
I believe randomblame has started to port this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31094653&postcount=6560
I'll put my support behind this as well. I really like the UI. if any devs need someone to test, then beam me up scotty! send me a PM
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I believe randomblame has started to port this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31094653&postcount=6560
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Score! Maybe this forum hopefully will be a support for an upcoming Firefox OS rom
cant wait
rb is one of the last awesome porters we have.. (for non-sense roms)
im sure he will get it to boot, and even fully functional.
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I believe randomblame has started to port this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31094653&postcount=6560
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cant wait
rb is one of the last awesome porters we have.. (for non-sense roms)
im sure he will get it to boot, and even fully functional.
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No doubt , he is really good!
I'm wondering if this would be any sort of solution now that HTC has abandoned us. I mean I don't see ICS or JB fully stable any time soon(maybe I'm wrong.. I'd love to be wrong to be honest)
..wondering how they would make it work for our phones(driver wize), of course maybe it would be just the same "ship" with different name.. either titanic or britannic the fate might be the same as these too.
I guess will have to wait and see..
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I'm wondering if this would be any sort of solution now that HTC has abandoned us. I mean I don't see ICS or JB fully stable any time soon(maybe I'm wrong.. I'd love to be wrong to be honest)
..wondering how they would make it work for our phones(driver wize), of course maybe it would be just the same "ship" with different name.. either titanic or britannic the fate might be the same as these too.
I guess will have to wait and see..
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Ahem, jellybean and ICS is pretty much as stable as needed.
Latest JT and Pacman roms are pretty much bullet proof, MIUI has some lag issues. If you're getting reboots try disabling HW overlays
ICS is as good as done, I would even say that Sense roms are more stable than non sense, and overall I feel they certainly match the stability of sense 3.5.
but......I would love to see a gecko port!
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Ahem, jellybean and ICS is pretty much as stable as needed.
Latest JT and Pacman roms are pretty much bullet proof, MIUI has some lag issues. If you're getting reboots try disabling HW overlays
ICS is as good as done, I would even say that Sense roms are more stable than non sense, and overall I feel they certainly match the stability of sense 3.5.
but......I would love to see a gecko port!
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I prefer non sense roms and trust me they are not as stable as I would like. When I mean stable its not just working all features, its beeing bugfree too
P.S. android 2.3.7 is stable, ICS and JB ..hmm not ..working and in a very good state but not near stable at all.
lol
:crying: lol
So, did anyone started working on it?
I'd love to test it
Bumping this for the motherland.
Would love to see this, or Ubuntu Phone OS or OpenWebOS (May my Palm Pre RIP) on the DHD.
jb and ics roms are ok but launching apps is way slower than sense, and camera is never stable...i like to try this
So I assume that this boat sealed
Damn, I'd like to see Firefox OS in our phones.
Turns out our devices are supported too. No worries on DHD ics update cancelled. Virtous team found a way to make the camera work.
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edit: its not Primadonna or Affinity. They are releasing a new rom i think its called Infinity.
Though would I be correct in assuming that even if they do get the camera working fully, that porting such would only work on Sense roms. (i.e.: I don't much care for Sense).
there are already ics roms without sense with working camera so it is a huge step up for desire z.
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there are already ics roms without sense with working camera so it is a huge step up for desire z.
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Well I know that much, cuz I'm using one. I'm talking bout *fully* working camera, all the same bells and whistles as gingerbread and 720p recording. Not talking bout the current state of non-Sense roms.
With that I'm guessing what Virtuous is planning to release camera-wise would be about the same as what some of us are already using.
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Well I know that much, cuz I'm using one. I'm talking bout *fully* working camera, all the same bells and whistles as gingerbread and 720p recording. Not talking bout the current state of non-Sense roms.
With that I'm guessing what Virtuous is planning to release camera-wise would be about the same as what some of us are already using.
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well, they were talking about a fully working camera so i guess that includes the 720p recording. they said they used the 3.0 kernel source from primo so it will be different from what most of us using.
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well, they were talking about a fully working camera so i guess that includes the 720p recording. they said they used the 3.0 kernel source from primo so it will be different from what most of us using.
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Hopefully if that's the case, that one can be ported to other (non-Sense) roms.
I know that for some Sense doesn't matter, but I find it as an integral part of owning an HTC device. (The Flip-to-Silence feature got me hooked when I saw the ads ) and each and every time I tried another ROM, I found myself going back to the good ol' Sense. Whatever version it might be (2.1, 3.0, 3.5).
It adds small stuff that some people care about - for example, the clock app has a stopwatch, timer, and other functions right in the app. I know I can download another app to do all that stuff, but hey - it's more integrated, it looks better in my opinion and I like to keep things stock because they are more in tune with the rest of the UI.
I really love the „Holo” theme in ICS, but we have to admit it still lacks in the App department. Yes, you can get apps to get the functions, but they aren't as finished and as polished as Sense apps.
Also, that Car Home app in Sense 4 is S-W-E-E-T!
You see my point. Different people have different needs. I'll stop here, or else this post will get waaay too long.
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.... ooohs and ahhhs ...
You see my point. Different people have different needs. I'll stop here, or else this post will get waaay too long.
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Yea I can certainly understand the appeal of Sense, as I've tried some of Virtuous's roms, problem is that for me it's much too sluggish most of the time and I would prefer some functionality over some of the aesthetic. (kind of funny when I say it that way, cuz my somewhat minimal ICS rom looks cleaner than the gingerbread stock Sense I had).
In any case, any progress is good progress considering that the alternatives we were waiting for (i.e.: DHD/etc getting stock ICS) isn't going to happen.
In regards to cameras. Right now on the rom I'm on right now, I can take 5MP pictures and record videos at 720x480, granted however the process was much smoother and crisper in gingerbread ( I guess cuz you'd get full hardware control in those cases ). But as long as one can actually take a quick snap or scan a barcode I think that'll make most people happy across the board.
We all love the virtuous team though
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