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Gingerbread ported to another galaxy

Anyone smarter than me know if we can work off of this at all?
supercurio said:
See, you just need to ask
Galaxy S with Nexus S kernel - Booting Nexus S Android Gingerbread
Videos are here:
http://www.youtube.com/supercurioxda
What's about this port:
- It uses the Nexus S kernel compiled from sources
- It runs the exact /system image release, we dumped yesterday. (I spent the night of it so it's still the same day!)
Am i French ?
Now you don't have any doubt anymore
Which filesystem ?
This early preview runs on Ext4. no RFS at all, the kernel don't support RFS.
Does everything work ?
Nope, but I must admit I didn't expect such a result.
Don't work: GPS / Voice / Wifi / some Buttons / camera
Work: everything else: like sound, GL acceleration etc
Will it work ?
I think most of it will work after countless hours spent on it.
Is it flashable with Odin ?
That's a good idea <Gregounech>, i think i'll do that tomorrow.
Do you work alone ?
I worked alone to produce this preview, but not to produce the dump yesterday.
Credits go the IRC channel #NSdev on freenode !
What about a team ?
That's the goal. Rendez-vous on IRC so we can produce ports and improve the quality very fast of this.
Is this opensource ?
Everything will be released after i get some sleep!
Edit: for inpatients, I pushed the latest initramfs : https://github.com/project-voodoo/nsonsgs-initramfs
Articles:
http://briefmobile.com/samsung-galaxy-s-android-2-3-gingerbread
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Yea I read this too.. Hopefully fascinate gets a port
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Not sure. Still more or less a noob dev. Not sure how difficult it its to adapt the gsm port for cdma. thoughts anyone?
Would definitely be interested in seeing this happen.
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pfarrelliv said:
Not sure. Still more or less a noob dev. Not sure how difficult it its to adapt the gsm port for cdma. thoughts anyone?
Would definitely be interested in seeing this happen.
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I have been obsessively following efforts at cyanogen forums and this forum... i am pretty on top of things, and i am NOT aware of any success taking kernels/roms/images from GSM and having them work on CDMA...damn right depressing

The problem is deeper than just kernel. There are fundamental issues as to why we're not already on 2.2...
I'd go into it, but this thread isn't about that. Plus, I am not a programmer, so I don't want to overstep my bounds.

It's significantly easier to port things on GSM versions of phones. We likely won't see it until at least Froyo is working on our devices, possibly later. This also shouldn't be in the Development forum...

RacerXFD said:
The problem is deeper than just kernel. There are fundamental issues as to why we're not already on 2.2...
I'd go into it, but this thread isn't about that. Plus, I am not a programmer, so I don't want to overstep my bounds.
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I'd really like someone to help me understand (in noob terms) why porting is so hard for CDMA devices. Expect a thanks if you can explain it to me!

A thanks is what I am not after. It's that for anyone that has had this device since september this topic has been beaten to death.
Give this a read.
good day.

chopper the dog said:
A thanks is what I am not after. It's that for anyone that has had this device since september this topic has been beaten to death.
Give this a read.
good day.
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Well, thanks anyway. I haven't had the device since September.

I just wanted to remind anyone new to Fascinate Modding, that there is NO GINGERBREAD ROM for the SAMSUNG FASCINATE at this time.
So if you are itching to flash a ROM from a different phone. Please DO NOT BE MISLED by this thread and flash Gingerbread for a i9000.
You have a Galaxy S Variant, Not the Galaxy S phone.

SGH-I897 OpenSource Samsung

I just took a look at the opensource.samsung.com site and listed under SGH-I897 is an opensource.tar.gz . Can anyone confirm or deny that this is Eclair or Froyo?
Please and thank you.
The reason this is development is becuase I intend on taking a look at a few aspects of the "ROM" once it is determined which build it is.
Thanks!

It is 2.1. Froyo has 'Froyo' in the filename.

If theres just the one i897 its the 2.1 stuff. If there are 2 them theres a good chance its the 2.2 but they have had one for a while so its probably just the original
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Thanks! Now, off to do some work.

Just downloaded to double check. Here's the info:
Android eclair 2.1 (android-2.1_r2)

bay_wolf said:
Just downloaded to double check. Here's the info:
Android eclair 2.1 (android-2.1_r2)
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Thanks. I guess that I'll take a look at the Vibrant FroYo release instead.... Eclair won't do much good, even with what I intend on doing. No one would want it XD.
Ah well, hopefully I can post about it soon. Thanks!
Edit: To clarify why I needed someone else to check, I'm currently at work. (Work 3rd shift) and downloading stuff onto the company laptop is a good way to get yelled at. Thanks guys!

Just a disappointment :(

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1073930 - the original thread
https://github.com/doixanh/X8Features - the github source
Are there any DEVs willing to compile this in there ROM (lookin at you ACS) lol I have wanted this so badly, but am unwilling to take the performance hit that ee03 causes compared to SRF 1.1.1.

Dont take the dive to gb
Even though the devs try hard some things just cannot be
Like taking the crap**** gb leak and turn it into gold
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gtuansdiamm said:
Dont take the dive to gb
Even though the devs try hard so things just cannot be
Like taking the crap**** gb leak and turn it into gold
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This makes no sense? The developer dioxanh got this to work perfectly on froyo and put the source on github for other DEVS to compile for there ROMs. It can be because he has done it

I meant that the gb link is über slow and it probably wont get better till the next leak
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All the Epic ROM's with the exception of MIUI and CM7 are NOT compiled from source code.
They are merely customizations and hacking based off of the compiled libraries. It would likely be impossible to reverse engineer this into any of the ROM's. It would need to be done in Smali... if that's even possible..

Syndicate is in fact compiled from source if I'm not mistaken, that's why they always wait for a few days source leaks to release.

TheDub said:
They are merely customizations and hacking based off of the compiled libraries. It would likely be impossible to reverse engineer this into any of the ROM's. It would need to be done in Smali... if that's even possible..
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Look all I know is that this DEV made it possible to implement into custom ROMs for froyo. It says so clearly in the forum I posted if you had bothered to read it at all.

Actually read it .. Good work on dev for doing this! .. But it must be cooked into roms only and only works for a few roms
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I know Impaler and Mystery and others are busy workin on 1.2, and It would be cool if they lookd into implementing this into it.

jspsuperman said:
Look all I know is that this DEV made it possible to implement into custom ROMs for froyo. It says so clearly in the forum I posted if you had bothered to read it at all.
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I did "bother" to read it. It's Froyo source code to implement this feature. We don't have 100% of Samsungs source code for Froyo/Eclair/Gingerbread, they don't release it.
We only receive the kernel source code. This could only be baked into a Froyo based AOSP ROM which other then the very dated CM6 we do not have.
The kernel source code and the entire operating system (AOSP) are two completely different things, and the code to make this work isn't in the Kernel it's in the Framework.
ACS's ROM is not AOSP.
AOSP: Android Open Source Project - I'm using it to reference having the entire operating system's source code available, not just the kernel.

I wasnt aware that only the kernal source was released. What a bummer if a sony X8 can do this but our epic cant without gingerbread

Yeah just the way it is...
Most phones don't have 100% complete source drops, the popular two phones that do of course are the Nexus One and Nexus S, this is why the Nexus phones so easily get ROM's like CyanogenMod working. With the Epic and Galaxy S developers are forced to "rewrite" lots of code to get things interfacing with the Samsung proprietary drivers properly.
If we had 100% of the source code I don't doubt ROM's would be very different today, there would have also been a official CyanogenMod by now I'm sure.
If you want to see for yourself what Samsung releases you can go to:
https://opensource.samsung.com/
Do a search for I9000 for example and download one of the releases (I looked at I-9000-Opensource.zip)
You will see a few files in there.. one labeled kernel, the other eclair.
The kernel one is obvious, the eclair one contains only the hardware libraries.
So unfortunately, this really isn't possible in any of our existing Froyo ROM's, except CM6.
PS: I9000 is the model number for the European Galaxy S.

jspsuperman said:
I wasnt aware that only the kernal source was released. What a bummer if a sony X8 can do this but our epic cant without gingerbread
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Don't mess with TheDub

qbking77 said:
Don't mess with TheDub
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Apparantly lol That sucks but I guess gingerbread will be official soon enough then we will have somthin else kickass from U ACS folk lol

063_XOBX said:
Syndicate is in fact compiled from source if I'm not mistaken, that's why they always wait for a few days source leaks to release.
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This is not true, just so you know.
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[DISCUSSION] Port Ubuntu to Galaxy S3.

Hi Y'all.
This will serve as a main thread for discussion over porting Ubuntu.
At wiki.ubuntu.com a guide to port Ubuntu has been released.
Since, Our I9300 has official CM10 support, it can be ported easily.
Here is the site: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Porting
I can have a go at this, If anyone would host me through teamviewer that'd be great.
To see how ubuntu looks, take a look here: http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/phone/design
Happy Porting!

Reserved.

I will follow this thread, seems pretty easy to port Ubuntu but not sure about it's functionality...

Awesomee
awesome, i can't wait to install ubuntu phone on my s3

yup, waiting to see some opinions =P

I will flash a port as soon as a stable version with features I need working comes out.
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metuskale said:
I will follow this thread, seems pretty easy to port Ubuntu but not sure about it's functionality...
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Well, Ubuntu for phones needs a Linux Kernel (stock kernel from Sammy) with a few changes to add extra support for Ubuntu.
I've checked the guide and it's just a few more lines to be added.
If gokhanmoral decides to include this in his Siyah, and a flashable zip is made for the port.
It can easily be set up as dual.
The good thing is that Ubuntu uses Cyanogen Mod, so we can expect a whole load of features.

I hope it will an easy porting How much time do you think it takes untill the porting is done ?

Damn! I might just cancel my plans to sell of my SIII!!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2161202

good, let's wait then

Relaxxx...its only a preview. I'v bought a Gnex for this and it was wasted monny at this time Canonical must release something new next week...they are flashing for the public at the stand i Barcelona...i hope they got something else han this preview
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stianbert said:
Relaxxx...its only a preview. I'v bought a Gnex for this and it was wasted monny at this time Canonical must release something new next week...they are flashing for the public at the stand i Barcelona...i hope they got something else han this preview
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A developer preview is designed for devs to check compatibility of apps and test, it is not designed for everyday use, Canonical don't have to do anything the software is pre-release, that's what a preview is. You can think of a developer preview as alpha, many things will be broken, and a lot will change.

check out this release
seems some fellows at rootzwiki have the preview running on sII. check it out here
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/39299-romwip-ubuntu-touch-on-d2vzw-dev-previewphantom-022213/

stianbert said:
Relaxxx...its only a preview. I'v bought a Gnex for this and it was wasted monny at this time Canonical must release something new next week...they are flashing for the public at the stand i Barcelona...i hope they got something else han this preview
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My friend , it seems that they are flashing exactly this preview
You can see here : [ cdimage.ubuntu. com/ubuntu-touch-preview/quantal/mwc-demo/ ] the date the ubuntu images were created ( on the official server ) ant today it's 25 and they haven't been yer modified !!! [ I'm new so I can't post links , so please delete the blank spaces in the link ]

I'm worried, that for many users 1gig RAM won't be enought

Cant wait to test it!!

rsrank said:
I'm worried, that for many users 1gig RAM won't be enought
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Oh we'll find a way
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scoffyburito said:
Oh we'll find a way
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Well, there is allways SWAP. But doing write cycles to internal flash, or uSD card is not the best option.

Here is some news:
Cannonical are making a preview of the Ubuntu Touch for Galaxy S3.
It's still in WIP.
According to their database.
Codename: I9300
Unlocking Instructions : WIP
Install instructions: WIP
Code/Image: Not currently possible
You can contact: https://launchpad.net/~gianguidorama as he is the one in charge of developing the Ubuntu Touch for S3.

Galaxy Note 3 just got CM Source Code

The CyanogenMod team just posted the ROM's source code for the Galaxy Note 3 (you can check on Google, I can't insert a link).
Does it help us?
Maybe someone can port it to our device?

bump

I want to get started with ROM development so I may attempt a port
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mattyp92 said:
I want to get started with ROM development so I may attempt a port
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It will be great, thanks!
Can you please keep us updated with your progress?

The source for the n900 exynos version of the note 3 has been posted. Saw the info over at android police.

edmiwa said:
The source for the n900 exynos version of the note 3 has been posted. Saw the info over at android police.
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I saw the post too. But it's have nothing to do with CM... It's just the original stock build.

I thought it helped to have access to the source to make your own build of CM.

edmiwa said:
I thought it helped to have access to the source to make your own build of CM.
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But it's a source for the stock build of Samsung... It can't really help, right...?

ilayron8 said:
But it's a source for the stock build of Samsung... It can't really help, right...?
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It's says to gather any existing source code on the CM wiki on "How To Port CyanogenMod Android To Your Own Device".
I'm no Dev but samsung code is where I would start if I wanted to port something new.

edmiwa said:
It's says to gather any existing source code on the CM wiki on "How To Port CyanogenMod Android To Your Own Device".
I'm no Dev but samsung code is where I would start if I wanted to port something new.
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Oh, ok...
Ahhhhh i can't wait for a vanilla ROM!
Please, developers!

I'm pretty sure I am not going to to need the source for the stock version for the Note 3, I am going to need to find the P-600's source though. I am going to get started this weekend.
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mattyp92 said:
I'm pretty sure I am not going to to need the source for the stock version for the Note 3, I am going to need to find the P-600's source though. I am going to get started this weekend.
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Are you talking about the CyanogenMod source?

mattyp92 said:
I'm pretty sure I am not going to to need the source for the stock version for the Note 3, I am going to need to find the P-600's source though. I am going to get started this weekend.
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Did you start working on the ROM?

ilayron8 said:
Did you start working on the ROM?
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My P600 just broke this morning (dropped it on accident and broke screen, went into bootloop after trying to boot into recovery) so I am not going able to test it. I have been studying the CM source for the note 3, original note 10.1 wifi, note 8 wifi, and the Note 10.1 2014 stock source the last couple weeks and should be able to try and throw something together but have no idea if I will be able to get it working since I can't test it.

mattyp92 said:
My P600 just broke this morning (dropped it on accident and broke screen, went into bootloop after trying to boot into recovery) so I am not going able to test it. I have been studying the CM source for the note 3, original note 10.1 wifi, note 8 wifi, and the Note 10.1 2014 stock source the last couple weeks and should be able to try and throw something together but have no idea if I will be able to get it working since I can't test it.
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Bummer, sorry to hear about the loss! I can help test, though you'll want more than one, any other takers? I live like 10 min from you (Foxboro), so we could always attempt a coffee house meet up/test/troubleshoot session.

HumanCaviar said:
Bummer, sorry to hear about the loss! I can help test, though you'll want more than one, any other takers? I live like 10 min from you (Foxboro), so we could always attempt a coffee house meet up/test/troubleshoot session.
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I'm basically at the point where I have source from 3 different ROMs open and I am trying to see what changes were made between each one to port CM to each device already. I should have some actual working (though not finished) in about a week or so if my schedule allows for it. This is my first ROM so it is pretty much just a learning process. I go to school and work full time so most of the work is done in the VERY limited free time I actually have. If I get anything I feel comfortable enough that it won't brick your device, I will let you know.