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Anyone think gingerbread can be ported from nexus S

Anyone know if hardware its gonna be the same etc
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barmanham said:
Anyone know if hardware its gonna be the same etc
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more than likely

barmanham said:
Anyone know if hardware its gonna be the same etc
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put it this way... the G1 runs 2.2, we walk on the moon, we give millions of dollars to Justin Bieber, Obama got elected (had to)
Anything is possible.

Leaked specs show it to be just another Galaxy S phone but with Gingrbread. Also, since it has support for T-Mobile's AWS bands, the modem should probably work, too. It's basically the Vibrant but with a front-facing camera (which we can mod in anyways). I'll be shocked if there isn't a port within days of the Nexus S being released. And hell, Samsung and T-Mo should make the damn firmware downloadable to us! (OK, that last part will never happen...well, not officially
Sources:
http://phandroid.com/2010/11/11/int...s-nexus-s-specs-confirms-t-mobile-as-carrier/
http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/11/google-nexus-s-is-the-samsung-gt-i9020/
I mean, this is the exact same phone we have but with the front-facing camera installed.

So can we get the rear camera to work with no banding with some firmware from this being ported over? I think that's the best thing of porting over some stuff from this phone.
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DonutYankee said:
I mean, this is the exact same phone we have but with the front-facing camera installed.
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Not directly @donut, but...
The point of it being a NEXUS is that it is the most open phone. The nexus is the android development phone. It is pure android with all support coming straight from google! Everyone should hope this is not just a rumour. This would hopefully get us 2.3 & more on the fast track.
Of course there are specifics that may not translate but here's to hoping : cheers:!

All~G1 said:
Not directly @donut, but...
The point of it being a NEXUS is that it is the most open phone. The nexus is the android development phone. It is pure android with all support coming straight from google! Everyone should hope this is not just a rumour. This would hopefully get us 2.3 & more on the fast track.
Of course there are specifics that may not translate but here's to hoping : cheers:!
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Well said. The phone is real. All we need is to confirm the hardware is exactly the same (except the camera part). If the hardware is the same, that makes things easier. As the ROM chefs/devs here have shown, porting is doable among Galaxy S phones with the hardware being so similar.

I honestly think we will get gingerbread before froyo
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Hopefully this will completely free us from samsung's awful rfs as well.

Its a rumor, but I heard that it was being delayed to put in a dual core hummingbird.
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/artic...cause_android_2_3_not_optimized_for_dual-core
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djkozdefantastico said:
I honestly think we will get gingerbread before froyo
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I usually don't participate in the "When is ______ coming to the Vibrant?" chaos, but I thought that was really funny.
Nice job.

Lights out!! I think we have a winner!!

HOLEEEE!!
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13970_7-20031679-78.html

Holy mother of pearls! That thing ia gorgeous! ;-)
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umm...I want

Dayummmmmm
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I want one =[

does it have flash?
NVM

Their gonna be able to takes screen shots bcz they got a physical button

Finally! 2.2!
Not falling for that.
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adamr240 said:
Finally! 2.2!
Not falling for that.
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It also runs the latest Android 2.3 Gingerbread

amwilliams9 said:
It also runs the latest Android 2.3 Gingerbread
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Disssssssss

Touch whiz....
hells no.
ANNNNNNND physical button.....HELL NO.

That phone had everything we wish ours had

The intl version of the vibrant had a physical button too...we will probably get hosed out of that feature again. Who uses the search button anyway?
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Boooo
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sublimnl said:
The intl version of the vibrant had a physical button too...we will probably get hosed out of that feature again. Who uses the search button anyway?
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Long press for Google Voice Search!

N8ter said:
The par for the course was about the laggy performance quite evident in the video. Their software is terrible. Always has been, and always will be.
It was the same on the pre-release Galaxy S phones and people said "it's a pre-release phone." Don't come crying here when you need a lag fix for your awesome GSII.
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What he said!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOxAh4I2jrk&feature=player_embedded

Sweet... from vibrant to mytouch4g to nexus s to galaxy 2. If its really got a dual core Sammy processor then we are talking Orion? If this baby comes out by summer then that best buy buy back insurance is going to be pretty nice!
I love my sns on cyanogen but really miss all the great codecs etc. Team whiskey really made the vibrant special. I hate touchwhiz but ifs easier to remove most of the bad with that and keep all the good with guys like team whiskey and supercurio than it is to try to hack all of it back in. You get a permenant rfs fix and get rid of the overlay and everything's flying high! The sns seems to have a better screen than my vibrant did in all areas save for the gorilla glass. Can't even imagine a samoled without pentile, its going to be amazing! Wonder how that Orion's going to card against qualcomm and Tegra2... gpu will definitely be nice at the very least. Qualcomm will probably always own the linpack scores but a phone is so much better than that. Lets hope by then gingerbread gets hardware enabled browsing...
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By the time it releases, Ice Cream will have already been released...

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By the time it releases, Ice Cream will have already been released...
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Its still going to be called gingerbread

*the gingerbread thread*

Well, now that most of us have FroYo, I thought that we might be lacking something to WILDLY speculate about... sooooo GINGERBREAD ANYONE!?
Some of our friends in Europe already have gingerbread on their Galaxy S's, so the question is, when do we get ours?
Now I know that it took us over six months to get FroYo, but that was due to some sort of disagreement with Verizon and Samsung (most likely over Bing). However, since we now have 2.2, I would *assume* that they have gotten past that and that any future updates we get will most likely come in a more timely fashion.
If things go accordingly, and Samsung and Verizon play nice, then I would assume that we would be getting gingerbread around September or October (based on how long it took FroYo to be distributed to other carriers).
What do you guys think?
P.S. I'll post any major updates that appear in the media.

Penis.
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Avelnan said:
Penis.
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Grow up.
OP: I think the gingerbread update is going to take even longer than froyo because the gx2 and the charge are going to be out. Samsung is most likely going to update those before they even think about us.

Unfortunately, the truth is: we don't know when the heck Gingerbread is coming for the Fascinate. And with Samsung's somewhat random updates, its really hard to guess even a general date.

If we can get CM7 and maybe officially supported by CM. who cares about stock GB. If JT and PK's work becomes bug free, and it looks like they have done great job, I think we might see gold.
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Avelnan said:
Penis.
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You win. See also, no trolling.

Legato525 said:
If we can get CM7 and maybe officially supported by CM. who cares about stock GB. If JT and PK's work becomes bug free, and it looks like they have done great job, I think we might see gold.
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You want official gingerbread because you want source and a. 35 kernel

Legato525 said:
If we can get CM7 and maybe officially supported by CM. who cares about stock GB. If JT and PK's work becomes bug free, and it looks like they have done great job, I think we might see gold.
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Having the source code from the gingerbread specifically designed for our phone would make our build of CM even more stable.

Sleek69 said:
Grow up.
OP: I think the gingerbread update is going to take even longer than froyo because the gx2 and the charge are going to be out. Samsung is most likely going to update those before they even think about us.
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Main reason the Droid Charge will get Froyo before the Fascinate: The Droid name.
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WAT IS GINgERBREADS?

DirgeExtinction said:
Main reason the Droid Charge will get Froyo before the Fascinate: The Droid name.
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So... who wants to form a petition to change the name of the Fascinate to something that includes "DROID"?
My vote is the "DROID Wolfpack". Perhaps this requires another thread..

gubiguy said:
So... who wants to form a petition to change the name of the Fascinate to something that includes "DROID"?
My vote is the "DROID Wolfpack". Perhaps this requires another thread..
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How about the Droid Orphan, cuz that's what it's felt like sometimes. The only thing keeping it going has been the adoption by this community of devs.
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DirgeExtinction said:
Main reason the Droid Charge will get Froyo before the Fascinate: The Droid name.
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Completely untrue. The droid name means nothing. Carrier and manufacturer are the same. Hardware is the exact same as a the fascinate other than the fact that it has a 4g radio. Its a last gen phone in the very beginning of a new generation... No one cares about it. If anything, its twice the orphan than the fascinate was.

Skrazz said:
WAT IS GINgERBREADS?
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Do you live in a mountain ?
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garywojdan81 said:
How about the Droid Orphan, cuz that's what it's felt like sometimes. The only thing keeping it going has been the adoption by this community of devs.
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But you see, the large dev community is the WOLFPACK! So it makes sense ...okay maybe I should drop this subject before I get attacked by a tiny chinese man jumping out of the trunk of a car..

thefunkbot said:
Completely untrue. The droid name means nothing. Carrier and manufacturer are the same. Hardware is the exact same as a the fascinate other than the fact that it has a 4g radio. Its a last gen phone in the very beginning of a new generation... No one cares about it. If anything, its twice the orphan than the fascinate was.
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Completely wrong, sammy has a total different hardware than any phone available... they make their own parts, even the screen and i think even the cables and other things.... so never compare a sammy to a motorolla or what ever
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bosina said:
Completely wrong, sammy has a total different hardware than any phone available... they make their own parts, even the screen and i think even the cables and other things.... so never compare a sammy to a motorolla or what ever
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Isn't the Droid Charge also made by Samsung?
Just sayin..

Psh with I/o tomorrow Ice cream sandwich should be the topic of discussion
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thefunkbot said:
Completely untrue. The droid name means nothing. Carrier and manufacturer are the same. Hardware is the exact same as a the fascinate other than the fact that it has a 4g radio. Its a last gen phone in the very beginning of a new generation... No one cares about it. If anything, its twice the orphan than the fascinate was.
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How much do you want to bet the Droid Charge will see Gingerbread and more minor updates than the Fascinate just because it's in the Droid lineup? Both phones are nearly identical when it comes to software. Nearly every phone in the Droid lineup has had great support(except for the Eris and maybe the Pro).

I honestly don't think the fascinate will ever see gingerbread in any sort of official way.

Honeycomb 3.2 for SGS2?

The SDK has been released, will we see this on the SGS2 soon?
If not by Samsung by the rom gurus?
http://blog.gsmarena.com/google-releases-android-3-2-honeycomb-sdk-list-of-updates/

Nope. It's for tablets only, and I doubt anyone can manage to port it to our device.
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bruflot said:
Nope. It's for tablets only, and I doubt anyone can manage to port it to our device.
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Ahh ok, thanks, shame though

3.0 was ported to HD2, so it's possible.
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Nope. It's for tablets only, and I doubt anyone can manage to port it to our device.
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You mean "could be bothered" to port it. I'm sure that someone _could_, but an OS designed for a tablet on a 4.3" screen would be a bit average.
Wait for the Cyanogen guys to port IceCream Sandwich (Android 4.0?) if/when it turns up. By that time Samsung will have dropped the SGS2 like last weeks spam sandwich and will be pushing the SGS3 instead.
Of course, that won't be until around Christmas sometime I'd be guessing.

God dammit, this is about the 3rd topic on the same thing. SDK does not equal the whole os, google have only put out the source for the gpl bits and a lot of android is apache.
And a 3.0 port wouldn't make much sense on a 4.3inch screen
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this is the exact reason why Google hasn't made honeycomb open sourced.
Honeycomb is only meant for tablets. Until people learn to accept that it will remain closed. We've already seen android ruined by sub-par OEMs putting android on their **** hardware.

I hope not, honeycomb looks so messy at the moment

There really is no point putting honeycomb on a phone, the optimisations are mainly just for larger screens. If there is something nice in there it normally gets ripped out and cooked into a ROM or app anyway, its just a waste of time doing a full port IMHO.

huball said:
3.0 was ported to HD2, so it's possible.
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Yeah i remember the thread in question,BUT it was practically useless most functions were not working on the phone.

Then i hope a dev could make a really good honeycomb theme in that case
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Just gotta wait about 2~4 months for ice cream sandwich to release and then a bit longer for update. But it's gonna be awesome
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Honeycomb is just for tablets, ok.
How about ICS?

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Yeah i remember the thread in question,BUT it was practically useless most functions were not working on the phone.
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Of course, but it was fun to play with
I even played Angry Birds.
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Looks like Android ICS may have leaked.

Looks like Androids next big thing Ice Cream Sandwhich may have leaked. For real this time.
Look here: Twitter.com/captainkrtek
And here: Twitter.com/r2doesinc
And here: twitter.com/androidpolice
Read through some of the tweets made by all of them. All of which are pretty reliable sources. R2doesinc is a reputable dev and captainkrtek a RootzWiki admin.
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That would be fantastic!

I don't know if HTC will officially support Ice Cream for our Evo's. I just remember the issues that the devs ran into prior to the official release of GB. I hope I'm wrong because it would be great to have. I also wonder if our hardware even meets the system requirements.
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spyd312 said:
I don't know if HTC will officially support Ice Cream for our Evo's. I just remember the issues that the devs ran into prior to the official release of GB. I hope I'm wrong because it would be great to have. I also wonder if our hardware even meets the system requirements.
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ICS is designed to help end fragmentation. It should run fine on the hardware. I doubt htc will support it tho.
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spyd312 said:
I don't know if HTC will officially support Ice Cream for our Evo's. I just remember the issues that the devs ran into prior to the official release of GB. I hope I'm wrong because it would be great to have. I also wonder if our hardware even meets the system requirements.
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If this (http://androidandme.com/2011/08/news/13-things-we-might-see-with-the-release-of-android-4-0-in-q4/) is correct, any phone running 2.3 should be able to handle ICS.

Evo 4g is close to its end of life the only way we could get this is thru roms
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It's interesting at least that we may start getting hints as to what lies ahead for both Android phones and tablets. I'm sure the CM folks will end up porting, so we'll likely see it on the EVO 4G at some point.
Looks like it's mostly UI changes though. Wish they'd posted a screenie of the Gmail app changes; I love the app but the look of it is plain and ugly.

I honestly doubt the Evo will get ICS, we barely got GB, and its not like that OTA was welcomed with open arms.

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It's interesting at least that we may start getting hints as to what lies ahead for both Android phones and tablets. I'm sure the CM folks will end up porting, so we'll likely see it on the EVO 4G at some point.
Looks like it's mostly UI changes though. Wish they'd posted a screenie of the Gmail app changes; I love the app but the look of it is plain and ugly.
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I assure you, once source is released for ics, ill be trying to get it running on the EVO!
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Jlallman said:
I honestly doubt the Evo will get ICS, we barely got GB, and its not like that OTA was welcomed with open arms.
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Very very true. But I'm sure some talented devs would love the challenge of whipping up a Rom for the evo. But only time will tell

Steven 1 said:
Very very true. But I'm sure some talented devs would love the challenge of whipping up a Rom for the evo. But only time will tell
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No doubt the Devs will come through for us, but im not so sure about Sprint and HTC.

Thank god the evo still has lithid developing....otherwise most of the development would come to a screeching halt.
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HTC probably won't officially support it, but I don't doubt that other developers could get it running with the sources available. Also, hope there's some hw acceleration. But no kernel version 3 yet?

lithid-cm said:
I assure you, once source is released for ics, ill be trying to get it running on the EVO!
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Did I mention I love you lith!? Lol, no homo!
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Considering people have gotten 2.3 running on the G1, I think it's entirely feasible that the EVO could run ICS.
It may not be without it's problems, but I'm sure after some refining it could be perfectly usable.

Call me idiotic, noobie, or what have you; But happened with Honeycomb? Is that only for tablets?
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Black-Dash said:
Call me idiotic, noobie, or what have you; But happened with Honeycomb? Is that only for tablets?
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Source was never released (if I remember correctly). So that's why we never saw any roms.
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Honeycomb was designed for tablets and plus the source was never released to prevent more fragmentation. Icecream is supposed to bridge the gap between gingerbread and honeycomb.

Looks like it will be coming out around the holidays for the Samsung phones
This is from Gizmocrunch
http://www.gizmocrunch.com/android/7967-samsung-nexus-prime-android-ice-cream-sandwich
"Now what's interesting is that both Samsung devices are mentioned as getting the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update, leaving the HTC built Google Nexus One out of the equation. So it looks like Samsung will have a big advantage over other Android phone manufacturers come this holidays when Ice Cream Sandwich is set to debut."

lithid-cm said:
I assure you, once source is released for ics, ill be trying to get it running on the EVO!
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I love this man! Thank you for all you have done for this community.
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