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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

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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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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.

Gingerbread released for Nexus One

Hey guys! Don't know how many of you were watching, but the nexus one got its gingerbread update! Why does this matter? Well, the nexus one would have to be the first phone to receive the update and now that it has the floodgates are open! This is particularly good news for us g2 oowners, as we are running stock android and are one of the next in line for the update. Wooo!
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We already have a very stable version running on our phones so realistically its not that great news, its good but nothing to be shouting about haha sooorrry.

Indeed, but for those without stock this is good news and those with it can expect performance increases in custom ROMs when it comes out from the drivers it will provide. Kinda win win.
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I really wish it was that simple but its not the case. Just because it "looks" like stock doesn't mean that there's tons of different from AOSP. Plus, the nexii phones don't need their updates to be carrier approved unlike the G2. IMO we won't get official gingerbread until mid-summer. Totally sucks but realistically it's what we'll have to put up with. I'd love an updated .35/.37 kernel from HTC though. CM7 is so amazing though that I wouldn't even worry about it.

Beagan said:
We already have a very stable version running on our phones so realistically its not that great news, its good but nothing to be shouting about haha sooorrry.
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not necessarily, what about the people who are not rooted and cannot flash roms.
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Vandale said:
not necessarily, what about the people who are not rooted and cannot flash roms.
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Well, There is a pretty simple solution to that, isn't there?

Durkbeef said:
Well, There is a pretty simple solution to that, isn't there?
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But dude, we're a small group of super nerds. Even the guys struggling to root their phones and understand the concept of flashing ROMs are still far nerdier than most people.
Ahhh.. but the nerd life is a good life. So fricken' glad the Android platform has such a great community of super nerds.

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Well, There is a pretty simple solution to that, isn't there?
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Lol... true but we can't assume that everyone can root their device and know how to root their phone. So it will be good news for those who want the gingerbread update for the g2 but as for me I don't really care since I can use cyan7 running gingerbread already...
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Apparently samsung has "confirmed" Gingerbread for the galaxy s phones in march. (Check the galaxy s I9000 forums) By that logic, we should be getting it before then, unless tmobile botches their "pure android" marketing component for the G2.
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Chris41336 said:
Apparently samsung has "confirmed" Gingerbread for the galaxy s phones in march. (Check the galaxy s I9000 forums) By that logic, we should be getting it before then, unless tmobile botches their "pure android" marketing component for the G2.
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They also "confirmed" Froyo and look at that fiasco.

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.

MaxCarnage said:
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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[Q] ICS

hi does anyone know if ICS is coming to the atrix as ive been told so many things i dont know what to believe anymore

It is, in Q3 of this year
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Ironically, you lament about what you have been "told" in the past, yet you are expecting people to "tell" you again.
You can look for yourself.
https://forums.motorola.com/pages/00add97d6c
GREASEMONKEY13 said:
hi does anyone know if ICS is coming to the atrix as ive been told so many things i dont know what to believe anymore
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live4nyy said:
Ironically, you lament about what you have been "told" in the past, yet you are expecting people to "tell" you again.
You can look for yourself.
https://forums.motorola.com/pages/00add97d6c
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Oh, the irony of life.
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Install it using Cyanogenmod 9, it has Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.3 it is amazingly fast. The battery lasts a lot more. The only bad thing is that it will not have Video camera recorder. And the fingerprint unlock won't work eather. Beside that everything else is so fast and cool. You can install Google Chrome!
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Wow
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Thanks man! Can't wait for ICS even though Joker and Turl are doing excellent w/ the roms.

I can vouch for turls rom also. Been using it for about 3 weeks now and have very little complaints.
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The only thing that its keeping me from using CM9 right now is the lack of video camera recorder, other than that is working pretty nice.

^ This. I love my 1080p recording and am not willing to lose it

200hpAltima said:
^ This. I love my 1080p recording and am not willing to lose it
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Same here. The moment CM9 gets video camera recorder workibg, i might switch to it.
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me too. But right now I'm running a ROM that has a lot of ICS features but has an upgraded camera etc
Cant give that heaven up!!

[ICS] should they stop working on it

I've been following the ics project since after my birthday (11/27/11) and a lot has changed but when it comes to (FFC) it came to me that its not gonna work till maybe after the summer or never, whenever HTC gives out the code bit what's your opinion about the ics for the EVO 4G?
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This doesnt belong in the Android Development section, belongs in GENERAL.

My bad I thought it was general at first. The system will automaticly do it for me as usual.
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ummm my opinion on it is that if they dont want to they shouldnt. It will give us an awesome rom but more importantly that means our wonderful devs are learning stuff. this means that in the future they can use these experiences to help them in work or in other aspects of there personal lifes. so dev on guys you are doing great

Why in the world should they stop working on ICS? It makes little sense.
Deck and Kang and others are making great ICS ROMs for lots of phones, not just the EVO4G.

htc will release the code.. because it is an open source project. when is the question, not if.
ics will come..

Dan330 said:
htc will release the code.. because it is an open source project. when is the question, not if.
ics will come..
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The OS code is open source. The device drivers are not last I knew. So no, HTC does not have to release driver code.

HTC may release the FFC code for our OG's as soon as they sell enough of their newer devices.
They seem to be dragging their feet in releasing the official ICS updates for the Evo 3D and the Evo Design when they said they would, but they're holding it back, why? Cuz they want to sell enough of the One series models before they officially update the older HTC models that are scheduled to be updated with ICS.
Its kinda crappy of HTC to do that, but hey, they're a "for-profit" business.
But in answer to your question, heck no they shouldn't stop developing ICS for our OG Evo's! This sh*t is fun as hell.
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what is the point of this thread? why is that a question? sorry no disrespect.

Yeah, I don't get why a thread was started for this. But why should devs abandon ICS on Evo? Because they can't get FFC to work!? I've been on ICS since the minute they got camera working (around Xmas), and could NEVER imagine going back to GB or Froyo (well, ...maybe froyo).
Keep up the awesome work, all who are working on ICS for Evo.
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scottspa74 said:
Yeah, I don't get why a thread was started for this. But why should devs abandon ICS on Evo? Because they can't get FFC to work!? I've been on ICS since the minute they got camera working (around Xmas), and could NEVER imagine going back to GB or Froyo (well, ...maybe froyo).
Keep up the awesome work, all who are working on ICS for Evo.
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I flashed outer depth express from, which is a great rom , just for ****s and giggles and let me tell you I haven't tried sense for about a year now and if you want to appreciate ics, flash a sense rom and you will see y we won't look back.....omg.....
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I don't follow ICS what is FFC?
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BigSmoke53 said:
I don't follow ICS what is FFC?
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Front facing camera
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Front facing camera
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Wow I should know that, but I've never used mine so I never thought of it. But really why would they stop ics for that.
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BigSmoke53 said:
Wow I should know that, but I've never used mine so I never thought of it. But really why would they stop ics for that.
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That's my point. This thread makes no sense. Ics development for evo is extremely active. Don't understand the creation of this thread.
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Hahaha. Let's see... These devs have given us some of the smoothest ROMs our phones have ever seen, with incredible battery life and cutting edge features...
But if I can't look at myself in my phone with a FFC, what's the point??
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PsiPhiDan said:
Hahaha. Let's see... These devs have given us some of the smoothest ROMs our phones have ever seen, with incredible battery life and cutting edge features...
But if I can't look at myself in my phone with a FFC, what's the point??
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Hell no. I am ugly. I don't want to see myself anyway.
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The evo is EOL(end of life) HTC doesn't have to support it any longer meaning they won't release any source for it as they are not working on ICS for the device. Hardware mfgs may release source for the same hardware in other devices, like they did with the adreno or the devs may code their own drivers. But don't expect HTC to do a damn thing for the evo, period.
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All I'm saying we have a lot of people love the ics Rom but some people hate it cause no 4G. But let me tell one thing about the ics it came a lot since then and like some people who are poor or they don't make a lot of money, its hard to keep up with ics roms when the last two months the biggest change was 4.0.4 which is like starting all over again. Don't get me wrong with the debate about their work, its freaking amazing, but the biggest break through will be the ffc. Closest to that is from a horse ride to a plane ride experience
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I don't think that they should stop working on the ICS ROM's. I went from Sense to Ice Cream Sense to ICS and having ICS on my phone is like having a brand new phone. We don't have 4G in our area, and the front facing camera I hardly used. I am using gummyWorms ICS right now and so far had no major problems with it. There are minor glitches sometimes but, that is no big deal. I hope that the ICS developers can get everything working and I know that it will take time to do so. I appreciate all of their hard work in bringing us some ICS goodness to our phones.