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Gingerbread 2.3

Anyone watch the youtube videos about the android 2.3 press confrance supposed to release it 4th quarter of this year
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are you serious? We don't even have a fully working 2.2 yet, and you're worried about 2.3?

No im just saying that googles gonna push out a 2.3 at prob the time froyo roms are fully working for our phone
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Gingerbread is 3.0

DirtyShroomz said:
Gingerbread is 3.0
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Got proof?
Last I heard it was assumed that 3.0 was GingerBread. I remember a time when 2.1 was Flan.

abcdfv said:
Got proof?
Last I heard it was assumed that 3.0 was GingerBread. I remember a time when 2.1 was Flan.
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It's all speculation. Google tends to stay pretty tight until they have a press conference or release party. Look at FroYo - it was a total surprise to wake up and find that they where dropping source into the tree.
The blog-o-sphere refers to Gingerbread as 3.0. I believe that Google has round-about-ly confirmed that the name is in fact "GingerBread", but we won't have a version number till they drop source in the tree again around November. Judging from the speculated improvements, it should be a major version number change.

abcdfv said:
Got proof?
Last I heard it was assumed that 3.0 was GingerBread. I remember a time when 2.1 was Flan.
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The numbers have always been right, the names however have changed, at least that's what I've seen but I'm always drunk

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?desktop_uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DVWhxrf6a9nI&v=VWhxrf6a9nI&gl=US
Its 2.3
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My guess is 2.3 is correct, jumping a full revision number such as to 3.0 would generally indicate a partial or complete rewrite of the core code.

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http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?desktop_uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DVWhxrf6a9nI&v=VWhxrf6a9nI&gl=US
Its 2.3
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Can't use this link - video is not available.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWhxrf6a9nI

Awesome stuff on the horizon.

Pshsweet

I love the apple burn hahha "I turns out that on the Internet, PEOPLE USE FLASH!"

bumping this for a leaked screen shot.
http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Is_this_Android_30_Gingerbread_at_Work/551-112399-580.html
3.0 is what the version info says - given its just a screen shot and leaks are hardly ever trust worthy, but i like drama.

I'm still going with 3.0 and not 2.3....

I actually kinda wish that Google would slow down a little. I'm scared to buy a new phone if it's going to be outdated in three months when Google puts out something new. I guess that's why we donate to our developers!

mrcharlesiv said:
I actually kinda wish that Google would slow down a little. I'm scared to buy a new phone if it's going to be outdated in three months when Google puts out something new. I guess that's why we donate to our developers!
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Google has said that they will be slowing down after GingerBread(regardless of the version number). My assumption is they did not expect such rapid growth of the platform and users need a fully functional OS to make it worth buying into - A phone any more is not a quick purchase, there is a lot of investment in hardware and software. Where as with feature phones they where cheap(in comparison) and easily replaceable.

From what I remember seeing, the next update is to have some big changes making it most likely 3.0. All speculation though.
Personally I'm happy android has been updating quick. Keeps the phones newer fresher feeling longer and fixes problems quicker. I came from winmo and never got fixes and the roms bored me. Plus I really hated 6.5.
I'm holding out until December to upgrade and debate on new phone or used evo. I've been out of contract for 9 months now.
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Kcarpenter said:
bumping this for a leaked screen shot.
http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Is_this_Android_30_Gingerbread_at_Work/551-112399-580.html
3.0 is what the version info says - given its just a screen shot and leaks are hardly ever trust worthy, but i like drama.
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Somebody probably changed the build.prop or something.

The G2 will be the next Android phone that will get Gingerbread after the Nexus One??

Why yes or why no or which one do you think will be next after the nexus one??
I want to know your opinions...also how many weeks or months do you think it will take....
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Prolly the next phone to come out. G2 isnt going to get it all that fast. I will get it in a custom rom way before any ota
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francis2492 said:
Why yes or why no or which one do you think will be next after the nexus one??
I want to know your opinions...also how many weeks or months do you think it will take....
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Several months after the Nexus.
Which is why I will probably end up going back to the Nexus after its updated.
The G2 was touted as being vanilla Android but its not really.
So it will be however long TMO takes to port Gingerbread for the G2.
It wont be Google we are waiting on.

going_home said:
Several months after the Nexus.
Which is why I will probably end up going back to the Nexus after its updated.
The G2 was touted as being vanilla Android but its not really.
So it will be however long TMO takes to port Gingerbread for the G2.
It wont be Google we are waiting on.
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OTA several months after maybe so, custom rom no. Come on buddy, you are posting on XDA. Soon after the Gingerbread source is released you can bet anything that one of the rom makers will bake it into one of their roms or release a rooted version of it...
Sigh.
/endrant

+1
he knows what he's talkin about

Doesnt the evo4 already have some small port already? Anyway I'm pretty sure Cyanogen is already 50% through the new gingerbread source code.

andrewklau said:
Doesnt the evo4 already have some small port already? Anyway I'm pretty sure Cyanogen is already 50% through the new gingerbread source code.
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Source code isn't out yet

andrewklau said:
Anyway I'm pretty sure Cyanogen is already 50% through the new gingerbread source code.
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Through the SDK, perhaps ?

Vandam500 said:
OTA several months after maybe so, custom rom no. Come on buddy, you are posting on XDA. Soon after the Gingerbread source is released you can bet anything that one of the rom makers will bake it into one of their roms or release a rooted version of it...
Sigh.
/endrant
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I understand but those that are technically challenged (skeered of bricking our phones)
Have to wait on the OTA update.

I agree on that by the time they release it OTA I will have the Nexus S by then maybe even another toy. But the only reason why I love Android is the modding it's the greatest part of all I have all the custom rom's on both the Nexus One and G2 and flash sometimes multiple times a day waiting for the OTA weres the fun in that?

Meh, nothing that amazing in Gingerbread anyway.

Only thing amazing is that on / off animation...

It may not be crazy amazing stuff but I'm always down for some performance tweaks and fixes. And that on off animation is totally worth it.
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The HTC rep at training said that The G2 would get Gingerbread the same week as the Nexus One. There, I finally contributed something useful to XDA,hopefully.

infrared90 said:
The HTC rep at training said that The G2 would get Gingerbread the same week as the Nexus One. There, I finally contributed something useful to XDA,hopefully.
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Rep's dont know ****! Dont ever believe em they say w.e they say to make the user happy so they dont lose money =]! Its a business man!

Is N1 roms dev dead?

It's horrible but true!
Our beloved N1 losed the biggest devs:
-Paulobrien left several months ago
-Evil shows up very rarely
-Micromod sold his N1 so no more updates
-Rodriguez ''disapeared'' since january
Only a few devs are still here but the ''big heads'' left
No more Desire or Desire HD to N1 ports?
Oh the sweet times when we used to have incredible roms every 2 days and we didn't know what to choose...

It is a sad and inevitable decline. But at least we have Cyanogenmod. If the N1 lost support for that, i'd probably get a new phone. We look pretty safe for a good while now though.

Makes me sad cause I still don't wanna leave the nexus one:-(. What else is worth it? The nexus s ROM support hasn't really exploded yet, so I dunno where else I'd go.

I don't know about you.. but I've never had the need to try anything else than CyanogenMod, so I can't really say I'll miss or worry about the other devs being gone.

Paulobrien,Evil and Micromod were the ones who ported Desire roms into N1, without them we are stuck to ''plain'' roms
Desire HD port need some works and I doubt someone will port Desire gingerbread to N1

Desire ROMs are in decline - because nobody is interested enough to finesse them, but GB ROMs are crawling from under every corner - because it's new and fun. Even though they're mostly beta-quality - because everyone is waiting for the official GB update.
When GB will be on Desire, and only then, you'll see if there is any development. Right now there's nothing to develop.

You have lot people waiting for a faster and more stable Desire HD rom
But as I said the only one to really work on it is Evil, other devs are just cooking MIUI and CM7 instead of porting something new

You forget one of the best dev's in the list, Enomther.

Enomther has always been rare
Perhaps he's waiting for official gingerbread release before doing his new rom,he's very carefull

vegetaleb said:
Enomther has always been rare
Perhaps he's waiting for official gingerbread release before doing his new rom,he's very carefull
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He announced his stepping away from rom developement in his thread for his rom. Whether it is temp or permanent remains to be seen, but he will be missed. He was definitely tops on my list.

vegetaleb said:
Enomther has always been rare
Perhaps he's waiting for official gingerbread release before doing his new rom,he's very carefull
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unfortunately http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11089520&postcount=8305

The question is where are they going? Nexus s?
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onesavior said:
The question is where are they going? Nexus s?
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Took the words out of my mouth. Did a new worthwhile phone come out this past month or something? I suspect (as someone else mentioned), most are just waiting for Google to finally release GB. I myself have been bouncing around MIUI, and GB ROMs. Now I'm back to stock with a blackbar theme and I'm pretty peachy. Long live the Nexus One!

There is a lull simply because 2.3 isn't out. Look how the dev section exploded with the OTA for froyo. Once 2.3 hits I'm sure it'll heat up again

Hollow.Droid said:
There is a lull simply because 2.3 isn't out. Look how the dev section exploded with the OTA for froyo. Once 2.3 hits I'm sure it'll heat up again
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Your post reminds me of that old saying "the calm before the storm" lol. And yes this is true, the mytouch 3G I switched from went pretty dead after being stuck on 1.6 forever and once an "official" release of 2.1 let out, devs trickled back in and it heated up again, I think once 2.3 officially drops for the N1 that it is gonna start a firey oven of optimized tastey roms.. Personally I think the devs are just bored of 2.2 and want to play with something new and 2.3 just isn't in a good enough standing right now for them to attempt to "optimize" it..
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vegetaleb said:
It's horrible but true!
Our beloved N1 losed the biggest devs:
-Paulobrien left several months ago
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Paulobrien said on modaco site: I still have my N1 and i'm still planning new updates. It was at Jan 31 2011, 19:45.
Sorry can't write direct link due newbie status.

And if you like a Devs rom be sure to donate. No one works for free
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MIUI (which is the most innovative Android ROM) and CM are still going strong for the Nexus, so no, development is not dead.

Sexy nexy still the best!!!!!!! It has everything what i need, like amoled cam flash GPS ...... i stay with my sexy nexy
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It's sad that's lots of devs are leaving the N1.
But be optimistic and patient everyone as we wait for the official OTA.
Right now I'm using cyanmod 6.1 and it's been great. I'm just glad we still have him around. I'm sure cyanogen ain't never gonna leave us.

gingerbread release here

i take no credit, just passing this on
http://www.mydroidworld.com/forums/fascinate/8081-gingerbread-fascinate-release-thread.html

First reply, that's what's up.
First off thanks for posting this here.
Second, wondered what made him have a change of heart?
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No thanks, I'll wait for the Dev optimized version. :/

AlgorithmX said:
No thanks, I'll wait for the Dev optimized version. :/
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Agreed
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he said on twitter that fassy owners emailed him and that changed his mind, didn't want to hold it out from the rest of us because of an argument

doctorj1 said:
he said on twitter that fassy owners emailed him and that changed his mind, didn't want to hold it out from the rest of us because of an argument
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He'd already said that others were going to release it anyways, so... take from it what you will.

AlgorithmX said:
No thanks, I'll wait for the Dev optimized version. :/
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Also agree. Let TSM get their hands on it first
After running stock for a few days (during that whole ZOMG my 3G is gone fiasco) I was about ready to throw it out the window.

After a whole days worth of prepubescent tantrums. I don't want to touch this. I think I'd rather rock Adryn's froyo SC than a P3 GB leak. Haha.

If owners were going to release anyways then i'm sure its all about where the credit goes. That's why P3 released IMO. I am glad, however, that he chose the side of advancing the android os rather than holding grudges.

I don't flash any ROM anymore that isn't deodexed (theme-able), debloated (though I do like the TW video player and Media Hub), and de-Binged (though I still find Bing to be useful, that doesn't mean I want it built into my ROM). Therefore, like some of you have already said, I will wait until it's released as a custom ROM by Nitro, TSM, or one of the other devs who have worked on the Fascinate for more than a week or two.
[EDIT]: Oh, yeah, forgot to mention - I am also going to wait for a voodoo kernel (actually I forgot that this would install a new kernel). That looks to be a much longer wait than for someone to de-B it (deodex, debloat, de-Bing) it, since, as I understand, no kernel source has been leaked. It took a couple of months, as I recall, after the DL30 leak, for a Froyo voodoo kernel to be released. That was because no kernel source had been leaked, only the functional ROM build. The voodoo kernel was based on the official ED01 release after Samsung posted the kernel source.
Another Fascinating post by my XDA app...

Save yourselves the trouble and do not flash until there is a less buggy and de binged version. At the very least we know that there is a Fully Functional GB rom on Verizon for the Fascinate.

I am very surprised. I didn't think samsung would develop gingerbread this fast. They took almost a year to put out froyo then 2 months later we have gb.
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Avelnan said:
I am very surprised. I didn't think samsung would develop gingerbread this fast. They took almost a year to put out froyo then 2 months later we have gb.
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EC09 is the build number, meaning most likely that a second dev team was working on GB while froyo was being finished up.

Avelnan said:
I am very surprised. I didn't think samsung would develop gingerbread this fast. They took almost a year to put out froyo then 2 months later we have gb.
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Actually, this is an old engineering build. I heard about it a while back, just never got to see it.

I wonder how long till we get an OTA of Gingerbread?

I would imagine it will be a little while. Verizon is notorious for continually pushing things back, and I don't see why this OTA would be any different.

What exactly is so great about gingerbread?

No ICS from Samsung, but we will get it any way with CM9

global.samsungtomorrow.com/?p=8894
Update...
http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2012/01/03/samsung-has-no-plans-to-deliver-value-pack-for-galaxy-s-smartphones/
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OP's Links
global.samsungtomorrow.com/?p=8894
http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2012/0...-deliver-value-pack-for-galaxy-s-smartphones/

No one was really expecting an official ICS for the Epic. By the time Samsprint would have gotten it to us we would all be on LTE phones so it doesn't matter.
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yeah the LTE samsungs on sprint will be ICS or higher. There is a port in the works in the dev section thats getting support but its far from being useable.

I don't think we will get anything official, but we might get CM9 like we did CM7.

It doesn't say we won't get it. It says something like they'll announce other products that get it later. Don't get your hopes up, but don't count us out either.
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Not going to happen for the Epic 4G. Phone is to old. Even if CM9 came around it won't ever get anywhere. CM6 never got finished, CM7 still isn't fully working, CM9 will be posted just to say look what I got to boot. People are moving on to newer phones.

a454nova said:
Not going to happen for the Epic 4G. Phone is to old. Even if CM9 came around it won't ever get anywhere. CM6 never got finished, CM7 still isn't fully working, CM9 will be posted just to say look what I got to boot. People are moving on to newer phones.
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They also said We'd never get gingerbread and that cm6 would never boot.... buuuut I guess time will tell.
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a454nova said:
Not going to happen for the Epic 4G. Phone is to old. Even if CM9 came around it won't ever get anywhere. CM6 never got finished, CM7 still isn't fully working, CM9 will be posted just to say look what I got to boot. People are moving on to newer phones.
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I say the same.. why make updates for 1st gen phones when those user can spend more money upgrading to a new version.. thats how all company works. They cant sell new phones if they still have the older phones up to date.. Im cool with 2.3 on my phone maybe cuz i know i got a tablet which is gonna get ics soon..
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What do you mean us? It'll work just fine on my SGS3.

a454nova said:
Not going to happen for the Epic 4G. Phone is to old. Even if CM9 came around it won't ever get anywhere. CM6 never got finished, CM7 still isn't fully working, CM9 will be posted just to say look what I got to boot. People are moving on to newer phones.
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Lol we're going to get CM9 buddy. We'll be officially supported by Cyanogenmod since now we have MTD like other Galaxy S variants.
I understand why you aren't in any way optimistic, however CM6 was discontinued due to it not being popular enough, CM7 is nearly finished, and it only took a long time since we weren't supported by Cyanogenmod and we didn't even have Gingerbread source until 2 months ago.
Now, I'm 95% sure our phone is picked up by Cyanogenmod and we will get official CM 7.2 as well as CM9.
When will that happen? Who knows? But we will get it, and I guarantee we will have at least an early build of CM9 in the coming months.
Don't lose faith
And OP: Did you actually expect our phone to get ICS? It took over a year to get Gingerbread after it's initial release, and I don't think Samsung will spend another year updating a phone that no one's going to have next year. We will get ports though, I'm sure of that. (WORKING Ports, that is. Not the one based off of the SDK)

You guys know the epic sucks major donkey balls on updates, why get yourself all worked up about something that will never happen? Just setting yourself up for disappointment. If you don't like it you have one of two options, use your phone as its built for (calls, texts, web) or buy a new phone just for an update.
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|| Acer || said:
Lol we're going to get CM9 buddy. We'll be officially supported by Cyanogenmod since now we have MTD like other Galaxy S variants.
I understand why you aren't in any way optimistic, however CM6 was discontinued due to it not being popular enough, CM7 is nearly finished, and it only took a long time since we weren't supported by Cyanogenmod and we didn't even have Gingerbread source until 2 months ago.
Now, I'm 95% sure our phone is picked up by Cyanogenmod and we will get official CM 7.2 as well as CM9.
When will that happen? Who knows? But we will get it, and I guarantee we will have at least an early build of CM9 in the coming months.
Don't lose faith
And OP: Did you actually expect our phone to get ICS? It took over a year to get Gingerbread after it's initial release, and I don't think Samsung will spend another year updating a phone that no one's going to have next year. We will get ports though, I'm sure of that. (WORKING Ports, that is. Not the one based off of the SDK)
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If we get CM7 official, then we'll see CM9.
But,
ciwrl (CM team) said epic is slated for last because its full of nasty hacks. So who knows when...

ics on epic
HTML:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1330503&page=34
this is the port of ICS on epic, its source not SDK

a454nova said:
If we get CM7 official, then we'll see CM9.
But,
ciwrl (CM team) said epic is slated for last because its full of nasty hacks. So who knows when...
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Can you link me to that? And also, when is cm7.2 supposed to come out?
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kennyglass123 said:
No one was really expecting an official ICS for the Epic. By the time Samsprint would have gotten it to us we would all be on LTE phones so it doesn't matter.
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Not all. I'm milking this pup as long as possible since I'm relatively rural and LTE will most likely be a late rollout.
Sent from my hoe. Forgive the typoes; it's an Epic.

Samsung change there minds again.. No ics or value pack....
http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2012/0...-deliver-value-pack-for-galaxy-s-smartphones/
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txtmikhail said:
Samsung change there minds again.. No ics or value pack....
http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2012/0...-deliver-value-pack-for-galaxy-s-smartphones/
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[...] a Samsung spokesperson has said that the company will not offer the update due to the hardware specifications of the older Galaxy devices, in that they are limited to and fully optimised for the Gingerbread experience.[...]
Ha, ha ha, ha. They really claimed "fully optimised"? It took a lot of work to bring Gingerbread anywhere near stable, let alone "optimised". Also, isn't it optimized? Oh well, we never expected it in the first place, and even Gingerbread (broken as it was) was a surprise. If ICS is really wanted on the Epic, someone brighter than I will find a way to port it, I'm sure. At the same time, I'm quite happy with my phone.

Even if ICS came to the i9000 GSM Galaxy S, it would never ever come to the Epic 4G.
Why? We only have 512 MB of flash storage. ICS is big, and this would give us very little space for /data.
Fortunately, it is possible for us to work around this by putting /data on a SD card, but making the modifications for it would take time.
This is one of those things where MTD support is useful, since /system can now be resized.

jnadke said:
Even if ICS came to the i9000 GSM Galaxy S, it would never ever come to the Epic 4G.
Why? We only have 512 MB of flash storage. ICS is big, and this would give us very little space for /data.
Fortunately, it is possible for us to work around this by putting /data on a SD card, but making the modifications for it would take time.
This is one of those things where MTD support is useful, since /system can now be resized.
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We actually have about 700mb now...
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