[Q] Almost rooted? - Xoom General

Hi guys,
I flashed my Xoom to ICS, and now I have the following configuration:
- I can do adb, adb install
- I can do adb shell as regular user,
- from there, I can do "su" and get access to /data and other root files
- RootChecker tells me I'm not rooted
- no rooted app works (e.g. RootExplorer)
I guess I just need to install SuperUser.apk, sudo and a couple of other things, but I am overwhelmed with information (SuperOneClick, Z4Root etc). Can somebody help me? How can I get rooted apps to work?
Thank you very much
John

Can i ask how where u got the ics files from? Wanna try it out...
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What ICS build did you use? I'm not aware of any stable Xoom ICS Rom at this time?

Troll post? I mean, if you're one of those in the know to get an alpha ICS ROM, you'd assume you'd have a dev friend to help you with the quirks of it.

What do you mean, guys? The latest software is available here.
androidadvices.com update-root-motorola-xoom-honeycomb-322-firmware-version [apparently I cannot post links]
Isn't it supposed to be stable? When is a stable version going to be available?

That is definitely not ICS they are talking about in that site. They are talking about Android 3.2.2 which is still Honeycomb. After playing with my Galaxy Nexus all day though, Ice Cream Sandwich can't come out fast enough for the 4G Xoom... it is honestly so much more polished.

Botero said:
That is definitely not ICS they are talking about in that site. They are talking about Android 3.2.2 which is still Honeycomb. After playing with my Galaxy Nexus all day though, Ice Cream Sandwich can't come out fast enough for the 4G Xoom... it is honestly so much more polished.
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Lol, no... we have also ics for zoom, it is in the dev section... works great except a few flaws... and there is no root right now

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CM9 and ICS on the way to Kindle Fire?

Hello!
I just read an article on Engadget, reporting news about CyanogenMod 9 and Ice Cream Sandwich. Link (my first post, so waren't allowed to post clickable link... sorry!): engadget.com/2011/12/06/ics-based-cyanogenmod-9-its-on-track-but-not-for-everybody/
It mentions CM9 making good progress, especially for devices powered by the OMAP 4 processor. Considering the OMAP 4430 processor inside the Fire, this must be great news for future Fire ROM's?
Is it likely we'll see a CM9 ROM for the Fire?
hachiueno said:
Hello!
I just read an article on Engadget, reporting news about CyanogenMod 9 and Ice Cream Sandwich. Can't post the link here since I just signed-up here at XDA, but it should be easy to find. Titled 'ICS-based CyanogenMod 9: it's on track, but not for everybody'.
It mentions good progress on CM9, especially for devices powered by the OMAP 4 processor. Considering the OMAP 4430 processor inside the Fire, I believe this must be great news for future Fire ROM's?
Do you believe it's likely we'll see a CM9 ROM for the Fire?
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Yes. If you read around a little bit you'll see this already beinging talked about
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Ok, thank you, I'll try to find some more threads about it. Those I've found so far are mostly about porting the CM7 ROM, but I guess the CM9 gets mentioned as well
CM7 has been ported, but does not have sound. The Dev. working on that did that to prove it could be done, then went directly to an ICS port. Another Dev says he has completed ICS, with aspects not working, but sucessfully booting, and will post pics and source later today. It is def. coming. I am waiting for the TWRP 2.0 before I mess with them though. I need successful recovery tools before I am willing to brick a $199 investment.
Sounds really great! I haven't received my Kindle yet, but the idea of running ICS on it is very exciting.
Do any of you have any thoughts about the performance? I've tried some HTC Android phones earlier, and noticed a significant performance increase when I replaced the stock ROM (with Sense) with a Vanilla Gingerbread ROM. Do you believe it will be the same result here? Better performance with Vanilla ICS than with the stock ROM including Amazon's custom UI?
It indeed seems like the developers that are working on the Kindle Fire make great progress! Awesome news for me that is probably importing one to Sweden in the near future. Awesome work developers!
Same here! Importing one to Norway, so a great part of the Kindle Fire Custom UI is more or less 'useless' for me... ICS will certainly make it a lot more versatile!
MayfairDROID said:
CM7 has been ported, but does not have sound. The Dev. working on that did that to prove it could be done, then went directly to an ICS port. Another Dev says he has completed ICS, with aspects not working, but sucessfully booting, and will post pics and source later today. It is def. coming. I am waiting for the TWRP 2.0 before I mess with them though. I need successful recovery tools before I am willing to brick a $199 investment.
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I'm with you there, I want to install the CM7 port so bad but don't like not having a working recovery yet. Wish I knew enough to help out the development, but I'm just a tinkerer.
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I can't wait for ICS to get to my AKF
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guys check out kindle fire utility! Its pretty slick. it does a whole host of things, including install twrp2.0. just do a search for Kindle Fire Utility.
If you landed on this thread hoping for a link to CyanogenMod 9 (android 4.0) for the kindle fire...
Go here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...&postcount=635
your welcome.
queencitypete said:
If you landed on this thread hoping for a link to CyanogenMod 9 (android 4.0) for the kindle fire...
Go here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...&postcount=635
your welcome.
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Thanks!!! ....for the 404 page not found message??? It get taken off already? /shrug
link is wrong inserted - just copy and paste won't do it ...
btw: here are the actual threads:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1411895
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1476352
On ICS and love it...now gonna try CM9!
I have been on ICS for a week now and love it...Now its time to try out CM9, since they got a new update today! Want to give HUGE THANKS to all the DEVS!! You have made my Kindle Fire AWESOME!!
I also installed the cm9 beta earlier this week. I've updated with each new release and it just keeps getting better. It runs so much faster than the OEM software and most of my apps install with ease. Can't thank the devs enough for their work.
Kindle Fire ICS beta is awesome
The new Kernel by Hashcode is amazing a step in the right direction for perfect KF support for ICS. Thank you to Hashcode, JackpotCalvin, and all the other devs who put in so much time to get this working!

Advantage of running official ICS over Team EOS nightly?

Hey all, I'm running the Team EOS nightly and was wondering if there is any advantage to restoring to stock honeycomb for the official ICS update?
Should I just wait until a rooted ICS version based on the official is released?
It was released already, it's at the top of the development forum...flash with CWM, it's already rooted. From what I understand, it's probably faster for 3D gaming...could be wrong though.
Are there any issues with the official ics? I would do a search but it seems the search function is missing for some strange reason.
OriginalMemnock said:
Hey all, I'm running the Team EOS nightly and was wondering if there is any advantage to restoring to stock honeycomb for the official ICS update?
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I can't think of a single one. I just flashed nightly 26 from 23, booting it now. Loving the EOS builds!
For a while none of the gameloft games were working on EOS.
Could have been fixed by now.
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tincbtrar said:
For a while none of the gameloft games were working on EOS.
Could have been fixed by now.
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It is, I've got Uno and MC3 on mine and they are working fine.
I decided to load up the official rooted release and so far it's pretty much the same as Team EOS's build. Team EOS does seem to be a bit snappier, and I do miss the reboot options on Team EOS build. The only improvement I see with the official is the camera, that seems to be snappier and more responsive on the official.
Only issue existing on both version is the Revision3 app that just won't load.
OriginalMemnock said:
Hey all, I'm running the Team EOS nightly and was wondering if there is any advantage to restoring to stock honeycomb for the official ICS update?
Should I just wait until a rooted ICS version based on the official is released?
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I've been running rooted ICS stock for several days now ... installed the leaked RC, then rooted.
Your question about EOS vs. stock gets the standard answer from me - are you happy with EOS and want more features in the future? If so, then stay with EOS.
For me, I'll stay with stock rooted - I just want a tablet that works and not interested in tweaks. I'll spend my tweaking time on my Photon.
There is no objectively right or wrong answer to your question, and nobody else can answer it for you. Enjoy!
Good thread. I was curious as well because knowing verizon (any carrier really) i doubt I'll see ICS anytime jan or feb and i konda want it now...
Pronlem is i dkdnt really want to root my xoom, but i guess ill have to now.
Ill wait until monday maybe
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razorseal said:
Pronlem is i dkdnt really want to root my xoom, but i guess ill have to now.
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Actually you don't have to root your Xoom if you just want ICS. I believe there is a stock ICS rom out there too. You will have to unlock the bootloader though.
From my perspective if you are running a rooted stock version of ICS there is virtually not a single reason. Stock isn't overclocked, a lot of enhancements are missing etc. But if you run a completely stock ICS with no root there are some advantages. For example, if you run a non-rooted stock you can rent videos from Google. I can't really think of anything else haha. Go EOS, their ROM is sick.
FuturePrimitive said:
Actually you don't have to root your Xoom if you just want ICS. I believe there is a stock ICS rom out there too. You will have to unlock the bootloader though.
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No 4g support.
I honestly just wanted to leave ir in stock factory format, but t it seems like e thats not gonna happen
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nubsors said:
From my perspective if you are running a rooted stock version of ICS there is virtually not a single reason. Stock isn't overclocked, a lot of enhancements are missing etc. But if you run a completely stock ICS with no root there are some advantages. For example, if you run a non-rooted stock you can rent videos from Google. I can't really think of anything else haha. Go EOS, their ROM is sick.
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What benefit does the eos have? No need for OC for me. I actually use the xoom alot during the day and will only jse up mlre battery.
I don't rent videos either so i don't care about that
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There are a ton of advantages to EOS ROM over Stock. The major one is the micro SD card is read/writable, all voice-to-text features are working as is facelock, the micro USB port is actually useful now, the EOS quick settings are very nice and they all work! There are several battery options from EOS settings and you can make the notification pull look any way you like.
Even if you don't use the performance features this ROM is the only way to Xoom. Until CM9 or Rogue get one out for the 4G

Just got an Atrix, but...

Hi, there, guys!
A friend of mine gave me yesterday an Atrix 4G. I would like to unlock its bootloader, root it and hopefully install the best available rom for it.
But the thing is that I can't find where to start from
There are a lot of threads regarding what I want (I've been reading through the forums for the last two hours) but I am still at a dead end..
My main problem is that most of the topics are about 2.3.4 android version or AT&T Atrix models. Plus, most of the links are dead...
The Atrix I have now is android version 2.2.2 and System Version writes: Version.4.4.20.MB860.Retail.en.GB
As I said I would like to test it with custom roms, but for starters, I would be glad if someone could point me to a way to simply upgrade to 2.3.4 (I don't care for now for unlocked bootloader or root - just want to see how it is in 2.3.4, perhaps perform a backup and afterwards try my luck with custom roms..)
For the record, I tried Motorola Software Update and reported that I am using the latest version..
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer
P.S.: Shame on me - wanted to post is Q&A forum.. Sorry for that - please move if necessary!!
Check out Swiftks guide that's a sticky in this forum.
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Hello, and thanks for your help... I think I am getting somewhere...
I followed this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1302423 to unlock my bootloader and then I followed Swiftks guide you pointed me at and downloaded CM7.
Now I am about to follow Swiftks CyaogenMod Install Guide (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19986512&post=234) and I hope I will succeed..
I will report the result - thanks a lot again!
He knows his stuff so following his guide should work out well for you, happy flashing!
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Well, yes, indeed!!!
My Atrix now has unlocked bootloader, is rooted and has CyanogenMod!!!
I am very happy! Managed to do much more than I had expected!!!
Next on the list is my SE arc...
msd24200 said:
He knows his stuff so following his guide should work out well for you, happy flashing!
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I agree, that Swift guy is pretty cool.
Sent from my CM7 Atrix 4G
Did that same thing a few weeks ago. It's much better on this side. CM7 is awesome!
Swiftks said:
I agree, that Swift guy is pretty cool.
Sent from my CM7 Atrix 4G
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Yes, he is!!
Next time you meet with him, tell him my best regards...
Thanks a lot, man!! Excellent guide!
ChriZathens said:
Well, yes, indeed!!!
My Atrix now has unlocked bootloader, is rooted and has CyanogenMod!!!
I am very happy! Managed to do much more than I had expected!!!
Next on the list is my SE arc...
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Congrats and have fun flashing
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Try the update first, go into settings, about phone and there you'll be able o get an OTA update.
Had already tried OTA - no joy..
Anyways, I've been using the Atrix since Friday and the thing is a real beast after everything I've installed.
I never close any apps - on purpose - I only "minimize" them pressing the home button. It always has around 500MB of free RAM. The thing is a speeding bullet..lol
I only wish it had a more "standard" screen resolution (some apps don't work full screen) and a better camera (it is good but not as good as the arc's)
Look into either 1080p camera on Olympus or for droid3 camera in the ATRIX forums that should give you the outstanding camera you are looking for and remember the ATRIX is VERY powerful and our devs are the best around B-) with their help and our hardware we can make the ATRIX just as good and usually better in any field compared to another phone >.<
Hit thanks if you found this useful
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if you want good and fast rom you should try a Cm9 it's great almost stable ,and very quick . ( quicker than cm7 for sure ) i did not have any battery drying
go for CM9 and enjoy that ICS goodness =)
Which CM9 release are you referring to?
I have found:
[ROM] CM9 a multidevice collaboration by multiple devs
[ROM] Atrix CM9 [ADT's SelfKANGish builds]
[Kang] *Unofficial* CM9 and CM7 Kangs/ROMs
Is it any of these ?
ChriZathens said:
Which CM9 release are you referring to?
I have found:
[ROM] CM9 a multidevice collaboration by multiple devs
[ROM] Atrix CM9 [ADT's SelfKANGish builds]
[Kang] *Unofficial* CM9 and CM7 Kangs/ROMs
Is it any of these ?
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I've ran the top 2 you referred to and both run great other than the known issues. My phone has better luck running the ATRIX cm9 [Ad's SelfKangish builds] not sure why but your experience may be different. Both roms are fantastic and are being updated frequently.
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OK, thanks a lot!
I will try them and see how it goes!!!
ChriZathens said:
Which CM9 release are you referring to?
I have found:
[ROM] CM9 a multidevice collaboration by multiple devs
[ROM] Atrix CM9 [ADT's SelfKANGish builds]
[Kang] *Unofficial* CM9 and CM7 Kangs/ROMs
Is it any of these ?
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I'm running the first one and I am amazed how stable it is. Going on three days and I don't plan on going back to cm7. So far the only thing I'm not liking is wifi speeds are not what they should be.

Q for devs, why no ICS rom?

Hi all, I'm new here, bought a GT7.7 few days ago. As i was using ICS on my GT8.9 before (I'm a member of the Galaxian-soup team who made a AOSP ICS rom for GT8.9), the HC feels very slow to me. So my question is why there is no ICS rom for GT7.7? The Galaxy Note has the same SoC as GT7.7, correct? Note has a official Samsung ICS leak, correct? So we should be able to get all needed libs from that rom to make everything work. Am i missing something? Is there some specific problem with GT7.7 that I'm not aware of or are there just no devs here who have tried?
I would try it alone, but unfortunately getting it to run needs some kernel mods and i don't have any experience with kernels. I know what needs to be done, so if there are devs here who have time and are interested, let's work together and make it happen.
Probably because the 7.7 doesn't really have a whole lot of community dev support yet, especially compared to the likes of the Note and the 8.9, both of which have been out for longer.
I would love to see you make one for us. ^^
If i would know how to cook a ICS ROM i already did it ^^
But someday that will happen
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i think it is because da 7.7 just arrive US, and most of custom rom developers are from US, so we dont have much custom rom yet
I have to say I'm not missing ICS on this device - compared to another cheapo Chinese device (Aurora) I'm also using (where ICS is just SLOWWW!), the 7.7 is just right as it is! If ICS slows down the 7.7 then I'm sticking with HC.
sladeywadey said:
I have to say I'm not missing ICS on this device - compared to another cheapo Chinese device (Aurora) I'm also using (where ICS is just SLOWWW!), the 7.7 is just right as it is! If ICS slows down the 7.7 then I'm sticking with HC.
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I'm missing it. I've been using AOSP ICS on my GT8.9 for two months now and it is a lot faster then HC, especially the browser. The stock browser in GT7.7 is unusable for me.
I will try to build a AOSP ICS rom and see how far i get. Are there any kernel devs here?
I'd be interested in trying to help, but I've never actually done android kernel development. I have set up a build environment to compile the kernel but only to **** around for myself; I've never actually released anything on xda.
I am wondering though, is it actually possible to modify the HC kernel to run a ported ICS ROM? Over in GS2-land I'm pretty sure all the ICS ROMs are running modified, leaked kernels. Even CM9 is using mostly a leaked kernel with repacked initramfs I'm pretty sure.
teiglin said:
I'd be interested in trying to help, but I've never actually done android kernel development. I have set up a build environment to compile the kernel but only to **** around for myself; I've never actually released anything on xda.
I am wondering though, is it actually possible to modify the HC kernel to run a ported ICS ROM? Over in GS2-land I'm pretty sure all the ICS ROMs are running modified, leaked kernels. Even CM9 is using mostly a leaked kernel with repacked initramfs I'm pretty sure.
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Yes, it is possible. For GT8.9 we are using android 3.1 kernel from Samsung (for some reason Samsung has not released android 3.2 kernel source code for GT8.9). Of course it needs to be modified to make hw acceleration, touchscreen etc work.
poisike said:
Yes, it is possible. For GT8.9 we are using android 3.1 kernel from Samsung (for some reason Samsung has not released android 3.2 kernel source code for GT8.9). Of course it needs to be modified to make hw acceleration, touchscreen etc work.
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Sounds like you need a better kernel dev than me, then. But as others have said, development over here is pretty limited--you could try posting in the dev section, but ezynow is the guy who has posted anything on the kernel side of things. Maybe things will pick up a bit with the VZW release, but to be honest, this is a pretty niche device--I love it and I'm sure most of the people reading this do too, but at the price point it's just never going to be that popular. Here's to hoping.
you need all the updated binary libraries for ICS in addition to the new kernel before installing ICS will be possible
Availability around the world ( aside from Asia ) might be quite low or next to non-existent, its a great device but I've got a feeling it wont get too much of a developer support as samsung just keeps on crunching out new tablets.
OK, i'm confused now. I've been gathering information about the gt7.7 and i have found a lot of conflicting information. Do we have a confirmed partition table information? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21695494&postcount=5 < this looks right to me, can anyone confirm this?
The strange thing is that even the root.zip released here seems to mount the wrong partition, it mounts /dev/block/mmcblk0p4 as system?! To me it looks like the system is mmcblk0p9 or am i wrong?
Are P6800 and P6810 partition tables the same?
No they are not.
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poisike said:
OK, i'm confused now. I've been gathering information about the gt7.7 and i have found a lot of conflicting information. Do we have a confirmed partition table information? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21695494&postcount=5 < this looks right to me, can anyone confirm this?
The strange thing is that even the root.zip released here seems to mount the wrong partition, it mounts /dev/block/mmcblk0p4 as system?! To me it looks like the system is mmcblk0p9 or am i wrong?
Are P6800 and P6810 partition tables the same?
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The partition tables are different and details have been posted elsewhere.
davp has previously posted about the possible error in root.zip as you also have identified. See http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22650451 There does not appear to be any response by JadeEyedWolf or any others. Whilst it might not be a likely critical problem, it may, at the least, be poor coding.
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[dev][wip]Porting android 4.1 sdk version

Hi,
i am working on a port of android 4.1 (jelly bean) for the play.
like we did with android 4.0
this is going to be easier to port as we can use most files from android 4.0
Nick
progress:
Just got sdk image, 4.1 is rally great on my computer!!!
you sir...are the best!
Sounds awesome as hell. But thought you needed moar moeny to keep developing? Or did you get it after-all?
Will this run better than ICS? and I'm assuming touchpads work? (whatever worked on ICS that is)
Here is a video in this thread showing improvements from ICS 4.0. It shows an increase in FPS and smoothness. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1736726
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Here is the system dump for everyone who wants to port it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27963070
hi,
i still need some money but i have almost enough.
got the system.img unpacked replaced some libs some /bin files and lot of /etc files
hanging on kernel logo (hanging, not rebooting) with logcat: netd1.0 starting
nickholtus said:
hi,
i still need some money but i have almost enough.
got the system.img unpacked replaced some libs some /bin files and lot of /etc files
hanging on kernel logo (hanging, not rebooting) with logcat: netd1.0 starting
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I was getting the same error when porting.
Is there any specific kernel changes in 4.1?
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I just looked around the forum, therw are already sdk ports for the one x and an ota update for the gnex. Pretty quick.
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i was starting to port 4.1 too, and im really sure its a kernel problem.
Kernel isn't a problem.
Can be some libs or some missing files
idea
make the google now launching by using the search button on xperia play.
google search with simple typing on the search button and the google now with hold typing on the search button
you should ask to some help from doomlord
hi,
doomlord can't help as he is an kernel developer and i am kernel/rom developer
he doesn't know very much about developing for roms
It shouldn't be too long before CyanogenMod at least takes a stab at doing JB, so in addition to what nickholtus has already said he's working on, JB shouldn't take too long to make it to us. Given Google's numbering scheme, I would imagine that 4.1 isn't such a monumental change from 4.0 to merit a complete reworking.
lightningdude said:
It shouldn't be too long before CyanogenMod at least takes a stab at doing JB, so in addition to what nickholtus has already said he's working on, JB shouldn't take too long to make it to us. Given Google's numbering scheme, I would imagine that 4.1 isn't such a monumental change from 4.0 to merit a complete reworking.
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I hope OP's successful as I'd flipping love to get a JB ROM on my phone with its supposed speed increase.
Although, I'm still waiting on this magic Linaro stuff which doesn't look like it'll deliver
We will be able to get JB working as well (if not better) than ICS once official source code is released mid July
i am porting the galaxy nexus version now.
as it is better then the sdk (leaked ota build)
nickholtus said:
i am porting the galaxy nexus version now.
as it is better then the sdk (leaked ota build)
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Awesome

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