so.. what roms are out now? seems the /DEV forum has out of date stuff... is there a working ICS, is honeycomb the way to go??
Currently, there is CyanogenMod 7.1 and all it's derivatives (Phiremod, MiRaGe, etc.) available, and there is also work being done an ICS port by dalingrin, fattire, and other developers.
There was also a Honeycomb SDK port that was canceled because ICS is deprecating it anyway, and source also wasn't available.
The newest ice cream sandwich roms are starting to show up. Still pretty buggy, but they are looking good.
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How helpful is this to our samsung galaxy tab 10.1
http://developer.nvidia.com/tegra-resources
Since all those are pre-compiled binaries.. theres really not much to do.. =(
Think of it as a very generic Honeycomb ROM; what we need is sources!.
Dear Friends,
does anyone have an ice cream sandwich upgrade for the lenovo ideapad k1?
i see so much upgrades for other tablets but none for the ideapad k1. can someone pls come up with an upgrade for this specific tablet. its a great tablet but not enough ppl pay attention to it. anyways, it would be great to hear some kinda reply from anyone about an ice cream sandwich upgrade.
thanks!
I read in lenovo forums that there will be one in a non OTA mid June.
Sent from my K1 using XDA
khanning88 has ported CM9 to the Ideapad K1.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1528775
it is an alpha release but it has most things functional... except netflix, camera and microphone.
tried it myself and its pretty slick.
OTA upgrade of ICS on Lenovo K1
mjb32803 said:
khanning88 has ported CM9 to the Ideapad K1.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1528775
it is an alpha release but it has most things functional... except netflix, camera and microphone.
tried it myself and its pretty slick.
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There has been a noteworthy increase of traffic on the Lenovo Forums on this subject. I've followed it for several months and seen links to promises of OTA upgrade to ICS for the K1 but no results so far. Here is a link to a message that contains a link to a download of files for the OTA upgrade. Problem is, how do you use them to do the upgrade IF you download them. I'm back here at XDA to investigate whether rooting and using a mod might be preferable to waiting for Lenovo to keep its promise.
Here is the link to the aforementioned directory of OTA files for the K1 upgrade.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/0...ns-pushing-jelly-bean-to-the-iconia-tab-a700/ A700 got jelly bean OTA already...can we port this to our A500? hehehehe
A700 is a Tegra3 based device. It also has newer GPU, so the gfx drivers are not compatible. I don't think there are any benefits in trying to port it. It is better to use CM10 preview which is probably more stable now than this port would ever be .
I can't post the link, but the TO JB rom is very stable, and has things working that the CM10 preview doesn't. Most people here don't know about it because you can't post the link to it here for various reasons.
I'm not telling you to go install this, I'm just saying its very possible to build JB from the ground up for this device which works a lot better than porting, ports are relatively limited.
I would really like to get the OS updated on this device, I'm sure I'm not alone.
I've been following many of the guides on this forum, or youtube videos, but with no luck.
Is there anyone who can help me to figure this out better?
Building AOSP or Porting Cyanogen mod would be ideal, is this possible?
I have had the original a7 since it was released and the major hangup has always been, the kernel. The kernel source for 2.2 froyo has been released, but, no one has made or ported a kernel past that. Dexter the great did a lot with only that kernel, CM7 and Honeycomb, but limited because the old kernel. We need a 3.0 kernel for CM9/10 to really move. There are similar tegra devices that have Honeycomb and beyond, but swapping kernels has been reported to only partially work. I hope that it will happen one day, this baby is powerful.
So beyond my ranting we need, device tree, drivers, and a kernel.
I have been trying myself to push all sorts of Linux for Tegra (ubuntu, gentoo, and geexbox) as well as trying to figure out how dexter had started running ICS on his before he dropped the project.
What is known: this is an abnormal Harmony tegra 2.
What you need to know for APX: A7+ uses hsmmc interface, so all nvflash designed for nand or emmc will inherently fail (or at least has been the case thus far)
I dont know how exactly this is, but due to its odd nature most prepackaged or script made bootloaders will fail. I'd love to see ICS or JB on this device for sure, but making an APX backup would need a new bootloader, or at least a new boot.img for sure.
I'm a tinkerer, with very little programming skill. I can google as good as anybody though lol.
Somebody needs to design an uber cross-compiler that can just transform the kernel to 3+ so we can stop wishing for new firmware and just have it lol
So we have ICS which runs on 3.0.8 and previously ran on 2.6.35, also I've seen a lot of devices running ICS on 2.6.32 kernel. So my questions are:
How to know what changes must be done in kernel to make it compatible with higher versions of android? (for example 4.2.2 with .32 kernel)
How to know whether kernel modules (drivers) are compatible with higher versions of android or not?
Why don't we still have a JB port if it's all is possible?.. Just joking.
Thanks in advance!
P.S.: Excuse me if I name anything wrong or if I'm saying anything wrong -- I'm not a developer, I'm trying to learn.
would like to know that too, dunno why there is just one developer working on wifi drivers for jelly bean huawei x5...
rukadesigns said:
would like to know that too, dunno why there is just one developer working on wifi drivers for jelly bean huawei x5...
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Because there is an exhaustion of developers for the u8800? I'm going to release something soon as well, been playing with AOSP Gingerbread tree for a few weeks now.
There aren't really _many_ changes required to upgrade the kernel, you most likely just need to apply the upstream kernel patches for it. It will surely cause problems, but most of them shouldn't be too hard to fix if you have some programming knowledge. I might look at this later myself.
I think we dont have a proper port of JB just because there is a lack of real developers. People seem to be trying to port roms from Honor/Desire, but they will never be as functional as roms built from the real device tree. I think Blefish is the only one working on a real rom.