Any devs/porters interested in porting sense? - Acer Iconia A500

Hi. I am a rom porter/dev (depending on the definition you use) who just got a galaxy tab 10.1. Considering that our hardware is similar, I think it'd be in the best interests for galaxy tab 10.1 owners along with other tegra2 tablet owners could work together to port sense. I hope this is not against forum rules posting here, but I posted this so we can all help each other out to get sense ported.
Thank you
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I just don't understand why everyone loves sense. At best, it is a battery and performance vampire. Sure, it has some neat features, but... every time I end up with an HTC device, the first thing I do is install a non-sense rom.
To each his own, though. Good luck.
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xboxfanj said:
Hi. I am a rom porter/dev (depending on the definition you use) who just got a galaxy tab 10.1. Considering that our hardware is similar, I think it'd be in the best interests for galaxy tab 10.1 owners along with other tegra2 tablet owners could work together to port sense. I hope this is not against forum rules posting here, but I posted this so we can all help each other out to get sense ported.
Thank you
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To answer your question its is a very hard a daunting task.
Best way to get your device as close as sense would be flashing a galaxy tab rom port by fguy(my current rom) its under tabletroms Acer forum. And use apw Widgets. With adw ex or SPB shell
Or you can use Thors galaxy tab port at tegra owners Acer rom's forum user pimpmaneaton has ported a HTC sense theme from boosted for that rom and use apw Widgets to complete your desired look!
HTC is battery hungry and a pain in the ass or impossible so no one wants to port it plus user base won't use it as much compared to asop or stock Acer based rom's.
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I would be really interested in having a full Sense themed ROM. I have a HTC Desire Z at the moment and had an HTC Hero before that. I absolutely love HTC's implementation of Sense and how things work so well. Really don't mind the extra battery use because you really can't get that kind of integration and ease of use for nothing.

Good luck finding anyone who wants to reverse engineer the closed source sense framework and then try and get it to work on our hardware.
The only successful sense ports have in the past been HTC to HTC devices such as the desire ROM to nexus one, or sensation to desire etc. It's a bit different porting sense to a device which already runs sense. The nexus one was really just a desire running aosp Android.
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dr.m0x said:
Good luck finding anyone who wants to reverse engineer the closed source sense framework and then try and get it to work on our hardware.
The only successful sense ports have in the past been HTC to HTC devices such as the desire ROM to nexus one, or sensation to desire etc. It's a bit different porting sense to a device which already runs sense. The nexus one was really just a desire running aosp Android.
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There's also the nexus s4g, galaxy s, and nexus s gsm.
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Sense UI on ANY Galaxy S phone?

Has anyone seen sense ui running on any galaxy s phone?
I think I'm one of the few that beleives stock android sux and sense ui is great.
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Th only way that will happen is if you find a way to port it over. It was tried on the Droid but was not very successful. Your best bet is to either buy a HTC device or get widgets that look similar.
Your best bet would be to just use launcher pro.
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you can get an incredible
I wanted the power of the fascinate used with sense but got I gotta pic and choose what's more important. Thanx guys.
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The power of the Fascinate would never be used in Sense. Its used in....games
I believe someone, maybe even a couple people said they would attempt to port over SenseUI when Froyo is released. Don't know who they were or if they still intend to do so, but I think there is a thread about it in the development section somewhere as people were looking for the new SenseUI from the Desire HD.
Might be a port one day. Lol. I'm not sure why though when there's no shortage of HTC devices.
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Any ROM port suggestions?

What ROMs do you guys want? I ported MIUI to epic and am working on other stuff there. I can probably port MIUI ICS when we get CM9. What do you guys want though? HTC's Tablet Sense?
EDIT: I have the WiFi version btw, so if anyone wants carrier specific versions of ROMs, tell me what to change or just take my WiFi Roms and add support for your carrier.
No idea, i would love a source built ICS ROM but I hear CM9 is on the horizon and to my knowledge no Tegra 2 device has a GPU accelerated ICS ROM????
Just had to bump the thread and throw some words in..
GazaIan said:
No idea, i would love a source built ICS ROM but I hear CM9 is on the horizon and to my knowledge no Tegra 2 device has a GPU accelerated ICS ROM????
Just had to bump the thread and throw some words in..
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I can't quite build from source yet. Don't have the skills or the computer requirements (if my pc tried to build ics, it'd probably take days, weeks, months, or even years). I have a netbook and ics takes several hours to build with 16gb of ram so I can't imagine it with only 1 gb.
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Any cool roms or uis that you guys want me to port?
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Any cool roms or uis that you guys want me to port?
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Surprise us. i use Miui and absolutly love it but i have a hard time picturing it on my 10 inch tab but give it a go.
xboxfanj said:
What ROMs do you guys want? I ported MIUI to epic and am working on other stuff there. I can probably port MIUI ICS when we get CM9. What do you guys want though? HTC's Tablet Sense?
EDIT: I have the WiFi version btw, so if anyone wants carrier specific versions of ROMs, tell me what to change or just take my WiFi Roms and add support for your carrier.
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Don't really know that much about different roms, I've only used CM7 and some smaller ROMs really .
Never used MIUI, but I heard it's nice, so that would be an option.
But personally, I believe people would really appreciate if you have the knowledge/skill to help on CM9 for our tab somehow ^^
And of course, thanks for your work!
nightmarebadger said:
Don't really know that much about different roms, I've only used CM7 and some smaller ROMs really .
Never used MIUI, but I heard it's nice, so that would be an option.
But personally, I believe people would really appreciate if you have the knowledge/skill to help on CM9 for our tab somehow ^^
And of course, thanks for your work!
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Sorry but I don't have the skill or knowledge for cm9, but we're in good hands: pershoot and cyanogen (you know, the guy who started cyanogenmod and the namesake of it). We'll have good builds soon, but apparently theres a non technical issue for all tegra 2 devices.
I can do miui once we get a good cm9 build and I will, but I need for other tablets to be supported because otherwise the resolution will be qhd at best. Either that or I need to find a way to make things support our resolution.
Edit: do you guys want an HTC sense tablet UI port?
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Edit: do you guys want an HTC sense tablet UI port?
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I'd sure as hell love one!
GazaIan said:
I'd sure as hell love one!
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Is that crash bandicoot?
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xboxfanj said:
Is that crash bandicoot?
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It sure is! Gotta love the classics
I'd be interested in an ICS based MIUI port, thanks!
np. Apparently, tegra2 sense ports have not been successful and have been branded impossible. I'll try anyway though
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I wuld love a rom with a completely different look/theme. And for it to be super smooth, no lag.
Much love for offering to build rom s for us
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xboxfanj said:
np. Apparently, tegra2 sense ports have not been successful and have been branded impossible. I'll try anyway though
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Wait, you meant an actual Sense ROM? Oh there's most likely no way in hell you'll pull that off, that's like 95% impossible. If you actually manage to pull it off though, I'll be amazed. No HTC device has the Galaxy Tab resolution, chip set, GPU, CPU, so some hard care porting is needed. Still, I'll be super impressed if you could get a Sense ROM booting, even if almost nothing worked.
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Wait, you meant an actual Sense ROM? Oh there's most likely no way in hell you'll pull that off, that's like 95% impossible. If you actually manage to pull it off though, I'll be amazed. No HTC device has the Galaxy Tab resolution, chip set, GPU, CPU, so some hard care porting is needed. Still, I'll be super impressed if you could get a Sense ROM booting, even if almost nothing worked.
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Well most of those issues haven't stopped the galaxy s and nexus s/ns4g from getting sense roms. What other option besides a rom is there?
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I've never used MIUI before. So that would be much appreciated.
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The MIUI port will be a little a way. I am going to wait until another tablet/device with the same resolution as us gets it so that we don't have a crappy resolution and also so that I don't have to manually make files higher res.
I would suggest task rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1340064 its very good and has themes that look very nice
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port from what?
If you can take another ROM honestly, I'd like a CM7 ROM. There is nothing about Honeycomb that I think is significantly better than Gingerbread especially with the CM7 features.
Or does it have to be another Tablet ROM like something from the Motorola Xoom or Acer Iconia?
I don't know if this is even possible but I love the UI on gridOS
Its android based but I do no of that's enough
If you don't know what it is look it up on YouTube or something
It looks amazing

Ideas for roms??????

Anyone got any ideas for roms? Not ics.
Anything specific? I'm going to make one, but I need ideas
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Sense 3.5
Bliss base
Runny nav bar
No bloat
Runs perfect without swap
Or maybe u wanna port Android evolution or Runnymede desire rom by sebastian15? The latter is a great rom
Yeah, the DZ community has a love/hate relationship with 3.5 sense rom, so a one running smoothly without swap, no bloat, nicely themed (easy on the eyes ), is a way to go.
There are alot of sense 3.5 roms for the DZ. I've tried them all (literally), so far the Bliss sense and the NRG 3.5 sense roms are good, other I had trouble with (laggy, slow, crashes...).
MIUI, seen one seen them all, although popular you will be just one in a bucket of full pretty good and functional MIUI roms.
Stock g2 or AOSP also, there are alot of them for the DZ, there has to be yet an AOSP that can beat the awesome CM 7 rom.
If you make it really try hard to stand out, cause it will be burred soon under the mentioned ones.
You could try porting a weird obscure ROM that nobody has really seen much of. I remember using a ROM by SiulMagic called LiquidM_Villain, its basically an Acer modified version of Froyo. I used it for a few weeks before leaving because I missed Gingerbread, but it was quite a neat ROM. Theres a Gingerbread version around now that could be ported? Or maybe theres another modified version of Android that nobody really sees much of?
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You could try porting a weird obscure ROM that nobody has really seen much of. I remember using a ROM by SiulMagic called LiquidM_Villain, its basically an Acer modified version of Froyo. I used it for a few weeks before leaving because I missed Gingerbread, but it was quite a neat ROM. Theres a Gingerbread version around now that could be ported? Or maybe theres another modified version of Android that nobody really sees much of?
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Lol or he could build cm7 for the acer liquid metal my wife has it, nice device but seriously lacking in the rom department. Taz if your interested fire me a pm, I have some background on the liquid and could help out you'd be a god on the liquid metal modaco forum
As for the g2 there isn't anything I can think of...we pretty much have everything except full ICS.
Taz I'm serious about the acer tho...pm me!
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Great idea: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1416622
What specs does the acer have?
Also, will hopefully try my hand at that desire rom. Doesn't look too easy because of desire-specific things, but will try
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xT4Z1N4TRx said:
What specs does the acer have?
Also, will hopefully try my hand at that desire rom. Doesn't look too easy because of desire-specific things, but will try
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Lots of similarities with the DZ taz, same cpu, ill have to check again. But they've been trying to port cm7 from the DZ to the liquid MT, they almost have it but I think you could blow it out of the water.
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Lots of similarities with the DZ taz, same cpu, ill have to check again. But they've been trying to port cm7 from the DZ to the liquid MT, they almost have it but I think you could blow it out of the water.
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www.gsmarena.com/acer_liquid_mt-3519.php
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will have a look at that acer liquid
i am diong that runnymede one now, but am at a bootloop, trying to figure out how to get past it
Honeycomb?
I noticed the HC SDK 3.0 uses the GB launcher so...
Some other folks built and compiled HC for their phones too, off the SDK I believe.
kaijura said:
Honeycomb?
I noticed the HC SDK 3.0 uses the GB launcher so...
Some other folks built and compiled HC for their phones too, off the SDK I believe.
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Honeycomb is a bad idea when we have ICS being ported at the moment (which if you check the dev page, there's a thread with an almost complete port) since honeycomb was designed purely for tablets and is not meant for phones. A LOT of quite possibly pointless work would have to go in it.
take any existing ROM - figure out how to make it have even better reception in weak signal areas - and you will be a STAR on XDA!!
and start with the ROM that is the fastest, leanest, and has the best battery life and most free RAM of any ROM.........yes I am talking about G-Lite 2.0.1
My idea is the latest stock rom with nice tweaks and addons but that's just an idea... And maybe nobody likes it
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The ICS rom on Desire Z is out ? or it's still the alpha version ?

ICS with sense

Hello guys i am new here so excuse me if someone already wrote something about this.
is there any ice cream sandwitch rom with latest htc sense?
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None yet and there may not ever be. There will not be any drivers to hack to make it work as GB only got better because of the Desire source code. Note since that service will not see any more updates then we are out of luck.
Now someone may find a way but for now it's unlikely
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Actually, there will definitely be a ICS ROM with sense. But you will have to wait. The reason being, HTC will launch new devices come this Q2 and Sense 4.0 is slated to be running on those devices. Such devices include the Ville, Edge,etc. So when those devices are released at the upcoming GSMA WMC on 27th February. You can expect a port a few days after that since there is bound to be someone posting the dump files and source code. This is how our sense 2.0 and 3.0 ROMs came about on our HD2s and its the only way. Custom building a ICS and Sense ROM from scratch is no easy task and like what chrisrj28 said above, it might not be possible for the devs.
http://m.pocketnow.com/android/leaked-rom-of-upcoming-htc-endeavour-confirms-specs
Here is your answer.its here in xda and it wont be long before u see a hd2 port.when i say it wont be long,i mean its only a matter of days.just wait a bit longer mate
A RUU of ics with sense 4.0 of HTC Endeavour just leaked
Hope this is done soon. There is a port of the Sensation ICS Sense Rom for the myTouch 4G Slide.
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It's good news, cant wait
I hope we must wait a little more, but for me, there are too many ICS roms without Sense in XDA.
I like Sense, so I prefer to wait as long as necessary, instead of install ics non sense plenty of bugs.
If I bought an HTC, I like to watch Sense in the screen, if not, I can have another device, Samsung, LG, Motorola.....
ICS without sense better then 2.3 with sense.
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None yet and there may not ever be. There will not be any drivers to hack to make it work as GB only got better because of the Desire source code. Note since that service will not see any more updates then we are out of luck.
Now someone may find a way but for now it's unlikely
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I think the biggest issue is a kernel to boot the sense ICS, and there is no doubt HD2 will be running sense ICS
On Sensation already..
I think we should request some of the HD2 chief chefs need to come together for us... it is here now on Sensation, working .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1513055
IMHO hd2 can't stand ics with sense...too heavy!....that's for quad-core devices!! the 2.3 sense is too much for our "old" hardware, too....
even if our fantastic hd2 is the best phone in the world, his hardware is going to be old...I think that it's arrived at the end of its possibilities with ics...
I have the US HD2 and it runs 2.3.5 Sense 3.5 just fine. No major issues at all. Also the HTC One V has specs not too far from the HD2 will be on sense 4.0.
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Ohgami_Ichiro said:
I have the US HD2 and it runs 2.3.5 Sense 3.5 just fine. No major issues at all. Also the HTC One V has specs not too far from the HD2 will be on sense 4.0.
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? really? the one v? oh my......saw that now, ok, change my opinion, ics with sense 4 will work fine good, good....
throcker said:
? really? the one v? oh my......saw that now, ok, change my opinion, ics with sense 4 will work fine good, good....
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Yeah initial hands on show that Sense 4.0/ICS do not perform as well as the big phones but it is adequate enough. And that is without the mods and customizations that Devs here are capable of.
The biggest issue will be drivers
Any news? Or I am missing something?

Nexus 4 Sense Rom

Hi all, i've got a Droid DNA with htc sense 4+, and i'm thinking that also the NExus 4 has s4 processor and other similiar hw pieces. So why we can't have a funcionally sense on our nexus? It could be great! I know that is probably a noob's question so exuse me!
Someone ported the blur UI so I'm sure sense is doable....maybe a little more proprietary though
Because most people who use Nexus 4 prefer ASOP. More importantly, the developers who devote their time to produce the ROM for your use at the cost of 0$ seems to like ASOP/CM a lot more than Sense. The do what they like and what they enjoy. If you really really want a Sense ROM, you can try to port it I wouldn't suggest pestering the devs
Also, I heard that Google didn't actually drop the source code with all of the necessary drivers for the device.
And LG phones don't use Sense, as you imagine, porting Sense from HTC to a LG phone will be a tough work.
Don't take me wrong, I will be happy to try a Sense ROM on the N4 too. But don't expect it to happen. It won't happen.
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+1 for a Sense ROM.
I also hope that the similarities of the hardware could make a Sense port easier.
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Hi all, i've got a Droid DNA with htc sense 4+, and i'm thinking that also the NExus 4 has s4 processor and other similiar hw pieces. So why we can't have a funcionally sense on our nexus? It could be great! I know that is probably a noob's question so exuse me!
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Why?.
Also, sense isn't open source.
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Could be possible but N4 is missing a lot of driver support thanks to Qualcomm.
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If you just like the look, not necessarily features (what features? I'm not even sure... Ha) there's a really good sense theme for cm10.1 in the play store. Several awesome icon themes in the play store too for your launcher. Widget locker has a sense theme too, functional like the actual sense software. I'm not sure what's missing from there. I got nostalgic for my old droid eris the other day and looked into it a little bit
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+1 for a Sense ROM.
I also hope that the similarities of the hardware could make a Sense port easier.
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It won't.
Personally, I'd love a Sense ROM.
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Just asking. i'd love a sense Rom because is really a good personalization. It's not just a skin. But if HTC will give us the proper drivers for s4 pro can we use it for the n4?

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