What is the likelihood that updated versions of Android will be available for the Touch (official or homebrew) ? It would be superfly if we could get a CyanogenMod release for it but I don't know how feasible that would be.
At some point, a sticky needs to be created saying that no custom roms are being developed at the moment, and won't be for a while.
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I wanted to root my phone and also have a different skin but there are so many different versions like rc33, rc32, cupcake...etc what are the differences between the versions and which is the best version I should use and also the benifits of reflashing different radio versions.
The RCxx builds are based off of the official released (OTA, or Over The Air) that T-Mobile sent out to G1 owners. The xx numbers are the release version numbers. Rc29 had the 'root bug' that was patched in RC32. That is why the first step in rooting your phone is to go back down to that version, so that you can get root.
If you want to stick to the official releases from there, you just want to go to the highest RC version that's out.
You may also see the 1.1 and the 1.5 version numbers.. these are the versions of the android OS itself. Currently, all of the OTA versions released have been 1.1 - the newest update to android is 1.5, which will start to be released by T-Mobile via OTA this week.
From here it get's tricky. Since HTC makes the phone, Google (sort of) makes android and T-mobile releases it for their phones... there are multiple avenues by which the android OS can be obtained (and I'm sure as more manufacturers come on board, there will be more)
As these different flavors of the new 1.5 version (nicknamed cupcake) have been released in official and non-official ways, different developers have tried to create their own released.. this is how all the different versions have appeared. Karkuro relased different versions based on the HTC code and the Google code respectively. TheDudeOfLive released a couple versions based on the Google code... You'd have to read the individual forum threads on each versions to get the gist of the actual differences.. the first post of the threads will usually list what the major differences are.
Basically, like any open source project, there are several forks of the base code - expect this to get even more interesting/complicated in the near future.
Is there a good breakdown on the differences anywhere?
I already asked on AC, but no luck so far.
Hi everyone,
I just flashed the ChuckyRom along with Radio v.2.12. I've also been using Android on my HD2 (MUCH thanks to all the talented devs on-board the project) and wondered why I didn't get a phone with Android OS from the getgo. That thought led me to the following super-newbie questions:
1) What's the current status on flashable Android-based rom development? I've been flashing so many WinMo-based roms. Is there an Android-based one, so I can have it as the standard OS on my phone?
(I've heard from quite a few people that I can have Android boot up automatically from start-up using a few tweaks. However, this would still involve booting up from SD card as opposed to having it flashed permanently on my phone.)
2) What seems to be the biggest hurdle to overcome in getting Android OS flashed on an HD2?
Thanks in advance for all of your inputs.
Best,
John
1. It is not a priority, but Cotulla (remember that name) is believed to be working on it, rumour has it it's going to be released even this month. Not seen this confirmed by an official source though, so don't expect it.
2. Not too experienced myself, but from what I've heard it's about decrypting, or making Android compatible with, this filesystem called NAND. A flash-able ROM could probably have been here already, but the devs wanted to focus on delivering quality & bugfree ROMs first, and bonuses such as NAND later on.
This probably sounds like a stupid question BUT, when developing for Android, should I just use the latest google api/SDK available or should I install them all on eclipse? I'm grabbing them all from 2.0 onwards atm but is there any point?
No. Just get the latest. It will be able to handle the latest kernels and older ones so it would make sense to just get one (the latest one). Good luck in your development.
Since it's been a while since this exploit has been known, and I know the CM team officially patched the current versions of their ROMs, but does anyone (CM team or not) know if all CM versions will be patched? I'm currently using the official nightly 3/1/2013 CM7 (http://get.cm/?device=jordan), and would really like to be safe from this exploit. I know it's an older version of CM, but it's the best ROM for me, and I really don't want to change ROMs just for a patch.
Well since nobody seems to care, or just didn't get to this thread yet, I did some searching. It seems like the CM team will eventually patch it, but in the meantime if you use CM7 you can use Maniac's version which has the patch built in. Here's some info for both versions:
http://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/this-week-in-cm-july-12-2013
"We will likely do a legacy release to CM7 to address these in the future as well, but for now, users of legacy releases of CM 9 and 10.0 are encouraged to update to the latest nightlies available; as always, stay vigilant and safe."
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2359305
http://translate.google.com/transla...genmod-7-android-2-3-7-a-707.html#post6064392
Enjoy.
Are you intend to release stable release sometime?
Hi!
According to OmniROM's official website:
We also recognise how people use Custom ROMs – we’re all custom ROM users and developers ourselves – the argument that “nightlies are not for end users” is over-used, and no longer valid. We’ve found that the vast majority of users want to get nightly updates to their ROM. For that reason, nightlies aren’t a playground – nightlies are for new features that are finished. You should be able to expect the same stability and reliability from a nightly as you would from a “release” ROM, and can report any bugs that prevent this from happening.
We know not everyone wants to update their ROM daily, and you are free to update as frequently or infrequently as you like. Omni is about flexibility and giving users what they expect – and we are excited to see where the community goes with it.
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Based on this extract from official website, I would say that you should not wait for any "OmniROM 1.0" version any time soon at all. The "stable version" is the nightly build available from Omni's website.