Sense Ports - Nexus One General

I just created this thread to unify people asking/requesting sense ports from other devices (preferably desire) to N1, maybe we can get more roms and more interested developers to port roms. Of course, anyone can help porting or make your own functional port and post in developers forum.
I'll try to work with some desire roms in the next weekend, so we can just unify efforts here.
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Anyone can help with an intermediate effort, using this howto and dbasabe kernel in forums (maybe using the kernel in this rom).

Menelkir said:
I just created this thread to unify people asking/requesting sense ports from other devices (preferably desire) to N1, maybe we can get more roms and more interested developers to port roms. Of course, anyone can help porting or make your own functional port and post in developers forum.
I'll try to work with some desire roms in the next weekend, so we can just unify efforts here.
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Anyone can help with an intermediate effort, using this howto and dbasabe kernel in forums (maybe using the kernel in this rom).
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I want an official desire 2.3 port, the one from htc.com, but i dont really know how.

An ICS sense port? sense 3.6 or 4.0?

i good working sense port for our nexus one would be great mate i like the idea

Me. I would like to have a Bliss Rom .
And menelkir . You're a very good dev.
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race55 said:
I want an official desire 2.3 port, the one from htc.com, but i dont really know how.
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I can try but I thing is very limited if you compare with other sense ports.
AngeloLegend said:
An ICS sense port? sense 3.6 or 4.0?
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A time ago I see a work in progress, but the development was progressing slowly. Maybe in the near future?

Menelkir said:
I can try but I thing is very limited if you compare with other sense ports.
A time ago I see a work in progress, but the development was progressing slowly. Maybe in the near future?
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But the preformance will be better than other sense ports, right? Because this sense was made for this hardware, right?

race55 said:
But the preformance will be better than other sense ports, right? Because this sense was made for this hardware, right?
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Not exactly. For android devices, the main performance achievement is maded by kernel, such as linux distributions, the main performance is achieved (basically) optimizing glibc and kernel. And we have a good optimized kernel by dbasabe, but as we already know, not all sense ports like this custom kernels.

Menelkir said:
Not exactly. For android devices, the main performance achievement is maded by kernel, such as linux distributions, the main performance is achieved (basically) optimizing glibc and kernel. And we have a good optimized kernel by dbasabe, but as we already know, not all sense ports like this custom kernels.
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So have you tried porting the official 2.3 yet? That would run without sdext

race55 said:
So have you tried porting the official 2.3 yet? That would run without sdext
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Yep, but you know that native rom is absurdly limited compared to others sense roms available, right?

Menelkir said:
Yep, but you know that native rom is absurdly limited compared to others sense roms available, right?
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I know. But it is enough for me.

We Just want stock sense without any bug and smooth.
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WE WANT SENSE! What's the progress on porting? Already enough for the very first alpha?

Sense. From désire S
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xeloni said:
Sense. From désire S
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Or original desire . Just a functioning sense that will fit on the system memory, and wont need sdext.
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So i looked at the guide steps menelkir provided and is that really all there is to it? Just dragging and dropping some files? If so, i might want to have a attempt myself.

Yeah. Great
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xeloni said:
Yeah. Great.
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Could you be my alpha/beta/whatever tester? I have no experience with any sort of android thing at all, but i asumme i need to have a meta-inf script, and where would one get that?

Of. Course
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Of. Course
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I decided to try and port this rom: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1200517
Hopefully it will boot, after a small amount of work. I never thought i would make a rom, for a phone i no longer use! But first gonna eat dinner, will be back in ~30 min.

I saw. In the. Op WWE language. What. Does it. Mean?
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[Request] Any Dev interested to port Sense UI 2.2 or ↑??

NOTE:I'm not a developer, I'm just trying to encourage/gather them to work on a port!!
EDIT: Seems like no-one dares to try porting Sense 3.5 to Defy, so let's try Sense 2.2!!! With a newer kernel and Sense 3.0/3.5 apps.. Shouldn't be harder than porting Sense 3.5
Motorola Defy has become a really impressive phone, and many are users of this phone..
So maybe we all want something..
Something completely different other than MIUI, CM7 and Moto roms..
Something like... SENSE UI!!
So let's try to regroup Developers (if you know any, tell them about it!)... To Tell them to port Sense UI. To take up the challenge... and make the Defy a more impressive phone..
There is already an existing Project, but has been paused (iaio72 is already in it): [ROM][23-feb-2011] DefyFroyoSense v0.1 (mcm_xyz edition)
I know it's quite a big request XD.. But, please..
NOTE: To Developers who are ready to help, post "Let's work on it!"
NOTE: Those who want to help but are not Developers, post "I'm ready to help!"
When there will be ~10 developers. The project SensationDefy or whatever you want to call it XD will begin!!
Note that any developer who want to help even if the project has begun are welcomed
Thanks for your kind contribution, if any. And don't forget, show your desire to get Sense UI by posting!!
Developers who will help:
iYossi
ryan8r
Those who can help:
kenkoo611
pravarth
Yes please
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Go-go!
Yes, I am very interested. SenseUI is great. Please about port it!
It will be great.
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Iaio72, could you make a how to for port sense ui? What you did and what need to be done?
Based in previous discussions port Sense UI 3.5 is not possible or very hard to do. I can't remember now why
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support and let's work on it.
anything to help?!
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support and let's work on it.
anything to help?!
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If you are a Dev you are the first one to get into the project!!
Help? Hmm. right now the goal is to regroup Developers, enough Developers to succeed to port Sense.. Try to contact @iaio72, and tell your other Dev. friends if they can help XD. Thanks!!
Yes!! If I can be of any help you know where to find me.
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I hope that this will start eventualy... Go guys!!
Nice idea.
However,for the sake of the terrible keneral from moto,could it be possible to support every feature of SENSE 3.5?
Lets work on it!
Common Devs. Do it.
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Nice idea.
However,for the sake of the terrible keneral from moto,could it be possible to support every feature of SENSE 3.5?
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You know even if we cannot port sense 3.5 we will try 3.0 or 2.2...
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And dont forget to identify yourself as Dev or "supporter". Like that I can list you all
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bring it on please...
My only regret for sold my legend is its sense ui
WIIstpM said:
HTC Hero is a sense phone, and has a Qualcomm chipset (what sense UI likes)...
Porting Sense, 2.2, 3.0, 3.5 or whatever will always be difficult on Defy...
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and what about GalaxySense port? not working on Defy? not possible?
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and what about GalaxySense port? not working on Defy? not possible?
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MM never heard of it... SOunds promising but there are still bugs.. no BT and FM RAdio...
Right now, we just stick with a stock rom, which is logically easier to port than custom rom.
WIIstpM said:
MM never heard of it... SOunds promising but there are still bugs.. no BT and FM RAdio...
Right now, we just stick with a stock rom, which is logically easier to port than custom rom.
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Hi
I tried all the recent phones for hours in the stores throughly and found that HTC sense UI is the best, fast and Attractive amongst all, So come on all Devs go get it
I am Thinking about some generous package for Team
Thanks
Urvish
Indeed, Sense UI looks great and has some really nice tweaks HTC added. I know the internals of the Defy are pretty different from the components HTC uses. But some months ago I was using the already existing Sense port which hasn't seen an update for quite some time now (but it was working flawlessly) and I wonder if it would be so hard and completely different to make a similar port with a newer version of Sense.
But ok, I'm not a developer, I'm curious if something will happen, it would be great, but for now my Defy is very usable.

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..
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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!
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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!
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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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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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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

Android 4.0/Sense 3.6

Last couple of days there have been more and more articles about sense 3.6 running over ICS on quite a few phones (Rezound/Tbolt). Just wondering if any of these Roms are able to be ported to our Inc's?
I dont think so. I remember when the sense 3.0 roms hit the scene, we weren't able to run then til we got a GB kernel from HTC. Once we got the first leaked GB kernel we were able to run sense 3.0 roms.
However I do not believe we will receive an ics kernel from HTC, so no dice there
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Sense 3.6 sounds cold lol
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Love the Senseless rom Div! 3 days with no charge!!! Cant wait for the update
i dont think so. i flashed this on my rezound. the rom zip is over 600mb. no way the inc can handle it.
It was worth a shot oh well
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i dont think so. i flashed this on my rezound. the rom zip is over 600mb. no way the inc can handle it.
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Gawd damn
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Gawd damn
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right? its huge. i wonder when they get an aosp build out, what size that will be. for the inc, sense 1.0 roms were like 150mb and a full aosp was 89mb.
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right? its huge. i wonder when they get an aosp build out, what size that will be. for the inc, sense 1.0 roms were like 150mb and a full aosp was 89mb.
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Cm9 builds are about 115 mb on the gnex. I imagine about the same on the rezound for aosp.
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id think the og inc can handle sense 3.6/4.0 and you wont need a 3.xx kernel from htc either
we have sense 4 on the inc2 and its on a lot of the other phones running on a .35 kernel just like aosp is
if no one else does anything in a week or so and i have time, ill see if i can boot it on my old inc...no guarantees though
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Cm9 builds are about 115 mb on the gnex. I imagine about the same on the rezound for aosp.
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I wish we had an aosp Rom.
Cheated on my sexy assistant with a HTC ReZound.
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I wish we had an aosp Rom.
Cheated on my sexy assistant with a HTC ReZound.
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That was one reason i didn't want the rezound. Uncertain future for development for cm and such.
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tiny4579 said:
That was one reason i didn't want the rezound. Uncertain future for development for cm and such.
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well if we can get your skills on making the kernel, meadows has an alpha build - RIL but im going to jump in and help with the build soon.
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That was one reason i didn't want the rezound. Uncertain future for development for cm and such.
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That and the lack of an Amoled screen were the two reasons I chose the nexus. I also liked the fact that it was a nexus. Sense 1.0 was so much liter than 3.5. My father got the rezound though. Its still a very nice phone.
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well if we can get your skills on making the kernel, meadows has an alpha build - RIL but im going to jump in and help with the build soon.
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Maybe...I'm somewhat interested in this. Is it HWA capable? Maybe try the Abduction stock kernel. If not HWA capable (hard to know I'm sure) maybe the latest incredikernel.
If it doesn't boot it's hard to know if it's the ROM or the kernel that needs fixing or both.
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Maybe...I'm somewhat interested in this. Is it HWA capable? Maybe try the Abduction stock kernel. If not HWA capable (hard to know I'm sure) maybe the latest incredikernel.
If it doesn't boot it's hard to know if it's the ROM or the kernel that needs fixing or both.
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Well according to his thread it is booting. So that is good so far. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1471408&page=72
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well if we can get your skills on making the kernel, meadows has an alpha build - RIL but im going to jump in and help with the build soon.
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For some reason i though you were talking about ics sense on the inc. But its ics cm on rezound. My bad. I don't want to try to do a kernel on a device I don't have. Has Chad gotten involved in the rezound kernel?
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I think Chad has said before he wanted to wait till the source came out before he would try ICS. But he has made a GB kernel already.

Porting Sense to the Atrix 4G [Developers needed!]

Hello, XDA!
I am organizing a team of developers to attempt to port HTC Sense to the Atrix 4G. Theoretically, this should be possible, correct? I've seen reports of it being successfully ported to Samsung phones. I love the Sense UI, and would love to see this happen, if it is at all possible! This will be my first attempt at an Android development project, so really any help would be greatly appreciated!
Current Team Members:
zefir738
ovitz
Unless this team is the Avengers, it probably wont happen.
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andrew.cambridge said:
Unless this team is the Avengers, it probably wont happen.
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Don't be so serious with him let him have a little of fun. ^^
zefir738 said:
Hello, XDA!
I am organizing a team of developers to attempt to port HTC Sense to the Atrix 4G. Theoretically, this should be possible, correct? I've seen reports of it being successfully ported to Samsung phones. I love the Sense UI, and would love to see this happen, if it is at all possible! This will be my first attempt at an Android development project, so really any help would be greatly appreciated!
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What phone will this be based off of?
So a sense overlay on a Motorola phone? Wanna have cake and eat it too?
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so how do you explain HTC Sense UI on Motorola Droid(Milestone)
Everthing is possible
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What phone will this be based off of?
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I was thinking the Evo 3D, since it's already qHD and has an ARMv7 CPU.
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so how do you explain HTC Sense UI on Motorola Droid(Milestone)
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My thinking exactly. There's also a project for porting Sense to the Motorola Triumph, and the Epic 4G. So, i thought, "Why the hell not?"
A) Why wouldn't you get an HTC phone if you like the Sense UI?
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B) Why would you want to take the bloatware of MotoBlurr off a phone and load it with another manufacturer's bloatware, HTC Sense?
Interesting idea, none the less though. I guess just to prove you can
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A) Why wouldn't you get an HTC phone if you like the Sense UI?
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B) Why would you want to take the bloatware of MotoBlurr off a phone and load it with another manufacturer's bloatware, HTC Sense?
Interesting idea, none the less though. I guess just to prove you can
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Sense is a battery hog. I really like sense, but I usually load an AOSP rom onto my HTC phones.
You can get de-bloated Sense roms.
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This could be interesting. I'd definitely try a sense port if one were available. Chances are I'd stick with AOSP, but why rule something out without trying it?
Anything dev related for the Atrix is welcome as far as I'm concerned. Good luck.
Jotokun said:
This could be interesting. I'd definitely try a sense port if one were available. Chances are I'd stick with AOSP, but why rule something out without trying it?
Anything dev related for the Atrix is welcome as far as I'm concerned. Good luck.
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Thank you very much. Even though Sense is battery and resource hungry, it is a beautiful interface. Now, like I said before, this is my first development project, so any help would be greatly appreciated
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A) Why wouldn't you get an HTC phone if you like the Sense UI?
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So why every people here wants miui, instead of buying an iphone? :v
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breathtakingevil said:
A) Why wouldn't you get an HTC phone if you like the Sense UI?
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Because of the hardware.
breathtakingevil said:
B) Why would you want to take the bloatware of MotoBlurr off a phone and load it with another manufacturer's bloatware, HTC Sense?
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Because Sense is better than Blur, and looks pretty nice.
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So why every people here wants miui, instead of buying an iphone? :v
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Lets be honest. MIUI is more evolved than IOS. Other than the icon layout, they are nothing alike. Don't kid yourself.
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Deggy said:
Lets be honest. MIUI is more evolved than IOS. Other than the icon layout, they are nothing alike. Don't kid yourself.
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I couldn't agree more. I personally love MIUI (I'm actually running it right now...hahaha), so I can say first hand, much better than IOS.
Are you porting Sense 4.0 or an earlier version?
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Are you porting Sense 4.0 or an earlier version?
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an earlier version. i want it to be as fully functional as possible, without having to worry about the ICS bugs that would come with 4.0
zefir738 said:
an earlier version. i want it to be as fully functional as possible, without having to worry about the ICS bugs that would come with 4.0
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I don't know how to build or port a rom, but you've got my support! Good luck!
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tatperson said:
I don't know how to build or port a rom, but you've got my support! Good luck!
Posted from my rooted Motorola Atrix.
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Why thank you, good sir. Any and all support is appreciated. I'm working on my second build at the moment; the first failed to flash, yielding an "E:Can't open /tmp/sideload/package.zip (bad)". What I really need is experienced developers who are willing to help me with this. Hahaha.
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Why thank you, good sir. Any and all support is appreciated. I'm working on my second build at the moment; the first failed to flash, yielding an "E:Can't open /tmp/sideload/package.zip (bad)". What I really need is experienced developers who are willing to help me with this. Hahaha.
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wish I could help, but Im no dev...Check out this porting guide on Android central, particularly post 2:
http://forums.androidcentral.com/optimus-v-rooting-roms-hacks/164989-guide-how-i-port.html#post1683258
Maybe helpful?

[Q] Port Sense ROM Difficulty?

How hard would it be to port a Sense ROM to the Nexus 4? Back when I was on my Droid Incredible, I saw a video explaining porting one phone's ROM to another phone, as long as they were on the same version of Android (mind you, this was back in Gingerbread era). Is it still as simple as replacing some files with others in Jelly Bean?
Its hard. There are tons of people that have been working on it for a while, and I don't think they have even got it to the boot animation yet.
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How hard would it be to port a Sense ROM to the Nexus 4? Back when I was on my Droid Incredible, I saw a video exportinone phone's ROM to another phone, as long as they were on the same version of Android (mind you, this was back in Gingerbread era). Is it still as simple as replacing some files with others in Jelly Bean?
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what about writing compatible drivers from scratch? the difference is that you are not talking about porting pure open source android, you are talking about porting something thats proprietary, and not made for a non htc phone.
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, and not made for a non samsung phone.
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*HTC
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*HTC
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lol, thats what i meant
Its hard alright, like MIUI too, (though different case as MIUI have a team similar to CM making ROM's for all major devices).
Sense itself is a highly modified SHELL, yes we use the word shell. AOSP itself doesn't have a shell therefore the AOSP purity.
Therefore if a Sense ROM is made, it might not be able to use any kernel except the one its developed with. Since Shell and Kernel is tightly bonded.
Hopefully my explanation is right, I just studied these out of my course and merged it with my knowledge in xda. Do correct me if I'm wrong.

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