The aim of this thread is to kind of put all the amazing X8 development in a timeline, hopefully you will all help me with rough dates and what the developer did.
With time and more incoming information I will update this thread, hopefully it will be a nice reference to what has happened since we got our X8 from Sony 1.6 Donut. If you did something great please pm me with details and I will write it here or just comment below.
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Racht 2010-2011 Dev who created the first custom Rom's for X8 largely based on HTC sense ports and later Cynagonmod.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914513
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Doixanh created his modules. OC, UV, MDDI and the almighty fake dual-touch for Synaptics screens. Also the godfather of the Froyobread Series and GingerDX
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1004740
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1053587
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1032270
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1020313
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1042929
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1079463
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1188486
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nobodyAtall Creator of nAa kernel for GB and ICS. More importantly creator of the long standing MiniCM7 series and now MiniCM9
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1575094
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1362585
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24304432
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1350484
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AnDyX is the dev who made dual touch work perfectly on Cypress touchpad
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1135965
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the_laserThe hero who unlocked X8 bootloader
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17384177#post17384177
Blagus and maxrfon also made major contributions to the bootloader unlock process.
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Blagus was the one who initially started it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17384177#post17384177
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alfsamsung the dev behind Alfs kernel, today used by half the XDA X8 users.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1340861
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Thanks for contributions to this post: sotiris82, Chris95X8, lucastan96, Godra
This is the historical account from darkfrmr (full credits to him), it is much more entertaining and educational, please please do thank him for this wonderful post.
Here @ http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24483372&postcount=12 He deserves it :
I don't remember exact dates but this is what i remember to have seen on this forum since january-2011 (a little research too):
- need to go back to 1.6 "donut" to get root access
- zdzihu created xrecovery based con cwm recovery for x10mini (thats what we used until cwm recovery was ported to the x8).
- racht started porting eclair AOSP roms and then htc sense roms, eclair and froyo, part of HACKDROID rom series.
- racht started porting early versions of CM7, part of HACKDROID rom series.
- Jerpelea, now known as FXP, started freexperia development in x8, bringing CM7 with libs from sources.
- somewhere in time it became posible to root 2.1 eclair, and custom roms were pre-rooted.
- JIT appeared for stock 2.1.
- "Bootloader unlock" development started (it took months to achieve...)
- Doixanh (later known as "module man" lol) surprised everyone extending capabilities of stock kernel by using kernel modules, synaptic gesture (at this moment it was unknown that there were 2 version of x8 with different digitizers), overclock, undervolt and also he fixed mddi lags.
- somewhere in time (lol) ponanovn ported nobodyAtall's minicm6 for x10mini (froyo) and it became the first really stable rom because it has fixed some issues with random reboots and "super user" apps making device to reboot.
- SU apps reboot fix was ported to almost every rom like hackdroid floyo and gingerbread roms. Froyo roms were pretty good and almost perfect for day to day use. Gingerbread roms lacked camera and fm radio, and there was battery issues with them.
- Doixanh started his new project "FroyoBread", froyo with "good looking" features from gingerbread like crt screen on/off animation and edge glow and it was created from clean sources. This became the greatest froyo release, even today there is people using last version of it. FYI latest versions of hackdroid floyo were based on froyobread.
- ponanovn ported x10mini minicm7 from nobodyAtall (in this point gingerbread roms had vga camera only, from jerpelea freexperia sources)
- kuyagaol created a new CM7 rom, kuyadroid, based on htc legend nightly's, it combines hackdroid cm7 and minicm7 to fix fm radio and bring vga cam.
- AnDyX appeared on the scene and brought us new modules, including real dual touch for x8's with cypress digitizers, force disabling automatic brightness, netfilter and smartass governor.
- Final version of froyobread released, doixanh started a new project called "GingerDX", froyobread exclusive features in a CM7 htc hero (CM7 nightly's) based rom. GingerDX was the first gingerbread rom with fully working camera (the trick was later ported to every cm7 rom). With GingerDX release appeared a lot of "new developers" or soft modders (rom cookers) who created modded versions of gingerdx (even to this day), adding features like bravia engine and xloud (fakes), but mostly changing framework and tweaking it.
- racht silently quit development with his last port of an htc sense rom.
- With a nearly completed cm7 rom from sources jerpelea, now FXP, left x8 development, but now some components libs can be built from sources like wifi, making easier to port to another android version.
- x8 development was almost ending, rom updates were each time less frequent but suddenly the forum member "the_laser" achieved one of the least possible things, x8 bootloader can be unlocked now!, this revived development and custom kernels began to appear, all of them based on FXP kernel sources (FXP was silenty making that).
- first custom kernel: LinuxDX by doixanh, improving perfomance and moving modules to the place where them should be, in kernel. (discontinued).
- new custom kernel from "alfsamsung", Alfs Kernel for GingerDX showing us the real potential of x8, great performance improvements. (with frequent updates is used by a lot of users today).
- nobodyAtall started x8 development with miniCM7 and nAa kernel series combining stability and good performance, with most of the core component built from sources (FXP's way). A lot of kernel components were ported from newer versions of it. New features in this combo like native wifi tethering. Very popular rom like GingerDX.
- Bad news for some users, devices manufactured past week 29 on 2011 can get hardbricked if they try to unlock bootloader, forcing them to stick to stock kernel.
- Achotjan bring us Sony Ericsson Debrand Engine, and we have a taste of what it would be an official gingerbread update from SE.
- First tastes of AOSP Ice Cream Sandwich ICS began to appear, stock and custom kernel, pretty buggy and not for daily use.
- paul-xxx started developing CM9, only for nAa kernel. Few bugs with wifi and camera and HW acceleration not working.
- doixanh is not longer available to support GingerDX, B.Jay and eagleeyetom continues "the fun".
- nobodyAtall, with new libs from qualcomm created miniCM9, almost fully working ICS rom with HW acceleration, some issues and not working camera. For this a new kernel showed up, nAa ICS kernel based on nAa kernel. Due to this paul-xxx quit developing.
- what will happen next??
ps: yeah... I have a lot of free time today
Maybe even a second one or is that too much?
Well my x8 came with donut so i assume you must go further back in the timeline..
haha thanks i totally forgot
sotiris82 said:
Well my x8 came with donut so i assume you must go further back in the timeline..
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There was almost no development in days of Donut (1.6)...
Doixanh creates his modules: OC, UV, MDDI and the almighty fake dual-touch for Synaptics screens.
1/4/12: April Fools Day
nAa released MiniCM9 and nAa ICS Kernel.
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Chris95X8 said:
Doixanh creates his modules: OC, UV, MDDI and the almighty fake dual-touch for Synaptics screens.
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And made two amazing ROMs: Froyobread and GingerDX.
doixanh and racht, the biggest name in x8 [email protected]
belacker said:
doixanh and racht, the biggest name in x8 [email protected]
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Dont forget nAa
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I don't remember exact dates but this is what I remember to have seen on this forum since january-2011 (a little research too):
X8 Development History (summary).
- To get root access, downgrade to 1.6 "Donut" was a must.
- zdzihu created xrecovery for x10mini based on cwm recovery sources (that's what we used until cwm recovery was ported to the x8).
- racht started porting eclair AOSP roms and then HTC Sense roms, Eclair and Froyo, part of HACKDROID rom series.
- racht started porting early versions of CM7, part of HACKDROID rom series.
- Jerpelea, now known as FXP, started FreeXperia development in x8, bringing CM7 with libs from sources.
- Somewhere in time it became posible to root 2.1 eclair, and custom roms were pre-rooted.
- JIT appeared for stock 2.1.
- Blagus started "Bootloader unlock" development (it took months to achieve...).
- First try to port a Froyo MIUI by as-mario (now XperianPro), sadly it never worked fine and the project was abandoned. There wasn't sources available to properly port it.
- doixanh (later known as "module man" lol) surprised everyone extending capabilities of stock kernel by using kernel modules, synaptic gesture, overclock, undervolt and also he fixed mddi lags (at this moment it was unknown that there were 2 version of x8 with different digitizers).
- Somewhere in time (lol) ponanovn started porting nobodyAtall's MiniCM6 for x10mini (Froyo) and it became the first really stable rom because it has fixed some issues with random reboots and "super user" apps making device to reboot.
- SU apps reboot fix was ported to almost every rom like HACKDROID Floyo (Froyo) and Gingerbread roms. Froyo roms were pretty good and almost perfect for day to day use. Gingerbread roms lacked camera and fm radio, and there was battery issues with them.
- doixanh started his new project "FroyoBread", Froyo with "good looking" features from Gingerbread like crt screen on/off animation and edge glow and it was created from clean sources, but based on racht's work on HACKDROID Floyo to make everything work. This became the greatest Froyo release, even today there is people using it's latest version. FYI latest versions of HACKDROID Floyo were based on FroyoBread.
- ponanovn ported x10mini's MiniCM7 from nobodyAtall (in this point gingerbread roms had vga camera only, from jerpelea's FreeXperia sources).
- kuyagaol created a new CM7 rom, kuyadroid, based on HTC Legend nightly's, it combines HACKDROID CM7 and MiniCM7 to fix fm radio and bring vga cam.
- AnDyX appeared on the scene and brought us new modules, including real dual touch for x8's with cypress digitizers, force disabling automatic brightness, netfilter and smartass governor.
- Final version of FroyoBread released, doixanh started a new project called "GingerDX", FroyoBread exclusive features in a CM7 HTC Hero nightly's based rom. GingerDX was the first Gingerbread rom with fully working camera (the trick was later ported to every CM7 rom). With GingerDX release appeared a lot of "new developers" (soft modders or rom cookers) who created modded versions of GingerDX (even to this day), adding fake features like Bravia Engine and Xloud, but mostly theming framework and tweaking it.
- A bad day for x8 users, racht silently quit development with his last port of an HTC Sense rom.
- With a nearly completed CM7 rom from sources, jerpelea, now FXP, left x8 development, but now some components libs could be built from sources, like Wi-Fi, making easier to port to another android version.
- The most active developer on that moment, doixanh, couldn't continue developing cause he had no x8 anymore but thanks to forum member "deedii", who organized a sucessful "donate to doixanh" thread and motivated people to support doixanh, he was able to get another x8 and continue developing GingerDX.
- x8 development was almost ending, rom updates were each time less frequent but suddenly the forum member the_laser achieved one of the least possible things, the x8 bootloader could be unlocked now! take that SE!, this revived development and custom kernels began to appear, some of them based on FXP kernel sources (FXP was silenty making that).
- First custom kernel: LinuxDX by doixanh, improving perfomance and moving modules to the place where them should be, in kernel. (discontinued).
- New custom kernel from alfsamsung, Alfs Kernel for GingerDX showing us the real potential of x8, great performance improvements. (with frequent updates is used by a lot of users today).
- nobodyAtall (nAa) started x8 development with MiniCM7 and nAa kernel series (based on stock kernel sources) combining stability and good performance, with most of the core component built from sources (FXP's way). A lot of kernel components were ported from newer versions of it. New features in this combo like native wifi tethering. Very popular rom like GingerDX.
- Forum member XDA-RK creates an updated version of FroyoBread called FroyoPro, latter it becames maintained by member lrakkarl.
- lrakkarl makes a patch allowing froyo users to use custom kernels, especially Alfs Kernel.
- Bad news for some users, devices manufactured past week 29 on 2011 (11W29+) can get hardbricked if they attemp to unlock bootloader, forcing them to stick to stock kernel, apparently SE fixed the security hole that was used to bypass bootloader, on newer devices.
- Achotjan bring us Sony Ericsson Debrand Engine, and we had a taste of what it would be an official gingerbread update from SE.
- First tastes of AOSP Ice Cream Sandwich ICS began to appear thanks to forum member troufiniou, stock and custom kernel, pretty buggy and not for daily use.
- paul-xxx started developing CM9, only for nAa kernel. Few bugs with wifi and camera and HW acceleration not working.
- MIUI sources are released. First ports, by JahlovePL, are based on paul's CM9. A new version comes, MIUI gingerbread based on CM7 rc2. They have few bugs and are not fully translated from chinesse.
- doixanh is not longer available to support GingerDX, B.Jay and eagleeyetom continues "the fun".
- djnilse starts to build CM7 version of alfs kernel, for roms that have wifi built from sources like MiniCM7.
- nobodyAtall, with new adreno libs from qualcomm creates MiniCM9, almost fully working ICS rom with HW acceleration, some issues and not working camera. For this a new kernel showed up, nAa ICS kernel based on nAa kernel. Due to this paul-xxx quit developing.
- nobodyAtall's ICS rom MiniCM9 is almost bugfree, camera was fixed. The only bug left is not working HW encoding/decoding due to missing OpenMAX OMX codecs for ARMv6.
- TeamFun (doixanh, B.Jay, eagleeyetom and djnilse) releases IScreamDX, CM9 source based rom. It uses nAa ICS kernel.
- JBMiniProject releases new android version JellyBean based on CyanogenMod 10 sources.
- nobodyAtall stops development of MiniCM7 and MiniCM9 and releases MiniCM10, CM10 (JellyBean) based rom with only HW Video encoding / decoding not working.
- nobodyAtall makes old OMX libs to work on ICS and releases MiniCM9 3.0.5., a fully working ICS rom with HW Video encoding/decoding finally working so no issues remaining on camera.
- nobodyAtall release MiniCM10 4.0.2, a fully working JB rom with HW Video encoding/decoding finally working so no issues remaining on camera. This release makes xperia x8 the first msm7x27 device to have a fully working Jellybean rom, a really great achievement of nobodyAtall.
- nobodyAtall gives to our x8's more power upgrading his 2.6.29.6 jb kernel to 2.6.32.60 version.
- Development of GingerDX is now stopped/discontinued, the last version is v031b.
- X8 section in forum is moved to "Legacy & Low Activity Devices" section.
is SE x8 development reaching its end?
im out of thanks but this is just fantastic thank you so much
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lucastan96 said:
1/4/12: April Fools Day
nAa released MiniCM9 and nAa ICS Kernel.
Sent from my W8 using xda premium
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On April Fool Day we ate Ice Cream Sanwich
True that doxianh and racht are a legend , i still prefer old gdx 22 instead of cooked ones by bjay and egleye.
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Big effort
thnx man
Life so wonderfull, X8 community is beautifull
Well i didnt like that guy but there was some paul(i dont remember exactly) who got flash working..and also some other guy who created all the themes
Great people, great community, big thanks for all dev's working for our Xperia
sotiris82 said:
Well i didnt like that guy but there was some paul(i dont remember exactly) who got flash working..and also some other guy who created all the themes
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Achep?
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Hi guys, I've just recently purchased a U8800 (NOT pro, just the normal one).
I did some research already and the more I read, the more confused I am. It seems that many roms, especially the MIUI ones all have similar problems related to performance, wifi issues etc.
And speaking of MIUI roms, I'm not sure which one is the better one (in terms of speed and stability). Here're the ones I'm referring to:
[ROM] MIUI V4 based Elite ROM SX - (Stable) - 2012-07-14
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1562661
[ROM][MIUI-V4][2.8.3][3.0.8]CrazyMiui|08/05|{SMOOTH,FAST AND STABLE}
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1690156
MIUI PORTUGAL V4 - 2.9.29.1 (Base GenoKolar)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1928336&highlight=miui
It seems that some of them are based on GenoKolar's MIUI rom, and that some are based on other people's roms.
The same applies to other non-MIUI roms, such as this one:
[ROM] Elora 1.10.13 - 2012-10-13
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1798031
which is a hybrid of DZO's Alora rom and some extra added stuff from other roms.
Anyway, I'm really confused by which one to try. I don't want to risk bricking my device or going through the trouble of testing each one and experiencing the problems or bugs, and then try the next one and so on. I was wondering if someone could kindly provide some suggestions as to which rom is the most stable and is decent in terms of speed/performance.
Also, by stable I mean that it has the least bugs OR that it has the minimum amount of critical bugs that could affect the phone's daily use.
Thanks in advance.
Personally i think that for daily use ezet's CyanogenMod 7.2 with .32 kernel is the best considering performance,battery etc. but it is kind of outdated since dzo has made a pretty stable ICS rom(Aurora) which is a lot newer and smoother but with a few bugs remaining. Not to mention that dzo is from the same city as you haha!
n0_xQuZe said:
Personally i think that for daily use ezet's CyanogenMod 7.2 with .32 kernel is the best considering performance,battery etc. but it is kind of outdated since dzo has made a pretty stable ICS rom(Aurora) which is a lot newer and smoother but with a few bugs remaining. Not to mention that dzo is from the same city with you haha!
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Thanks for your reply!
Ya I also think that CM 7.2 is quite outdated, even my Motorola Milestone (which has locked bootloader and no custom kernel support until recently) is on an even newer CM RC release, I think it's on RC3 or RC4 now.
And ya I also agree that Dzo's Aurora rom is probably the most updated one around here but I did read a few comments in the last few pages about certain bugs so I dunno if I should flash it or not.....
I prefer Aurora 4.1u1 for daily use. There's still some bugs, but with some time and understanding of how to find the reason of your problem you'll get the most recent and stable ROM for U8800 now. Also Dzo's back and he is working on the update now so it wouldn't take long to fix all the bugs remaining.
Hi!
Actually i'm with Elora. It's pretty cool and stable.
Best regards
MIUI PT, based on Geno's version is the way to go., in my oppinion.
Very stable, nice and weekly updated
But, honestly speaking, althought every rom as its ups and downs, nothing like you try them all and see which one adapts better to your needs. :good: