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I was wondering if their was any way someone could start on a port of this? I asked the person working it and he said:
feel free to get people started in Samsung Vibrant forum
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Now if someone can do this; I may not be a dev but I will help in anyway I can be it posting about it in my blog/on youtube/twitter or just beta testing
Also since we got the official Xoom system dump
Plz let me know...I am willing to do all I can to help.
I would really like this. I hope people are willing to do it.
I sent this from my Vibrant!
The amount of work it would take would be redoodoodiculous.
Considering the amount the images will have to be resized to work and all the drivers and blah blah blah. Honeycomb will probably never come to smartphones other than from google, but we need to get gingerbread fully working first.
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Would be nice, but I will be content with just a working gingerbread ROM.
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Would be nice, but I will be content with just a working gingerbread ROM.
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i second that!
dpaul007 said:
Would be nice, but I will be content with just a working gingerbread ROM.
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I would be, but I have been waiting forever for Honeycomb and I will never ever be able to afford Xoom.
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i second that!
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Yeah even though i think honeycomb on smartphones would be pretty nice, we need to get gingerbread out to all phones first.
if official gingerbread comes to our phones. I'm going to stop flashing.
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why would you want honeycomb on a cellphone? Honeycomb is geared towards 7" plus displays like netbooks, tablets, and in the very near future 7 inch doubledin car stereo systems, yup you heard me right 7 inch touchscreen stereo systems with honeycomb will be coming out soon, my guess 2012 or 2013, currently trying to hack a chinese stereo system with windows ce on it, it has a 800 mhz processor and a separtate 500 mhz gpu processor, trying to hack into it now. I know the hardware can support honeycomb.
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why would you want honeycomb on a cellphone? Honeycomb is geared towards 7" plus displays like netbooks, tablets, and in the very near future 7 inch doubledin car stereo systems, yup you heard me right 7 inch touchscreen stereo systems with honeycomb will be coming out soon, my guess 2012 or 2013, currently trying to hack a chinese stereo system with windows ce on it, it has a 800 mhz processor and a separtate 500 mhz gpu processor, trying to hack into it now. I know the hardware can support honeycomb.
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Yea, I know usually for 7" but I actually feel that the Vibrant's screen is big enough for Honeycomb...I mean its not that that much smaller the the Galaxy Tab 7".
And as for the hardware, I have seen the devs here do some very amazing things.
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Yea, I know usually for 7" but I actually feel that the Vibrant's screen is big enough for Honeycomb...I mean its not that that much smaller the the Galaxy Tab 7".
And as for the hardware, I have seen the devs here do some very amazing things.
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IMHO 4" is still much smaller than 7".... I dont think it's a good idea to put honeycomb on cell phone since even Google itself is doing a split version for next cellphone update...
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IMHO 4" is still much smaller than 7".... I dont think it's a good idea to put honeycomb on cell phone since even Google itself is doing a split version for next cellphone update...
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I understand what you are saying, and I understand that it would be a pain to resize images and whatnot for the Vibrant...But I really think honeycomb for the phone is a good idea...or even a honeycomb lite if need be.
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I understand what you are saying, and I understand that it would be a pain to resize images and whatnot for the Vibrant...But I really think honeycomb for the phone is a good idea...or even a honeycomb lite if need be.
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What about honeycomb specifically do you want, other than the name?
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What about honeycomb specifically do you want, other than the name?
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Mainly the lock screen, 3D acceleration(bc that 3d type youtube looked awesome), the whole drag and drop widgets to the different homescreen other then that I am good...but then again I think I just named off most of honeycomb features lol.
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IMHO 4" is still much smaller than 7"....
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Thats wat she said
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The amount of work it would take would be redoodoodiculous.
Considering the amount the images will have to be resized to work and all the drivers and blah blah blah. Honeycomb will probably never come to smartphones other than from google, but we need to get gingerbread fully working first.
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Actually, from what I've heard/read, Honeycomb has built in compatibility for smaller screens like phones.
You guys don't get it, when we have honeycomb on our phones it will turrn the 4" to 7" screen.
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I would be, but I have been waiting forever for Honeycomb and I will never ever be able to afford Xoom.
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Get a Nook Color. CM7 nightlies are available now and the HC isn't bad (not great either, but they're working on it).
I'd be happy with GB on the Vibrant. I have it on my work phone (G2).
to those saying honeycomb will NOT come to smartphones...you guys are idiots. honeycomb does and will support phones,its just android needed an OS update to properly support the tablet market to fix scaling and hardware issues/support + new features.
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Get a Nook Color. CM7 nightlies are available now and the HC isn't bad (not great either, but they're working on it).
I'd be happy with GB on the Vibrant. I have it on my work phone (G2).
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I don't have money for a Xoom even let alone money for a Nook
Hey guys.
As you already know, official Galaxy S Gingerbread ROM released.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1009177
That means we've got a "Gingerbread ROM with Touchwiz UI" !
So let's encourage developers to port it to Nexus S
That would be soooo awesome, but at this point the MT3G has more development than the Nexus...they even have honeycomb.
this topic made me smile .. Before the nexus s I owned a galaxy s .. lots and lots of people there want an aosp looking rom and want to get rid of touchwiz asap .. And now I ahve a nexus S with the aosp I have been wanting for so long and see a topic requesting touch wiz
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this topic made me smile .. Before the nexus s I owned a galaxy s .. lots and lots of people there want an aosp looking rom and want to get rid of touchwiz asap .. And now I ahve a nexus S with the aosp I have been wanting for so long and see a topic requesting touch wiz
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Same here. Go figure...
However, CM7 already has all it takes to make your phone look a lot like TouchWiz. It has the statusbar widgets, and the launcher can be customized to look a great deal like it. Is it the home widgets? Cause I'm sure there must be plenty of alternatives in the Market.
Heck, CM7 + ADW is even far more customizable. I don't see a reason why anyone would need TouchWiz at this point.
the reason people sold their Galaxy S to nexus S is because of the stupid touch wiz. and you want people to bring it ? i hate you from my heart
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Same here. Go figure...
However, CM7 already has all it takes to make your phone look a lot like TouchWiz. It has the statusbar widgets, and the launcher can be customized to look a great deal like it. Is it the home widgets? Cause I'm sure there must be plenty of alternatives in the Market.
Heck, CM7 + ADW is even far more customizable. I don't see a reason why anyone would need TouchWiz at this point.
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TW apps(camera, calendar, music player, video player), codecs...the launcher isn't a reason why people would want it imo.
ll_l_x_l_ll said:
the reason people sold their Galaxy S to nexus S is because of the stupid touch wiz. and you want people to bring it ? i hate you from my heart
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I didn't, all this great hardware with crap apps to use. Doesn't even have zoom in the camera let alone 720p video recording.
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the reason people sold their Galaxy S to nexus S is because of the stupid touch wiz. and you want people to bring it ? i hate you from my heart
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Pretty sure it was because of gps..
Which still looks weak in the nexus
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Pretty sure it was because of gps..
Which still looks weak in the nexus
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Pretty sure it was Samsung's incompetence of releasing Android 2.2 in a timely fashion and ROMs basing off Samsung internal leaks with kernels that weren't open-sourced.
I personally don't care if someone ports TouchWiz. If they do, then great. I won't be using it but trying it out to play around with. There's a difference between requesting and something actually being done.
I would definitely like to have the choice of trying out Gingerbread TouchWiz. I've noticed that the Nexus S doesn't really have as much roms as I thought it would have. Maybe its because 2.3 is the latest software and it would defeat the purpose of putting 2.2 sense, 2.2 blur etc or its simply the fact that devs are holding out for dual core and quad core phones.
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I would definitely like to have the choice of trying out Gingerbread TouchWiz. I've noticed that the Nexus S doesn't really have as much roms as I thought it would have. Maybe its because 2.3 is the latest software and it would defeat the purpose of putting 2.2 sense, 2.2 blur etc or its simply the fact that devs are holding out for dual core and quad core phones.
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Most likely because of 2.2 and 2.3. Porting another FrameWork takes a lot of work. It's not that easy to do especially to get it working as a daily driver
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I would definitely like to have the choice of trying out Gingerbread TouchWiz. I've noticed that the Nexus S doesn't really have as much roms as I thought it would have. Maybe its because 2.3 is the latest software and it would defeat the purpose of putting 2.2 sense, 2.2 blur etc or its simply the fact that devs are holding out for dual core and quad core phones.
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Most people are obsessed with speed and latest and greatest, not what offers the most. They say TouchWiz is buggy but so is Gingerbread...obviously I could go on and on.
Why is there so much hostility with reference to Nexus S and development? Why do people consider the Nexus S inferior and not worthy of ROM development? It's a phone, people own it. If all you do is bash the phone and the community, what is your endgame? I say, the more ROMs the better, no matter what they are. And if development dies because of lack of interest, so be it, but let the natural course of the device play out.
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Pretty sure it was Samsung's incompetence of releasing Android 2.2 in a timely fashion and ROMs basing off Samsung internal leaks with kernels that weren't open-sourced.
I personally don't care if someone ports TouchWiz. If they do, then great. I won't be using it but trying it out to play around with. There's a difference between requesting and something actually being done.
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That's not the issue anymore will those roms. Not to mention the only leg nexus has up the captivate is nfc and vanilla android. I like the touchwiz icons, maybe it is because i also use an iphone 4, but those stock app icons make me want to scream
And judging from the 2.3.3 has bricked my gps thread, i am getting less and less excited about owning a nexus s once it arrives with 850mhz 3g bands. Looks like samsung still cant get the gps right..now to see if they did something to the gs2.
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That's not the issue anymore will those roms. Not to mention the only leg nexus has up the captivate is nfc and vanilla android. I like the touchwiz icons, maybe it is because i also use an iphone 4, but those stock app icons make me want to scream
And judging from the 2.3.3 has bricked my gps thread, i am getting less and less excited about owning a nexus s once it arrives with 850mhz 3g bands. Looks like samsung still cant get the gps right..now to see if they did something to the gs2.
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I don't know what you've heard but GPS works perfectly for me...
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Heck, CM7 + ADW is even far more customizable. I don't see a reason why anyone would need TouchWiz at this point.
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I couldn't find a Touchwiz like CM7 theme? Is there any?
ll_l_x_l_ll said:
the reason people sold their Galaxy S to nexus S is because of the stupid touch wiz. and you want people to bring it ? i hate you from my heart
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Because I'm bored with default Android. I just want to try different things.
And yes Touchwiz is stupid, I hate it when I first saw that, especially lock-screen. But theme looks great.
the only think i'll be looking forward in a port from SGS to SNS are the mkv codecs and hardware play
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That's not the issue anymore will those roms. Not to mention the only leg nexus has up the captivate is nfc and vanilla android. I like the touchwiz icons, maybe it is because i also use an iphone 4, but those stock app icons make me want to scream
And judging from the 2.3.3 has bricked my gps thread, i am getting less and less excited about owning a nexus s once it arrives with 850mhz 3g bands. Looks like samsung still cant get the gps right..now to see if they did something to the gs2.
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Try the MIUI rom I think it's the rom that you're looking for.
@allgamer: in cm7 the hardware encoding actually works. 720p I smooth but no audio is being outputted. That's the only thing that needs to be fixed. Regular videos are fine.
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ll_l_x_l_ll said:
the reason people sold their Galaxy S to nexus S is because of the stupid touch wiz. and you want people to bring it ? i hate you from my heart
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The only reason I hated TouchWiz was because of bloatware, and Samsung's closed source issue which hindered development. Other than that, the UI looks great to me. The blue accents are nice and is easier to view than the gloomy green of the NS. Codecs are a major plus. The launcher is acceptable. My reason for moving to the NS is for CM7 as well as Google updates. Therefore, I'm all for porting the Galaxy S Gingerbread ROM.
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Try the MIUI rom I think it's the rom that you're looking for.
@allgamer: in cm7 the hardware encoding actually works. 720p I smooth but no audio is being outputted. That's the only thing that needs to be fixed. Regular videos are fine.
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that's great news! as that's the only thing that is really missing on the Nexus S at this point
being able to play back with hardware instead of software codec
http://phandroid.com/2011/05/10/goo...mb-because-they-wanted-to-wait-for-ice-cream/
According to this we wont be seeing any HC source until ICSW is out, so we get no custom roms until Q4?
Am I wrong? Please tell me!
o.m.g no
im feeling bad....as bad as when I first watched rebecca black
Please, someone with knowledge confirm this unsaintly act untrue!
Well Google did say they were holding back the source when HC came out. They didn't give a date or even if it would be released so tbh if they are now saying it will be released, it's an improvement on what we already knew.
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I'm not sure what I would want in a custom rom, all I want is plain android and we already have that.
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I'm not sure what I would want in a custom rom, all I want is plain android and we already have that.
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Do you understand what I mean by custom roms? lol
Do you understand what you mean by custom ROMs? If you had a custom ROM, it would no longer be plain "vanilla" Android, which is what Bauxite wants. I agree with Bauxite, I think it's likely most custom ROMs will be inferior to the stock experience in Honeycomb, at least initially. Not that I wouldn't try a few on for size.
Fortunately without access to the Honeycomb source code we still have plenty of options to customize kernels, theme our interface, and overclock with root access.
I really don't think we need any roms either.
Nothing could really be done other than Themes and Deodexing.
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Do you understand what I mean by custom roms? lol
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Of course I do, but who cares about things like theming, and adding/removing built in apps. Sure CM7-like features would be nice, but the honeycomb experience itself is about as good as it gets
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Of course I do, but who cares about things like theming, and adding/removing built in apps. Sure CM7-like features would be nice, but the honeycomb experience itself is about as good as it gets
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Hmm. I get what you're saying, I always like a vanilla OS too. However, until those hero devs of ours get a chance to play with the HC source I'm nit sure you can say this is as good as it gets.... just look at the awesome kernel work that's being done!
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Maybe what we need its not Custom rom but theme builder or something like that. If its true honeycomb will be equal to every honeycomb tablet (apart from the widgets) then there is no point in modding... i mean there was a point in doing it with a outdated phone but not with honeycomb and future ice cream
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I really don't think we need any roms either.
Nothing could really be done other than Themes and Deodexing.
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Yes. Themes. Agreed.
DroidHam said:
http://phandroid.com/2011/05/10/goo...mb-because-they-wanted-to-wait-for-ice-cream/
According to this we wont be seeing any HC source until ICSW is out, so we get no custom roms until Q4?
Am I wrong? Please tell me!
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Don't hold your breath on ever seeing the HC source. They have held it back, mainly in part because once it goes AOSP they effectively loose control of its final application. For example, think of all the craplets that come out of Shenzhen taking Android and putting in on devices it was not intended to go on which resulted in a exceeding poor product offering at ridiculously low prices. Now to you and I (read the enthusiast community) we understand that these are craplets and as such do not condemn Android tablets to the depths of hell for being a craplet because it was never intended for that application. However the general populace does not think the same way. They see an "Android tablet" for $100, think awesome, buy the POS and proceed to have a horrible "Android tablet" experience at which time they proceed to tell everyone they know that Android tablets are crap and yadda yadda yadda... And this in turn shapes the general perception which makes it harder and harder for Android to gain acceptance in the tablet space. So in order to gain foothold they developed a version of Android specific for tablets and I would bet good money they never had intentions of releasing HC to AOSP. This is unfortunately the only way that they can control how this OS is used, because they know for a fact if they released it, it would only be a matter of days before you started seeing people trying to put HC on phones, which it was never intended for, or putting it on craplets which results in a significantly substandard experience. So instead you had a decision made to wait until you had convergence in the Android OS again (read ICS) at which point all devices will exist on the same OS, and you can correct the shortcuts that were taken in HC to get a product that works as well as it does given such a short development period.
Bottom line is, we may not agree with the decision, and we certainly by no means have to like the decision, but if you look at the problems objectively it makes sense.
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http://phandroid.com/2011/05/10/goo...mb-because-they-wanted-to-wait-for-ice-cream/
According to this we wont be seeing any HC source until ICSW is out, so we get no custom roms until Q4?
Am I wrong? Please tell me!
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Guys i think he means being able to run the os before it is actually realeased...i would like this as well
Stating that there's nothing (or very little) to be gained from a custom ROM is pretty absurd.
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Stating that there's nothing (or very little) to be gained from a custom ROM is pretty absurd.
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Finally, some sanity in this thread.
Samsung "TouchWiz" Android had been optimized for S5PC110 (Hummingbird), not because of UI. They optimized for their own processor and many of the optimization are not in AOSP branch.
CyanogenMOD has been optimizing own version of Android for all devices. AOSP is like bare minimum for devices like Nexus S / Nexus One / HTC Dream. We may have some of the Samsung optimized stuff due to Gingerbread. I wouldn't go back to AOSP because of the bare minimum. I would go for CyanogenMOD rather than AOSP because it has been optimized for all CPUs like Cortex A8/A9/ARM11.
First yayayyyyyyyyyy now to read the OP
Haha you beat isaint
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First yayayyyyyyyyyy now to read the OP
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LoL
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Isn't this something the general public already knows? Sounding kinda drunk there noobnl.... nevertheless, you are/were a great dev and deserve all my respect.
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Art2Fly said:
Isn't this something the general public already knows? Sounding kinda drunk there noobnl.... nevertheless, you are/were a great dev and deserve all my respect.
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I am saying Samsung TouchWiz is not just a UI, it contain some of the most optimized version of android for Hummingbird Cpu.
So TW is not THAT bad after all?
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So TW is not THAT bad after all?
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Guess not. I always liked tw, but this makes it even better.
Sent from the ony thing i need.
I gotta look into this further, TW optimized mmmmmmmm...
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Samsung "TouchWiz" Android had been optimized for S5PC110 (Hummingbird), not because of UI. They optimized for their own processor and many of the optimization are not in AOSP branch.
CyanogenMOD has been optimizing own version of Android for all devices. AOSP is like bare minimum for devices like Nexus S / Nexus One / HTC Dream. We may have some of the Samsung optimized stuff due to Gingerbread. I wouldn't go back to AOSP because of the bare minimum. I would go for CyanogenMOD rather than AOSP because it has been optimized for all CPUs like Cortex A8/A9/ARM11.
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Quit the talking and start coding then, help the other devs get CM done and you may (and only then) vindicate yourself.
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Quit the talking and start coding then, help the other devs get CM done and you may (and only then) vindicate yourself.
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Hes gunna do whatever the hell he wants do and i doubt hes gunna do that
Well, I'm still using it. And I think my tastes overall pretty good.
I like trying new themes and apps, but Android is decent without much tinkering and TouchWiz may be around the right level. I have owned my Epic since last November and if I didn't like the UI I would have tried another by now.
That's not to say I never will, but Samsung didn't foul up at least. I'll be surprised if Gingerbread TouchWiz is noticeably different, although I am intrigued by v4.0 on the SGS 2, since it's been highly praised and the videos are interesting.
you all realize everyone who has an epic is using touchwiz right?? unless you are on CM, or MIUI or some other rare AOSP port instance... its more than just a launcher.. its the entire framework... and thats what noobnl is getting at..
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you all realize everyone who has an epic is using touchwiz right?? unless you are on CM, or MIUI or some other rare AOSP port instance... its more than just a launcher.. its the entire framework... and thats what noobnl is getting at..
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So a launcher you get from the Market which changes the theme of your phone is nothing but an overlay, or what? I can disable TW in app controls. I used the plain Android launcher after clearing the default and decided I liked TW enough to go back to it. At least, I tried it in Eclair. If that option is missing from Froyo or later versions, that's news to me.
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So a launcher you get from the Market which changes the theme of your phone is nothing but an overlay, or what? I can disable TW in app controls. I used the plain Android launcher after clearing the default and decided I liked TW enough to go back to it. At least, I tried it in Eclair. If that option is missing from Froyo or later versions, that's news to me.
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TWLauncher.apk is just the Touchwiz based launcher... your phone is still using the touchwiz framework and there isn't anything you can do to get rid of that short fo flashing MIUI CM7 or AOSP, which are all only semi functioning......
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He's not referring to the UI, launcher, widgets, ect. TouchWiz is Samsung's UI, just like HTC has Sense. He speaking to the optimizations Samsung makes to Android to in order to take advantage of the proprietary hardware. You'll notice this right away if you use the Nexus S. No codec support, the camera is a step down from the Epic (at least software wise) and it doesn't pull the same frames per sec the Epic can. Samsung does work some magic with the Galaxy S phones. If you don't believe that then play with a Nexus S and you'll see many of the advantages that the Epic has over the Nexus S.......
Think of it the same way you would a computer. Most run windows but OEM's tend to optimize or customize the windows installation to take advantage of the their specific hardware.
Nice post Noobnl
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TWLauncher.apk is just the Touchwiz based launcher... your phone is still using the touchwiz framework and there isn't anything you can do to get rid of that short fo flashing MIUI CM7 or AOSP, which are all only semi functioning......
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I see. So (let me understand and correct if necessary) noobnl's original post is to let us know that we basically are going to have particularly good code for TW-sourced ROMs in Android 2.3 due to better hardware optimization?
This makes sense in light of Samsung making Google's latest flagship phone, I guess.
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I see. So (let me understand and correct if necessary) noobnl's original post is to let us know that we basically are going to have particularly good code for TW-sourced ROMs in Android 2.3 due to better hardware optimization?
This makes sense in light of Samsung making Google's latest flagship phone, I guess.
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TouchWiz is a blessing and a curse. I detest the UI and that fact that it makes development more difficult. However, Sammy's version of Android is optimized for the Galaxy S hardware, drivers, ect. Although the same could probably be said about most devices. OEM's will generally optimize their versions of any OS to take advantage of their own hardware.
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I see. So (let me understand and correct if necessary) noobnl's original post is to let us know that we basically are going to have particularly good code for TW-sourced ROMs in Android 2.3 due to better hardware optimization?
This makes sense in light of Samsung making Google's latest flagship phone, I guess.
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He's basically saying that AOSP is like when you just install Windows and its using the generic Windows GPU driver and its all wonky and just scrolling a web page is glitchy, but it works with literally every video card in existence. Touchwiz is like installing the newest Nvidia or ATI driver so that the OS knows exactly what hardware you have and how to utilize it, so the experience is as optimized as it can be. Cyanogenmod is somewhere inbetween those two points.
I thought this was common knowledge.
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What is all the hype about ICS? What can it do that honeycomb or what one of you rediculously talented developers haven't already figured out how to do on your own? Just curious...
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To be a bit more specific:
- faster
- better graphics performance
- less battery drain
- full USB HID support
- (some might consider this a bug) biometric unlocking
- tons of improvements under the hood
- (for devs) full source available
And probably a lot of stuff I didn't think of while writing this post...
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What is all the hype about ICS? What can it do that honeycomb or what one of you rediculously talented developers haven't already figured out how to do on your own?
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Increased performance.
Because Other People have it
I want it on my tablet because everyone else does..
Have to try to fit in here or you are left out of all the fun and games.. Does Microsoft make ICS.. Can i put it on my Notebook .Will it work on my TV.
giggles..
ACTUALLY BOTH POST ABOVE ARE CORRECT .. It has better hardware acceleration support for UI AND VIDEO PERFORMANCE..Better memory management. That will increase battery life.. Not to mention Because it has a cute MASCOT ..
Its everything honeycomb was supposed to be .
OOPS I FORGOT.. ITS ALL BECAUSE MY MOMMY TOLD ME NOT TO DO IT.. Never fallow moms instructions...
Been running it on my nexus and tablet and for the tablet the difference on home screen scrolling is night and day. Rarely does it lag when switching between homescreens. Which I believe is very important due the amazing Widgets android app devlipers have made. Having all this info present and sliding from a twitter widget over to news 360 is like butter
Most of here are probably foaming at the mouth for the update is for the source and kernel ace has to supply so our great devs can optimize and add ntfs support, and other goodies.
faster, better multi tasking abilitys, the UI its self is very sexy, and its the new os who dosent want the newest os?
Who doesn't want different dessert? Ice Cream Sandwich is tastier than Gingerbread ;-)
Great answers everyone. Thanks. I'm all about faster and sexier. I'm pretty stoked for it too! Does anyone know when we are getting it? HAHA JUST KIDDING
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Battery life on my A500 has doubled since installing the ICS ROM. Everything is more responsive, browsing is remarkably faster... HC gave Android tabs a bad name (and a good laugh for fanbois); ICS makes Android on tabs a serious contender to knock the fruit off of the tree.
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It will also streamline app development considering it will be One OS to deal, basically google seems to be taking Apple's look on development and trying to keep all devices equal when it comes to the OS. At least that's my assumption on that but yea regardless it should streamline app development.
malickie said:
It will also streamline app development considering it will be One OS to deal, basically google seems to be taking Apple's look on development and trying to keep all devices equal when it comes to the OS. At least that's my assumption on that but yea regardless it should streamline app development.
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That's the first and main reason-compatibility, less fragmentation. Developers would no longer have to create separate versions of their apps. Unfortunately not all current devices would get ICS update so fragmentation will still be an issue. Microsoft has taken the same path with Windows 8. "Any similarities to other companies are just a coincidence "
FireMedicDave said:
Great answers everyone. Thanks. I'm all about faster and sexier. I'm pretty stoked for it too! Does anyone know when we are getting it? HAHA JUST KIDDING
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Thor's ROM v14.2 / Kernel 3.9r3
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it will come the 6th Tuesday in the 13th month of the years 3012.
at 14:76 am.. The same day that my ancestors from another universe will arrive to take myself and my family to Our new home..
Erica is never EVER WRONG.. IF You do not belive me just ask .. i will tell you.
erica_renee said:
it will come the 6th Tuesday in the 13th month of the years 3012.
at 14:76 am.. The same day that my ancestors from another universe will arrive to take myself and my family to Our new home..
Erica is never EVER WRONG.. IF You do not belive me just ask .. i will tell you.
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lol, that way you make me want to throw my tab of the window..
haha you're so funny
yuril7 said:
lol, that way you make me want to throw my tab of the window..
haha you're so funny
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Nope just msg mefor shipping information
ghoernersr said:
Battery life on my A500 has doubled since installing the ICS ROM. Everything is more responsive, browsing is remarkably faster... HC gave Android tabs a bad name (and a good laugh for fanbois); ICS makes Android on tabs a serious contender to knock the fruit off of the tree.
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You running Thor ics?
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erica_renee said:
it will come the 6th Tuesday in the 13th month of the years 3012.
at 14:76 am.. The same day that my ancestors from another universe will arrive to take myself and my family to Our new home..
Erica is never EVER WRONG.. IF You do not belive me just ask .. i will tell you.
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That's crazy!!! That's my birthday! What a coincidence...
I have also been using Thor's ROM for a few days. So much smoother compared to 3.2 and yes I would agree the battery life is much better.
This represents the proverbial end of fragmentation. Developers will have one core to work with and the uis from providers will new overlays and not integrated.
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garbagecanman said:
You running Thor ics?
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I am running v94 since the audio out is better and it's awesome aside from the camera not working