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[Q] Android 3.0 on Xperia X8?

I have heard that some guys managed to port Android 3.0, better known as Honeycomb, to the G1, HTC Magic and to the Nexus One.
This are of course very beta versions, but the phones boot with it.
So, I wonder if someone could port 3.0 to our Xperia?
The HTC Magic and G1 were the first phones with Android, so our Xperia must be much better than them and, theoratically, it could work on it with just fewer lags than on the G1.
There are so many 2.2 and 2.3 ROMs available for our Xperia, so why not try to port 3.0?
If you think this is a stupid thread, just remove it, but I just wanted to know it.
Thanks in advance for your answers.

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You must be new here!

you will get burned at the stake by the guys here for opening such thread xD we are struggling to get a 100% bugless working android 2.2 and you bringing up android 3.0 which is meant for tablets with big screens xD lol
Edit : also such question is not meant to be in the dev section....

It was just a noob question...I also said that the versions for Nexus One, G1 and Magic are very beta versions.

There used to be an early version of Honeycomb somewhere here but the project has been abandoned. And no wonder - our kernel cannot even run Gingerbread without bugs, not to mention higher versions...

Even the kernel supports it, maybe phone will be too much laggy, as the HoneyComb suggests the need of 1.0Ghz processor, that is not our Case

So why they can run it on G1?
Does it have an unlocked bootloader, so you can flash a custom kernel?

codfreak said:
So why they can run it on G1?
Does it have an unlocked bootloader, so you can flash a custom kernel?
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Probably yes, Xperia stills locked and cannot boot custom kernels
Some dev are trying to make the bootloader bypass, but is not easy. :/

biscoitu said:
Probably yes, Xperia stills locked and cannot boot custom kernels
Some dev are trying to make the bootloader bypass, but is not easy. :/
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not easy and i think they already gave up

Graveir and aldee_s are right: someone has already ported it, but development is currently down.
here is the thread to it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=982384&highlight=honeycomb

Blagus was disappointed with that, the only one that i saw making some progress was maxfron, but I didn´t saw him anymore

That had it ported but far to laggy m8 r CPU 2 slow at the min but I think I may still have that download ill cheack for u and upload it if so
my civic

Is because our phone is not ARMv7 & above and the processor speed is not super fast..if u port it into x8 it will buggy & lags in all of the function

Lets wait for 2. 4 but google need so much time : #
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There are already a few phones with Android 2.4 (not for sale, but someone somehow managed to get some)
Here is a youtube video, where you can see Xperia arc running 2.4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYbBQMERacQ

codfreak said:
There are already a few phones with Android 2.4 (not for sale, but someone somehow managed to get some)
Here is a youtube video, where you can see Xperia arc running 2.4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYbBQMERacQ
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This is fake he just editted the build.prob file!
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You can edit this in build.prop?
Do you mean the line:
Code:
ro.build.version.sdk=8
, so you would only have to change the number?

I think new Android will be 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich"
Not 2.4
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your new here arent ya? hahaha! its not very impossible to port 3.0 in our x8 just wait and see

Sony Xperia Play, Neo, and Arch Getting CyanogenMod Custom ROM

http://pocketnow.com/android/sony-xperia-play-neo-and-arch-getting-cyanogenmod-custom-rom
i dont belong to this forum... but i bring some happy news
if its repetitive topic.. delete it pls
so hopefully u all guys will have cyanogen , miui soon

good news indeed!
this and freexperia rom and also miui
choices are now coming for the patient common users, good!

from the bottom of my heart, I wish they agree.

CyanogenMod seems like great stuff for phones without 2.3.3. Wonder what will it have to offer that is better than SE stock ROM or stock+rooted?
For my Motorola Defy it was awesome. Yet what SE offers is quite enticing. Without functioning camera and video recording no ROM is worthy having, but I guess it's harder to program into ROM than anything else.
Well, best wishes nonetheless.

Am I missing something We already have CyanogenMod Custom ROM in Development section. Why does CyanogenMod Team have to make another one

ShyamSasi said:
Am I missing something We already have CyanogenMod Custom ROM in Development section. Why does CyanogenMod Team have to make another one
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It will be a more complete, and supported release.
I believe the current rom is not official.
Feel free to correct me, I never got into the x10 version. It never seemed quite finished to me.
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This is not another one. This is the same work, we've been fixing lots of issues (graphics, automating recovery build, etc) for the past weeks with the goal of getting all of FreeXperia work merged into official cm.

This is great news. I hope it gets approved. Hopefully this convinces Sony Ericsson to give their camera drivers to you, so we can have a fully operational CM7 on our Xperia arc.

Great work. Looking forward to trying it on my Neo. Let's just hope SE comes to the table on Camera drivers.

Cyanogen Mod would sense for devices not getting the latest Android version from the producers. As the current Xperia range was 2.3.3, it's rather pointless to have it instead of a thoroughly tested with proper drivers firmware made by the producers.

Darth Glacious said:
Cyanogen Mod would sense for devices not getting the latest Android version from the producers. As the current Xperia range was 2.3.3, it's rather pointless to have it instead of a thoroughly tested with proper drivers firmware made by the producers.
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Many people prefer a stock Android over SE's firmware. Stock 3.0.1 was fine, very little background apps, but 4.0 added some new 'bloat'. It's always nice to have the choice, and it's good to get started on Cyanogen early to make sure it'll stay compatible as we move to Ice Cream Sandwich.

[think tank][Request] 3.X.X Jellybean kernel for our play.

Currently our beloved xperia play is running the old gingerbread kernel, and development from FXP is about to come to an end for this device. So I made this thread to give our phone the chance to fully support Jellybean. So please anyone who can help is welcome on board. Here are some helpful links to get us started: http://source.android.com http://www.kernel.org http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1423009. The last link is an example of what to do to find the UART debugging if needed to build the kernel. May the games begin!
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https://github.com/kamarush/CAF_android-msm-3.0
it is not booting yet, but most things are done.
see todo list
edit: also zeus board isn't supported yet, need to be fixed too

iiri soft is more active on it now than kamarush, and I plan to port it to Zeus. For now he's doing interim updates like 2.6.32.60 which I have also ported to the Play (but has same issues as he does).
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Okay guys nice progress I would help if my computer didn't suck
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LOL I have a core i3 with 4GB RAM, patiently working on AOSP JB
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I have an Intel celeron @ 2ghz, 2gbs of ram, and a 250gb hard drive. Lol
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Even my laptop is Intel i7 2.5GHz, 8GB RAM, 750GB HDD.

nickholtus said:
https://github.com/kamarush/CAF_android-msm-3.0
it is not booting yet, but most things are done.
see todo list
edit: also zeus board isn't supported yet, need to be fixed too
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How long has this been worked on
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jeffbud98 said:
How long has this been worked on
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Ha, looks like kamarush has deleted it. He's mad.
As I said before though, irii-soft and ExPeacer have continueed work on it. See https://github.com/irii-soft/CAF_android-msm-3.0/
You can see how long/active it is by looking at the commit log. It's not going to come any time soon, if at all. There is still a LOT of work to do. 2.6.32.60 is only *just* working after a lot of his work, because he is removing/refactoring the strange stuff Sony adds in to make it more generic (i.e. his other kernel work will contribute to knowledge of porting 3.x kernel).

just a question:
are You guys working on a new kernel software for the xperia play to make jb functions working etc. ???

Spatinator said:
just a question:
are You guys working on a new kernel software for the xperia play to make jb functions working etc. ???
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No. What JB functions aren't working?

CosmicDan said:
No. What JB functions aren't working?
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Well camera jusf works with a hack, but panorama is broken and touchpad is very buggy.
somethijg that very annoys me is the crash when watching videos.
and what about upcoming android versions...
jb is the last android version, that the fxp team will support on our xperia play, because its really hard work to make jb with our old gb kernels compatible

Spatinator said:
Well camera jusf works with a hack, but panorama is broken and touchpad is very buggy.
somethijg that very annoys me is the crash when watching videos.
and what about upcoming android versions...
jb is the last android version, that the fxp team will support on our xperia play, because its really hard work to make jb with our old gb kernels compatible
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CM10.0
- latest cm 10.0
- sensors update (all 2011)
- youtube final fix (all 2011)
so youtube will work ok again.
we will get 4.2 (fxp just comfirmed it)
touchpad can be kernel related, but mostly project butter isn't fully working

nickholtus said:
CM10.0
- latest cm 10.0
- sensors update (all 2011)
- youtube final fix (all 2011)
so youtube will work ok again.
we will get 4.2 (fxp just comfirmed it)
touchpad can be kernel related, but mostly project butter isn't fully working
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-android 4.2 is jb so is said nothing wrong
-youtube: its not just watching videos on youtube i mean watching videos at all
- and i forgot wifi hotspot
o man project butter really doesnt work??

Spatinator said:
-android 4.2 is jb so is said nothing wrong
-youtube: its not just watching videos on youtube i mean watching videos at all
- and i forgot wifi hotspot
o man project butter really doesnt work??
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Nope I believe the play is too old to allow project butter to run (Afaik) so it's not on any JB ROMS for the play

kamarush said he has got it working.
but because of people complaining at him he stopped developing for sony Phone like me (i also stopped since today)

Ok Nick proved me wrong xD
it's a real shame all you guys are getting such abuse it's not on and I don't blame you for jumping ship but again it's a real shame

actually really sad...

nickholtus said:
kamarush said he has got it working.
but because of people complaining at him he stopped developing for sony Phone like me (i also stopped since today)
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Good choice this was my first and soon to be last Sony phone. I dont know why sony was OEM of the year their new phones done even come with jellybean and that's been out for 6 months already
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jeffbud98 said:
Good choice this was my first and soon to be last Sony phone. I dont know why sony was OEM of the year their new phones done even come with jellybean and that's been out for 6 months already
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Because they are much more "open" than other major OEM's. I'd like to see you name one other recent phone from a major OEM that came preinstalled with Jellybean.
And he didn't say he stopped working on Sony because he didn't like them, but because the users are always complaining. And I know what they mean, it's annoying that people are so obsessed with having kernel 3.x and/or full working native jellybean on their phones that are nearly two years old. If they were really that dedicated and wanting of it, they'd learn something and try to help. Or simply give up on the Sony devices and leave us alone.

AOSP Lollipop 5.0 on Z3, Z2 & Z1 by Sony

Hi everybody!
I have just find out this article from Sony blog:
http://developer.sonymobile.com/2014/11/06/android-5-0-xperia-z3-running-aosp/
So I think I will get Lollipop in our Z1 very soon.
See you!

AOSP is fine but not from sony
I like camera in my z1

Yep can't wait for the new 5.0 custom roms to roll in. At least sony has now officially supported the modding community.

a good ROM?Thanks

I use my camera far too much to support being a beta tester in the various 5.0 ROMs rolling out in Original thread..
I can live without mobile data since I'm in a WiFi zone almost exclusively, but no camera? no dice..

I too love aosp, even on kitkat. But I really hope they have fix camera issues. That would be awesome!

Yeah i could try livin without modem since there is citywide wlan available but without camera ?! no way!

Android "N" as in "No nougat for the Z3 line"...

http://blogs.sonymobile.com/2016/08...ndroid-7-0-nougat/?k=1471977631#comment-65567
I'm disappointed. I really hoped that it would get it with the Xperia Z3 N Preview program. What was the point of that ??

DannyBiker said:
http://blogs.sonymobile.com/2016/08...ndroid-7-0-nougat/?k=1471977631#comment-65567
I'm disappointed. I really hoped that it would get it with the Xperia Z3 N Preview program. What was the point of that ??
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I am both surprised and disappointed. The Z3C is a great device, and the failure by Sony to update it to Nougat is anticlimactic, to say the least. I was planning to buy the tablet; I guess I'll have to look elsewhere now

It's actually a bit more complicated than that. I've read from a few sources that actually Google is to blame for removing msm8974 code from AOSP and so Sony has no option but to deny an official Nougat update to these devices. As for the fact that the z3 phone got some N preview builds, well, they stopped at build 3, it didn't recieve builds 4 and 5. It is assumed that it's cause it's actually in build 4 that Google removed code for our SoC. We'll see how things turn out.
EDIT: It turns out it might even be on Qualcomm as it is the chipset manufacturer to decide whether it will support and make drivers for their chipset that work with the new OS version. Although I doubt such decisions are made without consulting Google.

Tipkaros said:
It's actually a bit more complicated than that. I've read from a few sources that actually Google is to blame for removing msm8974 code from AOSP and so Sony has no option but to deny an official Nougat update to these devices. As for the fact that the z3 phone got some N preview builds, well, they stopped at build 3, it didn't recieve builds 4 and 5. It is assumed that it's cause it's actually in build 4 that Google removed code for our SoC. We'll see how things turn out.
EDIT: It turns out it might even be on Qualcomm as it is the chipset manufacturer to decide whether it will support and make drivers for their chipset that work with the new OS version. Although I doubt such decisions are made without consulting Google.
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Interesting. I had no idea it went that deep to google and Qualcomm even.
Oh well it's a shame as as the z3 compact is a great device. The best tablet I've ever owned for sure. And I've had a few. Would have been nice to have true android multitasking windows.

That's really all I wanted for the Z3T : native multi-window.
If only they were developers working on the Z3 line... :/

I realize our device is old, but what we need is a little push in our dev scene. I remember for the Xperia Z Ultra some users got together and paid a dev to develop a kernel. Maybe something similar has been done here?
Either way, we aren't that many here which means there are even less devs. Could we manage to scrape together an amount any good dev would consider to build us a working, updated build of Nougat or Cyanogen?

But ...
developer.sonymobile.com/build-aosp-nougat-7-0
or don't work for this tablet?

I'm fairly sure that if there was more interest for the Z3 Tablet, we'd get decent Nougat custom roms in the end. But the devs are just not there. We could always make a bounty but these things don't work out so well most of the time...

N
AOSP N works on scorpion sgp621.
Works fine without camera (not works yet).

koron393 said:
AOSP N works on scorpion sgp621.
Works fine without camera (not works yet).
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Where is the download link?
Skickat från min MI 5

Tyerlo said:
Where is the download link?
Skickat från min MI 5
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Built it yourselves.

there are builds from fxp-blog (https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=109243) but i didn't test them yet. i don't need the camera on my tablet.

M!tch said:
there are builds from fxp-blog (https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=109243) but i didn't test them yet. i don't need the camera on my tablet.
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I suppose scorpion_windy is for our devices? And will it work with the sgp 611?

sgp611 is the wifi-only model and codenamed scorpion_windy.
i've got the lte version -> scorpion.

new builds are up at https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=109243
edit: after some testings this is not ready as a daily driver because on reboot i get sometimes a bootloop and without fastboot and reflash it often won`t boot.
hopefully cm14 will come along quicker with this as base.

I didn't think there was an unlock for the 621?

AICP N
AICP 12 (Nougat) build.
Sorry no zip file for now.

what about major bugs/nonfunctional basic-hardware?

koron393 said:
AICP 12 (Nougat) build.
Sorry no zip file for now.
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I've AICP on all my devices except the scorpion_windy so I very much look forward to trying out your first release

dudes at least we have the option to choose between 3 OS'S.I tested both KK and LP (except MM) and both run GREAT.
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