They had wifi, bluetooth and soon camera working on Cyanogenmod 9 because the Broadcom drivers were released, why can't there be Cyanogenmod 11? Even the Galaxy Mini had it so it wouldn't be a hardware problem.
1 - because there are no drivers - the drivers that were released were for ics and still very buggy and needed alot of fixes
2 - would need a brand new kernel not currently possible
3 - qualcomm released all their sources for mini
4 - questions ironically go in question and answer section NOT general section
5 - this has been covered so many times and is now boring
6 - use the search next time
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They had wifi, bluetooth and soon camera working on Cyanogenmod 9 because the Broadcom drivers were released, why can't there be Cyanogenmod 11? Even the Galaxy Mini had it so it wouldn't be a hardware problem.
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Galaxy Mini and Galaxy Mini Plus have different hardware. Galaxy Mini uses Qualcomm chipsets whereas Galaxy Mini Plus have the Broadcom BCM21553 chipset, which is the same as the Galaxy Y chipset. You clearly mixed the two up.
Also, the reason why we only have a buggy CM9 is because we do not have the necessary libraries (drivers, in a sense) to build CM9. The libraries Broadcom provided us at the end of February needs to be developed upon for it to be usable for CM9. These libraries, however, are only compatible with up to 4.0.4 which is CM9.1. These libraries cannot be used for JellyBean (CM10) or KitKat (CM11).
Please read the current state of things carefully before posting. We already have a lot of threads asking the same thing.
Ok thanks, I'm not so much into coding but thanks for answering!
Why can't they release all the drivers? What are they losing when doing it, it only helps people?
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Why can't they release all the drivers? What are they losing when doing it, it only helps people?
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Cause broadcomm as known as un-Open Source
They have their own reasons. Though some workers of Broadcom have assisted us in a few ways (I heard).
And don't bother with petitions either. There was one or two and only the first one actually succeeded in getting 10000 sigs but it was ignored by Broadcom so...
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There is a great description of the ways to get ICS on Atrix from crnkoj:
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So lets try to get some light into it, the issue about hw acceleration for the atrix is that, even now that nvidia released proper ICS binaries, those are made for recent kernel versions (post 2.6.39 and 3.x versions), those libs are floating around and are accessible to most people who would want to build stuff with hw acceleration, the problem on the atrix however is we only have 2.6.32 kernel sources from motorola, which in term means all the libs floating around are incompatible and useless. Now there would be two general ways of fixing this: 1. get libs that work with 2.6.32 kernels but are ics compatible (most improbable, except if moto leaks them and is still to lazy to move on from the 2.6.32 kernel) 2. get or make post 2.6.39 kernel sources that have the atrix's proprietary drivers including or rewritten (actually more probable, but still quite low chances, except if moto releases and ICS build for the photon/atrix or someone knows, has the time and will to write these code from scratch for the newer kernel versions). So as you can see this is quite a grim outlook, its still being worked on by community devs as far as my information are up-to-date, but i dont know which aproach they are choosing. There is however a minor glimpse of hope, since the move to integrate android drivers in the mainline/mainstream linux kernel is happening in the 3.3 kernel version (there are 3.2.x versions as of now), so this might be actually the best bet, hoping that most of the atrix proprietary drivers will be supported in it, one could just use the "nvidia libs floating around", another thing is nvidia is maintaining their own tegra2/3 kernel sources, so combined with the 3.3 move to android drivers and nvidia implementing support for tegra into their sources, it might not look so grim for us anymore, but this is all a developing story.
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Also, there is another comment from one of the CM developers:
OK, since so many people are asking: The reason I'm doing the OMAP devices first is because the fine folks at Texas Instruments have, as before, published their reference code. (and Google's current reference device, the SGN, is an OMAP4, which also helps considerably).
The Optimus 2X (and its TMoUS brother, the G2x) is a Tegra2, and nVidia has, as always, published a total amount of zero useful lines of code; at this point, my time is better employed at getting CM9 off the ground with devices in which I can write code than it would be at figuring out how the hell to support old tegra binaries. It'll happen, but not in the near future.
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According to this, there are some plans of CM-developers to make some kind of wrapper to use GB tegra binaries for ICS on GB kernel. Great!
Also, a question from me. LG has announced ICS on O2X. Will this release help us? I saw that some developers used O2X GB binaries for Atrix, and it worked even better Can we do the same trick with ICS binaries and get fully working ICS on ICS kernel?
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Also, a question from me. LG has announced ICS on O2X. Will this release help us? I saw that some developers used O2X GB binaries for Atrix, and it worked even better Can we do the same trick with ICS binaries and get fully working ICS on ICS kernel?
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You can never be sure on the software world, but I hope so. A Motorola ICS release would definitely be better though.
Interesting information, thank you!
Easier said than done...
But thanks for sharing the info.
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Hopefully something will get worked out. I have no plans on leaving this phone as I love the FP scanner too much
if i'm correct, samsung's galaxy r and captivate glide are both tegra 2 phones and they run on the 2.6.36 kernel, which supports hw acceleration to a certain degree, does this help us?
First of all sorry if this has been asked many times, I haven't found exact answers.
What is stopping GT-P7500 getting ICS stable and camera working as it should? As owener of this model I am very dissapointed with this model stock software and I am placing my hopes on ICS from any source (I hsve a modded Honeycomb which runs many times better than stock but still I am not happy since the best I found working for me was a ROM for the P7510 losing 3g support).
Is it Samsung not releasing drivers they should?
Is because of Nvidia not releasing Tegra2 drivers?
Or.. for example CyanogenMod team have all they need and it is a matter of time?
Thanks in advance!
First off I feel your pain but try and understand how hard the Cyanogenmod guys work. They provide an amazing product for free so patience is key.
That being said I have been running the p4 snapshots of ics on my GT-P7500 for awhile now and it runs beautifully minus the camera. Realistically you aren't going to use the camera that much anyways on a tablet.
It runs smooth and flawlessly and has really impressed me so far.
Find the link to Droid basement that gets you to the snapshots. Give it a try it can't hurt. You can find the link in this thread here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1461240&page=140
I would post the full link but I don't have enough posts yet.
Enjoy!
Or you can try the Overcome ROM (forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1348533), runs Android 3.2, but is very smooth if you combine it with the kernel provided by pershoot (forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1138167)
Thanks for the answer guys.
My queries were more to find out if the delay is because Samsung's fault for not releasing drivers for the community.
Of course for the cyanogenmod team I have all the patience in the world and my utmost respect for them, In fact all my hopes are in the devs community like them instead of samsung or htc (I own a desire), etc. for taking care of the devices I own For me it's clear which is the priority of most manufacturers.
Sorry to hijack this, but does anyone who's used the current ICS editions for the P7500 know if exchange email works "fully" (with calendar etc...) when I tried one of the first ROMs, this wasn't working.
Those you have live/hotmail accounts and have it setup as an exchange account should be able to confirm this one way or another.
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You're welcome buddy i'd love to know more too, something will come.
Not sure about exchange haven't tried it yet. I unfortunately have to carry a second phone for work that's all set up with exchange. Its a Blackberry Bold 9900....boooooooo! If I see something I'll post it.
Cheers
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First of all sorry if this has been asked many times, I haven't found exact answers.
What is stopping GT-P7500 getting ICS stable and camera working as it should? As owener of this model I am very dissapointed with this model stock software and I am placing my hopes on ICS from any source (I hsve a modded Honeycomb which runs many times better than stock but still I am not happy since the best I found working for me was a ROM for the P7510 losing 3g support).
Is it Samsung not releasing drivers they should?
Is because of Nvidia not releasing Tegra2 drivers?
Or.. for example CyanogenMod team have all they need and it is a matter of time?
Thanks in advance!
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We need propriatery video/camera libs from samsung to work in ics, with tegra libs that has the specific video/camera libs compiled in. So we need libs from both,my understanding in any case, and that is only going to happen once an ics rom gets released/leaked.
HTH
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Does 3G work with the CM release or is it wifi only? I have an unlocked Rogers galaxy tab 10.1 and would love to try out ICS on it.
3G works
I have a P 7500, and 3g works perfectly well.
So does the WI-FI, tethering etc.
I tried to have CM on my 10.1, but can't get it through, running AOKP M5 now on it, everything works fine on AOKP ICS, so you can try it, U will get addicted to it
exchange work great with milestone 5
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Does 3G work with the CM release or is it wifi only? I have an unlocked Rogers galaxy tab 10.1 and would love to try out ICS on it.
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Mine is a rogers p7500 , using pershots ics dev builds. Works perfect. Latest build fixes wifi crash as well
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Anxiously awaiting working cameras (at least front facing camera) on my Galaxy tab 10.1, I was wondering why one can't use the source from some of the other models that allready have got source released.
Sure, the Galaxy tab 2 series use a different cpu, but are the camera modules different? Is there no other phone/tablet with source code released that use either the same camera, or a phone running tegra 2 and ics with a similar setup?
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Anxiously awaiting working cameras (at least front facing camera) on my Galaxy tab 10.1, I was wondering why one can't use the source from some of the other models that allready have got source released.
Sure, the Galaxy tab 2 series use a different cpu, but are the camera modules different? Is there no other phone/tablet with source code released that use either the same camera, or a phone running tegra 2 and ics with a similar setup?
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Pershoot will try to adapt the driver from the 10.1v for the 10.1, however we should also get our own source soon enough so try to be patient a bit. It can get very tiresome to see so many people asking for camera. Please try to understand the feelings of people who read a lot of posts about the camera. Asking won't help. I know you tried to help with your suggestion, but it will be done when its done, so please be patient.
Thanks for the reply
I used to have a Xperia Arc earlier, and I saw alot more porting of firmware back and forth from related phones on that forum. I just haven't seen the same method beeing used on the galaxy 10.1 part of XDA, but of course, the xperia range is made up of a bunch of (almost) identical phones with different screen sizes.
I guess the only samsung phone with Tegra 2 is the Galaxy R, which hasn't got a ICS build either yet, and all of the other tegra based tablets from samsung are also still awaiting ICS.
I am getting a bit annoyed with samsung though, what's the big holdup? This tablet was also given away on Google IO for dogs sake! You would think that they would prioritize it a wee bit since they know that several thousand android developers own one of these tablets.
Porting roms is not the same as porting drivers.
Also, there is a thread for such complaints.
Hello Folks,
I am a Recognized XDA Developer and I work on Cyanogenmod for Samsung Galaxy SL I9003 which is an exact similar device to Galaxy Tab P1010 (TI OMAP3630).
We have got fully working CM9 and CM10 on Galaxy SL, with few minor issues with video recording and laggy interface. However, we are working on porting the new 3.0.8 kernel that was released on omapzoom. This new kernel would help us resolve issues that we have been affecting ICS and JB releases.
So far, we have managed to get the kernel booting with few basic stuff like Touchscreen, Panel, Audio, Keypad, Vibrator working. Galaxy SL is exactly similar to Galaxy Tab P1010 WIFI and it essentially shares the same kernel and I suspect that most of the userspace stuff also should be the same. I was informally asked by cdesai if I was interested to develop for this device, but I had to turn my back since I wasn't really having the time for it.
However, since we are working on a new kernel for Galaxy SL from scratch, I would really like to take the initiative of making something useful for P1010 too, keeping in mind the small user base for Galaxy SL, we thought our work could be useful for P1010 and would benefit more people.
We would like developers working on P1010 to come forward and let us know the current status of development on this device (Kernels, Custom Roms, Attempts at CM, etc), so that we could plan something accordingly. Also, we would be interested to know how many people actually own this device and would like to have CM over it. Let's use this topic as a playground!
Sources for Galaxy SL
Stable CM9 and CM10
Kernel: https://github.com/teamhacksung/android_kernel_samsung_latona
Device: https://github.com/teamhacksung/android_device_samsung_galaxysl
Experimental 3.0 Kernel
https://github.com/dhiru1602/android_kernel_samsung_latona
Thank you!
Let's do it people, I'm willing to help dhiru as well.
I'm in too
@dhiru (Y)
This is fantastic news, and thanks for considering the P1010 as everywhere else I've looked hasn't really got anywhere. While I'm afraid I won't be able to help with any of the development (I wish I could, but I'm too busy as it is), I can use my device for testing. Keep it up, and I can't wait until it's all sorted.
Personally, I'd love to have any version of CM on this tablet, as Android 2.3.6 is looking really dated now, and the interface is laggy compared to that of Android 4.1 devices. I've upgraded to CM10 on my Galaxy S and it's so much smoother than it was, I can only hope the same is possible for this device, as it's certainly capable.
Also, I know Motofoca over on the MadTeam forums was working on it (which you already know, most likely), but he's not mentioned anything towards progress in a while. I can't post a link though, considering I've got less than 10 posts, so you'll have to google it.
Any help I can give is gladly offered, now when it comes to coding I am rusty... In fact I think the rust has extra layers of rust but know what I am looking at and can spot the bugs and offer suggestions.
I have two of these and still think the actual build of them is excellent so would love to have some decent internals
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Seems like there are not many who own this device. That's sad.
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Seems like there are not many who own this device. That's sad.
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I'm owning a P1000 too (as per the question of the OP) and I would really like to have a current CM 10.1 release with kernel 3.0 on it... I'm a java developer with some C++ background but I didn't have the time yet to dive into android development (neither high nor low level)..
If there is anything to test or provide info about just ask..
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Seems like there are not many who own this device. That's sad.
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P1010 here !
Greets from Perú
dhiru1602 said:
Seems like there are not many who own this device. That's sad.
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I have a P1010 and I also like to help!!!
I wanna help too!
P1010 here! Can't Dev but will gladly test!
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I've got a 1010. I'm a themer, not a dev though..
i have it too. i'am an Indonesian.
friesoft said:
I'm owning a P1000 too (as per the question of the OP) and I would really like to have a current CM 10.1 release with kernel 3.0 on it... I'm a java developer with some C++ background but I didn't have the time yet to dive into android development (neither high nor low level)..
If there is anything to test or provide info about just ask..
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I don't know whether this was a typo or not, but you can get CM10 or CM9.1 (stable) for the P1000 already. Just look on the cyanogenmod site for the P1. This is for the P1010 which is the WIFI only version of that tab and doesn't yet have a release of cyanogenmod for it.
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Seems like there are not many who own this device. That's sad.
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I've been waiting for this, I can test on my p1010
dhiru1602 said:
I am a Recognized XDA Developer and I work on Cyanogenmod for Samsung Galaxy SL I9003 which is an exact similar device to Galaxy Tab P1010 (TI OMAP3630).
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Also, we would be interested to know how many people actually own this device and would like to have CM over it. Let's use this topic as a playground!
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Thank you!
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Hi, I have it. I also have some experience with kernel on Omap4 (I developed for 3.0.x and 3.2.x), but very little time to share at the moment.
Please post here in this thread any update or request.
Thanks
P1010 here also. Plenty of processing power and a website for storage and distribution...
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I'm also willing to test. These tabs are great, just not many developers working with them.
p1010 with cm10
Looking forward to trying their huge creations from Ecuador ... CMs for the P1010, do not let this device die. Sorry for my English, I hope this well written ..
Hello guys, I also have a P1010! maybe I can help you as a tester, I have experience with flashing and rooting
Samsung Posted Jelly Bean Kernel Source Code For The 2 7.0 Expect Great Things Soon!
http://opensource.samsung.com/reception/receptionSub.do?method=search&searchValue=GT-P3110_JB
new year gift from samsung!!!
This is great!!!
Now let's start with new kernels!!
does this open the possibility to get the IR blaster working on non-stock based custom ROMs or is that a separate proprietary driver thing?
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does this open the possibility to get the IR blaster working on non-stock based custom ROMs or is that a separate proprietary driver thing?
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Unfortunately this is for the 3110 so it doesn't have the IR in any case.
But having said that as the IR seems to be the only difference between the two models… It probably can't hurt!
Compiled and not boot
I got this Tab for Christmas and it is going to be awesome!
bought the tab 2 7 tablet couple weeks ago and now we have the code
yay!
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Unfortunately this is for the 3110 so it doesn't have the IR in any case.
But having said that as the IR seems to be the only difference between the two models… It probably can't hurt!
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yes, but people that have flashed the 3110 4.1.1 official releases to there 3113's say there IR blaster still works, which makes me think the IR stuff may still be in there even tho its the 3110 release.
Well there is always hope, but we have had the code for the ICS versions from Samsung for a long time and that resulted in very little. Unfortunately they don't include the drivers for some hardware. That's common, Samsung does not own the source for those.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=36316856&postcount=6