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[Q] Expecting a port of this OS on my Nexus 4. Do You ?

Jolla released it's Sailfish OS SDK some time ago and I'm expecting it to be ported on my Phone. Is anyone here to do this ?

iHarkunwar said:
Jolla released it's Sailfish OS SDK some time ago and I'm expecting it to be ported on my Phone. Is anyone here to do this ?
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I'm not really good at porting, but it should be easy. The 3 problems are
kernel
HW accel with GPU
Touchscreen
The first one is really easy since if you cannot run a Mer stock / customized UI, you can still take Android one.
For the second, it is the trickiest, but you can still use mesa-llvmpipe (no HW accel, but only software)
For the thirst point, it is up to the screen manufacturer. Some provides linux drivers, some do not. But for Android, it might be highly probable that a driver is provided.

sfiet_konstantin said:
I'm not really good at porting, but it should be easy. The 3 problems are
kernel
HW accel with GPU
Touchscreen
The first one is really easy since if you cannot run a Mer stock / customized UI, you can still take Android one.
For the second, it is the trickiest, but you can still use mesa-llvmpipe (no HW accel, but only software)
For the thirst point, it is up to the screen manufacturer. Some provides linux drivers, some do not. But for Android, it might be highly probable that a driver is provided.
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Nexus 4 is a developer device and I think all required drivers are released

iHarkunwar said:
Nexus 4 is a developer device and I think all required drivers are released
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Released ... for Android.
Because SW architecture are not the same
You need an X11 driver etc.

sad.... :\

iHarkunwar said:
sad.... :\
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We will check if it works. Maybe the support for the HW in the Nexus 4 is good ...
But for the Nexus 7, it is nearly sure that it works. Something similar (Ubuntu) were ported on it ...

Has Google still not been able to release all the source code for the Nexus 4?
Disgusting if so.

sfiet_konstantin said:
We will check if it works. Maybe the support for the HW in the Nexus 4 is good ...
But for the Nexus 7, it is nearly sure that it works. Something similar (Ubuntu) were ported on it ...
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You mean Ubuntu for Tablets? If so then the Nexus 4 should also possibly be able to get a Sailfish port. They release Ubuntu for Phones on the Nexus 4 the same day the UfT port was released for the N7.

Bump.
It's been 9 months since the last post on a Nexus 4 port of SailfishOS. Has someone brought this baby to term? Anyone know if there's an ongoing effort?

There is no sources or devices released. Theres only the x86 based sdk. So what do you can be ported? The x86 sdk to arm cpu? Never. And the Sailfish ui is proprietary so sources wont be released. If you want Mer with the default ui, sources can be downloaded from the Mer-projects website

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaVAMGv3tI4

ufoman said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaVAMGv3tI4
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That's great news! If I understand correctly he flashed CM and then patches it with libhybris+sailfish. That makes me hope for easy patching to other devices too...
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I want those files right now!
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Looks great

ufoman said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaVAMGv3tI4
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Thanks for showing this. It would be nice to see another minute or two to demonstrate how sailfish performs on Nexus. Perhaps this is still at early stages. Are you able to provide instructions and location of files? Thanks again!

mscion said:
Thanks for showing this. It would be nice to see another minute or two to demonstrate how sailfish performs on Nexus. Perhaps this is still at early stages. Are you able to provide instructions and location of files? Thanks again!
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No files or anything else have been made available yet. It might be too early yet, but now any hope we might have had has gained some solid foundations

No news about the port to Nexus 4 ? I can't wait to try it.

ufoman said:
No files or anything else have been made available yet. It might be too early yet, but now any hope we might have had has gained some solid foundations
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I wish they would at least show a demo of how they did it. That way we could try making some progress with other devices awhile

WebOS for nexus 4??

Any info if anyone is working on porting webOS for tge nexus 4?
Please share ur knolage
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I would love some of this. The proprietary blobs are out there now right since 4.2.2 so we should be good to go? Honestly haven't heard much, just chiming in.
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I know this is old, I'm jumpstarting a few threads here.
The Nexus 4 uses a Qualcomm processor, not exactly open-source material.. Though I'm not a genius with this sort of thing, but I believe elements of the CPU have to be open-source, like with the Galaxy Nexus and its TI OMAP processor, to actually make anything but Android (or Ubuntu, which uses the Android kernel) boot.

I haven't kept up with WebOS development. It seems to have been abandoned. Which is such a shame for such an elegant OS.
Last I heard, WebOS was being ported to run on top of Linux, meaning anything Linux supports, it will support.
So if there was still any kind of activity behind WebOS, It would be trivial to port it, just like Jolla Sailfish, Ubuntu Touch and Firefox OS.
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dragon_76 said:
I haven't kept up with WebOS development. It seems to have been abandoned. Which is such a shame for such an elegant OS.
Last I heard, WebOS was being ported to run on top of Linux, meaning anything Linux supports, it will support.
So if there was still any kind of activity behind WebOS, It would be trivial to port it, just like Jolla Sailfish, Ubuntu Touch and Firefox OS.
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The OpenwebOS Project sees lots of pulls and merges from the repo. WebOS Internals Ports Team is working on porting Open webOS to the Galaxy Nexus and the Nexus 7. The current stumbling block is graphics acceleration. HP and LG (the new owners of proprietary webOS) are active in the OpenwebOS Project as well. LG is building a Smart TV around the OS.
http://webos-ports.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.openwebosproject.org/

[Q] Ubuntu phone os on nexus 7

Hi guys, any chance for us to play with the Ubuntu phone os on our nexus 7?
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Re: Ubuntu phone os on nexus 7
There is a thread on Ubuntu for the N7 in the Original Development sub-forum.
Also general questions belong in the Q&A sub-forum.
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Ubuntu for the Nexus 7 (which is available and has been for some time) != Ubuntu's phone OS (which is not available yet but will be in testing form on the 21st of February and which might be portable to the Nexus 7, hopefully)
They are two completely different products/OSes - but it seems like most everyone gets that mixed up anyway. The OP was asking about Ubuntu's phone OS which will be released in a few days, ARM-based, and totally different from Ubuntu for the Nexus 7 which is the actual desktop version of Ubuntu compiled for ARM-based devices.
I love the Ubuntu phone OS interface, it's beautiful and functional and it has those nifty swipe actions from all 4 sides of the screen so, yeah, it would be cool to see that OS running on a Nexus 7. The Ubuntu for Nexus 7 desktop OS compile is crap so far, very slow, laggy, and yes I realize it's in testing obviously but, if it becomes possible to get that phone OS version ported over to a Nexus 7 (minus the phone code, of course) I'd be more than willing to give it some testing time, certainly.

I wouldn't mind this and would love to help only problem is my computer is to slow to compile it

I'll bet that as soon as that source code becomes available on the 21st there's gonna be at least a few people working towards moving that phone OS to other devices, and I'm sure hoping at least one of those people will do it for the Nexus 7. I've watched the Ubuntu phone OS intro video on YouTube (the one with Mark Shuttleworth showing it off for the first time) and I remember when I first watched it as soon as it was posted and thinking "That's brilliant... how come nobody else has ever realized there's 4 sides to a screen and there can be swipe gestures from all 4?"
Brilliant stuff, really... and it just looks great. I'm not dissing Android because I do love Android overall but, it can't hurt to see ideas from others, and Ubuntu's phone OS is certainly something I'm interested in right now. That Firefox OS has some concepts I find appealing as well.
Maybe someone will just take the best parts of all these mobile device OSes and create one truly killer operating system that just blows everything else away.

br0adband said:
I'll bet that as soon as that source code becomes available on the 21st there's gonna be at least a few people working towards moving that phone OS to other devices, and I'm sure hoping at least one of those people will do it for the Nexus 7. I've watched the Ubuntu phone OS intro video on YouTube (the one with Mark Shuttleworth showing it off for the first time) and I remember when I first watched it as soon as it was posted and thinking "That's brilliant... how come nobody else has ever realized there's 4 sides to a screen and there can be swipe gestures from all 4?"
Brilliant stuff, really... and it just looks great. I'm not dissing Android because I do love Android overall but, it can't hurt to see ideas from others, and Ubuntu's phone OS is certainly something I'm interested in right now. That Firefox OS has some concepts I find appealing as well.
Maybe someone will just take the best parts of all these mobile device OSes and create one truly killer operating system that just blows everything else away.
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Yeah and I have a build manifest for nexus 7 with Firefox os but it is terrible on tablets it is most deffinatley a phone os

N4?

is SailfishOS going to be ported to nexus 4?. i know we need arm images and that, i just need to know if its possible.(im not asking any1 to do).

Plus one. I think it should be doable given that the nexus 4 has a qualcomm processor like the Jolla. My guess is that they're both of the snapdragon family.

Use search before posting.
There is no ports, threse is no plan to port.

EnErGy[CSDX] said:
Use search before posting.
There is no ports, threse is no plan to port.
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Current situation is this. BUT I believe that sailfishOS will be ported to nexus devices soon. It has been already running on nexus 7, so why not nexus 4...
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rockknee said:
Current situation is this. BUT I believe that sailfishOS will be ported to nexus devices soon. It has been already running on nexus 7, so why not nexus 4...
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maybe Jolla post some instructions how to package android drivers into rpm, but it is not critical info for port.
current situation that there is no people that can and want to do port.

[Q] I Want To Play Too!

Okay, I'm trying to get in the Sailfish game here. I bought a broken Xperia Z and brought it back to life just to find out the bootloader is unlockable. I'm SO angry because Virgin Mobile is refusing to unlock it because I'm not a customer (nothing wrong with the IMEI, I checked). Anyway, this has just doubled down my sheer determination to get out from under the carriers foot.
So I want to play too. I already gave my info to sledges and said I could help with documentation (I was told to hold tight). BUT since that Xperia is dead to me I wanted to know if I should go pick up a Nexus 4 and help with that adoption (install and test), or should I go get something else like a Moto G or a Nexus 5 and start playing. Where would I be the most help to the community?
Thanks,
Dinsdale247

Sounds like Nexus 4 and the Samsung S3 LTE are getting all the love, I was planning to get the Jolla phone, but after I found out the Nexus 5 was about the same price, with much better specs, and the fact that it is one of the most open phones you can get, I was looking at putting sailfish on it when it becomes available. I was actually surprised that work started on the Nexus 4 and not together with the Nexus 5, I guess no one whose porting has one.
It depends on what you're looking for in a phone, or if you just any phone that you can get the Sailfish OS on.
I would help with porting Sailfish to Nexus 5, but I have exams coming up, and no experience with porting.

There is a reason Nexus 4 is getting the attention.
It all comes back to the Hybris project. Many developers are using it as THE means to get ports jump started to Android hardware. Not only Sailfish, but Ubuntu Touch and Open Source webOS are contributing. Consensus seems to have been reached by the various developer communities that Nexus 4 and factory 4.2.2 offer the best hosting for modern hardware porting efforts with up-to-date spec and software stability on which to build.
IMHO, Nexus 4 is the clear choice for users in the field who want options. It's a stellar piece of hardware; yes there are more dynamically spec'd devices coming everyday, but mostly that capability is not being used for anything short of intense 3D gaming. If you want a solid phone that will have the spec to test unoptomized software Alphas and Betas this is a great unit and it has the radio hardware for near universal GSM access. The latest Android builds remain available, you can port Ubuntu Touch, you can (now) port Sailfish OS, you can add multi-rom capability and boot into Firefox OS... PLUS... a rumor has recently reached my ears that soon you will be able to port Open webOS to the N4...
What other phone is going to give you that many options? I say, Nexus 4, FTW baby!!! :highfive: