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Gingerbread ROM on the G2?

I am a noob to these forums and this seemed the best place to ask considering it is a Q&A forum. Considering the G2 is a stock android device how hard would it be to make a stock gingerbread ROM for it? Are any devs out there working on it? Is teamdouche working on CM v7 based on 2.3? I have been looking around for any inclination of this but have seen none whilst other devices get gingerbread ported over/compiled for them. Just want to know the status (or hopefully an ETA) on a Gingerbread ROM for the G2. If I posted this in the wrong place or this has been posted before my apologies.
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I don't know if it's out yet, mang... but I'm sure that once it is, it'll be a hot commodity. The modding community is absolutely amazing and I think they seriously need to be hired by some of the mobile companies out there. Their work is fantastic.

well nobody can make a rom or anything until the source code is released...and that hasnt happend yet. as soon as the nexus s comes out (which is this week) then the source code will be extracted from gingerbread and itll be able to be used. right now we just had a SDK file, and that really isnt used for anything but looks. mainly used for themes and such.

Then why does the EVO have a full working ROM for gingerbread? I believe the DESIRE and the HD2 also have it going.
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There isn't a working gingerbread ROM for the EVO, it's just FroYo with some parts ripped from 2.3. Gingerbread will be released in a couple of days along with the Nexus S, after which the AOSP will be ported to existing devices - but it'll still be a few days, if not weeks until something stable comes out.
I wouldn't hold my breath for it.

My apologies for my ignorance. I thought they were actual 2.3 builds considering the XDA posted list says "devices running gingerbread". So absolutly nothing can happen with gingerbread until a device with gingerbread (nexus S) comes out?
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Cyanogen will not port it to the G2until 2.3 is released for the G2.
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Veiger said:
My apologies for my ignorance. I thought they were actual 2.3 builds considering the XDA posted list says "devices running gingerbread". So absolutly nothing can happen with gingerbread until a device with gingerbread (nexus S) comes out?
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Not a problem, you were just asking
All we have running Gingerbread right now is the android emulator, from which we can pull apk's and libs, but most of them need tweaking to get them to work on FroYo. Plus I don't know if the market works on Gingerbread.

ddgarcia05 said:
Cyanogen will not port it to the G2until 2.3 is released for the G2.
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Is that an actual statement from teamdouche/cyanogen or just from studying release behavior in the past? When you say release you mean T-mo pushes it as an OTA correct, I know someone on here will "release" 2.3 long before T-mo stamps it for approval.
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keinengel said:
Not a problem, you were just asking
All we have running Gingerbread right now is the android emulator, from which we can pull apk's and libs, but most of them need tweaking to get them to work on FroYo. Plus I don't know if the market works on Gingerbread.
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So at the moment there is no actual gingerbread (save for the reveiw models floating around phonedog,mobileburn,etc are unboxing) out just froyo with the modified characteristics of gingerbread? Pardon the question if it seems silly, most of the comment went over my head.
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I'll bet we have a ported ROM before New Years, usually a huge release like this gets all the attention of the devs. Especially since with perm-root, s-off and several stable 2.2 ROMs, the devs don't have all that much to work on atm.

Team Villain were working on one, but it became clear that there was going to be no way to make Audio work until AOSP is out so its on hold until then.
and without audio a phone is useless, no ringing, no sound in calls, no music etc etc

Lennyuk said:
Team Villain were working on one, but it became clear that there was going to be no way to make Audio work until AOSP is out so its on hold until then.
and without audio a phone is useless, no ringing, no sound in calls, no music etc etc
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Definatley looking forward to it when Villain gets their hands on the source code. I bet T-mo's is going to be ladened with the same bloatware that their 2.2 install on the G2 had.
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Well atleast we have the themes for now, that will hold me over for a couple weeks but not to impressed by the nexus s enough to shell out $520 I might just buy vibrant when functional gingerbread port is out allot cheaper and almost same phone well close anyway.
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Honestly I would wait if your shelling out any money for anything samsung just placed a MASSIVE order for tegra 2's today which hints at dualcore phones sometime in q1 or Q2 next year hopefully. Wait for the qualcomm dualcore and nvidia dualcore wars to begin.
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Anyone know roughly how long it takes google to drop the source in aosp after the sdk is released?

ddgarcia05 said:
Cyanogen will not port it to the G2until 2.3 is released for the G2.
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Highly doubt that's true. I came from a CDMA Hero running CM6 RC1 (Froyo) and as most of us know, the lower end devices (such as the Hero), never got an official 2.2, yet there was a fully functional, highly stable CM6 out for it.
Which ran magnificently BTW.

Ah yeah, those seem to be more like proof of concept. Once a retail version of handsets start coming out with Gingerbread, as well as the source code, I imagine we'll start seeing custom ROMs based off it.

Veiger said:
Honestly I would wait if your shelling out any money for anything samsung just placed a MASSIVE order for tegra 2's today which hints at dualcore phones sometime in q1 or Q2 next year hopefully. Wait for the qualcomm dualcore and nvidia dualcore wars to begin.
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Thats all i needed to hear...samsung should'nt getanybody money with their softaware build qaulity and support

Gingerbread doesn't seem to be very promising though, what's with all this hype around it?? The update seems pretty piss poor to be honest. Nothing much.

[Q] Icecream Sandwich Upgrade

Does anyone know of anything that might suggest that there might be a possibility of getting the ICS update for the wildfire S for when it gets released?

badassballer said:
Does anyone know of anything that might suggest that there might be a possibility of getting the ICS update for the wildfire S for when it gets released?
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I don't think there are any releases yet. But I hope WFS gets Ice Cream Sandwich update in Q4 of 2011, according to this website : EnGadget - Google Ice Cream Sandwich coming in Q4 2011 to smartphones and tablets alike
it is to be released in Q4 2011.

Lol. Not before 2011. HTC is slow with updates and super slow in my country -__-
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I have always found HTC to be better when it comes to support and updates etc as compared to some other companies out there - I've seen rumors on different sites etc where people talk about how the ICS would only be supported by phones with dual core processors or the 1 gig processors etc - but i don't really trust such rumors - I remember when gingerbread was to be released, some thought that it would only be available to phones with 1 gig processors etc but then it came out and a lot of devices with lower hardware specs could upgrade to it without a hitch - Hopefully that happens for when the ICS comes out - but yea it might be some time (depending on the region etc) as to when the WFS might see an update released for it - and hopefully an update for WFS would be released -

I don't think so since ice cream won't need any hardware keys.
And won't support them.
It will be released probably in 2months and Samsungs nexus prime will be the first phone with it (haha will buy it ).
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jonas2295 said:
I don't think so since ice cream won't need any hardware keys.
And won't support them.
It will be released probably in 2months and Samsungs nexus prime will be the first phone with it (haha will buy it ).
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Yea I heard the same about ICE not supporting hardware keys - but that makes me wonder about all these new phones that are out and that have these capacitive buttons like on the WFS - don't think they can be left out of the whole update process - I am not sure but I am guessing some existing phones will see the update regardless of the capacitive buttons -
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Yes the devs will figure a way out, I am sure the will.
The advantage of no hardware keys is the possibility to build a phone with a bigger screen without having to make it larger. (display gets the space which the hardware keys would have).
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I bet u there will for all... If gingerbread is supported then ics is also available for all... But not for old device like htc wildfire,tattoo, g1 unless someone ports...
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badassballer said:
Yea I heard the same about ICE not supporting hardware keys - but that makes me wonder about all these new phones that are out and that have these capacitive buttons like on the WFS - don't think they can be left out of the whole update process - I am not sure but I am guessing some existing phones will see the update regardless of the capacitive buttons -
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This update will remove the fragmentation in android so phones made recently wont be left out. At Google I/O they said older phones will be supported too, so the buttons will still function. There's not a good chance HTC will make ics for older phones using sense. This phone could get sense 3.5, before reaching eol, like the g2.
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Ace42 said:
Sense 3.5
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Now htc should support other firmwares... Like aosp and such...
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i think it's amazing that even 2.3 was already loaded on the phone out of the box in Canada.

Mairei said:
i think it's amazing that even 2.3 was already loaded on the phone out of the box in Canada.
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Yeah mine too... When the salesman told me it was Froyo 2.2, I just went ahead and paid. I checked the phone and "Android version : 2.3.3".

Can Droid Inc have an update of ICS?

would it be possible for Inc to have an update of Ice Cream Sandwich?
if not, porting it would be possible right?

jioleight said:
would it be possible for Inc to have an update of Ice Cream Sandwich?
if not, porting it would be possible right?
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It's possible, and someday it might happen on CM, but I'd be concerned how slow it would crawl along. God forbid HTC add an equally modern version of Sense to it!

ICS won't have steep hardware requirements for the vanilla version. We "should" get a version from Cyanogen. However, we can pretty much rule out an update from HTC. This phone started at 2.1, saw 2.2, and is now getting 2.3.4. I think HTC will expect users of the Incredible to upgrade their phone for the next update.

I'd like to see if the Nexus One gets it. Since it has similar hardware to the Incredible.
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BrettApple said:
I'd like to see if the Nexus One gets it. Since it has similar hardware to the Incredible.
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Agreed if the Nexus One gets its possible that the Incredible can run it as well. However I'm fairly sure you won't see an official release.

riko540 said:
Agreed if the Nexus One gets its possible that the Incredible can run it as well. However I'm fairly sure you won't see an official release.
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The Incredible can run it. Google isn't about to stop supporting low end phones as they release, and the first-gen Snapdragon will still be above these. Vanilla Android will run fine.

Android 5.0 Jelly Bean

Looks like 5.0 Jelly Bean will be coming soon but will out phones even run 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich ? Who knows.
Of course 5.0 is aimed at larger devices but it will probably be ported to any device the developers see fit to port to.
More info here
http://www.gsmarena.com/android_50_jelly_bean_to_arrive_in_q2_with_chrome_os_dualboot-news-3839.php

I think it's time we start a petition or two to HTC?

erklat said:
I think it's time we start a petition or two to HTC?
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Yeah scrap the Android 4 AOSP petition.
Lets make it Android 4 Sense this time and then Android 5 AOSP.
We can also send a petition to Qualcom to make and release a code to make the Desire processor dual core.

ICS is running fairly decently on Desire and Nexus One I'd say - still bugs but there's massive progress

we all cant wait until ICS is 100% working will be the day we all fall in love with our Desire again

I am amazed how smooth the ICS ASOP Rom is. But I'm back to Gingerbread and I don't think I'll update to 5.0 any time. I bought the Desire nearly two years ago right at the beginning and the development during this time was great.
IMHO it isn't necessary to update a two year old device to the newest os version.

I want ICS to work on the Desire. HTC still love it. They're just too lazy to get working software on older hardware.

Why not, why not. One reason more to work on 3.x kernel.
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ryanraven said:
we all cant wait until ICS is 100% working will be the day we all fall in love with our Desire again
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I showed someone who moved to WinPho the other day my desire running ICS and he said it was like a whole new phone....

Lothaen said:
I showed someone who moved to WinPho the other day my desire running ICS and he said it was like a whole new phone....
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But we all know it is not.
The car embodiment is it's engine, not how good you are able to refine wood and plastics.

erklat it's like a new terepin

paolo-red1 said:
erklat it's like a new terepin
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Really? How so? We were together then, now he's gone but I'm still here
You have an issue with how I am rationalizing things?

skifreund said:
I am amazed how smooth the ICS ASOP Rom is.
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Yeah its amazing it runs at all. But if you try ics then go back to a good GB rom, you're amazed in retrospect, just how slow ICS was.

Lothaen said:
ICS is running fairly decently on Desire and Nexus One I'd say - still bugs but there's massive progress
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u realise that we may never get a stable camera in ICS?

if we made kernel 3.0 for Bravo our device can work in 4.0 and 5.0

noonamer said:
if we made kernel 3.0 for Bravo our device can work in 4.0 and 5.0
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Theres a huge chasm between "work" and "perform".

rootSU said:
Theres a huge chasm between "work" and "perform".
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exactly!....

So 4.1 Jelly Bean has arrived. Is it really possible to port it to Desire?

palito1980 said:
So 4.1 Jelly Bean has arrived. Is it really possible to port it to Desire?
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AOSP probably

Jelly bean, seriously lol
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How long if/when will we see Android 4.0.4/5 on HOX

Will this now be our next major update for the HOX ?
Reading the changlog on version .4 improves/updates more than 100 issues over .3
And looks to be a major improvment!
Although sense might be as good/better already in some areas.
One thing we know for certain......mainland Europe will get it first!
I have heard a comment of "we haven't even got version 3 of the kernel yet"......what is the significance of this ?

I had it on my Galaxy Nexus before I sold it and didn't notice anything different over 4.0.3 personally. It was more a bug fix release than anything else
Still, it would be nice to get it as it's out! Having said that, HTC skipped over 4.0.1 and 4.0.2 so they may skip over this too

EddyOS said:
I had it on my Galaxy Nexus before I sold it and didn't notice anything different over 4.0.3 personally. It was more a bug fix release than anything else
Still, it would be nice to get it as it's out! Having said that, HTC skipped over 4.0.1 and 4.0.2 so they may skip over this too
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Interesting, you could be right, I see the nexus was due to get .5 in April did that happen ?
Does it stop at .5 then move to Android 5 ?

I bet we just skip straight to Jelly bean and Sense 4.5
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Nubzori said:
I bet we just skip straight to Jelly bean and Sense 4.5
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Sense 4.5 I can see happening but not Jelly Bean, no doubt we will have the "Two X" phone by then!

surfer1000 said:
Sense 4.5 I can see happening but not Jelly Bean, no doubt we will have the "Two X" phone by then!
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Jelly comes in september
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Jelly comes in september
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There is no official release date for it yet, in fact "The Wall Street Journal quotes a source that says Jelly Bean will be released by Thanksgiving (November 22, 2012)."
So if released in November it would take HTC a few months to test it before they release it, hence the "Two X" March/April 2013

4.0.5 isn't on the Nexus btw

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4.0.5 isn't on the Nexus btw
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That's been delayed then, there is a good review here http://www.androidauthority.com/android-4-0-3-vs-4-0-4-vs-4-0-5-75651

The 4.0.5 update would appear to be for the Verizon Nexus only, and not the GSM handset, so it may not reach other GSM handsets either

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Sense 4.5 I can see happening but not Jelly Bean, no doubt we will have the "Two X" phone by then!
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Pretty sure we'll get jelly bean, if HTC stick by their track record then they'll debut it on a new phone no doubt.
but it would be nice if they don't and we get it straight away.

surfer1000 said:
There is no official release date for it yet, in fact "The Wall Street Journal quotes a source that says Jelly Bean will be released by Thanksgiving (November 22, 2012)."
So if released in November it would take HTC a few months to test it before they release it, hence the "Two X" March/April 2013
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I stand corrected
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I wish they wouldnt name their products after food it makes me hungry. At least when i owned an Iphone it was a nice healthy Apple. Now im onto Android im going to have to wobble everywhere i go.

anubis1980 said:
I wish they wouldnt name their products after food it makes me hungry. At least when i owned an Iphone it was a nice healthy Apple. Now im onto Android im going to have to wobble everywhere i go.
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Yes and jelly bean is my favorite candy
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surfer1000 said:
I have heard a comment of "we haven't even got version 3 of the kernel yet"......what is the significance of this ?
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I belive the version 3 kernel refer to kernel for the Tegra chip made by Nvidia, Currently the latest version is 2.6, think this is made for Gingerbread.
One good thing about Samsung phones running Exnose is the chip is designed in-house, so there is not depending on 3rd parties to supplies the kernel.

Bigmille said:
I belive the version 3 kernel refer to kernel for the Tegra chip made by Nvidia, Currently the latest version is 2.6, think this is made for Gingerbread.
One good thing about Samsung phones running Exnose is the chip is designed in-house, so there is not depending on 3rd parties to supplies the kernel.
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There wasent any new features added to a varsion 3 kernal, just minor bug fixes, the reason for the version change was to tidy up the version number, I think the web site for it was www.kernel.org. else google it
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Rageypeep said:
There wasent any new features added to a varsion 3 kernal, just minor bug fixes, the reason for the version change was to tidy up the version number, I think the web site for it was www.kernel.org. else google it
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I hope Nvidia can reduce the power usage for Tegra 3. I did a test of leaving the phone idle at 50% brightness, the battery died after 7hrs and 43 mins. However, I can not get more the 3 hrs screen on time in normal (none gaming) daily use.

there are several versions of 4.0.4 out already. check modaco forums.

kemmo123 said:
there are several versions of 4.0.4 out already. check modaco forums.
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Yes, but those are AOSP or AOKP, I think the thread starter wanted to know if HTC has any intentions to update their base.

It's Key Lime Pie after Jelly Bean