i know its been asked but i'm starting the discussion. there has to be an easy way to flash all these great i9100 roms on to our tmobile t989. i would think its mostly a kernal difference and some hardware buttons. i say this because i love hyperdroid roms (mostly wanted s2 for use of his rom) .with the hd2 all builds worked on all phones (europe,asia,usa,etc) no matter the model number.
i am starting the discussion and will help to develop with my time and limited knowledge (i need people who know more about building these roms) a simple zip file to be flashed through cwm. most builds use a base version, then have roms and etc over the top of them. so there must be a way to find a base version you like for any i9100, flash over cwm, then flash a "kernal" of sorts that "adds in or takes out" what is needed for android to run on our t989.
any thoughts? anyone want to discuss this? i have the time (as much as possible, my gf keeps saying "why dont you just make your own and quit bit$%ing").
also i saw a kitchen for building roms for s2 but not sure if its t989 compatible.
lets get to work, our phone is new but the i9100 is already cooking along, we can piggy back and make our phones just as awesome!
Reading from the tittle of the thread, please dont do it! Just fall back..
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So I understand you're not going to try to flash it but you're wrong about the major hurdle: Its the different processor. Since we have different hardware we're not talking about a slightly different radio, we're talking about two completely different devices branded as the same thing.
i realize its hardware, but isn't that all controlled by the kernal? it holds the drivers. it would be like "porting" take a rom everyone loves, make the hardware drivers work, then flash. like i said i'm limited knowledge but i want to start work on this. its a hardware thing i understand. but there must be something we can do to ease the process.
To sum up what Kevin said : It's like flashing a sensation rom on our sgs2...(Right?)
but sense has been ported to other non htc devices. my point is it can be done. we should talk about it and get a discussion going. i'd be more then happy to help "port" other roms that are out for s2 varients
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To sum up what Kevin said : It's like flashing a sensation rom on our sgs2...(Right?)
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kenVAN its my first and last name pushed together But yes.
letrain02 said:
but sense has been ported to other non htc devices. my point is it can be done. we should talk about it and get a discussion going. i'd be more then happy to help "port" other roms that are out for s2 varients
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letrain02 said:
i realize its hardware, but isn't that all controlled by the kernal? it holds the drivers. it would be like "porting" take a rom everyone loves, make the hardware drivers work, then flash. like i said i'm limited knowledge but i want to start work on this. its a hardware thing i understand. but there must be something we can do to ease the process.
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Porting sense to non-HTC phones requires massive amounts of work and open source. Yes, it is possible but whether or not its feasible is a different option. You're right that the kernel is the main difference but even so its much more work than simply adjusting the kernel since there are soooooo many differences. Cashy put it well: you're porting a ROM from effectively a Samsung device to an HTC device. The only similarities are the screen and touchwiz. If you want to give it a go, I'd wait until we have a full ODIN tar to help you recover your phone because you're going to get a few bricks.
Well good luck to us all.
got my T989 few days ago, and I find it much better than the usual i9100 that everyone have on every aspect, except for the lack of support and android development. I regret I based my decision solely on technical spec rather than checking the verity of available firmware and development.
I live and use this phone in Israel, and that stock T-mobile rom I got with it is loaded with lots of irremovable T-mobile apps. Those are irrelevant for me. But the real issue is about the RTL support. I now have to read Hebrew text backwards (taht ekil hpargarap eloh a daer ot yrT) in some text fields. And it won't let me use the mobile hotspot by saying my sim card is not supported. I can't see why it connects to the internet (it does, checked my APN settings twice and it configured right) but won't let me use that hotspot.
Can't these changes in the level of GUI be implanted from other equivalent roms as source code? Does these minor changes take so much work? Before overclocking my phone to 1.89 Ghz I would rather get the basic functions done.
And I'm willing to donate, and to help in any way to promote this project.
I tried a similar thing with my LG optimus 2x (I have model p-999 which is really t-mobile's g2x) by accident. Even though the variations are named optimus 2x and the specs are almost identical, firmwares just aren't compatible with one another.
I flashed a optimus 2x firmware (p-990) to my p999 and I bricked my phone. At this point, even clockworkmod could not recover it. I had to manually partition a t-mobile g2x recovery file one by one on DOS mode to fix this. Finding this solution was like finding a needle in a haysack. I thought there was a good chance that I flushed $400 down the drain when this happened.
So, lol I dont recommend it knowing that gs2 is even a higher price to pay. Hope this helped.
it's something that I almost gave a try and then decided to check in here to see what people say about flashing these roms.. lol. Thanks guys
Lol I actually did try to flash cm for the i9100 on this phone, but thankfully it only gave me an error and didn't actually go through with the flash. (I had literally gotten the phone the day before too lmao)
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i realize its hardware, but isn't that all controlled by the kernal? it holds the drivers. it would be like "porting" take a rom everyone loves, make the hardware drivers work, then flash. like i said i'm limited knowledge but i want to start work on this. its a hardware thing i understand. but there must be something we can do to ease the process.
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It sounds like youve got porting perfectly understood. The devs havent been able to do it, you should explain how porting works to them.
The problem is not just the kernel. The software is most likely compiled specifically for the processor. If you were talking about linux . . . it would be easy because the source code is there and you can compile it for whatever processor you want, but it seems Samsung is a a company who believes in leeching off off open source and mixing their proprietary crap in it then keeping the sources closed and giving the open source community the finger. Just look at how they handled the vertical lines screen issue. Its all about money to Samsung.
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It sounds like youve got porting perfectly understood. The devs havent been able to do it, you should explain how porting works to them.
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Dude no need to be a punk, I seriously dislike people like you who make forums negative. He was asking a question and is trying to learn, which is more than some people do. Keep your negative comments to yourself. If you cant say anything nice don't say anything at all.
This thread was started in 2011, and hasn't been active in over 7 months. There is no need to bring it back from the dead to argue with someone.
Its not as impossible as it may seem(for the experienced dev) if u look in the dev section android88 has ported hellybean from the 9100. I'm learning & I've only gotten a bootloop at worse, haven't bricked yet lol.
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It is possible with a port. The thing that brocks your phone in flashing an i9100 ROM is the kernel. If you switched the kernels, you'll just have a boot loop or no boot. Flashing another devices kernel is the killer.
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letrain02 said:
i realize its hardware, but isn't that all controlled by the kernal? it holds the drivers. it would be like "porting" take a rom everyone loves, make the hardware drivers work, then flash. like i said i'm limited knowledge but i want to start work on this. its a hardware thing i understand. but there must be something we can do to ease the process.
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Its not that easy. It the more similar to porting over a ROM for a Sony Xperia. Does that sound easy. Its just a name but inside very different
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It is possible with a port. The thing that brocks your phone in flashing an i9100 ROM is the kernel. If you switched the kernels, you'll just have a boot loop or no boot. Flashing another devices kernel is the killer.
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Oh god not true at all people have already bricked their phone by flashing i9100 ROMS. Needs to be said before somebody bricks their expensive device.
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Dude no need to be a punk, I seriously dislike people like you who make forums negative. He was asking a question and is trying to learn, which is more than some people do. Keep your negative comments to yourself. If you cant say anything nice don't say anything at all.
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Its just logic. If its that easy try it and youll learn the inside out of why. Put in a similar amount effort you are asking the dev to put in by learning something about the challenges you are asking the dev to overcome instead of assuming devs arent putting enough thought into it
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Its not that easy. It the more similar to porting over a ROM for a Sony Xperia. Does that sound easy. Its just a name but inside very different
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Oh god not true at all people have already bricked their phone by flashing i9100 ROMS. Needs to be said before somebody bricks their expensive device.
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Its just logic. If its that easy try it and youll learn the inside out of why. Put in a similar amount effort you are asking the dev to put in by learning something about the challenges you are asking the dev to overcome instead of assuming devs arent putting enough thought into it
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i9100 roms port fine to t989 if you know what your doing. Getting BT to work is being a pita for me though
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i9100 roms port fine to t989 if you know what your doing. Getting BT to work is being a pita for me though
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Where are these ports?
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Hi all
I tried to look at the major ROMs out there, reading features over features. I can t see anything talking about the USB Host mode recently nerfed on the Sprint version.
I do apologize if someone already pointed out to some ROM fixing this issue, just please reply and let me know.
If noone did it, do we have any hope that ROM cooks are going to take a look into it?
I posted here because the "Android Development" rules say that is not for Q&A, is this the right place to possibly get attention on this subject?
Thank you very much, your job is highly appreciated!
I posted something like this earlier. I'm hoping for the same too. I can't play my emulators on the screen controls. I think it's at the kernel level so someone would have to make a kernel that works with OTG.
zedomax made a video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pON5pS4eWOI
he's getting there! i havent used his stuff in a while, but this will definitely bring me back and eventually all the other devs will incorporate this. id get it a week, 2 weeks tops.
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I posted something like this earlier. I'm hoping for the same too. I can't play my emulators on the screen controls. I think it's at the kernel level so someone would have to make a kernel that works with OTG.
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ever tried sixaxis controller? you can hook up multiple sixaxis ps3 controllers and it works great. it blows all my friends minds (even my professor) when they saw
ImaWinRAR said:
zedomax made a video:
he's getting there! i havent used his stuff in a while, but this will definitely bring me back and eventually all the other devs will incorporate this. id get it a week, 2 weeks tops.
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ever tried sixaxis controller? you can hook up multiple sixaxis ps3 controllers and it works great. it blows all my friends minds (even my professor) when they saw
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Thank you for the update.
It would be nice if someone fix it. This is a very useful feature and is a shame they nerfed on the latest 2.3.4 version.
However, is good "only" if it really works and doesn t break anythng else in the process.
Actually I am a bit skeptic whether "modding" my SGS2 for the simple reason on every ROM I see out there, there are a bunch of bugs involved. Something is fixed with having something else broken.
USB Host would be amazing, but i can live without and i can say there is no reason to me to mess with the original SGS2 OS because this phone just works great out of the box
Since I can't post in the development topic, I'll post this here. I'm trying to hook up my Apple wireless bluetooth keyboard to my GS3 running the CM10 ROM. I was able to do it with my Evo on CM7, but I don't know if that's a CM team addition or not.
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Since I can't post in the development topic, I'll post this here. I'm trying to hook up my Apple wireless bluetooth keyboard to my GS3 running the CM10 ROM. I was able to do it with my Evo on CM7, but I don't know if that's a CM team addition or not.
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Ever question why u can't post in the dev forum yet? Might wanna read up on it. And samsungs are preconfigured not to work with crapple products. Not really but just saying. Bet it would work if it wasn't a crapple keyboard. Best of luck....
This is not suitable for a development topic, and this is the place for this type of question. As far as apple keyboards go, it is kinda hit and miss. I've had two bluetooth apple keyboards side by side, and one would pair with my ps3--the other wouldn't. As far as I know, apple did some funny stuff that isn't quite bluetooth spec, so if you already have it paired to an apple device, you may want to try to remove that pairing from the keyboard before it will properly pair with your phone. I've had to do something like that to get mine to work with properly with bootcamp on an macbook pro. To the best of my knowledge, the CyanogenMod team did not do anything to add or break compatibility with the apple keyboard--and honestly I don't think they could without some apple-proprietary code.
No no
He wasn't going to make a new topic but rather post in an existing one
You cold tell cause he said dev topic and not dev sec
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According to this post there's a way to make the iPhone earpods controls work on earphones. So if someone could make a way to remove this code like a flashable zip or instructions that'd be great.
(If I knew how to do it I'd help out my XDA brothers but sadly I can't.)
Contact App developer. Post a link to the post you are referring to.
Seriously dude. Watch what you post. There's a lot of Apple bashers around these parts. You might get flamed or derided.
Im one of those guys with a paperweight. During the holidays last year, I ended up with a blocked Fire TV 2 because of a shipping error. No sweat off my back, as Amazon quickly sent the replacement, but still it kills me to have this sexy black box sit around and do nothing. Amazon doesnt want it back, they dont want anybody using it, and I am not ethically questionable haha. I am literally UNABLE to throw this thing away. At the very least I have an extra remote and power converter, but still... you guys know what im talking about.
Anyhow, Im not unfamiliar with small-component electronics and circuitry. I know we will likely never to be able to bypass the registration screen through the software, as ADB has not yet been turned on for USB or network. This leaves me seeking out hardware root methods to install custom recovery and thus custom firmware to bypass registration. But alas, I cannot find any guides on the subject, nor even a simple discussion. Can somebody point me in the right direction? Any discussion with some recent activity involving EMMC or other methods should suffice. If I dont find anything i suppose ill have to delve into this on my own. Deep waters!
A hopeful bump in case somebody hasn't seen this yet, but it looks like I'm on my own here. I'll be diving into hardware rooting and let yall know what happens.
I wish I had an answer by I think I have the same issue. Can't past registration page.
I thought it was from previous owner modifying hosts list. But not sure. I just posted my issue last night and the mention of the device being blacklisted brought my searches to here.
Hopefully someone has conquered this.
(Or at least give me a definite answer and I will cut my loses....
Anybody have Anything I can at least try??
Thanks
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Anybody have Anything I can at least try??
Thanks
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Anybody have Anything I can at least try??
Thanks
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Anybody have Anything I can at least try??
Thanks
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Thanks. I sold it to someone who was a programmer and wanted to experiment with it.