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[Q] AOSP samsung t989 compile?

Can some one tell me why we can't compile AOSP for the t989 and just use Samsung kernel so everything works? Basically why can't we kang together a t989 ROM that is how much ever is needed of Samsung device modules etc and the rest AOSP?

jahrule said:
Can some one tell me why we can't compile AOSP for the t989 and just use Samsung kernel so everything works? Basically why can't we kang together a t989 ROM that is how much ever is needed of Samsung device modules etc and the rest AOSP?
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You should do it so that we get AOSP rom

jim93 said:
You should do it so that we get AOSP rom
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That wasn't his question. Just don't respond if you have nothing useful to say. This is exactly where all the flame wars start.
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Towle said:
That wasn't his question. Just don't respond if you have nothing useful to say. This is exactly where all the flame wars start.
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It is cool. And yes i would love to do it. With my experience with linux this would be no biggie, but android i have no idea. I think that if it was possible surely someone would have made a flawless 98% AOSP rom with 2% samsung parts....... right?

Towle said:
That wasn't his question. Just don't respond if you have nothing useful to say. This is exactly where all the flame wars start.
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Csb are u done tryna be a mod? Cause reading back to your comment you didn't really contribute anything useful to his question either.
Now as for the question also apks cannot simply be installed on a touchwiz room the framework for both of these is pretty different you have to actually change code and port it over can't simply uninstall =(
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lilz4life said:
Csb are u done tryna be a mod? Cause reading back to your comment you didn't really contribute anything useful to his question either.
Now as for the question also apks cannot simply be installed on a touchwiz room the framework for both of these is pretty different you have to actually change code and port it over can't simply uninstall =(
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You did not answer my question at all.

Then I don't u derstand ur question.
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Okay, it is very difficult to make an AOSP ROM with no device tree. That's why we have barely any 100% working. Remember, if you take kernel apart, you will find yourself with many, many files. You need to look through them all and link all the files. If those linked files don't work, then maybe you have to add some. If it still doesn't work, you will need to rework the drivers/firmwares. It is a difficult process. You also need to link all kernel/ROM together. *APK's HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS PORTING PROCESS*

jahrule said:
Can some one tell me why we can't compile AOSP for the t989 and just use Samsung kernel so everything works? Basically why can't we kang together a t989 ROM that is how much ever is needed of Samsung device modules etc and the rest AOSP?
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Apparently you have never worked with source and/or compiled from... there are plenty of reasons why that can't happen. Main reason there is no device tree with proper source.
:: DARKSIDE ::

thederekjay said:
Apparently you have never worked with source and/or compiled from... there are plenty of reasons why that can't happen. Main reason there is no device tree with proper source.
:: DARKSIDE ::
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I only use linux for the past 5 years i sure the hell have compiled and worked with source. I just never had to compile for anything other than x86(_64) cpu before aka no toolchaining.

Towle said:
That wasn't his question. Just don't respond if you have nothing useful to say. This is exactly where all the flame wars start.
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This is among the useful response for the original question. I was just encouraging him to go try it that is the best way form him to figure out why its not that simple.
This question has been asked before and I have seen how people have responded with different answers of this question. Whenever this question has been responded with technical reasons then it just ends up being followed by a question of why cant you do "A" even though "A" is based on not knowing another technical reason. The problem is the real satisfactory answer involves knowing alot of the basics which would have precluded you from asking the question in the first place.
Asking this question is like ends up like the following
"A: Why cant you fish with potato bits as bait?"
"B: well fishes dont like to eat potatoes"
"A: potato is food though,Why dont they like food"
It has been suggested before so clearly if someone knew how to do it they would have done it. The best thing at this stage is to try it.

alphadog32 said:
Okay, it is very difficult to make an AOSP ROM with no device tree. That's why we have barely any 100% working. Remember, if you take kernel apart, you will find yourself with many, many files. You need to look through them all and link all the files. If those linked files don't work, then maybe you have to add some. If it still doesn't work, you will need to rework the drivers/firmwares. It is a difficult process. You also need to link all kernel/ROM together. *APK's HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS PORTING PROCESS*
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Yea.. I was not implying that we grab APKs from some random AOSP build and copy on top of some working stock ROM. My question more is that I see on samsungs opensource site they give us kernel source for the t989 (have not looked at it yet) and then they gave us some build files to copy over and overwrite the build environment for AOSP which I did and built (currently trying to figure out how to use the *.img files), but shouldn't that give us a ~90% AOSP build? That or I am completely not understanding the README file from samsung.

jim93 said:
This is among the useful response for the original question. I was just encouraging him to go try it that is the best way form him to figure out why its not that simple.
This question has been asked before and I have seen how people have responded with different answers of this question. Whenever this question has been responded with technical reasons then it just ends up being followed by a question of why cant you do "A" even though "A" is based on not knowing another technical reason. The problem is the real satisfactory answer involves knowing alot of the basics which would have precluded you from asking the question in the first place.
Asking this question is like ends up like the following
"A: Why cant you fish with potato bits as bait?"
"B: well fishes dont like to eat potatoes"
"A: potato is food though,Why dont they like food"
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I think he was trying to say if you don't want to spend the time explaining the details because you make some asumptions about people and their posts whom you have never met... then it is best you remain silent rather than giving some smart remark as an answer.

jahrule said:
I think he was trying to say if you don't want to spend the time explaining the details because you make some asumptions about people and their posts whom you have never met... then it is best you remain silent rather than giving some smart remark as an answer.
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I wasnt giving you a smart remarks just pointing out that at this point it is best to just try it because nobody knows all the exact steps because nobody has done it for this device.
You are left seeking genera android kernel advice which ->
If you run into trouble with technical details go here http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=565 since it is a better place to ask questions about using img files than in the same forum where people ask "how do I install custom rom" even the themer section is a better place.

jim93 said:
I wasnt giving you a smart remarks just pointing out that at this point it is best to just try it because nobody knows all the exact steps because nobody has done it for this device.
You are left seeking genera android kernel advice which ->
If you run into trouble with technical details go here http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=565 since it is a better place to ask questions about using img files than in the same forum where people ask "how do I install custom rom" even the themer section is a better place.
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I was not saying you were being a smart %^& just saying what I think dude was saying. In fact because of your comment I went got the source from samsung and repo synced AOSP and compiled it and have been playing around since just a little stuck now. My question was for more a technical reason. I understand now that we don't have a device tree for the t989 that works flawlessly... at least thats what i get from alpha and darkside. Now my question more is what the heck is the use of the source from samsung then?

jahrule said:
I was not saying you were being a smart %^& just saying what I think dude was saying. In fact because of your comment I went got the source from samsung and repo synced AOSP and compiled it and have been playing around since just a little stuck now. My question was for more a technical reason. I understand now that we don't have a device tree for the t989 that works flawlessly... at least thats what i get from alpha and darkside. Now my question more is what the heck is the use of the source from samsung then?
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You can actually modify the Kernel it just takes work. For example if for some reason either the t989 or skyrockets ICS kernel was open sourced there would be a rotation fix so quick for the one with broken rotation.
Samsung just throws the source they finished out there but doesnt really provide or I think care to provide any work towards AOSP builds.

Check out this thread.

rynstphn said:
Check out this thread.
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Hes asking about compiling Kernel from source I think

jim93 said:
Hes asking about compiling Kernel from source I think
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No i am talking about the userland
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rynstphn said:
Check out this thread.
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Yea thats cool and all but i am more intetested in GB. There is sone source that samsung gives us which i thought is the device tree for this phone... So in essence what i am asking is: what is the source that samsung provides and what use is it? I am aware of the kernel source already i am refering to the other package.
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[Bounty] Acer a100 USB Host/Mass Storage

My pre-apologizes if this is the wrong forum to post this in.
I'm calling it. It's Bounty time. I want to hook up a large external usb drive to my a100, and after reading countless posts of it being a kernel level job, and things I admiralty know nothing about, I'm ready to pony up $20 for the cause. Anyone else? I'm most certainly tired of waiting, and I am sure money is a decent motivator.
Thanks.

FestivalOfRats said:
My pre-apologizes if this is the wrong forum to post this in.
I'm calling it. It's Bounty time. I want to hook up a large external usb drive to my a100, and after reading countless posts of it being a kernel level job, and things I admiralty know nothing about, I'm ready to pony up $20 for the cause. Anyone else? I'm most certainly tired of waiting, and I am sure money is a decent motivator.
Thanks.
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Why not just use the USB drive as a network drive and use ES File explorer to mount it?

FestivalOfRats said:
My pre-apologizes if this is the wrong forum to post this in.
I'm calling it. It's Bounty time. I want to hook up a large external usb drive to my a100, and after reading countless posts of it being a kernel level job, and things I admiralty know nothing about, I'm ready to pony up $20 for the cause. Anyone else? I'm most certainly tired of waiting, and I am sure money is a decent motivator.
Thanks.
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I build it in FLEX-A100-REAPER-RF1 (not yet released), but it is in testing stage and as I don't have a a100 I cannot test that feature. You can also always use drivemount.

We don't have kernel sources, and Russian support told me that they are not planning to release them. And without sources any money won't help to do USB Host... Also, in service manual on schemes you can see that USB Host is not available because of hardware problems...

ZeroNull said:
We don't have kernel sources, and Russian support told me that they are not planning to release them. And without sources any money won't help to do USB Host... Also, in service manual on schemes you can see that USB Host is not available because of hardware problems...
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That's exactly what I thought - that the hardware itself didn't support it
I thought that they had to legally release kernel sources as the Linux Kernel is under the GPL license? I'll do more research and hound them down for sure.

toyface said:
...I thought that they had to legally release kernel sources as the Linux Kernel is under the GPL license? I'll do more research and hound them down for sure.
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Yes, they do have to release it. HP had some problems with the Touchpads some time ago because of this.

masr1979 said:
Yes, they do have to release it. HP had some problems with the Touchpads some time ago because of this.
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I remember that, if the code isn't out soon I'll be making some noise
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[Q] Chameleon OS

grabbed this and put it on the note1 for my girlfriend, she really likes it
have to admit it looks pretty slick runs well too
I wish I could get it running for us. there looking for people to run it
http://forums.chameleonos.org/threads/device-maintainers-wanted.66/
any takers ?

The tablet UI looks awesome....
not really diggin the phone look from what i saw.

This looks HOT...I'm a fiend for the status bar

Yup can't wait for it to show up for us
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It's out for Verizon note 2 and beans said he will port for us soon.
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yes !!!
I saw it for Verizon, was hoping it was a matter of time till it got here WOOT !

anyone sniff this around yet ?

well im going to give it a go and try to port it for our rom.
first time for everything

stuck on boot will play around with it more

Where is this? In Verizon? Do you need someone to just make a quick port for us? I can do it
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wuelfman said:
well im going to give it a go and try to port it for our rom.
first time for everything
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Hey bro..if you need any help let me know..

www.chameleonos.org/downloads.php
Got it from here
They dont support porting I was gonna trying building from source. Might be to much for me though
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wuelfman said:
www.chameleonos.org/downloads.php
Got it from here
They dont support porting I was gonna trying building from source. Might be to much for me though
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Yeh am trying to contact someone from there and there not responding back to my mail even mailed beans ? Im trying to see if anyone has started this or get permission, or see if beans is gonna port?

wish777 said:
Yeh am trying to contact someone from there and there not responding back to my mail even mailed beans ? Im trying to see if anyone has started this or get permission, or see if beans is gonna port?
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this is from there site
"We want ChameleonOS to run on as many devices as possible and to do this we need help from the community. We're looking for those of you interested in being a device maintainer for devices we will support officially. For us to consider a device to be officially supported it must be able to be built using all of our projects found in the ChameleonOS repo manifest. Devices that require one or more stock projects to be removed and replaced by a modified version that allows the device to function correctly will interfere with our current build system. If this is the case, you are more than welcome to maintain your own unofficial builds
Since we originally based ChameleonOS off of CyanogenMod, any device that has official support for CM 10.1 will be easy to convert so that it builds for ChameleonOS. We'll be putting together an easy to follow guide on how to create the necessary projects to be merged into ChameleonOS in order to get your device into our system. In the mean time let me go over some of the requirements we have for individuals interested in being a device maintainer.
1.Familiarity with repo and git
2.Familiarity with the android build system and building a ROM from source code.
3.Know how to use gerrit code review and be able to submit patches to http://review.chameleonos.org
4.Able to debug, troubleshoot, and fix build issues.
5.Willing to keep all projects related to your device up to date and test new changes to verify everything is working as intended.
If you have a device that meets our requirements and you are willing and able to be a maintainer for a device please contact me 0xd34d(at)chameleonos[dot]org. Make sure to provide a couple of references to projects or work you have done that relates to android development. Some gerrit commits are always nice as well as links to threads for ROMs you have worked on. Please don't include any references to ROMs you may have ported. I've worked on ports myself but I don't consider the work done on a port comparable to working on a ROM from source.
Thanks in advance to all those that contact me!
"

I think this is what you might be looking for:
http://forums.chameleonos.org/threads/4-2-2-chameleonos-chaos-unofficialy-offical-4-8.157/

actually looks pretty cool. Any word on how well it runs? Battery life, etc.?

Traqic said:
actually looks pretty cool. Any word on how well it runs? Battery life, etc.?
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Faustous said:
I think this is what you might be looking for:
http://forums.chameleonos.org/threads/4-2-2-chameleonos-chaos-unofficialy-offical-4-8.157/
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yes it is for note 2 but for Verizon not sure how it would run ( not taking any chances of ruining my note lol

I got that but I mean if anyone tried it. Perfectly capable of doing a search

Kernel 3.0.31 :)

hello my gio brothers and sisters psyke83 made a full working 3.0.31 kernel for samsung galaxy 5 and that phone is a msm7x27 samsung device as our gio is so maybe we will have in 2-3 months a working kernel for out little phone http://madteam.co/forum/development-8/(dev)-cyanogenmod-10-1-galaxy5-port-(androidarmv6)/

Already discussed.
We have no FSR working or any source related to it.
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ItachiSama said:
Already discussed.
We have no FSR working or any source related to it.
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i think you mean "rfs"
sorry my fault:what:
The Chinese are improving themselves!

ItachiSama said:
Already discussed.
We have no FSR working or any source related to it.
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i think that psyke can help us , he was in the same condision like us...idk but psyke is a master in android and he be began from a scrach

tcris45 said:
i think that psyke can help us , he was in the same condision like us...idk but psyke is a master in android and he be began from a scrach
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Well.. Been into this with psyke for some time now. He offered all help he could, but no luck so far
For genius amongst us, here is latest status: http://pastebin.com/ebf64ma1
If you have any idea, you are welcome

Why does rfs matter as almost all roms use ext4?
Edit, sorry, I found it is actually fsr and not rfs...
What is fsr exactly?
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Its Samsung's Flex Sector Remapper. It lets us access the internal flash. Drivers for the fsr are closed source and the binaries are incompatible with the 3+ kernel.
So without the source orbinaries working on the new kernel we can't use the phones internal memory. I think it's possible to boot android from sd with new kernel, but that would be way worse than running it from internal memory with the older kernel.

Stannieman said:
Why does rfs matter as almost all roms use ext4?
Edit, sorry, I found it is actually fsr and not rfs...
What is fsr exactly?
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Simplistic explanation:
It handles the internal flash memory, so crucial partitions like /system, /data and /cache can be mounted and used by android (or any other os)

Stannieman said:
Why does rfs matter as almost all roms use ext4?
Edit, sorry, I found it is actually fsr and not rfs...
What is fsr exactly?
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Its Samsung's Flex Sector Remapper. It lets us access the internal flash. Drivers for the fsr are closed source and the binaries are incompatible with the 3+ kernel.
So without the source orbinaries working on the new kernel we can't use the phones internal memory. I think it's possible to boot android from sd with new kernel, but that would be way worse than running it from internal memory with the older kernel.
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Run from sd is an option for users with > class 6 sd
With any lower class it would lagg like ....
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Current status on this:
Tested MTD driver, all hard work done and patched by psyke and ounao, which I applied to kernel 3
Tree: This link to my github
This is the commit for MTD and especially this part taken from Ounao's patch you find here
This leaves me with this dmesg on boot (note: I use a minimalistic defconfig, and I boot in a recovery environment which not jumps to android)
As you can see, there is a problem with the badblocks functions. All block are marked bad, so this leaves no useable blocks. Therefore, are partitions seem to be full:
Code:
~ # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 138.7M 48.0K 138.7M 0% /dev
tmpfs 138.7M 8.0K 138.7M 0% /tmp
/dev/block/mtdblock13
29.0M 29.0M 0 100% /cache
/dev/block/mtdblock12
188.3M 188.3M 0 100% /data
/dev/block/mtdblock11
217.3M 217.3M 0 100% /system
I publish this, on many requests, so all get out there, find aditional kernel devs who can help us out here.
I also will post a dmesg with debugging enabled later
All info and history and all the hard work done by psyke and ounao can be found here

sorry guys had to do this.
@marcin1147 @New Macław @OldDroid
also for kicks :
@AdamOutler @tom3q @hillbeast and finally @cyanogen @pawitp
If they come awesome if you guys can think of any developers that might help tag them too.(the more the merrier).
Note please read the previous post before commenting thank you.

Dark Passenger said:
sorry guys had to do this.
@marcin1147 @New Macław @OldDroid
also for kicks :
@AdamOutler @tom3q @hillbeast and finally @cyanogen .
If they come awesome if you guys can think of any developers that might help tag them too.(the more the merrier).
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@hillbeast : I contacted him.. No results

yajnab said:
@hillbeast : I contacted him.. No results
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well he did get mentioned twice lets see...what he does(usually most RD's dont reply to pms).
@tj_style @squadzone
no idea if they still into this
and my most likely last long shot
@Koush
actually while at it.
@arco68 and @franciscofranco
any of you who are mentioned here or any other developer who has any input please firstly read Post #9.
Thanks

Dark Passenger said:
well he did get mentioned twice lets see...what he does(usually most RD's dont reply to pms).
@tj_style @squadzone
no idea if they still into this
and my most likely last long shot
@Koush
actually while at it.
@arco68 and @franciscofranco
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@faux123 : Brother please help

You're actually lucky you caught me in a good mood. Randomly mentioning names of developers in hope one would fix your phones is really irritating. Especially if none of them even have the device.
I don't have this phone, have no access to this phone, and no way of getting this phone and therefore can't do any development on this phone. That's just how it is. Maybe if I had the device I'd help out but I don't. This will be the response the other RDs will have (if they even respond. Usually they don't because we get this all the time).
To get the OneNAND going, I have no idea how you're going to be able to do that because until now, I didn't even know Samsung put the OneNAND in on of their MSM7227 devices. There likely won't be any MTD code for the device and that's going to be the only way you're going to get it to work. Don't muck around with FSR. Its a one way trip to trouble. FSR is seriously bad news. Its not worth wasting your time and effort and potentially bricking your phones trying to get FSR working. Get MTD working with the OneNAND and use YAFFS2 or UBIFS.
That's all the help I can give. Other than that, tell people to get a class 10 SD card and install Android on that.

hillbeast said:
You're actually lucky you caught me in a good mood. Randomly mentioning names of developers in hope one would fix your phones is really irritating. Especially if none of them even have the device.
I don't have this phone, have no access to this phone, and no way of getting this phone and therefore can't do any development on this phone. That's just how it is. Maybe if I had the device I'd help out but I don't. This will be the response the other RDs will have (if they even respond. Usually they don't because we get this all the time).
To get the OneNAND going, I have no idea how you're going to be able to do that because until now, I didn't even know Samsung put the OneNAND in on of their MSM7227 devices. There likely won't be any MTD code for the device and that's going to be the only way you're going to get it to work. Don't muck around with FSR. Its a one way trip to trouble. FSR is seriously bad news. Its not worth wasting your time and effort and potentially bricking your phones trying to get FSR working. Get MTD working with the OneNAND and use YAFFS2 or UBIFS.
That's all the help I can give. Other than that, tell people to get a class 10 SD card and install Android on that.
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can you please read post #9 .
the random mentions was actually to attract you RD s to that post so that Erik and the other "RD"s could well pick your brain on the matter.
my apologies if this wasted your time or insulted you in any way.
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tcris45 said:
hello my gio brothers and sisters psyke83 made a full working 3.0.31 kernel for samsung galaxy 5 and that phone is a msm7x27 samsung device as our gio is so maybe we will have in 2-3 months a working kernel for out little phone http://madteam.co/forum/development-8/(dev)-cyanogenmod-10-1-galaxy5-port-(androidarmv6)/
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Hi can you hilight erik s post it #9 .
since we given a shout out to some big guys they usually don't tend to see the entire thread.

hillbeast said:
You're actually lucky you caught me in a good mood. Randomly mentioning names of developers in hope one would fix your phones is really irritating. Especially if none of them even have the device.
I don't have this phone, have no access to this phone, and no way of getting this phone and therefore can't do any development on this phone. That's just how it is. Maybe if I had the device I'd help out but I don't. This will be the response the other RDs will have (if they even respond. Usually they don't because we get this all the time).
To get the OneNAND going, I have no idea how you're going to be able to do that because until now, I didn't even know Samsung put the OneNAND in on of their MSM7227 devices. There likely won't be any MTD code for the device and that's going to be the only way you're going to get it to work. Don't muck around with FSR. Its a one way trip to trouble. FSR is seriously bad news. Its not worth wasting your time and effort and potentially bricking your phones trying to get FSR working. Get MTD working with the OneNAND and use YAFFS2 or UBIFS.
That's all the help I can give. Other than that, tell people to get a class 10 SD card and install Android on that.
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About access to the phone. I still have some resources in my donations account, waiting for a proper destination. If you would consider taking the challenge contact me
I am sure donators consider this a good destination too. But should keep in mind, there might be a change that it turns out to be a mission impossibe.
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Dark Passenger said:
can you please read post #9 .
the random mentions was actually to attract you RD s to that post so that Erik and the other "RD"s could well pick your brain on the matter.
my apologies if this wasted your time or insulted you in any way.
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Hi can you hilight erik s post it #9 .
since we given a shout out to some big guys they usually don't tend to see the entire thread.
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I have only read the post that called me here and a PM I got from somebody.As i said though, calling RDs like this doesnt work. Only volunteers who actually own the phone can help you.
erikcas said:
About access to the phone. I still have some resources in my donations account, waiting for a proper destination. If you would consider taking the challenge contact me
I am sure donators consider this a good destination too. But should keep in mind, there might be a change that it turns out to be a mission impossibe.
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I'd consider it perhaps but I have a very busy life and don't even know if I could get it working in my spare time. Maybe I could. Maybe I can't.
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I've re-tested the MTD driver on my GT-I5500 with partial success. I've documented the results on my thread on the MadTeam forum.
Maybe we should have a topic in the general section? Development of this driver should be of interest to developers of at least half a dozen Samsung devices (Callisto, Ace, Fit, Mini, Gio, Europa)...

psyke83 said:
I've re-tested the MTD driver on my GT-I5500 with partial success. I've documented the results on my thread on the MadTeam forum.
Maybe we should have a topic in the general section? Development of this driver should be of interest to developers of at least half a dozen Samsung devices (Callisto, Ace, Fit, Mini, Gio, Europa)...
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Agree on that.
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psyke83 said:
I've re-tested the MTD driver on my GT-I5500 with partial success. I've documented the results on my thread on the MadTeam forum.
Maybe we should have a topic in the general section? Development of this driver should be of interest to developers of at least half a dozen Samsung devices (Callisto, Ace, Fit, Mini, Gio, Europa)...
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Will be happy if u push your patch to github..

Google Pixel Rom Development

Hi guys , as lot of us I want a Pixel Rom with the Pixel Experience and most of all the Pixel Camera (So we can really use our camera sensor )
I have been in talks we some Developers of Pixel Roms and ask them if they would be interested in trying to make a Pixel Rom for our Mi5s and 4 of them answered me with a positive answer.
I'm creating this thread because for them to try to build the Rom we would need to join forces and Donate enought money so we could purchase them a Mi5s.
So if you are interested in a Pixel Rom and don't mind giving up a Buck for the cause just let me know in the Pool to see if this would be possible.
So I created a CrowdFunding campaing to see if we can reach the goal , I set the goal to 460$ to see if we could get two Mi5s to the two Dev's who are most interested.
If you want this to happen just donate 1$ it's a Beer and it would help alot!
http://fnd.us/51Fx7c?ref=sh_96jnqa

How about we also post this to reddit? Maybe a few people over there are also interested

werzum said:
How about we also post this to reddit? Maybe a few people over there are also interested
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Great idea we could also post to miui forums!

so the central post will be on reddit ? or here?
i think here will make more important the campaign

Central post should be here and we should have links on Reddit and mi forums

bozy09 said:
Central post should be here and we should have links on Reddit and mi forums
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Airborntx said:
so the central post will be on reddit ? or here?
i think here will make more important the campaign
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I agree that the Central Post should be here and if we would create on the oher Forums we should link it to this one.
I don't have a Reddit account if you guys don't mind creating for me I would appreciate.
Best regards

Wow i can't wait for it ???

fereidooni said:
Wow i can't wait for it
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weve still got ways to go unless by some miracle the price of the device drops to $20 We need to get as many onboard as possible!

bozy09 said:
weve still got ways to go unless by some miracle the price of the device drops to $20 We need to get as many onboard as possible!
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i do my best

Lads , after the dev reach His potential, what Is he going to do with the device? Kept or send it to another one? I have questions about that

So have you actually found a developer who ported camera software from pixel/nexus phones before ? (I suppose camera is the main goal for us, no doubt pixel is doing this job much better having same hardware). The camera app itself doesn't affect picture quality that much, it is rather result of usage of underlying algorithms. Porting rom (or doing it feel it like pixel has from the box using lineage or another existing rom) won't be a big problem for a specialist, but all underlying software may not be so easily accessible, because it uses google developments that they likely don't want to expose. I'm not a rom developer so just want to clarify things (maybe they already released all required drivers in open source and it is only problem of testing it on a real device )

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Lads , after the dev reach His potential, what Is he going to do with the device? Kept or send it to another one? I have questions about that
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Hi there , I think the point would be for him to stay with the device and we would only consider that of sending to another one if the choosen Dev won't be able to do anything per say.
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So have you actually found a developer who ported camera software from pixel/nexus phones before ? (I suppose camera is the main goal for us, no doubt pixel is doing this job much better having same hardware). The camera app itself doesn't affect picture quality that much, it is rather result of usage of underlying algorithms. Porting rom (or doing it feel it like pixel has from the box using lineage or another existing rom) won't be a big problem for a specialist, but all underlying software may not be so easily accessible, because it uses google developments that they likely don't want to expose. I'm not a rom developer so just want to clarify things (maybe they already released all required drivers in open source and it is only problem of testing it on a real device )
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What I did was asking some Developers from the Pixel section if they would be interested in making a Pixel Rom for the Xiaomi Mi5s and if they would be able to try to Port the Camera Firmware or Algorithms from the Pixel to the Xiaomi Mi5s.
Of course they can't know for sure if they are going to be able to do it but they said they would love to try , and that's the best answer we can get from anyone to be honest.

We have broken closed source libs lolololo. The camera is the toughest part of all. Totally.

j1505243 said:
We have broken closed source libs lolololo. The camera is the toughest part of all. Totally.
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If there is progress in this direction, then certainly is good news.

I think the only possible problem for this is that Google locked their prop libs to work only on Pixel. But I doubt it!!
I have disassembled the Google camera application and it checks the phone if it is Pixel or not.
If the libs were locked down I think it would mean an unnecessary double check.
I am a software developer myself and I am considering porting this to our device, however, I have no experience with android so far so it will take a bit of time.

mesziman said:
I think the only possible problem for this is that Google locked their prop libs to work only on Pixel. But I doubt it!!
I have disassembled the Google camera application and it checks the phone if it is Pixel or not.
If the libs were locked down I think it would mean an unnecessary double check.
I am a software developer myself and I am considering porting this to our device, however, I have no experience with android so far so it will take a bit of time.
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I would like to help, but like you I'm a software developer and I don't know if I can help with my knowledge. But it's cool to see peoples interested to the improvement of this camera.

When and where do we donate money?
And I would like to see comments from the developer

John.D.. said:
When and where do we donate money?
And I would like to see comments from the developer
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I'd like to know this too

Take me?I am responsible for informing the Chinese people of the miui forum
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Great idea we could also post to miui forums!
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Airborntx said:
Lads , after the dev reach His potential, what Is he going to do with the device? Kept or send it to another one? I have questions about that
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Nexus Experience rom is very similar to pixel. http://www.nxrom.us/mi5splus.html I can't tell a difference from it vs the pixel rom on my 5x other than some LOS features included.
Google photo thinks it's a pixel (unlimited storage)
Flashing the google camera - https://www.xda-developers.com/google-camera-hdr-ported takes care of the camera part, although I use a separate app for video recording since its video recording is buggy and FCs