[Q] [Honest curiosity] About updates and AOSP - Samsung Galaxy Nexus

If there's already source for 4.0.3 why don't devs (whom i'll always not thanks enough for their work) makes an update? Only Google can make an incremental update and we need a full AOSP rom ?

? There are 4.0.3 roms

all the main roms i see in the dev section are 4.0.3

Sorry if i wasn't clear enough.
I mean: i'm on stock 4.0.1 and i don't want to wipe now. Isn't there a way to make an incremental update 4.0.3 instead of flashing an entire rom?

Also as a Nexus device, wasn't one of the benefits that Google would put out the updates very quickly?
They have 4.0.3 just sitting there, is there any reason why they're not putting it out?

The 4.0.3 roms are based off from the uncompiled 4.0.3 source that google releases to the public, which developers can compile and test their apps on.
As for your 4.0.1, is your device a yakju, or jakjuux? Check with the GN checker app on the market. If its jakjuux, it wont be updated until samsung says so, meanwhile if you are running jakju, you should be able to go to 4.0.2, which has been released as an OTA through google. Hope this helps.
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F0l3ert said:
The 4.0.3 roms are based off from the uncompiled 4.0.3 source that google releases to the public, which developers can compile and test their apps on.
As for your 4.0.1, is your device a yakju, or jakjuux? Check with the GN checker app on the market. If its jakjuux, it wont be updated until samsung says so, meanwhile if you are running jakju, you should be able to go to 4.0.2, which has been released as an OTA through google. Hope this helps.
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I'm yakju bu you didn't get my point or neither i'm not explaining what it could be only my imagination. BUT
If the source code it's released why it can't be a 6/10/20 mb packet that can upgrade my system like a FOTA update can do ?

Because 4.0.3 has some bugs that needs to be fixed. The 4.0.3 OTA was released for Nexus S then pulled because of the bugs it was having.
You think if it was ready, they'd release it. Give it time, people are so ungrateful when 95% of the Android Community are still on Android 2.3.X and below.
If you want it so badly, flash a custom ROM with 4.0.3 on it. If you don't want to, then you can't really complain.

zephiK said:
If you want it so badly, flash a custom ROM with 4.0.3 on it. If you don't want to, then you can't really complain.
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I've never complained and you didn't answered my question

zephiK said:
Because 4.0.3 has some bugs that needs to be fixed. The 4.0.3 OTA was released for Nexus S then pulled because of the bugs it was having.
You think if it was ready, they'd release it. Give it time, people are so ungrateful when 95% of the Android Community are still on Android 2.3.X and below.
If you want it so badly, flash a custom ROM with 4.0.3 on it. If you don't want to, then you can't really complain.
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Not really, there's a source released for the GNex from Google.
Sugar0, I will try compiling that stock source and tell you how it goes.

Arrio said:
Not really, there's a source released for the GNex from Google.
Sugar0, I will try compiling that stock source and tell you how it goes.
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You don't need to! It's plenty of stock untouched AOSP roms and modified.
What i'm asking is:
is there an unofficial small update that will bring 4.0.3 to my GN that i can flash in recovery ? Not the full rom!

sugar0 said:
You don't need to! It's plenty of stock untouched AOSP roms and modified.
What i'm asking is:
is there an unofficial small update that will bring 4.0.3 to my GN that i can flash in recovery ? Not the full rom!
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Oh then no.. not at the moment.

You could always just compile it yourself with "make otapackage", that will give you exactly what you're asking for.
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magn2o said:
You could always just compile it yourself with "make otapackage", that will give you exactly what you're asking for.
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Finally an on-topic answer! Why aren't those updates around ? Do i miss something ?

No, you didn't "miss" anything. It's just that most people who are going to take the time to setup a build environment are doing so to tinker with the source -- not just build a vanilla package. Either way, its not terribly difficult to setup and build -- especially with all the guides floating around XDA.
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magn2o said:
You could always just compile it yourself with "make otapackage", that will give you exactly what you're asking for.
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That's not strictly true. The 'OTA' package you make when compiling the ROM from source is still a complete ROM as opposed to a small OTA update

It won't require a system wipe and will apply just like an OTA, which is what (I'm assuming) the OP wanted.
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magn2o said:
It won't require a system wipe and will apply just like an OTA, which is what (I'm assuming) the OP wanted.
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Yep! like nigthly build of Cyanogenmod. It doesen't matter if its 6mb or 120mb. So aren't there those updates around ? I can't understand why they don't make such updates

Related

(help?) Looking for 4.0.3 odex and apk camera app

Can someone post a link to an odexed 4.0.3 rom or post the cameragoogle.apk and cameragoogle.odex files? I don't seem to be able to locate them.
I'm attempting to cure a few camera bugs on stock verizon lte gnex (rooted) running 4.0.2 by replacing with the (hopefully) updated app. Any help is appreciated.
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Edit: i guess not...ok so i pulled a copy of the 4.0.3 ota update for nexus s and have "patch" files (like CameraGoogle.apk.p). Any ideas how to turn these into actual apk and odex files?
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Best you will get is from aosp. I have one somewhere if you still want it. It may not work due to platform signing.
No such thing, AOSP comes deodexed once compiled
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No such thing, AOSP comes deodexed once compiled
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Interesting comment.
100% incorrect.
userdebug builds = deodexed.
user builds = odexed.
I have both.
All the ones I've seen come deodexed so assumed it was the norm (was the same for my own AOSP build too)
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All the ones I've seen come deodexed so assumed it was the norm (was the same for my own AOSP build too)
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If you build it as user and not userdebug, it odexes.
OTAs are user builds.
Here is this but here is why I don't think it will work for you:
http://www.multiupload.com/L7Y8L90241
1. 4.0.3 is a higher API level.
2. Stock retail roms have been signed with different platform keys and that may cause issue for certain apps.
adrynalyne said:
Here is this but here is why I don't think it will work for you:
http://www.multiupload.com/L7Y8L90241
1. 4.0.3 is a higher API level.
2. Stock retail roms have been signed with different platform keys and that may cause issue for certain apps.
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Thank you! it was worth a try, but you were right about it being signed incorrectly for use on stock rom.
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If you build it as user and not userdebug, it odexes.
OTAs are user builds.
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I've only ever built to .img files so guessing that's why they're deodexed. Thanks for the info
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EddyOS said:
I've only ever built to .img files so guessing that's why they're deodexed. Thanks for the info
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Disregard if you already knew this:
if you add otapackage to your make line, it will make a cwr flashable package.

New Jelly Bean Binaries

Hello all.
I saw that the binaries have been updated for the Galaxy Nexus on this page:
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/drivers
Does anyone know how to actually pull and install the binaries? I tried running the script but I get an error saying that it couldn't display the license.
Thanks.
EDIT: I thought it was as simple as extracting and replacing an object file. According to this, it looks like you need to source to extract and then build.
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/android-building/2fXGtHA98CI/wxGnntR7Za8J
I use those binaries just fine with the script.
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Are you extracting within the source tree?
Noob question... will these binaries improve the existing roms that are around? I was looking to flash a new rom on my vzw nexus, but is it worth waiting for developers to integrate these binaries?
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andytseng said:
Noob question... will these binaries improve the existing roms that are around? I was looking to flash a new rom on my vzw nexus, but is it worth waiting for developers to integrate these binaries?
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In theory, they should.
The JRO03C aosp binaries for maguro and toro have been released for a few days now, and those scripts are to be run in a linux terminal. They work fine. They are also needed to build a rom for those devices from (aosp) source code (we dont have the source for those components, thats why we use the binaries provided by Google).
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Are you extracting within the source tree?
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This as well, thanks.
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bk201doesntexist said:
The JRO03C aosp binaries for maguro and toro have been released for a few days now, and those scripts are to be run in a linux terminal. They work fine. They are also needed to build a rom for those devices from (aosp) source code.
This as well, thanks.
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These are JRO03H and were released yesterday.
skinien said:
These are JRO03H and were released yesterday.
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I've been busy as hell at work. Thanks for the heads up. make clobber. no hard feelings huh mate?
Edit: perhaps you could place JRO03H in the thread title.
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Can you install them to any 0H rom? If so, how?

Help!!-ICS Upgrade not shwn in updates

i bought an htc incredible 2
it has gingerbread installed.
i tried to update it. but update says network error.
all other apps including browser uses network fine.
please help. i need to update to ICS.
Note-It is an unlocked Verizon mobile. not factory unlocked and I'm not in USA.
HTC hasn't released ICS for dinc2 yet
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Lmfao
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JehC said:
HTC hasn't released ICS for dinc2 yet
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maybe he is in china
Really? At the risk of sounding like a jerk.... How did you even find your way into the Q&A section without seeing tons of posts about "When will we get the ICS update?"
Just to let you know, once the OTA ICS update is released you will not be able to download it since you are not on the Verizon network. What you will need to do is S-OFF (or at least HTC Dev Unlock) your phone so that you can flash a custom rom. The best part about this is that you don't even have to wait for a custom rom to be released thanks to our awesome devs! You have tons of options for ICS, if you want stock Nitsuj17 just posted a leaked version of the update earlier today and he also has another sense ICS rom out, CondemnedSoul soul has a few nice options (AOKP and CM9 or if you want JellyBean he has the new version of AOKP as well,) Aerovan has an awesome CM9 and a CM10 rom, TazzPatriot has a sense ICS rom out too. There are others as well, those are just the ones that spring to mind.
Thanks
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Really? At the risk of sounding like a jerk.... How did you even find your way into the Q&A section without seeing tons of posts about "When will we get the ICS update?"
Just to let you know, once the OTA ICS update is released you will not be able to download it since you are not on the Verizon network. What you will need to do is S-OFF (or at least HTC Dev Unlock) your phone so that you can flash a custom rom. The best part about this is that you don't even have to wait for a custom rom to be released thanks to our awesome devs! You have tons of options for ICS, if you want stock Nitsuj17 just posted a leaked version of the update earlier today and he also has another sense ICS rom out, CondemnedSoul soul has a few nice options (AOKP and CM9 or if you want JellyBean he has the new version of AOKP as well,) Aerovan has an awesome CM9 and a CM10 rom, TazzPatriot has a sense ICS rom out too. There are others as well, those are just the ones that spring to mind.
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Thanks. This is my first android phone so i'm a newbie. i used Nokia before.
All of the people here you are the only one that helped. thank you for that.+1.
can you please te me where to get the stock ics rom.
thanks in advance.
casseer15 said:
Thanks. This is my first android phone so i'm a newbie. i used Nokia before.
All of the people here you are the only one that helped. thank you for that.+1.
can you please te me where to get the stock ics rom.
thanks in advance.
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There is no real "stock" ICS ROM yet as it hasn't been released. The closest ROMs to stock ICS at the moment are:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1846304
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1745483
The first link is the closest as it is from a test leak.
thanks
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There is no real "stock" ICS ROM yet as it hasn't been released. The closest ROMs to stock ICS at the moment are:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1846304
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1745483
The first link is the closest as it is from a test leak.
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Thanks. +1.
casseer15 said:
Thanks. +1.
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Just stay stock. If you are that much of a rookie to this, it just might make things worse at this point in time. Most don't have GSM working 100% from what I understand (GSM users can correct me on that).
But, if you haven't even rooted yet, you are still a bit away from being able to flash one of those bad boys. I say give it another week at least to see what these devs can do with the leaked rom.
It will probably be easier for you. If not, and you think you are ready to take the plunge, than good luck and enjoy!

4.2.2 Nexus Binaries Released

PSA - newest binaries released!
If anyone manages to extract them for TORO (or for magure/toroplus for that matter) and can build a flashble update zip, would you please post here? For some reason I can't extract the shell scripts...my ubuntu build must be shot. Source: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/drivers#torojdq39
klobkelosh said:
PSA - newest binaries released!
If anyone manages to extract them for TORO (or for magure/toroplus for that matter) and can build a flashble update zip, would you please post here? For some reason I can't extract the shell scripts...my ubuntu build must be shot. Source: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/drivers#torojdq39
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I'm on a Windows machine and came across those on Google's site. I used a text editor to open the shell script and then deleted all lines above the binary data, then saved, then renamed the file with a .tar.gz extension. I could then open that and see all of the files. Try that.
Turns out I had a space on the file path! Thanks mmuzzy for pointing that out...
If anyone wants the TORO binaries as a flashable zip, here: http://d-h.st/fpN
Tested on cm 10.1 latest nightly. All ok. Even fixes a gps issue with cm.
Tiny did a few more tweaks. His version fixes the gps wakelock issue:
New link: URL=http://d-h.st/Lgo]422-JDQ39-toro-proprietaries.zip - 4.45 MB[/URL]
Tiny Pulled the file that caused dev-host to complain about a virus (fRom) that I originally included. Tiny can't find anything about this file so it's a false positive but to be sure, he uploaded a new zip and removed the old one
Thanks tiny!
Link fix
http://d-h.st/Lgo
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Maguro JB 4.2.2 JDQ39 Binaries
Hi guys!
Here's the Maguro JB 4.2.2 JDQ39 Binaries :good:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=38650434&postcount=2641
klobkelosh said:
PSA - newest binaries released!
If anyone manages to extract them for TORO (or for magure/toroplus for that matter) and can build a flashble update zip, would you please post here? For some reason I can't extract the shell scripts...my ubuntu build must be shot. Source: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/drivers#torojdq39
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I didn't know you were over here now :good:
CondemnedSoul said:
I didn't know you were over here now :good:
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Hey hey cs! How you doing man?
Yeah, I've been over here since vzw gnex release day. You still deving?
klobkelosh said:
Hey hey cs! How you doing man?
Yeah, I've been over here since vzw gnex release day. You still deving?
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Sweet.... I'm doing pretty good. Finally getting things in order with life. Yes, still deving.... just received a gnex yesterday. Checking things out over here and waiting on a sim card. Should have it Monday I think.
CondemnedSoul said:
Sweet.... I'm doing pretty good. Finally getting things in order with life. Yes, still deving.... just received a gnex yesterday. Checking things out over here and waiting on a sim card. Should have it Monday I think.
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cool! Hoping you build for Toro!
I haven't pulled off my own ROM yet, but I've done a bunch of porting, theming, and tinkering, mostly for myself. See ya round!
Hi guys, can someone explain to me if these binaries are anything new for me if I previously installed Android 4.2.2 (JDQ39) factory image? Should I flash those new binaries now?
kamil.trebunia said:
Hi guys, can someone explain to me if these binaries are anything new for me if I previously installed Android 4.2.2 (JDQ39) factory image? Should I flash those new binaries now?
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The binaries in this thread are for toro only. I wouldn't advise flashing them on maguro. There is a link to proper Gsm binaries a few posts back that can be flashed.
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Nice.
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klobkelosh said:
cool! Hoping you build for Toro!
I haven't pulled off my own ROM yet, but I've done a bunch of porting, theming, and tinkering, mostly for myself. See ya round!
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You should post them ... Don't be greedy! .... I will be soon
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kamil.trebunia said:
Hi guys, can someone explain to me if these binaries are anything new for me if I previously installed Android 4.2.2 (JDQ39) factory image? Should I flash those new binaries now?
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Any factory image for the same android build will have the same binaries (and probably others that can't be distributed as open source) as the ones posted for aosp.
I pulled the GPS, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth drivers from mwalt2's deodex of last night's ota leak: VZW_JDQ39_GPS+WIFI_DRIVERS.zip - 1.22 MB. Not sure if they are any different than the AOSP binaries, but here they are if you want them. Phone is deep sleeping like a baby, GPS locks right on, and Wi-Fi seems good.
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I pulled the GPS, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth drivers from mwalt2's deodex of last night's ota leak: VZW_JDQ39_GPS+WIFI_DRIVERS.zip - 1.22 MB. Not sure if they are any different than the AOSP binaries, but here they are if you want them. Phone is deep sleeping like a baby, GPS locks right on, and Wi-Fi seems good.
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Flashing these over Mmuzzy's 3/2 Vanilla build is ok?
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Flashing these over Mmuzzy's 3/2 Vanilla build is ok?
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Yes, should work fine.
Can these be flashed on a 4.1.2 ROM and get improvement?
Galaxy Nexus+Baked+Lean+TWRP=BOOM SHAKALAKA
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Can these be flashed on a 4.1.2 ROM and get improvement?
Galaxy Nexus+Baked+Lean+TWRP=BOOM SHAKALAKA
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Let us know after you flash it!

[ROM] Glitter 4.2.2 JDQ39E Linaro 4.7.3 Toolchain

This is just an extremely clean build based off of the Latest AOSP release. It's compiled with linaro. The only real differences from stock AOSP are that I added the embedded superuser. I figure that Android is such a good base to build other things off so of why not leave it be.
http://www.mediafire.com/?d5zo8s1g6ltm2bd
ill give it a run i been looking for a clean rooted stock with the superuser in the settings lol oddly enough no joke thankx
Do you think, I can install it on Maguro?
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Do you think, I can install it on Maguro?
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No. Unless you don't mind not having data or voice/sms. Recovery normally fails on roms cross device on purpose.
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tiny4579 said:
No. Unless you don't mind not having data or voice/sms. Recovery normally fails on roms cross device on purpose.
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OP can you in that case do a maguro build too... I can be the tester
This is the simplest ROM op I've ever seen xD
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This is the simplest ROM op I've ever seen xD
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BAHAHAHA, yeah I usually flash CM or AOKP for a week and then say screw it I just want to go back to AOSP. Once I get back to my computer this week it'll probably be rebased on Master. It's not a complicated thing. Simply AOSP builds with LatinIMEGoogle being the only difference. ThinkFree is in there too I believe.
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OP can you in that case do a maguro build too... I can be the tester
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I don't have a GSM so I'm a little scurred about building for something that I can't test out myself. Sometime this week I'll have a ROM that's built off of the Master repo and I'll get the Maguro Proprietaries and build that if you'd like.
I may just build once and provide a flashable to add the CDMA or GSM Proprietary files depending on what the person needs.
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BAHAHAHA, yeah I usually flash CM or AOKP for a week and then say screw it I just want to go back to AOSP. Once I get back to my computer this week it'll probably be rebased on Master. It's not a complicated thing. Simply AOSP builds with LatinIMEGoogle being the only difference. ThinkFree is in there too I believe.
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So this is like baldwinguy's shiny rom but built with linaro?

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