Any chance that HC or ICS will be able to be ported to the Kindle Fire? It seems rather capable and rather nice outfit.
There is a chance that ICS will be ported. HC is no longer relevant at this point.
I can wait for ICS to become available in lou of having a quick HC rom.
Funny, HC was released (finally) in late October 2011 for my other device; I have it on my Google TV.
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i hope someone will make an ICS rom for it, basically for the GPU accelerated menu's
I think amazon will upgrade it to icecream anyway with a future software update.
Why should Amazon update to ICS? Won't make sense with their customisation. Now you can't even see something from Gingerbread?
Atomicman said:
Why should Amazon update to ICS? Won't make sense with their customisation. Now you can't even see something from Gingerbread?
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Do you mean besides being able to hardware accelerate the 2-d graphics rendering thus eliminating stutter? How about being up to date with the current API level?
There's plenty of reason for Amazon to update to ICS now that it's open-sourced - and they will.
What about RAM? Is 512 enough? The only reason letting me think of nook tablet.
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jm9843 said:
Do you mean besides being able to hardware accelerate the 2-d graphics rendering thus eliminating stutter? How about being up to date with the current API level?
There's plenty of reason for Amazon to update to ICS now that it's open-sourced - and they will.
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With all due respect I kind of doubt they will. Think about it. What benefit would Amazon derive from it? Would it sell more books? Otherwise move more revenue generating content? Most of the people who bought the AF (XDA people excluded mind you) have little or no interest in ICS, HC, or what have you. They just want it to work. And it will. As good as it could? Perhaps, perhaps not. I suspect the only users jonesing for HC or ICS will be power users and really, I suspect that's a very very small portion of the AF user base. Devs are the best (if not only) hope for a port in my opinion. And that presumes enough Devs find the AF worthy of their time. There are a heckuva lot of devices out there to choose from!
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I'm holding out on this tablet till all the amazon crap os stuff is removed
miui please
LOL, Miui really? That would defeat the whole purpose for me. Miui is a great phone ROM but for tablets, its completely trash. ICS should be awesome. Not to bash u, im just sayin.
Any idea if, or which, devs are starting to look at doing ICS? We've got everything needed, right? Kindle source, ICS source, fires in our hands....I think this could take off because it's at such a sweet price point, and, I know this is vain, but I hate that little loop at the bottom left of the nook color...this feels like a real tablet..solid, sleek, minimalistic...the amazon launcher sucks, but I can see this being a dream on ICS.
Chances are we are gonna wait till a Clockwork mod recovery to surface or some kind of rom loader. So we can backup our .img for safe keeping and then flash the roms!
I'm really thinking about returning my Kindle Fire and picking up HTC Flyer for $100 more
Idk I think im gonna stick with the Fire. I bet devs end up piling on this thing. The nexus s only has 512mb of Ram and a single core and it runs ICS fine doesn't it?
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Idk I think im gonna stick with the Fire. I bet devs end up piling on this thing. The nexus s only has 512mb of Ram and a single core and it runs ICS fine doesn't it?
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At a lower resolution, the NS4G ICS SDK port tends to hang a bit because of the lower RAM. My expectations of a tablet is being able to have a ton of tabs and apps open without having to relaunch/reload things. The Fire is damn fine tablet at $200 but the 512 MB is a huge deal breaker when all of my recent smartphones have had that much or more. Current GPU's just practically eat half of the RAM by itself too.
You can run the ICS Launcher by the ACS Syndicate team here:
http://syndicateapps.com/main/ICS_Releases.html
Works fine on the kindle fire.. but the amazon bar still shows on the bottom.
Has anyone else seen or tried this OS for Kindle Fire HDs? Seems to be based on Cyanogenmod, but you pay for the installer and support. Was wondering how this compared to Hashcode's version?
N2Aos
I was using my faithful, trusty rooted Nexus 7 for the past year, but really needed a bigger screen. Was given a used fire hd 8.9. Hated it.
Decided to give N2Aos a try. Twenty minutes and twenty dollars later, I drove away in a new, pure android tablet powered by Cyanogen 10.1
and I never had to touch the tablet during the process. It was all done remotely.
That was approx 6 wks ago and still running like new. One caveat though, some launchers have weird glitches in landscape mode, but work ok in portrait. A coding problem of some kind. Other than that, it's perfect.
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Has anyone else seen or tried this OS for Kindle Fire HDs? Seems to be based on Cyanogenmod, but you pay for the installer and support. Was wondering how this compared to Hashcode's version?
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Nope, never tried it. My tablet is customization as it is with CM 10.2 kernel. I put on it what I want and remove what I don't. This might work well for those that don't want to fool around with modding their tablets themselves, fair enough. But seems like a waste of money for those capable of doing it themselves.
Absolutely love my kfhd8.9 running cm11 (huge thanks to Hashcode!), but was wondering if the twrp running on our devices is capable of being modified like the Galaxy S3 that allows multiboot:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2646528
It's great to be able to run the latest and greatest roms on my phone while preserving a "stock" environment for Wifi Calling/Messaging (T-Mobile) when I need it.
Probably not possible with this device and it's piggybacked boot loader, but I've been curious for a while and figured that I'd ask anyone who may know...
Thanks!
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Well this was looked at before but if you compare amazon os to cm the ecosystem is too different from what I heard so it couldn't be done. Might work between other ROMs but I don't think anyone is going to create it for that purpose though but you never know.
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I know I'm late to the game but just picked up a Galaxy Tab Pro 10.1 and thinking about sending it back for an Asus TF 701. Price and specs are about the same except for no USB port on the Asus unless I buy the keyboard which has low reviews from what I've read. Just wondering if one had an advantage over the other as far as rooting and roming. I see Phils and TWRP for the Galaxy along with a couple of debloated and rooted roms but looks like there's a few more options for the Asus but I have to unlock the bootloader. Just looking for ideas or suggestions. Thanks. Also looking at the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9.
So I got a deal on the Fire 8.9 LTE on Woot, bought one for my mom for Christmas, since she's been wanting an LTE tablet so she can look at maps "on a big screen!" that she can't currently see on her phone.
Part of me just wants to leave it stock and not mess with it, but I know she'll get frustrated by the Amazon ads & clunky interface. I was hoping to install Cyanogenmod or something a little more stock Android-ish, but everything I've read so far is that none of them support LTE, which is the main feature my mom needs to be able to use. Something about an old 10.1 CM build was mentioned in some threads, but it looks abandoned and buggy.
So is there any daily-driver worthy ROM that has functional LTE? Or should I try to go with rooting the stock image, or just leave it alone? Thanks!