Development you-scream sammich - ics sources 4.0 4.01

tarvoke · 11-15-2011, 01:22 PM

known/anticipated, and not that this is a a point to help us still, but we'll see. also honeycomb sources not exactly officially released, but they're previous commits in the git tree of 4.x just not labelled as such.

http://www.xda-developers.com/androi...ore-christmas/

afv011 · 11-15-2011, 01:38 PM

YeeHa! CM9!!!

cajunseo · 11-15-2011, 03:35 PM

My dumb butt doesn't even understand what this all means to us PE owners.......

vicinc · 11-15-2011, 05:13 PM

probably nothing if the eink separation can not be ported, also the fs is not standard, so we may never get anything apart from ermine

tekknogenius · 11-15-2011, 06:13 PM

ubi is standard, it's just a fs on top of mtd. If we could get the config file used to create the ubi fs or even recreate it from the existing ubifs we might be able to restructure it.

vicinc · 11-15-2011, 07:52 PM

nobody was yet able to get a modified uboot with easy recovery yet. so wondering if anything, i think due to specs i will be more than happy with a working gingerbread.
I am still struggling to repair some bad blocks from uboot without any luck!
interesting is that guruplug and sheevaplug appear to be on a platform very similar with ours, so the android devs on those may help

vicinc · 11-15-2011, 08:02 PM

this is the max somebody got on a similar tablet on our specs
http://www.androidtablets.net/forum/...under-mid.html

tarvoke · 12-10-2011, 08:10 PM

no xmas presents for the eDGe, but the unrelated good news is that android-x86 has the ICS sources in their repository, so I'm in the process of building for my thinkpad x61 tablet - their generic gingerbread image runs pretty good on there already, but not optimal. I am pretty happy that a laptop I was planning to sell for what little I could get for it, is now going to become a very nice 12" android tablet...

MasterTec · 12-11-2011, 05:49 PM

I heard somewhere that you have to have a separate graphics controller in order to run ICS. I own an Optimus V phone and they are making nice progress on porting ICS to it but not so much on other phones because of integrated graphics...

I wouldn't get my hopes up on seeing anything newer than Gingerbread for the Edge - and I wouldn't even count on that.

rebeltaz · 12-11-2011, 07:09 PM

Wow... is this thread even in English?!

vicinc · 12-11-2011, 09:37 PM

to be honest i will settle for a stable GB.

MasterTec · 12-13-2011, 01:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rebeltaz

Wow... is this thread even in English?!

Just a quick rundown... Google names its versions of Android after certain foods. Entourage named their builds something completely different:

1.5 = Android "Cupcake"
1.6 = Android "Donut" (Entourage "Dingo")
2.1 = Android "Eclair"
2.2 = Android "Froyo" (Entourage "Ermine")
2.3 = Android "Gingerbread"
3.X = Android "Honeycomb"
4.X = Android "Ice Cream Sandwich" or "ICS"

Versions "Cupcake" through "Gingerbread" were designed with cell phones in mind - meaning that for tablets to run those operating systems the software had to be tweaked significantly. They can get by with this because the Android software (Like its Linux foundation) is open source.

When "Honeycomb" came out it was designed to be a tablet-only operating system. Because of this you won't find many (if any) phones that run on "Honeycomb".

When Google released "ICS" they claim that "ICS" is designed to run on everything - and by everything they mean tablets *AND* phones. Some people misunderstood that statement and think that their dated equipment will be able to run "ICS" with no problems when in fact doing this would be the equivalent of trying to run Windows 7 on an old 386 computer - it simply isn't going to happen.

Devices still have to meet certain hardware requirements in order to run "ICS" and the Edge devices simply do not meet these requirements.

I'd expect to see WebOS to run on an Edge device long before ICS ever does but to be honest I really don't ever see either happening. Don't get me wrong I love my Edge but as it ages its support community will diminish and development will come to a grinding halt. I haven't seen any for sale in bulk in a few months now so I think it's pretty safe to say that all inventory of the Edge devices are most likely depleted. It's all downhill from here.

rebeltaz · 12-13-2011, 01:38 PM

Wow!

Thank you SO much for that quick lesson in Android technology!

I hadn't actually expected a reply to that comment, but I do appreciate it.

It's amazing the names that companies give their OSs!

11-15-2011, 01:22 PM	#1
tarvoke Dog Dentist Posts: 108 Karma: 18 Join Date: Sep 2011 Device: PE, GT540, VM670, GOGHVMU, Qualcomm 1600	you-scream sammich - ics sources 4.0 4.01 known/anticipated, and not that this is a a point to help us still, but we'll see. also honeycomb sources not exactly officially released, but they're previous commits in the git tree of 4.x just not labelled as such. http://www.xda-developers.com/androi...ore-christmas/

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vicinc Guru Posts: 733 Karma: 443 Join Date: May 2011 Location: UK Device: Pocket Edgex2(1unborked), Alex, Nook B&W, Nook Color, Nook STR	probably nothing if the eink separation can not be ported, also the fs is not standard, so we may never get anything apart from ermine

11-15-2011, 06:13 PM	#5
tekknogenius Groupie Posts: 198 Karma: 1118 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: Pocket Edge	ubi is standard, it's just a fs on top of mtd. If we could get the config file used to create the ubi fs or even recreate it from the existing ubifs we might be able to restructure it.

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vicinc Guru Posts: 733 Karma: 443 Join Date: May 2011 Location: UK Device: Pocket Edgex2(1unborked), Alex, Nook B&W, Nook Color, Nook STR	nobody was yet able to get a modified uboot with easy recovery yet. so wondering if anything, i think due to specs i will be more than happy with a working gingerbread. I am still struggling to repair some bad blocks from uboot without any luck! interesting is that guruplug and sheevaplug appear to be on a platform very similar with ours, so the android devs on those may help

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vicinc Guru Posts: 733 Karma: 443 Join Date: May 2011 Location: UK Device: Pocket Edgex2(1unborked), Alex, Nook B&W, Nook Color, Nook STR	this is the max somebody got on a similar tablet on our specs http://www.androidtablets.net/forum/...under-mid.html

12-10-2011, 08:10 PM	#8
tarvoke Dog Dentist Posts: 108 Karma: 18 Join Date: Sep 2011 Device: PE, GT540, VM670, GOGHVMU, Qualcomm 1600	no xmas presents for the eDGe, but the unrelated good news is that android-x86 has the ICS sources in their repository, so I'm in the process of building for my thinkpad x61 tablet - their generic gingerbread image runs pretty good on there already, but not optimal. I am pretty happy that a laptop I was planning to sell for what little I could get for it, is now going to become a very nice 12" android tablet...

12-11-2011, 05:49 PM	#9
MasterTec Connoisseur Posts: 98 Karma: 14416 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: enTourage eDGe Pocket	I heard somewhere that you have to have a separate graphics controller in order to run ICS. I own an Optimus V phone and they are making nice progress on porting ICS to it but not so much on other phones because of integrated graphics... I wouldn't get my hopes up on seeing anything newer than Gingerbread for the Edge - and I wouldn't even count on that.

12-11-2011, 07:09 PM	#10
rebeltaz Connoisseur Posts: 92 Karma: 536 Join Date: Apr 2011 Device: Entourage Pocket eDge	Wow... is this thread even in English?!

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vicinc Guru Posts: 733 Karma: 443 Join Date: May 2011 Location: UK Device: Pocket Edgex2(1unborked), Alex, Nook B&W, Nook Color, Nook STR	to be honest i will settle for a stable GB.

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12-13-2011, 01:38 PM	#13
rebeltaz Connoisseur Posts: 92 Karma: 536 Join Date: Apr 2011 Device: Entourage Pocket eDge	Wow! Thank you SO much for that quick lesson in Android technology! I hadn't actually expected a reply to that comment, but I do appreciate it. It's amazing the names that companies give their OSs!