Porting i9000 gingerbread to i9003

bala_gamer · Apr 26, 2011

Hi all , as the title says is there any way to port gingerbread to i9003?

What are all the changes that have to be done in the gingerbread rom to make it work with i9003?
Can we take the drivers for i9000 from its original firmware and merge it with gingerbread.

I know if we flash the wrong firmware it wont go past the samsung logo. But what is making it to stop there??
1.Hardware Drivers?.
2.Phone model conflict.?

Post your ideas and opinions.....

ross_ctr · Apr 26, 2011

I don't think it would be possible, not without ALOT of work anyway. I think I remember 'curio tweeting about it having completely different hardware, although I could well be wrong...

bala_gamer · Apr 26, 2011

Curio only said that the audio hadware is different. Why cant we remove the drivers of i9000 from that gingerbread rom and replace it with i9003 drivers. May be it is easy to say but hard to achieve, i want to take some initial steps towards it...

Any guidance from developers will be helpful

sgsI9003 · Apr 26, 2011

We need some experienced developers to start this or else wait for official version from samsung.

runedrune · Apr 26, 2011

bala_gamer said:
Curio only said that the audio hadware is different. Why cant we remove the drivers of i9000 from that gingerbread rom and replace it with i9003 drivers. May be it is easy to say but hard to achieve, i want to take some initial steps towards it...

Any guidance from developers will be helpful

not just that. you guys have a different cpu/gpu too.

bala_gamer · Apr 26, 2011

Ya the CPU/GPU/CHIPSET/AUDIO are different, but we have all the required drivers and files in the i9003 original rom file. WHy cant we replace those in the gingerbread rom. I may be wrong , but its not at all impossible.

alcurtis93 · Apr 26, 2011

You make it sound so easy. You can't just replace the drivers with i9003 ones without editing the software to be compatible with the new drivers. Just wait for gingerbread

Galaxy S - no point in writing rom or kernel constantly changing!

falex007 · Apr 26, 2011

The linux kernel in Gingerbread is different. That's why drivers from old kernel can be incompatible. Also we don't have sources to compile new drivers.

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trip007in · Apr 29, 2011

None of the developers are interested in this phone. In spite of consistent requests we have not been provided a separate section at XDA

. Either Admin does not like this phone or they are waiting for some developer to take initiative. Even the cheapest phone has a development thread within a short period of its release. May be its a fate of I9003 users

.

bekh · Apr 29, 2011

I think that all because the phone is available in specific countriea bot widly spread

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JJEgan · Apr 29, 2011

trip007in said:
None of the developers are interested in this phone. In spite of consistent requests we have not been provided a separate section at XDA. Either Admin does not like this phone or they are waiting for some developer to take initiative. Even the cheapest phone has a development thread within a short period of its release. May be its a fate of I9003 users.

Been said before buy the devs a few phones they cannot work on something they have not got .They do not get paid to work on giving you a nice rom .

So please donate at least one I9003 .

jje

bala_gamer · Apr 29, 2011

I heard that we have to donate a mobile of the same model to xda so that the developers will start their work. is that true?

JJEgan · Apr 29, 2011

What do you do when you come home from work ??

Go out and buy a phone you dont want and start development work on it for no money as a hobby ??? . To give away to unknown persons .

Devs are people that work on stuff for free its a hobby not a job .

Personally if i was able to do all that development stuff i would be looking at the SGS 2 now .

jje

trip007in · Apr 30, 2011

JJEgan said:
What do you do when you come home from work ??

Go out and buy a phone you dont want and start development work on it for no money as a hobby ??? . To give away to unknown persons .

Devs are people that work on stuff for free its a hobby not a job .

Personally if i was able to do all that development stuff i would be looking at the SGS 2 now .

jje

May be what you are saying is right, but what is stopping XDA admin to provide us a separate section for I9003

? Atleast we will have some hope seeing our own section... How can ppl reach a developer at a forum where we do not even know who is a developer here

? Why will somebody even show interest in the development of the device which is not listed???

that can be another reason. Its need to be popular for someone to be attracted. When I want to read posts related to my device here, I have search through 100s of I9000 posts, I have to search my own post in the forum, it goes untraceable. What do you think about this? do you think we need to donate the phone to XDA moderators too to create a section?

@JJE, do you mind telling us which phone do you own?

rex4u · Apr 30, 2011

@trip
If I remember correctly jje has a SGS.
He is one of the most helpful people around. I have read his posts in different phone's sections and found them to be helpful and motivating.
Even here his suggestion is practical.
All those wonderful people who develop for SGS (darky, curio,etc) own that device. We need to have developers from within our own group only first. Others could chip in and help us.

trip007in · May 1, 2011

Ok then lets donate a phone to darky or some reputed developer and ask to help us. But my point is we need separate section for the phone for all the developments posts and attract other developers. Its easy for some ppl to donate when they gain some thing in return, I mean to continue the development support.

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rex4u · May 1, 2011

@trip
Agreed and true

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bala_gamer · May 1, 2011

@ rex and @ trip

Contacted a moderator via mail. For getting a separate section for our mobile he says we have to keep on requesting in the "Android General" forum. Once there is 1000+ requests, they will decide about a new sub forum.

trip007in · May 1, 2011

@bala, lets do it then.

sgsI9003 · May 1, 2011

trip007in said:
@bala, lets do it then.

Post daily in that request thread & all i9003 users add that thread link in your signature that way all new users will get to see that thread & will post request to cross 1000s post mark soon. Next 10-15 days we should have it done.

What do you say?

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