[Bounty] Help get Drew Garen a Flyer !

Cor-master · Apr 24, 2012

After ics is built someone can just make a kang build later with sense. The most important thing is a solid vanilla build to base other builds off of. Personally I love sense on my phone but it just doesn't play nice with the flyers hardware, adds lag that it could do without. I'd rather just have a nice vanilla or cm build personally.

Btw will this build support all models?

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drewgaren · Apr 24, 2012

Cor-master said:
After ics is built someone can just make a kang build later with sense. The most important thing is a solid vanilla build to base other builds off of. Personally I love sense on my phone but it just doesn't play nice with the flyers hardware, adds lag that it could do without. I'd rather just have a nice vanilla or cm build personally.

Btw will this build support all models?

Sent from my HTC_Flyer_P512_NA using XDA

After I have built ICS I will will work on Sense version as well. The first version will be ICS however.

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I have started a new set of test compiling. I have redone major edits to the whole build directory. I have redone qcom display, framework, external libraries, htc devices and all necessary vendor files have been redone and are still work in progress, the build folder has been redone so no errors will happen now, added new hardware files, fixed development, fixed htc common files and a ton of other changes. All of this will be uploaded to my github account within the next few days.

I will also be leaving for Florida on Sunday and I don't have internet there so I have to barrow my neighbors Wi-Fi and it's extremely slow. I will be downloading all of the big files needed and get it by then and continue to work.

We should have ICS soon, I have made huge progress in the last few days!

mohitster · Apr 24, 2012

drewgaren said:
After I have built ICS I will will work on Sense version as well. The first version will be ICS however.

---------- Post added at 05:47 AM ---------- Previous post was at 05:33 AM ----------

I have started a new set of test compiling. I have redone major edits to the whole build directory. I have redone qcom display, framework, external libraries, htc devices and all necessary vendor files have been redone and are still work in progress, the build folder has been redone so no errors will happen now, added new hardware files, fixed development, fixed htc common files and a ton of other changes. All of this will be uploaded to my github account within the next few days.

I will also be leaving for Florida on Sunday and I don't have internet there so I have to barrow my neighbors Wi-Fi and it's extremely slow. I will be downloading all of the big files needed and get it by then and continue to work.

We should have ICS soon, I have made huge progress in the last few days!

More Power to you! Best of luck!

Cor-master · Apr 24, 2012

That is excellent news. I'm really excited about this. Good luck and thanks!

Sent from my HTC_Flyer_P512_NA using XDA

lawguy · Apr 24, 2012

I would just urge everyone to support drewgaren with some donations. I know that I don't work for free, I'm sure that you don't, and neither should he. ICS isn't going to be made by itself. Someone's hard work it going to have to create it.

out2l8 · Apr 24, 2012

Just sent another $15.00

Looking forward to your project!

Keep up the good work!

drewgaren · Apr 24, 2012

Errors and Updates

I just checked my order status and I should get my Flyer tomorrow. As for compiling I have found out that for some reason I keep getting undefined errors regarding gralloc in the frameworks_base_lib_gui this needs to be fixed, I have fixed a majority of it but there is a still a part that is not fixed. That is not the big problem. The big problem I ran into is that I was compiling this on Mac and I realized when I got further along in the build the my Mac was pushing out errors in the build. I will be working in Linux from now on so I no longer run into errors that I would receive from a Darwin atmosphere. This way I'll have Lion, Snow Leopard, And Ubuntu on my MacBook Pro and more then enough power to compile this. I will run into less errors compiling on Ubuntu.

I have downloaded the kernel source for honeycomb from HTC and will be working on that separately for ICS. If I am going to do a project I want to be functional, especially in a device that I think has full potential.

freak4dell · Apr 24, 2012

I know you prefer to have a device, but if you could do a version for the View as well, that would be great. They're different from the Flyer, but they're not terribly different, and IIRC, the kernel source for Honeycomb was released for the View, too. Right now, the problem we Honeycomb users have is that we don't really have any developers who can do kernels. We have ones that are capable of doing ROMs, but the kernel seems to be the giant obstacle in the way.

jsimonson0 · Apr 24, 2012

freak4dell said:
I know you prefer to have a device, but if you could do a version for the View as well, that would be great. They're different from the Flyer, but they're not terribly different, and IIRC, the kernel source for Honeycomb was released for the View, too. Right now, the problem we Honeycomb users have is that we don't really have any developers who can do kernels. We have ones that are capable of doing ROMs, but the kernel seems to be the giant obstacle in the way.

It's not about preferences; full testing would be impossible without an actual View device. He'd have to rely on someone with a View to do even the most basic testing, let alone bugfixes.

freak4dell · Apr 24, 2012

jsimonson0 said:
It's not about preferences; full testing would be impossible without an actual View device. He'd have to rely on someone with a View to do even the most basic testing, let alone bugfixes.

My point is that it's not impossible. I know developers who do work out things without having the device in question. Yes, of course, it's never 100% foolproof like it would be if they had the device, but Drew will have a device that's very similar.

Cor-master · Apr 24, 2012

You know I almost bought a view? Newegg had it for $250 and I was mauling over it and wanted to sleep on it first, but I found the buy.com $200 flyer deal as a backup. Woke up the next day and the View went up to $300 so I bought the flyer instead...thank god i did since the View obviously has little developer interest! But I didn't know that at the time, you type in "htc Evo View 4G" on wikipedia and it redirects you to HTC Flyer. So I thought they were the exact same tablet regardless.

freak4dell · Apr 24, 2012

Cor-master said:
You know I almost bought a view? Newegg had it for $250 and I was mauling over it and wanted to sleep on it first, but I found the buy.com $200 flyer deal as a backup. Woke up the next day and the View went up to $300 so I bought the flyer instead...thank god i did since the View obviously has little developer interest! But I didn't know that at the time, you type in "htc Evo View 4G" on wikipedia and it redirects you to HTC Flyer. So I thought they were the exact same tablet regardless.

Yeah, I bought the View because of the larger storage, but I'm definitely regretting it.

drewgaren · Apr 25, 2012

View Questions.

The View is very similar to the Flyer. Infact the Flyer even has a version is practically the same as the view and is 4G as well. Because the Flyer and View are so similar if I can find all the correct files neccessary for the View I will be able to compile a build for the View. However I will not be able to test this. I will not work on this until after I have Build ready for the Flyer though. I want to get the Flyer up and running ICS before and I will have the ability to test ICS and any issues on it first.

manlord · Apr 25, 2012

Brand new 25$ just sent.

freak4dell · Apr 25, 2012

drewgaren said:
The View is very similar to the Flyer. Infact the Flyer even has a version is practically the same as the view and is 4G as well. Because the Flyer and View are so similar if I can find all the correct files neccessary for the View I will be able to compile a build for the View. However I will not be able to test this. I will not work on this until after I have Build ready for the Flyer though. I want to get the Flyer up and running ICS before and I will have the ability to test ICS and any issues on it first.

Great, thank you!

Cor-master · Apr 25, 2012

I'm very excited to see your work. Excited to the point I just started the process of s-off. I'll try to donate more if I can just don't wanna upset the wife who doesn't see the point and never will lol
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drewgaren · Apr 25, 2012

Updates!

Just got my Flyer from UPS! I opened it up and was sad to see that has 0% charge so I'm charging it up right now so I can begin some hardcore work tonight.

So far I have made progress, I have fixed many compiling issues and everything should boot up fine. I will be compiling build today and then testing out the Flyer for bugs later tonight if all goes well.

Wish me luck. I'll report everything later on my website as well.

Any downloads I have that are ready will be posted eventually on my site and all progress will be updated on the site later tonight or tomorrow.

I won't have any downloads up until I have at least a partially working build up. I have not tested anything yet.

manlord · Apr 25, 2012

drewgaren said:
I opened it up and was sad to see that has 0% charge so I'm charging it up right now so I can begin some hardcore work tonight.

The Flyer take forever to charge lol make sure youre plugged in the wall XD

quails · Apr 26, 2012

Is the scribe pen an objective of this build ? Willing to donate if we're going to get the pen, not interested in the slightest if not.

GMAN1722 · Apr 26, 2012

quails said:
Is the scribe pen an objective of this build ? Willing to donate if we're going to get the pen, not interested in the slightest if not.

+1. I would love ICS but not at the cost of a fully working pen. for me the scribe is what set this apart from other tablets and I use it extensively. will gladly donate if it maintains this function.

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