ICS Port

zaclimon · Dec 24, 2011

Hi I have found the way to port ICS to the galaxy players.

:
http://www.freeyourandroid.com/guide/compile-ics

The problem is that I can't find the binaries for the galaxy player. Where I can find them?

azoller1 · Dec 24, 2011

arent they located in /system/bin?
Need root first though
(I would help out with this, but dont really know how to do it, and i dont have the player yet)

Dyskmaster · Dec 24, 2011

zaclimon said:
Hi I have found the way to port ICS to the galaxy players. :
http://www.freeyourandroid.com/guide/compile-ics

The problem is that I can't find the binaries for the galaxy player. Where I can find them?

Will this actually boot and run? If it's that "easy", then why don't more devices have ICS? If you can extract the binaries and cook up a rom, I would be happy to test it

. Also, if I have time later this week, I'll try to follow those instructions and then post my results. If everything works on the first try, I'll be very surprised but not at all dissapointed

. Thanks for sharing this

zaclimon · Dec 24, 2011

Dyskmaster said:
Will this actually boot and run? If it's that "easy", then why don't more devices have ICS? If you can extract the binaries and cook up a rom, I would be happy to test it . Also, if I have time later this week, I'll try to follow those instructions and then post my results. If everything works on the first try, I'll be very surprised but not at all dissapointed . Thanks for sharing this

Well maybe because people don't know how to do it. And as for the current rom the major problem is the hardware acceleration and the camera. Maybe We can find it (The binairies) at opensource.samsung.com

kse91holydiver · Dec 26, 2011

It should be easier than phones because you don't have to worry about not screwing with voice, data, and stuff like that. Just get it on and get all the apps working correctly. Radios are always the hardest.

sodomywar · Dec 26, 2011

I've also been triyng to compile the source for the player but i wasnt able to do so, the thing is that the source compiles fine with the pre-adjustments it comes with, i mean the androidboard.mk ( i think thats the name of the file not sure), but when i changed the variables for a armv5 build, which is the core of the device and the ones that comes in the same file on the opensource.samsung soource, it just doesnt compile and throws some kind of errors about some libraries that i didnt touched. i dont know what i had been doing wrong.

I Also found this video in which they show whats in every folder, and how to build and add packages from source to the build:

http://marakana.com/forums/android/general/269.html

This is a detail process description from the official android site to build from source, very similar like the one zaclimon found:
http://source.android.com/source/initializing.html

The source from samsung doesnt have all the drivers, just the alsa audio driver, i guess we gonna have to find a way to get the binaries like cyanogen did, maybe get some scripts they use and try to do it ourselves:

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Sa...le_CyanogenMod_(Linux)#Copy_proprietary_files

it is done through the adb, but the thing is to get those files, maybe we could ask that fellow some help for this step, since he has the experience.

zaclimon · Dec 26, 2011

sodomywar said:
I've also been triyng to compile the source for the player but i wasnt able to do so, the thing is that the source compiles fine with the pre-adjustments it comes with, i mean the androidboard.mk ( i think thats the name of the file not sure), but when i changed the variables for a armv5 build, which is the core of the device and the ones that comes in the same file on the opensource.samsung soource, it just doesnt compile and throws some kind of errors about some libraries that i didnt touched. i dont know what i had been doing wrong.

I Also found this video in which they show whats in every folder, and how to build and add packages from source to the build:

http://marakana.com/forums/android/general/269.html

This is a detail process description from the official android site to build from source, very similar like the one zaclimon found:
http://source.android.com/source/initializing.html

The source from samsung doesnt have all the drivers, just the alsa audio driver, i guess we gonna have to find a way to get the binaries like cyanogen did, maybe get some scripts they use and try to do it ourselves:

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Sa...le_CyanogenMod_(Linux)#Copy_proprietary_files

it is done through the adb, but the thing is to get those files, maybe we could ask that fellow some help for this step, since he has the experience.

The core is a ARMv7 right? because the hummingbird processor is a ARMv7. Maybe it did failed because of that? I found the gpu drivers from the opensource. Check in the kernel folder. If I can give you the gpu file if you want. Well tell me what files you are missing i'll find to give it to you. (Well I don't know how to program so I try do to my best.)

EDIT: Also its seem that to compile ICS is more difficult than the other versions. We do need ubuntu to extract the binaries right?
EDIT2: People are saying that it's easier to build from CM9 than from the source. It is right or it's the same thing?

http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/38960-build-your-own-cm9ics-preview-on-ubuntu-and-perhaps-debian/

alltellmobile · Dec 27, 2011

Galaxy S Phone

Shouldn't you just be able to modify a Galaxy S ICS port and take out the data and other stuff you don't need?

sodomywar · Dec 27, 2011

zaclimon said:
The core is a ARMv7 right? because the hummingbird processor is a ARMv7. Maybe it did failed because of that?

Well, i configured it with the files of the samsung source, and it said ARMv5, we need to know which one it is, probably faild because of libaries compatibilities for that architecture.

zaclimon said:
EDIT: Also its seem that to compile ICS is more difficult than the other versions. We do need ubuntu to extract the binaries right?
EDIT2: People are saying that it's easier to build from CM9 than from the source. It is right or it's the same thing?

Maybe it is easier than the official source, they modify the source and takes out some things that cellphones dont need 'cause the source it's made for all devices, so it could be smaller and easier to compile, i'm gonna try this port and let ya' know, it will take a while since the source it's huge

Would be great if a couple of us do it, if you can @zaclimon try it, you don't need ubuntu, if you know which libaries that command has (sudo apt-get install build-essential). I have debian and i compiled the source just fine, debian has a minimal installation (no X11) but to compile source you dont need anything else! Let me know if anyone else it's triyng we could excahnge some ideas!

zaclimon · Dec 27, 2011

sodomywar said:
Well, i configured it with the files of the samsung source, and it said ARMv5, we need to know which one it is, probably faild because of libaries compatibilities for that architecture.

Maybe it is easier than the official source, they modify the source and takes out some things that cellphones dont need 'cause the source it's made for all devices, so it could be smaller and easier to compile, i'm gonna try this port and let ya' know, it will take a while since the source it's huge

Would be great if a couple of us do it, if you can @zaclimon try it, you don't need ubuntu, if you know which libaries that command has (sudo apt-get install build-essential). I have debian and i compiled the source just fine, debian has a minimal installation (no X11) but to compile source you dont need anything else! Let me know if anyone else it's triyng we could excahnge some ideas!

how many MB or GB the source has because I can't exceed my download's limitations?

EDIT: I'm a linux newbie. Is Ubuntu is the same thing as debian? Because Ubuntu is debian based right?
EDIT2: nevermind I'll be using ubuntu

zaclimon · Dec 27, 2011

alltellmobile said:
Shouldn't you just be able to modify a Galaxy S ICS port and take out the data and other stuff you don't need?

I don't know if we can (we should ask permissions) but it's definitly possible.

alltellmobile · Dec 27, 2011

zaclimon said:
EDIT: I'm a linux newbie. Is Ubuntu is the same thing as debian? Because Ubuntu is debian based right?

Yea Ubuntu should be pretty much the same.
Wish I knew how to program, because i would help out.

zaclimon · Dec 27, 2011

alltellmobile said:
Yea Ubuntu should be pretty much the same.
Wish I knew how to program, because i would help out.

You can help I follow the tutorials there:

http://www.freeyourandroid.com/guide/compile-ics

http://marakana.com/forums/android/general/269.html

alltellmobile · Dec 28, 2011

Ok i was reading the first tutorial and got to the part about binaries for graphics acceleration; wouldn't we have to get ours before we compile it. Also i only have the US version of the galaxy player and if i made an image i couldn't test it because we don't have a custom recovery for ours.

zaclimon · Dec 28, 2011

alltellmobile said:
Ok i was reading the first tutorial and got to the part about binaries for graphics acceleration; wouldn't we have to get ours before we compile it. Also i only have the US version of the galaxy player and if i made an image i couldn't test it because we don't have a custom recovery for ours.

Oh that's true well you can try to port a custom recovery?

alltellmobile · Dec 28, 2011

zaclimon said:
Oh that's true well you can try to port a custom recovery?

HaHa I'm not that good. that sounds way more complicated

jdale38 · Dec 28, 2011

hey guys, i've been following this thread and hopefully i can be of some help...

i'm currently in the process of pulling the system files from the original gingerbread build from the SGP...it looks like there will be some trial and error here comparing that of the nexus s build...correct me if i'm wrong, but is this where most of the proprietary libraries are located for the device?

i'm willing to engineer a generic build, described in the video tutorial and making the necessary adjustments for the ARMv7 board...

this is my first attempt at compiling Android source, so maybe we will have something or maybe i will have a good ol' brick...thanks for the great tutorial and video @zaclimon this has definitely shed some light on porting ICS for SGP

zaclimon · Dec 28, 2011

jdale38 said:
hey guys, i've been following this thread and hopefully i can be of some help...

i'm currently in the process of pulling the system files from the original gingerbread build from the SGP...it looks like there will be some trial and error here comparing that of the nexus s build...correct me if i'm wrong, but is this where most of the proprietary libraries are located for the device?

i'm willing to engineer a generic build, described in the video tutorial and making the necessary adjustments for the ARMv7 board...

this is my first attempt at compiling Android source, so maybe we will have something or maybe i will have a good ol' brick...thanks for the great tutorial and video @zaclimon this has definitely shed some light on porting ICS for SGP

Yes they are supposed to be there. But I have download all the source code of the firmware from opensource.samsung.com
Me and sodomywar are working with the internationnal version of the SGP4. If you want to join you're welcome.
EDIT: No problem for the tutorials.

zaclimon · Dec 28, 2011

alltellmobile said:
HaHa I'm not that good. that sounds way more complicated

Google is your friend

zaclimon · Dec 31, 2011

So this is where i'm at currently. I'm trying to compile and I got this error:

Code:

build/core/base_rules.mk:166: *** system/extras/ext4_utils: MODULE.TARGET.EXECUTABLES.setup_fs already defined by device/samsung/galaxyplayer. Stop.

Does anyone know how to remove that error?

EDIT: nvm I managed to remove this error.

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