[DISCUSSION] Cyanogenmod 9 (Android 4.0.1)

[Arjen]

This is the discussion-thread for Cyanogenmod 9.

You can ask your questions here to keep the dev-thread clean

 

[sweetnsour]

i dont know much about android, so if this is a stupid question, im sorry

andy said that hw acceleration currenty isnt possible because of missing drivers and files (mentioned here). wouldn't we also need these files for hw acceleration in cm9 to work (if so where would we get these files)? or does cm9 already have these files?

 

[Arjen]

This build will have the same problems as Phoenix-Android ICS,
we need to solve quite some things, but we are working on it.

 

[DaXmax]

I thought the GPU is not working? In fact, ALL the phones with Aderno 200 unable to get the HW Acceralation working...

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[andy572]

you can imitate hw acceleration by routing 3D events through the hwcomposer module
to the framebuffer/copybit/gralloc - but, it makes no sense because you have to OC the
phone to almost 800Mhz to get a smooth ui. users here know about the fact of "run the cpu on the limit".
its very unstable and shortens the cpu/device life time...

 

[solefero69]

you can imitate hw acceleration by routing 3D events through the hwcomposer module
to the framebuffer/copybit/gralloc - but, it makes no sense because you have to OC the
phone to almost 800Mhz to get a smooth ui. users here know about the fact of "run the cpu on the limit".
its very unstable and shortens the cpu/device life time...

So, no way to get the HW acceleration without the fixed and update drivers, right? And if you never find them, we never see ICS on our phone?

 

[Arjen]

Updated drivers will eventually appear, but looking for other solutions in the meantime.

 

[willmon22]

So is there a rom released yet for the optimus v? I have seen one for samsung galaxy nexus with a alpha version of cyanogen mod 9 somewhere on here.

 

[gymfreak7855]

I doubt there will be a fully functional release of ics for p500 and v devices for atleast a year by then 5.0 will be out and we would have all upgraded our phones. There are a lot of issues around performance of the ics ui on the p500, and i have seen this in early ported alpha roms.

 

[willmon22]

Isn't that the reason there is alpha roms? To hammer out any issues there are and to help out those developing them in finding any issues the roms may have?

 

[sweetnsour]

Isn't that the reason there is alpha roms? To hammer out any issues there are and to help out those developing them in finding any issues the roms may have?

i was just gonna say that
not to mention that those roms are ports. here we are talking about building from source.

really the main problem with performance is the lack of hw acceleration, but as _Arjen_ said, the missing drivers/files will appear eventually.

have some faith in our developers

 

[willmon22]

I have full faith in the developers here. As all roms I have used so far flashed over perfectly fine and never bricked my phone at all. Just I found a stock rom and got the black screen once but I found the kernel that fixed that. But I will await for this to be released it will be great to have the latest android on my phone instead of 2 versions down because of googles mess up of not making the bumblebee release open source.

 

[emanuelediba]

Can you post some screenshots , please ?

 

[andy572]

Can you post some screenshots , please ?

here you go

http://www.google.de/search?tbm=isc....,cf.osb&fp=1d094247ba733a41&biw=1600&bih=775

 

[ciolnadu]

=)))) Niceeee

 

[emanuelediba]

Thanks , but screenshots of the CM9 in the our phones =)

 

[Arjen]

What use do other screenshots have?
CM9 doesn't look that different as AOSP ICS
But if I feel like making screenshots I will post some,
but rather I give my full attention to make all/most things work so I can release a beta

If you want to see some CM9 in action, look here.
Or screenies from other phone:

 

[andy572]

start "ddms" on the host, if adb is working correct you take direct screens from framebuffer

 

[sleepyhead08]

hey!!
when do u tink aproximately dat cm9 is gona roll out???

 

[andy572]

hey!!
when do u tink aproximately dat cm9 is gona roll out???

#fail.

never ask for ETA if you aren't his girlfried