Fingerprint drivers for ICS/JB

[marcovrv]

Hi. There is some discussion in the forums on latest Nvidia drivers for our Atrixes, but I've heard almost nothing about Authentec drivers for ICS/JB.

In fact, except for a very brief test version (was it from Acerbix?) none of the CM9/10 roms currently available have support for the fingerprint reader.

Now that Authentec was bought by Apple, I wonder if there will be Android 4.x drivers at all for the sensor.

Regards, Marco.

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[samcripp]

Hi. There is some discussion in the forums on latest Nvidia drivers for our Atrixes, but I've heard almost nothing about Authentec drivers for ICS/JB.

In fact, except for a very brief test version (was it from Acerbix?) none of the CM9/10 roms currently available have support for the fingerprint reader.

Now that Authentec was bought by Apple, I wonder if there will be Android 4.x drivers at all for the sensor.

Regards, Marco.

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Great question.
The cm9 and cm10 roms (as I understand) are ported from the defy. Not compiled from source. So there is no way to really play with the apps source to add the fingerprint scanner. I mean sure you could try and compile this app yourself with the patches from cm7, work out the kinks, and try them out with cm9/10. but i think it will prob cause a lot of bugs. theoretically speaking, because the kernel on this current cm9/cm10 generation of builds, its still the cm7 kernel (once again this could be all wrong), the fingerprint driver should still be intact there and loaded. So is just a thing of adding it on to the apps.

Now Authentec is under contract with motorola regardless who owns it. Depending the level of support included on that contract, motorola should still be getting drivers from them.

 

[djluis48]

Plus, but this point, they should have those drivers in their hands already, so im not too much concerned by that. That's my guess tough.

 

[akj_1989]

We'll surely get it working as Motorola has promised ICS update. And they are not going to release a half baked ROM.