[ROM] CyanogenMod experimental builds

[deimdos]

Chris Soyars said this week that there was a hardware problem with one server or something like that and until it's fixed... no nightlies

 

[zabaknilesh]

I am sorry, I know this is not the place to ask but can someone answer ....

1) Is any developer working on ICS (4.0) Rom for legend .. ??
2) where do I track the progress for Cm9 (which will be appicable to legend) ..?

 

[TheGrammarFreak]

I am sorry, I know this is not the place to ask but can someone answer ....

1) Is any developer working on ICS (4.0) Rom for legend .. ??
2) where do I track the progress for Cm9 (which will be appicable to legend) ..?

Not sure

If you keep an eye on review.cyanogenmod.com and cm-nightlies.appspot.com you can see what's being merged, but it doesn't get any better than that

 

[Mr.Pigeon]

I am sorry, I know this is not the place to ask but can someone answer ....

1) Is any developer working on ICS (4.0) Rom for legend .. ??
2) where do I track the progress for Cm9 (which will be appicable to legend) ..?

1) https://plus.google.com/108404267973707448172/posts/j2VEiiEip8e
2) like TGF mentioned, changelogs will probably appear here once nightlies are ready: http://cm-nightlies.appspot.com/?device=legend

 

[ali ba]

1) Is any developer working on ICS (4.0) Rom for legend .. ??

Currently I'm not working on an ICS port for the Legend. There are a few requirements (code wise) that make any ICS port for the Legend almost unusable.

For a few drivers there's source code available, those are not that big of a problem. On the other hand, camera support was rewritten (again), the way the system gets and displays previews was completely changed. There's no sane way of reverting to the old implementation (other than reimplementing everything making ICS Gingerbread), and we don't have source code for the libraries.

Camera is not even the biggest problem (Adreno support, etc), by the way.



Please, don't cross your fingers. If there ever will be an ICS port you will be very disappointed with it. I'm not going to release something like that and shamefully see my name associated with it.

Chances are quite high that you will have to buy a new device for the complete ICS experience or at least a device that receives more (open sourced) support from its manufacturer.

 

[sronweb]

They turn your device into dust. Radioactive dust, so quite unstable.

As a user I had a quite good experience installing the nigthly builds for some period which, imo was stable enough at a certain point to release the stable build vs 7.1
Then I would say that installing the nightly builds imply taking some risk of unstability sometime because of new features but you can use the phony anyway (is not so bad!) and finally from our feedbacks we can give a contribution to the community until next stable release.
Anyway I'm happy with CM7.1 for now, possibly soon I will restart to install the nightly builds again.
Thanks for the great job!!

 

[DooMMeeR]

msm7227 ports are coming in well

Adreno 200 will remain a huge problem but even on that side there is some real hope as people have begone to manipulate the ICF framework to fit the old drivers and others startet a symbol translation layer fro the old to the new driver

so both ways are worked on

 

[ali ba]

msm7227 ports are coming in well

Yes, there will be support for msm7x27 - mostly because we have such awesome maniacs like arcee . Unfortunately msm7k devices differ a lot and what works on one device might very well be broken on another one.

Adreno 200 will remain a huge problem but even on that side there is some real hope as people have begone to manipulate the ICF framework to fit the old drivers and others startet a symbol translation layer fro the old to the new driver

Those are "only" the basics. I won't comment on translation layers until I had the chance to test them on my device here (still, I don't expect high performance), but I'm rather concerned about everything else.

We are still using a very old kernel release, mostly because HTC never gave us working source code (GPL, GPL, GPL!) for their tiwlan implementation. This is a real shame as TI open sourced everything (except for the firmware) and is doing a real good job supporting the open source community.


I'm considering trying to remove that compat-wireless clutter and getting the native tiwlan1273 driver to work with the Legend, but that'd involve digging deeply into all those board files. I should actually dig deep into my bachelor's thesis, so no hacking for me (at least until February).

 

[zabaknilesh]

Thanks for reply Ali ba ... Now i know I will never get ICS. Should start thinking of replacing this phone now..

 

[Messatsu]

Chances are quite high that you will have to buy a new device for the complete ICS experience or at least a device that receives more (open sourced) support from its manufacturer.

Which manufacturer gives more (open sourced) support please ?

I would like to buy a new phone instead of my HTC Legend...maybe Galaxy Nexus.

 

[TheGrammarFreak]

Which manufacturer gives more (open sourced) support please ?

I would like to buy a new phone instead of my HTC Legend...maybe Galaxy Nexus.

Sammy and Sony both seem to be quite good atm

Get a Nexus, you won't find a more open phone

 

[sanktnelson]

actually sony ericcsson now officially lets you unlock your phone.
I would have bought a nexus S when it came out, but the idiots removed the SDCard slot, same on nexus galaxy. That's a dealbreaker for me.