Sorry my ignorance, but...
Did NT have enough HW resources to run ICS smoothly?
gett said:
Sorry my ignorance, but...
Did NT have enough HW resources to run ICS smoothly?
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Sure it's good for ICS
Hell yeah, absolutely.
1GHz dualcore CPU, 1GB RAM, 16GB storage, 1024x600 screen. You betcha!
The Nook Tablet (and the Kindle Fire, for that matter) use Texas Instruments' OMAP4 series chipsets. See http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Nook_Tablet
The TI OMAP4 series is actually the reference platform (i.e. recommended hardware for OEMs to use) for Ice Cream Sandwich, much like the Tegra 2 was for Honeycomb. See http://www.fudzilla.com/mobiles/item/24262-ti-is-the-phone-reference-for-ice-cream-sandwich
tl;dr: Yes.
So we have to wait for devs Hopefully
Based on a brief conversation with Fattire, there may be some kernel version (2.6.37.x+?) requirement for ICS hardware acceleration. Nook Tablet have kernel version 2.6.35.7. Don't mean to put a damper on things, I want ICS on Nook Tablet and Nook Color as much as anyone else.
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I dont know if I like this OS or the hardware "cpu" on the flyer,
You cant really get any of the honey-comb apps that support tablet screens.
for instance if you download skype on the flyer, the video is not supported nor is Gtalk video where as on honey comb its enabled by default, also I noticed alot of the honey-Comb apps I was looking forward to you cant see in the market from the flyer.
I wonder if maybe HTC didn't release Honey-comb with flyer because the CPU and or gpu couldn't handle the power that Honey-comb needs to run smoothly.
I noticed on the xoom that even with a tegra and duel core CPU you still get lag in the UI..
And I also tried a few games like vendetta and the CPU-GPUs way under powered to run those 3dgames where the tegra runs very smooth.
Not impressed with the power of this device I guess if it were not for the pen functions I would return it and buy a duel core device instead .
Its basically a galaxy tab overclocked with a pen and 2.3..
A lot of the benchmark test show this 1.5 single processor performing the same if not better in some cases to the dual core Tegra 2. We can't see the tablet apps because the market only shows them to devices running Honeycomb. Time will come, unfortunately we just have to wait on HTC.
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A lot of the benchmark test show this 1.5 single processor performing the same if not better in some cases to the dual core Tegra 2. We can't see the tablet apps because the market only shows them to devices running Honeycomb. Time will come, unfortunately we just have to wait on HTC.
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Or community supportted ROMs... I'be not been privileged enough to play with homeycomb extensively, so I'm ignorant to the enhanced capabilities...
Here is the link dl for vendetta, works on non tegra devices.
Try it out to compair
http://download.vendetta-online.com/VendettaOnline-sideload.apk
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From what I've read the real knock on the tegra 2 vs 1.5ghz in the flyer is battery consumption. The tegra 2 can underclock, correct, meaning that it will passively use less power?
I'm eager for honeycomb as well but I don't think it's the end all be all. The Sprint version of the flyer is supposed to ship with honeycomb, meaning that we should see an update to the wi-fi model in a few months at the latest. As long as I can get the USB host functionality etc I'd be happy
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From what I've read the real knock on the tegra 2 vs 1.5ghz in the flyer is battery consumption. The tegra 2 can underclock, correct, meaning that it will passively use less power?
I'm eager for honeycomb as well but I don't think it's the end all be all. The Sprint version of the flyer is supposed to ship with honeycomb, meaning that we should see an update to the wi-fi model in a few months at the latest. As long as I can get the USB host functionality etc I'd be happy
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The battery is good enough that its not an issue. I can see how a tegra 2 would consume less battery, just know that after two days of use the battery is better than any htc device I have used and on par with the xoom.
will anyone be developing for the above device?
it may be a budget device but everywhere for months sells out as soon as they are in stock so it is going to be fairly popular if not already.
it runs 2.3 but has a 1ghz cortex a8 i think it is and 512mb ram so i think it could run android 3.2 or even ICS.
there may be a generic rom for the type of processor it runs(not sure??) but i wouldnt have thought that would be ideal.
i am not a developer but was curious as it is an excellent budget device and recently won the gadget shows budget tablet award.
any ideas anyone?
Just a quick question from someone who is new to this kinda scene, just curious if anyone knows if its possible to run LoL on my eee pad prime (not using a remote rdc though) if i installed linux and used wine would this work? (or are there any other possibilities)
Looking at the minimum system requirements:
Minimum System Requirements
2 GHz processor
1 GB RAM (Windows Vista and 7 users will want 2 GB of RAM or more)
750 MB available hard disk space
Shader version 2.0 capable video card
Support for DirectX v9.0c or better
Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 (Mac OS is currently not supported)
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I really don't see being able to play this game on the Prime, especially via Wine.
Only processor speed will be questionable. We do have quad core though. Once we overclock even higher, 2ghz will be easily obtained, it will be possible. That will be dependent of how well a dual boot of Ubuntu will be. Right now it runs alongside android so it shares CPU power etc...Once we dual boot, then ubuntu will have full access to whatever CPU/gpu power it needs. Then it'll just be a manner of getting LoL to load/install on it. Those other specs prime already has or better. PRIME is a beast. Alot more powerful than people may realize. Especially now that we already overclocked to 1.6ghz without even a custom rom or bootloader unlocked. It'll only get better from here. I'd say we doing great, developement wise, in Prime first month of usage. OVERCLOCK, root, ICS, Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux(Backtrk5), added drivers, themes, n so on.
The problem here is you will be trying to run an x86 game on ARM. I'm not sure if x86 emulators even exist to the required standard to even attempt this, but even if they do then you'll likely need a machine with way more power than the prime. Probably 3-5 times at least.
Emulating is very resource demanding.
Thanks for the replies everyone im looking forward to seeing what the prime can do in the near future, i do really enjoy having one, i cant wait untill everything runs perfect with it (rdcs with keyboard bindings for the dock, alt/esc and left/right click working properly) thanks again everyone
Hi hi hi,
I remember back when ICS wasn't out, it was said that dual-core phones weren't able to fulfill their full potential, because the OS (e.g. 2.3.6) only supported single core.
My question is about the new quad-core phones that are coming out. Does ICS support quad-core? If not, will they function as dual-core, or will they be faster? How much faster?
This is an important issue to take into concideration when thinking about buying a new phone..
Thanks!
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I am not deep enough in android code to say whether android itself is capable of exploiting multicores cpus, but I can say two things that I saw myself.
#1 there are already apps for video playing that allow you to set how many cores they must use to reproduce full HD videos.
#2 if you run a chrooted Ubuntu with a single core, a dual core and a quad you'll notice a huge improvement in performance.
IMHO multicores are useful for videodecoding and heavy multitasking. On the other side, the performance gap between single and multicores cpus is not very significant when running a single application. It may depend a lot on how apps themselves are written and if they actually use the cores, more than on gingerbread or ics.
OK- I was recently given a Bauhn Tablet WL-101GQC, Android 4.1.2, Baseband FW8955m-V1.1.6.0, Kernal version 3.4.0+, build no. V3.1.6.0-Bauhn-V002.
I've never had a tablet before but I'm one of these people who build their own computers from scratch. So my question is is what can I do with this tablet? I'd like to upgrade the Android version but I'm told this tablet isn't compatible with the latest Android o/s. So what exactly is stopping an upgrade? What parts or components etc?
Any ideas?
This unit works fine by the way.
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@roberthansjorg
Review of Bauhn WL 101GQC
The Bauhn WL 101GQC is runnning Android 4.1.2 (Jelly Bean), comes with a 9.27 inches (23.55 cm) touchscreen display with a resolution of 1280x752, and is powered by ARMv7 Processor rev 1 (v7l). The RAM measures at 806 MB. The Bauhn WL 101GQC packs 923 MB of internal storage and supports expendable storage of up to 1872 MB.
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IMHO the question is what you want to do with this device? Playing heavy video-games, watching movies/vids, compute fractals, texting ...
Bauhn Aldi Tablet Android 4.1
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@roberthansjorg
IMHO the question is what you want to do with this device? Playing heavy video-games, watching movies/vids, compute fractals, texting ...
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Thanks for the reply.
I suppose I'm looking for an excuse to upgrade the Android o/s if I can.
I don't bother with video games but I am a movie buff.
Currently I'm using this tablet for e-books and audio books.
Texting/e-mails etc word processing. Yes I'd do all that too.
What's the deal on changing any components? Is that feasible if you know what you're doing?
If I wanted to "soup" this tablet up how far could I go?
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Personally don't think you can upgrade the hardware: yes, your device's bottlenecks are both the RAM and the capacity of internal storage. Even if you would replace some hardware components where to get the related drivers and how to implement these in existing Android OS?
Also it's probably impossible to upgrade device's Android OS, unless you find a Cutom ROM that matches your device.
But you can try to improve device's performance.