I understand that ICS roms will come in the future after the kernel has been leaked or recreated and/or there is a full stock ICS leak, but isnt it possible to create a CM7 rom with the materials we have available? I just wanted to know if CM7 development is a possibility right now. Thanks
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Yea i ask the same thing cm7 would be awesome too
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+1 at least give us a some incentive
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... what's the point of wasting time developing something obsolete in a matter of weeks?
Same reason why there is 15 million different linux distros. Not everyone cares about ics. Hype my friend.. The word hype its just not there for everyone.
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Same reason why there is 15 million different linux distros. Not everyone cares about ics. Hype my friend.. The word hype its just not there for everyone.
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those different distros isn't managed by 1 group either. apples and oranges.
Cm7 looking dated now .... cm9... now that's where the sweet stuff is
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I know CM9 is coming SOON but I'm talking about right now. CM7 roms would be infinitely more feasible than debloated edited themed stock roms. Not to say the devs aren't doing an amazing job
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... what's the point of wasting time developing something obsolete in a matter of weeks?
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How is cm7 obsolete? Or dated for that matter, so how obsolete is stock gingerbread?? I think cm7 is a great rom, with endless ways of customizing, with tons of themes already in the market for free, is just like saying what's the point of all these Roms in our note android development forum because there all based on stock gingerbread . I think cm7 would be a great addition for those that think ginger is it and don't care much for an ics update, but that's my opinion. I wish I had the time and knowledge with a linux environment to develop cm7 for the note.
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I highly urge we talk to a developer and see if they are interested in getting this started. Unfortunately I have no experience programming or doing rom creation otherwise I would have started asap loving the devs we got here though
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Anyone agree???
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kaishi00 said:
... what's the point of wasting time developing something obsolete in a matter of weeks?
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Damn look at the noobs
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I'm a fan of cm7 and would definitely love to see it but don't think we will see a official one from cyanogenmod. Kang is most likely.
Our device is still very new.
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I would LOVE to see cm7 for our Notes!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Options...you don't want it don't flash it.
Would live to see Cm7 on the note would be awesome
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I would LOVE to see cm7 for our Notes!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Options...you don't want it don't flash it.
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I recently got the photon 4g coming from the evo and sadly I only see like 3 roms. I thought this phone would be more popular and get more attention. Hope I didnt make the wrong phone choice.
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i'm guessing because the unlocked bootloader is killing 4g - and people are waiting until there's a fix for that to start pumping out the roms...
Would you rather have fifteen mediocre ROM choices or a couple good ones? I guess what I'm getting at is what do you want in your ROM? We've got some very talented developers here and have a couple solid, daily ROM's plus kernals. I'm just waiting fora good ICS build to come out.
BTW I don't think you'll regret your decision.
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js11222 said:
I recently got the photon 4g coming from the evo and sadly I only see like 3 roms. I thought this phone would be more popular and get more attention. Hope I didnt make the wrong phone choice.
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First I think that we need to start with the fact that this is a drawn out question that has been brought up a dozen times (try looking). This is a question that will easily piss off several people in the XDA world, especially the seasoned posters. How many ROM's do you need? I also had a EVO and yes there were SEVERAL ROM's however most of the them were slight variations of the same ROM, just with a personal developers twist on it. (by the way - all hail the Developers). In regards to the MoPho, the unlocked bootloader is a issue, however, the MoPho ran better than the EVO fresh out the box. I personally am running CM7 and I can not believe a phone can be this damn responsive, this fast, and this damn awesome. So when you ask the question, Why so few ROMS - try clicking on one of the several links that the website refers you to that shows other people asking the same question. Remeber the golden rule to XDA - search for the answer first!
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I recently got the photon 4g coming from the evo and sadly I only see like 3 roms. I thought this phone would be more popular and get more attention. Hope I didnt make the wrong phone choice.
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Really? Wait, let me get this straight...really?
Its hard to improve a great phone, the evo sucked and needed roms.
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jokersax11 said:
Its hard to improve a great phone, the evo sucked and needed roms.
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Amen to that!!!!
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Because motorola sucks. This phone would have been my last choice but my work gave this to me for free so i can't complain
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No they just dont like modders.
frigid said:
Because motorola sucks. This phone would have been my last choice but my work gave this to me for free so i can't complain
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frigid said:
Because motorola sucks. This phone would have been my last choice but my work gave this to me for free so i can't complain
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Nice.
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first of all, welcome to the photon community. hope you stay a while.
second, you will find that development has only just picked up heavy in the last month. the same went for the EVO, it takes time to develop.
third, please check out the roms we do have, they are wonderful and if you like CM7, we have that!
Id rather have a great build like CM7 then a million roms that are just a snowflake from being the same thing. few is better to me when it comes to rom builds.
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Because motorola sucks. This phone would have been my last choice but my work gave this to me for free so i can't complain
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Cheap sucker, lol
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Thanx for all the responses. Im looking for a daily,stable,customizable rom with everything working. With the exception of 4g which i dont get where i live anyways. I dont care for blur nor did i for sense. Im good with a solid aosp rom.
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Thanx for all the responses. Im looking for a daily,stable,customizable rom with everything working. With the exception of 4g which i dont get where i live anyways. I dont care for blur nor did i for sense. Im good with a solid aosp rom.
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CM7 all the way
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Just go with Cybik's CM7 port. It is being submitted to Cyanogen for approval, so will be hopefully soon, a fully supported and "blessed" ROM. The lack of 4G is a non-issue for me, no 4G in my area, but would be nice to eventually get it for when I travel.
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million roms that are just a snowflake from being the same thing. few is better to me when it comes to rom builds.
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Agree, except for snowflake part. Each is unique with no two being the same
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Jokers skinny 4g has been good to me, but hope we get a unlocked 4g soon.
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First I think that we need to start with the fact that .... This is a question that will easily piss off several people in the XDA world, especially the seasoned posters.
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I resemble the above remark
Here goes the soapbox (yet again):
js11222, your seemingly harmless question (the title of the thread) wasn't horrible.. however the first post you made in this thread is absurd.....
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I recently got the photon 4g coming from the evo and sadly I only see like 3 roms.
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Sadly ??
js11222 said:
I thought this phone would be more popular and get more attention.
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What was this 'thought' based on ??
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Hope I didnt make the wrong phone choice.
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if your phone choice was based on the 'thought' or 'hope' of a certain number of ROM's or a certain quantity of development then you might want to re-consider the basis by which you make electronics purchases.
And for the love of all that is holy, please research/search before posting and stop insulting the development that we DO have. Obviously you haven't spent any time reading in the fora to make a fair assessment of the status of development for this device yet you are very quick to hop in the general forum and make (what seems to be) a complaint thread.
just sayin'
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ALL ROMs on ALL phones are based on rooted deodex stock, AOSP or porting. 99% of those ROMs are nothing more than minor changes to either stock or AOSP. Almost everything can be done with flashable theme packs.
The remaining 1% are serious rewrites, optimizations or ports. For example, ROMs like CM7, Vaelpak and Synergy are serious coding. Changing the font or color scheme is theming and not a ROM.
Dear daddymikey1975
First off its not my fault your RETARTED second i wasnt putting anyone down and last but not least i was just asking a simple question and not complaining so thats my thought process
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This is just my opinion and I know I'm probably going to get bashed for it, but I just don't see the development for this phone picking up. It's nothing to do with the developers we have because I think they're great, but just a matter of bad timing. With the One X and SGS3 coming out it seems to me that the developers we could get are holding out for those phones. I really wish it would pick up because I think this phone has a lot of potential. What is everyone else's opinion? Does this sound like a logical conclusion?
Maybe if this phone came it at a different time it would be a different story.
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Development is delayed simply because theres no kernel source for ics on the note, so no custom kernels are holding out development, also no vendor/binary source available to build from source, I've been looking at what we need for developing cm9 but I hd some issues with my laptop so that was delayed, I'm sure once we get more sources we will see more development.
RoloRacer on ICS Galaxy Note!
I've been thinking about getting into some rom development for this phone. I'm smart enough to do it but I just haven't taken the time to learn how yet. I don't know where to start. Kinda wanna learn from a developer.
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With the phone being only 2 months old tomorrow and no kernel yet, I think there's been a lot of development. When the kernel comes this phone will take off.
yeah, I think it will pick up too once an actual source ICS is released, which I bet comes pretty soon..
And 2 new roms just dropped this morning
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And 2 new roms just dropped this morning
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Which is the last new rom besides Seraphim from collective?
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The revamped rom. It's not brand new but they did a lot of fixing from rc1
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I agree with RoloRacer...
Once developers get the ics kernel source, I'm sure we will see a lot more roms popping up. I think we have enough great developers, but they need the proper tools before they can start building. We just need to be patient.
That being said, I'm a rom junkie myself...so I feel your pain....just be strong!
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I agree with RoloRacer...
Once developers get the ics kernel source, I'm sure we will see a lot more roms popping up. I think we have enough great developers, but they need the proper tools before they can start building. We just need to be patient.
That being said, I'm a rom junkie myself...so I feel your pain....just be strong!
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+1
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I am waiting for the source and then I will be releasing my DoomZday 4.0 rom
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patience. The phone is only 2 months old.
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I guess you guys are right lol. But I still think the two phones coming out may screw us a bit. =/
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There are multiple roms and themes for gingerbread, as well as a few roms and themes for ICS.
What are you expecting, 10 pages of roms?
The ics kernel isn't even released yet.
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no matter what phone you get there is always the next best thing around the corner
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nlghtcrawler said:
no matter what phone you get there is always the next best thing around the corner
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If cm9 is on the touch pad which uses the snapdragon just as we do, and we have a ics leak why can't we have cm9 yet? I know when I had my epic 4g touch like a day after the samsung ics leak dropped someone built a cm9 rom... Please don't flame. I'm mearely asking a question in the q & a thread... Thanks!
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I'm guessing it's the lack of kernel source.
But they don't have kernel source for ics on the epic 4g touch either... They built a tweaked Gingerbread kernel to run cm9. And I couldn't tell a difference it ran a amazingly
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http://e4gtcm.blogspot.com/2012/04/cm9-alpha3-now-available-for-epic-4g.html?m=1
If you scroll down to the news section it says they're still working on getting a working kernel source... The only problem I had seen from not having one was no over clicking or what not.
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It is going to be awsome when there is CM9+spen support for the Note.
what is cm9
http://bit.ly/JjgurO
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http://bit.ly/JjgurO
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thats funny stuff.........
studacris said:
http://bit.ly/JjgurO
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Hmmm this Google thing could answer 90% of the posts in this forum recently. GENIUS!!
So no guessesbon why we don't have one?
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I was thinking that it was the lack of kernel source, but I don't know based on the modified GB kernel post. CM9 would be awesome though. I like to keep things as stock and clean as possible. I don't even put aftermarket parts on my car LOL.
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I was thinking that it was the lack of kernel source, but I don't know based on the modified GB kernel post. CM9 would be awesome though. I like to keep things as stock and clean as possible. I don't even put aftermarket parts on my car LOL.
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Lol you use it how it was meant to be.... I wish we had devs like back on the epic they made everything happen.
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Lol you use it how it was meant to be.... I wish we had devs like back on the epic they made everything happen.
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you know what devs we need here , the devs from the htc leo/hd2 that took a windows mobile phone and turned it into a development phone that could run any 5 OS like a champ, I had CM9 on my hd2 for 2 months before I got my Note and I ran AOSP ICS prior to that for a month and it's smooth as hell. We never had any kind of actual source for anything for it, actually devs were porting everything from the nexus one/nexus s/sensation/evo/incredible/desire hd and made it work , hacking all kinds of kernels , so yeah there were issues when a new port would come out like camera not working(most common issue) but never the less it always came around, now our biggest downfall is the fact that samsung decided to use two different processors with the two versions of the note, if they only would have used the same processor it would have definitely be a different ball game, it would be one forum and all the devs for the n7000 and the i717 would be working together and we would be using cm9 from the great dev imilka from the hd2 forum.
Agreed. I wish I knew how to dev. On the original evo we had great devs also... These devs just rather sit around and wait for the easy way I guess. Idk.
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You think it's so easy then you post some work.
QFT!!!!!
I just stated my opinion ... Oh well!
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well I'm no dev but I'm working at trying to make the necessary changes and hopefully get imilka's cm9 booting up in our notes, but I'm confident that with the help from imilka I can get it to boot and hopefully have a working cm9 soon.
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Please keep that attitude to yourself, so as to not annoy the devs who do things for everyone, INCLUDING YOU for ....
A wise man once said: "Don't defecate where you masticate."
Hello XDA!
I was curious if it's possible for there to be a 2.2 based build off of AOSP.
-I prefer the look and feel of froyo over gingerbread and ics (call me crazy)
-I have noticed another thread about donut but froyo is much more recent than 1.6
-This could be impossible
--I probably sound like a typical 15 year old
Any replies would be helpful!
Thankyou!
corrifa said:
Hello XDA!
I was curious if it's possible for there to be a 2.2 based build off of AOSP.
-I prefer the look and feel of froyo over gingerbread and ics (call me crazy)
-I have noticed another thread about donut but froyo is much more recent than 1.6
-This could be impossible
--I probably sound like a typical 15 year old
Any replies would be helpful!
Thankyou!
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Since froyo was never on this phone that would probably be pretty difficult, you could always use a more recent cm7 build and find the theme called retrodroid it will make it look like 2.2
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Nick281051 said:
Since froyo was never on this phone that would probably be pretty difficult, you could always use a more recent cm7 build and find the theme called retrodroid it will make it look like 2.2
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Yeah I am aware of RetroDroid and I just dont think it provides a complete feel of froyo.
I was wondering if its possible to take all the changes and modifications from cm7 and just compile for cm6
I don't understand... your gonna take the best selling android smartphone ever made and dumb it down....
No one is going to do this for free... if you want it you got to do yourself or throw out a serious bounty for someone else to do it...
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You're weird. Android 2.2 is deprecated for a reason.
Lol damn haha yer not weird man. Most people tho don't feel the same way u do. I like the look of froyo too
;-p
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rdannar said:
I don't understand... your gonna take the best selling android smartphone ever made and dumb it down....
No one is going to do this for free... if you want it you got to do yourself or throw out a serious bounty for someone else to do it...
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Haha chill dude. I wasn't asking someone to do it...
I was asking if it was possible, that's all.
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Haha chill dude. I wasn't asking someone to do it...
I was asking if it was possible, that's all.
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I'm chill. Nothing about my post shows anger. Just confusion
There are a handful of people that can probably do it in this forum.. just nobody will. Easiest thing would be to smali edit gb to have same look and menu layout. You would have to resize a bunch of stuff. You should try the online kitchen to make a theme then smali edit the files.
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I'm chill. Nothing about my post shows anger. Just confusion
There are a handful of people that can probably do it in this forum.. just nobody will. Easiest thing would be to smali edit gb to have same look and menu layout. You would have to resize a bunch of stuff. You should try the online kitchen to make a theme then smali edit the files.
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Ok Thankyou! That's the kind of answer I was looking for! Not that I know what smali is but hey, as long as I have google and Odin ill be fine!
I do believe Froyo doesnt support dual core processor phones, so it would be a feat if anyone was able to do it. I really honestly recommend just themeing it to look like Froyo over anything. The APIs for certain apps are also present in 2.3+ so I'd honestly say just to stick with that.
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Ok Thankyou! That's the kind of answer I was looking for! Not that I know what smali is but hey, as long as I have google and Odin ill be fine!
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backsmali... for Google search or apktool. You have to know some computer lingo to edit files..
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Screw Froyo I wanna boot Donut!
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I do believe Froyo doesnt support dual core processor phones, so it would be a feat if anyone was able to do it. I really honestly recommend just themeing it to look like Froyo over anything. The APIs for certain apps are also present in 2.3+ so I'd honestly say just to stick with that.
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The Atrix ( my other phone) is dual core. And came with froyo.
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One of the devs of the famous AOKP rom just tweeted that it will be coming soon for our Notes.
http://twitter.com/Whitehawkx/status/212971078211993601
Maybe I'm missing something, but don't we already have AOKP?
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RavenZwei said:
Maybe I'm missing something, but don't we already have AOKP?
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Not the official one
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Ah, I see. Well, if the official is similar to the unofficial, then I can't wait. Never used AOKP before then and I really liked it.
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Let's hope. I really miss the thrill of nightlies on CM9. Gives me something new every morning.
Crack flasher *lurking*
G-note rock'n fj cm9!
since it's vague when they say "att note" im really hoping this means i717. international note always seems to get all the love *crossing fingers*
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since it's vague when they say "att note" im really hoping this means i717. international note always seems to get all the love *crossing fingers*
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No. "ATT Note" implies i717. If they would have just said "Note", that would have been vague. Throwing ATT in there makes it clear as day.
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No. "ATT Note" implies i717. If they would have just said "Note", that would have been vague. Throwing ATT in there makes it clear as day.
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Correct N7000 already had AoKP
"Since God created man, and man created the Galaxy Note, the Galaxy Note are like a gift from God, Randal!"
And he said msm8660 devices which is the S3 processor inside our i717 Notes.
Yeah, white hawk is the man. I used there ROM's on my s2
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No. "ATT Note" implies i717. If they would have just said "Note", that would have been vague. Throwing ATT in there makes it clear as day.
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duh... ur right.. my bad... when i dont see # always assume it's international. now i cant wait!! loved my evo on aokp...
Do you think it will some how have s pen support?
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Do you think it will some how have s pen support?
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No source, no pen ppl
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Do you think it will some how have s pen support?
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Probably not since it is based on AOSP
Hello I'm fairly new to Android and I'm just getting to know about flashing and hacking. But what does aokp stand for and what is it, along with cm9. I wouldn't be asking questions but I don't know where to look here. Can someone give me a thread where I can find out about all these terms and what not.. Thank you, greatly appreciated
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Hello I'm fairly new to Android and I'm just getting to know about flashing and hacking. But what does aokp stand for and what is it, along with cm9. I wouldn't be asking questions but I don't know where to look here. Can someone give me a thread where I can find out about all these terms and what not.. Thank you, greatly appreciated
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AOKP stands for Android Open Kang Project, CM9 is CyanogenMod 9. Basically they are both similar roms that are built from open source vanilla android, and can be built for basically any android phone so long as a developer is willing to put in the time. They both share some code with each other, yet AOKP tends to have a few more tweaks, and both are crazy fast. They also have a theme engine that allows people to make themes that can be applied on any phone running AOKP or CM9, regardless of which phone.
As for learning other stuff, I point you here for terminology: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22223555
And for how to root/rom go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24539068
I suggest just taking some time on stock to learn the ins and outs of how the stock software works, and reading as much as possible on here, before you try to do anything.
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ronaldruy said:
Hello I'm fairly new to Android and I'm just getting to know about flashing and hacking. But what does aokp stand for and what is it, along with cm9. I wouldn't be asking questions but I don't know where to look here. Can someone give me a thread where I can find out about all these terms and what not.. Thank you, greatly appreciated
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Both are based off of AOSP which is the Android Open Source Project. Google released the source code for Android ICS and developers take that code and make their own roms. CyanogenMOD is basically pure Android ICS but with some extras. AOKP is based on AOSP but with themes, tweaks, etc. They both are different and both very good.
We currently have both roms but unofficial versions of the roms.
AOKP: http://aokp.co/index.php/news
CyanogenMOD: http://www.cyanogenmod.com/
An official before source drops Nice. Unofficial still works great though.
I thought AOKP was based on CM9
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