I am interested in purchasing, but dwórdzeniowej version, made available to the U.S. market. I am worried only Polonization shoulder system in the camera. I wonder therefore whether it will be possible to install Polish software? I know that both versions of the camera are different units of SoC applied and most importantly, data communications technologies. I understand, therefore, that it is impossible to use simply the European version FW. I was thinking more of something like the integration of the appropriate drivers from FW-US into Euro-FW to get the desired effect. Can I perform this operation? I would add that as a technology enthusiast interested in me only smartphones based version Qualcolmm SoC. In the case of a situation in which there will be no optimal adaptation zagrnicznego model in my country (Poland), I will be forced to cancel the purchase in favor of competition.
Sorry for grammar, my english is not so well.
Wycior
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Many phones like the 3d get the camera modded to improve resolution and unlock features. Why do the manufactures not have these capabilities open when sold if they are capable of them? Just curious
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sprintuser1977 said:
Many phones like the 3d get the camera modded to improve resolution and unlock features. Why do the manufactures not have these capabilities open when sold if they are capable of them? Just curious
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In the absense of official statements from the Carriers/Manufacturers to address this question, the only form of answer is left to speculation on the intents/motivations behind Manufacturers in undertaking specific actions.
I'll give it a shot off the top of my head:
1) Features were not thorougly tested (not signed off by management, not documented properly, not originally approved, not reviewed by the correct team, etc.)
2) Different hardware revisions of the device (Features might not work on all hardware revisions, hardware revision options weren't all known at the time of development, etc.)
3) Not under contract (Manufacturer hadn't agreed to develop or provide such features to the Carrier, Developers weren't contracted to work on these features, etc.)
4) Features are not official (A subset of any of the above possible situations. Developers added the features in but did not notify anybody, etc.)
I'm sure I've missed a few .. but hope that helps articulate some of the possibilties in the corporate software development world!
Thanks
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I am interested in purchasing, but dwórdzeniowej version, made available to the U.S. market. I am worried only Polonization shoulder system in the camera. I wonder therefore whether it will be possible to install Polish software? I know that both versions of the camera are different units of SoC applied and most importantly, data communications technologies. I understand, therefore, that it is impossible to use simply the European version FW. I was thinking more of something like the integration of the appropriate drivers from FW-US into Euro-FW to get the desired effect. Can I perform this operation? I would add that as a technology enthusiast interested in me only smartphones based version Qualcolmm SoC. In the case of a situation in which there will be no optimal adaptation zagrnicznego model in my country (Poland), I will be forced to cancel the purchase in favor of competition.
Sorry for grammar, my english is not so well.
Wycior
Hi,
I'm willing to buy a new Android phone.
I'm not so excited about the prices of current flagships models (S3, S4, Nexus, HTC One, etc.) but I like their hardware (obviously!).
About one month ago I discovered a whole bunch of Android phones from China. Their specs are amazing (beside the processors, MTKXXXX).
What I'm asking here is:
is there a phone from these China makers which has:
- a decent processor (not MTK series)
- current flagship phones hardware (1-2gb ram, quad core processor, decent front/back camera, various sensors, etc.)
- availability outside China (I'm from Italy)
- support for custom roms (like Cyanogenmod or any AOSP/AOKP)
?
Thank you
Take a look at Oppo, Meizu and the like. They have great specs and some models are made not only for China but for the rest of the world as well.
cippa lippa said:
thanks would like to see them...so why people buy sony,htc ecc yet?
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Biggest reason that most don't buy those phones is there is no trust of knock off devices.
OP you may find roms for them on other sites but you will not find any here.
Wayne Tech S-III
cippa lippa said:
thanks would like to see them...so why people buy sony,htc ecc yet?
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Also, not all of the Chinese smartphones are intended for external market.
Thank you for your answers.
I've asked this question because I'm interested in having a decent piece of hardware (I don't care if it's a knockoff of another phone or if it has original design) AND a ROM that is not the original one. I've read they're full of chinese bloatware and bugs, so the combination I'm looking for is a decent hardware and a rom made by other developers than chinese one (a cyanogenmod?)
But if there is no support here at XDA for any of these phones I think it's not worth to buy any one of those phones.
Bootlaoder language written in chinese
Hi,
I wanted to install ROM but after putting the tablet in bootloader mode, I discovered the language is Chinese. I took picture and is attached here. Any help interpreting or changing to English? This is just frustrating.
It one of those generic tablets made by Speed. The model is MB-Z5S.
Hi, I'm not an Android expert in any way but I'm prototyping an app that runs Tensorflow deep learning models for image processing on this tablet.
I convert various models from Keras to TF-Lite in various modes, trying to find the best-performing method - comparing normal FP32 with quantisation to FP16 and INT8, and running each in CPU mode and on the GPU and NNAPI delegates.
NNAPI is supposed to assign compatible operations to the chip that runs them fastest, ie most INT8 stuff to the Hexagon DSP. Except my timings show 8b models running faster in CPU, or no difference, or worse, like it's always falling back to CPU. Suspicious!
Looking at the ai-benchmark com ranking (sorry, new account, can't do links) rankings and comparing the Tab S6 with a high-performing SN855 device like the Galaxy S10+ shows that their CPU perf is more or less equal, but quantised perf is WAY too low on the Tab S6.
From the paper arxiv org 1810.01109.pdf
...Qualcomm delivers these drivers in the software images provided to its OEM customers, which then in turn determine when and how to include them to end devices: with their initial release or later over the air in subsequent software updates. As a result, their presence and actual version might vary significantly across the phones on the market.
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This suggests to me that Samsung haven't bothered including the NNAPI drivers for the tab S6! So what, they only do it for the premium products? Personally I'd say a £600 tab is pretty premium.
Am I right about this and if so is there anything I can do? Any way to get the drivers in, a custom ROM that includes them? I'd buy something else but there's not a lot of choice with tablets, this seems to be the most powerful one available. I'd love one with a Kirin 990 but no such thing exists yet AFAIK.
"Qualcomm’s first NNAPI driver for running quantized neural networks on Hexagon DSPs was introduced in the Android
O-MR1, though it was not used in any commercial devices
at that time and first appeared only later in the OnePlus 6
and Xiaomi Mi8 with the next Android version. In Android
P, these drivers got additional support for running float models on the Adreno GPU. Yet, they are currently not present
in the market."
I'd say there is little to no support by OEMs
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I'd say there is little to no support by OEMs
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The ai-benchmark com ranking list (that i can't link) shows many Snapdragon 855 devices with high performance that can only be due to NNAPI support I believe. But anyway, as there aren't any better tablets about, I wonder if there's a way to make a ROM that adds those drivers? I know nothing about custom Android builds.
My beloved Nokia N900 linux phone has finally died and now I need something to replace it. All the Linux phones out there are unsuitable for various reasons so it looks like Android is my best option for a new phone.
This is what I am ideally looking for:
Usable as an every-day phone.
Available to purchase right now here in Australia (which rules out things like the pro1-x that isn't actually shipping and the Fairphone that is EU only)
Supports 4G LTE on 2100MHz/18i00MHz/850MHz (since that's what Vodafone Australia is using)
Open and moddable/hackable (i.e. able to replace the kernel and OS with an alternative should I want to do that rather than having to deal with a locked bootloader)
Running a modern version of Android with the Google stuff (i.e. official Google store and maps)
As little bloatware as possible (or at least as little bloatware as possible that I can't actually remove)
All source available as required by the GPL or any other licenses that require source release (I refuse to give my hard-earned money to anyone who profits off intentional copyright violations although it may be impossible to find a device that meets this criteria given how bad most OEMs seem to be at this for reasons I don't understand)
In terms of brands the only one I have an objection to is Sony (I hate Sony in general for reasons I won't go into here)
Oh and if there is a device that meets my other criteria and still has a hardware keyboard (likely to be impossible in 2020) that's even better.
IMHO it is uninteresting which brand/model a new Android device is: IT MUST BE TREBLE ENABLED to be able to install Android GSI versions. FYI: Android GSI is a full OS image that matches the AOSP source code. Actually Android GSI 11 is available.
Is there a database anywhere that lists which devices support Treble (and therefore presumably can have alternative kernels and OS images installed) and/or which companies are doing the right thing and sharing the kernel source as required by the GPL?
A 2-years-old overview here.
As always: GIYF ...
Sounds like anything running modern Android will support Treble (and therefore can presumably have the kernel and OS replaced with alternatives if my understanding of what Treble is is accurate). So that just means I need to figure out how good different device manufacturers are at GPL compliance for the kernel and anything else they need to publish source code for.