So some of the new Sony phones U and P have this ST-Ericsson SoC. Does anyone know if this is a dev-friendly SoC similar to Snapdragon? I am especially interested in seeing something like Cyanogenmod for the Xperia U.
Are there any other phones that have this SoC and have custom roms like CM?
It's not too different from what we've seen before, the A9 CPU and the Mali GPU are used in many devices already. So it shouldn't be too hard to make it work when ICS comes by.
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There are a lot of interesting devices showed up recently, which based on Qualcomm MSM 7227 processor ARMv6.
Its a cheep and very nice processor for its price, and i was going to buy cheep divice, based on it, but there is a question appeared:
Will Android 2.2 Froyo work on this MSM 7227 processor?
Or it will be working only on ARMv7 Snapdragon, Cortex A8 and later processors?
A saw info that froyo works exclusively on ARMv7 processors and better,
аnd will not support ARMv6. Is that true? Or normal/official support of ARMv6 will be added later?
it should run on most proscesors it just will need to be tweaked a litle bit
I don't see why it wouldn't - you might need to compile it yourself though, unless someone already has a rom out for the phone you want.
Check out cyanogenmod.com
I wanted to ask one unresolved question to person who develop ( or maybe looked inside?? ) on Xperia P.
SXP have NovaThor U8500 like everyone know, but...
it have Adreno 205 ( like mentioned in whitepaper ) or Mali-400MP ( like in NovaThor U8500 SoC's ) ??
And if Mali, then how many cores??
I wanted to buy this phone, but need to know this first
NeveHanter said:
I wanted to ask one unresolved question to person who develop ( or maybe looked inside?? ) on Xperia P.
SXP have NovaThor U8500 like everyone know, but...
it have Adreno 205 ( like mentioned in whitepaper ) or Mali-400MP ( like in NovaThor U8500 SoC's ) ??
And if Mali, then how many cores??
I wanted to buy this phone, but need to know this first
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Its Mail 400 and it is a single core.
@up: Thanks for an answer, but one more question, it's that single-core Mali-400 enough for every 2012 android games, and maybe for upcoming ones?
NeveHanter said:
@up: Thanks for an answer, but one more question, it's that single-core Mali-400 enough for every 2012 android games, and maybe for upcoming ones?
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It seems to do okay on most releases. It wont be the top of the line graphics but it will play them. The only issue it has had so far is compatiblity which has gotten much better.
Thanks for reply to my questions
The trends we are seeing in this part of the World (Asia) with the New Crop of "Value for Money" Smartphones is MediaTek Processors...
Be it Lenovo, Alcatel or all major vendors in Asia, China, Indonesia...they are starting to go with these Processors...
Having said that We see a lot of Bad Mouth about this brand of Proccy....so what the real deal?
All of us would agree when we are looking at a dual core smartphobe at under 200 $ prce bracket.....we cant expect a Snapdragon S3!
And looks like all new VFM Samrtphones from China OEM or other places who rebrand OEM are ending up being MediaTek!
Starting this thread to get some discussion going for more enlightenment....
Current MediaTek Proccys in Market :
- MT6575 : Single core Cortex-A9 solution with an unidentified 5-series PowerVR GPU
- MT6577 : Dual Core 1GHz Cortex™-A9 application processor from ARM, a PowerVR™ Series5 SGX GPU
MediaTek breaks into Top 5 in Smartphones Procy sales Worldwide!
MediaTek in Top 5
MediaTek announces Dual Core Proccy for Sub 200$ Smartphones
MediaTek Launches Dual Core Processors
Lenovo A750 - First Android Phone with MediaTek MTK MT6575 Processor
http://youtu.be/9cgnCgqD-9A
bad mouth about mediatek, well i don't think so. mediatek processors should be at par with any other processors but the problem is afaik they dont release their kernel sources and they are still stuck with their sgx 531t gpu which is almost at par with our adreno 205 but not any better. however i might be wrong. i read about this a long time back and i dont remember the exact source.
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bad mouth about mediatek, well i don't think so. mediatek processors should be at par with any other processors but the problem is afaik they dont release their kernel sources and they are still stuck with their sgx 531t gpu which is almost at par with our adreno 205 but not any better. however i might be wrong. i read about this a long time back and i dont remember the exact source.
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They are on PowerVR GPU Now...on eh 1Ghz Single Core and 1 Ghz Dual Core chips
I'd suggest to move the whole discussion to "Android General". There you will certainly find more people to discuss your particular issues and do not spam this board. Thank you....even if I sound like forum police now :laugh:
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May be we starting porting from nexus 5 port
and ubuntu phone while he's at it.... isn't that much work, ist it? common...
Ubuntu OS may or may not be on its way, depends if the dev wants to finish it or has time
Salfish OS may not happen just because of the lack of information.
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Ubuntu OS may or may not be on its way, depends if the dev wants to finish it or has time
Salfish OS may not happen just because of the lack of information.
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Port for Nexus 5 already workinig and xperia z2 specifications same with nexus 5 both phones use snapdragon, gpu is same adreno 330, cpu is also same 2.3 Ghz krait 400
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Port for Nexus 5 already workinig and xperia z2 specifications same with nexus 5 both phones use snapdragon, gpu is same adreno 330, cpu is also same 2.3 Ghz krait 400
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I was seen in mer wiki sailfish os porting to xperia z3c if port for z3 compact is WIP may be we starting trying porting
I wondered why there were still no Kernel (overclocked or not) for this new device while knowing that you can also take advantage of the work done on other devices that are equipped with the same CPU also wondering why you are unable to leverage the work done by Soni on his camera to make the best even with the max of 2 camera that uses the same chipset.