Start petition for the 3.0.8 kernel? - Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro

Please, someone who knows tell us something related on how the 3.0.8 kernel would be worth uprgrading, more useful or helpful for ICS. If we have enough good reasons, we can start a petition @ www.change.org
Let us know. The only thing that I've heard of is that it'll improve deep sleep.
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leajian said:
Please, someone who knows tell us something related on how the 3.0.8 kernel would be worth uprgrading, more useful or helpful for ICS. If we have enough good reasons, we can start a petition @ www.change.org
Let us know. The only thing that I've heard of is that it'll improve deep sleep.
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I also heard that new kernel has improved deep Sleep. Hope someone port it to NEO ^_^

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Give me a one good reason now why would sony listen to this petition and upgrade 2011 series more(yeah I am happy & grateful that we got 4.0.4,not all the companies were generous to upgrade their whole 2011 lineup like Sony did) when they got 2012 models to develop & upgrade ?

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And some manufacturers, shaming none <here'slookingatyoumoto> didn't even give gb to similar spec devices <defy original>, at least Sony is dev friendly, the hardware is common stuff and we have sources of camera and radio, and unlocked bootloader.
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isn't there anyway to port 3.0.8 kernel
Sign This petition
http://www.change.org/petitions/son...release-2011-line-up-devices-with-kernel-3-x#
op put this link on top so everybody can see it and sign it

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I think we should thank Sony for bringing ICS to 2011 xperia range..atleast they keep the word..!
Other manufactures don't even think about that..so we should be thankful..!
Thank You Sony..
There will be a way to port 3.0.8 kernel to our devices..we have great developers so lets wait patiently..!
Cheers

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ThilinaC said:
Give me a one good reason now why would sony listen to this petition and upgrade 2011 series more(yeah I am happy & grateful that we got 4.0.4,not all the companies were generous to upgrade their whole 2011 lineup like Sony did) when they got 2012 models to develop & upgrade ?
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Give me one good reason of why 2011 line is not worth upgrating. Don't forget that you hold in your hands a powerful computer which always can be better.
Yeah, I am very greatful too, I am just asking there why the 3 kernel is better than this or if we would have any benefits of upgrading. I am not asking whether they'll listen to us or not. XDA is a very big and powerful community. We (in some cases) represent the advanced users of their products. For me, if we have good reasons and Sony listens to us. I'll appreciate Sony very seriously.
mpiekp said:
And some manufacturers, shaming none <here'slookingatyoumoto> didn't even give gb to similar spec devices <defy original>, at least Sony is dev friendly, the hardware is common stuff and we have sources of camera and radio, and unlocked bootloader.
That's simply shame. If we want to go beyond, we shall not look what other devices lack, but what other devices luck.
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Sorry for double post, but I s*ck at multiquote on phone. I replied to mpiekp in his quote.
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leajian said:
Give me one good reason of why 2011 line is not worth upgrating. Don't forget that you hold in your hands a powerful computer which always can be better.
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Simple our phones are getting old now,Sony corporation is a business not a non profit organization mate.In xda dev's make stuff at their own free time & most are non profit too.
All comes to dollar bills mate,besides now 2011 series is getting replaced little by little with 2012 series.

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ST-Ericsson advertised their NovaThor U8500 (that is running on Xperia 2012 line) with ICS and kernel 3.0.8
i think there is a big chance that the Xperia 2012 phones will get ICS with kernel 3.0.8
Xperia 2011 are old news, they got ICS 4.0.4 so i don`t think Sony will update them further
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRewmDBkR8U

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Indeed, it's not a non profit, but since they have the 3.0.8 kernel ready for some devices, it won't be pain for sony to use it for the 2011 line, I mean they are pro developers there with sources, equipment, it'll be a piece of cake for them to port.
Also they officially replied that they won't be upgrading, I saw it on sony's official blog. Nobody here said anything about this kernel though, if it is worth upgrading. Only pesimistic comments that this is impossible to happen.
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@devs: How hard is it to port a kernel from other Snapdragon s2 devices?
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imranaryan said:
isn't there anyway to port 3.0.8 kernel
Sign This petition
http://www.change.org/petitions/son...release-2011-line-up-devices-with-kernel-3-x#
op put this link on top so everybody can see it and sign it
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No no no no no no! WAIT!!!!! :banghead:
That's just stupid!!!!! Why? Because the reasons are stupid and in fact the only reason is deep sleep. No offence, but I started this thread to gather info for that kernel and get worth reasons before starting a petition. Therefore, please remove it, before Sony starts laughing at us! Please...
EDIT: I found some intresting sites and I'll try to port 3.3.7 kernel if possible. Well we'll see if it is worth of it. If not atleast I'll gain some super useful knowledge.
The interesting sites :
http://kernel.org/
http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.3
http://source.android.com/source/building-kernels.html
https://github.com/Ezekeel/android-3.0 (this is for tablets - honeycomb, but may he useful)
http://developer.sonymobile.com/wportal/devworld/search-downloads/android?
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sdk16420 said:
@devs: How hard is it to port a kernel from other Snapdragon s2 devices?
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These people are thin on the ground on Neo phone
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Lol we've had a couple pop by lately, build kernels that don't boot then disappear
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I asked some devs like mikegapinski and nobodyAtall and they told me we need SEMC patches for any other kernel above 2.6.32 (this means it's not easy for Sony too), only the last number can be upgraded like 2.6.32.50 as Polish Team's kernel.
Still waiting reply to know the advantages of 3.0.8 kernel, since nobody knows here. Even though I think a changelog is available @ kernel.org.
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shadowdevil said:
I think we should thank Sony for bringing ICS to 2011 xperia range..atleast they keep the word..!
Other manufactures don't even think about that..so we should be thankful..!
Thank You Sony..
There will be a way to port 3.0.8 kernel to our devices..we have great developers so lets wait patiently..!
Cheers
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Sorry to dissapoint you Shadow.... im from the arc thread, and according to FXP who is in charge of the cm development for the 2011 line up it will take aproximately 6 months to port the 3.0 kernel.... and besides Sony promised us 18 months of upgrades, Jelly bean was included in that, when (fake) rumors came that the facebook representative from sony uk said the 2011 line up wouldnt get jelly bean... they said it wasnt true, and now they say the wont update us? seems like they were toying with us, the only reason they actually gave us ics ( a really ****ty one with no much improvement from the gb sony rom) was because they were being presured by the 18 months of upgrades statement.

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Yesterday a moderator from Sony team answered me at the official forum. About the Kernel 3.x
"Platform decisions made out of a complex number of parameters, involving things such as performance, price, component availability, timing etc.
When it comes to the kernel, we did actually investigate to release the 2011 products on a new kernel, but we found out it would have delayed the much desired SW releases since it takes time to trim a kernel to a stable state. We have also done a lot of patches to the kernel that we would need to migrate and that would have delayed the SW upgrades even more. It was simply a prioritization decision. For the new 2012 products we use a new kernel.
For more information and further questions regarding these things, please head over to our developer pages at http://developer.sonymobile.com/ ."
http://talk.sonymobile.com/message/332764#332764
I believe someone could keep this post up, this moderator seems to be likely to give answers or attending plees. Raise here and peharps Sony could helps us.

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marcusasdrubal said:
Yesterday a moderator from Sony team answered me at the official forum. About the Kernel 3.x
"Platform decisions made out of a complex number of parameters, involving things such as performance, price, component availability, timing etc.
When it comes to the kernel, we did actually investigate to release the 2011 products on a new kernel, but we found out it would have delayed the much desired SW releases since it takes time to trim a kernel to a stable state. We have also done a lot of patches to the kernel that we would need to migrate and that would have delayed the SW upgrades even more. It was simply a prioritization decision. For the new 2012 products we use a new kernel.
For more information and further questions regarding these things, please head over to our developer pages at http://developer.sonymobile.com/ ."
http://talk.sonymobile.com/message/332764#332764
I believe someone could keep this post up, this moderator seems to be likely to give answers or attending plees. Raise here and peharps Sony could helps us.
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One does not use the words Sony and Help without the word Doesnt between them.