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Is it possible to port snapdragon roms to mediatek devices.
I have seen a thread by ArjunrambZ where he describes how to port roms. As I have no experience with porting I am asking any group or person if it would be possible to do some porting as MTK devices havent got basically any roms at all, most of them are buggy and most of them have slight changes to the stock rom.

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xtreme97 said:
Please link of thread
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2483143
Link is here. I don't know if it's true to use this but I know this much that the devices are and should be identical, the only difference is the MDK and Snapdragon part

I never think it'll ever possible to port any of SD ROMs to MTK.
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For porting you need base rom right? Ok, which mtk rom are already stable enough? None? And have you wonder why? Because mediatek never release their sourcecode completely, its hard for any devs compiling roms without necessary blobs. Sorry if I wrong, I am not a devs, just had some reading knowledge.
The points is, the source code. Blame Mediatek.
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It's possible to do anything.
But this is in the "so very improbable and difficult that it is practically impossible" pile.
It's difficult enough to port ROM's to different device based on same SoC; this is not only a different SoC but a completely different OEM.
What you're asking is like porting a Samsung ROM to a Sony device, or vice versa. Just not going to happen - the guts on the inside of these two devices are completely different.
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[Q] Will it be possible to port S4 Google Ed. firmware to i9300?

Hello everybody.
Sorry in advance, I suppose that this question should be a sort of XDA trending topic during these days. However after a little search, I didn't find anything similar on the matter. Hence I'm opening a new thread. Feel free to close it if necessary
I suppose that somebody is already working on a "Google Edition" of i9300. A vanilla AOSP. Would it be so different from a classic CyanogenMod or AOKP?
Thank you for your answers.
Peace.
Will just look like the nexus but with a better camera and new bootanimation
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No it is not possible to directly port it as the Google Ed. phone runs Qualcomm's Snapdragon 600. The i9300's sorry excuse of an SoC is Exynos 4.
Theshawty said:
No it is not possible to directly port it as the Google Ed. phone runs Qualcomm's Snapdragon 600. The i9300's sorry excuse of an SoC is Exynos 4.
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What's so bad with Exynos? When this device came out it was a beast compared any other on the market. So far we have a well established base of development and mods.
There is nothing wrong with Our SOC other than its now older than the newer devices.
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jetbruceli said:
What's so bad with Exynos? When this device came out it was a beast compared any other on the market. So far we have a well established base of development and mods.
There is nothing wrong with Our SOC other than its now older than the newer devices.
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Nothing wrong? No sources and no documentation and what's on Insignal is almost entirely useless.
Theshawty said:
Nothing wrong? No sources and no documentation and what's on Insignal is almost entirely useless.
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So for you its useless but my s3 is running like a champ since day one.
And hell, I don't even like AOSP Roms anymore. My opinion OK!!
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jetbruceli said:
So for you its useless but my s3 is running like a champ since day one.
And hell, I don't even like AOSP Roms anymore. My opinion OK!!
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Yes, it's your opinion and you're entitled to one, but you're wrong when you say that there's nothing wrong with Exynos 4. Though I bet no SoC is per definition "perfect".
Theshawty said:
Yes, it's your opinion and you're entitled to one, but you're wrong when you say that there's nothing wrong with Exynos 4. Though I bet no SoC is per definition "perfect".
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Its not bad its Samsung that's being secretive about its sources.
Of course I also though tegra was good until I got this phone.
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Samsung TW is slow, i have CM10.1 based its a lot faster and longer batterij
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coolnessQ said:
Samsung TW is slow, i have CM10.1 based its a lot faster and longer batterij
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Not as fast as it could be if the sources for the Exynos based processors were available.
To answer OPs question technically it is possible but it will require a lot of time and effort ..not to mention a lot of skill as well...the reason being both are quite different phones with different SoCs ..it would be somewhat easier to do it from the AOSP source code but as everyone already knows without documentation from Samsung that is again a difficult prospect ...none of the devs want to invest time in a project which they already know will be a a failure ...this is not about which is better TW or pure Google experience but about having a choice.
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Why would you want to when there are so many alternative versions out there?
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Not as fast as it could be if the sources for the Exynos based processors were available.
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Yeah thats true
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Thread closed as its a duplicate of http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43047800#post43047800

Final version of lollipop for nexus 5 was relased

Now who want can porto a stable version for nexus5, but this post, is not to brake developers balls, but because i want to know if the problem to port is in the kernel.
The kernel is the problem
₪LG G2₪
Zyner said:
The kernel is the problem
₪LG G2₪
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how about the L9 lollipop port ? How did they manage to do that ?
hatsumomo53 said:
how about the L9 lollipop port ? How did they manage to do that ?
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Still trying to understand this. All these phones are getting ports but there are people saying we need a whole new kernel. Yet the bigger devs are supposedly already working on a port?
Jackpotclalvin got lollipop to boot on the Verizon g2! No ROM yet, but eventually its gonna happen. Be sure to thank him for his hard work too!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2702958&page=229
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Still trying to understand this. All these phones are getting ports but there are people saying we need a whole new kernel. Yet the bigger devs are supposedly already working on a port?
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Yeah I don't know either, wish a Dev could explain this to me... The Optimum G has a mostly functioning Lollipop ROM according to a post I saw on G+ yesterday... Why would it be harder to build for us? Especially since so much of our hardware is similar to the Nexus 5...
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Still trying to understand this. All these phones are getting ports but there are people saying we need a whole new kernel. Yet the bigger devs are supposedly already working on a port?
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You do not need a 5.0 kernel for the G2, older devices have newer versions of android w/o having the corresponding source. I'm using 4.4.4 on my Galaxy S1 just like my G2 (except the S1 obviously didn't receive 4.4.x).
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I think that a kernel is important for performance OK, but can boot too without a perfect kernel. Wait ThE big dev
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Nokia N1 vs Xiaomi MiPad

Silly question....
I'm undecided between the xiaomi mipad and the Nokia n1
.... I notice that there isn't any support on XDA for both tablets making my purchase decision difficult.
What's your take on this, im on the look for a 4:3 aspect ratio and 7.4 inch ish tablet size,should I look somewhere else other then those? Thanx
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ive no personal experience with the N1, but i can say that ive really enjoyed my mipad. im impressed with the build quality.
i run the latest "global" miui rom rooted.
also xiaomi is expected to release the source code before to much longer.. which means 3rd party roms would be quick to follow.
What do u mean with GLOBAL ?
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guinnes.s said:
What do u mean with GLOBAL ?
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If you buy is the Chinese version, there are a lot of function is not supported, such as Google Play.
So no source code available yet for both tablets ?ho dear ho dear lol
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guinnes.s said:
What do u mean with GLOBAL ?
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i bought mine from china (i live in the US) it came with a version of miui that had several Chinese apps that looked to do similar stuff to google.. and it didnt have any google apps. once i swapped to the global version of miui i really liked the tablet.
from miui.com you can download 3 roms
mipad china:
-developer
-stable
mipad global:
-stable
if you install cwm you can easily root any of them, if you stick with original recovery you can only root the developer.
also there are several developers in russia and india that are just waiting for source code to drop. and its expected to happen fairly soon (assuming mipad follows the general path of other xiaomi products)
Xiaomi seem taking their sweet time lol,is already one year old if I'm correct.
What is the path that usually they use for their phones regarding the code?
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Lets hope for Kernel sources to be released[Mi Pad]
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Xiaomi seem taking their sweet time lol,is already one year old if I'm correct.
What is the path that usually they use for their phones regarding the code?
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Xiaomi is usually hesitant to release the code, sometimes due to too much pressure created they may release all at once as happened in the beginning of this year with mi 3, mi 4, redmi note all code being released, except Mi Pad.
Lets hope Xiaomi releases it soon so that Lag Free Roms can be developed for this beastly device!

Different processor has the same rom?

I want to know, i have a redmi note 4 mediatek. In india it'll be launched with quallcomm. If in the future there are custom roms for the quallcomm model, can i flash it on the mediatek model? Or will i need different roms? Cause if it ain't the same rom i'm going to sell mine. I'm sure the qualcomm model will have many custom roms.
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I want to know, i have a redmi note 4 mediatek. In india it'll be launched with quallcomm. If in the future there are custom roms for the quallcomm model, can i flash it on the mediatek model? Or will i need different roms? Cause if it ain't the same rom i'm going to sell mine. I'm sure the qualcomm model will have many custom roms.
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If a Snapdragon version arrives, you wont be able to use any ROMs developed for it. It will be similar only in name and appearance but if the hardware is different any development will not be cross compatible.
Even if they're different ONLY in processor? Thank you for your reply.
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fajarabdulm said:
Even if they're different ONLY in processor? Thank you for your reply.
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Yes. Different processor requires different codes and files. These 'codes and files' differ SO MUCH because of the different processors.
Thank you, now i just have to buy another one ?
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Will the RN3 get support from devs for more custom roms?

So...
I currently have a Nexus 5 and I am was very close to buying the RN3. Now see the Nexus 5 provides stable pure android which I love so I dont need to flash custom roms on it. However I recently did that just to be able to get Android N. I've enjoyed my experience with custom roms so far. I'm using CM14 and I do like it even though it does seem just a little unstable and having a few bugs here and there.
I decided to upgrade to the RN3 because of the pure battery life offered by the N5 these days. I had decided that I would flash CM on top of it as soon as possible because I hate anything other than vanilla android. Now however, CM is dead. I have already done my fair bit of research to know that they are moving to Lineage now. I also read that the popular phones won't really be affected. However the RN3 isn't very popular. At least that's the idea in my head.
The point of this post is Will the RN3 receive the support popular phones would? Will I be able to have the latest and greatest in Android?
That is the one question which will affect my decision on whether to go for it or not. I think I need to make a decision by late this week on this so yeah..
Can any devs say that they plan on working on the RN3?
Is the RN3 as popular as the N5 was for the sake of development and stuff?
I plan on supporting the RN3 once I purchase one. However, I don't think it'll receive the large array of ROMs Nexus 5 has, but I think it'll get plenty of ROMs all the same.
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I plan on supporting the RN3 once I purchase one. However, I don't think it'll receive the large array of ROMs Nexus 5 has, but I think it'll get plenty of ROMs all the same.
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Awesome thanks!
saqlainrattansi said:
Awesome thanks!
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You see, there are now much more RN3 users around the world. So, no need of worring about development.
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Siddk007 said:
You see, there are now much more RN3 users around the world. So, no need of worring about development.
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Could you tell me where you downloaded your rom from and also link any guides you used?
How stable is the rom you use?
saqlainrattansi said:
Could you tell me where you downloaded your rom from and also link any guides you used?
How stable is the rom you use?
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I have unlocked bootloader officially, tried most of the N roms available. As they are not quite stable as of now, using Xiaomi EU rom. It is debloated version of Miui based on China dev rom with weekly updates. Very Stable
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Siddk007 said:
I have unlocked bootloader officially, tried most of the N roms available. As they are not quite stable as of now, using Xiaomi EU rom. It is debloated version of Miui based on China dev rom with weekly updates. Very Stable
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I m using Aokp from 10 days with various custom kernel. Stable and fast. Only bug is the instable camera (using google camera apk mitigate it).
RN3 has miui roms, cm based roms and good development. Definitely it will be worth purchasing. Android file host shows 3to4 roms for RN3 daily.
Need some other roms except CM based.
If any devs port Color OS, Cool Ui, EMUI Etc...
It will be great.

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