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Ubuntu phone for O2X

Exciting news came today from Ubuntu that it's available (one, so far) for Android phone.
I just wondered how long it'll take or mighty devs to being it to our phone.
Please make it happen, thank you!
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You ca get a look here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1213670

Thats not ubuntu phone, thats real ubuntu
Still, i'd be interested in ubuntu phone os as well.
The Gnex shall get the new os soon, we'll see if it is possible to port then.
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Ubuntu phone seems so bad, the other one was much better
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Reading Ubuntu Mobile's technical requirements makes me feel less optimistic about seeing it fully implemented on our 2X due to its 512 MB of RAM and 5GB of internal storage. Our device barely meets their minimal requirements, so I wouldn't be too optimistic about it.
Time will tell, I guess. Hopefully, the community will prove me wrong and we'll see Ubuntu Mobile running nicely on a 2X in the upcoming months ^^

DrummerMuppet said:
Reading Ubuntu Mobile's technical requirements makes me feel less optimistic about seeing it fully implemented on our 2X due to its 512 MB of RAM and 5GB of internal storage. Our device barely meets their minimal requirements, so I wouldn't be too optimistic about it.
Time will tell, I guess. Hopefully, the community will prove me wrong and we'll see Ubuntu Mobile running nicely on a 2X in the upcoming months ^^
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i think our o2x can handle it, remember we have many super genius developers here, 4-8gb of emmc? i think it's full of bloatware, and ubuntu surely release an OS that will match in 512mb and 5.5gb emmc, like the NEXUS devices

This is indeed quite exciting. Still, I don't really hold any high hope for our device since nvidia and lg are quite *****y about their blob drivers. For shame, really.
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mintjustin said:
This is indeed quite exciting. Still, I don't really hold any high hope for our device since nvidia and lg are quite *****y about their blob drivers. For shame, really.
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But I've read ubuntu phone can use the same drivers made for android, so I guess that wouldn't be a problem
I'm looking forward for this too! It looks awesome!
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hope we will get some version to try
expecting fully working version for our phone would be asking too much but hopefully some dev can port a version later when sources are released to try out how it feels

I think it would be great to try Ubuntu on our phone, let's wait for our devs.

I think we'll have it eventually, lots of awesome devs for our phone :fingers-crossed:

LarsPT said:
I think we'll have it eventually, lots of awesome devs for our phone :fingers-crossed:
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All we can do is hope and wait. But sadly our phone is getting old...

LG is the one getting old.
Our phone keeps getting younger by the rom updates

puffingman said:
LG is the one getting old.
Our phone keeps getting younger by the rom updates
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Sad but true... :crying:

puffingman said:
LG is the one getting old.
Our phone keeps getting younger by the rom updates
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Right on target

petrj said:
Sad but true... :crying:
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How is that sad?
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it would be nice, to have ubuntu OS, hope the best, but we have to wait until ubuntu relase the first rom.

I saw the tech spec of ubuntu phone, and O2x
Ubuntu Phone OS needs:
1Ghz Cortex A9
512MB -1GB Ram
Flash storage 4-8 GB +SD
Multi-touch
O2x has
Tegra 250 AP20H (Ventana)
(1 GHz Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9)
512MB Ram
8GB flash storage +SD
Multi-touch
we have kernel modules for tegra2 processor
so hope, we get the rom for galaxy nexus, devs can do a rom for O2x, we have a chance
but this is for Entry level,
not for Desktop convergence

I also hope we can use the ubuntu roms soon.:laugh:

Ubuntu OS?

Hellol guys! Ubuntu for Phones has been announced and I was already wondering if we can get it running on Ace...
More info about Ubuntu OS look here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2079198
Thanks!

It`s not fully working on galaxy nexus i mean it has some lag and on Ace it will lag as hell.so waot sometime till it`s officialy released by ubuntu guys and since they said ot can be on any android device don`t worry we`ll get it soon or later.
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Install it on your pc. Not just ubuntu, got thousands of other choices too.
Debian, fedora, slackware, arch, mageia, gentoo, etc, etc and the list go on and on

an0nym0us_ said:
Install it on your pc. Not just ubuntu, got thousands of other choices too.
Debian, fedora, slackware, arch, mageia, gentoo, etc, etc and the list go on and on
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I think you got me wrong. I know Ubuntu on PC, I was talking about Ubuntu for phones (the phone OS, not the desktop OS port). Also I really hope we get a port of this, it would be awesome to test!

Renan Lazarotto said:
I think you got me wrong. I know Ubuntu on PC, I was talking about Ubuntu for phones (the phone OS, not the desktop OS port). Also I really hope we get a port of this, it would be awesome to test!
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Erm, i think i read that 512mb ram was a minimum requirement?

King ACE said:
Erm, i think i read that 512mb ram was a minimum requirement?
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Miracle maybe? Isn't this what XDA is meant for? Ice Cream Sandwich, Jelly Bean can run on Galaxy Ace although it doesn't meet the minimum requirement.
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This OS already has its own section on xda and it hasn't even been released yet lol xda will jump on anything anyways u can share your thoughts on Ubuntu for phone here
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Miracle maybe? Isn't this what XDA is meant for? Ice Cream Sandwich, Jelly Bean can run on Galaxy Ace although it doesn't meet the minimum requirement.
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Yeah. Incredibly laggy even with a swap partition :'(

SuperAce609 said:
Yeah. Incredibly laggy even with a swap partition :'(
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I think you're not talking about Wayland's CM10.1. It is the fastest ROM I've ever tried, and overtakes by far the stock GB that Samsung gives to us. About Ubuntu OS, it was just curiosity... I think I'll be able to use it in a near future, I might get an Motorola Razr MAXX by March

android kitkat 4.4

i have seen in news that android kitkat 4.4 will support low end devices also.
will it run on x8 too?
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update: kitkat 4.4 supports 80% devices available in market
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mmm I don't think so, at least not officialy by sony, based on what I searched it requires 500 MB of RAM, but maybe, if it somehow is lighter than 4.1, developers can made it work on our device hehe

obviously we can't expect it from Sony, but i want to ask whether it will be faster than ics or jB on our x8
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yrmessi said:
obviously we can't expect it from Sony, but i want to ask whether it will be faster than ics or jB on our x8
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I think we should be thankful to the awesome developers here at xda that our device is running 4.1 JB...but porting 4.4 Kitkat to our low end device would be impossible...But u never know anything is possible....

yrmessi said:
i have seen in news that android kitkat 4.4 will support low end devices also.
will it run on x8 too?
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The "low-end device" now means different than 2-3 years earlier.
When the X8 released, it was a low-end device. It was more than 3 years ago. Try to compare the specification with a low-end device from this year and you can see: the old X8 hardware is REALLY FAR from the specs what determine a low-end device today.

pilu1978 said:
The "low-end device" now means different than 2-3 years earlier.
When the X8 released, it was a low-end device. It was more than 3 years ago. Try to compare the specification with a low-end device from this year and you can see: the old X8 hardware is REALLY FAR from the specs what determine a low-end device today.
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You hit the nail exactly. However, I do understand the appeal. When I read the article, a thought crossed my mind that someone someday might port it to the X8... a short, split-second thought

I think the old X8 had much longer lifecycle than someone expected it earlier.
The phone came out with weak hardware (especially the less than 200mb ram) and android 1.6. And now near fully working 4.1.2 available...
Today a "low-end device" means:
-armv7a (we have only armv6 instruction set)
-vfp3/vfp4 (we have the first version of vfp)
-thumb2 instructions (we have the first version of thumb)
-neon (we not have it)
-at least 350-400 mb available ram (typical value of 512mb phones, we have around 175-190, depends from the used kernel)
-and much more powerful cpu (a simple msm7x27A have 3-4 times more raw cpu power on 800-1000 MHz than our overclocked msm7227...)
So, the X8 is a great phone (now I have a Z, but keep the X8 too), but we need to stop dreaming about newer and newer android versions...

@Op
For me Jb ia tooooo much more for our device. This phone havent official froyo, but we have unofficial stable 4.1. Bwtter change
Phone than dreaming 4.4, when we havent still 4.2,
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We must be happy with the perfect gingerbread.
This give the best performance/compatibility ratio. The froyo is faster, but the app compatibility is lower.
The ics/jb roms working good, but too heavy for this weak device.

long story short , NO!!

Has anyone found/made a proper mdpi KitKat 4.4 theme yet?

Looks like there is still hope:
Android KitKat / CyanogenMod 11 coming for ARMv6 Phones
but yes, porting to x8 will be a hard task.
no branch cm-11 on shakira device at androidarmv6 github: https://github.com/androidarmv6/android_device_semc_shakira
cm-11 branch on the msm7x27: https://github.com/androidarmv6/android_vendor_qcom_msm7x27/tree/cm-11.0 and https://github.com/androidarmv6/android_device_qcom_msm7x27/tree/cm-11.0

pilu1978 said:
I think the old X8 had much longer lifecycle than someone expected it earlier.
The phone came out with weak hardware (especially the less than 200mb ram) and android 1.6. And now near fully working 4.1.2 available...
Today a "low-end device" means:
-armv7a (we have only armv6 instruction set)
-vfp3/vfp4 (we have the first version of vfp)
-thumb2 instructions (we have the first version of thumb)
-neon (we not have it)
-at least 350-400 mb available ram (typical value of 512mb phones, we have around 175-190, depends from the used kernel)
-and much more powerful cpu (a simple msm7x27A have 3-4 times more raw cpu power on 800-1000 MHz than our overclocked msm7227...)
So, the X8 is a great phone (now I have a Z, but keep the X8 too), but we need to stop dreaming about newer and newer android versions...
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Totally agree with you! Our little device is running short with today specifications, but is still running. (Running 4.1 Android versions!!)
That is pretty amazing. Most of that success is due to the fact that it has a large community still working on it.
apaan said:
Looks like there is still hope:
Android KitKat / CyanogenMod 11 coming for ARMv6 Phones
but yes, porting to x8 will be a hard task.
no branch cm-11 on shakira device at androidarmv6
cm-11 branch on the msm7x27
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I wouldn't give up on the idea of having 4.4 on our devices!
Of course, a full version would be impossible, but we have magicians in XDA!!

All I can say is unless you guys have proper binaries from 4.3+, it would be really hard to fix any bugs, let alone port it. For instance, my N7, a Nexus device, with all the source and compatibility, still has auto rotation, gps and other minor bugs that cannot be fixed, even with 4.3 binaries.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2556773

Giving away android sticks for porting

I have some android sticks lying around for anyone that wants to use it to port omnirom to it. They currently have android 4.2 on them and I have all the source code from the manufacturer.
Its limited how many I have, but I imagine if you pm me I can help you.
A little bit about the hardware. Its a Chinese chipset and I doubt most people will probably be able to work with the source code as the company is in china and provides next to no documentation. Also, its based on the ns115 chipset which is a dual cpu/gpu. But if you want to mess with it, then I guess the universe is giving you a real good riddle.

adamdmcbride said:
I have some android sticks lying around for anyone that wants to use it to port omnirom to it. They currently have android 4.2 on them and I have all the source code from the manufacturer.
Its limited how many I have, but I imagine if you pm me I can help you.
A little bit about the hardware. Its a Chinese chipset and I doubt most people will probably be able to work with the source code as the company is in china and provides next to no documentation. Also, its based on the ns115 chipset which is a dual cpu/gpu. But if you want to mess with it, then I guess the universe is giving you a real good riddle.
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Give me info about the stick HW please and I'll tell you what can be done.

InterfaceNode said:
Give me info about the stick HW please and I'll tell you what can be done.
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It's a chinese chipset Nufront ns115, dualcore arm cortex a9 with 8gb memory and 1gb ram. It has all source code and is currently using uboot as bootloader.
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adamdmcbride said:
It's a chinese chipset Nufront ns115, dualcore arm cortex a9 with 8gb memory and 1gb ram. It has all source code and is currently using uboot as bootloader.
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I'll see what I can do about it; owning the hardware is not required but if I boot
Please link me to the source and I'll begin as soon as possible

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Bobcus Leper said:
On reading up in the Galaxy Nexus forums, I saw that the TI-OMAP 4 was not supported in AOSP Lollipop and above. Is this why our OMAP phones perform poorly on ART based ROMs, while ROMs using the dalvik compiler are smoother? In AOSP Nougat, the Snapdragon 800 and 801 chips using the Adreno 330 GPU are no longer supported as well. I guess my question is if it will it be possible to reverse engineer OMAP-4 drivers for Nougat that can support the new surface view texture renderer?
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I MIGHT be possible to support it, but would take a bit of work, offloading that stuff to the CPU (which is just what we need, right?) and all of which is above my skill level.
Bobcus Leper said:
On reading up in the Galaxy Nexus forums, I saw that the TI-OMAP 4 was not supported in AOSP Lollipop and above. Is this why our OMAP phones perform poorly on ART based ROMs, while ROMs using the dalvik compiler are smoother?
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The performance problems are probably a mix of slowish eMMC (have to load the precompiled ART files, and they're not exactly tiny), lack of main memory (ART has a bigger memory footprint), and an unsuitable CPU that was outdated when the phone was built, nevermind nowadays. The latter two are what seem to really kill us in CM13; if we're not stuck reclaiming memory, we're saturating the CPU : \
Having Motorola stroll in and develop some up-to-date, optimized drivers sure would be cool, though...hardware is hardware, but good firmware can make a lot out of little.
Nougat is apparently taking a step back and re-introducing JIT execution...so if our resident maintainer does somehow pull off yet another miracle and we get CM14 on here, I'd expect less I/O and memory pressure at the very least. The stock partitions would become viable again too, what with /data/ not being clogged by ART precompiles, and being able to run off them might also offer a (small) performance increase. /system/ is gonna be a tight fit, though...
But using drivers built in two previous, different eras of Android, most of which were for another device...seems like it's gonna take some serious work.
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Galaxy Nexus has Nougat!
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Nougat build is up. No, I have not died, and neither has the Galaxy Nexus.
Decided to take an extra couple days to get this build stable rather than rushing out something that boots and does nothing else, sorry for the delay.
I can't verify the full functionality of the RIL since I don't have a SIM in my GNex these days, so let me know if there's any issues with that.
Everything else should be working well though.
No idea what to do for GApps at this time. I haven't tried them yet.
Download: aosp_n_tuna_2016-08-27.zip
As usual this was a team effort. @Ziyan helped, and @Hashcode (who I thought had died) helped as well.
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Last time i talked with i Dev about Andoid 7 on the Droid 4, i was told that it would not be possible because of SELinux. But that Info is almost a year old. Maybe someone has more up to date information about this.

1f5 said:
Last time i talked with i Dev about Andoid 7 on the Droid 4, i was told that it would not be possible because of SELinux. But that Info is almost a year old. Maybe someone has more up to date information about this.
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Thanks! Maybe we should ask @stargo about it. Although, I know stargo likes to surprise people with a new Android version.
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Really hoping this old beast will get CM14 due to the coding magic of stargo or some other guys out there.
I recently aquired a completely new Droid 4 from a Verizon reseller in mint condition. Now I never want to live without a slider again!
It is a bit slow, gets hot sometimes and becomes pretty much unuseable with Google Play installed, but who needs that stuff anyways.
Can keep me warm in winter and after replacing stock apps with Naked Browser and Simple Music Player it runs well and fast.
Please don't let this slider die. The only alternative to this device is the Photon Q and this needs to be soldered due to the missing SIM slot.

Bro i think it will have a cm14 for the droid 4
Bro, there say that it is official for the droid 4 to get cm14 check on gammerson .com

Some new info from JooJooBee666.
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Hi folks! I had some spare time to setup CM13 build tool chain and - maybe too late for @Septfox - I made a custom kernel with LMK accounting for swap memory, i.e. LMK does only consider memory pages as free which won't require swapping, now. In order to not spam this thread anymore with LMK issues and memory tuning, I created a new thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/droid-4/development/wip-custom-kernel-lowmemorykiller-t3470411
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JooJooBee666--
This is cool. I'll test these out here as well. If things look good I'll see about getting LMK changes added to the cm13 kernel and upcoming cm14 kernels (work just began).:good:
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CM14 confirmed?:fingers-crossed::good:
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JooJooBee666 --
Not really confirmed (as in no promises it will ever be fully functional as of yet). Just started working on getting things compiling. After that, it's along ways a way from anything usable as there are some new hurdles to overcome thanks to additional lock-downs on SE Linux. So yeah, :fingers-crossed: is right.

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