Hi!
Im just thinking about a own forum for Ideos X5. Its a great phone with really good specs for a low price. Its like the Zte blade but twice as good. It's also good for root because of the vanilla rom. So what do you people think?(Hope you understand, im not from a english speaking country)
//Isak
I completely second this. I'm getting mine this week and I'd love it if the phone had some xda support.
I know this phone is getting quite popular in the non american regions and might get more popular due to the amazing pricing.
Please give us a forum \o/
Yes! Would love a forum. Getting mine soon, looks amazing for the price.
Can't wait for some rom love - Time to replace my mytouch 3g. If this phone came out in the US I think we would be seeing a lot more dev support for it.
Yeah Its a amazing phone for an amazing price If it just come out some good roots and it would be more awesome
Yes! We need a Forum for it!
My friend just bought one of these and it looks pretty sweet, especially for the low price. hopefully it gets a forum and some attention from XDA Devs
These are great value in Australia really cheap. $299 outright from Crazy Johns. Will probably pick one up soon. Really want a gingerbread ROM for it though, please create a section.
Yes, would like to see a forum for it too - it's quite a bit cheaper than equivalent phones.
Yes, forum please.
I bought one yesterday, here in Western Australia.
Been using it for several hours now total and so far have NOT been able to find any menu items for wi-fi tethering.
This post is coming using USB Tethering which worked right out of the box. Tethered to an Asus EEE 701 Netbook running Ubuntu Linux 10.04.
So, if I can't find wi-fi tethering menu item, I'll need to get root access and install barnacle again.
Compared to my Sony Ericsson X8, that I've had since late last year, it's blindingly fast! The big screen is nice too!
So yes, I'm all in favour of a dedicated forum ... I reckon that the Ideos X5 is going to be a big seller, at least here in Australia where I paid $349 for an unlocked, unbranded (vanilla rom) with version 2.2.1 rom.
Trev
Wait I thought x5 wasn't out yet....or is that just in America?
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I got one last week and it is a great phone
I agree, this phone definitely needs its own forum. I got an Ideos X5 or u8800 a few days ago and it is just awesome. This is my first 'real' smartphone as I just upgraded from an n73 haha. I'm really excited about getting a 2.3 rom (and SetCPU ) onto my phone and I would be glad to contribute in any way I can.
There is another thread requesting the same thing (U8800 = X5)
that is, forum plx :]
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=928727
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+1 for own forum section.
I've had this phone a few weeks, I like it so far. Some minor things that I'd like to try to change, but I've been waiting for CM recovery before that. I mailed the ROM Manager creator if I could help him on March 8th, but no reply yet.
Edit: Looks like there's a guide on how to port the CM recovery for new devices: google "porting-clockwork-recovery-to-new.html". I think I might try this some day if someone else doesn't port it before that
ksatta said:
+1 for own forum section.
I've had this phone a few weeks, I like it so far. Some minor things that I'd like to try to change, but I've been waiting for CM recovery before that. I mailed the ROM Manager creator if I could help him on March 8th, but no reply yet.
Edit: Looks like there's a guide on how to port the CM recovery for new devices: google "porting-clockwork-recovery-to-new.html". I think I might try this some day if someone else doesn't port it before that
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Hope you get an answer Would be awesome if you tried it out and then post here how it worked
That U8800 thread has much more in the way of tips and useful info. While we wait for a forum dedicated to our Ideos X5 / U8800 phone, I suggest that we post any tips, info etc into THAT thread.
For example, I'll be copying my observation of the wifi tethering "gotcha" to that thread, now that I know it exists (thanks lyfkevin!).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=928727&page=3
trevh said:
I bought one yesterday, here in Western Australia.
Been using it for several hours now total and so far have NOT been able to find any menu items for wi-fi tethering.
This post is coming using USB Tethering which worked right out of the box. Tethered to an Asus EEE 701 Netbook running Ubuntu Linux 10.04.
So, if I can't find wi-fi tethering menu item, I'll need to get root access and install barnacle again.
Compared to my Sony Ericsson X8, that I've had since late last year, it's blindingly fast! The big screen is nice too!
So yes, I'm all in favour of a dedicated forum ... I reckon that the Ideos X5 is going to be a big seller, at least here in Australia where I paid $349 for an unlocked, unbranded (vanilla rom) with version 2.2.1 rom.
Trev
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Wow. I'm interested in this phone too ... since you already own one, does it run stock Android?
Really think we need a forum for this phone!
I'm not sure of your definition of "stock Android", Jubei71 but when I said "vanilla rom" I meant that it has a standard version of Android without phone carrier branding, shortcuts etc. For example, when it boots it just shows the Huawei logo.
It has "Swype" technology for the on-screen touch keyboard that I believe is a propriotory, non Google prodcut but I presume that Huawei simply pay for the rights to include it in this rom. And I found that I don't need to use Swype if I don't want too, "normal" hunt-and-peck key taps work just fine too.
I've installed plenty of stuff from the Google Market (Google and non Google) and it all works with no problems, although a You Tube link from one of my emails crashed the phone very soon after playback began. I had to power it down then re-start to regain control. I'm still checking but that email link may have been malicious or it may have been a "Adobe Flash 10" compatibility problem.
If my Ideos X5 proves to have unlocked Nand write and boot process (evidence so far suggests that it MAY be), I'll love it to death because then we'll be able to install our own "non-stock" , super-go-fast rom eventually!
+1 from me to
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So what do you think, the users on this forum ( I hope ) use Adams, should i go for pre order of an iconia tab for a more plain hardware powerful device, or should i be extremely patient and wait for the adam to go back on pre-order for the UI?
All help is appreciated!
I would never ever buy an Adam again. Half of what was promised either doesn't work or is not build in and when you ever get to need the support (which you definetly would) you are fu.....
I wish you the very best with your new tablet. I am a very happy adam owner
see, im just having such a tough time, they are so similair except for eden ui but i cannot decide if thats what i want in a tablet. Would you guys rather have software or hardware?
Hardware, software can be updated and changed, IE xda! So I love my adam, though I've had to mod it alot it still has alot of potential without alot of work, most people at work are asking me to get one for them, mod it and make it ready for our deployment.
So I love it!
i was just wondering why is there no work on a501?
there is only one person that dose work for the a501, thats moscow. he dose great work, but i find it hard to believe that no one else has one to work on.
yes i know i can flash a500 roms but i lose some features.
i know that we dont have whats needed for ics on the a501 but there arent any hc roms other than alaxandrea. witch is great im not complaining, but cmon we need some more devs/chefs for this device!!
I think its the same reason there aren't many 3g integrated tablets out there, according to everything I have read, wifi tablets outsell 3g tablets 5 to 1, probably because nobody wants to sign up for yet another contract. So there are considerably less A501 users and therefore considerably less developers.
I have a crippled A501 from ATT and I am running Alexandra III which as a rom I am quite happy with, it actually is the best rom I have ever ran (I have run many on my Nexus One and never found one as stable as Moscow's).
My big issue with my A501 is the lack of bluetooth capabilities, I want to make bluetooth calls with Skype, and better yet have a dialer so I could use my phone sim card to make calls from my A501 over 2g or GSM. I also want bluetooth SPP capabilities so I can control devices...
To that end I downloaded the source and setup an ubuntu environment to compile the kernel source but so far am getting lots of errors and can't figure out which toolchain to use for cross compiling.
At this point I am ready to start a bounty thread....
i guess thats tru.
but even if they are out sold 5-1 there are still thousadns apon thousands of a501's out there and we have only have one guy doing work.....
i love moscows rom too, probably wouldnt switch if there were more. but thats kinda the point the more people working on something, the better the chance better and cool stuff could be made to happen. poor moscow, all alone in this forum lol.
cmon acer and realease us some ics so moscow can hook us up!!
Here in Oz you can bu the A501 without any plan... You can put any simcard in and know you have the carrier working. We don't have CDMA anymore...
I don't know why other countries don't do this too, it certainly generates sales for Acer if the tabs are sold wild to be used on any carrier....
The a501 is actually pretty cheap without contract at an AT&T store. Ultimately most a500 rooms will work fine on the a501 as the only difference is the wireless card. Even with that aspect taken into account all that would need made to include full functionality for the a501 on every a500 ROM is a flashable zip with updated build.prop values and the 3g driver. The kernel base should be nearly identical but would need some slight modification for multiband support. As long as the kernel wasn't compiled before the initial ROM flash any modifications would fall under the original GPL for the a500 kernel.
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Hi,
I'm trying to get some understanding of the VZ version of this tab and what it would take to build a custom rom for it.
Been playing with custom roms going all the way back to a htc g1 so I'm pretty familiar with the processes involved from the user side of things.
First a couple clarifying questions specifically about the VZ tab, is this one called 6815 or is it a 6800/6810?
If it is a 6815 as I'm assuming has there hasn't been any custom rom work done up to now? I wasn't able to find any.
What would it take to get the CM team of one of the other ****-hot dev teams to develop for this tab? Is it simply a lack of access to the hardware?
If it is lack of hardware perhaps we could join together as a community and raise some funds to support the purchase of a dedicated dev tablet. Heck I might be willing to donate my own for a time.
Thanks for any ideas / answers.
--tr
Verizon SCH-i815 the 6800 and 6810 are for the rest of the world.
The Verizon version incorporates its 4G LTE and an infrared blaster.
I would also be happy to contribute to any development on this tablet. Love the thing, but I know the potential of it with development.
Hey all, new Tab 4 7.0 owner here. I've only ever owned HTC EVO devices, which have a wide selection of custom everything to choose from, so empty Android/Original Development sections are a new concept for me.
From what I read, development hasn't started because we don't have a stable recovery environment yet, but assuming we get that down, what would be the main hinderances (device-specifc issues) of getting AOSP on this tablet? What can we non-developers do to help?
Thanks for all your answers!
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Hey all, new Tab 4 7.0 owner here. I've only ever owned HTC EVO devices, which have a wide selection of custom everything to choose from, so empty Android/Original Development sections are a new concept for me.
From what I read, development hasn't started because we don't have a stable recovery environment yet, but assuming we get that down, what would be the main hinderances (device-specifc issues) of getting AOSP on this tablet? What can we non-developers do to help?
Thanks for all your answers!
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As far as I know, we have a bit of lack of support fro Devs. We do have great Devs however some (if not most) of them don't actually own the device so they are trying to work from other devices including the Tab 3 series. Another thing is lack of tools and information from Samsung. Even though they do provide Devs with tools and info, they are a bit secretive when it comes to development of the actual OS. So that's that. What you can do is to offer to test new methods but you must accept the risks which involves Hard Bricking of the the tab. Other than that just be patient and privide any information you can give
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As a contributor that works with the Tab 3 7in version, I can tell you that the Marvel cpu/board set that Samsung used on our (and your) 7in wifi versions is the main problem.
We have managed to get a version of CM 11 working, but some essentials such as wifi, bluetooth, and hardware composer are not easy with Marvel. We still have a lot of work to do and very little time to spend trying.
And the previous answer is also correct, you need more devs for the Tab 4.
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