yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] albright:
All I've done is erase all the weirdly named files ... lost a bunch of stuff

(apps, downloads ...) but nothing important.

I'm coming to think that android is the win95 of the linux world :)
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noflegrapor:
I'm thinking more Win98

I was a huge Win98SE fan and kind of want to get it back running on some hardware in the future. But yea, it's work in progress, that is for sure.

I also deleted the names and went with Vegan-TAB. I'm a big fan.
[Nexus S General] JupiterDroid:
Due to the overwhelming support for such a project to be undertaken I thought it would be a good idea to set up a think tank and get some valuable info from devs on this process. There are many people willing to support this process with cash, I do not want any fiscal rewards but it may be there for devs that do.

Please no flaming, just constructive comments on where to start with this;)

Update: 10/04/2010

apreichner is going to try and port a Desire S Sense build to the NS, he has built a ROM from source before & this looks to be the first major dev involvement in this process. My thanks to apreichner and I wish you all the luck possible, and im sure there is quite a lot of other people in the community rooting for you too;)

Update: 12/4/2011

apreichner has become the first person to boot HTC Sense on a Nexus S. At the moment nothing works but this is a fantastic monumental event in the life of the NS. Let's hope this is the beginning of good times for this device;)

JD

Sent from my Google Black Neolithic Slab Of Wonderment S
[Nexus S General] JupiterDroid:
Update: 10/04/2010

apreichner is going to try and port a Desire S Sense build to the NS, he has built a ROM from source before & this looks to be the first major dev involvement in this process. My thanks to apreichner and I wish you all the luck possible, and im sure there is quite a lot of other people in the community rooting for you too:)

Update: 12/4/2011

apreichner has become the first person to boot HTC Sense on a Nexus S. At the moment nothing works but this is a fantastic monumental event in the life of the NS. Let's hope this is the beginning of good times for this device;)

JD

Sent from my Google Black Neolithic Slab Of Wonderment S
[Nexus S General] flamerider88:
Definitely interested and would love sense! <<ALPHA TESTER!
[Nexus S General] JupiterDroid:
Cheers Flamerider

Its time to get this badboy on the road. I have messaged a few people and will look for a good starting point, really need some top dev help;)

JD

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[Nexus S General] flamerider88:
Hmm lets give Modaco a ring? He is damn good with that Sense.
[Nexus S General] JupiterDroid:
Paul only usually works on phones that he uses frequently, I think he is loved up with the 2x at the moment... If Paul has not already started doing this, I'm pretty sure he has not got any plans to do so;( I will send him a tweet and see what his thoughts are;)

JD

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[Nexus S General] avetny:
good LUCK !!!!!:)
[Nexus S General] dario3040:
Thats the worst phone i have ever tried in my entire life.

I don't know why he hasn't sent it right back or sold it, ... or heck, i would have given it away for free
[Nexus S General] Xandlinger:
I am willing to test the ROMs for developers and provide feedback through IRC/endless emails.

Willing to donate as well if we ever set up a list or whatever.
[Nexus S General] JupiterDroid:
Yep, i think AllGamer should set up a paypal account so we can contribute, im surprised that paul has not tried to port sense already
[Nexus S General] JupiterDroid:
If there is to be no dev help then this will surely fail;(
[Nexus S General] OuncE718:
I don't know why the Nexus S lacks dev support when its supposed to be a dev phone. It definitely has the hardware for it. The g1 still gets dev support and its hardware sucks compared to a phone like the Nexus S. Does anyone know about how many devs the NS has?
[Nexus S General] glmrckr:
I've never seen the Samsung UI but I love the HTC one! I hope someone ports this!
[Nexus S General] JupiterDroid:
I did not know we had such a lack of Dev's until now. Its like a ghost town, and this is such a great phone for devs too;(

JD

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[Nexus S General] OuncE718:
Smh, its sad. Google should pay some secret devs to come to XDA to show others the potential of the NS hardware and maybe other devs might do some exciting ports other than the traditional gingerbread roms. I DO APPRECIATE THE CURRENT DEVS AND THEIR HARD WORK, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
[Nexus S General] JupiterDroid:
If no dev help is going to be forthcoming then we will become the dev.... I think its a joke, there cant be this lack of dev support surely....

If this was the N1 there would already be ROM's churning out everywhere instead of regurgitated CM7/Stock ROM'S
[Nexus S General] lfmmoura:
Wouldn't it be illegal to port the customizations made by Samsung and HTC? Just a thought as to why this may not be getting any attention.

If I recall correctly, there was even a widget developer that was asked by HTC to stop distributing a Sense-based theme.
[Nexus S General] JupiterDroid:
No;)

There are lots of Sense ports on the N1 section so its ok... I think its only illegal if your doing it for fiscal purposes.

JD
[Nexus S General] glmrckr:
Why would it be illegal? Isn't Android open-source like linux? I hope its not because I really would like to see the HTC Sense. I even got a chance to see the samsung ui (I think you guys have been calling it Touchwhiz) and it looks pretty snazzy too!

Hey jupiterdroid, I noticed in your signature that you do some computer related stuff. Have you ever tried developing? Maybe if you started working on a port others would join in!
[Nexus S General] JupiterDroid:
Technically porting android would not be illegal, but sense is not open source so porting that for fiscal purposes could be seen as stealing.

Mate I wished I could port and code, all my experience is in networking and programing Cisco routers;( I would love to give this a go, but even experienced coders failed to port sense to the vibrant, it makes me fear the worst, and is also making me consider selling the NS and buying the Evo 3D when it arrives in Europe;) Just miss the diversity of a HTC phone;)

JD

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[Nexus S General] prittyboy203:
Right I didn't even know they where making something like that looks pretty cool and if I do keep this phone longer then I usually do lol then I to will look foreword to that port lol :^]
[Nexus S General] :
Dude, you really know how to get a man excited... My girlfriend doesn't even get me that excited;P

Sense 3.0 looks fantastic, hope you can port both bro;) Anything we can do to help just ask;)

JD
[Nexus S General] Waza_Be:
Great news!

I tried Sense ( a little bit buggy) on the Galaxy S and the combo Sense+ SUper AMoled was awesome!

I can't wait to see on the Nexus, now!
[Nexus S General] apreichner:
That might be something you'd wanna discuss with your girlfriend.
[Nexus S General] :
I think you may be right. :)

-I wrangled together some consonants and vowels and created this post-
[Nexus S General] :
Or question my sanity;)

JD
[Nexus S General] j0hnZ:
Lawl, I spent like 5 pages in this thread arguing for development. Obviously I'm pretty bored.

I will never understand why someone likes SenseUI regardless of what phone they chose. :confused:
[Nexus S General] apreichner:
Compiling an Update.zip as I speak, although I don't expect it to work yet...

If it doesn't work, I'm not going to upload it, but I just wanted to keep you updated.
[Nexus S General] murdoch1:
Oh my god........brilliant news. Fingers crossed. The best thing if this works.....its CHOICE....I for one like sense and gingerbread stock.....can't wait to hear further news......

Cheers Andy
[Nexus S General] Zehlek:
I so hope it works. I would love to flash and use it
[Nexus S General] apreichner:
ClockworkMod changed the update-script requirements in 3.0.5, I have to update the zip in order for it to flash. Working on it now.
[Nexus S General] Zehlek:
Awesome thanks :-D
[Nexus S General] peeturr:
What a teaser.
[Nexus S General] nitsuajd:
you must convert the update-script (amend) to updater-script (edify) maybe you can do it with dsixda kitchen
[Nexus S General] j0hnZ:
Or you can take any other rom updater-script for the Nexus S and take away add to it as you need.
[Nexus S General] :
Oh my God, you work fast dude;)

Sent via my Google Devless Phone...
[Nexus S General] prittyboy203:
Hold up sweeeeettt lol do I have to update my recovery to a newer clockwork for this to work or it has to be done in the rom itself?
[Nexus S General] :
I very much doubt we will have a fully useable version at first. This will start as a very early alpha and grow from there;) But fun times are here;) it also opens the prospect of a zoom for our camera and 720p;)

Sent via my Google Devless Phone...
[Nexus S General] :
Just play it the same dude:)

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[Nexus S General] :
@apreichner you will have to start your Sense alpha thread when your update.zip is ready, or I can maintain it here, your call bro.... Personally I think you should start your own thread up and gain that acclaim you deserve. A working port of sense will persuade more people and devs to buy the phone, ipso facto we will have a bigger dev community;) this is the kickstart it needs;)

JD

Sent via my Google Devless Phone...
[Nexus S General] apreichner:
Good news everyone:

We now have the first booting Sense ROM on the Nexus S. I snapped a picture to prove it below.

Heres the issues: The file size is a huge 230mb, probably because it includes every language known to mankind, I'll have to fix that. I was planning on making my own post for the ROM and uploading it, unfortunately, since the file is so large I'm going to have issues finding a place to host it. I'm going to put together a Alpha testing team using Dropbox for the time-being, so if you are interested, send me your dropbox email address in a PM.

What's working:

-HTC Sense UI

What's not working:

-Cellular Radio

-Wifi

-Probably GPS

-Graphics are a little glitchy.

-Power off, had to pull battery.

-Probably more but I haven't tested it all yet.

I still have more work left to do and I don't suspect it will be too hard to fix some of the issues I currently have.
[Nexus S General] :
Wow dude,

GENIUS!

Can I alpha test?

JD

Sent via my Google Devless Phone...
[Nexus S General] Vandam500:
Awesome! And yeah like Jupiter says, you should open your own thread. You can even put in the OP you need help with hosting and someone will likely have a server or something.
[Nexus S General] stavros86:
OMG you made it!!!
[Nexus S General] :
Vandam speaks wisely;)

JD

Sent via my Google Devless Phone...
[Nexus S General] j0hnZ:
I can host...

but it would be nice if you did this for tw too :D
[Nexus S General] :
Will message the mods, this is xda news worthy

Sent via my Google Devless Phone...
[Nexus S General] :
Touchwiz will come bro;) pretty sure of that, people are just waiting for TW4.0 before porting

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[Nexus S General] zephiK:
Yeah and his signature has a donate link..... so when the finished product where everything is fully functioning, give him some funding for pepsi/beer whatever you want to call it ;)
[Nexus S General] :
Goes without saying....

I have only donated to three devs in the past, Cyanogen, Evil, and Paul OB through Modaco, this Guy will be the 4th Zeph most definitely;)

JD

Sent via my Google Devless Phone...
[Nexus S General] Vandam500:
See we already have someone with host powers :p
[Nexus S General] Smokexz:
Shut up you noob, why the hell would you want sense when you have a freaking Nexus S? Retard...

Loljk, that is something I have always wanted TouchWiz and Sense is VERY pretty, the GB UI is very dark and gets tiring on the eyes.

Side note as well, anyone starts working with ROMs I guess I could volunteer to try em etc. Stock as stock can be, besides root and boot being unlocked xD

Sent from my Xoom
[Nexus S General] Zehlek:
This is sweet awesome news. I can't wait
[Nexus S General] :
Erased due to my tired stupidity, lollol

Sent via my Renewed Hope Device;)
[Nexus S General] Vandam500:
Haha he was joking ROFL...you didn't read past the first line :p?
[Nexus S General] :
Yeah I just got it;P

I really need to sleep, haha

Sent via my Renewed Hope Device;)
[Nexus S General] Vandam500:
Haha you do that ;)
[Nexus S General] zephiK:
hehe. I just wanted to point it out :P

and GB UI being all black isn't a TOTAL bad thing, its saving power on our phone because its not using any power being black (black on super amoled consumes 0 power)
[Nexus S General] aaronpaws:
I really hope this turns into a stable rom over time. I've always liked having sense as an option alongside AOSP and cyan.
[Nexus S General] Zehlek:
As do I. I wonder if the sense will have a FM Radio option like the Nexus One had?
[Nexus S General] OuncE718:
This is excellent news. Thank God someone is stepping out of the stock gingerbread box.
[Nexus S General] zephiK:
well thats kind of hard because the non-stock corporate ROMs (Sense, TouchWiz, Motoblur, etc) aren't fully on 2.3.X and now they're starting to populate.
[Nexus S General] patrixl:
What awesome news to wake up to! :cool::D:eek:
[Nexus S General] brian6685:
Sweet, this is good news. More stuff for me to play with on my phone :) its too bad I don't know how to do this stuff, I would probably spend 23 hours out of the day doing it lol
[Nexus S General] Darrien13:
I cant wait :D
[Nexus S General] j0hnZ:
I dislike that you changed the name of the thread...just saying.
[Nexus S General] :
Don't worry mate, Touchwiz will come;)) lol

JD

Sent via my Renewed Hope Device;)
[Nexus S General] murdoch1:
GET OVER IT............OMG.........maybe you would be better off with a nokia phone ....there ain't much you like about this forum or anything within it it seems? :eek:
[Nexus S General] :
Yeah, I changed the title because it fits the result;)

Johnz just needs to chill that's all;) Don't wish a Nokia phone on anyone.... lolz

JD

Sent via my Renewed Hope Device;)
[Nexus S General] Jonathon Grigg:
I'm willing to help port TW4 when there's a dump or firmware available, rather good at taking things apart and modifying them. Not that I want to use TW4, but choice is good :D my school break is in 2 days so that's great timing for me...

Congrats on getting Sense to work btw! Awesome job :D definitely inspired me to try porting TW. Sensation will be interesting ;) Im willing to help with a Sensation port when its out too.

Sent from my Nexus S
[Nexus S General] slimjimwoods:
It looms as though although we don't have many devs, the ones we do have are the cream of the crop :) looking forward to this one!
[Nexus S General] SwollenMonkey:
I'm excited to see this. Liked sense on my old desire before upgrading. Wouldn't mind a gander if it ran well and no big bugs
[Nexus S General] :
Cool John,

Get in touch with apreichner, he would love help as it's very much a one man show at the moment;)

JD

Sent via my Renewed Hope Device;)
[Nexus S General] Jonathon Grigg:
Can do, I can even help with sorting out issues with this port too. The more help the better ;)
[Nexus S General] j0hnZ:
I wasn't talking to you.

If I would have known this would turn into a senseui thread I wouldn't have spent 5 pages defending the thread.
[Nexus S General] treUse:
Jesus, calm down. Development is development, it's good either way ;)
[Nexus S General] thebowers131:
if you wanted to talk to one person, you should have pm'd them ;)

Well the title before said Sense and TW so im confused why you would think it wasnt going to be about sense? And since you dont like that fact that you defended Sense before, maybe you should go back to each one of your posts and delete what you said.
[Nexus S General] j0hnZ:
When some individual comes in and puts you on blast because he thinks he knows what you're talking about I'll come back and say the same to you when you come to defend yourself. I even offered to host it, but I can't have an opinion...get over yourselves.
[Nexus S General] :
Then its maybe time you stopped posting your negativity here, and I was sticking up for you... We don't want any negativity here so if you could stop trolling it would be appriciated. You have made your point clear that you hate sense, we don't care and are not interested.

One more negative comment and I will have to report you to the mods.

Thanks,

JD

Sent via my Renewed Hope Device;)
[Nexus S General] :
Wonderful John that's great and muchly appriciated.

Please ignore the odd troll, sense and tw4 is very much wanted by the community and I'm sure you are the guys to deliver.

JD

Sent via my Renewed Hope Device;)
[Nexus S General] j0hnZ:
Why do I feel like Adam Sandler in the airplane scene of Anger Management right now? Nothing was meant negatively until people came in bashing me because they didn't understand what I was saying. Hooray for development, and I'll help anyway I can for the sake of development even though I don't like sense. Just because I said I don't like sense they got all uppity about it, for no reason. I am the victim here...but if nobody see's that I'll just continue with this airplane scene of the ridiculous.
[Nexus S General] :
We know your opinion, it does not mean you have to force it apon everyone else. You don't like sense? Well what are you doing here? No one is bashing you, just go start your own think tank thread for TW

JD

Sent via my Renewed Hope Device;)
[Nexus S General] j0hnZ:
Everything I said was in a joking matter with a little hey don't forget about TW twist, until someone decided to talk **** to me. the smiley face and the ...just saying were my indications of that joking around. Why would I make the offer to host it if I didn't care about development? That's nonsensical.
[Nexus S General] dario3040:
I agree.

Make a new thread when it gets done
[Nexus S General] bratfink:
I declare the end of this ultimate BS rant. Now back to topic...
[Nexus S General] :
Very true,

Just please no more negativity, we are working for results, negativity breeds negativity;)

Now back to the porting, apreichner you have been a bit quiet dude;)

Johnz has confirmed hosting and Johnathan Grigg has confirmed help, so your not alone on this one anymore pal;)

JD

Sent via my Renewed Hope Device;)
[Nexus S General] j0hnZ:
I wonder if he's got someone helping on the kernel. I figure that to be a main point of workability and having a recovery.
[Nexus S General] Jonathon Grigg:
If it makes things a bit lighter, I should add that I downloaded the leaked Galaxy S 2.3.3 rom earlier this afternoon, and will start poking around in it tomorrow probably (currently fixing stuff on my ROM :p).

I know its not TW4 and maybe not as interesting but its a start and then I can get a feel for how much work the full TW4 port will require.

The other thing I noticed: I'm glad our ROMs are ~90mb, the stock 2.3.3 for Galaxy S was around 165mb!

Sent from my Nexus S
[Nexus S General] j0hnZ:
As far as TW4, I don't think that is even done for the Galaxy S 2 yet, but if you wanted to get started on a port from the i9000 you might talk to Whitehawx I think his name is, he's been porting Gingerbread TW from the i9000 and did a very good port from the Vibrant 4g.
[Nexus S General] j0hnZ:
nom nom nom. Hoping you can bring the apps and codec's! Either way sense or tw I hope someone figures out the camera zooming and 720p recording. That will be huge for any rom.
[Nexus S General] stavros86:
thats true and tv out and fm radio features from touchwiz, tw should be a little easier to port because of the hardware of galaxy s being almost same
[Nexus S General] Jonathon Grigg:
Exactly my thoughts! I may not find the UI the best but enabling the extra hardware features are what I'm in it for :D should be easier to port than anything from the GS2 as well.

Sent from my Nexus S
[Nexus S General] :
Sorry to be a nuisance but can you guys set up a TW think tank?

Cheers;)

JD

Sent via my Renewed Hope Device;)
[Nexus S General] AllGamer:
renamed the topic to match the actual Dev work, to make it less confusing
[Nexus S General] :
renamed again as it sense;) tee hee;)

JD
[Nexus S General] :
@apreichner

When you have something usable mate can you throw it out to us, we are all gagging to have a play;) I might not have my NS much longer so i would like to play before it goes;)

JD
[Nexus S General] brian6685:
Excuse me sir but I have a complaint. Since the creation of this thread my battery life has suffered due to the constant checking of this thread. Lol

Nexus S
[Nexus S General] :
;) Yes it has that affect mate;) lol

JD
[Nexus S General] Zehlek:
I keep refreshing all day lol
[Nexus S General] sagarpruthi:
Me2 all day long.
[Nexus S General] prittyboy203:
+1 can't wait for a taste its good to know something is in the work keeps you wanting :^]
[Nexus S General] apreichner:
I apologize for the delay in posting. I am currently in college and had classes and finals coming up. I am uploading the rom as I speak to 4Shared. I am hoping to drop the size of the file by a lot for 0.2.

Info for some questions I saw:

Kernel: Currently it is just a stock kernel, actually built for CM, but I had to do some modifications.

FM Radio: If it isn't available for stock, it wont be available for Sense.

Now you guys have a new thread to refresh!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1034130
[Nexus S General] :
I heard the wifi module has radio capability, just needs to be enabled;)

Sent via my Renewed Hope Device;)
[Nexus S General] Jonathon Grigg:
Yep, same chip as in the N1 I think. FM, Bluetooth and Wifi all in one.

Sent from my Nexus S
[Nexus S General] Zehlek:
Hopefully it won't be hard to enable
[Nexus S General] Jonathon Grigg:
I've been looking into it ;) having a full Sense port will make the initial work much easier! Then I can try bringing it to AOSP builds.
[Nexus S General] Zehlek:
I wish I knew how to do all this. I'd help a lot
[Nexus S General] :
IntersectRaven enabled it for sense on the n1 through his kernel, maybe he could give you tips john

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[Nexus S General] apreichner:
I'll get in contact with him to see if I can get some more information. Thanks.
[Nexus S General] :
No problem mate,

Another guy you could check out is eViL:D as he did the best ports of sense for the n1 and g2. He is also fantastic with kernels, just not so fantastic with communication, lol

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[Nexus S General] bryuliro:
anything??? 2012 and still here :) i REALLY want sense on my nexus s i would pay for it :D
[Nexus S General] swamp goblin:
Hahah im working on a few sense builds over in the ns4g forums, and also have expresso sense ported ;) maybe i can help you
[Nexus S General] Nerd019:
Hey Swamp Goblin any chance you can help us Nexus S 3G users i would love to try your Nexpresso rom even if i have to be the Guinea Pig :).
[Nexus S General] Fa1n7:
Do try, man, please! The NS4G gets alot of ports and we are left with nothing. I would like to try at least 2-3 of all the ports there and I sure everybody does so please go forward. PLEASE. VERY BIG PLEASE! ;(
[Nexus S General] swamp goblin:
I can port most of my roms to gsm nexus, if you guys are willing to test :) Nexpresso would be a good one and it wouldnt be that hard
[Nexus S General] :
which version of sense are you thinking? i might not use it regularly, but i'm interested and would test for you
[Nexus S General] swamp goblin:
Well Nexpresso is sense 2.1 Mytouch port.. and I am currently working on sense 2.1 with sense 3.0 addons
[Nexus S General] Nerd019:
i would test :)
[Nexus S General] fabrizioo2007:
wwaao sense 3.0 on my nexus s would be awesome!!!can you really port it for our devices?
[Nexus S General] Andrew421:
God, i'd test i want sense terribly
[Nexus S General] Nerd019:
i do too :),iv'e been trying to fix sense rom but i can't lol