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[Galaxy 3 General] rudolf895:
He does not have a g3 but a g5, yes he could be helpful in sharing the common problems while porting and tips to do it quicker..
[Galaxy 3 General] sg3cmport:
firts post changed, added the link.

POLL ENDS MONDAY APRIL 25th at 12:00 GMT

Ok, thanks for the tips. But it seems that CM will be chosen, but lets wait till the poll ends just to be sure.

If you know of any threads with such info, it would be helpful. I'll make one of the reserved threads an info thread with helpful info/links

Good idea, we should (and will) contact him for helpful info. He is on xda, right? username motafoca? I will PM him after I post this.

For those who do not have a G3 put want to help and officially be part of the team I'll add a new group called advisors

Thanks guys for your willingness to help, however you forgot to say that you are aware of the risks and accept the responsibility (if you dont, then dont post it). I know this seems tedious, but I think that in this kind off community project it is a must. Godforbid something happens to somebody's phone, and then they start ranting/raging about it. This could disrupt other members of the team, which is why I need on the team only those who are aware of the risks and are willing to take responsibility and for them to state it clearly in public (not in a pm). Sorry for making you guys post again, put I think you understand where I am coming from.

@everyoneIf you cant help now, or do to time restraints you cant be fully committed you can still contribute to the project, if not now sometime later. Just please, always be honest about how much time you can put into this. If you are given a task which you become unable to work on, let us know, if you are given a task which you know you wont be able to complete (anytime soon), let us know. Nobody will blame you for it, but they might for not telling us :P :P
[Galaxy 3 General] anant.0097:
hey i am interested in alpha/ beta testing. i own an galaxy 3 i5801. About the risks of alpha testing..... i am aware that i can hard brick my phone...... but i have a simple question.... can that hard brick be fixed somehow... as in if i take my phone to the service station or something??
[Galaxy 3 General] anant.0097:
hey i am interested in alpha/ beta testing. i own an galaxy 3 i5801. About the risks of alpha testing..... i am aware that i can hard brick my phone...... but i have a simple question.... can that hard brick be fixed somehow... as in if i take my phone to the service station or something?? Also what are the other risks involved?

Sorry for the double post!
[Galaxy 3 General] stubborn_d0nkey:
It can be fixed by replacing the motherboard (or so I've read).

Hard bricking is the only long term risk. There are other, small temporary risks. Like while alpha testing you might miss/be unable to answer a phone call and stuff like that.

Please dont double post, especially only three minutes apart. You can edit posts.
[Galaxy 3 General] sg3cmport:
We will start getting down to business after the poll finishes. If somebody wants to try to get a booting port before that, I dont see any reason why not.

Quoting to have on record:

You guys are added
[Galaxy 3 General] Pauri:
I want to be a alpha/beta tester. I'm fully aware of the risk.
[Galaxy 3 General] anant.0097:
sorry for the double post!...... and temporary risks do not bother me..... as for the motherboard thing i have been searching and have found this

http://code.google.com/p/android-roms/wiki/Unbrick

it says that a hard bricked g1 can be recovered by this method. can any of the experienced devs explain to me if this is possible on our phones. also please tell me what are they doing to unbrick... i mean i got the general idea.... it's kindda like flashing for sd card or something but is it like installing core drviers and everything again??
[Galaxy 3 General] stubborn_d0nkey:
I pretty much skimmed through it, but it seemed like he was talking about a soft brick. In some phone communities they dont differentiate between the too, or they dont call a soft brick a brick. A soft brick is likely to happen to people during this project, but that is not a big deal since it only involves reflashing.

Quoted to have on record:
[Galaxy 3 General] anant.0097:
soft brick ain't a problem....... count me in man!
[Galaxy 3 General] AndroKite:
I started working, whats the finally chosen rom?
[Galaxy 3 General] sg3cmport:
I'm planning to keep the poll till monday, but it seems very likely that CM will win (almost 3/4 of votes so far)

P.S. I'm also looking into the possibility of getting CWM from other devs who have been porting it to our phone.
[Galaxy 3 General] AndroKite:
can I start doing something now?
[Galaxy 3 General] sg3cmport:
Yes, you can try to compile the latest (stable) cyanogenmod, and get it too boot.

I know it might seem like a lot, but there is where we should start from, and then deal with things that dont function one by one.

I've been doing some logistics, when I finish I'll try to find some useful links and take a look at it myself
[Galaxy 3 General] sheron:
hey stubborn_d0nkey i believe mumbozver has posted his clockwork mod recovery here

https://github.com/mumbozver

p.s armv are porting cwm recovery to their apocalypse rom (i think their source code is the above link

i dunno abt linux but see if this helps

sony ericsson X8 has the same processor as our phone and they have ported recovery recently-(xrecovery)

instead of all the time installing update.zip for flashing our new roms one of u guys can wipe the phone completely, install the new rom and take a backup, others can restore from that backup instead of installing a new rom

Plz co-ordinate ur cwm recovery with other leading custom roms(e.g. apocalypse) so that we do not need to port one cwm recovery for ur cm rom and a completely different cwm recovery for other roms
[Galaxy 3 General] sg3cmport:
Ok, thanks. I'll be looking into that. For the time being it seems that we will first attempt to get CM to boot then to add cwm recovery (when it is finished), unless someone has incorporated fastboot/.img files flashing into the cwm recovery (which would make getting CM to boot easier)
[Galaxy 3 General] jazux:
you can count me as a very early alpha tester, i have made a deal with my operator: if I MYSELF brick my phone they will repair it! :p it costs me 3-4e a month and it is very useful, and really they will repair it no matter what! so im not afraid of hard brick ;) and if that happens they will repair it or they will buy me a new phone :) great isn it?

EDIT: i forgot, im fully aware of the risks ;)
[Galaxy 3 General] AndroKite:
But im not a betatester...,Even so, I'll go investigate.
[Galaxy 3 General] Humpie:
Just a little question: the newest cyanogenmod has gingerbread itself not? Why vote on gingerbread if cyanogenmod has it?
[Galaxy 3 General] DJ SNap:
Maybe because Gingerbred is only ROM. CM is Custom ROM.
[Galaxy 3 General] sg3cmport:
I'm kinda confused, what do you mean by I'm not a beta tester? That's not really beta testing. Did you mean you are a beta tester, then sorry, you didn't specify and since you had some knowledge I decided to put you as a potential dev.

The latest CM is based on Gingerbread, has more stuff added to it, however some people prefer the vanilla experience (and adding only certain stuff).

Lucky, lucky you. It's practically a developers dream :P
[Galaxy 3 General] jazux:
i know :D my last phone, sony erickson was repaired over 6 times in two years :P but this phone is still the same i bought, no repairs YET :)
[Galaxy 3 General] TheChaoticLlama:
lol, if I brick my phone I put it under my car wheel and tell the insurance company it fell out my pocket. :D
[Galaxy 3 General] jazux:
hahahaha :D :D :D it fell out of my pocket to the highway... :D :D :D :D :D

@sg3cmport if you are afraid of bricking your own phone with experimental stuff just send it to me and ill test it ;)
[Galaxy 3 General] bhuvi:
i want to be a developer , i have knowledge of linux and c and core java.

and im fully aware of the risks to my phone.
[Galaxy 3 General] s3th.g3ck9:
If Java knowledge is needed i can help, but i nearly have no C or Linux skills... And yeah i'm also fully aware of the risks. ;)
[Galaxy 3 General] xenixas:
what diference between amm cyonogen mod ant amm kyrylos mod :D or other room? :D
[Galaxy 3 General] flores.diane02:
guys i am already working on this(gingerb not cgm) past 2 months heres what all i tried

made all the pngs to ldpi even the ones of mdpi and ldpi to the size of ldpi.

then made the rom run on the emulator----WORKS PERFECT but runs slower when 256 RAM is alloted to it.(well we can take care of it later ;p)

then moving on tried to put that in my sg3......stuck at sg3 logo.

have asked for help at google forums but every1 laughs as suggests to take a new phone instead.

Anyways i am sure i ll get there.

Hope some dev here gives a reasonable trick/suggestion in order i can move on
[Galaxy 3 General] sekhargreen:
I am Beta tester

Let me in as a Beta Tester.

I'm ready to click or brick my G3!!!
[Galaxy 3 General] anant.0097:
are you porting the nexus s gingerbread or the galaxy s one?
[Galaxy 3 General] sheron:
hey can u tell me the diff b\n clockworkmod recovery and xrecovery(sony ericsson)
[Galaxy 3 General] flores.diane02:
galaxy s dude....any suggestions?
[Galaxy 3 General] ronhoover88:
Try the galaxy ace build...
[Galaxy 3 General] anant.0097:
well there is a processor difference between galaxy s and 3 and so the kernel for both the phones differ....... so you will have to make a brand new kernel to start of with...... plus there maybe other programming differences too......
[Galaxy 3 General] powerpravin:
It seems to be a great piece of work for G3 users. So I found myself helpless from refraining out off this.

I understand the risk involved and will be solely responsible for every tragedy happening with my phone.

I have some experience in drivers testing and am a noob in java. But above all, my brain is blazing fast, faster than even the Tegra processors.

If felt suitable, consider me.

And yes, please suggest me some material to kick off the things at my side.
[Galaxy 3 General] sg3cmport:
Has it ever happened to any of you that somebody in your family tries to "fix" something on your computer that doesn't need fixing and makes a mess out of it and doesn't remember exactly what they did? Well I gotta tell you its not a fun experience.

I see that you've tried porting the SGS gingerbread, did you use our kernel or its kernel? Did adb respond on the bootloop? TBH I (s_d) would prefer CM over gingerbread, but I'd love to see both available for the phone. If we have a way to help you we will (at least i will) ;)

Quoted for...

I dont really think java will help, but i'll keep you in mind ;)

P.S. Work officially begins after the poll finishes. I'll have helpful info up tomorrow. It will start by compiling CM and getting it to boot, kinda a big step, and a pretty individual job so if people dont want to work on it, they dont have to, since it will probably be several people trying out the same stuff. However, sharing any info obtained is important. After that is done the plan is to check the functions which are working (I'll try to make a complete list of functions by the time the poll is over tomorrow, however I might miss some stuff) and then divide up in trying to get the functions to work. And then testing, getting more to work, etc... That is how I envisioned that we proceed, if anybody has a better idea please share it

P.P.S.

I think google can explain it more (and better) than I can
[Galaxy 3 General] flores.diane02:
yeah the kernel is of gb and i have resized the images and it boots perfectly but it lags since i assigned 256MB RAM...works smoothly oon 512MB though.

Since its an emulator i am not sure if it ll boot up with our sg3
[Galaxy 3 General] belipowa:
I would like to help in the project, I´m fully aware of all the risks, and I accept that I´m responsible for all damages to my phone.

I´m new in Android but, I have some coding (Java, C/C++, Shell Scripting, etc...), Linux and a bit of Kernel hacking knowledge and... I´m interested in learning every related thing! :p

Best regards.
[Galaxy 3 General] sg3cmport:
ok, ill put ya in
[Galaxy 3 General] FadeFx:
First of all i think you should open a new thread on your gb port attempt.

To your problem, u would have to compile a gingerbread kernel for armv6 CPU to run on the g3. This is a major effort since you'd have to port over all Samsung changes to froyo kernel over to gingerbread kernel. This means not only to import patches into the code, but also make changes to them to get them run in new kernel. Also u have to rewrite all closed source Samsung binarys since they are needed drivers for certain hardeware parts of the g3. The sgs kernel will never work since it is made for a armv7 CPU and sgs is generally different hardware than g3.
[Galaxy 3 General] xenixas:
today is 25th of apr, so do we get CyanogenMod or not? :D
[Galaxy 3 General] chandradithya:
Count me in for alpha / beta testing,

I completely understand that im totally responsible for any damage to my phone,

Even if it means knocking down my phone in joy that cm boots up in my g3. ;)

Plus i've worked on clockworkmod on other phones and i've basic linux knowledge,

been using linux for a while.
[Galaxy 3 General] chandradithya:
The ONLY rule of CyanogenMod : Do NOT ask for ETA's :)
[Galaxy 3 General] pflorin:
i want to help too ihave medium linux knowlegde already started digging on how-to port gingerbread to our device ..the major problem is the drivers.

we need help with the drivers !!! ASAP

i dont know if the bootloader on sg3 can be unlocked with "fastboot oem unlock" to allow flashing a custom system.

i also found this ..

http://software-dl.ti.com/dsps/dsps...oid_GingerBread_2_3_DevKit_1_0/index_FDS.html
[Galaxy 3 General] FadeFx:
first of all, congrats and a big thanx to the team for their spirit and will to port the best android expirience over to this samsung crippled device ;-) i wish i could help here, but since i dont have a g3 for my own but manage my gf´s and she would be extremely pissed on me if i cause her troubles during use, what is extremely likely when doing such low level stuff. however, as some of you may know, i have collected some android knowledge in the last years, and thus i´d be glad to hlep out with that whereever i can. also i am planing to get me a i5800 for testing purposes and then i´d be glad to help with alpha testing since this would be a spare device and has no risc when its bricked.
[Galaxy 3 General] sg3cmport:
CyanogenMod it is

You can get CM now if you want, but not for our phones :D

We will never give out an eta, with possibly one exception, after uploading of a public release starts

thanks for the link, will officially add you once you agree to the risks etc etc

cool, thanks for joining.

Thanks a lot! I'll add you as an advisor if you wish :)

I would like to ask, from your knowledge, what is the best way we should approach the drivers issue (I'm you have knowledge of other porting projects)

P.S. Due to the nature of our project, and in light of recent sticky threads/announcements, we will of course be sharing our source code (eventually). If somebody doesn't agree to sharing their work (their code) please drop out now (and let us know) or dont join.
[Galaxy 3 General] sg3cmport:
@devs Please make the preparations for working on this project. I think this tutorial (whats applicable from it) is enough for now:

ubuntu (/linux)

mac

Like I've said before, the first step should be to get compile and get CM to boot (with whatever limited functions). The above tutorial can help(/guide), but drivers (proprietary files) are still an issue, so any info on the drivers problem would be helpful Working update.zip will be helpful (if not almost necessary) in flashing (from compiled versions) CM to our, so I suggest either flashing eclair, using the CWM sources posted int this thread to get CWM recovery, or alternatively waiting for a rom with working update.zip. Testers will (most likely) get it in an odin flashable format, so they dont need to set up the compiling environement, however they can if they wish to.

I'll be shortly working on this myself (had some glitches with setting up the environement since I'm using a virtual machine (went to sleep on me while in the process))

P.S. Bandwidth will be used since stuff has to be downloaded.
[Galaxy 3 General] bhuvi:
just completed setting up the environment. Starting to download the sources and hopefully will try and get CM boot on out phones.
[Galaxy 3 General] bhuvi:
We need to have an irc server setup for better coordination.

I think we already have one #sg3 for our phones,we can use this too
[Galaxy 3 General] angarato_surion:
create a specific irc channel for the sg 3port because it will be a mess to communicate
[Galaxy 3 General] pflorin:
irc.freenode.org join #SG3 there is also #android #android-dev #android-root the official channels for the android.
[Galaxy 3 General] codeInTheShell:
I am interested to help out but the IRC-Channel is allmost empty and everyones idleing, at least it was yesterday like this.

I have Java knowledge and consider myself as an advanced Linuxuser. I would prefer a stable 2.2 Cyanogenmod release instead of Gingerbread, since the 2.2 seems buggier than 2.1 and porting 2.3 would probably take up to much time. Besides if there are not enaugh people with Linux/Android and C/C++ knowledge it would take even more time to understand the hole System and go through the code.
[Galaxy 3 General] Montoyatok:
Any news?

Sent from my Kyrillos Ultimate Edition 1.3Ghz GT-I5801
[Galaxy 3 General] dxdiag32:
i think i can do some help with tutorials,if not,i want to be a member of alpha test group :P
[Galaxy 3 General] sekhargreen:
This thread is not being updated. May I know the status, please?
[Galaxy 3 General] codeInTheShell:
It would help out if somebody would set a date and a time in a timezone (GMT0 maybe) where everybody should gather in the irc-channel. I suppose most people don't work on weekends so it should be easy to find a time where everybody can come, give up their comments, wishes, etc
[Galaxy 3 General] werker123:
is there any news? i really want cm7:)
[Galaxy 3 General] unreal3000:
umm so guys any progress??? i know ur probably working realy hard but could u guys pls keep us updated? tks! :D
[Galaxy 3 General] bhuvi:
Sorry my internet connection was disrupted for a week now, and im back online, currently syncing up the sources with CM. Seems the thread is dead, it would be nice if we have more developers
[Galaxy 3 General] dilzo:
Well atleast it's getting somewhere even if it's slow.
[Galaxy 3 General] flores.diane02:
hahaha ya hahaha
[Galaxy 3 General] ronhoover88:
Wats up with ur gb port any progress??
[Galaxy 3 General] theakkadian:
I must say i am a python programmer, with many knowledge on C, but i am not willing to test it with my device for now. I don't have the time to play with my phone.

But i can help with some scripting that i can test on a normal linux system.
[Galaxy 3 General] codeInTheShell:
Well i am not OP but i would suggest that we meet some time on the weekend.

As I said a few posts earlier it should be some time on the weekend where everybody should have time to come online and discuss further steps.

How about 3 PM GMT0 on sunday 06-15 in irc://irc.freenode.net/#sg3?

Devs, alpha-tester, modder, etc should come.

The goal of this "meeting" would be:

- getting to know each other and knowing each others knowledge (of whatever we know ... Linux, C, Java, etc)

- role definition (who would fit where)

- how we should share the sources, knowledge, etc

- what this phone definitely needs (more eyecandy, etc)

- what sucks currently the most and needs to be fixed first

CM has stuff that seems nice but might not work (ever) and instead of getting everything to work it would help to prioritize which feature/fix/mod comes first (obviously).

I do not intend to kick out OP/sg3cmport aka stubborn_d0nkey, I just want to start the project as it seems to be stuck.
[Galaxy 3 General] unreal3000:
yeah come on!!! has anyone got cm to atleast boot?
[Galaxy 3 General] bhuvi:
yeah lets meet on sunday on irc://irc.freenode.net/#sg3

Im okay with the timing what about others?
[Galaxy 3 General] FadeFx:
Come on, getting cm to run is a majour effort, it wont be done in a month, expect it to be functional in maybe 3 or 4 and fully working eventually in 2012... so no need to hurry anyone...

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[Galaxy 3 General] belipowa:
I must study hard this month, but I´ll be at #sg3 @ freenode on Sunday ;)
[Galaxy 3 General] unreal3000:
no hurry! :) but ddnt u guys say ur first goal was getting cm to boot? thats y i was

wondering.
[Galaxy 3 General] stubborn_d0nkey:
Don't worry about trying to kick me out, I never intended this to be an "I'm the boss, follow what I say" project, but a community run project. Progress doesn't have to happen how and when I say it happens, just that it happens. If somebody has a good idea or something and I'm not arround to "approve" it that doesn't mean it shouldn't be. I hope you understang what I'm getting at.

I made a new user because I intended to share the login so others could also post in behalf of the project. I've been having some personal issues to deal with that have been refraining me from really throwing myself into this, but they should be dealt with soon, however if you want I can pm you the pass for the "main" account, just send me a pm if you want.
[Galaxy 3 General] dilzo:
Real life things come first, so take as long as you like.
[Galaxy 3 General] codeInTheShell:
So nobody was there on sunday except bhuvi and some other dude that idles there all the time. It seems that nobody wants to actually work for the cm port, pretty sad
[Galaxy 3 General] dilzo:
So... Have you guys given up on this? because it seems no one wants to do it. And I know that some of you are really busy but you could at least gone to the thing. And if I actually knew anything about porting/computers then I would try instead of not even bothering. But you know there's always a place to learn.
[Galaxy 3 General] Mohanshbhr:
CyanogenMod on g3

Galaxy 5 users are enjoying cyanogen but g3 users can't , it is very same to all devs, we have lot of custom froyo roms but not a single gingerbread rom.
[Galaxy 3 General] rudolf895:
is this project alive?

Has the work started?
[Galaxy 3 General] srinivas07:
hmmmmmm even gingerbird port is not even released.....no dev's our our g3...

cynagenmod will never i think:(:(:rolleyes:
[Galaxy 3 General] codeInTheShell:
I for myself see this project as dead, since there is nobody in the "offical channel" that is not idling and whiling to talk about any kind of work.

Porting CM would be a good load of work to do but porting Gingerbread is alot more. It is doable but takes up to much time and would be more like a fulltime job if you don't have a team. And since there is no team, there is no CM and no slightest chance of getting an unoffical Gingerbread port.
[Galaxy 3 General] stubborn_d0nkey:
I dunno if I'd call it'd dead, the first part of the project is mostly an individual effort, building it and getting it to boot, however (un)functional the build may be. ATM teamwork isn't completely useless, but not as useful as later on
[Galaxy 3 General] Einril:
One question : would porting Cyanogen 6 (based on Froyo) be easier than porting Cyanogen 7 (based on Gingerbread) ?

'Cause we could try to port it at first, and once we get used to the "Cyanogen porting process", take a look at Gingerbread.

I'll be glad to participate in such a project, although I need some more knowledge, and can't really afford to hard brick my phone :/
[Galaxy 3 General] stubborn_d0nkey:
there was a poll for it, so there probably wont be a change in the goal (unless a huge majority of people who signed up want to change, atm id say it would have to be almost unanimous)
[Galaxy 3 General] codeInTheShell:
True, one person could flash it and post results, but there are no results. No offense but I don't see any kind of progress.
[Galaxy 3 General] FadeFx:
So why dont u just try?

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