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[Galaxy S II General] Jeegsawk:
Considering how fast these awesome developers were in releasing working alpha Samsung could release ics tomorrow morning even for galaxy s1. They do not do it because of commercial plans. I do not even count much on the 18 months support agreement if it takes a year for an update... In my opinion Samsung is still an unsupporting company

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[Galaxy S II General] Cobesz:
Unsupporting company? They released the s1 with eclair >.> pretty neat of them to update to gingerbread imo.
[Galaxy S II General] freemini:
Can anyone confirm if I understood this right?

Hwcomposer uses the GPU and not the CPU to render the UI throughout the OS. So as long as that's not working, ICS will use the CPU(like gingerbread) to render everything?
[Galaxy S II General] SS2006:
is 'Build 3' the LATEST release? but as I see its not available to download
[Galaxy S II General] :
this is were the last build is....the one that the guys have left for us to play with till they release a stable version.

http://aospsgs2.neo-utopia.eu/downloads/

use at own risk though.:) make sure you do backups
[Galaxy S II General] :
AOSP SGS2 Team

Alright, transparency issues finally all fixed :) Will be making a video tomorrow maybe, everyone's sleeping here - xplodwild(this dude is amazing)and of course the rest of the team...

Quote from twitter page

so once that is up i will provide the link so you guys can check it out:)
[Galaxy S II General] LBTaylor1984:
Is your first post up to date regarding no working issues? it would seem there isn't too much left for the team to fix at this point.

while I totally understand NO ETA, it would seem to me, were heading toward a late Dec, Early Jan release.

Excellent news there from the Dev's, and Matriak well done on running this thread, excellent job mate.
[Galaxy S II General] :
hey mate...yes so far from what i have been told first post is up to date...im not keeping any of the old stuff like changelogs and old download links as that just confuses people...anyway looks a lot neater now and also with regarding videos i will only keep the latest to....if anyone wants me to try something different or add anything else all suggestions are welcomed....although it seems most of the important stuff seemed to be ironed out there is still alot of work to be done still....so like you say no point guessing just yet..but hopefully late dec early january....but that again is just an estimate from me not anyone else....:D

should put a bet to predict who finds the correct date...winner gets a date with Rihanna:p

PS: and all honesty its you guys who are running this now as you guys provide links to everyone else....so you guys deserve the thanks for doing this..:)
[Galaxy S II General] d3ck4rd:
Ok maybe someone can clarify this.

Samsung are not allowed to release the source code for the drivers of say the GPU, as they sign an agreement with ARM who produce the GPU and write its drivers.

1) why does ARM not want their drivers open sourced?

2) Can ARM not release the documentation on the Mali-400 MP to allow for the open source community to write its own drivers easier?
[Galaxy S II General] soulicro:
I received the following reply from Samsung:

Notice we have the attention of the Principal Engineer, and that he and his team are now aware of this thread!

Also notice I crossed out his name/email/phone numbers, because I don't want him getting swamped with emails/calls/whatever.

So, what exactly do the developers need? And I do mean exactly - I don't want to waste this guys time. I'm monitoring this thread closely, as soon as I see a reply stating what they need I'll shoot him back an email.
[Galaxy S II General] surya_mca:
@aospsgs2

AOSP SGS2 Team

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtnDs7bcW-o

- xplodwild

Enjoy.....
[Galaxy S II General] bouzoubaa:
I think you should go to the IRC channel and check directly with the devs over there. I beleive they know most what they are missing to make cameras and GPU work.
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
Here you go http://www.multiupload.com/AWB8C74FKH

You must be tired buddy as he did say he couldnt see the link to download it :p
[Galaxy S II General] d3ck4rd:
Great work! Yes as bouzoubaa suggested I think you should head to the devs IRC channel as they will know exactly what to ask for.

I'm actually quite impressed that Samsung have responded so quickly and informatively. I was going to submit a request today but guess I'll wait to see what yours yields first!
[Galaxy S II General] soulicro:
Update - I managed to get in touch with codeworkx, and sent the following reply back to Samsung:
[Galaxy S II General] :
read a few pages back and this has been answered already...so go back a few pages and you will find your answers there..been already answered by Intratech and a few others

Like someone else has said go onto IRC channel. You will find it on the other thread. Speak to the devs there.Tell them what you have done and take it from there.

Video going up on first post now. Thank you.:)

yes he could not see the link..but the link i gave him has all the download links he needs to choose from..anyway thanks man...you have been quite a help on here...keep it up and thanks...at least when im not around i know someone else keeps this going..actually some answers i cant answer im glad you are and a few others are about
[Galaxy S II General] :
speak to the others on IRC if you have not done that already...:) haha my thread is famous now:) sweet...but seriously if its true what you are saying and he can help major step...lets see what the guys think
[Galaxy S II General] mariotme:
Wow man! Thank you so much for your effort. Let all hope that they will provide us with something useful. Cross fingers
[Galaxy S II General] :
Latest update video is up now on first post and click here to also to see it.Thanks to Surya_Mca for linking it here
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
But build 3 isnt on there anymore. And you couldnt get rid of me if you tried :D
[Galaxy S II General] :
id be an idiot if i did try....;) your like my right hand man...so thanks mate i appreciate it and i love how we all getting together for this project...is build 3 cwm zip?
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
Its all good... God knows what im going to do once its released and this thread is finished :D

Yes its a CWM Zip, I had to go back through this damn long thread to find it, though didnt see any other links for build 3.
[Galaxy S II General] Fysi:
I wonder if he'll laugh at codeworkx's request for the kernel sources XD
[Galaxy S II General] mariotme:
Lets hope not. And hope that he might provide us with something really useful
[Galaxy S II General] boias21:
hi

i need some help please, i install the alpha and no calls no service at all, i install the build 3 and the same, and in my display appear a message in chinease lollol.... now a question, anyone have the ics with RIL working and wi fi?? how can i do it?....

Great job dev.

thx
[Galaxy S II General] Fysi:
It's an alpha. It is not for every day use. It is purely just from when the devs were happy with releasing a teaser ROM.
[Galaxy S II General] mariotme:
Do you have sim card pin code lock on?

If yes flash any other firmware and deactivate sim pin lock and reflash the ics build
[Galaxy S II General] :
the thread still stays dude...i bet it will turn to Q&A regarding questions about the rom and how to install it and how to sort bugs and stuff like that when its released:D so i see us here for a long time buddy
[Galaxy S II General] :
Thank you guys for pointing that out to people from now...:D do you guys think i should put a big sign on first post saying "alpha builds are not for daily use just a teaser of whats to come" what you guys think?

no offence to boias this is not to you mate just in general
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
Not sure about calls, Prob country settings in that regards.

As for the Chinese message.. Go into settings/keyboard.. Change it to English and it will bugger off.

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We cant sort bugs unless we are developers...

... I'm trying to learn, buy my brain is fried :D
[Galaxy S II General] :
i know we are not devs but at least we can guide people and help with what we know and what we learn from by using the rom once it gets released:D and from what we read on here and on the other thread by the time the rom gets released im sure our knowledge will evolve alot more by then
[Galaxy S II General] pik1:
do you really think that would help? i doubt that. the bigger the warning, the more people want to try :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II General] boias21:
i understand that, but i saw people with ics working not a 100% but they can do calls and wi fi... but ok i'll wait

thx and sorry my english;)
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
I need more knowledge than that... I need to learn how to code :D

Stupid really... Stayed away from coding my whole life as it did my head in (still does, so being a webmaster is fun at times lol) and now am trying to learn it from scratch :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II General] d3ck4rd:
Well actually no one has discussed about requesting directly from ARM (for example) about releasing the documentation required to create our own open sourced drivers.
[Galaxy S II General] Jeegsawk:
s1 was released when froyo was already out and promised at sell (at least in Italy). that device also had tons of bugs. Froyo was a bug fix more than an update. Gingerbread came and for me it is obvious as only 6 months ago s1 was the flagship. What about middle and entry level devices?

If you wanna make a comparisonconsider that iPhone 3g got ios5 and we are speaking of a 5 years old device.

In my absolutely personal opinion the only defence against android fragmentation is in the community. If all drivers were open source almost every device would actually have gingerbread and then ics.

Almost every Samsung device development is stuck because Samsung does not release updates and does not release drivers source code. If they released the drivers code they could avoid worrying about development and still somebody with a gingerbread updated spica would say they are great.

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[Galaxy S II General] :
Point taken...People still read what they want to read

Do not apologize for your english..What build are you on now? i think it depends on what build you are using...sorry maybe Silver420 can help more:D

Hows the reading coming along then regarding the coding you was talkiing about earlier?

Ahh i see your point now...My apologies Sir:) im not a dev and i would not know how long it takes to create a driver but isnt that kinda making the work alot more time consuming? and also if the chap who said he emailed an engineer from sammy if he can get all the resources that codeworkx has requested wouldnt that be alot more easier? But i really am interested in what you have suggested now...Even if its for my own learning benefit so i know:)
[Galaxy S II General] surya_mca:
Update.......

@aospsgs2 AOSP SGS2 Team

Last screen flickering issues are fixed. Remaining: Camera and voice in calls - xplodwild
[Galaxy S II General] Hollow.Droid:
So this relates to the ICS rom? Please keep this regurgitated topic for another thread, it's a pita flicking through irrelevant nonsense.
[Galaxy S II General] vnvman:
Yeah, that would help...anyway i suspect that even Samsung is still waiting for ARM to bake the new drivers for ICS. Anyway it seems like ARM doesn't have problems with open-sourcing drivers at some point. As i saw on malideveloper.com some Android sources have been released just a couple days ago, and apparently they seem to release sources on regular basis. Maybe if we push ARM a little we'll be able to get what we need pretty soon...

Here's where i got my info from, in case anyone is interested:

http://www.malideveloper.com/developer-resources/drivers/open-source-mali-gpus-linux-kernel-device-drivers.php
[Galaxy S II General] tapperace2010:
Great work guys, cant wait for the full version to be released by the Devs.

Well done guys and keep up the great work.
[Galaxy S II General] steslatt:
Iphone 3G did not get IOS5

What about HWComposer? Video Codecs?
[Galaxy S II General] freemini:
can someone explain what hwcomposer does? Does it render the UI with the GPU and not CPU?
[Galaxy S II General] boias21:
sorry for delay, but i'm feeding my daughter:) and restart my phone and put a new recovery by odin lool. i'm in a build 3....and in that i have a dout, i flash first the apha 7 and next the build 3 or but build 3 directly.
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
Ive gone from reading to videos.. I learn quicker that way as info sticks better. Trying to learn Java though is just no fun lol
[Galaxy S II General] pik1:
exactly ;)
[Galaxy S II General] tapperace2010:
I for one cant wait the full DEvs release so we can download i see what all the hype is about . Well done to the guys for working so hard, i for one will be donating if they ask.

Tapper OUT!
[Galaxy S II General] freemini:
I'm gonna watch that video when I get home. I honestly don't care what it is since the alpha was super smooth even without it.
[Galaxy S II General] steslatt:
I thought he was actually going to explain it in the video when he told people to stop asking :D

It would be good to know as I can't find much about it on google.
[Galaxy S II General] mixailo:
HWcomposer enables UI rendering via GPU.
[Galaxy S II General] boias21:
if i want to donate how can i do it?
[Galaxy S II General] TheTaxman:
Just go to sgs2ics.com and there you'll have a Link.
[Galaxy S II General] :
thanks for that..really having a hard time finding anything about it on google..what i have found is what you said but if i am not mistaken it also has to do something with the kernel as well...anyway if i find more i will post it up
[Galaxy S II General] rkiller51:
live wallpapers ?

Well , now that the live wallpaper is WORKING (GOOD JOB !) , can you guys give us a download link to the ICS LWP ?

i really want these LWP on my sgs2 :)

thank .
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
We can tweak our phones through the build.prop file to do that now. (for the UI)

Its a kernel extension which will also allow for apps to be rendered using the GPU too, unless im mistaken? If we do the tweak to our phones now through the build.prop file it only renders the Android UI, and not apps right?

I.e. I'm just trying to work out if there is a difference between the HWComposer in ICS, and what we can do now tweak wise.
[Galaxy S II General] Coentje44:
its not just a wallpaper.
[Galaxy S II General] chandyperry:
You could find this LWP on the market until the real ICS LWP :

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tribok.android.livewallpaper.icsclassic.lite
[Galaxy S II General] rkiller51:
I allready got the 1 from the market , but its not like the real ICS LWP's
[Galaxy S II General] Fysi:
It's not just anyway wallpaper; it is an M&S wallpaper.
[Galaxy S II General] afilopou:
http://twitter.com/#!/atinm

"atinm Atin

I don't usually check twitter (G+ is where I'm at all the time), but ICS is coming along. A few small issues, but no ETA obviously."
[Galaxy S II General] :
what Marks&Spencers wallpaper:D? sorry couldnt resist that..anyway on a brighter note looks like the porting might get a boost by this link thanks to good mate punshkin (apologies if i got the name wrong:D)

http://www.malideveloper.com/develo...rce-mali-gpus-linux-kernel-device-drivers.php
[Galaxy S II General] JonesWTF:
If this was Facebook, I would "like" this :D

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[Galaxy S II General] d3ck4rd:
Great news! So is this exactly what the devs need to get the GPU fully working? I see that in the release statement they have said that they are not releasing the full driver stack. Does this mean we still don't have everything required?
[Galaxy S II General] PunkOz:
If HWcomposer isn't working .... how do we have Hw acceleration?

I thought Hw acceleration included GPU acc in it o.o im so confused, do we have a buggy hw acceleration then?
[Galaxy S II General] sipospeter:
we will see if the devs were able to find a solution. "we" have nothing until they release a beta.
[Galaxy S II General] PunkOz:
Yeah but what confuses me is that they said we have hw acceleration working O_o n now we dont? o.o
[Galaxy S II General] freemini:
Ok, correct me if I'm wrong. Since honeycomb, Google added HWComposer which uses the GPU to render the UI. This is also present in ICS. From my understanding if that doesn't work, the CPU has to deal with the UI(like in pre-3.0 Android). Samsung has added GPU acceleration in some of their apps(most notably the browser) which makes them smoother. So yes we do have HW acceleration but it's not using the "new" method.
[Galaxy S II General] aronsky:
In the latest alpha which was publicly released, the UI seemed like it's using an acceleration. If it wasn't using acceleration, then who needs it - it's smooth even without it :)
[Galaxy S II General] darrenholb:
Lets party !!!!!

Hopefully this link will get us all rockin, and be a tribute to all the great people who are working hard night and day to develope this baby.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yYAOUc7YBE
[Galaxy S II General] kevnb:
wow, this is getting close. What they have working works well.
[Galaxy S II General] bala_gamer:
It means the remaining things are in the sdk .
[Galaxy S II General] netchip:
We have to wait for ICS leak from Samsung for HWComposer, I guess.

They go include 90% sure HWComposer ;)
[Galaxy S II General] cTrox:
So at the moment the UI isn't accelerated by the GPU?

It's pretty smooth anyway.
[Galaxy S II General] vnvman:
That's obvious actually: isn't this phone smooth even on Gingerbread with no hw acceleration at all? ;)
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
This porting stuff is hard work :D

As someone in this thread asked about the ICS live wallpaper, I thought Id see if I could get it to run on the S2.

Decompiled the APK, Changed the min target level and SDK, Recompiled, Signed, Pushed to phone...

Shows up in live wallpapers :D

FC on start up :rolleyes:

And thats only a damn wallpaper. Shows how talented the dev guys are for having to fix much much bigger problems :D
[Galaxy S II General] :
Tell me about, I'm working my ass off keeping up with Twitter to figure out what the developers are doing.

I accept donations ;-)

Sent from my MicroTAC 9800X using speech to fax modem
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
You accept donations for what? Checking twitter? Good luck with that :p

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You say that but a lot of custom ROM's have enabled a tweak to enable HW acceleration on the S2. You can do it yourself by editing the /system/build.prop file

Look for the line that says

debug.sf.hw=1

If yours says 0, its using the CPU. If it says 1 its using the GPU.

Then look for...

video.accelerate.hw=1

If your says 0, its using the CPU to render video. If it says 1..... You get the idea ;)
[Galaxy S II General] le_lutin:
He was joking.

I got it mudferret!
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
Mudferret? lol
[Galaxy S II General] daleski75:
Nice to see the download site for the latest builds now prompts for a username and password which should stop people from cracking/hacking their way into builds because they cannot wait.
[Galaxy S II General] bala_gamer:
But even we set the value to 1, its only some part gets hardware accelerated not the whole UI.
[Galaxy S II General] steslatt:
http://codeworkx.de/wordpress/2011/11/20/status-update-for-ics-on-galaxy-s-ii/

Has been updated and it says HWcomposer (afaik not really needed)
[Galaxy S II General] DarkRyoushii:
am I able to get a nice link of all the dev-team's twitter accounts? or even better make a google code project and they can release stuff like that.. it worked well for the Atrix getting cyanogenmod (see here: http://code.google.com/p/atrix-dev-team/)
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
Confirmed.... Still confused :confused:
[Galaxy S II General] Dorilife:
What rom are you coming from, I've been following the SGS 1 thread and seen that you have to flash from a AOSP rom, not sure if that's the case here on SGS 2 but who knows.

Also did you wipe in advanced menu of the kernal?

System/data/cache..
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
Checkrom 3.1.1 - Maybe thats my issue. I dont see why it would be mind.

Certainly did.
[Galaxy S II General] Dorilife:
I'm not sure if that's the problem, I can only speak for myself, as I flashed from Oxygen to the test ICS and booted up fine..
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
Dammit, im jealous. I might restore Ki4 stock ROM, and flash from there though I dont see why it would make a difference. If not ill try flashing twice in a row as ive heard some people have had to do that before to get past a boot screen (Again, not sure why twice would make a difference)
[Galaxy S II General] Dorilife:
Don't get discouraged...try flashing twice, I know that has to be done while flashing from certain kernals..

If I'm not mistaken I remember reading on the CM7 thread that you can't flash CM7 from certain kernals, but I could be mistaken..it was a while back..

I'm not sure if there using some CM7 stuff, devs sorry if I'm wrong..
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
Not discouraged, just annoyed its taking me so long to have a play lol.

Not sure why but for me flashing once seemed to only update CWM and not the ROM itself. Thats my theory anyway as flashing twice in a row took longer to install, and booted :D

Steps I took were..

1. Reboot into recovery

2. Wipe data/Cache/Dalvik

3. Flash ICS

4. Flash ICS (2nd flash takes a long longer than 1st, hence my theory of only updating CWM first time round)

5. Reboot

6. Have a play :D
[Galaxy S II General] Dorilife:
Glad you got it working ;)
[Galaxy S II General] chadouming:
If i remember well, it's the same trouble as CM7. If you look at log, you would see that first time it failed at install.
[Galaxy S II General] Silver420:
Assuming you mean the log that is shown on the phone, everytime I did it, it looked exactly the same info wise. Only difference was, 2nd flash took longer.
[Galaxy S II General] gilbertp23:
Please put me down as pledging $20USD,

Thanks
[Galaxy S II General] chadouming:
Hmm , not sure why now.
[Galaxy S II General] prospect51:
Put me down for £10, would love to donate more as.... Dam alot of work must go into making this happen
[Galaxy S II General] jastonas:
Anyone having problems installing Alpha 3.

Download latest CM nightly (only 100mb), flash it, connect to wifi.

Open rom manager, flash clockwork mod, reboot to clockwork

Data/cache/dalvik wipe. Flash. (once)
[Galaxy S II General] compuw22c:
Wow things really heating up now! And with the galaxy nexus appearing delayed its a race to see which phone will be first to get ics :)
[Galaxy S II General] darkevangerion:
It's the LG Optimus 3D in unofficial port :)
[Galaxy S II General] jeandujardin01:
Wipe

again after flash

did the trick for me !
[Galaxy S II General] XpLoDWilD:
Make sure you wipe /system, /data and /cache before flashing Alpha 3. Also, flash twice to be sure. It should then work
[Galaxy S II General] metalk9:
The problem people are experiencing here is related to the recovery versions.

If you are using a rom, with version 5* clockworkmod recovery, such as CM7, then it should work on the first attempt. If however you have a version 4* recovery (these are the most common) then it wont work, and only the kernel gets flashed. Luckily the recovery is a part of the kernel, so now you have version 5 installed and can successfully flash the rom.

Instead of rebooting after the first flash, go to the advanced options in recovery and choose 'restart recovery'. This will reboot into the new recovery so you can flash the rom properly.
[Galaxy S II General] cchant:
For most people, I would assume that when the mic is fixed would be willing to call it their daily use rom. Camera is nice but imo not what is holding us back
[Galaxy S II General] MrPhilo:
If you guys are on about ice cream sandwich in settings you can go to developer setting and enable 2d hardware acceleration.

If your just on about init.d and build.prop, ignore me!