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[HTC Sensation] Wanderer_Zero:
Please keep all comments relevant to development status, beta testing, and resolving issues compiling I.C.S to avoid closure of thread.

This way if you are not developing you can read to keep up-to-date.

P.s: thank you to all our wonderdul devs working night and day to get us a stable build!
[HTC Sensation] DanielF50:
there is no current active ICS port on XDA mate :(
[HTC Sensation] Stegerius:
yes, unfortunately there is noc ICS Port on XDA... :(

So lets hope for CM9 soon
[HTC Sensation] zerozoneice:
this probably shows how much of a loved device the Sensation is among XDA devs...

just had a look over on Samsung Galaxy S and they have already 2 working ICS ports...with camera, face unlock and stuff...

didn't bother checking GS2...
[HTC Sensation] johnston9234:
the mods keep closing all the threads for ics development
[HTC Sensation] GabrielSousa:
you can download sensation ICS here MOD EDIT: NO EXTERNAL LINKS!!!!
[HTC Sensation] musmos:
I'm currently testing that version and i find it very stable but a lot of apps still doesnt work. Still good job for this alpha version :D
[HTC Sensation] Rouz.:
Seriously people ... how many times should the mods say that external links to Trip's work is not allowed?

No wonder all the ICS' threads are being locked
[HTC Sensation] F4M0U569:
this is a video of how far we have gone porting ICS on our device

youtu.be/yItyVGxlVgE
[HTC Sensation] musmos:
I guess it doesn't matter much.. This thread will be close or die out since there's nothing to discuss here about ics..
[HTC Sensation] zerozoneice:
that's the ICS port's name that cannot be spoken about here :)

it's like Sauron's ROM or something
[HTC Sensation] perhac89:
I wont post a link to the page, but looking at Kmobs Google+, he posted a few pictures comparing his Sensation and Galaxy Nexus.

-In one picture he shows the 'about phone' screen on both phones. On Sensation, it looks like there is a color gradient, however its hard to tell. So MAYBE they have hardware acceleration working.

-Also if you read the 'mod version' it says CyanogenMod-9.0.0-RC0-Sensation-KANG. I'm a noob and Im not sure if the mod version will tell anything, but it says RC0 so maybe its Release Candidate status?

-One last thing I noticed is he has the same widget running when he compares homescreen, so he is kind or mirroring the two, but the Galaxy Nexus has the camera shortcut on the homescreen and Sensation does not. Not sure if that means its not working on Sensation, or if he just didnt put it there :)

Mods: if I posted anything I shouldnt have, please feel free to delete the post and contact me. Im familiar to the rules for the most part.
[HTC Sensation] down4life:
Aaaaaand its working quite well :D I just had to test it...and stay on it:)
[HTC Sensation] vitusdoom:
lol. should compare date released and prices for devices. the longer the date the device was released and the cheaper price it is, it should have many devs and support for it. as our devices is quite new (not that new lol) but its like a decisive thing for devs really, if they want to get the sensation and create ports there or just go to the newest device there is on the market. :) but needless to say, we have plenty of devs here. its just a matter of enjoying whats there and being patient. so, stay on and relax ;)
[HTC Sensation] NYCguy2020:
It seems like developement for the Sensation is slowly dying.Looks like all the good devs have jumped ship to newer phones :( It's kinda depressing since the phone is only 6 months old.I wish i could afford to buy a new phone every 6 months.
[HTC Sensation] down4life:
Sadly, but true....
[HTC Sensation] mattbutsko:
We have a good collection of roms though, and we will be getting ICS regardless from HTC. I don't mind if devs jump ship.
[HTC Sensation] kooskoos1814:
Yeah, TripNiCE ROM is now Alpha 7.5, quite perfect and very stable.

It seems that we could have a stable release (or two if CM9/Kang release something too) till Christmas !
[HTC Sensation] djice000:
Trip is a legend! I don't get why him and xda aren't getting on! I'm using his ICS rom at the moment, and its very very stable, fair enough....the HW acceleration is not working (an update within the next few days should fix that) and the camera and Bluetooth don't work but other than that, he's the dogs bollocks! Otherwise we'd all be sat twiddling our thumbs waiting for cm9!
[HTC Sensation] vitusdoom:
who would read 179 posts in just one go? but yeah, thats awesome man! lol

true that. but whoever gives it to the sensation community it doesn't matter. as long as we all have ics. we are happy. im not sure if im just talking for myself. :)
[HTC Sensation] Freshly_Snipes:
Getting low memory warnings??
[HTC Sensation] shadow666:
I never got that while using it, maybe its because I don't install too many apps. Had to switch back to CM7, because I get a lot of calls and volume is too low.
[HTC Sensation] lyrical1278:
I tried trips ICS. I like it. HA was partially working. My gripe was the low memory warnings.

ANd some apps I use daily that wouldn't work. SO I had to switch back to Insert Coin.

Otherwise, I liked it.
[HTC Sensation] gbzbar:
Yeah, I get the distinct feeling that the low memory warnings are actually fc's, but there is something screwed up with the framework or something, and they are showing up as low memory warnings as a side effect. I get low memory warnings when I would usually expect to see a fc warning, and where I used to get fc warnings.
[HTC Sensation] lyrical1278:
I think they are moreso FCs. Mostly because, select move to sdcard, and you will get the send crash report to google screen.
[HTC Sensation] Shagman68:
ICS Links page

There are links to about 4 other outside links in this post...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=20139152

LG GT540 Optimus

Stage of Development: Beta 1

Last Updated: 25th November 2011

FORUM: http://aosp.mikegapinski.cba.pl/

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Motorola Droid X

Stage of Development: Pre-Alpha 2

Last Updated: 30th November 2011

FORUM: http://rootzwiki.com/topic/10573-rom...-based-on-cm9/

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Motorola Triumph

Stage of Development: Alpha 1

Last Updated: 21st November 2011

FORUM: http://androidforums.com/triumph-all...0-triumph.html

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Samsung Spica i5700

Stage of Development: Dev Only

Last Updated: 6th December 2011

FORUM: http://forum.samdroid.net/f73/androi...cs-spica-5866/

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Sounds to me like you have a few links to delete...
[HTC Sensation] the_scotsman:
Those links are fine...
[HTC Sensation] Freshly_Snipes:
You KNOW what he means..lol
[HTC Sensation] scm_crash:
I was thinking the same thing. HTC really needs to build the drivers to make the OS interact with the hardware the way Google specifies. I believe that, given time, Kmobs or (as someone else called him) Voldamort will come up with some hacked up driver that will work. But regardless of who comes out with it first, HTCs will likely be the most stable. I'm sure HTC already has working drivers they're testing as we speak, and I certainly hope I'm right. I just don't want Sense. I was reading an ICS review earlier today I saw posted by "Android Police" on Google+. The review was talking about how great ICS is and can't wait to see how the manufacturers are going to mess it up. LOL I was thinking the same thing when I realized HTC isn't going to release ICS for the Senation without destroying it with all their bloatware and throwing the ICS GUI away for a healthy dosage of Sense.

I must admit, I have Voldamort's port on one of my Boot Manager's ROM slots and play with it now and then. I won't get into the specifics about it, but I've played with it enough to know that ICS's interface is so much better than Sense that I actually cringe at the idea of putting Sense on top of ICS - making it bloated, slower, and less functional. Honestly, ICS is basically a smoother version of CM which is just what the doctor ordered for the Sensation. There's honestly nothing I like from Sense EXCEPT the text selection tool. That's pretty good. Aside from that, the rest is just garbage.

There are many things missing from the "Voldamort Port" (I like that name for it) that Google showed off already, and I know that he isn't going to get that stuff done before HTC. I don't think Kmob is going to get that done first either regardless of the team effort.

However, I'm looking forward to how CM9 goes. Kmob said there's really not much he's planning on changing and I can understand that considering just about everything that was in CM6 and CM7 is in ICS.

HAHA... I was thinking the same thing. I'm dyslexic so I hate reading that much. I would have stopped at page 10, jumped to page 165 and continued from there.

But A+ for effort.
[HTC Sensation] vitusdoom:
How are they rated? Im just curious. ;)
[HTC Sensation] Hawke84:
i do agree with what your saying, i can see that sense isnt for everyone and i think your totally right, the first stable version we'll get will be the HTC version, mainly because i would imagine they have a team of people working on it wanting to be one of the first to have an ICS release with their UI.

I personally like sense, i find the general android UI a little ugly, especially the bottom buttons and i dont think sense slows things down that, well not that i notice anyway. but thats down to personal taste.

i do wonder what sense 4.0 will bring (if they do decide to do a new sense build for ics or if they stick with sense 3.5)..
[HTC Sensation] spookiej:
I think you might be getting Kmobs and Trip mixed up..

Edit: Sorry, my bad. It's late... Although your sentence does reads like this.

"Kmobs or as someone else called him Voldamort will come up with...."
[HTC Sensation] undercover:
Lmfao. It stuck! Voldemort. And Rom should be called VoldePort. Lol. I wonder how you-know-who is gonna take the news. Pmsl
[HTC Sensation] vincepg13:
Just out of curiosity, without flash you can't watch videos on a website right? So surely that's a massive drawback for Apple & HTML5 (whatever that actually is)

Sent from my HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio
[HTC Sensation] stonew5082:
no the point of html5 is that it plays video without the need of special software like flash, quicktime etc. that's the beauty of it.
[HTC Sensation] scm_crash:
Awwww You beat me to it.

Yeah, HTML5 is a new standard in web development that allows developers to program animation, vector graphics and audio/video directly into the webpage without the need to invoke a separate plugin like Flash or Silverlight.

While I genuinely hate Flash, Silverlight is actually pretty good for certain things. Although, there's nothing I program that cannot be done in HTML5 and therefore I don't use anything that requires a plugin.

The only down-side is that there are still some poor schmucks out there that still use Internet Explorer 8 and older; people who refuse to use better browsers like Firefox, Chrome, Safari or Opera. Considering that even mobile browsers are more advanced than Internet Explorer 8, I make it a point to send anything that's not HTML5 compatible to a crappy "low-tech" site that looks like it was programmed in 1992. I want them to get the picture that it's time to ditch the old browser. LOL

The sites that matter will use HTML5 video anyway, so no need to install Flash. Flash has been proven to drain your battery and slow the browser. Just as a test, you should uninstall flash from your phones and browse the internet with the stock browser. You will be pleasantly surprised how fast and functional it becomes. :)
[HTC Sensation] Rouz.:
K-Mob forgot his sensation in Austin (said on his G+)

He says that he is going to have another one "soon"

Looks like CM9 will be more delayed ...
[HTC Sensation] Shagman68:
We should bee getting a leaked ICS ROM from HTC soon i hope.
[HTC Sensation] BiziBB:
I'm late to the party on this, but can someone direct me to the 'Voldemort' ICS?

I expect it's the one exiled to Modaco but correct me if I'm tripN. ;)

From recent reading of K-Mob's G+ I'm also expecting less attention or urgency being placed on the Sensation CM9 right now. However that can change - this may only be a temporary holdup. It may depend on the level of motivation to make 'soon' -> asap. :)

I suspect that if a working, useful beta ICS is ready for testing, then those who have staked the credibility of developing CM9 for Sensation will get motivated to get their own one further developed.

I could be very, very wrong... is there more than one person doing critical work on CM9 for Sensation or is it 100% resting on K-Mobs' shoulders?

It would be a good thing for there to be some communication from CM9 developers (if they are still developing). :)

Whoever is developing the Sensation port - thanks! A working, fast and reliable ICS port will keep so many people using their HTC Sensation - and probably staying with the evolving ROMs even after the Sense version eventually appears.
[HTC Sensation] Wanderer_Zero:
Maybe we should give kmobs some "incentive" to put a little more time into ics? What say you fellow rom-aholics?
[HTC Sensation] unfnknblvbl:
there are several people working on it, just kmobs is the most public about it. He's done pretty much all he can for the moment anyway, he's just waiting on one of the other guys to come up with a solution for hardware acceleration.
[HTC Sensation] Hawke84:
seems tripnraver has almost cracked HW so it could be close..
[HTC Sensation] arzbhatia:
Anyone registered on the Modaco ICS forums, please discuss/ask questions on the Discussion thread, all technical stuff can be posted in the Development thread (Original One).
[HTC Sensation] pr0x2:
I really wonder how sense will work out on ICS. I sooo hope that HTC makes it 100times smaller than the resource hog that it is now.
[HTC Sensation] Bronyr:
That's why I never really liked sense - it's like an overbloated and decorated cow... ICS come here now :-)
[HTC Sensation] Electronic Punk:
How about some actual news about the official ICS for Sensation?

http://android.modaco.com/page/news...ndroid-40-ice-cream-sandwich-wi-r137#comments
[HTC Sensation] mrg02d:
There is still so much to do though. I dont think you can really call it ICS without having ICS key features. I mean come on guys, you really okay with no camera? That makes me feel like I did when I had my first cell phone and went nuts when camera phones first came out. Ive seen so many "we dont need camera or bluetooth!" comments. Thats not ICS. Thats just the ICS wrapper.

Trip and Kmobs are talented, but this is over their heads. ICS is a whole new ballgame that requires more time, effort, and skill than they have. I truly feel that HTC will beat both of them AND come out with a solid ICS build for us. (Even with crappy sense installed).

HA is what has slowed and disinterested a lot of development. Our Sensations have new hardware that must be learned. Thats why you see older phones with ICS this and that running.

Trip did good by showing us what our Sensations CAN and WILL be once REAL ICS is out, but his ROM is nothing more than a preview. I believe Kmobs is no further along than Trip is. Both banging their heads over HA.

Now the REAL issue is, when will TMOBILE give us ICS? HTC may be close, but what about GOOD OLE TMOBILE? Will we have to wait for them to take a bite, or will we have some way of getting it first since we are rooted?

Matt
[HTC Sensation] vincepg13:
So I'm confused, one thing that always comes up in tablet reviews is androids capability to play video in web browsers due to flash, whereas say the ipad cannot

But doesn't apples ipads web browser use HTML5? So they should be able to play videos according to your info?

Sent from my HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio
[HTC Sensation] ddizzy81:
Aosp ICS with sense Widgets...= the perfect rom

Sent From My HTC Sensation 4G
[HTC Sensation] nawoa:
Beautiful Widgets, HD Widgets, your choice of any of the other widget packs...

If a website uses HTML5 video, you can play it on an ipad. However, HTML5 is new and a lot of people use old web browsers that don't support it. In fact, there's still not full consensus on what video types should be used for HTML5 video. Also Flash is an old and well-understood technology so web designers tend to stick with it. In general Flash is still used.

As a web developer myself, I use Flash for embedded video (despite its many flaws) since Internet Explorer 5.5 is still very widely used... something that horrifies me, but which I can't ignore.

Anything like how he had hardware acceleration working 100% for real, serious guys!!! a couple weeks ago and then ragequit FOREVARR when he was called out on it and then came back the next day like George Costanza pretending nothing happened? There's a reason that guy's banned, he's not an actual developer. He's like that guy with the "custom" Netflix a few weeks/months ago that turned out to just contain useless Windows DLLs. Every time he posts progress on an issue, it was patched into the CM9 repository a few hours prior. It's insulting even as a spectator. ...And people wonder why KMobs is keeping his Sensation-specific work closed source until it's ready. Sheesh.
[HTC Sensation] V1ViD:
If I read correctly, Trip has HA cracked.
[HTC Sensation] nawoa:
Trip has, like many other developers, hacked a form of hardware acceleration into the rom that's based on old Gingerbread drivers. It may work, but there will be instability and it won't run as actually intended.

It's over KMobs' head in the sense that it's not solely his job in porting ICS, many members of CM are working on understanding and implementing the new hardware acceleration system for all the different devices. It may very well be true that there will be an official firmware before the job is done by their efforts; it's a very big job. Once it's fully stable on one CM firmware, most of the work will be over.
[HTC Sensation] mrg02d:
Cracked all right! ;)

Matt
[HTC Sensation] F4M0U569:
he is not going to release it..he is the only with hw working..i doubt he will release it
[HTC Sensation] undercover:
This just shows that futher down the line we are going to get less and less aosp roms, as I can't see guys like trip n kmobs ;) writing drivers for hw. We are going to have less and less devs and more chefs. I blame hardware fragmentation. Where before we had all the smart people sitting on one/two phones, now people jump on different.ones, and you are lucky if you have support of 2/3 devs on your device. I think eventually, if google doesn't stop releasing them, most of the community is going to jump on Nexus wagon.
[HTC Sensation] zerozoneice:
no sh1te, who else do you expect to release the proper drivers, if not the manufacturer itself?!

or is everyone expecting AOSP to reverse engineer and get every single feature working before HTC/Samsung/Sony/LG releases?

damn
[HTC Sensation] mrg02d:
+1

In my opinion, people could spend their money better. Dropping $600 for a new phone that is just a TAD bit better than what you have seems unwise to me. The GN has a better screen and that is about as far as it goes. Once the sensation has true ICS, both will perform the same.

Matt
[HTC Sensation] eviLutions:
Trip had HAHA cracking a week or two now. I'm still cracking up laughing HAHA ever since Kmobs exposed the truth to Trips 'fully functional HA" a week or two.back. HAHA ;)

Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G
[HTC Sensation] Hawke84:
Wow thanks for the rant, I was only posting what I had seen, I have no idea the politics behind trip and why he's banned. All I saw was posts in other forum with him showing progress on HA...
[HTC Sensation] V1ViD:
^ this.

I don't know the drama behind Trip, nor do I really care about it. I just saw the information he posted and that's all I was saying. I just got this phone, because development was much better than the G2x. So as far as I know Trip seems like a great dev.
[HTC Sensation] LOSTLOGIC89:
Seems htc is testing ics with sense 3.5 for the sensation. (Google it for source)
[HTC Sensation] hello00:
Where are you getting this from?
[HTC Sensation] undercover:
How about checking 2 pages back?
[HTC Sensation] Knucklessg1:
It is actually Sense 3.0, not 3.5, that they are testing on the Sensation.
[HTC Sensation] Freshly_Snipes:
No it's not... Well none of HONESTLY know.. So let's not argue.
[HTC Sensation] craven667:
you know i read this and went to look for tripps rom i have to say didnt like it i will wait for xda to port something for what it was didnt like the layout or launcher but i guess thats me so here to waiting
[HTC Sensation] hello00:
then you wouldn't like ics
[HTC Sensation] shadow666:
+1 lol
[HTC Sensation] NYCguy2020:
Lol...are you for real??!
[HTC Sensation] scm_crash:
I've donated to CyanogenMod many times... Hell, I've made well over $300 worth of donations to various developers over the last year. I don't have a problem with donating to help give the developers more "incentive", but at this point I honestly don't see anyone getting anything done for the Sensation regarding ICS anytime soon due to the lack of drivers. That's something that only a machine-level developer is going to come up with and that means we're going to have to wait for HTC to drop the source.

But if there's still XDA developers that are trying, more power to them. If I see steam from the smoke stacks, I'll donate more.

Thanks to some open source solutions like "VideoJS", it's getting easier to make the transition to HTML5 video. VideoJS makes it so that if your browser is HTML5 video compatible, it will play the video with HTML5. But if you're using an older browser, it will fall back to Flash automatically.

In my opinion, HTML5 video with MP4 or WebM encoding look far superior to Flash FLV videos. Take a look at the video quality on on this page: (http://videojs.com/) I use Chrome and Firefox. I hope to never have to deal with FLVs ever again. And I'm actually contemplating uninstalling Flash all-together.

This is a good point. The 3 major video types used right now are x264 (MP4), WebM and FLV. All of these require different players as far as web browsers go. MP4 is what Apple is pushing. There's far better support for MP4 (hardware decoding) and a lot more devices that run MP4s natively. WebM is Google's video implementation, however it has very little support (hardware-wise) and requires more up-front power to encode. FLV is the most popular as 99% of the tube-sites out there (youtube, streetfire, mediacafe, etc) use FLVs. They started using FLV since Flash was the only way to get high efficiency streaming videos to users with very little work to implement the video into the webpage.

That being said, I'll continue using VideoJS until I can cut the strings completely and use pure HTML5 code. It's going to be a while though. Maybe another 2 years before people realize that they HAVE to upgrade their browsers to see the videos.

Lucky for me, I don't have to give 2 sh!ts about the dumb asses still using Internet Explorer 5.5 or 6. And I refuse to support them. I don't take any programming jobs if a requirement is that the page has to be compatible with IE6.

Long live progress!
[HTC Sensation] nba1341:
Lmao nothing is changed in that rom its pure ics stock uhhhhh your just trolling right?
[HTC Sensation] stuart0001:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1403859
[HTC Sensation] JayIce11:
errr u guys not checked the developer thread this very day? ics android 4.0.1 ;) rcmix ice is there!
[HTC Sensation] mrew42:
Downloading now :)

Oh boy oh boy oh boy :)
[HTC Sensation] umartariq:
:) lets try
[HTC Sensation] stardust240781:
It is great.

Gesendet von meinem HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio Z715e mit Tapatalk
[HTC Sensation] chiragkrishna:
As the ics is released as beta... n looks like hw acceleration is working... I wonder how long will the devs take to get it to a asop state...

Sent from sensation miui
[HTC Sensation] dimem:
I'm testing ICS 4.0.1 and first opinion is very SLOW.
[HTC Sensation] Chilled26:
What else can you expect when you're running sense? It's a memory hog.
[HTC Sensation] galaxys:
Awesome news...let the cooking begin!
[HTC Sensation] djice000:
Well said mate :-) I said that not so long ago but got a load of jargon off someone lol