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[G2 and Desire Z General] riahc3:
If a dev can tell me, I will call them directly (Qualcomm) and ask for what you need or any information about it.
[G2 and Desire Z General] riahc3:
Im seeing that the real idiots are Qualcomm here...........HTC released some days ago their official program that unlocks the bootloader for Desire Z

http://htcdev.com/bootloader/

Rude Qualcomm rude. As I said, Ill problably call them tommorow.
[G2 and Desire Z General] sorgo:
http://www.phonearena.com/news/HTC-Primo-specs-leaked-includes-Android-4.0-and-Beats-Audio_id26195

does this adds some positivity for future desire z ROMs?
[G2 and Desire Z General] sino8r:
Maybe for a port but not sure what you're driving at here? It's not like it has the same chipset or anything... so it's not really relevant to this thread. Looks like a nice midrange device that's sorta a feature/smartphone. Beats is extremely overated but am glad to see better speakers in HTC devices lately. Beats is made by Monster and an equalizer that Dr. Dre MIGHT have helped set up the frequencies . They make good cables/wire but only midrange speakers, it seems. I'd like to see Bose make it into some mobiles. Now THAT would be interesting ;)
[G2 and Desire Z General] sorgo:
I'm thinking about what effect will have when HTC will release kernel source code for this device at their dev site. it will be ICS, 512MB, 3.7" screen with same resolution. So maybe htc will change its mind about ics on dz's.
[G2 and Desire Z General] sino8r:
Oh... I see what you mean now. Maybe it might have something useful then. I was thinking you thought it had the same chipset or something else.... my bad :( It might have something useful on the graphics side of drivers since its the same screen size and resolution. The more official ICS roms they put out there with similar specs in some department could help.
[G2 and Desire Z General] riahc3:
It has 512MB of RAM? It will be one of the few as noted that most devices that will be upgradable have 768MB of RAM (at least)
[G2 and Desire Z General] riahc3:
That phone BTW has never been announced.
[G2 and Desire Z General] tarroyo:
I'm curious why we have to email Qualcomm to get a ics camera source/driver for a G2/Desire Z?

Once enough pressure is put on HTC they'll put the pressure on Qualcomm for a camera source, Or am I wrong?
[G2 and Desire Z General] amazinglarry311:
Cyanogen stated that 256mb ram was fine for ics.
[G2 and Desire Z General] riahc3:
HTC pays attention to us and actually replys.

Qualcomm doesnt say **** to us.
[G2 and Desire Z General] riahc3:
RAM is irrelevant at this point.

CM's team has said their biggest problem right now is the camera framework.
[G2 and Desire Z General] gbyers72:
Is the camera framework not already released

Hello, is this camera framework not already released? There is another rom maker virtuousrom that I have on my desire z at the moment and the camera works not very well but it works some of the time you can see the rom for yourselves by visiting this link. http://www.virtuousrom.com/p/quattro.html
[G2 and Desire Z General] kaijura:
That is a hack incorporated / made by a Chinese developer here called zbwu86. It was originally for the Desire HD. Lord Clockan and some others further improved the code, as well as virtuous implementing it into their roms. It's not a native camera support in ICS, it is a hack from GB which is why it has bugs and doesn't work well.
[G2 and Desire Z General] kaijura:
Just wanted to add back on this topic that it was officially confirmed by HTC that they would be releasing an ICS version to the Desire HD and Incredible S later this year. This statement was made a little over a week ago officially on their Facebook and other channels.

So, seeing how vivo / ace / saga / vision all get supported by lots of different rom makers, maybe the DZ can get a working port with camera working when HTC releases it for the others.
[G2 and Desire Z General] bor3d2damax:
Hey guys,

Im revieing my email to HTC Devs on the release for the drivers for the Camera. I need some help on something thats confusing me. Will the Camera drivers work on the Tmobile G2? I know the Desire Z and the G2 are very similar (except for firmware) but will these drivers also fix the issues for the G2 Cameras on ICS ROMS?
[G2 and Desire Z General] apa1102:
G2/Desire Z are totally the same device.
[G2 and Desire Z General] tarroyo:
Anyone get a reply back from HTC Dev?
[G2 and Desire Z General] androidcues:
I am really curious about how the "official" rom will be compared to quattro andromedia and cm9 alphas. I keep coming right back to CM7. Only stayed on ICS for Chrome Beta and frankly it turned into molasses after a while.

Sent from successor to dream
[G2 and Desire Z General] nickeedoo:
Just emailed Qualcomm about the drivers. Let's see if they roll around to that part of their inbox!
[G2 and Desire Z General] Zombie Steve Jobs:
I emailed them as well. Hopefully the drivers for the Desire HDs camera will help us G2/DZ owners.

Rooted w/ S-OFF

Current ROM : G2Slim 1.6

Radio : 26.13.04.19_M.
[G2 and Desire Z General] farris:
I used the contact form on Qualcomm's dev page too:

https://developer.qualcomm.com/

Contact form: https://developer.qualcomm.com/content/contact-us

Maybe that's more convenient, because with using the contact form on the general page you only mail the PR-guys of Qualcomm, and maybe this dev site is more focussed on stuff like drivers... :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] Xethron:
Sending emails!

Heya guys!

Just making sure, we still don't have a reply from Qualcomm right?

Sending everyone all my emails :D Lets hope it works sooner than later.
[G2 and Desire Z General] farris:
yeah, the replied me very fast :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] Doc76013:
Qualcom.

This is funny I was about to post the same thing that I got a response from Qualcom and it is from the same person. I had to laugh. Well the only thing I can see that is beneficial is that HTC is the one we need to communicate with that is the one thing we did want to find out. :rolleyes:
[G2 and Desire Z General] GrievousMcG:
I've e-mailed Qualcomm to see if we get a different answer and this is what I've written to them:

I might get the same answer as did the guys above but I thought it can't hurt to triple check and see if we get a different response.

I've also created a thread in their discussion forum in case the message get lost in their inbox: https://developer.qualcomm.com/forum/qdevnet-forums/general-discussion/10085
[G2 and Desire Z General] Doc76013:
Drivers

Well written hopefully this will receive a positive response. :D
[G2 and Desire Z General] Xethron:
If all else fails

Well,

Playing around trying to avoid studies, I did manage to get my hands on 111 emails registered to the qualcomm.com domain...

Once we have done all we can do, and find no other way out. We can always email all 111 of them and ask nicely again :P

Receiving 1-50 emails a day pleading to give the drivers will get on someone's nerves sometime.

Just a thought.
[G2 and Desire Z General] tijuanacartel:
First, if we're emailing Qualcomm, it helps to know what to ask for.

To Qualcomm, the phrase "HTC Desire Z Camera" means nothing. That's what we as consumers call it, but to them it's an implementation of some of their tech in a customers product. To them HTC is the customer and they cant go giving out information about a customer's design to some random on the internet without the customer's consent.

What we need to do is find the Qualcomm part number/designation for the camera module and request source to that. Which we are not likely to get IMHO, except as a leak.

I always thought that the desire Z and desire HD were the same SoC/hardware package (the only difference being the housing, touchscreen and keyboard). Desire HD is slated to get an ICS update and when that happens, surely we can use the camera driver from that?
[G2 and Desire Z General] GrievousMcG:
Well as the OP put it we are looking for the Qualcomm MSM7230 chipset. That is probably the best information we are going to be able to give Qualcomm at this point of time. At least it will give them something to work on if they bother answering our e-mails.

I think a few others on here say that too but unless we get an official answer from either HTC or Qualcomm, I'm going to assume that is not the case.

EDIT: just looked at GSMArena and the chipset for the Desire HD is the MSM8255 Snapdragon. So being a different chipset, will the source code for the camera driver be different from our phone??
[G2 and Desire Z General] azrash:
BTW Chris Ward is petitioning to HTC so that they'll release an ICS update for our phone here www.change.org/petitions/htc-release-an-android-4-0-update-for-the-htc-desire-z it'll be great if we can garner more support for this

Perhaps they can release the drivers if they are unwilling to provide an ICS update
[G2 and Desire Z General] tijuanacartel:
As I understand it the camera is a seperate package to the MSM7230.

If its true that the camera is tied to the cpu SoC as suggested, maybe we can use the camera driver from the ics rom for huawei x5, which also has msm7230?

See video test from that phone here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HZo7daaW8E
[G2 and Desire Z General] steviewevie:
Amazing development from Qualcomm !

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/qualcomm-releases-adreno-2xx-gpu-binaries-for-ics/

Sent from my Desire Z running CM7.
[G2 and Desire Z General] GrievousMcG:
That is great news. I hope it provide our developers with the resources they need to fix the camera driver issues on ICS.

On another front, got a response on the Qualcomm forum from a Steve Lukas suggesting a possible solution to the camera driver issue:

Will the codeaurora website particularly this section: (https://www.codeaurora.org/contribute/projects/qsdp) help with our cause at all?
[G2 and Desire Z General] captainreynolds:
So what does all this Qualcomm business mean for us G2 folks?
[G2 and Desire Z General] steviewevie:
G2 folks ? You mean as opposed to the Desire Z ? If that's what you meant, the two phones are the same, with the same GPU, so the release of the drivers is great news.

What we could really do with now is the camera drivers from Qualcomm too !

Sent from my Desire Z running CM7.
[G2 and Desire Z General] riahc3:
Like someone pointed out: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1550442 they have released the GPU drivers (the source at least) so some progress is made.

Keep on emailing them. If there is enough demand, they might listen!
[G2 and Desire Z General] captainreynolds:
Nope, I meant G2/Desire Z! Sorry haha
[G2 and Desire Z General] GrievousMcG:
I never got a response from them regarding my original e-mail so I've send them another one. Just changed it a bit so that it shows that we are still keen on them releasing the camera driver.

If you guys want, I can post a copy of the e-mail on here and perhaps you guys can copy and paste then send it off to Qualcomm? Might be worthwhile changing a few words so that it doesn't look like that I've created several accounts and send them the same e-mail.

cheerio
[G2 and Desire Z General] Nospin:
Ice Cream Sandwich beta rom was just released for the Xperia Play. Snapdragon/Adreno 205 combo right there. Not too much longer until we have all the pieces, Desire HD shouldn't be too far out.
[G2 and Desire Z General] crestofawave:
Doesn't matter really. The only thing we're missing are camera drivers, which we'll be able to acquire from a DHD or a DS update.

Sent from my DZ.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Sheikmans:
Qualcomm is doing business with HTC, not with customers like us. Try to understand this businessmodel. So stop mailing Qualcomm, but try to push HTC instead.
[G2 and Desire Z General] tarroyo:
Well said, exact same point I was trying to make in this thread before.
[G2 and Desire Z General] steviewevie:
Until recently, I was with you guys about it being a waste of time emailing Qualcomm. *But* it looks like I was wrong. Qualcomm themselves (not HTC) released Adreno drivers for ICS. So I think it's certainly worth politely asking them to release camera drivers for us. What have we got to lose, other than a few minutes of time ?

Sent from my Desire Z running CM7.
[G2 and Desire Z General] crestofawave:
It won't mean anything if only one modding community asks for it. We should coordinate with the DS/DHD folks and ask for a unified ICS camera driver, since we probably have the same chipsets. I think that the DS has the same 5MP sensor as ours has but the DHD has an 8MP one. Not sure if that's entirely relevant though.
[G2 and Desire Z General] bradley_e_smith:
I was wondering which phones have similar hardware to ours.
[G2 and Desire Z General] GrievousMcG:
My understanding is that the Desire HD has the Qualcomm MSM8255 Snapdragon chipset and yes, the Desire S has the same but the Desire Z has got the Qualcomm MSM7230 chipset. So I'm not too sure if there is a huge amount of difference between the camera drivers on the two different chipsets to cause problems for our developers on here.

Until the developers are able to find out one way or another, I'll keep e-mailing Qualcomm (come on Qualcomm! how about letting me know you are at least getting my e-mails!)
[G2 and Desire Z General] crestofawave:
Msm8255 and msm7230 SoC's have the same hardware except for the 8255 has 768MB and has it's processor clocked +200MHz when compared to the DZ's one. Other than that it's the same chip. This is the reason we see many ports over from the DS and DHD sections

Sent from my DZ.
[G2 and Desire Z General] C.Flat:
Actually I think RAM is independent of the SoC. The 2011 Xperia phones use msm8255 and have 512mb of ram
[G2 and Desire Z General] crestofawave:
I just had a quick look. According to this the only thing different is the clock speed. So, you're correct.
[G2 and Desire Z General] GrievousMcG:
Thanks for the link, I was looking for something like this to get a better understanding of the chipset in our phones.

Let's hope that HTC will roll out ICS for the DHD and Desire S sooner rather than later. :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] riahc3:
HTC released a OTA update some days ago with changes to the kernel showing they STILL indeed are intrested in our phone. Email them to release the source to the kernel so devs can update their ROMs and use the latest kernel in their ROMs and/our their modified kernels.

Good job people! Keep up the emailing and good work!
[G2 and Desire Z General] VaderSKN:
I've emailed HTC, that's wat they wrote:

Thank you for contacting HTC regarding your Desire Z.

I understand that you wish to receive ICS (4.0.3) to your device.

Unfortunately we do not have any information regarding the release of ICS to this specific model.

I can not say that it will never be released for it, but most likely it will not be.

When a update is released for a device you will receive it as a notification at the top of your screen in the left hand corner.

I hope that this mail answered any queries you may have, if not don't hesitate contacting us again.

I hope I helped a little ^w^
[G2 and Desire Z General] riahc3:
BTW, whoever answered you is not in a position to say "most likely it will not be". People have been fired who are in lower positions for claiming something like that.

And I repeat, we do not want a update to ICS, because from the looks of things, it is something will will never get. We just want the source code to the drivers (Qualcomm) which will help in getting ICS to work better on our device.
[G2 and Desire Z General] MIkeRD03:
have a look into the dev area here. Some of the custom ICS ports are nearly perfect und very usable right now. So who needs HTC when our devs here are smarter? ;-)

Mike
[G2 and Desire Z General] VaderSKN:
But I wrote about the drivers, not the update.
[G2 and Desire Z General] riahc3:
"nearly perfect and very usable"? Please. They are full of bugs because of this: Because HTC/Qualcomm (more Qualcomm) doesnt release the source to their drivers. If they did then they would be "nearly perfect" and very usable.
[G2 and Desire Z General] VaderSKN:
I think Ice Cream SENSEwich is best Sense 4.0A ROM right now. Only camera and WiFi hotspot isn't working.
[G2 and Desire Z General] riahc3:
Camera; The whole base behind why this thread was created, to help out the devs.
[G2 and Desire Z General] KyraOfFire:
Adromadus Audacity Beta 4 with Wifi Calling mod? What do you want that is not in there?

If you really insist that you need sense then you should really change your title to "Ice Cream Sandwich with Sense support for the HTC Desire Z".
[G2 and Desire Z General] maxi0361:
Good job.

What about the radio? I am not able to find any ROM which radio is working.

I mean, listen to FM with headphones.

Is there any information on this?
[G2 and Desire Z General] riahc3:
Im not sure if you posted towards me but I dont want Sense. The ROMs are great but still unstable and that is not the devs fault. IF they dont have access to the source code for drivers/etc for our Vision, they cant do anything.
[G2 and Desire Z General] GrievousMcG:
It seems that we haven't heard much movement from Qualcomm about the camera drivers so I've e-mail them again.

I've used the following website and e-mail address to contact them:

http://www.qualcomm.com/about/businesses/qct?sid=5269

http://www.qualcomm.com/quic-contact-form

corpcomm@qualcomm.com

If anyone want to cut and paste my letter to pester them, feel free:

Some people may think we are wasting our time e-mailing them but I guess I'm not one of them. :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] riahc3:
Updated to reflect 4.1
[G2 and Desire Z General] riahc3:
Added also to ask for the HTC Desire HD Ice Cream Sandwich update.
[G2 and Desire Z General] C.Flat:
Looks like the ICS update has been released for the incredible s

http://m.androidcentral.com/android-404-rolling-out-htc-incredible-s
[G2 and Desire Z General] raydar670:
Lol I was about to post that! I hope this means we'll see a decent port or desensed version sometime soon :D.
[G2 and Desire Z General] austriker27:
I am thinking of getting an old G2. Although ICS (& JB) looks pretty sweet. How are the ICS roms? Are the only things that are missing camera support? And how smooth are they?

EDIT: Just kidding. Google was my friend. I searched for other forums for answerwords
[G2 and Desire Z General] GrievousMcG:
I've got a response from Qualcomm:

The bit that I highlighted in bold - is that our problem? The proprietary camera components is what we are after?

It seems that they are not too sure of what I'm asking here. Can anyone help me out so when I reply to them, they are clear about what we are asking for?

For your info, my e-mail to them can be seen further up on this page.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] mesnati:
Hi there!

Anyone willing to paste official images for U8800: (V100R001C00B522G001)

recovery.img

boot.img

cust.img

amss.mbn

EMMCBOOT.MBN

Thanks!

S.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] NihilistWarGod:
It was really necessary to open a new thread for that -.-

What a mess. So many devices and roms.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] O_G:
You are correct:)

Thread Closed
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] globatron:
It has come to my attention that a number of regional OTA updates are now rolling out, specifically US and some Asian areas appear to be in progress.

The reason for this post is for those users who specifically want the regional HoneyComb variant for their region and language, which is perfectly natural and

something which I completely understand.

Firstly some ground rules, so that nobody feels I'm ignoring them specifically:

1. Do not PM me if you "soft brick" ( white screen with HTC logo )

2. Do no PM me with questions about what to do next.

3. Do not PM me about anything to do with upgrades PERIOD.

I will not answer PMs about OTA upgrades unless I specifically request that you PM me. So as you can see I'm not ignoring anyone specifically, I'm ignoring everyone who PM's me about upgrades. The reason for this is as my signature says, questions should be asked in the open forums so everyone can benefit from the information.

Please post any questions or problems encountered in this thread and not in multiple other threads. I will do what I can to help when I can as I'm sure will others.

Above all else don't panic. If your are S-OFF almost anything is fixable provided to don't panic and do something foolish.

What I need in order to give you the simplest and most painless upgrade process is a copy of the OTA zip file for your region.

If you have already gone ahead and tried to apply the OTA and are now stuck on a white screen with the HTC logo, here is what you need to do.

You need to have fastboot working to do this.

1. Get the OTA zip file from you device. Is should be located somewhere on the SD card.

2. Unzip the file using 7-zip or some other zip tool that ignore the signature on the file, windows built-in zip will not work.

3. Inside the file you will find a file called "firmware.zip", copy this file to the directory where you have fastboot installed.

4. Download this hboot file:

http://www.multiupload.com/8BI4CWZWMU the MD5SUM is: 6812365feef394e2d1e3c1cd5ab67d24

CHECK the md5sum before proceeding

Copy this file to where you have fastboot installed.

5. boot to fastboot mode and run the following:

fastboot flash hboot hboot-6.11.1111.nb0
fastboot erase cache
fastboot oem rebootRUU
fastboot flash zip firmware.zip
fastboot reboot

You should then reboot into Honeycomb.

If you continue to encounter the white screen or otherwise cannot boot, then go to the easy upgrade thread in the development forum, download and flash the "light" version appropriate for your device from post 1.

You should then boot to recovery. Post a message here and wait for assistance.

If this information makes you unsure of whether or not to take the upgrade, that's fine. Please do yourself an everyone else like you a service, when presented with the option to upgrade "Select the download and install later" option and upload the downloaded OTA zip file somewhere where I can get it.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] aru:
Works !

Just to confirm that OTA from s-off indeed caused white HTC screen (probably due to incompatability of s-off old version of hboot which remained on machine and recovery).

But solution in post 1 worked. Now on HC with new hboot s-off (but w/o CWM...).

Thanks.http://media.xda-developers.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] GMAN1722:
Just want to say thanks

This is my first post in the XDA forums. I don't even know if I am putting this in the correct section. Just want to say thank you for enabling me to make a seamless transition to honeycomb and making it a thing of beauty. I would have done this earlier but I couldn't find the donate button and then once I did I forgot I didn't have enough posts to post this into the developer section. So it is quite evident that if a complete NOOB like me can do this the process couldn't have been made any easier. Once again thank you. A couple of beers on the way (I think that's the correct term lol)

Confirmation number:5EM64938GA251543B
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] globatron:
My thanks to you very much appreciated.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] Rhiannon224:
Need help stuck on white screen with s-off

Okay, I need assistance please. I bought a Flyer on the Marketplace and gave it to my Mom as a gift, I ran the RUU to go back to stock. I carelessly did not check that the device had s-off Revolitionary and tried to install the HC update. Now I am stuck on the white screen. I have ADB on my pc, I have used it many times. If I cannot boot past the white screen how can I extract the Firmware from my sd card? I checked the developement thread mentioned above and this is one of the steps. I currently do not have a copy of the OTA on my pc. I have the US wifi version of the Flyer from Best Buy.

I tried to run the GB RUU but since my device won't boot past the white screen the pc does not see the device when attempting to run the RUU.

I really need to get this back up and running for my Mom, she loves it and is pretty upset that it is unusable currently.

I am trying not to panic, can anyone help me?