yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] zaclimon:
Here his link for donation (it seems to be in USD):

Don't work see below.

Also you have changed thread title. I have an idea, how about we call the teamuniverse or something (teamsupernova) that is in the looks of the space?

As for the device what should we do. I hoped buying a nexus 7 but I can donate to the dev too. The N7 isn't that of a necessary thing for the moment.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] hanthesolo:
Sounds like a good team name, and nicely ties in with the name of my rom ;). When I follow the link (which is in dutch), I get a "operation failed" error. Who's donation account is this?

EDIT: I just noticed how atrocious my spelling has been lately. This is because of the oh-so helpful autocorrect I am giving a chance on my N7 (which I am RMA'ing due to light bleed issues), not because I don't speel well :D.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] zaclimon:
I don't like stock autocorrect, would be better with swiftkey :P. Also about the link hmm this is not normal (maybe a paypal safety measure). I think this would be better:

Paypal Donation link

Note this is in neterlands language so use google if you want to translate.

Also I would like to know how RMA works. Do you have to pay for sending or it is already paid by google?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] hanthesolo:
I do not know yet, as they have not conacted me back, unfortunately, and their generic email said that they are under "extrememly heavy load right now". I believe that they pay for the shipping and send you a new one, but I do not know 100%

You didn't answer my last question: who's paypal donation account is this? I'm just curious. I will put it up in the OP.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] zaclimon:
Ya I see that. I went to the play store and now the 8gb is out of stock where the 16gb is 3-5 days shipping. Oooh sorry about the last question. There his xda's profile:

http://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=4354408
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] klin1344:
I just read this thread, and there are some good ideas. Personally, I think it would be best to donate to a very experienced dev or dev team who is willing to start ICS with tdmcode's sources. He has done a lot of the preliminary work already, including making the convert to raw MTD. And even if we were able to patch a SGS kernel to boot, it doesn't guarantee the chances that an ICS ROM would boot. That is because the kernel would have been modified to work with the galaxy player's hardware. A ROM interacts with the kernel's drivers and various modules, which allow it to boot up and function, but because the kernel was modified, the ROM would probably not work.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] hanthesolo:
Okay, I was wondering who's account that was. Thanks! Are you sure the 8GB is out of stock? I say it was this morning...I guess this doesn't bode well for my rma, maybe I should wait :).

We all understand that, and I have actually gotten a SGS rom to boot with a SGP kernel (see my sig), so mixing and matching SGP/SGS sources shouldn't be a problem.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] zaclimon:
Yes, that's why we want to keep mtd as well. I've contacted many experienced devs, the majority of them says that they don't have time (even if they manage to have time to support newer devices like S3) or don't have the device. I've tried team nyx as well but the team seems to have problems at the moment so they can't really help us now. Also concerning about the rom interacting with the kernel modules, I would like to know how tdm got his working(even with an openGL problem) as we don't get anything as for yet... At least samsung and tdm gave us a nice gift by having a simmilar hardware to the galaxy s and nexus s & with the MTD conversion :D I hope the dev will accept the proposition. :fingers-crossed:

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Don't worry about the stock for RMA devices(as you are aware, you have 15 days upon reciept to file a RMA. don't worry,you will have a replacement unit fast, you can always see in the N7 forums). And maybe klin meant the MTD kernels for the I9000.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] klin1344:
But we are talking about AOSP, not stock samsung gingerbread. Poke around in the ICS AOSP and CM sources long enough and you'll find out what I'm talking about. Even if the sgs ics rom would boot, you would have to reverse-engineer all the different drivers.

Just my suggestions.

I guess I'm not much use here in these forums anyway....
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] zaclimon:
Even if you're not much of use in these forums, don't forget that you have been there since the beginning of these forums (with adamoutler's resurrector and there was you, me and ijimaniac. That was the good old times...). You can give us support. We will get ICS don't worry about the technical things of it.

Also I got reply from another i9001 dev (don't know if he's a dev or not but he seems to be participating a lot in the i9001 scene)

Here what he says:

He seems that he is trying to get 3.0 kernel working over at the i9001 forums.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] klin1344:
Hehe, yup, those were the good times :)

I'll still try to help out since I have had more kernel experience from my kernel for the One S, but don't expect too much as the 3.0 kernel is quite a big change from the 2.6.35 kernel on the galaxy players. I had some trouble getting familiar with the HTC sources at first.

Lol now that I have ICS on my phone, I don't feel that it's any more special than Gingerbread. Some of the differences are actually quite annoying. It's funny how everybody wants ICS, but when they get it, they don't feel "wowed" like they were expecting :p
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] zaclimon:
Isn't 2.6 and 3.0 have small changes? I thought 3.0 had minor changes and it's all about the numbering. Also I remembered when ICS was announced. It was a radical change except for honeycomb (it was pretty much the same thing). Maybe because you have sense overlay your one S. But it all depends from the taste of each other.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Neodymium:
Zac you can also build with my config. I will try building kernel with initramfs.list. The previous kernel, I built it with initamfs from teamhacksung. Is initramfs.list needed to go integrated building?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Neodymium:
I believe my kernel will boot and have few errors. But the problem is that I don't know the way to convert my device to mtd.:) Is there anyone who know the magic to convert your 4.0 to bml?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] EcHoFiiVe:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1802634

You now have Chrome.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] klin1344:
Check the cm7 thread. The cm7 rom has a script that will back up all partitions, convert to mtd, and then restore them.

Sent from my One S
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] iJimaniac:
As everyone in that thread says, it is just miren browser. I have tried it before and it doesn't really even look like chrome to me.

Sent using Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] fromnowon:
No, a fake one in fact

He just replace the icon and bootlogo. Essentially, this 'Chrome' is http://www.miren.cn/ :eek:
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Neodymium:
About kernel build.....

I think you need to build kernel according to integrated building because I don't have neccesarry file needed.

Just use my kernel config. I think we need to talk about this seriously on twitter or etc...
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] zaclimon:
Yes I can use your defconfig but I need your source to build it, because you said that you made changes in the kernel. Don't worry about the BML change to MTD, I have all the necessarry files for the conversion.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Neodymium:
Umm.... I didn't actually touch the source

All I did is just modifying config. Maybe you can use teamhacksung kernel+my config making it boot. Good luck! If this succeed, the HERO is you!
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] zaclimon:
Ohh... well what changes did you make to the config actually?

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I'm trying to compile using neodymium's config but I got an error here but I didin't touch anything:confused::

arch/arm/mach-s5pv210/mach-aries.c:2332: error: 'ce147' undeclared here (not in a function)
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] DZonikg:
Fake or not its the best browser for my 2.2 tablet and I try them all..I use since this morning..

I use facebook site desktop version to test it and all browser like dolphin,opera ,stock browser ,firefox just give you frustration and this browser handl it easily just like browsers on pc ...need to test it SGP 2..and never heard about that browser before.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] hanthesolo:
Hey guys, I know you are excited about your browser, but can you please take it somewhere else :), we need this thread to be uncluttered so we can gather relevant info, and your browser is not relevant. Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] minipot:
Well Im the youngest at 13. I have a smart phone due to ebay and e2save cheap contract deals
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Neodymium:
I'm 16, somewhat old in this forum.lol
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Neodymium:
Sorry maybe the modification has not been saved.

According to differences between GT-I9000 and YP-G1's kernel, I have modified touch module, and display issue, etc.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Neodymium:
Sorry, I was kind of dum. Here's the new link. It would be compiled successfully. If it doesn't, please notice me.

https://www.box.com/shared/a6cce7209b9f8a2d3f5b
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Tcollins412:
so does this mean we will have ics?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Neodymium:
Yeah....maybe but I can't say 100% because Android is kind of liar :)
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Tcollins412:
yay! Im very excited!
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] minipot:
Hang on so u just built a kernel in one. My galaxy player may be getting fixed so I may not be able to donate it.

Is this for the us or intl one?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Neodymium:
It is based on GT-I9000 International so it would be for intl but fixing it to match with us one won't be difficult. Or us version users can just use virtual soft key which is a special ability that ics has.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] hanthesolo:
So you have fixed the differences between the two players in this kernel, right? And it's 3.0xx, right? If this is true, and it compiles successfully, I will be extremely excited, especially if it boots (which in theory it should, if you truly did fix everything). Fingers crossed...

Now, I need to figure out how I am going to flash cm9 zips without them rebooting...I always get an error when I try to edit the updater-script, so I may have some research to do.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Neodymium:
Ummm.... I didn't actually integrate between intl and us but if this boots, modifying according to differences between intl and us won't be difficult.

I have no 100% ensure. But theorically(?) This should boot. If it doesn't, I will be really sorry and have to go over hard time fixing it.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] minipot:
Cool please tell us if it boots
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] hanthesolo:
That doesn't really matter at this point, I am just excited that we have a potentially booting sgs ported kernel. Anyway, I will keep my nose out of it (as I don't know anything about creating kernels), and let you guys get on it. Awesome job, neyodmium!

BTW, don't read the xda mantra if you don't want to feel paranoid about any dev work you have ever done :D
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] zaclimon:
Alright I'll build it from my side and tell you the results :D.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] hanthesolo:
Fingers crossed! Man, I sure hope it was as "simple" (not really) as swapping some SGS drivers/sections with SGP ones.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] iJimaniac:
Oh, man can't wait! Ill be hitting f5 every 5 secs until you post the results! :P

Btw, Han, got your rom downloaded and will leave some feadback after using it for a couple days!

(Sorry if I shouldn't be posting in here, just couldn't hold in my excitement!)

Sent using Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] hanthesolo:
The way this is going, you may have a ICS ROM to test from me on a few days :). I just put tat warning up so that we wouldn't get some random user with 6 posts saying nothing but "omg, I hope you guyz do this soon, I can't believe Samsung didn't provide ICS bla bla bla", which shouldn't happen, but I want to stay on topics, as we were veering around from chrome to the nexus 7 (which I just got rma'ed for light bleed). I am also eagerly anticipating the results of this compiling (GCC is messed up on my PC, so I can't compile it). C'mon zaclimon, we're depending on you!
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] zaclimon:
Sorry for the late report I had java crashing from compiling :confused:. Ok so... I have bad news. The kernel can't boot at recovery at all (it is bootlooping). It kept doing the same things as before and I think I have a reason for this. Team hacksung took the nexus s kernel sources and modify it in order to get it running on the galaxy s. So in order to use the kernel, we have to modify like the teamhacksung did. :(
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] hanthesolo:
But...they already modified it, so why would we have to do it again, and do you know exactly how they modded it? Sigh..we'll, I guess it's better than nothing.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] zaclimon:
Because they added special things for their device. the YP-G1 is simmilar but it's not identical, if it was they wouldn't not modify the nexus s sources. But I have one last thing to test to see if it works.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] hanthesolo:
Ah, I see. Perhaps we can use someone else's sources? Or is Teamhacksung's (?) source the "master" source, that most kernels for the SGS draw from?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] zaclimon:
I can try with semaphore but I don't know if it's a fork from the teamhacksung'sé
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] klin1344:
Did you compile with the 2 stage teamhacksung initramfs? If it can't boot recovery, then that means something is probably wrong with the initramfs.

And we can't use the stock initramfs way because that is just how aosp works and the way teamhacksung did it. You can study tdmcodes kernel source. I forgot the exact process of how it works, but essentially it allows Samsung kernels to be packed into a boot.img like normal devices.

If I remember correctly, there is a placeholder script in the initramfs that points to the real ramdisk in the boot.img, allowing it to execute.

Sent from my One S
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] zaclimon:
Yes I compiled using it. The problem is in the kernel itself because if I use the 2.6 one, I can get to CWM no problem. However when I use the 3.0 one, The samsung logo turn on for 1 sec and then disappear and it's causing an infinite bootloop. Maybe the initramfs from tdm isn't situed for the ICS ramdisk?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Neodymium:
I think it isn't because as I analyzed sgs and 4.0 kernel, I found that 4.0 kernel is based on sgs kernel config.(Both has the same created time)

Did you included recovery file to your kernel? I think it's because of integrated kernel building, not finished kernel compiling if rom compiling didn't finish well.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] zaclimon:
I mean it is in the kernel because of the drivers in it and not the config. Actually I'm building the kernel from the aosp source method (kernel+ramdisk). So the recovery is included in it.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Neodymium:
Ah, I could remember that there was a file named qtxxxx in the kernel. To insmod, we should match the vermagic.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] zaclimon:
Yea but the thing is the touchscreen driver isn't in the 3.0's source. We would need too add it but it's not an issue with the touchscreen actually.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Neodymium:
I'll work for that.

Wait... I'll work for that..... Did you modify Galaxy S MTD CM9 Source or just non-modified? Isn't there any way to compile w/o kernel?

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When I try Galaxy S CM9 kernel (Mackay kernel, which work successfully), It also doesn't let me enter recovery.

Well, think about recovery mechanism, it does mount system, cache... etc. so I think it's a problem of partitions.

And I also asked him about how to compile cm9 kernel successfully, so don't worry.

And I think we should build cm9 at least for the first time because we don't have any .zip without modem.bin...etc(file neccessary only to phone, not player.)

After that maybe we can port a enormous Galaxy S's ics rom by copying and pasting it or just port individually.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] minipot:
I'm guessing neodymium us the gt-i900 dev. So is the kernel just in need of a few patches? Also (just a suggestion) if u could document how u ported the kernel so us aspiring devs can learn please.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Neodymium:
It is simple

I remember that I wrote about it before. hanthesolo succeeded in porting GT-I9000 Rom to Galaxy Player 4.0. According to that work, I thought that 4.0 and Galaxy S have almost same kind of hardware. So I analyzed 4.0 and Galaxy S's stock kernel. In that progress, what I found was a few difference in touchscreen, display part. And also 4.0's config was written by modifying Galaxy S's kernel config. (They have the same made time.) Next, I modified teamhacksung's kernel config to match with 4.0, not kernel source. So I'm just kind of lucky boy, not a dev. And moreover, the porting has not been finished so it can't be called 'ported'ㅠㅠ
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] zaclimon:
CM9 is already build from the source. and modem.bin isn't a necessary file. If you modify some releasetools files and device.mk, you can remove the files for the phone.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Neodymium:
You succeeded in building cm9?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Neodymium:
Ah.... I think I get it....umm....
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] zaclimon:
Yeah, You can take a look to my source:

https://github.com/zaclimon/android_device_samsung_ypg1
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] dorfd1:
does it boot?

what is the kernel version?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] zaclimon:
I didin't include the kernel but I can boot up to CWM no more. The kernel version is 2.6.35.7
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Neodymium:
Isn't this epic?? Don't we have to base on aries?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Neodymium:
Now I got what I have to do. I should include the whole /ics_combo folder. So Galaxy S's ramdisk looks like /ics_init, /ics_rec_init, /cwm. They did what is very amazing!
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] zaclimon:
Not really, we can make a standalone device tree. As the aries is for aries devices that share the same attibutes. and the other cwm I think this was the build that onecosmic made. I didin't tought of it. We can try it.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Neodymium:
So in that way we should modify some kernel source....... it would be exciting! Let's try it! Wow
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Neodymium:
So do I have to use the Epic ramdisk, right? And By the way, we should try the rom. Who will?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] zaclimon:
I will test.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Neodymium:
Will you compile the kernel with epic ramdisk or aries one? I know epic is a kind of aries but there are some hardware differences, right?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] zaclimon:
Hmm seriously I don't know, can you send me the source of the ramdisk (maybe it is a integrated ramdisk in the kernel soo...)
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Neodymium:
I think we should base on aries..... to get it boot. First just let's test it with aries kerbel+epic based rom. I'll compile it and will send you, ok?

All I have is just aries one, and you can find it in stratosk's github.

http://github.com/stratosk
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] minipot:
And so the galaxy player development excels when mine dies.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] hanthesolo:
True, true :D. Are you guys now attempting to use various kernel configs/ramdisks with compiled cm9? From source, tdmcode's tree, or a SGS github?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Neodymium:
First I want to do it with aries but he already did it with epic's. I wonder if it boots.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] zaclimon:
I can get to cwm but not booting (2.6.35 kernel) and nothing at all (3.0) for epic.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Neodymium:
Getting to cwm is related to partition so it doesn't matter. What's most important is booting or not. What did you do to 3.0 kernel?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Neodymium:
Can you give me the. Zip you have built??
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Neodymium:
About touch screen module

Ya don't have to insmod qt602240 because qt602240 equals to mxt224, which is already included in kernel source.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] zaclimon:
Oh ok alright (for the touchscreen driver). Concerning broodprank and the device support. He said that he is ready to work but he needs the device to get working on it. Here's his reply:

Soo do we donate or we continue to get maybe the 3.0 kernel running?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Neodymium:
I Think we should keep working for a while. Most people who has galaxy player are students who don't have enough money. Maybe we should donate later if we fail.

BTW, what I'm at now is recovery, which is specially about flashing the rom (cyanogenmod requires rebooting after flashing first time, but I can't get into recovery. I don't know why)
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] zaclimon:
The galaxy player 4.0 don't cost that much. I found 1 for 140$ at ebay. I was ready to give 20-25$... Also for the recovery, remove the battery and try to reboot in recovery.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Neodymium:
But it doesn't work with cm9 for galaxy s. And I also tried with galaxy player kernel I compiled but it failed. So I'm gonna try it with semaphore's source.

Is there any cm7 that can convert partition to mtd successfully?

And it's good to be cheap, But It's too early to give up though.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] minipot:
My Samsung is repairable so I won't be donating it.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] zaclimon:
I can send you the cm7 that tdm made. I can convert to mtd successfully and with cm9 too (but stuck at recovery like always:eek:)
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Neodymium:
Please send it to my e-mail. kor_neo@naver.com

And did you succeed in flashing cm9-nightly?
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] hanthesolo:
Have you tried modding the updater-script to reboot into recovery instead of just rebooting? I get errors whenever I edit mine in any way, but perhaps you would have more success.

On another note, Are you sure the kernel issue is not partition and/or CM related? Perhaps you should change the kernel logo so you can physically tell if it's loaded? Just theories that I wanted to throw out there.

ON another note, school starts this friday for me, so my contributing will be about 25% of what I have been doing (I am all honors and AP, ouch), so I wish you guys good luck.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] zaclimon:
Dang I forgot again. I was changing to linux mint and I forgot to backup the beta 3. However you can try the roms basing on it like lowa OS or mooke os from chaoschris.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Neodymium:
Oh, I didn't know that. That's cool. I'll try it right away.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] Neodymium:
Stucking at recovery........
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] zaclimon:
It's normal that you are stuck at recovery. Flash the rom again.