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[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] SammaelAkuma:
Whoa, exciting that quite a bit has been done with minimal effort(afaik, that is). Here's to hoping it all goes as smoothly as it has been.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] kideskimo:
Cheers to bhundaven, I'd really like to see atleast CM6 on this phone, AOSP works so much better in my opinion than other types. Ill start porting themes to your CM6 rom/roms if requested, ill start up the MattedBlues project again.

And since its gonna be built from source and not a skin, ill be able (as far as i know) to decompile/recompile the frameworks and get everything in a situated manner.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] cwalton4077:
Will this upgrade from 2.2 to 2.3 or higher?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] TheLastSidekick:
Baby steps. CM6. If CM6 works fine (Gingerbread) there's confidence CM9 (Ice Cream Sandwich) will be likely.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] LinuxAssailant:
Not me... I donate to people who make my Androids work, and if someone drops a stable CM* on something that didn't have it before then I donate mo! :)
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] jfsjr92:
This has got me all excited! Definetly a donation will be coming your way when completed. Thank you so much!
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] kideskimo:
CM7. CM6 is Froyo, 7 is GB.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Exit_Only:
Your way off bud. CM6 is froyo. CM7 is gingerbread. CM8 was suppose to be for honeycomb but Google never released source so no cm8. CM9 is Ice Cream Sandwich. And CM10 is Jellybean.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Cretheus:
You're. and the guy above you already stated what you said so why did you say it again..
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] LinuxAssailant:
How about we just call them what they are: 2.3, 3.0, 4.0.2 etc.

All this "Codename" crap is useless, and will not be cared about in 3 years anyway... (Whistler.) :)
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] TheLastSidekick:
Yeah I made a mistake, sorry. Thanks for correcting me.

2.2.1 is what we are currently on.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] bhundven:
Not the place to ask.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] LinuxAssailant:
How's it coming, are we getting anywhere further on this bad boy than the prior attempt-er'ers?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] jfsjr92:
Hey man, worry about life first. Get that squared away then worry about this. No pressure on you to get this done quick. Take your time.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] bhundven:
Oh yea. I only respond when I have time.

Btw, I have made a very small piece of progress since I posted last. I now have a kernel that builds, but doesn't boot yet.

I found that the sk4g does not have the max8998 (technically, max8987, but covered by the same driver) for pmic.

This is a little bit puzzling because on sgs4g, that is what is connected to the fsa9480. It does use the max8998 driver for voltage regulation though.

So, I gotta hack the fsa driver to work the way the sk4g expects it to to gain access to the usb-uart. So I can see wtf it is doing.

I didn't see it in Jax's pictures in the sk4g reference, but there should be a 12 pin jtag on the board somewhere. If there is, I could just hookup internal uart, and bypass the fsa9480 until I get usb working correctly.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ultraprimeomega:
Unbrickable mod picture http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1347984&highlight=unbrickable
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] SammaelAkuma:
Small steps are still steps in the right direction. Either way, glad to see it's coming along much faster than I personally had anticipated. And as I was told growing up "$#!+ happens" which I've taken to mean "Things happen which are beyond our control."
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] bhundven:
No, unbrickable mod and internal uart are totally different things.

Check this out.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] RicAndroid:
This little phone has turned out to be quite a pain in the a$$, huh? I have faith in ya, buddy! To quote the very wise Rob Schnieder..."You can do it!"
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] bhundven:
Oh yea! It's on! my brain hurts right now though! lol

My brain just commited herry kerry with some dubstep and a 22 of ninkasi. time to stop coding and start chillin.

EDIT: btw, every phone I mess with is a pita. SGS4G is no treat. I don't dev for my dream, but (idk why) still enjoy cm6 on it. I don't even want to look at the kernel code for my sgh-i717... its all messy. Any time someone changes the kernel just slightly from Linus's upstream code, my brain goes a little wacky.

You can only imagine how I feel hunting through github, looking at other peoples kernel hacks. Then only to look back at my own and feel dissatisfied. That and a ton of other things are all changing in my current state. It's so hard for me to explain.

But fret not. I feel good about this cm7 port and some stuff should be happenin soon!
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] nteleky:
Thanks!

I've been futzing with getting some drivers compiled for this phone and it has been...confusing, to say the least. It would be really nice to have a relatively stable kernel/platform to work with (not to mention all the other benefits of CM).

I've been trying to get the driver for that to compile for a couple weeks because I really want USB OTG/Host. Here I was thinking I could download the source and compile it as a module that I might be able to load. I was imagining that the source from Samsung, at the very least, would compile. Naive, hey? I'm working off the "Update1.zip" source code that samsung provides. One thing I noticed is that the drivers/regulator/max8998_function.c errors out with a bunch of undefined references. These all appear to be defined in drivers/usb/gadget/fsa9480_i2c.c (but not globally...if I'm saying that right; I'm no C programmer).

Just thought I'd share that in case it is of any use. I'm hoping to have a friend that knows c programming look it over when he gets some time.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] SammaelAkuma:
Hm...sounds like this would give me a faster headache than Perl did when I looked at an IRC bot written in Perl. (Yes, I mess with IRC bots to learn the basics of the languages. Easiest way I know to learn is hands on.)
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] LinuxAssailant:
Been there, done all that...

Make sure, since you are trading her in anyways, if it's your decision-or-hers... just upgrade... :)

THX for the update!
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] d4n137_91:
Thanks for your work!

Looking forward to seeing how this turns out and helping with any tests when you get some builds out.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] graycow9:
Great work

Too be honest, seeing the abundant improvements on my first phone, the LG P509 (a.k.a. the Optimus T for T-Mobile) I was expecting to see far more for a more powerful and expectantly popular phone model, I was both surprised and disappointed :P The roms available are nice and I see the hard work put into them, but it wasn't anywhere near what I expected. But it seems the day for the SK to move up in the world has come :D and I am very excited to see how your work comes out. I know we all appreciate your effort and can be patient. Thank you and I will be paying close attention to the updates. ^-^ Good luck to you bhundven, RicAndroid and any other contributing developers!!
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] RicAndroid:
I hope all is going smoothly, bhundven. I recently ran into an issue with TigerFusion v3. Camera Zoom FX's libczlib.so is not cooperating with s3c-keypad.kl so I cannot replace the default camera app with this one.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] graycow9:
Man, it sounded like a smooth idea too :\ eh, well the app itself could be included right? Not to replace the original?

Sent from my Dangerous SK4G ;)
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] RicAndroid:
It has to do with the framework......I have no choice but to use some Glorious Overdose to smooth out the rough edges of these roms. :rolleyes:

EDIT: It was an epic fail. I need to decompile and edit those png files one by one. I don't mind....It just gets tedious, is all. My mistake was dragging and dropping to framework-res.apk using 7-Zip. It completely rendered it unstable due to mismatching pngs. Thus, the problem with the camera button.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ZachGretzinger:
You're a good man. I'm excited to see what you bring. I did notice that this thread is aging a bit so hopefully you'll still bring something, lol.

I just bought a SK4G for the heck and nostalgia of it. I was quite disappointed upon opening these forums. I've been lurking and hobbying around XDA for years now, flashing and re-flashing my MyTouch 4g. Until yesterday I never even had an account. I figured I'd make one to stir up the pot a little here in the SK4G forums. :p

I'm saddened quite a bit by the lack of development for this device. I was incredibly shocked as well. I'll be throwing donations around to those who help change this sad fate and if I fall in enough love with this device will probably inevitably get irritated enough to initiate a bounty for AT LEAST GB. Never thought I'd say that....

Anywho -

THANKS :D
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] RicAndroid:
Bhundven is the master of hacking kernels. I am anxiously awaiting the results.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] afr33sl4ve:
Being an SK4G owner of almost 2 years, this is the best news I've heard so far. I was running GOv2, however, it was far too unstable past the 6 month mark. I'm back on stock, anxiously awaiting what comes next.

So... Am I gonna be able to sleep till the next update? :p
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] orange808:
Don't become an insomniac over it.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ged92781:
Agreed. I'll be thrilled when a newer version of Android gets ported to the SK4G, but there are some great ROMs already available for it. Of course, whoever does the deed with something approaching usable (even if still a work in progress) will certainly get my nomination for favorite dev for the Nexus 7 contest.

http://www.xda-developers.com/andro...a-nexus-7-for-yourself-and-your-favorite-dev/
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] azcledel:
Bump for info :)

Sent from my s-off HTC Amaze 4G running Cyanogenmod 10
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] bhundven:
Slowly, but surely. Life is not so fare. Personally I have been going trough the divorce triathlon. So if you think you can do that and port a phone to a new version of android, you are my new god.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] jcurtiswood:
Hot damn. That sounds brutal. If I knew anything about development, I would assist. My talents end a the HTML/CSS line and don't go any further than that. Divorce sucks, man. No rush on this. Fairly sure everyone has resigned to upgrading to a new phone by now, anyway. :p
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] RicAndroid:
I am sorry that you are going through that. Take your time and take care.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ged92781:
Take your time. There's life outside of cell phones and programming.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] azcledel:
Take your time dude wasn't rushing just looking for any update. Not much activity on the thread. Of course personal stuff comes first.

Sent from my HTC Amaze 4G running Cyanogenmod 10
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Exit_Only:
I know I'm kicking a dead dog with this but bhudven you have been EXTREMELY active in the SGS4G forums for a while. You have a lot of time for them but not this community. Seems a little strange to me. :confused::eek::confused:
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] djh:
And you need at least 10 thanks for this post, right? As been said: don't rush this...
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Khizar hayyat:
Help me I need to update my phone
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] djh:
Fisrt thread in this section called 'Noob Guide: How to - from stock phone to custom ROM: includes Bali/Voodoo Lagfix'

Read it, understand it, then follow instructions on your own risk.

If you can't - get an iphone or something...
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Khizar hayyat:
Oh so its a risk I dont wanna do that. And Just change my smartphone ;):):p:D
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] RicAndroid:
Come on. Do it. Do it. Take the risk. I take no responisbility if you brick your phone. Hahaha.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] fodisu:
If it has nothing to do with CM6 or CM7, no need to post it here, so please stay on topic.

And about Bhundven, he is free to develop on the phones he wants.

I'm sure if he finds a way to help us out, he will let us know.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] RicAndroid:
TheLastSidekick already expressed to everyone that this will not happen....as posted in his Trash Please thread. He and bhundven have not made official yet, but it seems that the CM 6/7 development has been sent to development hell.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Exit_Only:
I "should" have my laptop back by Monday next week. I will compile a pre-alpha build of cm7. It will most likely be very unstable. don't expect support though as I don't own a sk4g nor am I on T-Mobile. I think those two "developers" never intended to bring you guys anything.

FYI gateway sucks when it comes to parts and repair :( should a took it to a different repair facility.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Khizar hayyat:
Hehehehe no bro I love my dead dog. :rolleyes::p:D;)
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] :
would logs help? i had a sk4g with an sd card somewhere in my room
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] RicAndroid:
The only log I want is a wooden one. To smash this POS phone to little bits. :banghead:
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] bhundven:
Hack time is the biggest problem right now.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] RicAndroid:
Whoa, dude. I thought you disappeared for good.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] shadowscott:
Someone posted that they just upgraded from the SK4G and wanted to give it to a dev. Check out the thread titled "I had to leave the land of SK4G" in the General section...
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] LinuxAssailant:
If it helps:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Samsung-Sid...1052261508?pt=Cell_Phones&hash=item1c2f46ec84

Just under $35 after shipping. Anyone willing to go quarters on this for a donation to a dev?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] marathonjon:
Someone else is giving away their Sidekick here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2100575

Just need to pay for shipping
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] afr33sl4ve:
I'm willing to let mine go to someone, just cover the shipping as well.

My thread got deleted, so posts it is.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] azcledel:
Why don't u send it to that guy in India who was asking if the 3g would work. Didn't he say something about it costing 10k over there lol

Sent from my HTC Amaze 4G running Cyanogenmod 10
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Exit_Only:
Its pretty sad your guys device can't even be given away. I would take one but that's making a development promise I don't know I can keep. I won't be able to test data or signal so it would be useless to me unfortunately.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] HewettBR:
Yeah I dunno I'm gonna put mine on ebay if you one will try and use it for development. I havnt gotten the nexus 4 yet the t mobile store expects them in this week. I almost went off on the lady when she said they would give me 15 bucks for my sk4g.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Exit_Only:
That's about what they are worth.that device just wasn't popular at all.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ged92781:
Which is a shame as it's really a decent device. The software was lousy, but the hardware is among the best in terms of durability I've found. And software can be remedied.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Jax184:
It WAS popular. The Sidekick 4G was the 3rd most googled tech product of 2011. They sold a hell of a lot of them. But Samsung didn't give it the support it needed, and so it took a nosedive.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] :
is there any threads related to cm7 iwth a broken rom ? other than this https://github.com/windxixi/android_device_samsung_sidekick4g
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] bhundven:
Not sure what you are asking.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] RicAndroid:
Oh, ****!....Johnny 5!!!
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] bhundven:
I was being funny, but I'm still interested in more info.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] LinuxAssailant:
I have two of these tricks, and will help any way I can in assisting a stable build, even if it means pissing off the lady, or son by blowing their device out, or going in half-sies or such on a used one from eBay...

Is this still available? Who do we need to ship to?!?!?

(dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sk4g; # bs=MOTHERfsckInBLSHTphn)

:)

We were supposed to have 2.3, LAST month, right?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1231592
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] RenaldiDroidXDA:
Thank God, you're still here!

I almost thought you decided to end the project. I've been hoping for an update for my phone since I saw that this phone is only froyo. If there is anyone who can set the beast in this phone free, it's you. Keep up the good work! (i'd donate to you, but I'm not allowed to work and i'm broke :p )
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] dippity:
nice to see this is still alive ive been editing gloriousoverdose to my liking until i figured out how to do cm6 on my own but i think if i ever figured it out android will be far into version 10 >.<

bhundven, you got an IRC you hang out in?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] bhundven:
"We're sorta like 7-Eleven. We're not always doing business, but we're always open." -- Murphy - Boondock Saints

Check my signature.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ivoe:
any luck on this or some news of how its going?

im sure everyone has been waits for this or atleast some news
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] bhundven:
Slow progress here. I'm just getting my dev environment setup again. Soon. ;)
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] shadowscott:
At this point, any news is good news. I was just hoping you hadn't forgotten about us :)
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ivoe:
Or had some horrible problems I know a lot of people have been leaving this section one by one an I've only been here for 4 months

I really do hate seeing this amazing phone being surpassed by some of these werid looking awkward phones (or ones with a odd keyboard all clamped together
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] RicAndroid:
It is sad. The combined failure, or greed, of T-Mobile and Samsung to provide proper support for this device has led to its lack of dev support.

And I'm no dev, BTW. I'm just a guy that wanted my phone to look up to date.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] azcledel:
Well your first problem is getting a phone that's been discontinued for almost a yea and expecting a strong dev community. If you were here back when the sk4g dropped there was a strong community and updates almost every day. Unfortunetly immature people and lack of support from both tmobile and samsung left devs no choice but to move on to other devices. Sad but true.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] shadowscott:
But being here when it all started (which I was before the SK4G even launched) still doesn't change the fact that we never got passed a buggy, unstable Froyo.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] RenaldiDroidXDA:
If some of us knew how (or were willing to learn how) to construct kernels, this phone wouldn't be a piece of Froyo. Lower spec phones than this are actually more useable,

WITH GINGERBREAD

(Galaxy Young, Coolpad Quattro, etc.) If i didn't have trigonometry, I'd love to at least try.

Do your best, bhundaven!
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] bhundven:
If I can at least get sk4g ported to teamacid's gb kernel, the rest is done.

The bigger problem is porting from 2.6.32 to 2.6.35, because in 2.6.33 and 34 the API changed quite a bit.

That's why 2.6.32 and 2.6.35 were longterm releases (stable stopped at 2.6.35.7, LT stopped at 2.6.35.14. While 2.6.32 is still being developed under LT).

I have work in progress, things are happening, it's just like I said before. Slowly. Thanks for being patient. :)
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] RicAndroid:
All of your hard work is greatly appreciated. There are not many devs here that are even willing to try due to the fact of the availability of higher end phones like the Galaxy III and the Nexus 4.

Many of us here, I'm sure, would love a phone like that. Unfortunately, the reality is that a few, myself included, are financially not able to upgrade with that joke of a partial discount T-Mobile offers.

Good luck and thanks, man.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ivoe:
Tmobile is worst then a joke I got the 50 dollar plan thinking id save some more money an get some phones cheaper ... but with the 50 dollar plan your not given any upgrades .. an if I could i d change to verizon because of their droid 4 ... but I can't I don't have enough money to just leave because it cost 600 to remove a line..
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] bhundven:
idk to bust on tmo or sammy, but I think that conversation is here nor there.

I know this is all frustrating. Trust me. I'm trying to work on this, too. The frustrating part for me is getting time. If I could connect an optical cable from my brain to TheLastSidekick or RicAndroid or anyone else (members of teamacid), we'd get faster progress.

It's not like this stuff isn't going to happen, it's just time and effort. The time I get is 100% effort, but that time is short bursts.

After market roms isn't a problem for tmobile or samsung, they don't care. If it is difficult or unsatisfactory for them, they just stop updating it, because they are "pushing the market" to upgrade to something better.

I know a lot of you that are still on this device because of cost to upgrade or just morbid curiosity to see what happens here.

It's a waste of your effort to project anger towards a corporation, as it's been done so much in this device forum.

Lets bury the hatchet on that topic. Lets move forward with a positive step.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] achaps81:
i would love to upgrade as well, but that 50 dollar no upgrade plan is bullsheeet...... im just getting back to work in 2 weeks after looking for work for longer than id like to admit(trust me xda peeps, ive got all you beat) and as soon as i can afford to, im going to run this phone over and video it, or maybe put it through my snowblower just for the lols, hell even my old motorola cliq xt had 2.3, and that was after waiting over a year and a half for the official update that never got release, and that brick had 1.5 on it...... tmobile can kiss my white buttcheeks......
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] RicAndroid:
LOLZ...this is the post of the year on xda. :D
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] shadowscott:
Dude, will it blend?
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] RicAndroid:
I love that guy's channel. I can imagine the number of people here willing to see that happen to the SK4G.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] ged92781:
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] RenaldiDroidXDA:
I love my sidekick, but there are days i just want to run it over with a steamroller (BTW, THIS THING IS NEAR UNBREAKABLE).
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] bhundven:
Hey guys. I'm leaving xda for a while. I'm still working on sk4g. TheLastSidekick will be getting his sk4g in the next few days and I'll have a new sk4g on order to start working on the teamacid kernel port. I'll have someone on teamacid maintain the OP.

Till next time.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] shadowscott:
Whatever you have to do man. Hopefully we'll get some news soon. Seems like you are truly committing to this, which is nice.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] RicAndroid:
Take your time, man. Thanks for keeping us updated.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] insanedrunk:
The g1 had seen more development in the past few days than the sk4g has seen it's entire life.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Exit_Only:
And they got ICS & JB.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] RicAndroid:
Wow...that is just sad. I've made up my mind and going for the Nexus 4 this June. That's if it's in stock.

I'm never getting a qwerty phone ever again. Sure the Relay has CyanogenMod but the Nexus 4 has a more active community.

After the upgrade, I'm going to email the guy from Blendtec. Will it blend? That is the question.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] insanedrunk:
Go to your local walmart, mine has it in Stock for 550$ with no contact, I think they have a contact deal as well. I believe it's the 16 gb version.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] Exit_Only:
Go thru the Google play store. 350 bucks. T-Mobile hacked the price up 200 bucks. Totally wrong IMHO
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] RicAndroid:
I may actually use my tax return and go this route. T-Mobile also has that nasty habit of force feeding that $30 data plan.

I currently use a $10 200 MB data plan which is perfect for me. I have wifi at home and only use 4G on my break at work. I use, on average, 85 - 90 MB per month.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] insanedrunk:
I'm not sure if I want to wait a couple of months to get a phone.
[T-Mobile Sidekick 4G] d3xtro.:
There's no point in getting a nexus if its through a carrier. And why would you have to wait a couple months?