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[G2 and Desire Z General] Android1126:
Hungryyy for Gingerbread

Awww, only 3 pages?!?!?!?! When I heard the news this morning, I was itching to get out of work to download the SDK, and also check out any new developments here at XDA. I've been playing around on the emulator a bit, and as we all know, it isn't hugely different, aesthetically. Although I am curious to see how things have been tightened up. Any insight as to when our G2's will be updated?

-Newbie-
[G2 and Desire Z General] Android1126:
...oh and..

I'm definitely loyal to HTC, but the Nexus S is looking very nice! I may buy it just for the h*ll of it!! I just picked up an iPhone 4 for my fiance (I know, I know, she secretly wanted it), the only problem is, she lives overseas and I am still waiting for a definitive carrier unlock. I know this forum is about the G2 receiving Gingerbread, but if any of you kind people can point me in the right direction, it would be greatly appreciated.

Anyways, yea I love my G2!
[G2 and Desire Z General] urfavoritemazn:
h t t p://blog.iphone-dev.org/
[G2 and Desire Z General] Android1126:
Thanks man!
[G2 and Desire Z General] billyskip:
Im on a G2 currently running the CyanogenMod-6.1.0-RC4. Will i need to revert back to stock to receive and OTA update from T-Mobile for 2.3 Ginger>?? What do you guys suggest to a person thats aching for the GBread?
[G2 and Desire Z General] tankmorph:
You have to wait for it, just like everybody else.
[G2 and Desire Z General] android602:
To get OTA update do I have to switch back to vanilla froyo?....because I'm running sense right now...also does anybody know if you could still get OTA update if I'm rooted?

sent from t-mobile g2 using HTC sense
[G2 and Desire Z General] luis86dr:
Getting a little ahead of yourselves guys. Its going to be a while before Gingerbread is even released to us or anyone else for that matter via OTA. You'll more then likely see it ported over to a ROM base first rather then a OTA from TMO / Your Carrier. Dont mean to burst anyones bubbles.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] android167:
Here we can talk about 2.3 porting to our Heros :)

http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/06/android-2-3-sdk-revealed-gingerbread-improvements-called-out/
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] squeeish:
Will it really be viable to run 2.3 on our Heroes?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] steelodude:
I think the next step is up to cyanogen :p
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] stanleyxu2005:
I pretty love the new ui! awesome!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Elastep:
Last android ver

And BTW I think Gingerbread is the last version of android that would be able to run on our heroes....
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] neilaur:
Wait and see ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Subbieh:
Let's hope someone will port 2.3 to HTC hero :o)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] MacaronyMax:
I knew today, before I even came on XDA, that someone in the Hero section would be asking to port 2.3 :p

Hopefully some one does CoughCynageonCough ;)

Anyway for a thme click the link in my sig :p
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] karlanal:
looks like the old ADW launcher, what is new about it
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] cyberto:
Haha maybe this is a omen to buy a new phone :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Ganii:
Maybe hard to do,to port to our Heros.

But today I bought a Desire Z so now a second option for me

and would be easier to port to Desire Z :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mücke007:
Ganii? In the German region known as the "gani"?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] EZY-E:
Oho, hrvat pokrenuo temu :D

When will 2.3 version come?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Ganii:
Yes,Ganii here,but Gani at german region and VillainROM.uk forum ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mücke007:
Greetings from Germany,from "Duron";).
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Ganii:
Android 2.3 Platform and Updated SDK Tools:

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/12/android-23-platform-and-updated-sdk.html
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Ganii:
Sorry,trying to remember,Faq4Mobiles,right?

Long time not been actively ;)

Regards!

Sorry for OT
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mücke007:
Yes F4M ....

OT = off
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Ganii:
Right,you have got a PM ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Deleted member 2500726:
Oh you bought the Desire Z? Bad choice... I just got my HD today :p
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] vijaysapkota:
oouw oouw..

guys.; hope to see you on this
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Gallaphanx:
Idk, I seem to remember Google saying Gingerbread was going to require a 1.0Ghz cpu. Maybe devs can find away around that lock, but it may be time to get new phones. :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Dormantlemon:
It may be true, but i dont believe google would put a lock like that on android. I imagine they mean it wont run smoothly on anything less than 1.0ghz (mind you our heros dont meet 2.2's requirements, but hey it works!)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] android167:
haha, cim sam vidio na engadgetu, odmah trk na xda i pisi, istu minutu je bio topik na forumu i vijest na engadgetu :D

Nothing important up there ^^

I dont think that the 2.3 will be 1ghz or up requriments... They were saying that for 3.0, for tablet android...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mattyguk:
Wasn't that when Gingerbread was going to be 3.0, but they've scaled it back and made it a minor release!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Dark Emotion:
true, hero dont meet 2.2's requirements , but still 2.2 roms are MUCH faster than 2.1 on hero :) lets just hope that it will be the same with 2.3
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] MacaronyMax:
Congrats CF :D

Hopefully I will still be seeing you in Off Topic ;) :p
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lost101:
Those gingerbread specs where invented for a blog post.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/07/02/gingerbread-minimum-specs-fake-say-android-engineers/

The OS is becoming more optimized and efficient with each version...Hero could be handling 2.3 and beyond.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Ganii:
Nice for you,but DHD to big for me and don`t like the style.

Material does not look stable for me,too!

Wanted a nice phone with extra keyboard and S-LCD display,which

DHD doesn`t have.

But I get a Nexus S from my father as present after christmas,

when he comes back from abroad :p
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] :
I was just kidding you know :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Ganii:
Ah ok,so no DHD?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] fewesttwo:
Can't see this happening. Its going to need a 2.6.34 kernel I think to get Gingerbread running, and we are all stuck on 2.6.29, unless someone here can port the kernel first, we may be looking at staying on 2.2.1 for a long time. But hey, it works great, does all we need it to.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] MacaronyMax:
Apparently we needed a .3x kernel for Froyo but we dont :p Dont under estimate the devs :p :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
aaaaaaaaaaaand...

don't overestimate the operating system. gingerbread might be terrible on the hero, or far less exciting than some people are hoping it will be.

But yes, this would be a great project if possible at all for some hardcore devs (erasmux? ninpo? CM team?)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] MartijnGP:
Once again, Froyo isn't supposed to run on the Hero either and it's faster, more power efficient and more stable than Eclair :)

Not saying Gingerbread will run decently on the Hero, we simply don't know yet. I remember people being very sceptic about Froyo, and look where we are now. Although I don't think many dev teams will continue to develop for the Hero as most of them are moving on to newer, faster phones. Personally I'd like to keep my Hero a little longer because I still think it's the most beautiful phone ever made and concerning hardware I don't need any better as I don't play games anyway.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
Yes... I'm just making sure people don't get their hopes up. When I go back to good 2.1 roms (especially VE4) I find very little performance difference compared to a good froyo rom. I do miss the froyo features and app/game compatibility though...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] hawst:
Let me add my 5 bytes... For those who talk about porting .3x kernel to make Gingerbread run, just do one simple thing - install new SDK, run emulator and take a look on which kernel is used there... no, u wrong, it is old good .29 kernel!!! :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
hey! cool info!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] hawst:
Aha! There is 1st build of Gingerbread for Droid Eris - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=863156 . Functionality like it was with 1st builds of 2.2 for Hero.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] MiniDolan:
Any chance of doing this with the keyboard?

http://aliwaqas.info/port-android-2-3-gingerbread-keyboard-on-froyo-devices/

I tried it but it failed to flash :/
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] maini85:
Same for me...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tenfar:
HD is also a bad choices,what i choose is Moto Defy. a great Phone. HD is too big for me.but i can get my hands on one.it's not my type :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lost101:
And...the 1st Gingerbread for Hero Build arrives.. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=863981 :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] MiniDolan:
Found this on the cdma forums.

Its the gingerbread keyboard. No working dictionary but its not bad.

http://db.tt/4sE2IPC
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] MiniDolan:
Is it working for anyone else?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] d3kk:
Anyone had it works? (on hero)

EDIT: it works me fine..
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] stoney73:
Is anyone working on getting the dictionary working for it?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] d3kk:
i don't use dict.. and I think that it's work for eng...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] taknil:
Yes, that package on someones dropbox is the only one not requesting alledgedly required obscure binaries or for "system/app_store/LatinIME.orig.apk" , a folder that does not even exist on my device.

Thumbs up :D

The new keyboard is really snappy.

Proof:

http://twitpic.com/3drk7m

http://twitpic.com/3drjij
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Xtiro:
The droidlife guys released a second .zip which supposedly has autocorrect and so on working, but it won't flash for me either. I don't suppose anyone has a working version of that?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] CitizenLee:
The 2.3 keyboard only works on 2.2 ROMs.

Are you guys trying on 2.1?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Xtiro:
Got it working :D

I previously installed MiniDolan's version, as it was the only one that would flash on my Hero. But obviously there's no auto correct.

On top of that I adb pushed the .apk from this .zip to /system/app. Now I have auto correct.

I don't know if the first one I flashed was required or not, but that's how I did it.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] stephenophof:
I'm getting a Force Close message when I touch something on the Gingerbread keyboard!?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
I wonder how long until they release the sources for gingerbread....
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
I followed your instructions and it left me with my 3rd party keyboard as the only input method, so I rebooted and found that your instructions rendered my rom unusable upon reboot.

Soooo, I don't recommend this technique. :-)

I wanted to flash froydvillain anyway... now's my chance while I download the latest special edition for an hour from elelinux.

But still, at least the OP's keyboard works, dictionary or not (it worked for me until I tried your overwriting with a different apk suggestion). are you SURE it was the apk from the zip archive you pushed to /system/app? not the data file from the same zip file?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] maini85:
I followed the instructions from Xtrio too and pushed another LatinIME.apk to /system/app and its working great. Only difference for me, i pushed the following apk posted by Lox this morning on Twitter (ATTENTION maybe only german prediction) http://is.gd/ik8By
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
cool. since you speak english, any chance you could change to english and see if it does english prediction please?

downloading now...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] vido.ardes:
Anyone running Froyd who wants the GingerBread look...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=9649534#post9649534
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ykxhda:
Hi all,

Both English prediction and autocorrect WORK. I just tested successfully.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
thank you for testing!!! GREAT news! :-)

so you're saying that just pushing the apk in your previous post to /system/app will do the trick?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
by the way, the flashable zip at the start of this thread actually DOES have dictinoary/prediction for me, but only in certain apps.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Xtiro:
Yep, it was definitely the LatinIME.apk that I pushed. I even did a nandroid restore & ran through it to be sure of what I'd done.

I don't pretend to understand why/how it worked on mine but not yours though. Glad you got it sorted anyway.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] maini85:
With which apk?

@dkelley: i just tried changing the language to english but couldn't get a english prediction (but english keyboard layout). will try few things again but at the moment i can not recommend the apk posted by me for english prediction
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] maini85:
ah okay maybe i tried it with the wrong app then :confused:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
yea, you know what? I'm more confused than any of you LoL

for me GingerBreadKeyboard-1.zip actually works perfectly. in gtalk I get prediction etc... it's fine. yet people say it doesn't have a working dictionary and this is why there is this discussion going on.

So I'm leaving GingerBreadKeyboard-1.zip as my keyboard and just being happy now LoL

cheers
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] odin13:
the new keyboard is really nice :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] vido.ardes:
I can confirm this as well, the one with that filename works for me, is quick and has dictionary in English
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] cooperkid:
If a wildfire can run 2.3 then surely a hero can too?

They have similar processing power don't they?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Calico5:
The Wildfire has Qualcomm MSM 7225 528 MHz processor CPU

The Hero offers Qualcomm MSM 7200A 528 MHz processor CPU

The Wildfire comes with 384 MB RAM and 512 MB ROM Internal Memory.

The Hero contains 288 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM Internal Memory.

Processing wise the wildfire is better, but the screen is a bit of a let down

The Wildfire possesses 240 x 320 pixels, 3.2 inches Display Size.

The Hero has 320 x 480 pixels
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] DjoeN:
Yupz, working fine on HTC Hero and HTC Wildfire, nice keyboard :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] krispijn_s:
And for anyone using CM6 (based) roms and metamorph, there's a package for that too: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=864931
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ykxhda:
Hi dkelley,

Can you be specific which apps you can, and which apps you can't use the dict and prediction feature? To me, only browsers and fields requiring usernames/passwords won't work. Nearly most apps I can use.

Thanks.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] 87Vortex87:
Despite what you hear or read, Gingerbread does not require a 1 GHz processor in order to work. The LG Facebook page incorrectly stated that Gingerbread requires 1 GHZ or higher to run, but that response was later debunked by a “random note” on Twitter by Android Developer Advocate Dan Morril.

Link

Nice, nice...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] DjoeN:
Google: Gingerbread hardware needs are similar to Froyo

...

So this means, we can run it on our HTC Hero's :D

[EDIT]

Oeps, i see the link is already posted above me :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] MiniDolan:
Woop! Gingerbread launcher :P

http://phandroid.com/2010/12/08/install-the-gingerbread-launcher-on-your-android-2-2-device/
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Fysi:
I want to punch the people giving it one star on the Marketplace because it's not advanced enough.

IT'S A STOCK LAUNCHER, IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO DO THE SAME STUFF AS <insert favourite home app> !!!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] whitealien:
Its not with CPU we are handicapped, but by available RAM! Sadly :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] stephenophof:
Is there someone who can help me?

I flashed the keyboard and when I select it, I can see the keyboard but when I touch something, it gives an Force Close Error:

Android Keyboard (proces com.android.inputmethod.latin) has stopped......
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
wow, so we might get closer to running gingerbread by just installing all of it's apks (keyboard, launcher, probably widgets and other updates as they come too) on froyo.

I'm liking how easily the launcher (uck) and keyboard (less uck) are installing into froyo...

I say uck cuz yes alternative launchers are still better and the keyboard, while pretty and much more like having sense on your phone than the froyo keyboard was like, is still inferior to something like smart keyboard pro or swype. BUT STILL, it's cool to be able to turn my phone into a nice christmas gingerbread already!

cheers!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] 87Vortex87:
O, yes you are right... my misstake.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] sjknight413:
i had a thought today, one that im sure a lot of other people have had too,

tenfar has made a gingerbread rom for the hero with barely any hardware working, i commend him for it because he is the first person to do so!

but seeing as things are very quickly being backported from gingerbread to froyo, keyboard, launcher, and correct me if im wrong but erasmux has a camera backport in a version of his flykernel 12pre1. wouldnt this logic work the other way round? e.g porting the camera and certain drivers from froyo? just a thought. im no dev so i have no idea but maybe somebody experienced could try it?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] vido.ardes:
We would be much better off waiting for the sources to drop instead of using the SDK, much more chance of it working
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] MacaronyMax:
Well this probably sounds stupid, but.. :p

What would happen if you were to have the Gingerbread ROM with nothing working then flash a kernel built for froyo :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
I think that's more or less what he did to get it to the point it's at now. otherwise it likely wouldn't run at all on the hero. Bit of an educated guess here though on my part.

If you want gingerbread, flash the keyboard on a good froyo rom and install the launcher on the same rom. I did - while I miss the "scrollable widgets" support that surprisingly google STILL hasn't added support for in the gingerbread launcher (so I'm stuck with LPP, adw or home++ for pure - not a shabby bunch of choices there ;-), I'm still using the gingerbread launcher because it's actually pretty good for stock launcher. it's live wallpaper support is quite efficient compared to that in some other launchers I've used, and it's fade-to-black drawer is nice. It does different things with it's widget layout grid though - no space between widgets which is both interesting and annoying (the way I cram my widgets in it's hard to tell where one stops and another starts now).

anyway - with one of the good skins that I'm seeing too, you'll get a fair bit of the look and feel without sacrificing any stability or hardware features like you will in any possible gingerbread builds for the hero during probably the next few months.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shamsud:
Hope hero development will not die so soon and some dev will port gingerbread to hero
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ExMM:
True!!! I still remember those time waiting for my Froyo... now is Gingerbread TIME!!! :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] crazyVII:
no german dictionary...

can confirm.. the fixed link from the first post works like hell :=))

everything perfect and very fast .... for english...

really a pitty that there isn't the german dictionary integrated...

so you can switch language (my android keyboard was configured to type in german and english...) but auto-completion only works for english and custom words.

best regards :=) mike

(some integration would be great!)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] maini85:
Hey there,

you can have the german dictionary by following that Link ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shimon-xda:
HTC better be slaving away porting this and be ready to release on Monday otherwise I want my money back!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] vijaysapkota:
What's the progress till now, guys...;

keep sharing..
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tbman1996:
We're waiting for the sources...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] gtklocker:
What happens now that sources are out?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] docertabum:
look for *cough* cronos release *cough* ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
who's that?

:D

{read my sig}
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] sinzim:
The two I know about so far is Cronos (camera not working and gps is somewhat fixed i think and Cyanogenmod 7 RC pre-alpha (not tested yet). I am flashing a nightly Cyanogen now as I type,
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] stephenophof:
I'm using the Chronos Gingerbread 0.0.6 ROM which is very nice. Why isn't this ROM listed on XDA-Developers? You can find it using Google ;)

Everything's running very smooth, LINPACK score of 4.9

One question:

I'm using the Toggle Headset Widget cause my Hero thinks I have connected my earphones but they are not connected. So I can disable the 'headset option' when I want to listen music through the Hero speakers but this widget isn't working anymore on 2.3

Has anybody got a solution for this? Until I have a proper working Toggle Headset Widget I have to use my earphones to call, otherwise I can't hear the person where I'm talking to.. :(
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
I don't have that problem with that same rom. odd...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dvfk:
I recommend Volume Toggle(Free) - it's a little advanced to set up but works perfectly. It auto-detects heaphones if you like and its widget works in 2.3
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] rdejager:
Just for information. The Creator of the rom is banned from XDA.

that is why it isn't posted here. Just following it on the cronos site. The rom link in my signature links to the cronos ginger directly.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
ah, so YOU'RE the guy who voted against my app "Media Volume Toggle"...

hahaha just kidding :-)

they're totally different apps with different goals in mind
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
I would have thought that he was unbanned by now since he's been proven to be adhering to open source regulations now.

I think he actually chooses not to be on here any more.

anyway - at least we are free to discuss his roms here, even if posting links to them is, right or wrong, still forbidden. He's one of, what, 3 or 4 active gsm hero devs remaining.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ckhero:
I am not sure I am posting to the correct sub forum but as it is a ginger question I thought here it should be posted. I am running Floyo 1.8 and am very happy with it, from what I've read about 2.3 what really interests me is the new keyboard and maybe the download manager and market app. Is there a way to get those as apk's to put on my current 2.2.1 or I have to go to a 2.3 rom? (I think 2.3 hero gsm roms are not mature yet and as I don't have other phone I want stability over features).