Ice Cream Sandwhich On Sprint Optimus S?

[biggjoe]

Hey Everyone,

Is this even possible? I ask because of this link:

ICS is coming to AOSP - Android Building | Google Groups

BJ

 

[jondevere]

Re: Ice Cream Sandwhich On Sprint Optimus S ???

Good luck building that... Not saying its impossible BUT its made for an ARM7 and this is an ARM6; not even to mention the other hardware issues....

 

[drewwalton19216801]

Good luck building that... Not saying its impossible BUT its made for an ARM7 and this is an ARM6; not even to mention the other hardware issues....

Google's official stance is that any device that is capable of running Gingerbread is also capable of running ICS.

ICS can be compiled for ARMv6 but using GB proprietary libraries on ICS may prove to be difficult if not impossible. That's not to say I won't try though...

 

[Masterjakeway]

Re: Ice Cream Sandwhich On Sprint Optimus S ???

Very glad to hear that from Drew!
Anxiously awaiting things to test!

 

[epidenimus]

Re: Ice Cream Sandwhich On Sprint Optimus S ???

Have you seen the specs on ICS? You would need a monster machine to compile it.

From Google Android Building group:

Here are some preliminary numbers. Final numbers will probably be a
bit different, but those should be a reasonable first-order
approximation. Of course, your mileage may vary.

-6GB of download.
-25GB disk space to do a single build.
-80GB disk space to build all AOSP configs at the same time.
-16GB RAM recommended, more preferred, anything less will measurably
benefit from using an SSD.
-5+ hours of CPU time for a single build, 25+ minutes of wall time, as
measured on my workstation (dual-E5620 i.e. 2x quad-core 2.4GHz HT,
with 24GB of RAM, no SSD),

Naturally, if you plan to work on multiple branches (e.g. ICS release,
ICS development branch and AOSP master branch), you need to plan for
disk space accordingly, and you could easily end up using 250+GB.

 

[pergerson6]

I'm sure some of that can be cut down, but 250gb? That's insane! My laptop only has 250gb lol.

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[VW Maverick]

There are a few similar threads like this going.
Everyone is looking forward to one of our amazing developers whipping up a port of ICS to the Optimus S.
Just have to be patient.

Mav.

Sent from the future on my Android Optimus S

 

[JerryScript]

Re: Ice Cream Sandwhich On Sprint Optimus S ???

I've been able to compile ICS for maguro using a 3.2ghz system with 2gb ram and using 80gigs of hdd space. The first few attempts gave me errors with noprogaurd classes, which in my experience building from IHO are a result of running out of memory. So I recommend a reboot or other memory clearing trick before you attempt to build, unless you have a 16gb ram system. Another trick is to build the packages individually before attempting a complete build.

 

[lgos]

Re: Ice Cream Sandwhich On Sprint Optimus S ???

Im going to attempt building. Would it be possible to pull built applications from ICS to have them work on our little phones?

 

[Whyzor]

Re: Ice Cream Sandwhich On Sprint Optimus S ???

Im going to attempt building. Would it be possible to pull built applications from ICS to have them work on our little phones?

I'm wondering the same, how about the new keyboard (LatinIME.apk) to work on Optimus or other phones?

 

[drewwalton19216801]

Re: Ice Cream Sandwhich On Sprint Optimus S ???

Im going to attempt building. Would it be possible to pull built applications from ICS to have them work on our little phones?

I'm wondering the same, how about the new keyboard (LatinIME.apk) to work on Optimus or other phones?

Absolutely not. All of the ICS apps will require the ICS system framework.

 

[lgos]

Ah. You know far more than me im afraid, thats too bad. Could they be build from source for gingerbread?

 

[JerryScript]

The CyanogenMod team has announced a tentative release of January for CM9-ICS.

https://twitter.com/#!/cyanogen/status/136313427248431104

http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/16/ice-cream-sandwich-based-cyanogenmod-9-in-the-works-slated-for/

 

[mikebontoft]

Personally I think the lack of a front facing camera would make parts of ICS useless just from what I've seen. And the lack of flash (unless there's something I don't know about it)

still would be great to have though.

 

[Whyzor]

Re: Ice Cream Sandwhich On Sprint Optimus S ???

Absolutely not. All of the ICS apps will require the ICS system framework.

So I guess the gingerbread keyboard .apk that came out a while back and ran on Froyo was a special case? Froyo & GB's frameworks were more similar than GB & ICS perhaps?

 

[jondevere]

Ics system files are DEPENDENT on ics framework.... Its a big diff compared to froyo to gingerbread

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[JerryScript]

Here's one example of why you won't be seeing the ICS keyboard ported to anything non-ICS:

'As for copy/paste functionality, Google has made it "consistent across all of Android," meaning there's no more guesswork as to which apps will allow for copy/paste, or how that functionality will compare to other apps (ahem - SMS app). Users can also highlight and drag words or bits of text to reposition them.'
Ice Cream Sandwich Feature Closer Look - New Keyboard, Inline Spell Check, And More Consistent Copy/Paste

For the copypaste feature to be consistent across all apps implies a system function, rather than an app (ie keyboard) based solution.

Add to that the inherent nature of ICS, which is a merging of two trees, and you will see that very few if any portions of ICS will be back-portable to Gingerbread. You will I'm sure find alternative apps very soon that will replicate ICS functionality and style, but that's as close as you'll get till you have ICS booted up and running.

 

[mike9670]

CM9 says check back in a couple months for ICS

 

[albertwang]

I really am looking forward to this build for our Optimus S/V phones.