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Lightswarm

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As the title states, can someone take the time and help my ignorance about why devs don't/can't port CM7 onto our device, the LG Spectrum?

I'd very much appreciate any clarification, its curiosity that led me to asking.

Also, isn't CM7 a GB based ROM?

Okay, I'm ready for enlightenment.
 
Yes, cm7 is a GB rom.

None of us can get CM7 or CM9 to boot past the 'startup' command, which is why you don't see ANY roms, other than those that are stock-based. This means Miui, Liberty, none of them can be ported until we can get a rom as universal as CM to boot.

The fact that we can't get CM7 to boot is what's most troubling, because it's generally accepted if a phone is running 2.3 (GB), it should be able to boot CM7... sometimes it takes some work with the device-specific files, but it's never as hard as we've had it.
 
From what I understand the radio may not be supported. There's something about the multiple partitions and such that roms not based on the original just do not seem to boot.
 
I don't know that it's just the radio. If that were the case, as was the case with deving CM9 for the Droid 2 Global, that only prevented data/cell connection, but allowed booting of the rom. In this case, we can't even get it to boot the rom to start loading and we can't get an ADB connection (it's not started at that point) to see WHY it's not working.

D2A can probably shed more light on the technical specifics, but it's a royal pain in the ass, which is such a bummer with the unlocked bootloader and killer hardware. This phone had/has serious potential...
 
MrB206 said:
I don't know that it's just the radio. If that were the case, as was the case with deving CM9 for the Droid 2 Global, that only prevented data/cell connection, but allowed booting of the rom. In this case, we can't even get it to boot the rom to start loading and we can't get an ADB connection (it's not started at that point) to see WHY it's not working.

D2A can probably shed more light on the technical specifics, but it's a royal pain in the ass, which is such a bummer with the unlocked bootloader and killer hardware. This phone had/has serious potential...
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I was told by arcee in cm-dev not to mess with cm7. it required a bunch of hacks to get booting on the nitro, and just isnt worth the trouble. cm9 is more likely to work 100% once we get into userspace
 
Interesting. Actually its very interesting.

Okay thanks very much for the responses, very clear now. I'll hope for the best for CM9.
 
And note that d2a has boot with adb so it's close. I'll be pitching inn soon, within the next week or so.
 
D2a has adb boot? Wtf that's whatsup... Yo I know the devs that be pouring hours of time into devices and get shit for donations have a reason to be pissed when people don't appreciate and keep begging for roms and ROM tweaks and not trynna be needy here but yo if you guys knuckle something out before the official release wouldn't that be huge? I mean I know leaked jb Ports have been big lately but how much win is it to release a better 4.0 before Verizon even drops the stock one? Am I over hyping this?
 
I don't even pretend to know development let alone how time consuming and frustrating it might be.. So I'd take patience over haste.
We can raise money, we cannot raise talent. Thanks to our developers, and d2a.
 
blaze413 said:
D2a has adb boot? Wtf that's whatsup... Yo I know the devs that be pouring hours of time into devices and get shit for donations have a reason to be pissed when people don't appreciate and keep begging for roms and ROM tweaks and not trynna be needy here but yo if you guys knuckle something out before the official release wouldn't that be huge? I mean I know leaked jb Ports have been big lately but how much win is it to release a better 4.0 before Verizon even drops the stock one? Am I over hyping this?
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Yeah. I achieved adb access shortly after playfulgod got us boot animation. Talked sweetly in her ear and she spread her port open so I could poke around.
 
EarlyMon said:
Thread cleaned. :mad:
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I know your mod and im like 20 post total on this site but what was wrong with thread that had to be cleaned? I thought things were pretty legit, I ain trynna troll or nothin but thought it contributed to the community to have some joking and light talk thrown in between the complaining and and requests/begging.. Not trynna be that guy but really not sure whatsup and figure i should ask instead of making the mistakes again..:smokingsomb:
 
The sexual innuendo posts really drew complaints.

For every one of us posting there are ten others reading over our shoulders here as a rule of thumb. Some just lurk and rarely post, others lurk in this thread but are active in others. But they're looking for the info brought up in the op and then discussed.

And they're all kinds of folks, some just like you, some maybe like Mom or whomever.

So we try to keep a family friendly level of chatter so it's fun for everyone. :)

BTW - we don't care who has the most posts or the least, that's only a measure of who types a lot. LoL :D

Any questions on what we're about or anything, drop me a line, my door is always open. :)
 
Its all good yo, like I said im new on the block an didnt mean any trouble.. Thanks for the headsup instead of just ragekick like some boards love to do.. Ill sit down with d2a about his inappropriateness/innuendo and hopefully he can keep his act in line from now on..

Back to the subject at hand i guess..

Im basic on the linux tip so I dont know the ins and outs but I guess to tail on what light said I remember having the G1 and there were so many roms I couldnt try them all, so many kernals, so many tweaks; Is this phone the one of the few being really back on the customization front or is that more common now that 3-4 years ago?
 
I don't care really. Its just looked awkward last night...it looked like the conversation flow was messed up.... What if I added hide tags and 'THAR BE DRAGONS AHEAD?'...

I promise, I'll sit and have a serious chat with myself tonight. I can get into pretty heated arguments with myself though :/
 
Either way that shit was funny, had me laughin.. So no like I was saying is this phone like one of a rare Brewster are hard to mod or are alot of phones getting like that?

Trying so hard to keep the PG rated ish on lock in here..
 
death2all110 said:
I don't care really. Its just looked awkward last night...it looked like the conversation flow was messed up.... What if I added hide tags and 'THAR BE DRAGONS AHEAD?'...

I promise, I'll sit and have a serious chat with myself tonight. I can get into pretty heated arguments with myself though :/
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he actually does this in IRC all the time and its funny as hell lol
 
death2all110 said:
Sang to the tune of Bitches by MSI....

Mods love me cause they know that I can rock
Mods love me cause they know that I can rhyme
Mods love me cause they know that I can type
Mods love me cause they know that I'm on time
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Through out the forums
Through out the forums

.. lmao Love MSI
 
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