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Root Chrome for Android Beta released - ICS only!

I'm just waiting for Data Issues and Camera to be worked out.. Don't know why, let alone how it took Google so long to get Chrome on Android. Chrome is the first thing they should have had in development from day one, before 75% of the apps they decided to release were thought of.
 
Android1993 said:
I'm just waiting for Data Issues and Camera to be worked out.. Don't know why, let alone how it took Google so long to get Chrome on Android. Chrome is the first thing they should have had in development from day one, before 75% of the apps they decided to release were thought of.
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Chrome is x86 software. Porting what makes it Chrome to a mobile ARM environment isn't exactly a trivial task. Then again I'm wondering if it's even a port or just 'Chrome like' in features?
 
cybergrimes said:
Chrome is x86 software. Porting what makes it Chrome to a mobile ARM environment isn't exactly a trivial task. Then again I'm wondering if it's even a port or just 'Chrome like' in features?
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considering the stock browser was released so quickly, and this took time to develop, its likely its a port of the chrome browser. to get the under-the-hood stuff working correctly.

google seems to wanna do better on the software front, with the release of ICS uniting phones and tablets. makes sense they want a good official google browser to unite all the platforms. desktop and mobile.

i thought the stock browser was "chrome-like" in features, so the release of a true chrome means something is different in the underlying way it works or it would have just been a android market update to the stock browser
 
shmackshmack said:
considering the stock browser was released so quickly, and this took time to develop, its likely its a port of the chrome browser. to get the under-the-hood stuff working correctly.

google seems to wanna do better on the software front, with the release of ICS uniting phones and tablets. makes sense they want a good official google browser to unite all the platforms. desktop and mobile.

i thought the stock browser was "chrome-like" in features, so the release of a true chrome means something is different in the underlying way it works or it would have just been a android market update to the stock browser
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Its chrome-like in features because it basically is chrome. The stock browser on android is heavily based off of chrome, I mean its not completely chrome obviously, but still is like chrome.
 
marc12868 said:
Its chrome-like in features because it basically is chrome. The stock browser on android is heavily based off of chrome, I mean its not completely chrome obviously, but still is like chrome.
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i guess both browsers use webkit as the rendering engine, but if the stock browser was intended to be googles "mobile chrome" it would have been called that and updated in the market.

this being a seperate app entirely must mean it was designed from the ground up differently than the stock android browser right? this is what i infer from it all.
 
shmackshmack said:
i guess both browsers use webkit as the rendering engine, but if the stock browser was intended to be googles "mobile chrome" it would have been called that and updated in the market.

this being a seperate app entirely must mean it was designed from the ground up differently than the stock android browser right? this is what i infer from it all.
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Well the stock browser is just like the core of google chrome. And if you notice there are bookmark import and export apps that only work with google chrome since that was the stock browser is. This new beta actually looks and feels like chrome though and has more features and truly is chrome.
 
I believe Chrome will not work on our ROM in its current state.

It is currently only available on ICS because it takes advantage of its hardware acceleration features which are way more advanced and not possible on GingerBread and past versions of Android. Given the fact that our ROM does not currently have hardware acceleration working at 100%, it will not work like it's supposed to. (ie, show blank pages)

That's my theory, at least. Just did a little research and noticed it's not working on other phones with custom, alpha/beta ICS ROMs.
 
P-Men said:
I believe Chrome will not work on our ROM in its current state.

It is currently only available on ICS because it takes advantage of its hardware acceleration features which are way more advanced and not possible on GingerBread and past versions of Android. Given the fact that our ROM does not currently have hardware acceleration working at 100%, it will not work like it's supposed to. (ie, show blank pages)

That's my theory, at least. Just did a little research and noticed it's not working on other phones with custom, alpha/beta ICS ROMs.
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Either that or it needs the 3.0 kernel
 
Well, you can forget about the 3.0 kernel

It's not possible without an immense amount of manpower.
 
Just a warning.... Don't update to the new version of chrome beta because it won't work anymore.

It says Chrome is not supported for your version of android and then it'll just close.

Its not just our device though, it seems common to almost everyone running CM9. I have to assume Google will fix it eventually.
 
updated and got the "you need ICS to run" message too:(

wsimon said:
Just a warning.... Don't update to the new version of chrome beta because it won't work anymore.

It says Chrome is not supported for your version of android and then it'll just close.

Its not just our device though, it seems common to almost everyone running CM9. I have to assume Google will fix it eventually.
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wsimon said:
Just a warning.... Don't update to the new version of chrome beta because it won't work anymore.

It says Chrome is not supported for your version of android and then it'll just close.

Its not just our device though, it seems common to almost everyone running CM9. I have to assume Google will fix it eventually.
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thanks for the heads up! a little to late though haha
 
Found this on XDA...
i made these changes to build.prop. got from stock galaxy nexus. dont know if all need to be changed but it is what i did and new version is working. just find these lines and change to these.
ro.build.id=IMM30B
ro.build.display.id=IMM30B
ro.build.version.release=4.0.4
ro.product.model=Galaxy Nexus
ro.product.brand=google
ro.build.description=SPH-D700-user 4.0.4 IMM30B release-keys
ro.build.fingerprint=sprint/SPH-D700/SPH-D700:4.0.4/IMM30B/EI22:user/release-keys


not sure if it would work with Triumph?
 
tgenius said:
Found this on XDA...
i made these changes to build.prop. got from stock galaxy nexus. dont know if all need to be changed but it is what i did and new version is working. just find these lines and change to these.
ro.build.id=IMM30B
ro.build.display.id=IMM30B
ro.build.version.release=4.0.4
ro.product.model=Galaxy Nexus
ro.product.brand=google
ro.build.description=SPH-D700-user 4.0.4 IMM30B release-keys
ro.build.fingerprint=sprint/SPH-D700/SPH-D700:4.0.4/IMM30B/EI22:user/release-keys


not sure if it would work with Triumph?
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Did them all except the final 2, rebooted, and Chrome works again!!! (I left build at 4.0.3 also)
 
Whew, thanks for the warning guys. I was about to update but heard rumors it was not working on some ROM's so I checked here. Guess who's not doing that update right now?
 
reddeaddorito said:
Is the update worth it? I mean if I edit my build file and all. Are the new features worth the trouble?
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The update makes the app a bit more responsive and gets rid of the purple/pink masks during navigation. I can't really tell a difference for page loading, but there is better display of some pages and faster sync of other devices open tabs.

It was worth the trouble.
 
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