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Ice Cream Sandwich for Xmas?

The family guy line " it feels like there's accountants cranking add machines in my head"springs to mind.
 
ATIN M (Cyanogenmod Dev):
Re: ICS.

I repeat the one and only rule of CyanogenMod: You don't ask for ETAs.

We're at the starting gate, that's about it for the Samsung Galaxy S and Galaxy S2 . . . meaning we've sync'ed the repos and successfully built the code once with nothing related to our own devices in the tree. ;-)

But that is all I'm going to be focused on now. So unless a Galaxy S or S2 Gingerbread bug is quick to find and easy to fix, it won't get a lot of attention from me.
 
So am I right in thinking CM is the only Rom Samsung has anything to do with? They always seem to be on everyones lips and as far as I can establish it isnt even that great...
 
CyanogenMod ROMs are built from the AOSP source code, with no input from manufacturers other than (presumably) what they themselves have contributed under open source licensing.
 
Slug said:
CyanogenMod ROMs are built from the AOSP source code, with no input from manufacturers other than (presumably) what they themselves have contributed under open source licensing.
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IIRC Samsung sent the Cyanogen team a couple of SII's early so they could test the ROM on them, do they give a bit of support.
 
Slug said:
CyanogenMod ROMs are built from the AOSP source code, with no input from manufacturers other than (presumably) what they themselves have contributed under open source licensing.
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It just seems that in the scheme of things CM is top dog with every other dev feeding from it. Would that be somewhat correct? Are we modding Android or modding CM?
 
If I remember / understand correctly (from my Desire days, at least), AOSP is the weapon of choice because it is "vanilla" Android - the version the purists like to see and (assumption, but I think reasonably) is the "lightest" / cleanest. I think Cyangen is the most developed / advanced of the AOSP ROMs which I guess is why that's the ROM most likely to wheel out ICS first.
 
Arch Dandy said:
IIRC Samsung sent the Cyanogen team a couple of SII's early so they could test the ROM on them, do they give a bit of support.
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Certainly moral support - that was as good as saying to their competitors "sod you lot, we think community development is A Good Thing". :) I guess the real question is, what influence has Steve Kondik's involvement with Samsung had? He may work for them but he's still heavily involved with CM.

Rudedawg said:
It just seems that in the scheme of things CM is top dog with every other dev feeding from it. Would that be somewhat correct?
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The CyanogenMod code repository (the github) is used by dozens if not hundreds of developers, and modifications, patches and fixes are constantly being fed back for incorporation into the whole.

Are we modding Android or modding CM?
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It's a bit chicken-and-egg.... depends on how much CMness the dev bakes into his Android ROM. :)
 
I guess since they said check back in two months, we won't have it for christmas, but it's something to look forward to.

Developers will be rushing to get ICS out first, and any that lag significantly behind will lose a lot of support. I'm happy with CheckROM, and I like it a lot more than CM, but if it takes an extra month for me to get ICS, I think I'll give CM9 a shot.
 
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