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[Verizon] Verizon Galaxy Nexus (Toro) is back on AOSP!?

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this is a great developing story. I'm not sure why any blog sites haven't ran with it yet ...

anyways. some of you have already posted this but since i already took screen shots of it i'm going to post them anyways lol


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radio binaries...so does that mean we could get new radios?

We could get new radios, but it's my understanding that they still come from verizon. I think this is more likely related to the RIL that many skinned devices have problems finding in order to flash versions newer than their currents, like GB to ICS.

I could be completely wrong so don't take what I say as fact.
 
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Hah, we scooped the blogs. Score!



woo hoooo things are looking good peeps

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Damn, I've already got my Macbook hacking off 25 gigs of my HDD for a build environment, and now I find out that the pros are already on it. Oh well, haha.

EDIT: It's just as well. XCode is needed for the process, and it's 4.5 gigs. This may take a while.
 
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Can someone more educated explain all of this to me, please? I wanna be excited too lol

CDMA versions of phones (that would be Verizon and Sprint) have some proprietary files needed to enable communication with the network/cell towers.

So, despite this being a Nexus phone, Google wasn't able to officially treat it like the GSM version of the phone, because of these proprietary files. They posted what they could, but the phone files were officially posted in the "archive" - it wasn't an active, Android Open Source Project phone.

Apparently, something has changed, and Google is now allowed to post these proprietary files. Which is great, because it means that EVERYTHING you need to build the source code into a working image is now maintained and distributed freely from Google.

I expect this has to do with the rumor that Google will have a whole bunch of Nexus phones next year. They've probably made deals with a lot of companies to distribute their proprietary files.
 
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