Root ICS on Evo 4G?

[sundown13x]

i been bounching between threads and cant get to get any real facts. Anyone who has read all 2000 plus pages know were we stand? are we getting the update or at least getting a rom forced update?

Just curious...

 

[An UrgeTo Dance]

There most likely will not be an official ICS update but I am sure that we will get it in a couple of months from Cyanogen. We will also probably get some not as stable ROMs before them but CM is most likely the best option.

 

[Rxpert83]

The general consensus is that we wont get getting an official OTA update. However, expect ICS ports and cm8 from the root community within a few months.

 

[ocnbrze]

i bet that it will before xmas that we start seeing ics roms come out. any takers?

 

[Rxpert83]

I won't bet against our Dev's

 

[gamblor01]

i bet that it will before xmas that we start seeing ics roms come out. any takers?

Do you mean stable ROMs? If you're talking stable and 100% functional then I'm taking the over. But if you are just talking alphas and betas then I'll take the under. Only time will tell though!

 

[ocnbrze]

Do you mean stable ROMs? If you're talking stable and 100% functional then I'm taking the over. But if you are just talking alphas and betas then I'll take the under. Only time will tell though!

i guess when i say "start seeing" i mean alpha's and beta's. i think stable might be too soon. but who knows the devs are just so talented that i would not doubt them at all. and like you said time will tell.

 

[Granite1]

i bet that it will before xmas that we start seeing ics roms come out. any takers?

I'm all over that action! Absolutely be taking the under for Christmas.

 

[MizzouBrent]

I'm all over that action! Absolutely be taking the under for Christmas.

It would be a heck of a Christmas present. I have a lot of faith in the CM dev team, so nothing would shock me. Stable builds will be a ways off though. I don't know when CM7 began development, but it took like 5 months at least to get a CM7 stable build.

 

[jmoney92683]

it said I had to make a first post so I can post a link for you

 

[jmoney92683]

here is the link to ics rom I found it runs great is stable and everything works great enjoy and thank the dev. and there is a video above the link on the page so you can check it out first but here you go.

Ice Cream Sandwich ROM for Rooted HTC Evo 4G! | HTC Evo 4G Hacks!

 

[ocnbrze]

here is the link to ics rom I found it runs great is stable and everything works great enjoy and thank the dev. and there is a video above the link on the page so you can check it out first but here you go.

Ice Cream Sandwich ROM for Rooted HTC Evo 4G! | HTC Evo 4G Hacks!

yeah this has already been linked earlier by somebody else. it is not a full ICS rom. it is just cm7 with some of the stuff that was pulled off of the ics sdk code that was release a few weeks ago. some of the roms now have pulled some ics elements off and added it to their rom. the new xplod rom has some ics cooked in as well.

 

[jmoney92683]

just trying to help and best one i found

 

[ocnbrze]

just trying to help and best one i found

always appreciate the help. i just did not want you to think that it was an actual ICS rom. we should start seeing some devolpment on ICS roms very soon. i think soemone mentioned that team Nocturnal who develops the xplod rom will make the next update of xplod into a full ics rom. not sure on the eta, but i think sometime before xmas, i hope.

 

[jmoney92683]

I hope so this rom is pretty awesome and I cant wait for a real ics rom

 

[andygu3]

I'm all over that action! Absolutely be taking the under for Christmas.

I'm with you granite, I'll take the under

I hope so this rom is pretty awesome and I cant wait for a real ics rom

Source code ICS rom is pretty nice and with the release of 2 alphas in 2 days and now that we have working GApps, it looks like a solid beta and possibly a stable rom before the end of the year is inevitable

 

[dustwun77]

I'm with you granite, I'll take the under



Source code ICS rom is pretty nice and with the release of 2 alphas in 2 days and now that we have working GApps, it looks like a solid beta and possibly a stable rom before the end of the year is inevitable

It is going to need gapps? That because CM is doing it and they can't include the stuff?

tia for the info!

 

[ardchoille]

There is already one in the works and I'm sure more will follow.

|Alpha-3| |11-25-11| ICS for EVO 4g |Source build| |FULL TouchScreen| - xda-developers

 

[andygu3]

It is going to need gapps? That because CM is doing it and they can't include the stuff?

tia for the info!

Not sure of the exact reasoning for the GApps not being included but they will more than likely always be separate. Flash ICS build first, flash GApps second

 

[ocnbrze]

Not sure of the exact reasoning for the GApps not being included but they will more than likely always be separate. Flash ICS build first, flash GApps second

well i can at least tell you why cm7 has gapps separate. so when the cm team started to develop roms using the google source code for the android os (forgot which version, i think eclair), google sent them a cease and decists letter statiing that any google apps can't be included in the intial build of the rom, but that they can include a file that is flashable. thus was born the gapps file.

not sure why other roms do it as well. maybe it is fear of google. but, the xplod rom has gapps cooked in, so i'm not really sure why the devs still do it.

 

[ardchoille]

Not sure of the exact reasoning for the GApps not being included but they will more than likely always be separate. Flash ICS build first, flash GApps second

I think the gapps will always be separate in 3rd party ROMs because they are proprietary whereas android core is open source. This was the reason behind Google forcing the CM team to separate them from CM ROMs.

 

[argedion]

I think the gapps will always be separate in 3rd party ROMs because they are proprietary whereas android core is open source. This was the reason behind Google forcing the CM team to separate them from CM ROMs.

Yeah though I had read something somewhere that stated this. They were distrubiting "GAPPS" Without permission.

Proprietary must DIE. well not really just more or less on paper

 

[argedion]

well i can at least tell you why cm7 has gapps separate. so when the cm team started to develop roms using the google source code for the android os (forgot which version, i think eclair), google sent them a cease and decists letter statiing that any google apps can't be included in the intial build of the rom, but that they can include a file that is flashable. thus was born the gapps file.

not sure why other roms do it as well. maybe it is fear of google. but, the xplod rom has gapps cooked in, so i'm not really sure why the devs still do it.

Xplod actually has a gapps file I believe they also stopped cooking it in

 

[ardchoille]

Yeah though I had read something somewhere that stated this. They were distrubiting "GAPPS" Without permission.

Proprietary must DIE. well not really just more or less on paper

Yeah, I hate it too. But, there are compatibility prerequisites that need to be met before being allowed to bundle the android market. Google has a FAQ about this here.

Excerpt:
"Android Market is only licensed to handset manufacturers shipping devices."

 

[ocnbrze]

Yeah, I hate it too. But, there are compatibility prerequisites that need to be met before being allowed to bundle the android market. Google has a FAQ about this here.

Excerpt:
"Android Market is only licensed to handset manufacturers shipping devices."

my question then is what about sense roms? never found a reason for why sense roms have the gapps stuff included. why is sense different? is it because of htc?