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mel4787 · Mar 25, 2014

ik this is a stretch but is there gonna be a kit kat rom for this device

Rukbat · Mar 25, 2014

Not put out by Sprint. Go over to Area51 and ask if they think it's possible to port it. (Probably not, considering the amount of storage and RAM. I doubt you could put Jellybean on it)

mel4787 · Mar 26, 2014

true. but i had ics rom from the prevail on it. it was buggy but all in all it could work on here. and i think with a little adjustments and mods it could work on here

Motorhead1991 · Apr 24, 2014

We (Android Area 51) could try and port KK to this poor little device, but lacking the kernel support is going to make it highly difficult if not impossible. If we can just get Samsung to release the drivers for the filesystem...

mel4787 · Apr 25, 2014

isnt the kernel for this device on their website? idc on some features as long as it gets ported and most things work for the phone i dont mind. and what do you need for the kernel? ill test the build on my phone and report on here and over to aa51

Motorhead1991 · Apr 25, 2014

A 3.4 kernel is necessary (AFAIK) for 4.4, and without the filesystem stuff being released as open source, it'll be an uphill battle at a 50% grade...

mel4787 · Apr 26, 2014

i see. well can a kernel be compiled for the phone or is it more troublesome than it seems.
but wait two of my phones have 3.0.8 kernel. and they are booted just fine. so can we port a 3.0.8 kernel instead of a 3.4 kernel or not.

Motorhead1991 · Apr 26, 2014

You're running KK on a 3.0? That's good. In any case, Samsung released most of the kernel source but decided a proprietary filesystem was a good idea. They never released the source for this filesystem setup, so it's hard to port the Precedent to a higher version.

mel4787 · Apr 26, 2014

i see. but can you use another phones filesystem as a base of what is needed for our precedent and get the files directly from our precedent

Motorhead1991 · Apr 27, 2014

mel4787 · Apr 27, 2014

hmm so must be from scratch. can you pull it off?

Motorhead1991 · Apr 27, 2014

Let me explain exactly what I'm talking about:

At the most basic level, Android operates on 2 levels (much like linux). You have the kernel and the software. The kernel holds ALL of the parameters for the hardware. If something is disabled in the kernel, it WILL NOT work through software. The filesystem drivers I'm talking about are a kernel thing. They have to be built alongside the kernel or they won't work right.

mel4787 · Apr 27, 2014

got you. first wthe phone needs a 3.0.8 kernel. idk if that can be done the kernel for it is 2.6 something. so the kernel needs a whole workaround

Motorhead1991 · Apr 28, 2014

Correct, and Samsung never released the source for it, so we have to improvise.

mel4787 · Apr 28, 2014

I think the workaround can be done. Have you looked on Samsung's site or open source site to get all things that's necessary

Motorhead1991 · Apr 28, 2014

Yes, I've looked high and low.

mel4787 · Apr 29, 2014

Hmm so that means nothing darn.

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