Guest Andoidian Posted February 18, 2011 Report Posted February 18, 2011 Hi there, One thing I would really love on the blade is Google Earth, but I know that to operate it requires the ARMv7 instruction set, which is only present on a few phones. Unfortunately however, I don't really understand what this means. I know that the blade uses an ARMv6, so 'out of the box' it is completely incompatible - but is there any workaround possible? I'm sure there must be some kind of workaround possible, but how hard it would be and whether anyone has the resources to do it is another matter. I'd appreciate your input. Thanks.
Guest Andoidian Posted February 18, 2011 Report Posted February 18, 2011 Many thanks for your comprehensive and detailed response. I couldn't have asked for more.
Guest KasioPC Posted February 18, 2011 Report Posted February 18, 2011 Many thanks for your comprehensive and detailed response. I couldn't have asked for more. It's impossible. You're only option is to get a new phone. Incompatible MEANS incompatible.
Guest Jai Cee Posted February 18, 2011 Report Posted February 18, 2011 Hi there, One thing I would really love on the blade is Google Earth, but I know that to operate it requires the ARMv7 instruction set, which is only present on a few phones. Unfortunately however, I don't really understand what this means. I know that the blade uses an ARMv6, so 'out of the box' it is completely incompatible - but is there any workaround possible? I'm sure there must be some kind of workaround possible, but how hard it would be and whether anyone has the resources to do it is another matter. I'd appreciate your input. Thanks. The ARMv6 is the hardware chip inside the Blade which is impossible to change. The only people who could allow it to run are Google who would have to rewrite parts of Google Earth. They almost certainly won't be doing this as the ARMv6 is an old design now.
Guest Andoidian Posted February 18, 2011 Report Posted February 18, 2011 It's impossible. You're only option is to get a new phone. Incompatible MEANS incompatible. Strictly speaking, overcoming the RIL difficulties was a compatibility issue, which was achieved. However.... The ARMv6 is the hardware chip inside the Blade which is impossible to change. The only people who could allow it to run are Google who would have to rewrite parts of Google Earth. They almost certainly won't be doing this as the ARMv6 is an old design now. I understand, and it's a real shame. I imagine that when it was originally released, it was designed on the ARM7 architecture because that's what the Nexus 1 was running on, and they wanted Google Earth as a USP. It seems the area where ARM6 is lacking is dual floating point performance. I suppose Google must have tried to get it running on ARM6, after all why wouldn't they? It must have been too slow/impractical. Nevermind.
Guest Arr Too Posted February 18, 2011 Report Posted February 18, 2011 Google were clever enough to get it running on my iPod Touch. Although I suspect that won't see that other ARMv6 'incompatibility' though .
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