[ROM] Cyanogenmod 9 (Android 4.0.3)

[Guest brookergray]

Chrome is open-source, we could recompile it for armv6 if needed.

Actually it isn't. Chromium is. I also can't find the android version in their repository do you have a link for it?

[Guest adizz]

LG p500 devs have HW acceleration working on the phone, that phone has the same HW as our blades.

[Guest jackal-sk]

http://www.cyanogenmod.com/blog

Update, not much of a specific info tho.

Edited February 8, 2012 by jackal-sk

[Guest Cata_Simi]

LG p500 devs have HW acceleration working on the phone, that phone has the same HW as our blades.

From where did you get the information?

[Guest skywave]

LG p500 devs have HW acceleration working on the phone, that phone has the same HW as our blades.

Guys stop talking about HW acceleration. The blade has one of the best ports and most armv6 devices are lagging on us. The kind of hw acceleration they have we had already. But there are hacks to get it working involving buffers. At the moment the kernel is the biggest problem.

[Guest jackal-sk]

Guys stop talking about HW acceleration. The blade has one of the best ports and most armv6 devices are lagging on us. The kind of hw acceleration they have we had already. But there are hacks to get it working involving buffers. At the moment the kernel is the biggest problem.

GUI rendering is done by GPU now ?

[Guest skywave]

GUI rendering is done by GPU now ?

Since december.

[Guest Tomé Cerqueira]

I´m sorry, I´m very occuped. What isnt working in this version now? Thanks

[Guest jackal-sk]

Since december.

I must've missed that. Could you point me out to the source pls of this ?

[Guest the Mitu]

I've actually gone back to CM7 some time ago. The reason is that CM9 (alpha 5.2 I think) would slow down every time I tried to send an SMS while listening to music (Both stock and CM9 player). And the speed drop was so big that ROM became completely unusable and all I could do was rebooting the phone... what can it be related with?

[Guest rafalo1333]

Since december.

WTF? So what's the problem:/

I cannot believe... for me its not any HW ACC.

[Guest skywave]

WTF? So what's the problem:/

I cannot believe... for me its not any HW ACC.

What do you expect from it? Its already near fluent for me.

[Guest rafalo1333]

Coz its so slow. I dont believe that Adreno 200 makes work so fatal.

[Guest adizz]

I've seen ics work on x8 and p500, and it is so much smoother than on blade. Both these have very similar specs. to that of the blade.

[Guest Sulthekk]

I've seen ics work on x8 and p500, and it is so much smoother than on blade. Both these have very similar specs. to that of the blade.

Resolution?

[Guest l2azor]

yup adreno in our blade is driving 2.5 times more pixels than x8 and p500....480*800 vs 320*480

[Guest saransh9]

Resolution?

HVGA(480x360)

[Guest rafalo1333]

In games graphics are more advanced and Adreno is making the job very good. I dont believe that UI is harder to render.

[Guest l2azor]

HVGA(480x360)

ours is Wide VGA(wvga)-800*480

p500 and x8 is Half-size VGA(hvga)- 320*480

VGA being 640*480

[Guest jackal-sk]

So the GUI render in CM9 is done by gpu already ?

[Guest targetbsp]

In games graphics are more advanced and Adreno is making the job very good. I dont believe that UI is harder to render.

I suspect it's not as simple as that. For starters you need to consider 2d vs 3d acceleration. 3d games are IMO surprisingly good on this phone for the price. 2D is about what I'd expect for the price - not so stunningly smooth.

Also, that it can run games is not an indication that it can run the UI well. I know nothing about Android in this regard but from a Windows point of view, the system requirements for Windows Aero are surprisingly high and its performance is measured separately from gaming suggesting Microsoft expect gaming performance to be no indication of UI performance.

In short, it may look less intensive but it's a different job entirely and one that the hardware may not be optimised towards doing well. It maybe is. I'm just pointing out that because it can do one thing, you can't assume it can do another.

[Guest MiniDemonic]

Is it possible to add a google account and use android market on Alpha 5.4?

Edited February 9, 2012 by MiniDemonic

[Guest the_crevis]

Is it possible to add a google account and use android market on Alpha 5.4?

Yes, just flash this Google apps package through clockworkmod

[Guest Sulthekk]

Coz its so slow. I dont believe that Adreno 200 makes work so fatal.

As far as I know, Adreno 200 has no hw 2d acceleration. It's not exactly a graphics card, it's more like a graphics accelerator card, like the 3Dfx Voodoo 1 and Voodoo 2 cards in the '90s. It's not slow because Adreno is weak, but because it's not (fully) hw accelerated. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Edited February 9, 2012 by Sulthekk

[Guest MiniDemonic]

Yes, just flash this Google apps package through clockworkmod

Hmm, I have flashed that package, but it still won't work. When I start the phone I do not get prompted to log on my Google Account.

And Market can't be opened, it just instantly closes.

Edit:

Nevermind, I completely restored my phone to default, wiped dalvik cache and re-flashed the rom.

Now it works :D

Thanks for your help ^^

Edited February 10, 2012 by MiniDemonic