On 20/08/12 09:52, samwise wrote:
Dunno about support for your cheap tablet - guess you'll have to Google to see how well it's supported with unofficial ROMs - but I have installed the release version of CM9 on my Galaxy S II.
Problem with "Googling for it" is that I don't know what I'm looking for. I haven't found any references to it by it's "brand" but I'm not surprised by that; if it's just a generic bit of kit then I'm sure there'll be a ROM that fits. It's just knowing how to find out what I need.
I had some trouble finding a single guide that worked for me (as there's a a fair few out there
Ditto, this being the main reason I haven't done it on the GS2 yet. It always gets filed in the "jobs to do when I have time to take me time over it", which at this rate will take me outside the 2-yr contract on the GS2 (still well over a year to go)...
If you're trying to do the flashing using Windows, I would advise that you thoroughly uninstall Samsung Kies before you start, if you've already got it installed.
Thanks for the tip. My preference would be to do it from Linux anyway, but I'd go with whatever the instructions I chose to follow told me to do.
Thanks for that!
P.S. Also note that the TV out feature of the Galaxy S II is not suppported in Cyanogenmod and probably never will be.
Yeah, that's a pain. How much do the hardware manufacturers really think they gain by not having open sourced drivers (I assume that's the problem here)?
Mark