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.
Yup. I'm sure you'll find what it's based on eventually, if you spend long enough looking. I'm surprised that noone has written an app which will try to identify a device from software.
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)...
I followed the main CM9 guide eventually, but had to use different tools to the ones specified. Took a day or so, including the downgrade to 4.0.3 and me going out for a bit.
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.
Should be possible to do it from any, afaik.
Thanks for that!
You're welcome. If you follow the CM9 wiki guide it shouldn't be a problem, AIUI, but given there is a chance of permanently bricking the device if you get it wrong, I thought it would be prudent to share it anyway.
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
Well, sometimes it's less about them choosing not to open source the drivers, so much as choosing not to spend the extra time/money/effort to do so. It can often come down to a simple cost decision. I think if you want guaranteed source code so that the custom ROMs will have the same supported featureset as the stock firmware, you have to go for something like the Nexus which, AIUI, does ship with the complete source tree. My problem is that, thus far, my contract expiration has never really coincided with the release of a Nexus and I don't like the idea of buying a six month+ old phone ...
Peter.