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How to port sense

Im wanting to lean how to port roms to my galaxy nexus ie the ics rezound rom. im new to porting and would like some help like links etc on how to do my best in that area, i think there will be a load of people happy with a sense port as there is none out there at the moment so if anyone know the basics please help

It's not possible. I thought the reason people on XDA bought the Nexus was for AOSP.
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djowett said:
It's not possible. I thought the reason people on XDA bought the Nexus was for AOSP.
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I bought it for the developer base this phone will have, and the same for a lot of people ...not just the aosp aspect
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djowett said:
It's not possible. I thought the reason people on XDA bought the Nexus was for AOSP.
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Not true at all. Nexus s 4g has it.

xboxfanj said:
Not true at all. Nexus s 4g has it.
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Indeed they do. What's up buddy . To op go to nexus s 4g and ask swamp goblin he is a port master and should be able to give u a few pointers
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Esteway.619 said:
Indeed they do. What's up buddy . To op go to nexus s 4g and ask swamp goblin he is a port master and should be able to give u a few pointers
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Nm, u? Me and swamp are working on it, but no build has booted yet. The epic is much harder to port to. I may be able to help you guys on sense though since I know pretty much what swamp does

Would love to see Sense ported - the more options the better imo!

cd78 said:
Would love to see Sense ported - the more options the better imo!
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Agree with you totally!
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xboxfanj said:
Nm, u? Me and swamp are working on it, but no build has booted yet. The epic is much harder to port to. I may be able to help you guys on sense though since I know pretty much what swamp does
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Cool man that would be cool if u can port it however don't we need an ics sense forts to port from that?
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Esteway.619 said:
Cool man that would be cool if u can port it however don't we need an ics sense forts to port from that?
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There are already leaked ICS roms floating around.
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io53 said:
There are already leaked ICS roms floating around.
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Correct there is a rezound rom floating about but i just need to know what sort of set up i need to start porting etc

Sense on the Nexus = HUGE step backwards

EddyOS said:
Sense on the Nexus = HUGE step backwards
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I wouldn't go that far, to each his own.

EddyOS said:
Sense on the Nexus = HUGE step backwards
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agree!bought nexus for the absence of proprietary-eat-ram-UI.hate all the stuff involved on the classic ui out there,likes touchwiz,sense,motoblur etc etc.
i don't know why lost hours and hours of development to try to port a thing(proprietary UI)that is the major reason why many users choose to buy a ggogle experience phone.i don't want to be rude,tastes are tastes,but i personally dislike all the uis out there.
anyway,if you desire that,i'm glad to will see that someone will have it workin!

sert00 said:
agree!bought nexus for the absence of proprietary-eat-ram-UI.hate all the stuff involved on the classic ui out there,likes touchwiz,sense,motoblur etc etc.
i don't know why lost hours and hours of development to try to port a thing(proprietary UI)that is the major reason why many users choose to buy a ggogle experience phone.i don't want to be rude,tastes are tastes,but i personally dislike all the uis out there.
anyway,if you desire that,i'm glad to will see that someone will have it workin!
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Have to agree with you !
I used HTC phones for over 2 years (before GNEX), and i can say im sick of sense/touchwiz and rest manufacturer ui..
I bought this phone so i can make my own ui.
But if OP likes sense, its his taste/needs.. Good luck in finding sense on gnex mate

Kalavere said:
I wouldn't go that far, to each his own.
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I have a Sensation running Sense 3.6/ICS and it's no where NEAR as fast as the Nexus on stock ICS

Full HTC Sense Experience ported to Nexus S

QuBe2 from Nexus S forum ported a Stock HTC Sense 2.1 + Android 2.3.3 to Nexus S!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1490709

Talk about moving backwards in OS versions

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QuBe2 from Nexus S forum ported a Stock HTC Sense 2.1 + Android 2.3.3 to Nexus S!
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this is a port from the Nexus s 4G and Swamp goblin has ported it over i only have port it from 4G to work with 3G
BTW: is it even posibble to get GB on GNexus

QuBe2 said:
this is a port from the Nexus s 4G and Swamp goblin has ported it over i only have port it from 4G to work with 3G
BTW: is it even posibble to get GB on GNexus
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... Why would you want to? I mean it's possible but why take all the progress we made, and flush it down the toilet?

miketoasty said:
... Why would you want to? I mean it's possible but why take all the progress we made, and flush it down the toilet?
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i know you can better wait for the sense 4.0 builds

"Samsung Galaxy Nexus > Galaxy Nexus General >"
Hmmm...

miketoasty said:
... Why would you want to?
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Because he can... No other reason.
Why do I eat an ice cream sundae and drink a slurpee outside in minus 25 degree weather, while it's snowing, in the middle of winter? Because I can.

Okay so first we get 50,000 battery threads, then 20,000 Galaxy Nexus is slower than a flying bumblebee, and now we're on track for 1,000 Sense port threads. Why can't you people just join in someone else's topics?
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the question is:
WHY?

Why is this in the Galaxy Nexus section? Should be moved to the Nexus S general section. In any case, seems like a stride in the backward direction.

lol
why htc

I agree that this shouldn't be in galaxy nexus general. But if we got a GB sense port, we would all flash it by curiosity.

offenberg said:
I agree that this shouldn't be in galaxy nexus general. But if we got a GB sense port, we would all flash it by curiosity.
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I owned a Sense phone (Thunderbolt) and no, I wouldn't tarnish my phone by installing that crap.

miketoasty said:
I owned a Sense phone (Thunderbolt) and no, I wouldn't tarnish my phone by installing that crap.
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I owned several. Legend, Desire, Desire HD, and Sensation. I loved them all. I like sense but like aosp even more. It personal preference. But don't tell me you wouldn't be curious enough to flash sense on your Nexus I'm not saying keeping it on there.

offenberg said:
I owned several. Legend, Desire, Desire HD, and Sensation. I loved them all. I like sense but like aosp even more. It personal preference. But don't tell me you wouldn't be curious enough to flash sense on your Nexus I'm not saying keeping it on there.
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understood

offenberg said:
I agree that this shouldn't be in galaxy nexus general. But if we got a GB sense port, we would all flash it by curiosity.
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I have removed sense from all my phones that came stock with them, I would not put sense on a phone.
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Unfortunately I believe he meant to post it here, in hopes of more excitement. Since the nexus s folks are probably well aware of this. I'm going to let this remain for now, since there is a chance that someone may share his sentiments (albeit very very slim chance).
I'm not sure however why you would want sense on a nexus.
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Seeing Sense on my Galaxy Nexus would scar me for life. I have already seen too much of Sense...terrible things, things that cannot be unseen. I wake at night in fear that my Nexus wants to suggest matching contacts. Noooooo. I kid, I don't think Sense is that bad. It is what it is.
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If I wanted to see any "skins" it'd be either Asus' or Huawei's.
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Sense Port?

Hey I did some searches and couldn't turn up any solid answers to my questions but is it possible and likely we would get a port of the sense rom to galaxy nexus or is there a reason i don't see a stable version in CDMA Development?

Its possible but unlikely. Most people buy nexus devices to get away from skins.
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If it is ported it's likely to be broken.
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I don't really see the point of porting Sense to a Nexus device. I mean, since it wasn't originally to this device, it will be buggy and probably never run smoothly. Sense is very beautiful, in my opinion, but it's bloated beyond usage.
On a completely unrelated note, my favorite two ROMs for the Galaxy Nexus are AOKP for its customizability, and CM9 for being, well, CM9.

True that, thanks for all your imput! I guess also since sense is HTC it would also work easier if it wasn't a samsung...I just thought it would be interesting if you could have the launcher and widgets minus the bloatware apps.

nexus9988 said:
True that, thanks for all your imput! I guess also since sense is HTC it would also work easier if it wasn't a samsung...I just thought it would be interesting if you could have the launcher and widgets minus the bloatware apps.
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I like simplicity at its best.
I can recommend buying Beautiful Widgets!

For those saying a sense port would never work on a nexus or would run buggy check out the nexus s 4g dev section.
I just switched to a gnex but I believe if they did it on the ns4g it would never be impossible to do it here
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jaestreetss said:
For those saying a sense port would never work on a nexus or would run buggy check out the nexus s 4g dev section.
I just switched to a gnex but I believe if they did it on the ns4g it would never be impossible to do it here
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No camcorder, no Bluetooth. Read the thread, it's buggy.
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Yea but works better than the port we have so far....I can live without a camcorder right now there's some who can't but I was just throwing that out there
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No camcorder, no Bluetooth. Read the thread, it's buggy.
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Why are there no Sense roms?

I'm surprised no one has made any sense roms for the Gnex yet. Is it not as simple as porting over a different phone's rom and adding the on-screen keys?

Durkbeef said:
I'm surprised no one has made any sense roms for the Gnex yet. Is it not as simple as porting over a different phone's rom and adding the on-screen keys?
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1) its not that easy to port stuff over
2) most people who bought the Nexus do not like sense
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If it was that simple I'm pretty sure it would have been done?
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theres a lot of framework needed for Sense, and it runs deep. If you've had an HTC phone like the Rezound u see how it's impossible to totally strip Sense down to aosp, and vice versa. Since its not supported by HTC, someone would have to basically do it from scratch, I don't think most devs find it worth the time/effort to try it. I did however see Paullie Vicious start work on one a few months ago, but nothing really came of it

We have nexus cuz most of us do not like sense. Plus its too bloated
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Seems like no one is doing much for the nexus. I came from og evo and they ported every phone to it. Nexus seems dead.
my nexus is the bestist!

lambofgod13 said:
Seems like no one is doing much for the nexus. I came from og evo and they ported every phone to it. Nexus seems dead.
my nexus is the bestist!
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Why? Because everything is vanilla android? That is the whole point of the nexus. Nobody bought the nexus because they wanted sense ports... they bought it for the clean android android experience.
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I don't know.. I didn't buy the nexus for a aosp experience.
I didn't buy it for sense either.
Now I have a droid incredible I've used sense, but with the amount if memory sense would be great for this phone. I do kinda hate limited by aosp only.. it would be nice to have variety honestly.
There really isn't a reason to have 50+ Roms running around when most include all the same features and optimizations.
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Seems like no one is doing much for the nexus. I came from og evo and they ported every phone to it. Nexus seems dead.
my nexus is the bestist!
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You guys answering the OP's question arnt helpful at all.:sly:
OK so there is two ports happening and are in progress and just going into work.
There is a Sense 4.0 port by Nello92 & a team. He has been working on the SOB since the release of the Sense 4.0(March) now u probably wonder, "March??? WTF is taking so long!?!??!"
Well there are 3 things stopping him & the team.
1. SD doesn't work properly.
2. He has a life he needs to live so he does this on his free time
3. He is making this almost from scratch ( using a Nexus S port as base)
Now there is a Sense 3.6 port that has just started(no thread yet) because everyone says they've given up since no one has the answer tot he SD issue.
Nello92 is a stubborn SOB and believes(HELL TO THE YEAHYE!!!) it is possible to fix SD.
So in his eyes, development will continue.
Sense 3.6 is a new concept, so keep your eyes peeled for a thread.
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withbloodskies said:
I don't know.. I didn't buy the nexus for a aosp experience.
I didn't buy it for sense either.
Now I have a droid incredible I've used sense, but with the amount if memory sense would be great for this phone. I do kinda hate limited by aosp only.. it would be nice to have variety honestly.
There really isn't a reason to have 50+ Roms running around when most include all the same features and optimizations.
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^This
Exactly what i want to say:highfive:

Hahahahaha. Uh no not everyone. People bought the Nexus because the Nexus is a device full of development.
Look at the N1. Continuing development like a BOSS.
People bought the Nexus FOR OPTIONS too. Not for only pure experience.
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I bought the nexus for speed . NOW I WANT SENSE !!
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Alton (Halo 2) said:
I bought the nexus for speed . NOW I WANT SENSE !!
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I know right??? I wanna try out Sense 4. The first Skinned Android ROM that caught my Eyes(& Motoblurr). Touchwiz can die IMO(not offending the Touchwiz lovers, I know u nex users are out there waiting for a proper port).
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Well I mean.. I did buy the nexus because its an upgrade worth getting. Can't technically say but in my eyes the pinnacle of the android devices, similar to the droid incredible. Even though the nexus relay doesn't have a lot of Roms. I guarantee it will go down in history as a great device like the incredible.
So I got this because I knew development was great, a lot of users jumped ship here from the incredible forum. It was free, specs are fantastic, the size fits my hand greatly. I did also buy it because it had jelly bean, well could get jelly bean.. and because I knew aosp is particularly fast. So in a sense yes I did kinda buy it for aosp but not in a literal sense.
I dunno.. I kinda wished there was some new type of OS I guess. You do get tired of the same stuff.
Touchwiz comes to mind..
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A bear poo's in the woods.
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Have no clue what your talking about.... you think people just hit buttons and stuff piles out? The only team I know of that have build bots is cyanogenmod and they work their asses off on everything. Everybody else doesn't have some machine that does **** for them. I dare you to say that to a true dev. And so what if the OP doesn't post in a month. He has other crap to deal with.
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The answer given is probably correct though; not many gnex owners are interested in sense. Or touchwiz. Or some other bloated ui.
If you feel sense is that important to have, you kind of bought the wrong phone. A quick search would have shown there are no sense ROMs.
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Dayuuuum!!!! This was a question on why there are no Sense Roms, and then this turned into an argument.
Just CHILLAX
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Petrovski80 said:
The answer given is probably correct though; not many gnex owners are interested in sense. Or touchwiz. Or some other bloated ui.
If you feel sense is that important to have, you kind of bought the wrong phone. A quick search would have shown there are no sense ROMs.
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Again, people also bought the Nexus for Choices. Not just AOSP.
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Petrovski80 said:
The answer given is probably correct though; not many gnex owners are interested in sense. Or touchwiz. Or some other bloated ui.
If you feel sense is that important to have, you kind of bought the wrong phone. A quick search would have shown there are no sense ROMs.
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(Face palm) yes there is.
From my understanding its kinda in a broken state like the port for the incredible. And you have to re root unless its been fixed?
As for cyanogen mod.. I feel they've kinda been stunted. I've used their recent Roms and I'm not at all impressed.
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What would be harder to do?

I was wondering what would be harder to port...............Touchwiz, Sense, or Aplications Platform(Motorola)?

I'm no expert on this topic but sense would most likely be the hardest to port. As for easiest I have no idea
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Yeah I'm liking how Motorola is going and I like the way touchwiz looks but people get mad when I ask about a non-stock ROM on a Google device.
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I'd say the Motorola I went to a Verizon store and played with the RAZR m. Widgets are nice and overall u.I. was smooth. Was ICS BTW... sense would be amazing and maybe stutter proof ( we do have a beast of a phone)
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I'd say the Motorola I went to a Verizon store and played with the RAZR m. Widgets are nice and overall u.I. was smooth. Was ICS BTW... sense would be amazing and maybe stutter proof ( we do have a beast of a phone)
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I don't think it would run that great...
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There's a guy in the dev section who has been working on the ports , still not mega stable so they all look like a pain. Give him a message am sure he has more info
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NO offense but IMO, Holo is the prettiest launcher so far. Nothing can replace Holo on a GNex.
But looking at the progresses, sense seems to be the most easiest (or most worked on) so far cuz months ago i saw TW ports and Sense ports but nowadays i only see Sense ports.

dakota.breeden said:
but people get mad when I ask about a non-stock ROM on a Google device.
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not mad, annoyed. we roll with the nexus exactly because it runs vanilla android.

bk201doesntexist said:
not mad, annoyed. we roll with the nexus exactly because it runs vanilla android.
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I like it for a little while and then it gets boring and I like change..