I’m still very new to the Android world, and while I feel a little late getting to the table, I think it’s nice to be able to start on ICS since it represents quite a few changes in interface. What better place to start than with the flagship Ice cream sandwich phone, the Galaxy Nexus? Sure it’ll be outpaced by other phones in terms of raw hardware stats before I get my first gig of data through it, but what’s important is this phone will continue to be THE platform for the development community. I’m looking forward to getting my feet wet with embedded linux and learning more about kernel development.
I’m planning on staying on the bleeding edge of the Open Kang Project for a while and will move to the most stable looking nightly build every week. This should give me some time to judge battery life and stability / performance. If I luck out and pull a bad nightly, I’ll either revert to my latest nandroid backup or spin the wheel again and pick a new nightly after reviewing the bug tracks. Currently installed version is aokp_maguro_build-21
For a kernel I’ve settled on FuguMod and will most likely be flashing that whenever a new version becomes available. Right now that means 3.0.17-FuguMod #65. While this may color my perceptions of the quality of the currently installed ROM, I’m OK sacrificing that for the sake of keeping abreast of all the tweaks coming down the pipe from this developer.
Radio wise I’m running UGKL1, or the North American GSM radio released early this past December. I’m operating on Telus in Ontario, Canada and so far this radio has been solid and I have no complaints.
Think I’ll make this a sticky post and pin it to the top of the page, SEO be damned
so this content will change as available software changes and I get a chance to use and evaluate it.
As I get more familiar with the community and available resources, and as I find time to spend on this blog, I’ll provide better links to the places this information is coming from.
Holy crap I think I finally found something to blog about!




