Just a few days ago (7th Dec), one of Ainol's beta testers released a trial version of ICS 4.0 for Novo7A users to get a feel of what to expect.
The firmware being v0.13, is the 3rd versions of what Ainol had given to their beta testers. It's still in the early developement stage, with no market, flash and compatibility on Mali400 GPU is poor. Many APK don't install well. Personally I tested it for less than half an hour and went back to 2.3.4 firmwares.
A day later on 8th Dec, a new ICS 4.0 v0.131 was released. It fix most of the APK installation problem, which means more apps can now be installed. I was curious about this fix and wrote up a quick full market & gmail script for Novo7A ICS 0.13/0.131 firmware. It works great, all the basic apps I'd tested were able to install from market. These include skype, go keyboard, chainfire3d, ti backup, etc.
The whole Android ICS experience is still not as good as Novo7A on 2.3.4 firmware, but it'll improved once Mali400 GPU compatibility is up. There's white garbage appearing whenever you rotate screen, this last for 1/2 or 1 secs. The scrolling is not as smooth, but it's not sticky. Some lags/hangs every now and then, given it's a trial firmware, I think it's actually very good. Free memory hangs around 170MB when you kill tasks, which is pretty decent.
Novo7A had proven it is possible to run ICS decently (if not well) on a single-core A8 processor with 512MB RAM. Can't wait for the official release of ICS on Novo7A
There's a thread in tabletrepublic which talks more on ICS on Novo7A, including the firmware, script, some screenshots and a youtube video playing Galaxy on Fire 2 with ICS 0.131 firmware. Anyone interested, can do a search for it.
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The firmware being v0.13, is the 3rd versions of what Ainol had given to their beta testers. It's still in the early developement stage, with no market, flash and compatibility on Mali400 GPU is poor. Many APK don't install well. Personally I tested it for less than half an hour and went back to 2.3.4 firmwares.
A day later on 8th Dec, a new ICS 4.0 v0.131 was released. It fix most of the APK installation problem, which means more apps can now be installed. I was curious about this fix and wrote up a quick full market & gmail script for Novo7A ICS 0.13/0.131 firmware. It works great, all the basic apps I'd tested were able to install from market. These include skype, go keyboard, chainfire3d, ti backup, etc.
The whole Android ICS experience is still not as good as Novo7A on 2.3.4 firmware, but it'll improved once Mali400 GPU compatibility is up. There's white garbage appearing whenever you rotate screen, this last for 1/2 or 1 secs. The scrolling is not as smooth, but it's not sticky. Some lags/hangs every now and then, given it's a trial firmware, I think it's actually very good. Free memory hangs around 170MB when you kill tasks, which is pretty decent.
Novo7A had proven it is possible to run ICS decently (if not well) on a single-core A8 processor with 512MB RAM. Can't wait for the official release of ICS on Novo7A
There's a thread in tabletrepublic which talks more on ICS on Novo7A, including the firmware, script, some screenshots and a youtube video playing Galaxy on Fire 2 with ICS 0.131 firmware. Anyone interested, can do a search for it.
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