One click Qt 4.7 for the Samsung i8910 HD, plus HX8 on the way
Published by Steve Litchfield at 8:11 BST, July 29th 2010
More significant news from the Samsung i8910 HD firmware scene, which is accelerating, amazingly, rather than slowing down. 'faenil' has organised a one-click installer for the Qt 4.7.0 beta2 libraries for non-Nokia smartphones such as the i8910 HD, in theory letting them install some of the new Qt apps (e.g. the superlative Orange Wednesdays). A quote and video from faenil below. In related news, HyperX is now finalising HX8 firmwares, including even more customisations and a fix for Samsung's longstanding Music player bugs (a video for which is also embedded below). It's all go... What do you mean, you don't own an i8910 HD?
From faenil:
"You know how important Qt is getting for Nokia to try to get all the developers back on Symbian OS, that is why I tried hard to let i8910 users be able to run Qt software, thus giving them a future-proof feature on their phone, which has been forgotten by Samsung, despite his top class HW specs. I have read you have posted some news regarding Qt for mobiles, so I would like you to know something REALLY special for the mobile community, especially the i8910 one.
I have modified the Qt libraries package for i8910 and 'madhacker' and I have made an installer for the i8910 users, so that they can have the REAL Qt libraries. As you may know, i8910 users and all the non-Nokia smartphones users are forced to install the qt_selfsigned.sis package which only gives developers the ability to use 5 capabilities of the Symbian OS... more complex software requires much more capabilities. With my package, i8910 owners are getting a full 19 capabilities, just like the qt_installer.sis for Nokia phones. Thanks to this, i8910 users are now able to use softwares like gpsp, wikitude, wordpress for symbian, ComingSoon, which were not working well using the qt_selfsigned with only 5 capabilitiess. "
For more info, see faenil's blog entry announcing the installer. Here's his accompanying video:
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And here's HyperX's demo of Music player now working in the upcoming HX8 firmware:
Categories: Software, Links of Interest
Platforms: S60 5th Edition
News Discussion
Would be great if someone could come out with a Symbian^3 port for 5800 or an FP2 upgrade for old war horses the N95 and N82.
maybe they scared of falling out with nokia
Never thought that one day I'd use availability of ROM flashers as a purchasing criteria...
Actually, we're only covering the *Samsung* modding because Samsung themselves have forgotten the i8910 HD. Nokia, generally, are *miles* better at updating firmware officially - see the 5800 and N95 and E71 for outstanding update examples.
However, now thanks to the amazing work by ALL the 'chefs', this phone has risen to a much higher status.
This is, and always has been, the best iteration of a Symbian 5th edition device (camera sensor and physical keyboard aside), imo.
Its a damn shame that Samsung (a member of the Symbian foundation) chose to just dump this phone, leaving its continued survival, and now revived interest, to external parties.
Symbian (the company) really should take a look at what these unknown heroes have done and seriously consider hiring them.
As usual using the HX firmware is at entirely your own risk.
UKJeeper - I've been very impressed with the way the community has kept things going. I'm happy to admit it has been against my expectations too. It is certainly a model that could be applied elsewhere. However it is a minority activity.
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Originally Posted by slitchfield
Nokia, generally, are *miles* better at updating firmware officially - see the 5800 and N95 and E71 for outstanding update examples.
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[can of worms] Though admittedly the 5th edition Nokias just don't have the hardware spec of the i8910 [/can of worms]
Its nothing new. XDADevelopers, etc have been doing the same things for years with WinMo and now Android. Companies like Nokia, HTC have to err on the side of caution. No 'reference roms' there.
Its nice to have the ability to choose firmware roms that are much improved (due to being less constrained by corporate concerns). Thank you to all the chefs who make our devices so much better.
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Originally Posted by Unregistered
But there are mods for nokia phones ? Where please ?
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