Not possible unless all the OEMs in the world start wearing the same uniform :-). IMHO- impossible, improbable, ... And if all the OEMs do start wearing the same uniform, then, why, we will not need such a website at all because Google would have it built-in :-)
Welcome to the practical world :-) On Wednesday, February 29, 2012, Chad wrote: > I had a crazy idea for getting all of the Android devices up to date. > As you all know, most devices in the wild are on older versions of > Android than is currently available. With most being on some version > of 2.3. The only options for updating are either waiting for your > carrier to push out an OTA (Which will never happen for a majority of > existing devices) or trying to flash with someones vision of what > Android should look like. Personally, and maybe I'm alone here, but I > would like to be able to get my device (DroidX) to Android 4.0 in its > basest form. I understand that it will probably be slow, but its my > choice to make right? > > So how do we get there? > > My thought is to create a GUI, probably a web based app, that will > build a ROM for you based on a selection from two criteria, OS version > and phone model. The OS Version would select the basic install of > that version of Android while the selection of the device will select > the necessary drivers to make that OS run on your device. Then you > hit a butting which injects the drivers into the code and compiles it > as a zip so you yourself can flash it. Of course there would have to > be the caveat that your doing this at your own risk and that Google > and whomever writes this is not liable in anyway, if you brick your > device. > > Obviously, I have an idea and not the tools to figure how to make it > happen. So maybe what I think would be not a difficult proposition is > actually unachievable. Maybe someone has already thought about this > and discovered its impossibility. But I figured I'd throw it out > there in case someone else would like to see this happen and might be > able to help us all get there. > > Thanks for reading! > Chad > > -- > unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <javascript:;> > website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting > -- unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
