Galaxy Nexus support in AOSP

[Jean-Baptiste Queru]

After reviewing the situation, Google concluded that the only Galaxy
Nexus that can be supported in AOSP are the ones that are originally
sold with a "yakju" or "mysid" system.

JBQ

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[Jean-Baptiste Queru]

Yes, that's the signature for the current yakju build.

JBQ

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Michał Banszel <michal....@gmail.com> wrote:
> ro.product.model=Galaxy Nexus
> ro.product.brand=google
> ro.product.name=yakju
> ro.product.device=maguro
> ro.product.board=tuna
> ro.build.description=yakju-user 4.0.1 ITL41F 228551 release-keys
> ro.build.fingerprint=google/yakju/maguro:4.0.1/ITL41F/228551:user/release-keys
>
> Correct?
>
> 2011/12/9 Jean-Baptiste Queru <j...@android.com>:

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[Jean-Baptiste Queru]

Actually, those are both built by Google. yakju is one of the
GSM/CDMA+ variants, while mysid is indeed the CDMA/LTE variant for
VZW.

JBQ

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Michał Banszel <michal....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok so just to confirm I understood you well... only yakju (Samsung
> builds) and mysid (Galaxy Nexus from Verizon) are supported in AOSP?
>
> 2011/12/9 Jean-Baptiste Queru <j...@android.com>:

[Michał Banszel]

Do you maybe have a complete list of Galaxy Nexus built variants?

2011/12/9 Jean-Baptiste Queru <j...@android.com>:

[Jean-Baptiste Queru]

I don't have such a list. The variants I'm currently aware of are
yakjuxw and yakjusc, and I believe that the other ones are also
supposed to have two letters added to "yakju".

JBQ

[Alex]

I know this probably isn't your area and understand if you can't
answer, but do you know if this implies anything about how these
devices receive software updates? Does this mean that the devices
configured as "yakju" and "mysid" will receive OTA updates directly
from Google, while other device configurations will not?

Thanks,
Alex

On Dec 9, 4:46 pm, Jean-Baptiste Queru <j...@android.com> wrote:
> I don't have such a list. The variants I'm currently aware of are
> yakjuxw and yakjusc, and I believe that the other ones are also
> supposed to have two letters added to "yakju".
>
> JBQ
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> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Michał Banszel <michal.bans...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Do you maybe have a complete list of Galaxy Nexus built variants?
>
> > 2011/12/9 Jean-Baptiste Queru <j...@android.com>:
> >> Actually, those are both built by Google. yakju is one of the
> >> GSM/CDMA+ variants, while mysid is indeed the CDMA/LTE variant for
> >> VZW.
>
> >> JBQ
>

> >> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Michał Banszel <michal.bans...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Ok so just to confirm I understood you well... only yakju (Samsung
> >>> builds) and mysid (Galaxy Nexus from Verizon) are supported in AOSP?
>
> >>> 2011/12/9 Jean-Baptiste Queru <j...@android.com>:
> >>>> Yes, that's the signature for the current yakju build.
>
> >>>> JBQ
>

[Jean-Baptiste Queru]

Indeed, that's not my area, but I have no reason to believe that there'd be differences there, as the differences between versions are really small region-specific tweaks.

JBQ

[Chris Bossardet]

Do we know if it would cause any harm to flash to the yakju build from
a yakjuxw build to get AOSP support? I ask because I'm very much
tempted to flash a yakju image to my device, but as far as I know,
there are no images available for download for the yakjuxw build to
reflash that.

[Jean-Baptiste Queru]

Well, that's the core issue right here: I don't know if it works, I don't have any way to know, and if you try and it doesn't work I don't know of any way to recover.

JBQ

[ogdobber]

I have flashed yakju from yakjuxw and havent run into any issues. I
did
Install cwm and made a backup just in case

On Dec 11, 5:14 am, Jean-Baptiste Queru <j...@android.com> wrote:
> Well, that's the core issue right here: I don't know if it works, I don't
> have any way to know, and if you try and it doesn't work I don't know of
> any way to recover.
>
> JBQ
>

> On Saturday, December 10, 2011, Chris Bossardet <bossman1...@gmail.com>

[ogdobber]

just to be a little more clear, I flash the factory images from
http://code.google.com/android/nexus/images.html
and restored to a completely "stock" state... my gnex was yakjuxw and
now it is yakju (ro.product.name=yakju)

[Chris Bossardet]

I'm thinking I might do this as well. Just need to make a nandroid
backup and move the files to my PC.

Thanks for all the input!