Samsung Galaxy Note II Source Code Released 32
An anonymous reader writes "Samsung has released the source code for the Samsung GALAXY Note II. This clears the way for custom ROM's for the smartphone. From the article: 'It's now been posted for the international GT-N7100 model, giving developers a peek at the 5.5-incher's inner workings and allowing them to get to work on new mods.'"
Re:meh (Score:5, Interesting)
He works for Samsung USA. Samsung Korea is the one controlling nearly anything Exynos-related. The situation for Qualcomm and OMAP-based Samsungs is quite a bit better - While it seems he doesn't have the authority to use any source code outside of what is available from CAF, the fact is he has a high degree of familiarity with these devices and hence knows how to get the CAF stuff to work VERY well. (The USA guys have, historically, primarily worked with Qualcomm-based devices.)
The CM Exynos maintainers do have a contact within Samsung Korea, but nearly all of the time when our contact forwards requests to the relevant department, the answer is either "no" or it is a blatant lie. (See the above comment about the Note 10.1 GPL compliance issues - the OSRC guys actually had the balls to claim that the UEALGB build, which was preinstalled on every Note 10.1 sold in the USA for at least one month, was a "leak" and hence they didn't have to provide source that matched it.) Our contact DOES care and wants to make a difference, but their management and the other departments within Samsung Mobile are completely noncooperative.