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So AOSP is a lot of things but not really open and the geniuses at Google deliberately let the shit hit the fan despite 6 months of warnings by JBQ. Stay classy

• Macha 13y ago
  AOSP itself is open, and has no issues on the Nexus 10, Galaxy Nexus or old Nexus 7. However, the Nexus 4 and new Nexus 7 are not capable of booting from just the AOSP source alone. In practice this is the same as most non-Nexus devices, except the bootloader still ships unlocked. However, the Nexus 4 and new Nexus 7 are the flagships for AOSP, and the maintainer was upset at the fact that the open bit is useless on newer devices without parts that can't be distributed.
  • brigade 13y ago
    Well, no issues unless you want to use AOSP 4.3 on the Nexus 10, in which case it has the exact same issue [1] as being discussed [1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/android-building/OvPkVsjp63Y/Zjrpmxsq_AwJ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/android-building/OvPkV...
  • jdiez17 13y ago
    I don't know about the Nexus 10 or the GNex, but I do know that you need the binary blobs to boot the Nexus 4 from source. However you can get the factory image (which contains the blobs and doesn't require you to extract them from the device) from here: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images The controversy is that there is no factory image available for the new Nexus 7, and therefore, the only way to boot a new Nexus 7 from AOSP source is to pull the blobs from the device, incurring in a legal gray area.