UPDATE: CyanogenMod9.1 BETA 2 for Samsung Galaxy Y With Drivers Released!

Great news for those of you who are impatient! The team have released the BETA 2 build for download so that you can test the current in development CyanogenMod9.1 rom on your Galaxy Y.

Note: The screenshot inside the Galaxy Y frame above was not taken from this CM9.1 BETA 2 build.

This BETA 2 build consists of some large improvements such as fully working HW thanks to the recently released drivers, a working media scanner, WiFi, Bluetooth, smooth animations and others.

BETA 2 changelog:

• Fully HW fixed thanks to Broadcom Drivers
• Gralloc, HGL, hwcomposer built from source
• Fixed Media Scanner due to HGL working
• CRT animation, rotation... (all animations) working smooth
• Fixed rotation animation
• Reduced a lot of booting time with 4.0 Kernel
• Updated overlay

What is working in BETA 2

• Boot
• Touch
• Multitouch
• Settings
• Browser
• File manager
• Swipe notification
• Calculator
• Calendar
• Widgets + Resize
• Bluetooth
• Media Scanner (partially)
• Wifi
• Phone
• HW

What is not working in BETA 2

• Camera
• 3G + Data
• Audio
• USB Mass storage
• And others

Download CM9.1 BETA 2 - Click here.
Download EXT4 Formatter Tool - Click here.
Version 4.0 Kernel - Click here.

Installation:

In order to succesfully install the CM9.1 on your Samsung Galaxy Y, you first need to format your file system to EXT4 using the EXT4 Formatter tool, then install the kernel and finally install the rom. Detailed installation steps can be found in bieltv.3's post.

Source: Bieltv.3 blog

Broadcom Goes Open-Source: Will Galaxy Y See a Fully Stable CM ROM?

Last year, some developers from Broadcom decided to give our CM developers a hand with pre-built test drivers that could not be modified and it didn't seem to work out that well.

Just yesterday, Broadcom have announced at their blog that they have decided to release the full source of the OpenGL ES 1.1 and 2.0 driver stack for the Broadcom VideoCore® IV 3D graphics subsystem used in the BCM21553 3G integrated baseband SoC.

Experienced programmers can:

• Rebuild the BCM21553 Android 4.0 graphics stack from source
• Develop fully open drivers for other VideoCore devices, including the Raspberry Pi’s BCM2835 and the BCM21654 (a low-cost 3G integrated baseband for emerging markets).
• Gain insight into the internal operation of VideoCore for performance tuning purposes
• Write general-purpose code leveraging the GPU compute capability on VideoCore devices

This is basically what the developers have been waiting to see for pretty much two years now and it has finally happened. The question now is, will the Galaxy Y actually get a stable CyanogenMod or another AOSP rom? These drivers appear to be for the AOSP ICS source which means that we could actually see a working CyanogenMod9 build in the near future.

Unfortunately for us, this happened quite late as many people have given up hope long ago and possibly ditched their Galaxy Y for something better. Still, there are developers out there that may give this a try and release a well working build for the Samsung Galaxy Y GT-S5360.

Pretty much everyone at xda-developers forums at the moment is excited because of the news and I am guessing you are all excited now as well because this is something that we have dreamed for ever since the beginning of Galaxy Y's custom rom development.

Stay tuned and be sure to check the blog daily for any updates regarding this recent revolutionary news.

UPDATE: Please check the YouTube channel for news regarding the progress.

Source: Broadcom

CWM Recovery v5.0.2.8 for Samsung Galaxy Y GT-S5360

It's time to ditch the old CWM v4 that you have been using for years on your Galaxy Y and move on to version 5!

The devs at BroadcomCM have built this 100% working temporary CWM v5 recovery for the Samsung Galaxy Y. From a first look, you're probably gonna say "this is basically the same old recovery with different text color". The transformation from orange text to blue is not the only change.

Features:

• Colors are finally fixedCWM recovery updated to 5.0.2.8 (last final sources of CWM 5)
• Added BroadcomCM credits on recovery
• Ensure system and data to be ALWAYS mounted when you install a zip
• Don't need to mount more, as it is automaticly made (unmount too)
• Backup and restore working (EXT4 and RFS)
• All wipes that you can perform work on EXT4 and RFS too.
• LDPI letters for small screen devices
• Modded source of CWM to use power button as home button --> select item

Download CWM v5.0.2.8 - Click here.

Installation:

1. Download the zip file to your sdcard
2. Boot into recovery mode
3. Flash the zip file
4. You should now be in the new CWM Recovery

Please note that this is still a temporary recovery which you need to flash everytime just like how you used to do it with the old one.

Source: xda